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ActiveX help and context ids

Rachel

06 January 2009 13:00

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This is about ActiveX help context ids (The project/application is in VB 6).

In this specific situation, for an enumeration.

We currently have all the members of the enumeration accessing unique help context ids to help pages that do not exist.
We want the enumeration's members to access the parent enumeration's page.

Currently, they are:

#define IDH_ENUM_ERRORLEVEL                             12328
#define IDH_ENUM_ERRORLEVEL_PRODUCTION                  12329
#define IDH_ENUM_ERRORLEVEL_DEVELOPMENT                 12330
#define IDH_ENUM_ERRORLEVEL_DETAILED                    12331

But, we require all the enumeration members to point to 12328, ie, the errorlevel enumeration page.

1. Can this be corrected? How?
2. Is there a particular folder in which the .h file must reside? Can't find it with the help files.
3. Would it require help to be rebuilt?
4. Would it require the Visual Studio project to be rebuilt for the changes to take effect?

Thank you.

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  Permanently deleted user 07 January 2009 04:58

  The Help Context Id values themselves are defined in the type library - Document! X just matches up the values generated in the documentation to those in the type library. If you are documenting directly from the VB6 source Document! X should take care of assigning help context ids in your VB6 project automatically. If you are documenting from the compiled .dll then you would need to change the help context ids for the enum members to be the same as the enum so that the .dll type library contains the right values.

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  Rachel 07 January 2009 08:39

  Thank you Richard, that was informative.

  But, I still have a few basic questions.

  After the context ids are changed >> Should the help be recompiled? Should the application/project be recompiled? If an installer exists, should that be recreated?

  And another question not related to the above: Is HS 3 help & Doc X  help available independent of the software? As chm files? Like an online reference book I could have locally on my computer. I ask because there are times when I'm researching a subject but not actively working on it at the same time, so I don't need HS or DOC X open. Do let me know.
  

  Thanks.
  

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  Permanently deleted user 09 January 2009 09:59

  If you change a context id you need to recompile your .dll and the help.

  Yes, the help for Document! X and HelpStudio is installed as a .chm - you can find a link to the .chm in the Start Menu groups for each app.

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  Rachel 09 January 2009 10:10

  I needed that confirmation. Thank you very much!

  And I'm so happy about the standalone help file.

  Thanks again.