OpenEuphoria

RE: Using CHM Help Files from Euphoria

• Posted by Ron Tarrant <rtarrant at sympatico.ca> Oct 11, 2002
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David Cuny wrote:
> jbrown wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Not exactly the same thing, but...
> 
> If you have the source files to the Windows .chm, you can used the 
> wxWindows 
> HelpView program to display it. 
> 
> Basically, the wxWindows help format is exactly the same as the Windows 
> help 
> format, except instead of compiling the files into a .chm, they are 
> zipped 
> into a single file and renamed.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't know how of any program that will reverse 
> engineer a 
> .chm back into it's source files. But if you've got the source files, 
> it's 
> pretty cool.

In HTML Workshop version 4.74.8702.0 (from Microsoft) use 
File/decompile. I just tried it on refman2.chm and it spit out 42 source 
files (.htm, .gif, as well as a .hhk and a .hhc).

-Ron T.