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Tech Tip: Utility method to obtain list of objects and Help Tips on a form
PRODUCT: 4D | VERSION: 14.3 | PLATFORM: Mac & Win
Published On: February 27, 2015

Below is a method to obtain a list of objects and the assigned Help Tips. This can be helpful in searching through forms and making sure that the help tips are correctly assigned.

// Method: HelpTipArr
// Description: Will return in the passed
// array pointer a list of objects and the
// help tips assigned
// $1 - Pointer to the Array to contain the result

C_POINTER($1->)

If (Count parameters>0)

   ARRAY TEXT($objectTip_at;0)
   C_LONGINT($i)

   FORM GET OBJECTS($objectTip_at)

   For ($i;1;Size of array($objectTip_at)
      $objectTip_at{$i}:=$objectTip_at{$i}+" : "+OBJECT Get help tip(*;$objectTip_at{$i})
   End for

   COPY ARRAY($objectTip_at;$1->)

End if


Below is an example of using the Method on a Form. The Method is added to one of the buttons and all of the buttons except for "Button3" have a help tip.



The method is used in one of the buttons as shown:

ARRAY TEXT($tip_at;0)
HelpTipArr (->$tip_at)


The results in $tip_at: