Changing the Default Help Message

The default help message is displayed when there is no help at either help level. If there is no first-level help, the system automatically calls the second-level of help. Thus, the user will only see the default help message if no second-level of help is available. This can occur if:

• nThe keyword specified for the second-level of help does not exist in the active help memory file.
  
  
• nThere is no active help memory file and a NULLP was specified for the help keyword for the second-level of help. (If a keyword is specified and there is no active help memory file, the keyword is considered a string and displayed in the help window).

Designer: There is no way to change the system default help message from inside the Designer. You must change it in your code.

Code: Initially the system default help message is, "No help available." You can change the default help message with the function se_defaulthelpmsg():

void se_defaulthelpmsg("Whatever help message you want.");

You can also change the initialized value of the default help message, as you can any other system message by (1) editing vv_infomsg.c where the default help message is initialized, (2) recompiling the module, (3) replacing the module in the library, and (4) relinking the program.

Caution: Do not change the order of the informational messages. They are in an array accessed by #defined values from the code.