Making Windows HtmlHelp API call

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Tue Oct 7 20:35:01 EDT 2003


> > Nah... just a two liner:
> > set the hideConsoleWindows to true
> > get shell("start "&quote&quote&&quote&Helpfile.chm&quote)
>
> Monte,
>
> I forgot to explain that the help file needs to be called this way in
> order for different executables to share the same help file.  That is
> why the HtmlHelp API must be used rather than just opening the help
> file using shell.
>

Do you mean at the same time? It seems odd either way. Opening a file is
opening a file whichever way you look at it. Have you tested it?

Regards

Monte




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