chm help

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Roger Binns wrote:

Robin Dunn wrote:

Here's one that is written with wxWidgets:
http://xchm.sourceforge.net/

Robin,

Has there been any progress in the plans to use an
external help viewer program to overcome the modality
issues? It would seem that xchm would be an ideal
candidate.

There is the helpview utility that I think some folks are using, but
I've never looked real close at it to what it does. See the cvs at
wxWidgets/utils/helpview.

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Robin Dunn wrote:

Roger Binns wrote:

Has there been any progress in the plans to use an
external help viewer program to overcome the modality
issues? It would seem that xchm would be an ideal
candidate.

There is the helpview utility that I think some folks are using, but
I've never looked real close at it to what it does. See the cvs at
wxWidgets/utils/helpview.

It can also be downloaded from Julian's site:

  http://www.writerscafe.co.uk/helpview.htm

The main issue is that I need to help APIs within wxPython to
use the external helpviewer, reuse an existing window, shutdown
when the main app does etc.

For win32 and CHM help, that can all be done using win32all.
But there doesn't seem to be an officially blessed wxPython/
wxWidgets scheme for using the external helpviewer on Linux
or Mac (and I would prefer xchm in those cases anyway since
the CHM files are smaller than htb).

Roger