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[sjones]

I am using the following function to open help files for our users.

Public Function HelpMe(HelpPage As String, Optional HelpLine As String = "")
......
Application.FollowHyperlink HelpDirectory & HelpPage & ".htm", HelpLine, False, False
......
End Function

When a user clicks a help button the above code is executed with HelpPage passed as an argument. Works just fine.

Then a popup form was opened using a Where clause to restrict payment records to the current Customer. I clicked the Help button on
the popup form. The Help page opened in Internet Explorer as expected.

I closed the popup form and noticed that Internet Explorer's Back button was active. To my horror when I clicked the Back button the
popup form opened again, this time displaying every record for every Customer. Also IE is listed in the tasks list but not on the
Task Bar.

Tried this again after closing the popup form and the entire database. The database open but I received an error from the popup form
that the Customer form was not open.

Fortunately our shop is using Firefox and this behavior does not happen. It doesn't appear to happen with Opera either.

What is going on here.

S Jones

 

[Gwyn Huntley]

I am using the following function to open help files for our users.

Public Function HelpMe(HelpPage As String, Optional HelpLine As String =
"")
......
Application.FollowHyperlink HelpDirectory & HelpPage & ".htm",
HelpLine, False, False
......
End Function

When a user clicks a help button the above code is executed with HelpPage
passed as an argument. Works just fine.

Then a popup form was opened using a Where clause to restrict payment
records to the current Customer. I clicked the Help button on the popup
form. The Help page opened in Internet Explorer as expected.

I closed the popup form and noticed that Internet Explorer's Back button
was active. To my horror when I clicked the Back button the popup form
opened again, this time displaying every record for every Customer. Also
IE is listed in the tasks list but not on the Task Bar.

Tried this again after closing the popup form and the entire database. The
database open but I received an error from the popup form that the
Customer form was not open.

Fortunately our shop is using Firefox and this behavior does not happen.
It doesn't appear to happen with Opera either.

What is going on here.

S Jones