RoboHelp 8 HTML - context sensitive chm file does not open?

[Guest]

This works:

RoboHelp_CSH.RH_ShowHelp(0, "C:\\RoboHelp\\!SSL!\\WebHelp\\XHelp_File.htm", RoboHelp_CSH.HH_HELP_CONTEXT, 2);

This doesn't

RoboHelp_CSH.RH_ShowHelp(0, "C:\\RoboHelp\\!SSL!\\Microsoft_HTML_Help\\XHelp_File.chm", RoboHelp_CSH.HH_HELP_CONTEXT, 1);

Why does the context sensitve calls of a chm file not work?

Does it require a different map file?

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

I believe the actual call is different.

Here is a copy/paste from an older RoboHelp HTML CHM file that we might use as an example:

Window-level Help for Windows applications

To call a topic using a map number, make a call to the HTML Help API using  the following syntax:

HWND  HtmlHelp(Window(), “c:\path\helpfile.chm”, HH_HELP_CONTEXT,  Number);

To call a topic using a file name, make a call to the HTML Help API using  the following syntax:

HWND HtmlHelp (Window(), “c:\path\helpfile.chm”,  HH_DISPLAY_TOPIC, "topicfile.htm");

Hopefully that helps.,. Rick

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[Guest]

Thanks, Rick, but I am calling it from within Java and in the RoboHelp_CSH.java there is no HtmlHelp() method.

I also tried the JavaHelp layout solution and can't get it to open either.

I would use the Webhelp solution but I don't like that it opens a new browser window each time the RH_ShowHelp is called and I am trying to verify if that also happens with the other types of help files.