Help using HELP in actionbar menus

[Robert J.M. Edis]

Thanks Conrad

I was stupidly expecting to see the usual data I see when I do a ?? in the
ACTION field.  Instead I was getting the message "Action Bar commands are
active."  

When I recompiled the screen after changing the syntax a couple of times, I
ended up getting the help data I was after.  PH is working fine, dumb user
that's all! :)

Blue 

-----Original Message-----
From: Whittall, Conrad
To: 'powerh-l@list.swau.edu'
Sent: 1/24/00 7:48 PM
Subject: RE: Help using HELP in actionbar menus

Hi Blue,

What you have "should" work, i.e. EXTENDED HELP is a valid QDESIGN
command
for a conditional command list. However, as tables 5.12 and 5.13 in the
PowerHouse Language Rules book (I'm working from the Series 8 PDF Books
here) state, this command is valid in both ACTION and DATA contexts.

Are you perhaps getting the extended help for a field in your program
(the
currently "marked" one)? In which case this indicates that you are
actually
in data context when you are calling the menu item. If not it sounds
like
you have a product issue.

Anyway, why hasn't this customer upgraded to 8.13D? Or even 8.23D for
that
matter?

Cheers,
Conrad

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert J.M. Edis [mailto:robert.edis@creatcomp.com]
Sent: Monday 24 January 2000 18:19
To: 'powerh-l@list.swau.edu'
Subject: Help using HELP in actionbar menus


G'day all

I am using PH 7.33 under HP/UX.  I want to know how can I access my
'DESCRIPTION OF SCREEN' text from an actionbar menu item?

I have tried MENUITEM LABEL "Help" ACTION EXTENDED HELP but to no avail.
I
also discovered that ... ACTION ?? is illegal syntax!

Any ideas?

Blue
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