Help Text
A Help Text is a legacy Development Object that defines a block of text that is displayed in an application window to provide help about the application. They are unlikely to be used in modern applications.
Help texts must have a unique name; they cannot use the same name as a message.
They can be accessed with the help ProcScript statement and the $text ProcScript function. New and updated help texts are automatically compiled when you save them.
Characteristics
| Characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Object type code: | msg |
| Main Development Object? | No |
| Part of: | Untyped Library |
| Contains: | Property |
| Generalization: | Development Object |
| Specializations: | — |
| Compilation Output: | MessageName@Library@Language.msg |
Specialization
Help Text specializes Development Object in the following ways:
- It has a message library as parent
- It has properties, but no code containers or other development objects
- Unlike Message objects, it has window dimensions.
