Bookmarking your custom help file for a specific resource ID

You can associate a specific GUI element with a specific location within your custom help file by using standard HTML anchor tags and using the element’s resource ID as the name attribute of the tag.

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When you press F1 to open your custom help file (when possible), it opens at the beginning of the help file.

If for a particular resource ID (for example, the Tags tab of the Features window) you want your custom help file to open to a specific spot in the custom help file, add a bookmark to that spot in the help file. Use the standard HTML <a name> and </a> tags.

For example, the myhelp.htm help file has three sections labeled: Attributes, Ports, and Tags. When you open the help file, you see the Attributes section first. If for the Tags tab, which is resource ID 139316, you want to open the custom help file at the Tags section of the help file, you would code it as follows in the myhelp.htm help file:

<a name="139316">Tags</a>

Then when you press F1 on the Tags tab, the custom help file opens at the Tags section of the help file.


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