Make Help Button Work.

Hello All

I'm try to link the help button to a help file using the msgbox function. I don't know what it is but when I press the button nothing happens. The 'OK' Button works fine and I can test for it too. Do I need to do something to make the help button work when using a msgbox? Here is the code that I have so far...

Button click...
Dim oErrors As New MakeSomeErrors()
Try
oErrors.TestDivideException()
Catch ex As MyExceptions
Dim stemp As String
Dim msgResult As New MsgBoxResult()

msgResult = MsgBox(ex.Message, msgBoxStyle.MsgBoxHelp, "Error")
If msgResult = vbMsgBoxHelp Then
MsgBox("Hello")
End If
End Try


Matthew

' The first argument is a Control object that works as the
' parent for the help dialog box.
Help.ShowHelpIndex(Me, "c:\myhelpfile.chm")

(You can also use a URL that uses forward slashes as separators.) The other method, ShowHelp,
is overloaded to provide access to different portions of the help document:

' Display the contents of the help file.
Help.ShowHelp(Me, "c:\myhelpfile.chm")
' Display the index page of the help file.
Help.ShowHelp(Me, "c:\myhelpfile.chm", HelpNavigator.Index)
' Display the search page of the help file.
Help.ShowHelp(Me, "c:\myhelpfile.chm", HelpNavigator.Find)
' Display the help page for a specific keyword.
Help.ShowHelp(Me, "c:\myhelpfile.chm", "mykeyword")
' Display the help page for the specific topic #123.
Help.ShowHel (Me, "c:\myhelpfile.chm", HelpNavigator.Topic, 123)

Thanks for the help but is there any way to make the help button thats display on the msgbox to cause an event when pressed.

Matthew

If theres a way, then I haven't found it.. The only button objects listed are

OKOnly
OKCancel
AbortRetryIgnore
YesNoCancel
YesNo
RetryCancel

An API Might be the best solution.

Yeah I've tried everything and still no go. Well thanks for the help though.

Matt

hi,

There is a way to do to add a help button to msgbox, there is a document somewhere that tells you how to 'hack' the msgbox function.

or

you could just create you own msgbox, using a form. it's a lot quick and you make it do what ever you like. that's what I had to do.