Library code snippets
Show a HTML Help topic by Context ID
By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience ...
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience ...
When using a HTML help file, you will obviously want to be able to display certain pages or sections. This code shows you how to display a topic in the help file by specifying the context id.
Public Sub HTMLShowTopic(lngTopicID As Long)
' Force the Help window to load a specific topic.
' The Help window will synchronize the
' Contents display automatically
htmlHelpTopic hwnd, SetHTMLHelpStrings(), HH_HELP_CONTEXT, lngTopicID
End Sub
To call it , use this code:
HTMLShowTopic 1000 '// 1000 = Context ID
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Declare Function GetDesktopWindow Lib "User32" () As Long
Declare Function HtmlHelp Lib "hhctrl.ocx" Alias "HtmlHelpA" _
(ByVal hwndCaller As Long, ByVal pszFile As String, _
ByVal uCommand As Long, ByVal dwData As Long) As Long
Const HHHELPCONTEXT = &HF
Public Sub ShowHelpContext(plngContextID As Long)
Dim hWnd As Long
Dim lshelpFile As String
Dim hwndHelp As Long
hWnd = GetDesktopWindow
lshelpFile = "C:\Help.chm"
' do not replace lshelpFile with a function call
hwndHelp = HtmlHelp(hWnd, lshelpFile, HHHELPCONTEXT, plngContextID)
End Sub
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