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by Pete Lees
Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:22 pm
Forum: Templates & Utilities
Topic: Help topic ID utility
Replies: 4
Views: 11146

Hi,

You can also monitor API calls to a .chm file with the View > HTML Help Messages facility in HTML Help Workshop.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx

Pete
by Pete Lees
Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:11 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: CHM Help File and Search Tab
Replies: 1
Views: 769

Hi, JP, If you're receiving the error message "No topics found" when you conduct a search, the chances are that one of the DLLs that the Help compiler uses is missing or registered incorrectly. You could try the fix described in the following article, and then recompile your help project. ...
by Pete Lees
Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:41 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: H&M CHM File in Compressed Folder Over the Web
Replies: 6
Views: 1965

Hi, Patrick, I think this is likely to be a Windows security restriction that Microsoft introduced a few years ago to prevent the spread of malware through downloaded .chm files. You may need to "unblock" the .chm file, as outlined in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article: http://support.m...
by Pete Lees
Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:35 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: CHM home page
Replies: 6
Views: 2358

Hi, kurgbe,

Binary TOCs do have some drawbacks, as outlined in this MSDN article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx

It's usually best to stick with non-binary TOCs, if you can.

Pete
by Pete Lees
Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:49 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: CHM home page
Replies: 6
Views: 2358

Hi, kurgbe,

It sounds like you may be describing the problem that is outlined in the article below, in which case this is a known bug in the HTML Help viewer.

http://helpware.net/FAR/far_faq.htm#autosync2

Pete
by Pete Lees
Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:30 am
Forum: Programmers' Corner
Topic: Displaying HTML help from an Activex Control
Replies: 3
Views: 4753

Hi,

Does this article help?

http://helpware.net/FAR/far_faq.htm#HH_CLOSE_ALL

Pete
by Pete Lees
Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:40 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Jump1 & Jump2
Replies: 4
Views: 1410

Re: Jump1 & Jump2

Hi, Marcus, 1) One target (which doesn't work) is to a h t t p s website. So the first question is whether this is possible or not? Based on my results, I'm guessing not. The way to work around this issue is to compile a redirector topic like the one below into your help file, and then make this the...
by Pete Lees
Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:15 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Checking validity of links to external CHM file
Replies: 2
Views: 766

Hi, Robert,

There's a free tool called CHM Link Checker with which you can check all links from one .chm file to another. Perhaps this will help.

http://helpware.net/downloads/index.htm#CHMLinkChecker

Pete
by Pete Lees
Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:16 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Secondary window links not working
Replies: 4
Views: 1657

Hi, K27, Can you clarify what you mean when you say that you recently had Microsoft patch 896358 disabled? After the 896358 update has been installed, it's not possible to view the topics in remote .chm files unless you make the registry changes that are described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article...
by Pete Lees
Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:57 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Opening my CHM on the search panel
Replies: 9
Views: 2162

Hi, The HTML Help API provides an HH_DISPLAY_SEARCH command with which you can select the Search tab of the help viewer (and there are HH_DISPLAY_TOC and HH_DISPLAY_INDEX commands for selecting the other tabs). You may find this publication by Microsoft Help MVP Rob Chandler useful (I assume that yo...
by Pete Lees
Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:36 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Link to executable
Replies: 6
Views: 2390

Hi, Heidi and Tim, If you make a topic file like the one below the target of the Jump button, the executable should launch when the user clicks the button. <html> <body onLoad="hhctrl.Click();history.back()"> <object id="hhctrl" classid="clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003...
by Pete Lees
Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:12 am
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: User font size change in chm output
Replies: 21
Views: 6871

Hi, Just to add that, although Microsoft's HTML Help documentation and Help Workshop tool don't make any mention of it, it is possible to add a Font button to the toolbar of the HTML Help viewer. However, the technique requires you to edit the window settings in your HTML Help project (.hhp) file in...
by Pete Lees
Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:34 pm
Forum: Programmers' Corner
Topic: CHM F1 behaviour issues when intergrated with .NET apps
Replies: 3
Views: 3157

Hi, Martin, 1. When F1 is pressed the CHM appears on top of the app which is fine, however when I try and select the app behind the help guide it does not come to the front, but stays behind the greyed-out CHM. See if this helps: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6889 2. The C...
by Pete Lees
Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:00 pm
Forum: Programmers' Corner
Topic: CHM files and VB.NET 2005 & .NET 2.x
Replies: 3
Views: 6873

Hi, John, As I understand it, you use the TopicID property to pass a context integer to the .chm file — in other words, the number that is mapped to the topic ID in your resource (.h) file. So, this is equivalent to the HH_HELP_CONTEXT command provided by the HTML Help API. The Topic property passes...
by Pete Lees
Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:22 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Printing - HTML Web Help (Browser Based)
Replies: 7
Views: 2113

Hi, Patrick, I believe you'll need to use the window.onbeforeprint event to invoke a JavaScript function that expands all the dropdown sections. If you wanted to, you could also use the window.onafterprint event to collapse the sections after the page has been printed. The script looks roughly like ...

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