Not a high-tech solution, but could you not put the "Set Help to MyHelpFile.hlp" command into the app until you are ready to have the Tip-of-the-week cleared off the screen? Is the Tip on a timer? Or does it clear out with a keypress?

Babara

>Hi there
>
>I have the following problem: as soon as I open the application, after the login screen, I am opening a particular topic of a help file called tips.hlp (basically the tip of the week). I am doing this like this:
> SET HELP TO tips.hlp
> HELP ID 2
>(I've mapped the topics in tips.hlp to numbers in the Help Workshop)
>Problem is the application uses another help file. If after HELP ID 2 I put a SET HELP TO myhelpfile.hlp, the tip of the week only opens for a split second. If I don't put SET HELP TO myhelpfile.hlp then the help file defaults to tips.hlp and not to myhelpfile.hlp
>I think if I can stop VFP 5.0 from interpreting the commands after HELP ID 2 until I close the tip of the week everything would be fine.
>Is this possible? Or is there another solution?
>Thanks a lot.
>Cheers.
>Severus