RB>Good morning all,
RB>I am starting to add 'context-sensative' help to my FPD2.6
RB>application and am (strongly) considering using the FoxPro .DBF style
RB>help system. Has anyone done this, and what has been your experience?
RB>Easy, hard, tricks, etc.?
RB>Thanks and Greetings from Chicago's southern suburbia,     Randy
I have used the DBF style help in a number of apps.  It is fairly easy, 
just create a dbf file with the same structure as FP's own help file.  
You can even just copy FOXHELP.DBF to a new file name and then add and 
delete records as required.
USE C:\FPD26\FOXHELP AGAIN ALIAS TEMP
COPY TO MYHELP
USE MYHELP
In the setup code for your app include the SET HELP TO .  I also include a couple of lines to set the topic to a 
memvar, At the points in the program were I want to change the context I 
just change the contents of the memvar to match the appropriate record's 
topic field..
SET HELP TO 
mhtopic='Main Menu'
SET TOPIC TO m.mhtopic
Brian.Copeland@encode.com  (Brian Copeland)
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