Progress
Help Development
Guide
Coding the Help Calling Interface
This section explains some SYSTEM-HELP statement calls that are commonly used in the help calling interfaces of Progress applications. For more information on the Progress language elements described in the following sections, see the Progress Language Reference.
You can run the sample procedure,
r-syshlp.p
, to execute the help calls explained in this section. This procedure demonstrates several features of the SYSTEM-HELP statement with the Procedure Editor help files (editeng.hlp
andediteng.cnt
). The user can select a button to demonstrate each of the following SYSTEM-HELP options:Note that PARTIAL-KEY invokes the Help Topics dialog box with the Index tab on top.
The source code example
r-syshlp.p
, is in the library,prodoc.pl
, in\Program Files\Progress\src
or in the\src
directory where Progress is installed. Follow the directions in the Preface for extracting files from libraries.To execute
r-syshlp.p
, follow these steps:
- Copy
editeng.hlp
andediteng.cnt
from\Program Files\Progress\prohelp
to your Progress working directory (by default,C:\Progress\Wrk)
.- Open
r-syshlp.p
in the Procedure Editor.- Press F2 to run the file.
When you click the buttons on the sample interface,
r-syshlp.p
calls the Procedure Editor help files,editeng.hlp
andediteng.cnt:
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