What's This? creation in Help and Manual

Robert Finnegan · Mon Dec 16, 2002 12:28 am

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

Unread post by **Tim Green** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 10:00 am

If you do a search of the forum for "twhatsthis" you will find several threads on this subject.

Mon Dec 16, 2002 10:10 am

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.