[Dxbase] In case you can not get the HELP FILES to work -- de Joe WA6AXE

[Joe Glockner]

ALL:

I have been trying to help W0VB (Terry) with his not being able
to get the HELP FILES to work on his Windows 7 64bit machine..

I linked up with him via TeamViewer and made sure that the
Winhlp32.exe was installed all ok -- and he did not have the ENABLE
MACROS setup yet -- so, we did the install of that ..

NOW - normally, after doing both of these actions, the HELP FILES
work beautifully.. 

BUT - in this case, NADA!!!! Tried and tried many things - but still nothing
of the Help Files appearing at all ..

Then - today - I played with my own Windows 7 64bit machine to see
WHAT file(s) might be created by the user going into the HELP / Help Topics..

Sure enough - a file named as: Dxb2007.GID was created ... looking at the
Internet for what the heck is a GID file -- I found it is a Windows Global Index file.
So, I closed DXbase2007 and deleted the current Dxb2007.GID file -- then
opened DXbase2007 back up and went to the Help/ Help Topics -- and once
again a NEW Dxb2007.GID file was created ..

SO - as a shot-in-the-dark, I sent an email to W0VB (Terry) telling him about THAT file -- 
and was BLOWN AWAY when he answered back that once he delete the Dxb2007.GID
file -- and opened DXbase2007 again -- then went to the Help / Help Topics 
--- VOILA !!! He HAS the HELP FILES all ok ...

I send this info out to all - just in case you HAVE installed the Winhlp32.exe file and 
also have successfully ENABLED MACROS -- but, you still can not get the Help files
to come up -- try the above!!!!!


73 Joe wa6axe