Question and Answer Database FAQ770C.txt Windows 95 Help Limitations Category :On-Line Help Platform :All Product :BC++ 5.x Question: Whenever I select Help from the IDE, I will get the information I need. However, whenever I go to the index tab on the help, there is nothing displayed in the help area. It is blank. In addition, the Find tab does not work. When I try to create the find datafile, it gives me error 17 and puts me back on the index page. Answer: Try this. — Close all active programs. — Go into the start menu's BC 5 area and run OpenHelp. — Select files that are of interest. I suggest this list to start with: BCPP.HLP BCW.HLP CLASSLIB.HLP OWL50.HLP WIN32.HLP WIN31WH.HLP — Press Ok to save the list. Now when you are in the IDE and press F1, help should be shown on the word the cursor is on. If there are references in several help files (TextOut is in both Win 3.1 and Win32 for instance), you'll be given a choice of which you want to see. This happens because of a Windows95(tm) Help system limitation to the amount of refrences that it can have. 7/2/98 10:32:32 AM
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