Creating .DBF-Style Help
.DBF-style Help is simple to create and uses standard Microsoft® Visual FoxPro® tables that port easily to other Visual FoxPro platforms. If you want a simple solution to providing help, if you are developing cross-platform applications, or if you prefer to maintain a backward-compatible help file, you can provide .DBF-style help for your users.
In This Section
- .DBF-Style Help Design
.DBF-style Help files, or Help tables, are free tables that are displayed in the Help window. - Viewing the Sample .DBF-Style Help File
The .DBF Help window has two modes, Topics and Details. The Topics mode displays a list of all the topics in the Help file. - .DBF-Style Help Access and Display
Your user will be able to easily access Help if you include a Contents command on your Help menu that uses the HELP command. When a user chooses the Contents command, the Help window appears in Topics mode. - Customizing .DBF-Style Help
In your application code, you specify which Help file is used, which and when topics are displayed, and other optional settings.
Related Sections
- Creating Help Files
Help files are a valuable source of information for users of your application. With Microsoft® Visual FoxPro®, you can choose to create Winhelp, HTML Help or .DBF-style Help. - Creating Graphical Help
Graphical Help can be Winhelp for a Microsoft® Windows® look and feel or HTML Help for a Web look and feel.