AHelp5 v1.3 by MicroFox                  Registration $ 50.00
MISC FEB91 AHELP CLIPPER LIB HELP DBASE
FILES: ahelp5.sdn

New to SDN

Welcome to  AHELP!   This  help  system,  for  use  with your
Clipper   applications   (Summer    '87),    provides    both
context-sensitive  and generalized help windows.  Features of
AHELP version 1 (be sure to see version 2, p.7):

*  You  control  whether  help  windows  have  no  border,  a
single-line border, or a double-line border.

* You  control  whether  the cross-bars drawn inside the help
windows have no line, a single line, or a double line.

*    AHELP   automatically   determines    the    appropriate
intersections.

* You  control what colors AHELP will use for the help window
border, title, content, and highlight bar in the  help  index
window.

* You  control whether or not the end user has the ability to
create or modify help windows.

*  You control whether or not  the  help  windows  have  drop
shadows.

* AHELP  automatically  positions the help window immediately
below the screen position of the input variable (e.g., a  GET
variable) if the window will fit there; otherwise, the window
appears immediately above the input variable.

* AHELP provides a help index; whenever any help window is on
the screen, the user may press F1 to see the help index.  The
help  index  is  another  window  with a scrolling alphabetic
listing of help subjects.  The user uses the  cursor  control
keys  to highlight the subject of interest, and presses Enter
to see the corresponding help window.  The user may also type
the first letter of the subject to  move  the  highlight  bar
immediately to the first occurrence of that letter.

*  AHELP  is  sensitive  to  the Clipper environment.  If the
cursor is off when help is  invoked,  it  will  be  off  when
control  returns  to  your  application.   Conversely, if the
cursor is on when help is invoked, it will be on when control
returns to your application.  The same principle  applies  to
colors,  function  keys,  insert  status,  work area, and the
status of SET CONSOLE, DELETED, ESCAPE, and SCOREBOARD.

* AHELP does not use any "wait state" commands  (READ,  WAIT,
ACCEPT,  INPUT, MENU TO), to avoid conflicts with any pending
GETs.  It uses the INKEY() function for all  keyboard  input,
with  two  exceptions:  it  calls DBEDIT() for the help index
window and MEMOEDIT() for displaying/editing help text.



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