Paradox 11 Help Not Working

Hello all,

I am a devoted Paradox user who recently upgraded from Paradox 9 to Paradox 11 (via WordPerfect Office X-4). I had repeated probelms with P9 upon upgrading to Windows 7. P11 seems to be much more stable using Windows 7.

My problem is this:

The F1 Help key does not work when editing in Object Pal. In previos versions, I could merely put the cursor on a keyword or ObjectPal method, press F!, then help would come up showing me a description and examples for the command. Now when I press F1 in P11, nothing happens.

In addition, when I manually bring up the "ObjectPal Quick Lookup" screen and highlight a "Type" then a "Method", before I was able to press F1 and get help for that method, but again, pressing F1 does nothing.

Obviously, this is a big deal for anyone who uses ObjectPal and doesn't have everything memorized like Mike does!

I get the same results whether I am using P11 on and XP, Vista or Windows 7 machine.

Any thoughts on this problem?

Thanks so much.

Hi Raymond,

Did you ever fix your Paradox help file problem with Windows 7? I do know that you have to download the old Windows help program from Microsoft for it to work. Did you do that?

Here's an article I wrote that may help you and others get up and running more quickly in Windows 7:

• Install Paradox 9 on Vista
• Install Paradox 10 or 11+ on Vista

Both these articles are focused on the many many problems in Vista but a few of the items in them still apply to Windows 7. In general, Windows 7 and Paradox play much much nicer together.