Topic: Needs help in launching a .CHM file in Vedit. (1 of 3), Read 58 times
Conf: Other (Not related to VEDIT)
From: Peter Rejto
Date: Saturday, May 28, 2005 03:50 AM

Hi,

I would like to launch a .CHM file within Vedit.
I take the problem is similar to that of launching a .PDF file. So, I went back to the VEDITPDF.VDM macro. The comments emphasize the associated file. I looked at the Properties of the icon for such a .CHM file, compiled Hypertext File. It said that "open with MicrosoftHELPHTML Executable. However, I could not find this program.

I did find helphtml.exe on the web. However, this is a program which compiles and decompiles the various .html files into a single .chm file.

Thanks,
-peter.

 


Topic: Re: Needs help in launching a .CHM file in Vedit. (2 of 3), Read 56 times
Conf: Other (Not related to VEDIT)
From: Christian Ziemski
Date: Saturday, June 04, 2005 02:57 AM

On Sat, 28 May 2005 03:50:00 -0400, Peter Rejto wrote:

>I would like to launch a .CHM file within Vedit.
>I take the problem is similar to that of launching a .PDF file. So, I went back
>to the VEDITPDF.VDM macro. The comments emphasize the associated file. I looked
>at the Properties of the icon for such a .CHM file, compiled Hypertext File.
>It said that "open with MicrosoftHELPHTML Executable. However, I could not find
>this program.

On my W2k system the executable hh.exe is used for .CHM files.

The properties for that file say:
"Microsoft® HTML Help Executable", Version 5.2.3644.0 (HH 1.4)


Christian

 


Topic: Re: Needs help in launching a .CHM file in Vedit. (3 of 3), Read 50 times
Conf: Other (Not related to VEDIT)
From: Peter Rejto
Date: Friday, July 01, 2005 02:34 PM

On 6/4/2005 2:57:40 AM, Christian Ziemski wrote:

>On my W2k system the executable hh.exe
>is used for .CHM files.
>
>The properties for that file say:
>"Microsoft® HTML Help Executable",
>Version 5.2.3644.0 (HH 1.4)

Thanks Christian,

I have also found hh.exe on my Win2k installation.

In fact, if I am within Vedit and escape into Command Mode and type,
system("hh.exe msowcfun.chm")

I get the various functions in the Excel spreadsheet.
In particular, I can get the list of statistical functions in Excel.


In other words, this allows me to customize the help information in Excel. Since I am not a frequent user of that
program, I find the built in help files rather condensed. Also, similarly to Vedit, I would like to be able to study the program before using it. (Thanks to Ted for making the Vedit manual available as a seperate .pdf file. I certainly could use something similar for Excel!)

Also, I plan to use this as a model for studying the Latex documentation.

Thanks again,

-peter.