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context sensitive help for controls

I'm trying to decipher the documentation about adding context sensitive help to an SDI project that has a bunch of dialog windows.

I understand that the help file is an rtf file and that by inserting footnotes with a # character you set the topic id and when that is selected in help you jump to that information.

I've selected Help ID in the properties window for the controls, inserted the footnote w/ the appropriate help id.  
(It looks like "# HIDC_RADIO1") But when I try to get the help to come up I keep getting the message "The Topic does not exist. Contact your vender for an updated help file."

Can anyone help or point me to some good documentation on doing this in DevStudio 5.0 for Windows NT SVP 3.0?

I'd really appreciate it.
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Thanks Atari,

I managed to determine what object the mouse click was occuring over. Once I did that the help worked correctly.
Nice that I could help you,
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