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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:

ON CHOOSE OF MENU-ITEM menu_help_contents
		DO:
			SYSTEM-HELP myhelp.hlp CONTENTS.
		END. 


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