To give you a bit of background before asking my question:
We are currently in the midst of converting our very large
winhelp system to webhelp (using RoboHTML).
The converison is going well, however we have run into a snag
from the application development side of things.
My programmers are a bit perplexed as to how to actually call
webhelp from within Visual Basic programs. Specifically, there
seems to be contradictory information about using a .cls or .frm.
We are currently using a deprecated version of RoboHelp, but
will soon be transitioning to RH8.
Can anyone point me in the direction of the call procedure
for VB6? Also, we will soon be transitioning to VB.Net, will we
need to change anything when we do so?
We use the URL call. And since we provide merged WebHelp, we
also provide a flat file (we call formpath.txt) with a listing of
which child project houses each form (window/screen, whatever),
like this:
aammainform, mergedProjects\mwb_ug
The form named aammainform is in the mwb_ug folder, and is
named the same (if it were not, its actual name would be
appended--following a backslash--after the folder name).
I have read Peter's site...several times, however, I believe
the answer is at a level above that. In the actual VB program,
there needs to be some type of call function (be it a class or
form) that tells the program how to react when the help button is
pressed.
The url call is easy enough to define....it is the vb code
necessary to implement that call that is the step we are missing.
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