Creating a Nonscrollable Region in Windows Help 3.1 (76493)

SUMMARY

Version 3.1 of the Windows Help engine supports the ability to author topics to contain a nonscrolling region of text immediately below the button bar. Text and graphics remain in this fixed location even as the user scrolls other text in the topic. This nonscrolling region appears the same as other text, except a thin black line divides the nonscrolling region from the rest of the text in the topic. This region can contain any of the formats applicable to a help file (hot spots, bitmaps, and so forth).

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To create a nonscrolling region, you must create the \pard\keepn rich-text format (RTF) token. To accomplish this using Microsoft Word for Windows version 2.0, perform the following four steps:

Select the text to place in the nonscrolling region.
From the Format menu, choose Paragraph.
In the Paragraph dialog box, select the Keep With Next check box under Pagination.
Choose the OK button or press the ENTER key.

The background color attribute of the nonscrollable region can be changed in the [WINDOWS] section of the help project (.HPJ) file. The characteristics of any window in the help file may be specified in the [WINDOWS] section. Use the following syntax to perform this step:

type-name="caption", (horizontal_position, vertical_position, width,
     height), sizing, (client-RGB), (nonscrolling-RGB)

To change the color of the nonscrolling region, modify the final RGB triple. For example, the following specification will change the background color of the nonscrolling region to red:

   main="",,0,,(255,0,0)