1. Using CHM Help Files from Euphoria
I've been hacking away at trying to display a .chm (compiled HTML
Help) file from within a Euphoria program, but I'm getting nowhere.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions to pass along?
-Ron T.
2. Re: Using CHM Help Files from Euphoria
Hi Ron,
will this work for you?
system("start " & yourfile.chm, 0)
Ken Rhodes
--- Ron Tarrant <rtarrant at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> I've been hacking away at trying to display a .chm
> (compiled HTML
> Help) file from within a Euphoria program, but I'm
> getting nowhere.
>
> Anyone have any ideas or suggestions to pass along?
>
> -Ron T.
>
>
>
>
>
>
3. Re: Using CHM Help Files from Euphoria
On 0, Ron Tarrant <rtarrant at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> I've been hacking away at trying to display a .chm (compiled HTML
> Help) file from within a Euphoria program, but I'm getting nowhere.
>
> Anyone have any ideas or suggestions to pass along?
>
> -Ron T.
>
I saw the replies for Windoze Euphoria, any hints for getting them to show
for Linux Euphoria?
Or plain old-style .hlp files for that matter?
jbrown
4. Re: Using CHM Help Files from Euphoria
jbrown wrote:
> I saw the replies for Windoze Euphoria, any hints for getting them to s=
how
> for Linux Euphoria?
>
> Or plain old-style .hlp files for that matter?
Not exactly the same thing, but...
If you have the source files to the Windows .chm, you can used the wxWind=
ows=20
HelpView program to display it.=20
Basically, the wxWindows help format is exactly the same as the Windows h=
elp=20
format, except instead of compiling the files into a .chm, they are zippe=
d=20
into a single file and renamed.
Unfortunately, I don't know how of any program that will reverse engineer=
a=20
=2Echm back into it's source files. But if you've got the source files, i=
t's=20
pretty cool.
-- David Cuny
5. Re: Using CHM Help Files from Euphoria
On 0, irv at take.maxleft.com wrote:
> jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:
<snip>
> > I saw the replies for Windoze Euphoria, any hints for getting them to
> > show
> > for Linux Euphoria?
> >
> > Or plain old-style .hlp files for that matter?
>
> I suppose .chm and .hlp formats are proprietary,
If you're saying that there is no way to use them unless I backwards engineer
the formats myself or use Wine to access the Windoze interface to these files,
then its probably not worth the trouble.
> and the Unix man
> format is pretty obsolete.
With that I disagree, as I use man pages all the time. :)
(Also use info pages too on occasion.)
>
> Why not just call system("konqueror file://index.html",0) to start
> the browser and use HTML docs?
Or call Gecko or Netscape or Motzilla or Opera or Lynx or w3m or Links,
yeah thats what I do now. (Or use ASCII file docs.)
I was just wondering if there was a way to show those types of files
under Linux.
>
> Regards,
> Irv
>
jbrown
6. Re: Using CHM Help Files from Euphoria
On 0, Ron Tarrant <rtarrant at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>
> jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:
> >
> > I saw the replies for Windoze Euphoria, any hints for getting them to
> > show
> > for Linux Euphoria?
>
> I don't think so, but it would depend on whether or not someone has
> reverse-engineered compiled HTML. I know there are de-compilers that
> work under windows, but whether or not you can get your hands on source
> is something I _don't_ know.
>
Really? Maybe I can use Wine to run the decompilers, and convert .chm files
into .html files. That could prove useful ...
> > Or plain old-style .hlp files for that matter?
>
> This, I really doubt unless there's a utility I don't know about that
> reads winhelp format under UNIX. This is quite possible; there are
> lots of utilities for reading what I thought were Windows-only formats.
Maybe.
>
> The best I can do is wish you luck.
>
Thanks.
> -Ron T.
>
jbrown
