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Programming Interfaces
External Program Interfaces : Providing Help for OpenEdge Applications : Online help systems : Accessing online help from the menu bar : Calling the Help Viewer
 
Calling the Help Viewer
Using the CONTENTS option of the SYSTEM-HELP statement displays the HTML Help Viewer for the specified help file. You frequently use this for a Help Topics call from the help menu. The following code example demonstrates a Help Topics call:
ON CHOOSE OF MENU-ITEM Help_Topics DO:
  SYSTEM-HELP myhelp.chm CONTENTS.
END.
For example, when the user chooses the Help Topics from the Help menu in the Procedure Editor's main window, the Help Viewer appears, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 43. HTML Help Viewer showing Procedure Editor Help