Subj : Re: Accessing WinHelp files from application
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder
Date : Fri Feb 11 2005 09:39 am

David Ayre wrote:

>I tried WinExec("hh.exe help.chm#Topic", SW_SHOW); and I got
>an error message 'Can't open file help.chm#Topic'. If I leave
>off the #Topic it opens the help file at the beginning.
>I've tried everything I can think off but that's the best I can do.

This works.

#include	<windows.h>
int main()
{	STARTUPINFO si = {sizeof(si),0};
	PROCESS_INFORMATION pi = {0};
	char param[1024];

	char Prog[] = "hh.exe";
	char Help[] = "..\\system\\html\\manual\\v6manual.htm";
	char Topic[] = "AddressIssues";

	wsprintf( param,"%s %s#%s",Prog,Help,Topic);

	/* this works if i copy hh.exe to the working directory */
	CreateProcess( Prog, param, 0, 0, FALSE, 0, 0, 0, &si, &pi);

	/* this works without copying hh.exe */
	CreateProcess( NULL, param, 0, 0, FALSE, 0, 0, 0, &si, &pi);

	/* this also works */
	WinExec(param, SW_SHOW);

	return 0;
}

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