.CHM help and 2003 terminal server

[CRANSTON]

We have a client running a VFP 9 application (Alere Manufacturing) on a Win 2003 R2 Terminal services server. I can launch the chm help from the desktop without any problem. I can't get the chm help to work in the application. When I try the F1 key or the menu selection nothing happens. No error, no complaint. I've read through the Microsoft bulletins to no avail. Has anyone had this problem? Has anybody come up with a solution.

Thank you,
Geoff Greer
LCSCORP, INC.
geoff@lcscorp.com

 

[Mike Lewis]

Geoff,

VFP has its own help controls. You need to install several files on the user's system in order for a VFP app to display its help.

These are the files I usually install:

ITSS.dll
ITIRCL.dll
HHCtrl.ocx
HH.EXE

To be honest, I'm not sure if all of those are necessary, but it does no harm to add them. I always place them in the user's Windows System directory, but, again, I'm not sure if that is the proper place for them.

Mike



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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[CRANSTON]

Update 04/03/2008

The solution (thank you Rick Schummer) is to put foxhhelp9.exe and foxhhelpps9.dll in the the common file area. (C:\progam files\common files\microsoft shared\vfp). The foxhhelp9.exe must be registered. foxhhelp9 /regserver
does the trick quite nicely.

Now the chm help works correctly.

Geoff Greer