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Re: wxIDE & EuHTHelp.exw

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Feb 06, 2006
• 514 views

Kenneth Rhodes wrote:

> Pete Lomax wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:59:15 -0800, Kenneth Rhodes
> > <guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >Pete seemed to feel this could not easily be done with
> > >Edita - perhaps I'm missing something. My guess is that
> > >it should only take several lines of simple code to 
> > >pass the search string for the current "word" in the editor
> > >to EuHTHelp.exw using system_exec.
> > >
> > >But maybe I am wrong
> > You're right, you're wrong )
> > I need to either de-win32lib Brians' wrap of hhctrl.ocx to use a chm
> > file and/or wrap the WinHelp API to use .hlp files. I have searched
> > the archives and cannot find much evidence of success with it.
> > Otherwise it will just open on the index.
> > 
> 
> I appreciate your patience, Pete. Please help me understand  -
> if system or system_exec can be executed from within Edita,
> then all that is required to use Juergen's program is little
> more than this line of code:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> if CONTEXT_SENSITIVE_HELP_KEY then
>  VOID = system_exec("EuHTHelp.exw" & " " & search_term, 0)
> end if
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> "search_term" is a sequence containing the current "word" just typed
> into the editor.  EuHTHelp.exw prepends the path of the relevant *.htm
> doucumentation file as well as "#" to "search_term" - this path is
> appended to the execution path of the user's browser of choice and
> "executed" by system_exec(). Juergen developed EuHTHelp.exw under
> DOS/WINDOWS, but it is generic code.
> 
> None of that complicated Windows stuff is required - just a browser.
> 
> Juergen placed his code in the public domain.  You can modify a 
> couple of lines and paste it directly into Edita -r wxIDE for that
> matter:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> if CONTEXT_SENSITIVE_HELP_KEY then
>  ** EuHTHelp code **
> end if
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> So, as you can see, I'm still in a state of denial about being
> wrong on this. 

I also do not see the problem (except that Pete might do not like this
way of showing help, and has some other special stuff in mind that
he wants to implement).

> Regards,
> 
> Ken Rhodes
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Regards,
   Juergen