How to put a help text in a form

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IJALAB - 30 Oct 2006 11:08 GMT

Hello All,

Request your guidance on the following:

1)I have a form where the user can enter the details. For information
sake, the formulae to calculate every parameter is displayed in the
bottom part of the form. For ex:

total time = time from start + wait time

We need to put these text as a question mark button in the same form.
and upon user click the details should be displayed next to the
question mark.

2) How to I update LED kind of displays in a main form when something
gets updated in the background form? How do I add such status LEDs in
VB 6.0?

Thanks all,

Bala

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Lesley Regan - 31 Oct 2006 15:53 GMT

> Hello All,
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> Bala

Hello, Bala,

For item 1, do you want one button at the bottom of the form with choices
that display depending on the field the user has clicked into?

Do you have access to a book that explains how to do this? You could look
up user forms in the book. It is a good exercise and not too hard. There
are some good examples on the internet also. You could google USER FORMS
Visual Basic 6

What if you tried adding each formula as tool-tip text in the field
properties of the actual field?

I don't know what you mean in item 2, but maybe somebody else does.

Regards, Lesley

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