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pavane
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Registered: 26-04-2004
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legacy system HELP in VISTA

I distribute shareware programs, but under Vista, the built-in help no longer works.

How can I continue to distribute the HELP with my VB5 program, so that it works under VISTA? Can this be done?

21-10-2008 at 03:45 PM

Keithuk
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Registered: 02-11-2006
Posts: 31

Re: legacy system HELP in VISTA

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pavane wrote:
I distribute shareware programs, but under Vista, the built-in help no longer works.

How can I continue to distribute the HELP with my VB5 program, so that it works under VISTA? Can this be done?

It depends on what these help files are? If they are the older Windows help file *.hlp then Vista won't open them because Vista doesn't install WinHlp32.exe by default you have to download it here

Thats if you using Shell "WinHlp32.exe " & App.HelpFile, 1 to open the help file.

If you using WinHelp API to access your help file then that should still work because it uses user32.dll which a standard Windows install.

You will have to try making your own help files. M$ do there own chm help file maker Microsoft HTML Help Downloads but its not very user friendly.

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24-10-2008 at 12:05 PM

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