How make button F1 ( Help ) enable in my application ?

[Lost User]

Hi, I have some Form ( WinForm ) that on him i have button "Help". I want to make the keyboard button F1 enable and in case that the application user will press on the F1 => then the help button will be press / or the some method in my application will be call. How to do it ? Thanks for any help.

[N a v a n e e t h]

Yanshof wrote:

have some Form ( WinForm ) that on him i have button "Help".

You can set short cut key for that menu as F1. Then menu code will be called

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[Lost User]

Ok, And how do i do it ? Is there is some other way ?

[Kristian Sixhoj]

Create a new form - This form will be the help window. Now, click in the main form, and set it's KeyDown event. Write the following code in the event handler:

if (e.KeyCode == Keys.F1)
{
HelpForm helpForm = new HelpForm();
helpForm.ShowDialog();
}

If your help form isn't called 'HelpForm' then write the correct name instead of.

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[Lutoslaw]

Just handle Form.HelpRequested event :) Edit: If ya want to have a "question mark"-button in the top-right corner, set HelpButton property to true and both MaximizeBox and MinimizeBox to false; -- modified at 11:50 Tuesday 25th September, 2007

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[Matthew Cuba]

Why not add a System.Windows.Forms.HelpProvider by dropping one onto your form, set its HelpNamespace to the .chm file you want to open and then in your form's properties, set the HelpKeyword and HelpNavigator properties? the Visual Studio 2005 documentation has an example in C# for the HelpProvider class. Good Luck!

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