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PRB: WhatsThisButton Disappears when Form Designer Gets Focus

Article ID: 156511

Article Last Modified on 12/14/1999

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q156511

SYMPTOMS

The WhatsThisButton button for a form disappears when the Form Designer receives focus at design time. However, when you click the place where WhatsThisButton is located in the form, WhatsThisButton becomes visible again. This behavior happens at only design time. The button is visible at run time.

CAUSE

The operating system is causing the button to disappear. Whenever the Close button is grayed out, the WhatsThisButton button is not available.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

The WhatsThisButton button is used for context-sensitive Help in Windows

This button is located in the upper-right corner of the form and has a

question mark (?) inside the button. This button is used to start Windows Help and load a topic identified by the WhatsThisHelpID property.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Create a form.

Set all of the appropriate settings below in the Property window to make the WhatsThisButton property visible in the form.

      WhatsThisButton property = .T.
      WhatsThisHelp property = .T
      BorderStyle property = 3
      MinButton property =  .F.
      MaxButton property .F.

Once the WhatsThisButton button(?) is visible on the upper-right corner of the form, click on the form design area.

The WhatsThisButton button disappears from the upper-right corner of the form.

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Keywords: KB156511