Setting HelpContext or trap F1 key?

David Cox

Hello,

When the users press F1 or selects "Help | Help Contents" while in the Fast Reports designer, I want to display our help topic. How do you assign the HelpContext in Fast reports so it pulls up our customized help? And how would I set it when the user is in the Preview window? (I can't find any reference to how to do this in the manuals or on line.)

Thank you!

Dave

gpi

See here: http://www.fast-report.com/en/forum/?p=/discussion/3717

David Cox

http://www.fast-report.com/en/forum/?p=/discussion/3717 wrote:

http://www.fast-report.com/en/forum/?p=/discussion/3717 [/url]

Thanks, but that is not really what I am after. Many of our customer sites use web based help so we want to call our central web help file. Is there anyway to trap the F1 key press or other method to call our customized help?

Dave

gpi

You should modify FR's sources
See frxEditMemo.pas

procedure TfrxMemoEditorForm.FormKeyDown(Sender: TObject; var Key: Word;
  Shift: TShiftState);
begin
  if Key = VK_F1 then
    frxResources.Help(Self);
end;

frxRes.pas

procedure TfrxResources.Help(Sender: TObject);
{$IFNDEF FPC}
var
  i: Integer;
  topic: String;
{$ENDIF}
begin
  {$IFDEF FPC}
  {$note TfrxResources.Help not implemented.}
  {$ELSE}
  topic := '';
  if Sender <> nil then
    for i := 0 to helpTopicsCount - 1 do
      if CompareText(helpTopics[i].Sender, Sender.ClassName) = 0 then
        topic := '::/' + helpTopics[i].Topic;
{$IFNDEF FR_COM}
  frxDisplayHHTopic(Application.Handle, ExtractFilePath(Application.ExeName) + FHelpFile + topic);
{$ELSE}
  frxDisplayHHTopic(Application.Handle, FHelpFile + topic);
{$ENDIF}
{$ENDIF}
end;

for example

David Cox

Thanks!

(I missed this post earlier and just saw it now.)

Dave