I'm trying to interface the htmlhelp api (which is a big word for one function in two variants), and I have a problem with the following usecase: Assume I have a simple programmer's editor, with a bunch of helpfiles (.CHMs). Some are from the core runtime library, some from more exotic libraries. Assume the CHMs are crafted normally, an...
Hi, For a WPF UI application, a CHM Help file needs to be created. How to create a chm help file? First create the document in ms word and convert it into chm help file? or any other method? Please help Thanks Ramm ...
I am looking for a help viewer like Windows CHM that basically provides support for adding content in HTML format define Table of Contents decent search It should work on Windows, Mac and Linux. Bonus points for also having support for generating a "plain HTML/javascript" version that can be viewed in any browser (albeit without sea...
when you open help in e.g. Windows Notepad (Help->Help Topics) no child process is started (such as hh.exe), which IMO means there is a WinAPI function called to do the job. I searched MSDN for a while but came up with nothing. what is this function? ...
I have a homepage application, it was used to launch individual applications, and the CHM of homepage has a brief description of individual applications and links to launch other CHM help file. How can I archive it? Is there any API in CHM what I can use? Thanks in advance. ...
Hi all, Just like in subject. I'm looking for a library for any scripting language (preferable: php, ruby, python, perl) that allow me to extract HTML source files from CHM package. Any thoughts? ...
class EXAMPLE{ public func1() private func2() func3() } I have checked for documented entities only. I have documentation for func1 and func3 but no documentation for func2. I have EXTRACT_ALL = NO EXTRACT_PRIVATE = NO EXTRACT_STATIC = NO EXTRACT_LOCAL_CLASSES = YES EXTRACT_LOCAL_METHODS = NO ...
Hi, I need to open a html help file from within a legacy windows application written in old version of C++ Builder. HtmlHelp is loaded via HtmlHelp.ocx, which I am loading via LoadLibrary. This has worked fine for years, but it does not work anymore in Windows 7 x64. It might also fail under Windows7 x86, but I don't have any computer...
Hi, I have a legacy 32-bit application written in Borland's C++ Builder. I need to show specific pages from within a HtmlHelp file programmatically. Until now I've been doing this via HtmlHelp.ocx, but this does not work on x64 versions of Windows Vista / Windows7 as described in this thread. I can't compile the application as 64-bit e...
Hi I have created a project in HTML help workshop. When I open the help (/chm) application, I could see table of contents. By default, first entry in the file is selected ,however I couldn't see the corresponding page data instead I am able to see "This program cannot display the web page"(default error message that comes in IE7).The pa...
I need to convert a chm file to another format, most likely pdf or html. I have tried chm2pdf and other converters but they all do horrific jobs at conversion. Even using a program like htmldoc doesn't do a very good job at converting to html. Is there a way to just print each page of the chm file or taking a image of it and then savi...
I have a number of CHM files, and each of the files is a comressed html for 5 different Html files. I mean, lets say I have 5 different files named Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Theta. Say, I compress these 5 in a CHM file. Lets call that file CompressedHtm.CHM. I have >500 of these files. Now I want to check if all of these >500 files hav...
I'm writing a GUI with Swing and I'm trying to integrate a microsoft chm help file. The problem is, I don't even know where to start. Can anyone recommend a library/tutorial as a starting point for a project like this? Specifically, I'd like to know about how to open/view specific pages or inidices (I don't even know exactly what the ter...
I'm wondering if it is possible to display topics from a CHM help file in a form of my Delphy application? I know how to use the htmlhelp api but it launches the external help viewer. I would like to display the help topics within a form ...
How can I merge a .chi index with a .chm file? i'd like to end up with just the .chm file. ...
I have inherited both an existing WinForms app and an existing .CHM file, created using Dr. Explain. I need to reference different topics within the CHM from different parts of my WinForms app, but I don't know what topics, if any, are defined within the CHM. Is there a tool that lists all existing topics that I can reference using the S...
I am trying to get a chm file to open to a specific topic using c# code. I have tried using Help.ShowHelp(this, path, HelpNavigator.Topic, "TopicTitle"); but it doesn't find the page. I must not be keying in the Topic title correctly. Is there a way that I can programatically retrieve all of the topics from a chm file so that I can ...
Im finishing up an app and writing the help file. I was just going to do a pdf document and display it in a web view. Is there any standards for help on the iphone i should be aware of, windows has CHM, the html help file format. is there anything similar/comparable for the iphone. im working in 3.0 ...
We currently have a number of desktop applications (PowerBuilder, Winforms, WPF) that make use of a single CHM for context sensitive help. We'd like to move away from CHM as it's difficult to maintain but we've not found a suitable alternative. Ideally we'd like our developers to keep the help files up to date (perhaps in a wiki) as they...
I am going to need to do some development with Eclipse JDT while on holiday. I will be off-line for the most of the time and therefore I will not be able to access the Eclipse JDT API documentation on the Web. I can't find a link to download the documentation in ZIP or PDF or, best of all, CHM format. Does anyone have a copy? Could you p...