help file

[dmb1]

Can someone please help me.

I have designed a help file that is to accompany a database that I have designed but when I try to attach the help file to the database and press f1, I get a message saying that the help id doesn't exist.

I am not that bothered whether I get the help file when I press f1 I just want to be able to view it. I have tried a hyperlink on a command button but that brigs up a warning message which says that the file may contain a virus or the like, and although the help file then opens it gets a bit annoying with the message coming up each time I try to open it. I have tried to set the warnings off by way of a macro when the form opens but it doesn't matter I still get it!

I have also tried the 'run app' command in a macro which doesn't work because it is not an application - is there a way to create an .exe file that would run this file so I could use the 'run app' command in a macro.

Any ideas will be great.

Thanx a lot

Dmb1

 

[CPUburn]

Hi,

We have a substantial help file ourselves, and the solution we came up with is to make a public function which does nothing but trapping certain keys (keycode 112 = F1), This function we put in all of our forms in the form_keydown event. For the F1 key we set the keycode to 0 after which we launch our helpfile

hope this does the trick

the kid

 

[dmb1]

I am very new to access and I don't understand how you trap the keys like you said in your solution, could you expand a little please and thanx

dmb1