>>In VFP 5.0 help was no problem.
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>>In vfp 6.0 the help was a big problem. It gave me a problem, and after doing a search on UT I see that it has given countless others a problem too.
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>>I certainly hope that when VFP 7.0 is installed, help will available from the menu again, as was the case with all previous versions (besides 6.0).
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>>Will VFP 7.0 have installed menu help? Did the Beta have installed menu help?
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>What problem did you see in 6.0? In 6.0 and in 7.0 you have your choice of using the MSDN help or the FoxHelp.CHM. You can set that up from Options|File Locations.
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>The beta just uses the FoxHelp.CHM. I don't know off-hand if that will be the default.
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>Does that answer your question?

The Problem in 6.0 was that after one installed the product, there was no menu help available (help is greyed out on menu). For myself, and countless other users, this was a problem. We had to ask questions here on UT to find out how to get the help working.

Yes, I know that the MSDN could also be installed, with loads of data not relevant to VFP. (I think at the time, it was the aim of Microsoft was to herd all of the VFP users towards Visual Studio’s other products)

I don’t know how new users of the product are expected to know that there is a file called FOXHELP.CHM which is on the MSDN CD-disk 2 that must be copied, and there is another one called FOXHELP.CHI on MSDN CD-disk 1 that must also be copied, and then one must go to Options, Tools etc and set the path of the help file to this location.
These files could just as easily fitted onto the VFP disk.


Now that VFP is again freed from Visual Studio, I can’t see why there is not an option/s, during the installation, which asks you if you want to install the VFP help files (the default should be set to Yes), and if so, it does it for you automatically. If you wanted all of MSDN help files, that could be another option.

It is very off-putting especially for new users of the product, to have to have to go through a learning curve just to get menu help to work properly. (Almost all other software products on the marked install their help files automatically. But not VFP??)

I am probably a lone voice amongst all of you Super VFP Users/Programmers, but I would say I probably speak on behalf of the mere - mortals here.

Regards