Re: What's This? Help Composer and Spurious Links

[David Slonosky <David -dot- Slonosky -at- ITLS -dot- COM>]

On Monday, October 27, 1997 9:14 PM, Kris Olberg [SMTP:kjolberg -at- ix -dot- netcom -dot- com]
wrote:

> >I'm using the What's This? Help Composer. For some reason, it shows links
> as
> >existing between items in some of the dialog boxes, even though the
> developers
> >have checked the souce code and swear no such links exist..
>
>
> I'm not at all familiar with the What's This Help Composer. Could you
> explain what you mean by "it shows links as existing between items in some
> of the dialog boxes"? The term "link" doesn't exist in the context of VB 5
> and programming. It must be used in the What's This Help Composer. Does it
> mean the topic ID?

The links are between static text inside the dialog boxes and other boxes. I
think it may have something to do with the tab order of how fields within the
dialog box are ordered, because the What's This? manual mentions something
about setting a topic ID to -1 to avoid what sounds suspiciously like this
problem. And linking seems to be a C/C++ convention.

> I don't think I've been much help. Maybe I've made things worse. As always,
> you can try to contact Blue Sky for help with technical questions or post to
> the WinHelp list. Best of luck!

There's a WinHelp list? :) Thanks. Our developers are smart and not totally
inaccessible, so I'm not too worried.

David

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