Right click on the interesting control, and then choose "What's This?"
Allows you to place buttons in the tips themselves.
Allows user to add notes to the tips for future reference.
Allows User to Add Notes to Tips
Right Click "What's This?" Help Tips
Right Click "What's This?" Help Tips
Help tips are editable at Runtime.
Easy to even add live HTML links in tips.
Allows you to change the font as well as change the font style to bold, italic, underline or highlight.
Can launch Windows applications from within Dex ezHelp tips. e.g. notepad, etc.
Editing Tips
Alt-C - to format or configure the tip
To get to the first screen press Alt-E (for Edit) while viewing a tip. You will see a regular looking memo box which contains the tip for the text. Apart from typing in the actual text, this is where you can also place buttons, hyperlinks, web links, highlighted text, horizontal lines etc. Each of these items is discussed below.
Formatting and Configuring Tips
Press Alt-C
To get to the screen press Alt-C (for Control) while viewing the tip. You can then set the color and font of text, the actions for buttons, the destinations of links etc.
Highlighting & Formatting Text
To format the text, select the text (left click) and then right-click to get the Popup menu. Choose Properties. You can then edit the font, color and style of the text by pressing the ... button.
You can also:
Separate a piece of text from the surrounding text, so that it can be formatted later, place "pipes" around it. Pipes are vertical line characters (often of the backslash key on the keyboard). They look like this |. Only do this for highlighting single words or short phrases. To highlight an entire line, use the formatting method mentioned above.
So for example if you had the sentence "Click on the OK button to save the record", then you could prepare the OK button for highlighting by placing pipes around it, like this -
Click on the| OK| button to save the record
Note that placing pipes doesn't highlight the word, but it allows you to format that word separately from the text around it later.
Remember you can use the Windows Character Map to copy Wingdings characters and paste them into the Help Tip text. While formatting the control you can set the font to Wingdings and suddenly you will have all sorts of useful pictures!
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