The table below presents the different help systems proposed to the users in a WINDEV or WINDEV Mobile application:
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| Tooltip | Status bar | Help window | Advanced tooltip | Help page | HLP file (Winhelp) |
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| Level of help | Short help (a few words) | Simple help (a sentence, the time, a progress bar, ...) | Help that may contain several sentences. | Advanced context-sensitive help (may contain images) | Advanced help (help pages, links, summary, images, ...) | Advanced help (help pages, links, summary, images, ...) |
| Create | - Control description window, "Help" tab
- Programming: ..ToolTip property
| - Control description window, "Help" tab
- Programming: Message function or ..Message property
| Control description window, "Help" tab | Help editor of WINDEV: Click  among the quick access buttons. The element creation window appears: click "Architecture" then "Help". | Help editor of WINDEV: Click among the quick access buttons. The element creation window appears: click "Architecture" then "Help". | Help editor of WINDEV: Click among the quick access buttons. The element creation window appears: click "Architecture" then "Help". |
| Start the help | Automatically started when the control is hovered by the mouse cursor. | Automatically started (the window must have a status bar).
The information specific to a control is displayed when the control has focus. | Automatically started (F1 key). | Advanced tooltip on a control- Display the icon of context-sensitive help in the window ("Style" tab of the description window)
- Indicate the help file associated with the window ("Help" tab of the description window)
- Specify the number of the page to display ("Help" tab of the control description window)
| Started by programming (WHelp) | Started by programming (WHelp) |
| Start the context-sensitive help on a window, a control | Not intended to be used this way | Not intended to be used this way | Not intended to be used this way | Context-sensitive help page on a control:- Specify the number of the page to display in the control description window.
- Use WHelp and NumHelp.
| Context-sensitive help page on a control:- Specify the number of the page to display in the control description window.
- Use WHelp and NumHelp.
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Advanced tooltip on a window
Not intended to be used this way | Context-sensitive help page on a window:
Use WHelp and specify the number of the page to display. | Context-sensitive help page on a window:
Use WHelp and specify the number of the page to display. |
| For more details | Helping the user | Helping the user | Helping the user | Creating the help (CHM or HLP) | Creating the help (CHM or HLP) | Creating the help (CHM or HLP) |