Paul,

When you compile the help file do you create a .CNT file? I think that's the secret to getting the Contents tab with book to display when help is first launched.

Also you can change that menu item to just do a command of HELP ID 0 otherwise you have to have a topic id that matches what VFP is doing from that bar #. Look at SYS(1023) and sys(1024) to find context ids.

>I didn't get any responses here. I have gone through the manuals, online help and even checked microsoft's internet site to no avail. Does anybody have any idea where else I can look?
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>>I have incorporated a menu in my application and for the Contents menu option I have Bar# and then _mst_help... and for Search for help on I have Bar# and then _mst_hpsch.
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>>I cannot find any reference to these commands and am kind of confused how this is working.
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>>What started this is I wanted my help system to show the little red books under the contents tab. If I am in VFP and type set help to lessons.hlp and then click on help this is the result I get. However when I run my application I just get hypertext links.
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>>For the heck of it I ran the tastrade sample and I got the hypertext links as well instead of the little red books that you can click on and open up the contents.
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>>Is the tastrade sample app help system show as just hypertext links for everyone else?
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>>Anybody know why the behavior for the help system is different when I run my application?