>>>>Hi Mark,
>>>>
>>>>Check out http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?wiki~Exam70-155HTMLHelp it might help.
>>>
>>>I have now read it. This still does not work in VFP 6 SP3 for me. SET HELP TO MYHELP.CHM or any other CHM file then hitting F1 does not work for me.
>>
>>Funny, it works for me... here is my ?set('help') result...
>>
>>C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\MSDN98\98VS\1033\FOXHELP.CHM
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>>BOb...
>
>Mine was set to ...MSDN98\98VS\1033\MSDNVS98.COL. When I set it to FoxHelp.chm in that same folder, that CHM file works. Any of the CHM files in their samples folders, fail. Hmmm...

Ahh... found it...

F1 by default passes on the HelpID of the object that has focus when you press F1...

Turn on your help debugging... (sys(1023) )... when you press F1 and the command window has focus, F1 sends the HelpContextID of the Command Window to the foxhelp.chm file... Since that ContextID doesn't exist in other help files, you don't get any help. But, if you set focus to the screen, which has a HelpContextID of 0 you will get help. DOn't know why you get an error message... is it something about a HelpContextID not existing? Perhaps you get that with NT but not 98 like I am running.

If you type HELP in the command window, you will get the help... If you type HELP ThisThing it will pass this thing to the Help which will put that into the search. IF you type HELP id 123 you will get whatever topic is 123.

Cool huh!!!

BOb