Hi Claire,
As far as I know it's not enough to put the name and location of the
help file in the HelpFile property of the object. You also have to set
the HelpContextID property of each object to the value associated with
the help topic you want to be displayed when the user selects that
object and presses F1.
The HelpContextID values are arbitrary numbers which you map to the
relevant help topics in the [MAP] section of the help project (hpj)
file, e.g.
[MAP]
IDH_frmMainForm=1001
IDH_frmContacts=1002
The topic IDs here are the ones you assigned using # footnotes in the
RTF file (I've never used Shalom Help, but assume it creates an RTF file
and uses the Windows help compiler to compile it).
There's lots of useful information on both WinHelp and HTML Help at
www.helpmaster.com .
>I've asked so many questions of you kind people, but if I can get this to
>work, my project is done!
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>Please help!
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John Nurick [Microsoft Access MVP]
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Claire - 05 Jul 2005 14:02 GMT
The way I understood it is that if you left the HelpContextID at 0, F1 would
open to the main page of the Help File. Am I wrong about that?
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Claire - 05 Jul 2005 14:12 GMT
Ignore my previous response! You were absolutely right and now it works.
Thank you so much!
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