As a followup to my post, I realized I was running my test on Firefox, which
does not display its own Context help when pressing F1. In IE, when you
press F1, it pops up the context help. To get around this problem, you can
use a bit of script in your html page.
Create a wrapper for your mxml app (one method is to grab the html source
when you view your mxml app), and then add in the following script into your
html wrapper:
<SCRIPT>
function dsble_Help(){
//replace this -alert- with your help scripts
alert('confirmation that event will trigger the F1 command')
return false;
}
document.onhelp=dsble_Help
</SCRIPT>
Note that your Flex app will still receive the F1 keystroke (ascii 112) in
IE.
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: context-sensitive help
You can easily build your own context-sensitive help by listening
for the keyDown event and using the FocusManager's getFocus call to retrieve
the control in focus.
Here is a simple app that can get you started:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml"; xmlns="*"
width="700" keyDown="handleKey(event)">
<mx:Script>
function handleKey(event)
{
msg.text += "handleKey code " + Key.getCode() + " target " +
event.target +
" focus " + getFocusManager().getFocus() + "\n";
}
</mx:Script>
<mx:HBox>
<mx:Text text="lkajrlekja rekl "/>
<mx:RadioButton label="bobbe"/>
</mx:HBox>
<mx:TextInput keyDown="handleKey(event)"/>
<mx:NumericStepper/>
<mx:Button/>
<mx:TextArea width="90%" height="70%" id="msg"/>
</mx:Application>
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: context-sensitive help
As i know in flex,i think this type of requirement we can't implement
in flex application.And this is very useful functionality.If they
support in future this in flex very much useful!!
-Thipperudra
--- In [email protected], "ssudha2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are features for context-sensitive help available in Flex out-of-
box?
> That is, apart from tool-tip, can I invoke a help window for each
field
> on click of F1.
>
> Should this be implemented programmatically or features are already
> available in Flex?
>
> Thanks
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