Connecting Help System to Visual Basic?

[asteroidB]

I have created a help system in Microsoft’s HTML Help Workshop. I have connected the Help system to the Visual Basic application via the Form_Load event procedure with the following statement:

App.Helpfile = App.Path & “\Help.chm”

This works fine, when the main form appears, I press F1 the Help appears – no problem. However, I was wondering how I can display the help file from a CommandButtons click event procedure?

I thought I could use the Shell Function to call the “Help.chm” file but this doesn’t work.

What can I do?? Any ideas ??!!

 

[sunaj]

Hi,

There's 2 ways to do that. the first (and the best) is to goto

http://mvps.org/htmlhelpcenter/

and download a class that handles the opening of an HTML help file. It works great. There's also VB samples. With the class you can make context sensitive help etc.

The dirty way:
get the windowes directory by using the FileSystemObject (or Environ("windir&quot) and

dHelp = Shell(MyWinDir & "\hh.exe c:\MyHelp.chm", vbMaximizedFocus)

Sunaj