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Writing Help
By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience ...
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience ...
The Topic File
The Topic file contains all the text and footnotes for the help system, and is written in RTF (Rich Text Format).
To write your topic file create a new document in Word, and save it in the folder you installed the HC5.exe, in RTF format. Insert a page break between each topic. For each of your topics do the following:
Add a title e.g Welcome to Microsoft Word, then type all your help text
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I've been having the same problem. I found that you can trick VB into doing it by placing the following code in the click event on your help button:
SendKeys "{F1}", True
The trouble is, I have to click the button twice on my application for this particular command to work.
Actually I wrote a help file for my latest application, (using some other tools, doesn't matter)
Now I have a compiled help file.
I can acess his help by pressing the F1 key anywhere in my application, fine.
But whoe can I make e.g. a Help Button?
I get lots of errors and warnings. I do it all like here is told. Please send me an example .RTF and .HPJ file so I can learn from them E-Mail: netgert@hot.ee
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