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- Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:22 pm
- Forum: Templates & Utilities
- Topic: Identify help topic IDs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5642
Identify help topic IDs
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...
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:46 pm
- Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
- Topic: Search crash on Windows XP
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2153
Re: Search crash on Windows XP
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.
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.
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:13 pm
- Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
- Topic: Search crash on Windows XP
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2153
Re: Search crash on Windows XP
Using MSVC++/MFC version 2010.
Help is launched via the following function call
HtmlHelp(0, HH_DISPLAY_TOC);
Help is launched via the following function call
HtmlHelp(0, HH_DISPLAY_TOC);
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:09 pm
- Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
- Topic: Search crash on Windows XP
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2153
Re: Search crash on Windows XP
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 ...
- Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:18 pm
- Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
- Topic: Search crash on Windows XP
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2153
Search crash on Windows XP
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...
- Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:27 am
- Forum: Templates & Utilities
- Topic: Help topic ID utility
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11126
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...
- Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:49 pm
- Forum: Templates & Utilities
- Topic: Help topic ID utility
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11126
Help topic ID utility
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
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