Ok - that was my idea aswell
so here's the next question:
What event do I trap?
I've found no reference of a "helpevent" so I guess I must go for a
PenDownEvent or PenUpEvent
I have little experience in handling these so any guidance would be
appreciated !
/Per-Eric
"Aaron Ardiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:52400@palm-dev-forum...
>
> > I've found no function to change the helpID for a FORM resource at
runtime.
> > I have a form in an application that I use for two purposes, I want the
help
> > text to change, depending on from where the form was called
> >
> > I'm using falch.net dev studio and gcc, prctools and all of that
> >
> > I'm down to two possible solutions
> > 1 tampering with the formstruct directly
> > 2 catching the help event and displaying my own help
>
> easy way.. is #2.. catch the event, then call FrmHelp() directly
> with two different id's.. tampering with the form struct directly
> is not nice :) and will most likely break in future versions
>
> jens rupp (developer of bigclock) and i are also devleoping a
> more sophisticated help system for the palm called "got help?"
> which will give better help than the standard bold font help :)
>
> more information on it can be found here:
>
> http://www.ardiri.com/palm/gothelp/index.cfm
>
> once we fix a few issues with multi sized screens we should
> get it out :) [i also gotta sync with jens] :P
>
> // az
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.ardiri.com/ <--- free games!
>
>
>
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