Re: FW: Panel Groups

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:01 08/31/98 -0400, John Compton wrote:
>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Fisher, Don 
>Sent:  Monday, August 31, 1998 9:20 AM
>To:    Compton, John
>Subject:       Panel Groups
>
>I have defined a subfile with 4 columns comprising 2 distinct fields.
>For example, the first 2 columns are store type and store number.  The
>second 2 columns are also store type and store number.  
>
>The problem is that when the extended help is selected, the text for the
>store type and store number appears twice.  Is there any way, short of
>combining the text for the fields into one topic, to alleviate this
>problem?

John,

Define a HLPARA that encompasses the entire display. Build a separate :help 
name= section referencing its name, and use :imhelp name= tags to import the 
specific sections from the general and field level help that you want to be in 
the extended help. At least that's the way I've done it. I remember having this 
problem, and I think this got around it. I just looked up some code that I 
wrote many moons ago when I was doing help panels quite a lot, and that's the 
way it was written.

hth
Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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