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How to enable context sensitive help for individual controls on a FormView

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25 Oct 2002CPOL2 min read 122.5K   962   29  
Context sensitive help does not distinguish individual controls on a FormView. This sorts that problem
// ContextHelpView.h : interface of the CContextHelpView class
//
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#if !defined(AFX_CONTEXTHELPVIEW_H__7F21EA9E_9A4E_11D6_AD9D_00B0D0652E95__INCLUDED_)
#define AFX_CONTEXTHELPVIEW_H__7F21EA9E_9A4E_11D6_AD9D_00B0D0652E95__INCLUDED_

#if _MSC_VER > 1000
#pragma once
#endif // _MSC_VER > 1000


class CContextHelpView : public CFormView
{
protected: // create from serialization only
	CContextHelpView();
	DECLARE_DYNCREATE(CContextHelpView)

public:
	//{{AFX_DATA(CContextHelpView)
	enum{ IDD = IDD_CONTEXTHELP_FORM };
		// NOTE: the ClassWizard will add data members here
	//}}AFX_DATA

// Attributes
public:
	CContextHelpDoc* GetDocument();

// Operations
public:

// Overrides
	// ClassWizard generated virtual function overrides
	//{{AFX_VIRTUAL(CContextHelpView)
	public:
	virtual BOOL PreCreateWindow(CREATESTRUCT& cs);
	protected:
	virtual void DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX);    // DDX/DDV support
	virtual void OnInitialUpdate(); // called first time after construct
	virtual BOOL OnPreparePrinting(CPrintInfo* pInfo);
	virtual void OnBeginPrinting(CDC* pDC, CPrintInfo* pInfo);
	virtual void OnEndPrinting(CDC* pDC, CPrintInfo* pInfo);
	virtual void OnPrint(CDC* pDC, CPrintInfo* pInfo);
	//}}AFX_VIRTUAL
	afx_msg LRESULT	OnHelpHitTest(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);
	afx_msg LRESULT	OnCommandHelp(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);

// Implementation
public:
	virtual ~CContextHelpView();
#ifdef _DEBUG
	virtual void AssertValid() const;
	virtual void Dump(CDumpContext& dc) const;
#endif

protected:

// Generated message map functions
protected:
	//{{AFX_MSG(CContextHelpView)
		// NOTE - the ClassWizard will add and remove member functions here.
		//    DO NOT EDIT what you see in these blocks of generated code !
	//}}AFX_MSG
	DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
};

#ifndef _DEBUG  // debug version in ContextHelpView.cpp
inline CContextHelpDoc* CContextHelpView::GetDocument()
   { return (CContextHelpDoc*)m_pDocument; }
#endif

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//{{AFX_INSERT_LOCATION}}
// Microsoft Visual C++ will insert additional declarations immediately before the previous line.

#endif // !defined(AFX_CONTEXTHELPVIEW_H__7F21EA9E_9A4E_11D6_AD9D_00B0D0652E95__INCLUDED_)

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