>"Ralph Freshour" <ra...@primemail.com> wrote in message
>news:3963d9a0.3445663@news.concentric.net...
>> The code below is susposed to minimize my app if the .hlp file is not
>> found, however, the else statement doesn't seem to be firing - I think
>> it is because when the windows dialog box displays saying no help file
>> can be found the focus has already switched away from my app - there
>> must be some std way to allow an app to detect that the hlp file is
>> missing and let it minimize itself so the user can see the dialog box
>> informing them of this fact???

>According to my reading of the D3 help file HelpContext will only return
>true when Application.HelpFile is an empty string, i.e. hasn't been assigned
>a value. Based on this I suspect that HelpContext is always returning true
>in your test and thus the else wouldn't be executed.

> Ralph

> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 23:26:29 -0400, "Bruce Roberts"
> <no.junk.please....@attcanada.net> wrote:

> >"Ralph Freshour" <ra...@primemail.com> wrote in message
> >news:3963d9a0.3445663@news.concentric.net...
> >> The code below is susposed to minimize my app if the .hlp file is not
> >> found, however, the else statement doesn't seem to be firing - I think
> >> it is because when the windows dialog box displays saying no help file
> >> can be found the focus has already switched away from my app - there
> >> must be some std way to allow an app to detect that the hlp file is
> >> missing and let it minimize itself so the user can see the dialog box
> >> informing them of this fact???

> >According to my reading of the D3 help file HelpContext will only return
> >true when Application.HelpFile is an empty string, i.e. hasn't been
assigned
> >a value. Based on this I suspect that HelpContext is always returning
true
> >in your test and thus the else wouldn't be executed.