Connecting to VB 6 Application

[samcec]

I use VB6 Enterprise Edition and trying to learn and use Robohelp X5 Office. I created all of my "Topic" files then created the "chm" file. At this point I am totally lost on what to do next. I personally think the Help files in RoboHelp and in VB are confusing. Can you give a "cookbook" approach on how to hook the help files to a VB application.

Here are 3 examples of what I want to do:
Example 1: On the main screen, I have a menu HELP; a submenu CONTENTS
when the user clicks on CONTENTS, I want the Help (that I wrote) to show.

Example 2: Each screen in my application is represented by a TOPIC. For example, In the VB 6 project, I have a screen called "Action" screen. In the Robohelp project the Topic is called Action_Screen.htm. When executing the VB application and on the Action screen, if the user presses F1, I would want the Action_Screen.htm to show in the Help window.

Example 3: The Action screen has a command button called Edit (cmdExit). If I put my mouse over this button and pressed the F1 key, how do I associate a section within the Action_Screen.htm file?

Thanks,
Sam

[samcec]

Hey, I worked out the solution to the first 2 examples above by using the HTMLHELP api. As of now, I still need help with the 3rd example in the above post.

I am going to continue working on a solution but if you can help before I get back to this thread, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
Sam

[Pete_Lees]

> Example 3: The Action screen has a command button called Edit (cmdExit).
> If I put my mouse over this button and pressed the F1 key, how do I associate
> a section within the Action_Screen.htm file?

Don Lammers' "Connecting HTMLHelp to Visual Basic Programs" may be able to steer you in the right direction.

One option could be to use an HH_DISPLAY_TOPIC command to link to an anchor that you've inserted in the target topic, like this:

HtmlHelp(WinHandle,"HelpFile.chm::/Action_Screen.htm#anchor",HH_DISPLAY_TOPIC,NULL);

But if that doesn't work, an alternative could be to use the HH_HELP_CONTEXT command to pass a context integer, which you've mapped to the anchor in the target topic. See if these help:

http://frogleg.mvps.org/helptechnologies/htmlhelp/hhvbclas.html
http://www.help-info.de/en/Help_Info_HTMLHelp/hh_context-id.htm

Pete

[samcec]

Thank you for the files. I quickly looked at them and I believe they will resolve the problem.

I will not be able to get to them for a couple days but I will report back to you after I try the procedures stated.

Thanks Again,
Sam