wwHelp_Keys seems to be what I'm looking for. West Wind HTML Help Builder (WWHTMLHB, if you like) certainly deserves more attention than I gave it. I need something also useful for Access 97, which may not even support HTML Help. It may also need a different context map format. When you select the Visual Basic .bas format in ForeHelp, you get "Global Const IDH_Schedule_A_form = 1" instead of the #DEFINE. It may be a trivial thing to replace, but it's nice not to have to.

I still wonder how vfp knows what topic to call when you hit F1. At that moment it has your context ID of, say, 14. I can only guess that at that moment it searches all constants in memory for one that equals 14, then searches the current help file for a topic with the same name as one of the (possibly several) constants that equal 14. I am assuming that the context map file is not compiled into the .chm in any way, since its format varies with the programming environment.

>Ooops, that path didn't come out right:
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>DO [helpbuilderinstallpath]\wwhelp_keys.prg
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>to start the menu.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>>I'm getting the impression that just putting these numbers into the property sheet is not the smart way, since I have to keep track of them somehow. What is the smart way to make the vfp numbers automatically agree with the numbers in various help builder projects? I tried the West Wind demo, which automatically generates topic names and numbers, and generates an #INCLUDE file. I didn't see any function or builder that coordinates them with your actual program objects. Did I miss it?
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>>If you're using HTML Help Builder you can fire up Help Builder from within the development environment. You have to do:
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>>DO \wwhelp_keys.prg
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>>This adds a menu to your VFP toolbar. Menu lets you open a help project from an object and navigate to that topic so you can edit it which BTW works both in development and run modes. Once you're on the right topic you can 'update object from Help topic' which writes the context Id into the active object.
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>>If you look at the help file the menu choices are explained in more detail.
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