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08/09/2010 12:30:00
 
 
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08/09/2010 11:32:15
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 7
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01480427
Message ID:
01480586
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69
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Where could I find the ID of the individual Help Topics?
>>>I noticed e.g. the helpID = 1231681 will popup the subject "Create an Irregularly Shaped Window Sample" as shown in the solution.vcx, this made me think to make use of this functionality, however I would need to know where to find the individual ID's. Anybody who could shed a light over this?
>>
>>You can view source in the help (rightclick... and you get some fairly decent html), but as it goes with Microsoft, nothing is easy. There are links to other texts, but they all have a form of a [hex GUID].html, IOW as easy to read as Greek combined with Chinese. I tried
>>
HELP ID 0xd0417150
>>HELP ID 0x09bb
>>HELP ID 0x4617
>>HELP ID 0xa20c
>>HELP ID 0xe6e4e1e39393
>>where each hex number is a part of one of these links, and I got exactly nothing.
>>
>>It's easy to know these IDs when you're writing help as you go, using some software (which you wrote for yourself) which would link your help IDs (.WhatsThisHelpID) to the help IDs in your help files.
>>
>>To know these IDs retroactively would require some serious reverse engineering and, possibly, lawyers (this is M$, remember).
>Hi,
>
>That is realty sorry, I have meanwhile also dropped a similar request at VFPX forum since they are/where involved in a restylie/correct of some bugs in teh help file, however upto sofar no repsonse from them.
>Will see how I can make an automation to produce the id and the subject headings
>
>Regards,
>Koen

The VFPX team actually was given the source to the help file.
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