I created a CHM help file using MadCap Flare. When I search for a term that I know is present in my text, the search function always reports "no topics found."
How can I fix the search function?
In my case the problem was fixed by registering itcc.dll on the machine where Flare is installed (the machine building the CHM.)
C:\> regsvr32 itcc.dll
The file is included with MadCap Flare as well as the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop.
I have also found an article indicating that the language setting of the help file can affect the search function.
Here is the Getting Started Guide. Chapter 4 has a section about Search, which might prove useful.
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I'm using Doxygen to create documentation to my project.
This tool is wonderful except an issue I have with the searching function.
When I try to use the search box he find files and function that starting with the letters I wrote.
I will explain..
I have 3 files in my project:
BaseTemplate.java
RegularTemplate.java
CustomTemplate.java
when I write 'Template' in the search box he didn't find anything. This because he search items(function, files, etc.) only by prefix.
Is there a solution to this issue?
Thanks
I am confused here. I have migrated my CHM help from HtmlHelp Workshop to HelpNDoc. I compiled the CHM file and updated my MFC project to direct to the correct topic:
HtmlHelp((DWORD_PTR)_T("msa-options-publishers-db.html"), HH_DISPLAY_TOPIC);
The above approach worked with my previous CHM file. When I invoke this call the following happens:
It doesn't find it. Now I am having difficulties here because if I click F1 in my IDE (VS2017) it takes me to here. This article provides an example for showing a topic:
HWND hwnd =
HtmlHelp(
GetDesktopWindow(),
"c:\\Help.chm::/Intro.htm>Mainwin",
HH_DISPLAY_TOPIC,
NULL) ;
The above HtmlHelp API call is taking 4 parameters. Yet, in my CDialogEx derived class I only have two parameters:
So I need to find a way that will work to open any topic in my CHM file as compiled with HelpNDoc.
Update
On further research I located the topic that discusses the HtmlHelp API call that I am using (found in the CWinApp class). It states:
Parameters
dwData Specifies additional data. The value used depends on the value
of the nCmd parameter.
nCmd Specifies the type of help requested. For a list of possible
values and how they affect the dwData parameter, see the uCommand
parameter described in About the HTMLHelp API Function in the Windows
SDK.
So we end up here where we are given a link to details about HH_DISPLAY_TOPIC. We have gone full circle. Looking closely it states:
Specifies a compiled help (.chm) file, or a specific topic within a compiled help file.
To specify a defined window type, insert a greater-than (>) character followed by the name of the window type.
So my code should still be fine.
You won't believe how simple the resolution to this issue was!
I did a test with HTML Help Workship API window:
The only one that worked was when I used htm as the suffix and not html. See:
I am getting Class file editor : Source not found error for the classes in junit / hazelcast packages. Previously i got this error for all built in java classes. But after adding the Source zip file, i am able to see String.class and all. What i need to do for these classes. Please find the screenshot
Thanks in Advance!
Interestingly enough, your question contains all the concepts you need to know in order to answer it.
In order for your IDE to show you source code for any library you are using, the corresponding library needs to come with source code attached to it.
In other words: you managed to point your IDE to the ZIP file containing the source code for your JRE/JDK - thus your IDE knows what to show you when want to open up String.class
Now it seems that you are using other libraries as well. Maybe maybe, other libraries, have other, different source code ZIP files?!
Long story short: you need to add "source code" ZIPs for each and any additional library you are using and that you want to "peek into".
Within eclipse, you achieve that for example as described in that SO q/a. Side note: that is also something to keep in mind: you should do prior research before coming up with "new" questions. Especially when you are a beginner, you can be very sure that "your" question was asked here before.
I have a reference to the Microsoft Scripting Runtime (scrrun.dll) in one of my Access projects. If I open the object browser in VBA (by pressing F2) and choose 'Scripting' from the library dropdown it shows me all of the properties, functions, etc. for the Scripting library. If I choose one of these functions and then click on the help button (with the yellow question mark) it opens a help window with the title of 'Microsoft Visual Basic Help.'
It acts like it is unable to find the help file for this library. I can manually find the help file on my computer at the following location: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\VBA\VBA6\1033\VBLR6.CHM". (Note: I have 64-bit Win 7, thus the '(x86)' in the Program Files folder name.)
I tried copying the help file to the following locations with no luck:
"C:\Windows\Help\VBLR6.CHM"
"C:\Windows\SysWOW64\VBLR6.CHM" (I believe SysWOW64 folder is the Win7 64-bit equivalent of C:\Windows\System32)
I have had this same problem with other referenced libraries as well, so I'm looking for some kind of generic solution. I'm hoping there is some way to specify a location for the help file of a particular reference, or something else along those lines.
Copy VBLR6.CHM to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office10\1033\VBENLR98.CHM"
That's the short answer for this specific case...here's how to get there which may be useful for getting other help files associated:
Download Process Monitor (currently hosted here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx or do a Google search for Process Monitor)
Run Process Monitor with the following filter: 'Process Name' 'is' MSOHelp.exe 'include'
Open object browser in VBA
Choose the library (Scripting in this case)
Choose any function, property, or event in the library and click on the yellow question mark (this should open an empty window with the title Microsoft Visual Basic Help)
Go back to Process Monitor and scroll all the way to the bottom of the list; make sure the Path and Result columns are displayed
There should be dozens of 'PATH NOT FOUND' and 'NAME NOT FOUND' Results in the list. For each one of these results, there should be a corresponding Path where MSOHelp was looking for the help file. Choose any one of these and create a file with that path name. I chose to create a copy of the help file from its original location to the new spot and rename it to match what MSOHelp was looking for.
My best guess is that the scrrun.dll contains the name of the help file and over the years the dll stayed the same but the help file was renamed, modified, etc.
I'm doing a project in Java which creates a user manual (html files that are linked together like Windows "Help and support centre") of software. Now once a user manual is created I have only html files remaining. Now I want to search html file that contains specified keyword(Search Engine).How can I do this without Java code??
grep, find, python script, or open any file with a text editor and try edit->search
(on windows use windows search in file)
If all of your other code is written in java, then it'll be sensible (without knowing your usecase) to use java for searching as well. You might of course use some commandline programs as grep or find - or built in search functionality in a webbrowser, but if the search should be part of a java application anyway, why not go for java and e.g. Lucene?
If this 'help' is going to be online than you can embed google search in it (limiting the search results to specified site:). Alternatively if you're hosting the pages yourself you can use htdig for indexing the pages.
However if it's going to offilne you'll be better of by generating a static index page with links to topics. In order to create a more help-system-alike user experience you can hide the contents of the index in the invisible html DIV tags and add a JavaScript that takes searched phrase as an input and that unhides the matched words with their links.
Maybe I'm missing something, but have you looked at javahelp? It has indexing and searching built in, and can be used online or offline.