Topic: Visual Studio help (1 of 2), Read 29 times
Conf: Compiler support
From: Ian Binnie
Date: Thursday, September 15, 2005 01:23 AM

Since I discovered how to link Vedit into Visual Studio I have been doing all but trivial C++ editing in Vedit.

The only real drawback is the loss of the link to F1 function help.

I would like to write a Vedit macro to link a function to the MSDN help, similar to the Vedit macro language help.

Visual Studio uses HtmlHelp
HH.exe MSDNVS98.COL brings up the Visual Studio help, but I have been unable to figure out how to navigate to a topic.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

There is a API which does this, and I could probably write a program, but this is probably not worth the effort.


PS I can't find the Visual Studio hint on the new Vedit site.
Is it still there?

 


Topic: Visual Studio help (2 of 2), Read 38 times
Conf: Compiler support
From: Christian Ziemski
Date: Thursday, September 15, 2005 05:30 AM

On 9/15/2005 1:23:52 AM, Ian Binnie wrote:
>Since I discovered how to link Vedit into Visual Studio I
>have been doing all but trivial C++ editing in Vedit.
>
>The only real drawback is the loss of the link to F1
>function help.
>
>I would like to write a Vedit macro to link a function to
>the MSDN help, similar to the Vedit macro language help.
>
>Visual Studio uses HtmlHelp HH.exe MSDNVS98.COL brings up
>the Visual Studio help, but I have been unable to figure out
>how to navigate to a topic.
>
>Does anyone know if this is possible?


http://www.helpware.net/FAR/far_faq.htm#HHEXEParams lists many infos about HH.

http://www.keyworks.net/keytools.htm lets you examine .CHM files

And for example a
HH.EXE 00000001.CHM::00B49EFEC8CA11D3946E080009B98822/content.htm

opens the specified topic in the help file.

Edit: The above is not for VisualStudio! I don't have that. I just tested it with SAP's help files.


Christian