Class wwHelpTopic

The Topic class provides information about an individual Help Builder topic. It maps essentially to the underlying fields in the database.

This class also supports an indexer for custom fields so you can reference any fields that exist in the table but are not exposed as properties via the generic indexer:

string s = (string) Help.Topic["MyCustomField"];
System.Object
  Westwind.wwHelp.wwHelpComWrapper
    Westwind.wwHelp.wwHelpTopic
public class wwHelpTopic : wwHelpComWrapper

Class Members

MemberDescription

Constructor

Overridden Constructor that must be passed a COM reference to the wwHelp Com object. All properties then map via Reflection.

Assembly

Name of an .NET assembly for .NET class topics.

Body

The body content of the topic

Class

Name of the Class that this topic belongs to. Used only for CLASS... types.

Example

An example code snippet. The text in this snippet is automatically formmated as in a PRE tag.

External

Determines whether the content of this topic points to an external link.

FollowUp

Determines whether follow up is required

HelpId

Help Id/Context ID used in older applications

Implements

The interfaces this class implements.

Inherits

The immediate parent class for this class

Inh_Tree

An Html based list of the Inheritance structure.

Item

Keywords

Additional Search Keywords for this topic for the index

Member

The name of the class member method/property/event/field

Namespace

Name of the namespace this class lives in.

Parameters

Any parameters that are passed. This content is fully formatted as an HTML string.

ParentPk

The parent topics Pk. Used manage self referential tree display.

Pk

The primary key for the topic. Primary identifier.

Remarks

Any special notes for this topic.

Returns

Describes the return value for a function

Scope

The Scope of a class member: Public/Private/Protected

SeeAlso

Related Links. The content in this topic is formatted as individual lines Use wwHelp.InsertSeeAlsoTopics() to convert this field into HTML links.

Signature

.NET namespace.member signature for the member.

SortOrder

The sort order for this topic. 0 means default order which is by type and then alpha numeric. Higher numbers override the default and sort to the top.

Static

returns whether this class member is static

Syntax

The prototype sytnax for the topic

Topic

The title of the topic

Type

The Topic Type: TOPIC/HEADER/CLASSHEADER/CLASSMETHOD etc.

Updated

Timestamp for the topic

Requirements

Namespace: Westwind.wwHelp
Assembly: wwReflection.DLL

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