Help requested event

[Dan Neely]

I have the help requested event set on my form only, but the event is firing one time for the control selected and for each container the control is in. ie form with a button on it and the button focused fires the event twice. Put the button inside a groupbox and the event fires three times. Etc. The problem is that if my help document is missing instead of one error message, i get multiple error messageboxes displayed. The sender is always the form object so I can't screen that way. Is there an option I'm not seeing that would allow me to prevent the multiple fires, or do I need to find a way to suppress the multiple messagebox.show() calls within my help controller class.

-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

[jonny5]

There is a Handled property on the HelpEventArgs passed into your HelpRequested event handler - just set Handled = true to prevent the event from continuing down the chain. The behaviour you are seeing is by design.

Jon Humphreys ActivePlanet Software