Context-sensitive Help provides information about what users see inside applications – details about fields and controls at dialogs, explanations of messages, and descriptions of windows and screen objects. The following information explains how it works in WinHelp and HTML Help.
WinHelp |
Microsoft HTML Help |
Field-level/What's This? Help (text formatting) |
Field-level/What's This? Help (text-only) |
Dialog/window-level Help (text formatting) |
Dialog/window-level Help (text-formatting) |
Map files |
Map files |
Aliases (connect topic IDs to Help topics) |
Aliases (match topic IDs to window-level Help topics) |
WinHelp API is used by developers to provide context-sensitive functionality with applications |
HTML Help API is used by developers to provide context-sensitive functionality with applications |