How to pull up specific topics in CHM help files (for
Vista).

I'm converting all my help files to CHM format so they will run under Vista.
Anybody figure out a way to call up specific topic?

Right now I'm just using;

CALL "start " + helpfilename$,0

Works to call up the help file and display the Contents page, but I need to
be able to display specific topics. Any ideas?

Mark

These may help you.
http://frogleg.mvps.org/helptechnologies/winhelp/whcomdlg.html
http://frogleg.mvps.org/helptechnologies/winhelp/whvbapi.html

-Dan


On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:36:34 -0700, "Mark Lyon"
<mark@allstats.com>
wrote:

>I'm converting all my help files to CHM format so they will run under
Vista.
>Anybody figure out a way to call up specific topic?
>
>Right now I'm just using;
>
>CALL "start " + helpfilename$,0
>
>Works to call up the help file and display the Contents page, but I need to
>be able to display specific topics. Any ideas?
>
>Mark
>
>

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:36:34 -0700, "Mark Lyon"
<mark@allstats.com>
wrote:

>I'm converting all my help files to CHM format so they will run under
Vista.
>Anybody figure out a way to call up specific topic?
>
>Right now I'm just using;
>
>CALL "start " + helpfilename$,0
>
>Works to call up the help file and display the Contents page, but I need to
>be able to display specific topics. Any ideas?
>
>Mark
>
>

An interesting question, so I searched  a bit more.  This VB Tutorial
seems to get to the heart of it.
http://www.smountain.com/resource/VBHTMLHelp.pdf
look at this topic:
Calling HTML Help Directly from Your Visual Basic Code

Hi all,

Almost every other day I get this message on my screen:

SB3
'The win 16 subsysten has insufficient resources to continue running.
Click OK, close application and restart' 

After hitting the OK button SB shuts down immediately, no matter what
it was doing. Only after rebooting the system will it work again. This
is not good.

I've looked for answers online, but it seems lots of windows users are
wrestling with this problem, but no-one can come up with a proper
solution. Does anyone here know how to resolve this issue?

Thanks a lot,

hansbuying@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Almost every other day I get this message on my screen:
> 
> SB3
> 'The win 16 subsysten has insufficient resources to continue running.
> Click OK, close application and restart' 
> 
> After hitting the OK button SB shuts down immediately, no matter what
> it was doing. Only after rebooting the system will it work again. This
> is not good.
> 
> I've looked for answers online, but it seems lots of windows users are
> wrestling with this problem, but no-one can come up with a proper
> solution. Does anyone here know how to resolve this issue?

I found only one useful answer so far on Google. Apparently, as a change
to the OS from Windows 2000 to XP, Microsoft now permits resource
handles in a wider range of values than it did previously (4 times as
many), but only the ones with the lowest values (original range) are
valid when passed to the Win16 subsystem. If a higher value handle is
passed to the Win16 subsystem, then you get the message that you
described. The only real solution is to reduce the number of programs
that are running concurrently and to clean boot before each session.