When adding a FIELD, is the"Help Text" value useful nowadays ?

[pablo.vivanco]

Hello to everyone, first of all, sorry about my english

I made a search in the forum but couldnt find anything about my question (because the "Help" word is too common) :



When adding a field to a table, is this "Help Text" value useful nowadays ? I know it was used in character version development, when updating a Field to show some help to the user... but is it used for something else? Maybe it is used for somehting if I connect via ODBC to the Database from a reporter software or something like that... Do you consider correct to leave it blank if my development is going to be a web based application?

Thanx in advace for your answers / suggestions

 

[TomBascom]

"Useful" is in the eye of the beholder...

If the sorts of things that you are developing and whatever framework you are using make use of it then it might be useful.

But an awful lot of frameworks ignore it.

 

[Osborne]

I do a lot of standard GUI interfaces so what I do is always set the 'Help Text' then in the programs assign the help text as tooltips so if the user hovers the mouse over the field they get some information:

DEFINE VARIABLE vWidget AS HANDLE NO-UNDO.

ASSIGN vWidget = FRAME FRAME1:FIRST-CHILD
       vWidget = vWidget:FIRST-CHILD.
DO WHILE vWidget <> ?:
   IF vWidget:HELP <> ? THEN
      vWidget:TOOLTIP = vWidget:HELP.
    vWidget = vWidget:NEXT-SIBLING.
END.