Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide

Identify Help Entry Points

An application provides online help by establishing help entry points. Entry points are defined in the application and associated with specific help topics. Each of the ways that a user can request help--the Help key, button, or menu--represent entry points. For example, consider an application with a Print dialog box that has a Help button. The author writes a help topic that describes the contents of the dialog box and supplies you with the ID of the topic. You can then associate the ID of the help topic with the Help button using a callback routine.