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From: Manfred Z. on 23 Jan 2010 04:56
I have an application with a .chm help-file.
But I have some questions about the behaviour of the help-window.

I use a modal application window and I can start the help.
The help windows appears but it is allways in foreground of my application
window.
I can set the input focus on my window, the help window becomes inactive but
I cannot move my window over the help window.
So I have to close the help window or minimize it or move it aside of my
application window when I want to go on in my application.

The other problem is when I minimize the help window and then open a dialog
window in my application and call the help again , the help windows resize
and become visible again.
But when I try to set the focus on the help window, it becomes invisible
again.

Is this a configuration problem of the help window settings in the html help
workshop?
Is there any documentation aviable about the interaction between my
application (vb-basic net) and the html help window.
I mean not how to navigate to help topics or so, my problem is to control
the behavior of the help window.

Or must I manually control the help window using its process and window
handle.

Thanks

Manfred


From: Dennis on 23 Jan 2010 07:09
Manfred:

I had the same problem and solved it by creating (but not showing) a new
Form in my application's Load method.

Private Shared m_helpForm As Form
...
m_helpForm = New Form()
m_helpForm.CreateControl()

And I added a method to my application's main form.

Public Shared Sub RequestHelp(ByVal p_topic As String)
Help.ShowHelp(m_helpForm, "myhelp.chm", HelpNavigator.Topic, p_topic)
End Sub

Then, whenever I need to pop up a help window I just call this method.

Making this invisible form the parent of the help window solves the
problem for me.

If there is a better solution for this behavior I would invite someone
to post it.

--

Dennis

***

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:56:01 -0800, Manfred Z.
<ManfredZ(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have an application with a .chm help-file.
>But I have some questions about the behaviour of the help-window.
>
>I use a modal application window and I can start the help.
>The help windows appears but it is allways in foreground of my application
>window.
>I can set the input focus on my window, the help window becomes inactive but
>I cannot move my window over the help window.
>So I have to close the help window or minimize it or move it aside of my
>application window when I want to go on in my application.
>
>The other problem is when I minimize the help window and then open a dialog
>window in my application and call the help again , the help windows resize
>and become visible again.
>But when I try to set the focus on the help window, it becomes invisible
>again.
>
>Is this a configuration problem of the help window settings in the html help
>workshop?
>Is there any documentation aviable about the interaction between my
>application (vb-basic net) and the html help window.
>I mean not how to navigate to help topics or so, my problem is to control
>the behavior of the help window.
>
>Or must I manually control the help window using its process and window
>handle.
From: Dennis on 23 Jan 2010 07:19
Just to add...

You also may need to add handlers for Me.HelpButtonClicked and
MyBase.HelpRequested.

--

Dennis

***

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:09:27 -0500, Dennis <nobody(a)nowhere.invalid>
wrote:

>Manfred:
>
>I had the same problem and solved it by creating (but not showing) a new
>Form in my application's Load method.
>
> Private Shared m_helpForm As Form
> ...
> m_helpForm = New Form()
> m_helpForm.CreateControl()
>
>And I added a method to my application's main form.
>
>Public Shared Sub RequestHelp(ByVal p_topic As String)
> Help.ShowHelp(m_helpForm, "myhelp.chm", HelpNavigator.Topic, p_topic)
>End Sub
>
>Then, whenever I need to pop up a help window I just call this method.
>
>Making this invisible form the parent of the help window solves the
>problem for me.
>
>If there is a better solution for this behavior I would invite someone
>to post it.
>
>--
>
>Dennis
>
>***
>
>On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:56:01 -0800, Manfred Z.
><ManfredZ(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>I have an application with a .chm help-file.
>>But I have some questions about the behaviour of the help-window.
>>
>>I use a modal application window and I can start the help.
>>The help windows appears but it is allways in foreground of my application
>>window.
>>I can set the input focus on my window, the help window becomes inactive but
>>I cannot move my window over the help window.
>>So I have to close the help window or minimize it or move it aside of my
>>application window when I want to go on in my application.
>>
>>The other problem is when I minimize the help window and then open a dialog
>>window in my application and call the help again , the help windows resize
>>and become visible again.
>>But when I try to set the focus on the help window, it becomes invisible
>>again.
>>
>>Is this a configuration problem of the help window settings in the html help
>>workshop?
>>Is there any documentation aviable about the interaction between my
>>application (vb-basic net) and the html help window.
>>I mean not how to navigate to help topics or so, my problem is to control
>>the behavior of the help window.
>>
>>Or must I manually control the help window using its process and window
>>handle.
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