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Forums » Prof-UIS General Discussion » context help style Collapse All
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Gernot Griesser Jan 9, 2005 - 3:31 AM

Is there any way to change the style of the context help with ProfUIS, for example using balloon tips?

Yours,
Gernot

Technical Support Jan 9, 2005 - 9:29 AM

Prof-UIS supports the context help feature of MFC for pop-up menus and toolbars. The result of selection in the context help mode is a call of the CWinApp::WinHelp virtual method which you may override to display anything you need. Please let us know the details what exactly you want to display so that we can help you.

Gernot Griesser Jan 9, 2005 - 3:09 PM

Thanks for your answer.


I’d like to change the style of the context help for controls, for example in an options dialog (see the windows calc for example). The context help shadow seems to be very old.


Currently I use the HtmlHelp() and OnContextMenu() method.


Can I replace the default context help style (for controls) with ProfUIS using baloon tips instead?


Yours,


Gernot

Technical Support Jan 11, 2005 - 2:10 AM

Custom context help is not provided by Prof-UIS. The balloon tip window is designed to be used in pop-up menus only. It is certainly possible to use it in any other place but in this case you need to code your own control from scratch. We think the HTML context help in balloon tip may be coded as a control that consists of two windows: a pop-up balloon window and a web browser control inside. The web browser control should receive an URL that points to some page in the CHM file. Unfortunately we are not sure whether such a design can work enough fast.