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Help Development
Guide
Accessing Online Help from the Menu Bar
A common method of requesting help from an application is by selecting help items from the application menu bar. The menu bar usually includes a help pull-down menu and contains menu items such as:
The CHOOSE event occurs when a user chooses an option from a menu. In Progress, you use a CHOOSE event to code a trigger for menu items. A trigger is a block of code that executes whenever a specific event occurs (such as when the user chooses a menu item).
The following code example demonstrates a help trigger that executes when the user selects a menu item from the application’s menu bar to access the help engine:
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