Re: HTML Help control

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From: MikeD (nobody_at_nowhere.edu)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:40:26 -0500

"Svennis" <headofstate@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1BZHd.5368$Sl3.126049@news4.e.nsc.no...
> Is there an ActiveX control that can be placed on a form to display
> CHM-files (compiled html files)? I'm looking for a way to incorporate and
> display my help files on forms instead of launching the standard HTML Help
> Viewer, which takes away the focus from my full-screen application.
>
> To be more precise: I would like to make a custom framework to host and
> display the CHM files. The control should thus work in similar way as the
> Web Browser control, which let you display HTML files on your forms.

I don't think this is possible. If you want help displayed in your own
forms of your app, you're going to have to write your own help system.
Depending on the complexity of the help you're providing, tackling this
might not be so bad. You might consider using the WebBrowser control. That
way, your help is still HTML files and you can have links to everything.
Just an idea. 

-- 
Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic

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