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ventaIf you don't find the internal workings of compiled html files deeply interesting, what are you doing reading this ?
I have a bunch of HTML files, which I'm building into a .chm file. To do this, I'm using a free M$ download called HTML Help Workshop. What I'd really like to do is link to files which aren't .htm(l) files. In particular, I'd like to a link to a M$ Visual Studio solution which, when clicked, opens the specified project in Visual Studio.
Is there any way of specifying an app which should be used to open a particular filetype, in such a way that a .chm file will cope ?
On a slightly different note, I've been having trouble with links to text files, as well. I'm generating my HTML files using xsltproc and XML files (written in docbook) so I just assumed I was mucking up the XML to generate links. But no, the links work fine in the generated HTML files, they just don't work in the compiled version. There doesn't seem to be anyway of explictly including text files, and "sometimes" HTML Help seems to pick them up automatically and sometimes it doesn't.
I have a bunch of HTML files, which I'm building into a .chm file. To do this, I'm using a free M$ download called HTML Help Workshop. What I'd really like to do is link to files which aren't .htm(l) files. In particular, I'd like to a link to a M$ Visual Studio solution which, when clicked, opens the specified project in Visual Studio.
Is there any way of specifying an app which should be used to open a particular filetype, in such a way that a .chm file will cope ?
On a slightly different note, I've been having trouble with links to text files, as well. I'm generating my HTML files using xsltproc and XML files (written in docbook) so I just assumed I was mucking up the XML to generate links. But no, the links work fine in the generated HTML files, they just don't work in the compiled version. There doesn't seem to be anyway of explictly including text files, and "sometimes" HTML Help seems to pick them up automatically and sometimes it doesn't.
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Date: 2007-10-02 05:34 pm (UTC)Even less idea for the second part, I don't suppose Help Workshop has anything like a text manifest file you can manually add files to does it?
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Date: 2007-10-02 11:01 pm (UTC)I did :) It nicely opens the VS solution as a text file, inside the .chm viewer. Which isn't quite what I want.
I don't suppose Help Workshop has anything like a text manifest file you can manually add files to does it?
Not that I've found. The annoying thing is that some of my links to text files work and some don't. And I'm not aware of any difference in the set-up, so I don't know what makes the ones which work work.