RE: Data-sensitive online help?

Subject: RE: Data-sensitive online help?
From: "Mike Bradley" <mbradley -at- techpubs -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:51:34 -0800



> I'm being asked about developing a help system which, when
> called from a field, gets the data item (or type?) in the
> field, gets a binding of the data
> to a help topic, then displays the topic.

It's nothing the right programmer can't do. You just need a list of all
the help topics that will be needed. The programmer needs to read the
fields and call the right topics.

= Mike Bradley
Tech Pubs



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