Send a suggestion!

We're building a brand new version of the site, and we'd love to hear your ideas

Members

Technology Zones

IBM Learning Center

Articles

Hosted By

MaximumASP

Info
Rated
Read 28,211 times
3 comments

Contents

Related Categories

Writing Help - Inserting pop ups

James Crowley

Inserting pop ups

Pop ups are definitions that appear when a user clicks a word. To insert a pop up: Single underline the text your want the user to click. Then immediately after (no space) enter the ContextString of the Topic to show the text of. The ContextString should not be underlined, but should have its hidden property set to True.

James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.

Comments

Read Comments | Post Comment

  • Winhelp Call

    Posted by napoleta on 05 Aug 2003

    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...

  • Acessing the help file from VB

    Posted by OmegaSolutions on 31 May 2002

    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 applica...

  • Errors, maybe an example?

    Posted by NetGert on 10 Dec 2001

    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