Drop Down Help Menu

[dandoescode]

I'm creating a form that functions as a help menu. The basic idea is a form that will have click able text boxes each with the name of a specific help issue.



A few issues.

1) The help form will be based on a table. The table has two entries, helpItem and helpDisplay. I would like the form to be created each time the db is opened, it should remove the earlier clickable commands. step through the table and create a clickable command for each helpItem in the table.

2) Upon clicking command the form should display the helpDisplay associated with the helpItem, underneath the command. Clicking the command again should collapse the text.

Anybody know how to do this? Is what I'm suggesting doable?

[Rod]

My first thought is to use a continuous form. You can maniplate the format so that the form looks more like a list and less like a form. Set all the bound controls to be locked/disabled and cover them with a transparent button to 'catch' the click event.

This won't achieve the expand/collapse requirement!