Displaying help from an openDCL dialog

[hdLinux]

Hi,
I'm newish, and am currently just looking through the openDCL documentation rather than actually using it!
I was wondering if there is any mechanism for writing/displaying help to be displayed from an openDCL eg is there an html control?  Is this the best way to display help?  Can you recommend any other method?

Thanks,
Hugh

[Fred Tomke]

There are many ways to show help in a form.

Within the form

• using tooltips
• setting caption to a label control in an information area when moving the mouse over a control
• using html control

Outside the form

• calling another (modeless) form with a html control in showing a html document
• calling (help "MyHelp.chm" "ThisCommandHelpFile") when pressing a button
• triggering OnHelp-Event of the form when pressing Help in a child MessageBox
• calling a website when pressing a button (like Adobe products do it)
• Press F1. That will work if you've called (setfunhelp "c:ThisCommand" "MyHelp.chm" "ThisCommandHelpFileChapter") while loading your app.

There is no best way - it depends on your app and the situations. Often different ways can be used together side-by-side.

Fred

[hdLinux]

Thankyou.
I think I'll investigsate the html contols..
Hugh