Subject Re: Help f1 problem Solutiom From Charlie <tm@tc.com> Date Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:18:42 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Hi guys..  Thanks for your input.   Unless someone can give me a good reason not to, I have decided to hard code the path at line 1193 in miscapi. I had put the chacha.chm file back in the app folder in inno because it at least tries to work with F1 there.  If I just hard code I can leave it there. the miscapi file that i am using is no longer in the duflp folder because it has to be added to the project and then go into the .exe file.  This just seems like an easier option for me since it has already been done and works! Mervyn Bick Wrote: > On 2024/09/10 15:46, Akshat Kapoor wrote: > > > Sorry for missing this. runhidden() can accept 2 parameters. The first > > is command and the second is batch file name. So you need not hard code > > the path. > > The second parameter for runhidden() for the BAT file name is optional. > If it is not supplied runhidden() uses junk.bat as the default.  The > .bat file can't be written to C:\Program Files (x86) or its subfolders > so, as the .bat file and the .chm file will be in different folders, the > path to the .chm file must be provided. > > openURL() from miscapi.prg in the dUFLP is a far better option for > opening the .chm file as it doesn't involve creating a .bat file each > time the user needs to open the help file. > > If Charlie really wants to use runhidden() instead of openURL() it can > be done but Charlie's code needs to be modified slightly. > > Ignoring possible typos, Charlie used > > runhidden("c:\program files (x86)\chacha\help\chacha.chm")  which passes > c:\program files (x86)\chacha\help\chacha.chm to Windows.  Windows can't > deal with the spaces so it won't work. > > If Charlie had used > runhidden(["c:\program files (x86)\chacha\help\chacha.chm"]) Windows > would see "c:\program files (x86)\chacha\help\chacha.chm" which it can > deal with. > > Mervyn. > > >