Joshua B
lists at jbsolutions.com.au
Wed Aug 13 05:18:17 CDT 2003
Hi, I just recently discovered a freeware help authoring tool, havent had a chance to have a good play with it, and it doesnt support html help, but it seems to be fairly easy to use and may be worth a look. The program also has a "What's This?" section. Wesbite is http://www.greeneclipsesoftware.com/eh.html ======= At 2003-08-13, 05:42:00 you wrote: ======= >On 13 Aug 2003 at 9:52, Darren DICK wrote: > >> Hello all >> In the property sheet it's possible to set the What's This button to >> true. The you get the nice little Q mark. The user clicks on the Q >> mark then on the area of interest and viola - a nice yellow popup with >> info in it. >> >> My Q is...How and where do I actually write and store text for the >> yellow popups in the past? > >Darren, > >It's been a while since I've done it, but IIRC, the yellow pop ups >you are talking about (Context sensitive help and not the tooltips) >require an actual help file. > >They are a PITA to write unless you have some good help authoring >software. Unfortunately when I wrote my help file, the price of the >software was too expensive to justify the cost for a one of. > >-- >Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at sympatico.ca >I'm not a complete idiot some parts are missing. > > >_______________________________________________ >AccessD mailing list >AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Best regards. Joshua B lists at jbsolutions.com.au www.jbsolutions.com.au 2003-08-13