ProHelp 1.0 beta 2 (well-tested).
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Overwiev

1 Components

ProHelp consists of the following two native VCL components:

• TigHelpMonitor. This is major component. Only one instance of this component is required for the entire application.
• TigHelpButton. This is just the help mode button. TigHelpButton operates in the same manner as well known the “question mark + arrow” button, that resides in many great applications. Any form of your application can have its own the TigHelpButton control. Any type of button can be used instead of the TigHelpButton control without additional coding.

2 Core Benefits and Features

With ProHelp, your programs will be more professional in appearance and easier to use.

ProHelp can cut development time and technical support time, helping you turn your good software into great software!

ProHelp automatically supports all access methods to the context-sensitive help in the “What’s This?” style for:

• All visible components, including nonwindowed controls.
• Menu commands, including the standard ones (the window control menu commands, the edit control menu commands, etc.).
• All standard objects in the non-client window area.

Using the Tag property or a simplest event handler, you can associate help windows with nonwindowed controls.

ProHelp comes with a lot of automatically installable, fully customizable hints and Help topics for the most standard objects, including the standard dialog’s buttons (Apply, Cancel, Help and OK).

You can control the help window style by simply varying the context number sign.

You can also provide any menu command with two separate hints, corresponding to the enabled and disabled states by using the Hint property.

ProHelp has a many features not given above.

3 Usage and Customization

Using and customizing ProHelp is as easy as possible.

All you need is to place the and TigHelpButton components on the application’s main form, provided that all necessary help windows have been already developed and assigned to the appropriate objects.

TigHelpMonitor has the complete set of properties and events for the customization purposes.