CSH not working with .CHM file

[stepmomb]

Our Context Sensitive Help (CSH) was working fine with WinHelp (.hlp) but since switching over to HTML Help (.chm) it is no longer working.

If I do an "Active Test" from RoboHelp's "What's This?" compiler with our exe, the CSH works fine.  So why when I export it, and try and run it with our exe, it doesn't work?

Does anyone out there even have CSH working with their CHM file?

Thanks,

Stephanie

[Pete_Lees]

Hi, Stephanie,

Have your developers modified the code that they use to call your Help file? Previously, they would have used a WinHelp API call like the following one to open your .hlp file:

WinHelp(HWnd, "helpfile.hlp", HELP_CONTEXT, 1001)

The equivalent HTML Help API call looks like this:

HtmlHelp(HWnd, "helpfile.chm", HH_HELP_CONTEXT, 1001)

In addition, developers working in .NET languages like C# have access to a range of further methods for calling HTML Help files.

These pages provides information for developers on how to call an HTML Help file from an application:

http://www.mshelpwiki.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=HTMLHelpArticles
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524256(VS.85).aspx

Pete

[stepmomb]

We have done this and it is still not working.

We used to use CSHInitialize to support context sensitive help throughout the application. Has anyone successfully used that method with a CHM file.

Steph