Topic: Can not find VEDITPW.HLP (1 of 9), Read 37 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Michael Baas Date: Friday, August 29, 2003 10:36 AM Hi, the option "Help / Command at cursor" sometimes reports the error mentioned in the subject. That sounds pretty obvious, BUT the file is there and also all other help-option that use this file work ok. When going into command mode and checking HOME, it reports the correct directory. What could cause this problem? Cheers Michael

Topic: Can not find VEDITPW.HLP (2 of 9), Read 32 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Fritz Heberlein Date: Monday, September 08, 2003 01:19 PM I had a related problem some months ago. See discussion in http://webboard.vedit.com/read?14037,41e#14037 Cheers, Fritz

Topic: Can not find VEDITPW.HLP (5 of 9), Read 31 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Ian Binnie Date: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 01:14 AM On 9/8/2003 1:19:49 PM, Fritz Heberlein wrote: >See discussion in >http://webboard.vedit.com/read >?14037,41e#14037 > Where did you get this reference. I would like to be able to bookmark items of interest - searching for them is a hit or miss affair.

Topic: Can not find VEDITPW.HLP (6 of 9), Read 33 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Fritz Heberlein Date: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 02:35 AM > Where did you get this reference. Simply by copying the URL window :) > I would like to be able to bookmark items of interest - searching for > them is a hit or miss affair. Oh yes ... Therefore i collect "my" references in a vedit made reference list. Fritz

Topic: Re: Can not find VEDITPW.HLP (7 of 9), Read 32 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Ted Green Date: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 03:58 PM At 01:15 AM 9/9/2003, you wrote: >Where did you get this reference. >I would like to be able to bookmark items of interest - searching for them is a hit or miss affair. Sorry that the web forum is so difficult to search. Hopefully I will have time soon to clean it up, delete old items and edit others to make them more current. If any of the regular contributors here would like to work on this, I will be happy to give you access to the administrator account. Ted.

Topic: Re: Can not find VEDITPW.HLP (3 of 9), Read 32 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Christian Ziemski Date: Monday, September 08, 2003 03:41 PM Back in 1998 I had a similar effect. Quoting myself from then: >[Not a real install of VEDIT but > a simple copy of C:\VEDIT to a new PC with NT4 > ...] > >But VEDIT (VPW.EXE 5.10.1/32) can't find it's helpfile veditpw.hlp >now. It could only be found if VEDIT is in the VEDIT-Home directory. >If I open a file elsewhere: no more help. > >[...I found:] > >There must be a registry entry for the help file: > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Help] > "veditpw.hlp"="c:\\vedit" > >Then it works. It's a bit old and no one ever understood that, but it is at least worth a try. Christian

Topic: Re: Can not find VEDITPW.HLP (4 of 9), Read 32 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Ted Green Date: Monday, September 08, 2003 05:44 PM At 03:42 PM 9/8/2003, you wrote: >> >>There must be a registry entry for the help file: >> >> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Help] >> "veditpw.hlp"="c:\\vedit" >> >>Then it works. Verrrry Interesting. Michael, if this works for you, I will have VEDIT add this entry to the registry. It obviously isn't necessary for everyone, but it appears that it occasionally helps. (BTW - I just checked VEDIT's code and it builds a full pathname with the HOME directory before it calls the WinHelp() API.) Ted.

Topic: AW: Can not find VEDITPW.HLP (8 of 9), Read 30 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Michael Baas Date: Monday, September 22, 2003 04:48 AM > Michael, if this works for you, I will have VEDIT add this entry to the registry. It obviously > isn't necessary for everyone, but it appears that it occasionally helps. It is very difficult to tell if this really fixes the problem, because, as I wrote, it only happens from time to time, I don't get this err on a regular basis and haven't found a systematic way to produce it. So I'm not sure how to tell whether or not it has helped. I took note of this advice (and the older one, suggested by Fritz) and will try them when the error pops up again... Thanks Michael

Topic: Re: AW: Can not find VEDITPW.HLP (9 of 9), Read 29 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Ted Green Date: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:02 PM Future versions will add the location of VEDIT's .HLP file to the registry. I.e. it will be added to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Help\ Surprisingly few non-Microsoft programs have entries here, but the Microsoft doco does recommend it. Hopefully that will solve this non-reproducible problem. Ted.