WhatsThisHelpText Property
Returns or sets the text used for WhatsThisHelp for invoking help on the the object in WhatsThisHelp mode.
Syntax
Object.WhatsThisHelpText [ = sWhatsThisHelpText ]
The WhatsThisHelpText property syntax has the following parts:
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Name
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Type
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Description
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Object
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Object
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An object
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sWhatsThisHelpText
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BString
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A string specifying the text to be used for WhatsThisHelp.
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Comments
When a user presses the Help Icon 
on the form caption and then positions the mouse icon over an item, the program automatically enters WhatsThisHelp mode and the cursor changes to . When the user clicks the mouse icon on an object, ATEasy searches for any WhatsThisHelpText for that object. If none is found, ATEasy searches for the WhatsThisHelpID for that object. If WhatsThisHelpID is set to 0, then the program looks in the WhatsThisHelpID of the object's container, and if none is found, then that object's container, and so on. If a nonzero current context number cannot be found, the request is ignored and nothing is displayed.
The WhatsThisHelpText field is designed to be short, that is, only a few lines long.
Example
The following statement changes the AButton's WhatsThisHelpText to the text shown:
btn1.WhatsThisHelpText="A Button control for allowing a binary choice to the user."
Applies to
All controls and the following classes:
See Also
Help, HelpContextID, HelpFile, MsgBox, OnHelpContext, OnWhatsThisHelp, ShowHelpContext, ShowWhatsThis, ToolTipText, WhatsThisButton, WhatsThisHelpID, WhatsThisMode