In addition to some text offering an error report, a hyperlinked page offers an excellent opportunity to provide the user with choices to alternate topics or to read up on additional information about a topic. If you are using on-line documentation, this can also be a natural place to put links to relevant sections in the document
This dialog window is presented using Microsoft's IWebBrowser2 OCX utility.
Add a list item here – this may also be a link as to Related Topic 1.
Add a list item here – this may also be a link as to Related Topic 2.
Add a list item here – this may also be a link as to Related Topic 3.
The problem, of course, is that the linked .HTML files for help need to be somewhere they can be located …
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This demo has the link location – an HTML file – statically declared in the control properties. A more flexible version of the dialog could be created – by deriving a custom class – which would accept a parameter for the initial page to display. Refer to the documentation supplied by Visual Components for instructions.
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How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? (Answer)
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None ... that's a hardware problem ... (Question)
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