>>This is for my own Help in an app for a client. I'm used to .DBF help from fpd2.6, but I don't want to build my own form, etc from scratch. I understand that VFP3.0 included foxhelp.dbf (including a form), but later versions didn't.
>>Off the subject, but where did you learn how to reset font size when disp stru to screen? (click command window, then hold down shift key & choose format menu, Screen Font...entry). By the way thanks again for that info. Bill
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>You don't need to redefine a screen or anything to use the old style .DBF help in your own apps. All you need is a table that contains fields named TOPIC C(40), and DETAILS Memo. (We also have a STATUS C(1), but I think we use that for our own purposes.)
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>Once you have a table with the above format, you can SET HELP TO yourhelp.dbf and then F1 (if SET HELP ON) will bring up your help info. We use our form's captions for the TOPICS and you can bring them up with HELP Your Form Caption (note that you do NOT use quotes around it). We have the F1 hey mapped to our own program to get the topic from the form caption and then the program just does:
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>cTopic = thisform.Caption
>HELP &cTopic


You can also do SET TOPIC TO "your help topic" and then use HELP or
cTopic = "your help topic"
SET TOPIC TO cTopic
and then just HELP, too.