Online help

[Frodo]

Hello Talkers,

I have to standardisise the way we make online help. It has to go quicker and better. The thing is, I myself have never written an online help. Does anyone of you know how to open an online-help file from within an progress application? Extention .chm. I asume it is the same way as opening Word or Exel but i do not know. I need to know the code.
Progress help is ok but not if you do not know precicely what your are looking for.

Does someone maybe know if this what i want is also possible from within a Cascading Style Sheet?

Thank, Frodo

 

[davebonas]

To call the chm help file place the following code within the trigger on your help button or menu item...

os-command silent c:\HelpFiles\helpfile.chm.

just replace the 'c:\helpfiles\helpfile.chm' with your filename,

hope this helps you out..

 

[spaso]

Yes, I try but in that case that help acts as modal dialog. That means I can't minimize Help and continue to work with my application. What to do to continue with application after mimimizing Help????

 

[Wilbert]

Hi,

Perhaps the no-wait option on the os-command statement will help.