Thread: going about opening a .chm file from a menu item

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    going about opening a .chm file from a menu item

    got a menu item, its named
    ID_HELP
    and i need to know the C++ command to open up a CHM file..

    i would post the source, but really, i got nothing, even though i tried using the standard way of opening HLP files
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    Code:
    ShellExecute(NULL, TEXT("open"), TEXT("C:\path to\HelpFile.chm"), NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

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    thanks, ill give that a try when i get home.
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    Or you could download the HTML help workshop from Microsoft , and call the HTMLHelp() API. In this way you can open topics, etc.. in the file..

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    i didn't make the CHM file, its the HTML help file from w3C
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