Enables or disables Microsoft Visual FoxPro online Help or specifies a Help file.
Syntax
SET HELP ON | OFF
-or-
SET HELP TO [FileName]
Arguments
ON
(Default) Displays the Help window when you press F1 or issue HELP in the Command window.
OFF
Makes Visual FoxPro online Help unavailable.
TO [FileName]
Specifies a Help file that is displayed when you press F1 or issue HELP. You can specify a .Dbf-style Help file, a Winhelp (.Hlp) file, or an HTML (.Chm) help file.
If you issue SET HELP TO without including a file name, Visual FoxPro looks for the MSDN Help file Msdnvs98.col. In Visual FoxPro 6.0, issuing SET HELP TO with a Help file name doesn’t close any open Help windows.
Remarks
Use SET HELP to provide a tailored online Help file within a custom application or to switch between the different Help files in Visual FoxPro. For more information, see Part 7, Creating Help Files, in the Programmer's Guide.
If you install the MSDN (Microsoft Developer’s Network) library when you install Visual FoxPro, the default help file is the MSDN Help file Msdnvs98.col.
If you perform a complete installation of the MSDN (Microsoft Developer’s Network) library, or you perform a custom installation of the MSDN library and you specify to install the Visual FoxPro documentation, the Visual FoxPro Help file, Foxhelp.chm, is installed.
If you don’t install the MSDN library, no help file is installed.
You can also use the Help File option on the File Locations tab of the Options dialog box to interactively specify a Help file.