1. HTML Help
2. What is HTML Help?
3. The Project File (1)
4. The Project File (2)
5. HTML Files
6. Contents Files
7. Index Files
8. Mapping Topics to Ids
9. Using Images
10. Using stylesheets
11. Displaying help from a MsgBox
12. Displaying help

Comments

1. Robert Henry
   29 Aug 2009 at 13:32

   Absolutely wonderful - before finding this I've spent hours trying to pick my way through this topic - thanks

2. Premchand Peddakotla
   10 Mar 2008 at 05:33

   hi,

   i sent u how retrive the file

   if you want how to create and the rest of the process, pls give some time

   bye

    

3. Premchand Peddakotla
   10 Mar 2008 at 05:31

   HI, i found this is the one of of the way we can creat and its very simple;

    

   System.Diagnostics.Process process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();process.StartInfo.FileName = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "Urfile.chm";

   process.Start();

   This will work definitely.

   BYE

    

    

4. Louis Mangini
   29 Sep 2006 at 19:21

   Hi.  I went through your tutorial on creating HTML Help, but keep running into a very basic problem.  After compiling the help file for the first time and opening up the chm file, my home.htm file does not display at all in the right window.  I get the help file window (with the HIDE, BACK, FORWARD, etc. displayed, but the window on the right is blank.  I followed your tutorial step by step, saved the html files in the directories as indicated, etc.  What am I doing wrong?  I receive no error messages or security warnings.  Thanks in advance!

5. Nilesh Gambhava
   13 Jul 2006 at 13:51

   Can you give me any detail or any url where I can find about how to create chm files programmatically using C#??

   Thanks in Advance

   Nilesh Gambhava

6. femi olufadi
   12 Jul 2005 at 14:26

   i have tried to make popup in html help but coudn't. can somebody help.

7. StarsInTheSky
   08 May 2004 at 12:28

   I have kinda the same problem. Showing a topic works for me if the pages are within the chm file, however, if a topic is on a web site,
   even though I can retrieve them by ciking on them, with the HtmlHelp function, both using HHDISPLAYTOPIC and HHHELPCONTEXT..
   the help viewer jumps to the topic, but fails retrieving the page on the content pane. It does seem to synchronize, it doesn shange the content pane, but to a bad page, like it wants it to be within it.. or I don't really know. So please please, someone help me! you know what to do? have seen this?

8. Jordan Fontaine
   10 Jan 2004 at 15:09
   Figured out my problem, because I was frustrated I started changing things needlessly (I know not a good programming troubleshooting technique ) and realized that it is not suppost to be HH_DISPLAY_TOPIC but that it should be HH_HELP_CONTEXT and everything worked just fine.
9. Jordan Fontaine
   24 Dec 2003 at 00:11

   Hi, I read your entire article and it really helped a lot but I can't wrap up what I've made because for some reason the help file just won't show.
   

   Code:

   
   Private Sub mnuHelpHowto_Click()
    HTMLShowTopic 1030
   End Sub
   

   
   ...
   

   
   Public Sub HTMLShowTopic(lngTopicID As Long)
   

   
    ' Force the Help window to load a specific topic.
    ' The Help window will synchronize the
    ' Contents display automatically
    htmlhelp hwnd, App.helpfile & ">Main", HHDISPLAYTOPIC, lngTopicID
   

   
   End Sub
   

   
   

   
   I don't quite understand why it will not show the help file, my comp appears to be processing something but in the end it does not show the help file.  If I specify 0 as the lngTopicID it does show the window but at the default topic, not the topic I want it to show.  FYI I have mapped the numbers to a file using the notepad trick.

10. Damian Parker
    06 May 2003 at 08:15

    Great I can use this now I understand it!
    Well Done!
    

    
    

11. scheesbrough
    23 Mar 2003 at 20:58

    I followed the article and it fixed many of my problems but ...
    I'm having problems displaying popup text with textboxes.
    

    
    'No help ID matches control ID #...
    

    
    Iv'e tested the popup text files outside the app and they're find. My code works with command buttons (only?).
    

    
    Any ideas??

12. svfrndz
    08 Jan 2003 at 02:30

    Excellent topic! this is very helpful, thanks a lot. It has been a great jumpstart for integrating html help file in VB. Hope you can include topics on popups.

13. Mark Harrington
    23 Nov 2002 at 15:54

    Absolutley brilliant. Very informative easy to understand and a great enjoyment to read please keep up the good work  

14. Steve Rayner
    31 Aug 2002 at 08:02

    Yes i do still have this problem.
    

    
    Thankyou for your responce, unfortunatly i still cannot resolve my problem.
    

    
    I have looked through some of the links you posted and i will look at the others in more detail when i have more time.
    

    
    Thanks again.
    

15. Pete Lees
    29 Aug 2002 at 21:02

    Stevesoft,
    

    
    In the unlikely event that you're still struggling with this problem...
    

    
    > I have followed this tutorial and have the following problem:
    >
    > The code for displaying the contents or the index only works after i
    > have pressed F1 to display help.
    >
    > Once i have done this once, the code works fine...... why is this?
    

    
    The following are the principal documents on connecting HTML Help to an application. Maybe these will help.
    

    
    http://www.smountain.com/mProgrammingHelp.htm (VB, C++)
    http://www.mvps.org/htmlhelpcenter/mapping.htm
    http://www.mvps.org/htmlhelpcenter/whcomplete.htm (VB)
    http://www.workwrite.com/helpthink/vbliske.htm (VB)
    http://helpware.net/delphi/index.html (Delphi)
    http://www.workwrite.com/helpthink/delphi_chandler.htm (Delphi)
    

    
    Pete

16. Pete Lees
    29 Aug 2002 at 20:55

    rollershade,
    

    
    Just came across your message. Here's a very belated follow-up, in the unlikely event you still need this information.
    

    
    > the ordinal 373 could not be located in the dynamic link library HHA.dll
    

    
    Make sure that all the HTML Help runtime DLLs are properly installed and registered, using either:
    

    
    HTML Help DLL Registrar (http://www.helpfulsolutions.com/)
    MJ's Help Diagnostics (http://helpware.net/downloads/index.htm)
    

    
    > the link u gave for the microsoft page cant be found
    

    
    This was changed a little while ago to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/vsconHH1Start.asp.
    

    
    Pete

17. Colin Harman MACITP
    14 Jul 2002 at 16:33

    i have installed it from the vb6 cd , but i try and run the html workshop, and i get this error
    

    
    the ordinal 373 could not be located in the dynamic link library HHA.dll
    

    
    any ideas, and the link u gave for the microsoft page cant be found

18. Steve Rayner
    07 Jul 2002 at 12:36
    I have followed this tutorial and have the following problem:
    
    The code for displaying the contents or the index only works after i have pressed F1 to display help.
    
    Once i have done this once, the code works fine...... why is this?
    
    Stevesoft
    
19. Developer Fusion Bot
    01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

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