We have a legacy application developed in Borland C++ Builder. Now we have updated the help file to HtmlHelp (.chm) file, we want to click on the Help button in the legacy c++ application to open the .chm file. It seems that I cannot find a good way to do this? Can anyone help?
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In what format was your old help file? What version of BC++ did You used and do you have source of an application?
– onedevteam.com
Our old help is WinHelp. BC++ is Builder 6. We own the source code of the C++ application. Someone mentioned in a different topic of using HtmlHelp.ocx or just use shellexecute. Can anyone show me some sample code?
– user981848
2 Answers
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My application uses HTML Help but in a newer version of C++ Builder.
Here is a code snipit of how we include it in the main form.
//helpviewer
#include "HTMLHelpViewer.hpp"
#pragma link "HTMLHelpViewer"
In the formactivate
Application->HelpFile = "some drive letter:\\some directory\\somehelpfile.chm";
To display the help
Application->HelpCommand(HELP_CONTENTS,0);
Hope this is of some value
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This has been asked and answered many times before, with full code snippets, in the Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero forums. Search the archives at http://www.deja.com and http://forums.embarcadero.com.
