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Hello, Does anyone know of a utility that will display the topic ID when the user presses F1? The reason I ask it to identify the topic ID that is being used when an application tries to launch help and the user gets the "Failed to launch help." message. Is there a way to determine the top...

It appears that it may be stack size related.

I found a mention that the help system uses the amount of stack allocated by the calling application.

I increased the stack size and it no longer crashes.

Using MSVC++/MFC version 2010.
Help is launched via the following function call

HtmlHelp(0, HH_DISPLAY_TOC);

1. No illegal characters that I can see. 2. It has been tested on multiple Windows XP system. It crashes on all of them. 3. Didn't help. 4. What characters are illegal? Note that if I open the help file by double clicking on the chm file performing a search does not cause it to crash. It will crash ...

Searching in an open HTML (.chm) help file causes a crash on Windows XP. The conditions are as follows - Compiled HTML help using Help & Manual 5.5.1 Build 1296. - HTML help file is opened by the associated application (for example app.chm opened by app.exe). - Selecting the Search tab, entering...

Windows chm format. Normally I know the topic ID's because I have them in my code. But for some apps which the source code is not available it would be nice to know which ID is being passed to hh.exe when a Help button of F1 key is pressed. This way I know what ID to use when creating the topic. Bas...

Hello,

Does anyone know of a utility that can capture help topic requests to display the topic ID for the topic that an application is requesting?

Thanks,
Mike