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HELPBUTTON property (Window)

Description

If set to TRUE$ then the window displays a context-help button in its caption bar. When clicked the cursor changes to a question mark, and subsequently clicking on a control in the window will send it a HELP event.

Property Value

This is a Boolean property. If set to TRUE then the context-help button is displayed, otherwise it is hidden.

Property Traits

DevelopmentRuntimeIndexedScaledSynthetic
Get/SetGet/SetNoNoNo

Remarks

This property implements the WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP Extended Window Style. It cannot be used if either the MINIMIZEBUTTON or MAXIMIZEBUTTON properties are set to TRUE$.

Example

 
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   // Example – Showing the context-help button for the current window.

   Call Set_Property_Only( @Window, "HELPBUTTON", TRUE$ )

See Also

HELP event, MINIMIZEBUTTON property, MAXIMIZEBUTTON property.