Difficulties with 'Discription and Tip...'

[richmart]

Hi, I added a custom context help description for one of my VIs by using the VI Properties > Documentation text box. This is working fine.

1) Why doesn't the 'Discription and Tip...' Dialog from the right-click  Drop-Down menu work? When I move the mouse over the text box the Context Help says, that this box can be used to add description to be displayed in the Context Help. What do I do wrong, it won't display anything.

2) How can I use bold letters as for e.g. refnum in the Context Help description?

Thank you & have a good day

[Norbert_B]

richmart,

you must differ WHERE you enter the description. You can enter description for controls/indicators as well as for VIs.
The context help shows the short help for the currently "highlighted" control/indicator/VI. So moving around the cursor will change the content in the window.

Regarding formatting: The context help (description) supports a limit set of html-tags.
For example: bold text can be achived by using <\b> and <\/b> (remove the "\" within the tags!)

hope this helps,
Norbert B.

[parthabe]

What version of LV are you using ?

In LV 7.1, it is happening correctly for both the methods.

[richmart]

I am using LV 7.1 and I see that 'Discription and Tips...' only works with objects on the front panel.

@Norbert B : Thx for the tipp with the html-Tags, I tried this before and now I found that it is only working when I use capital letters <\B>bold name<\/B>.

Thanks for the quick reply.