OpenEuphoria

Re: Help File Maker

• Posted by Dan Moyer <danielmoyer at prodigy.net> Apr 11, 2007
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Dan Moyer wrote:
> 
> 
> The *very* nice looking "HelpFileManager" program by Roland Stowasser,
> which looks like it can make pretty nice looking help files using
> the Euphoria Data Base, doesn't seem to work under Win32Lib 0.60.6.
> 
> When I put 0.59.01 in its folder, it worked.  
> 
> It also seems to have a bug in the "HelpWindow_onEvent" routine,
> which allows user to move the divider bar to see more of the help treeview;
> the fix appears to be to replace:
> 
> info[1]=NULL 
> 
> with:
> 
> equal(info[1],NULL)
> 
> Dan Moyer

It might help if I described better *how* it "doesn't seem to work" under
Win32Lib 0.60.6, sigh.

The program *itself* runs ok under Win32Lib 0.60.6; 
it's the HELP file *within* the "HelpFileManager" program 
that fails when the "Topic" menu-item under menu "Help" is clicked on,
although the Help-Topic selection works fine under Win32Lib 0.59.01.

The failure report points to:

HFMHelp.ew:568 in procedure HelpContentsTreeView_onChange()
subscript value 0 is out of bounds, reading from a sequence of length 0
at:

current = getIndex(HelpContentsTreeView)
    --Judith
    current -= offsetCurrent
    ToCi = current
    topic = ""
    setText(HelpText_RichEdit, "")
    rec_data = ToC[current][HelpText]  --<---------  ERROR HAPPENS HERE
                                       -- and "current" = 0

The failure apparently originally starts at:
HFMHelp.ew:294 in procedure HelpWindow_onOpen()  
at:

eraseItems(HelpItems_List)

Dan Moyer