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FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I just thought of this, and it baffled me.

How can V-Setup be able to open a corresponding help topic when you press F1 without a DLL or a "hidden" menu Question

I've heard this is written in VDS...

Garrett · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 5:57 pm Post subject:

Might be one of the things to come in the next version of VDS maybe?

-Garrett

Skit3000 · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 6:00 pm Post subject:

One thing I know is that you can use Buttons as Hotkeys by using a value like H&elp... I don't know if it works with the F1 key, I don't think so, but it still is very usefull...

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Yes, I was aware of that, but the buttons only allow one letter to be a key...this is two characters... F1

Garrett · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 6:03 pm Post subject:

I never tried using buttons for the Fx keys. Give it a try and see.

-Garrett

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Nope, only responds to the "F" key...

Skit3000 · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 6:07 pm Post subject:

I took a second look at it, and I saw that if you name a button/bitbtn HELP a HELPBUTTON event will occur when pressing the F1 key. The same thing with a CANCELBUTTON, if the Escape button is pressed...

Garrett · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 6:08 pm Post subject:

There's no way to hide a menu is there??

-Garrett

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

That's it! It has a BITBTN named "Help"...
Then it uses the WINHELP command to open the corresponding page, probably...

But Here's another:

When you press F1 on the "Files" tab of V-Setup, you see a screen shot of it...but the list has glyphs in it, they are probably the "Wingdings" font...but how can you use two fonts in one list line?

To Garrett:

You can find an example of a "hidden" menu from Mac somewhere on this forum...you would use something like the following:

DIALOG ADD,MENU,-,Item 1|Ctrl+1,Item 2|Ctrl+2

The hyphen is not visible, the menu is disabled, and it still functions as a Hotkey...only for your program though.

It adds about a quarter of an inch of extra room at the top of the dialog...

Garrett · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 6:28 pm Post subject:

VSetup installs it's own font for this. If you use character map, check the vsfont and you'll see the wingdings added to this font, which is used in that list element.

-Garrett

Skit3000 · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 6:29 pm Post subject:

If you want a real hidden menu, try to make a child-window of 1 by 1 pixel, on top, that has a Menu-element on it. I think it should work.

For the multiply fonts: maybe they've used a TEXT element on top of the list. Then you can simulate more then one font. It works fine as long as the list doesn't scroll up or down.

Garrett · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 6:44 pm Post subject:

Skit, I just posted above that VSetup installs it's own font for use in that list. If you look at the font, you'll see some wingdings in it's selection.

-Garrett

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I didn't think that it installed it's own font...that would be a good font for VDS users to use...although we probably couldn't distribute it because of possible copyrights.

Skit3000 · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 7:49 pm Post subject:

Sorry Garrett, but we posted on the same moment... I saw it a minute (too) late(r)... Smile

Mac · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 8:29 pm Post subject:

Apparently the "Cancel" BITBTN idea doesn't work in VDS3,
but I added a hidden "Help" BITBTN (F1 key) example here:

http://www.vdsworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3554

Cheers, Mac Smile