calling web help

[Aurora Tech Writer]

Greetings all,

To give you a bit of background before asking my question:
We are currently in the midst of converting our very large winhelp system to webhelp (using RoboHTML).

The converison is going well, however we have run into a snag from the application development side of things.

My programmers are a bit perplexed as to how to actually call webhelp from within Visual Basic programs. Specifically, there seems to be contradictory information about using a .cls or .frm.

We are currently using a deprecated version of RoboHelp, but will soon be transitioning to RH8.

Can anyone point me in the direction of the call procedure for VB6? Also, we will soon be transitioning to VB.Net, will we need to change anything when we do so?

Thanks for any assistance out there.

Jim

[MergeThis]

See Peter Grainge's excellent web site for methods.

We use the URL call. And since we provide merged WebHelp, we also provide a flat file (we call formpath.txt) with a listing of which child project houses each form (window/screen, whatever), like this:

aammainform, mergedProjects\mwb_ug

The form named aammainform is in the mwb_ug folder, and is named the same (if it were not, its actual name would be appended--following a backslash--after the folder name).


Good luck,
Leon

[Aurora Tech Writer]

Leon,

I have read Peter's site...several times, however, I believe the answer is at a level above that. In the actual VB program, there needs to be some type of call function (be it a class or form) that tells the program how to react when the help button is pressed.

The url call is easy enough to define....it is the vb code necessary to implement that call that is the step we are missing.

Jim

[Captiv8r]

Hi Jim

Does the link below help?

Click here

Cheers... Rick

[Roger_N]

Jim -

[Captiv8r]

Nice seeing you around, Roger!

Say hi to the moose for me!

Cheers... Rick

[Roger_N]

Thanks, Rick.

Looks like we covered all the bases here...

I'll tell Morty you said 'Hi!'...

One durn moose kicked my dog this weekend.... he was hurtin', I tell yas...

[Aurora Tech Writer]

Rick,

That is closer to what they are asking for (programmers are never happy, lol).

As a followup from them: is their some type of .dll, .ocx, or something like that is supplied by RH that they can use to help execute a help call?

Jim