I am a new user of Help and Manual and want to create a What's This? component in my application similar to the one used in Help and Manual's help file including the small yellow windows instead of the full size pop up windows. I have sucesfully attached pop up windows to text boxes in my application but would prefer the What's This style.
Thanks, Robert Finnegan
What's This? creation in Help and Manual
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You talk about those right-click "What's This?" menus, don't you?
This depends entirely on the application - you must program that and ensure that your application (a) displays a popup menu after a right mouse click and (b) calls the help file to display a matching help topic.
Those help calls are typically made through help context numbers (the help context numbers you enter in the "HelpContext" field in Help & Manual), but the help call is again a matter of the application. I cannot tell you more unless you tell me what tool you program with.
This depends entirely on the application - you must program that and ensure that your application (a) displays a popup menu after a right mouse click and (b) calls the help file to display a matching help topic.
Those help calls are typically made through help context numbers (the help context numbers you enter in the "HelpContext" field in Help & Manual), but the help call is again a matter of the application. I cannot tell you more unless you tell me what tool you program with.
Alexander Halser
Senior Software Architect, EC Software GmbH
Senior Software Architect, EC Software GmbH