I'm having trouble figuring out how to get keyword lookups (HH_KEYWORD_LOOKUP) to work in HTML Help. If I have an index that displays like this: Machine Add Edit Selection How do I specify a keyword search that brings up Machine Selection? "Machine; Selection" brings up the Machine keyword; "Selection" and "Machine Selec...
I have two types of document: CHM and PDF, but I'd rather like it if they all were in PDF format. I am looking for some good way to change it. Has anyone good ideas? I'll appreciate it. Update: Thanks for eveyone who helped me. :) ...
I used Doxygen to create HTML files, now I want to convert that documentation into .chm format. How can I do this? ...
I am documenting an assembly using XML Documentation Comments, from which a chm file will be created using Sandcastle. My assembly contains various interfaces, each of which is implemented by one class (in my scenario these are WCF services). I have added documentation to the interfaces, is there any way for me to automatically documen...
Hi all, I have created a .chm file from multiple html files. Now I want to show my own toolbar on the top of .chm file. I have installed "htmlhelp.exe" to create .chm from html files. Can we create our own toolbar ? ...
I'm going to have to write a number of vba modules for a project I'm working on, and would prefer to use SciTe to the built in editer in Office. SciTe allows you to redirect the effect of hitting F1 to a arbitary command with the selected text as an argument. Is there anyway of using this functionality to search the relevant .chm files?...
I have a couple of questions as below. CHM is (Compiled HTML File) My CHM file has a link to launch a 32-bit application. The CHM file is coded in Javascript.This works fine in a 32-bit OS environment. But this does not work in a 64 bit OS environment.The reason being: When I open the chm file,64-bit version of hh.exe(an operatin...
I've been working on a WPF application for a while, and the time has come to attach the CHM format help document to it. But alas! HelpProvider, the standard way to show CHM files in Winforms, has magically vanished and has no counterpart in WPF. I've been trying to use WindowsFormsHost to spawn a new control so I can actually display th...
(Using the GUI builder) Does anyone have any idea what this thing wants from the Html Help 2.x feature set? It keeps throwing up "access is denied" errors in any non-local .chm file it generates, specifying the "ms-help://hx/hxruntime/hxlink.htc". Same error for a generated website. Let's not get into the fact that if I generate a .chm...
Hi I need implement context help inside my .NET application. I have .chm file and I'm looking for possibility to open it in standard viewer and hightlight required topic of TOC (or Index entry) Any idea how to archive that ? EDIT: Maybe MS application used to open CHM file has some command line parameters which allows archive that? ...
I'm working on an application written in Java. I want to allow the user to read the "Help" of the application. I'm basically looking for a Java free open-source equivalent for Microsoft chm. I'd like it to have support for "Find" and tree-like structures. I am willing to write one component myself but I was wondering if existent altern...
How do you create the keyboard shortcut(F1) in a windows form using c#. WinChm ...
I have several projects, some using managed code and some using only unmanaged. All have the XML comments have been added and the XML documentation is being generated correctly (the generated xml file and intermediate the xdc files). Surely there's something that can take these files (the output of xdcmake) and generate MSDN style chm h...
I just compiled and viewed a CHM file used in my project. I noticed that the viewer remembers the window size and position across sessions. Where does the HTML help viewer save the window position for each CHM file? ...
I use Help & Manual to create web help (HTML) files. I would like to link this to my Delphi 2007 application so that it pops up when users press the F1 key, and ideally, to pop up to a context sensitive spot. This is what I've tried: Adding the HTMLHelpViewer unit to the uses clause of the main form. Setting the HelpFile property to...
I created a CHM help file using MadCap Flare. When I search for a term that I know is present in my text, the search function always reports "no topics found." How can I fix the search function? ...
How should I construct and deliver documentation for an IT tool on Windows? There's an additional constraint that I don't want to spend money on help authoring tools. Here on SO, we talk about algorithms and optimizations, APIs and performance. But one of the deliverables from my dev efforts is documentation. What's the best way to b...
We want to know how to show related topic of help file when user click F1 on specific interface. Thanks H N Mishra ...
Hi. I would appreciate some suggestions about Help File Authoring (Win32). I know how to use an existing help file, .chm or .hlp from C# or Delphi or whatever. Problem is, there's always someone else who have been nice enough to provide me with these files :) Now, where do I begin? I've been trying out HelpScribble, it works, but I ...
Hi, I'm trying to add some help to my GUI developed in VC++ 2008. I want to compile a chm file, or a hlp file that can be accessed from my menu. Anyone can give me any idea about how to do this? Thanks a lot ...