>>>>>>Anyone have a recommendation for a Help File creator for use with my VFP5 application?
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>>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>>Elyse
>>>>>
>>>>>We used RoboHelp, www.bluesky.com. Easy to use, we could add screen shots easily, and it linked in to the VFP HelpContextID fields easily.
>>>>>
>>>>>Barbara
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>>>>Did you find a way to link context sensitive help to grid objects?
>>>>
>>>>Vlad
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>>>No, there's no HelpContextID for the grid-objects like columns. We did a help page for the whole grid with a picture they could click on for more exact help.
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>>But you have HelpContextID for TextBoxes, Combos, etc in the grid. Although, I didn't find a way to make it work.
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>>Vlad
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>We couldn't get them to work reliably either, although they are supposed to work just like a control on a form - the active control is checked for a HCID, then its parent, and so forth up the hierarchy. It may be like some of the problems putting text into Column or TextBox methods - sometimes one will work and sometimes the other.
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>Barbara

Reliably? You mean you put something in a HCID for a textbox in a grid and it worked?

I could never go further than the grid's HCID.

Vlad