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Help on the Help
I want to know what is the best:
Take a common dialog or an APIs to show the help file.
Other thing:
How can i open on the Index tab and the Find tab?
Take a common dialog or an APIs to show the help file.
Other thing:
How can i open on the Index tab and the Find tab?
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g_jones
I went on the site: http://www.helpmaster.com, and i asked my question and i had this answer:
The short answer is that either way ultimately calls the Windows API, so
neither is "better" from the standpoint of Help. It's mostly a matter of
convenience. If you are already using the CommonDialog control anyway, you
might as well use it to call WinHelp.
Unfortunately the CommonDialog Control that comes with VB 6 does not
recognize HTML Help, even though the rest of VB6 does recognize HTML Help.
So if you are going to HTML Help, this is not an option.
I tend to use straight API calls because (at least to date) most of the
programs for which I've needed File Open and such I was also trying to keep
the external files to an absolute minimum (no extra OCX or DLL files
required beyond the VB runtime). So I've been using an old
built-from-scratch File Open control and one of several definition modules
for WinHelp.
You can get several versions of WinHelp definitions (including a class
module version) from my web site. Go to www.smountain.com, click
"Conferences," and then click "Connecting Help to Visual Basic."
I hope this helps.
Don Lammers
I went on the site: http://www.helpmaster.com, and i asked my question and i had this answer:
The short answer is that either way ultimately calls the Windows API, so
neither is "better" from the standpoint of Help. It's mostly a matter of
convenience. If you are already using the CommonDialog control anyway, you
might as well use it to call WinHelp.
Unfortunately the CommonDialog Control that comes with VB 6 does not
recognize HTML Help, even though the rest of VB6 does recognize HTML Help.
So if you are going to HTML Help, this is not an option.
I tend to use straight API calls because (at least to date) most of the
programs for which I've needed File Open and such I was also trying to keep
the external files to an absolute minimum (no extra OCX or DLL files
required beyond the VB runtime). So I've been using an old
built-from-scratch File Open control and one of several definition modules
for WinHelp.
You can get several versions of WinHelp definitions (including a class
module version) from my web site. Go to www.smountain.com, click
"Conferences," and then click "Connecting Help to Visual Basic."
I hope this helps.
Don Lammers
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