David,

Thanks for bearing with me. I think the SET HELP is correct because it brings up the table of contents from the correct help file. I can watch the call to the help engine using DoctToHelp's Help Workshop utility and it says "processing icp.gid ..." and icp.hlp is the correct help file.

What's interesting is that when I press F1 the command displayed in the help workshop is HELP_CONTENTS and when I type HELP ID 16 in the command window the command displayed is HELP_CONTEXT.

I'm going to create a simple form based just on vfp classes and try setting the helpcontextid to see if that works.

Have you successfully used context sensitive help?

Thanks.

- Mark

>Mark,
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>It sounds as though SET HELP is not set to your help file. You do not need to set individual controls unless you want them to display their own topic. If a control does not have a HelpContextID VFP will send the HCID of the form to the help engine.
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>>Well, I tried setting the form's HelpContextId to 16. When that didn't work, I did a select all in design mode and set everyone's HelpContextId to 16. When that didn't work I tried setting the WhatsThisHelpId to 16 as well.
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>>For some reason, the form is passing the context ID 1879048194 to the help engine instead of 16 (even though the form's help context id is 16). I'm stumped.