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In article <4013e30e@newsgroups.borland.com>, Yehia Ahmed wrote:
> i made a .chm file for my application,
> i know that delphi doesn't support the chm help file type,
> so i launched the help file using shellexecute:
>  ShellExecute(
>     Application.Handle,
>     'open',
>     'c:\test.chm',
>     nil,
>     nil,
>     0);
> Somehow, this didn't work either, any ideas?

That is the wrong approach but it should have shown the helpfile if you 
have the HTML Help Workshop installed. 

Anyway, there is an API function named HtmlHelp available (if HTML help 
supports is installed on the target system, the function is exported 
from Hhctrl.ocx, not from one of the standard system DLLs).

Function HtmlHelp( hwndCaller: HWND;
                   pszFile: PChar;
                   uCommand: Cardinal;
                   dwData: Pointer ): HWND; stdcall;
  external 'Hhctrl.ocx' name 'HtmlHelpA';

A full translation of the htmlhelp.h SDK header file can be found on 
the JEDI site Robert pointed you to. But there are also Delphi add-ins 
that make HTML help available directly. Here are a couple of URLs:

HTML Help as a context sensitive engine.
  http://www.hyperact.com/DelphiStuff.html 
  http://www.informant.com/libs/delphi/3x/di9805rl.zip 
  http://www.igweb.pair.com HTML HELP Pack 
  http://www.helpware.net 
  http://www.ec-software.com/comppage.htm
  Header translation at http://delphi-jedi.org

for D6/D7 specifically:
http://www.torry.net/vcl/vcltools/help/sphtmlhelp.zip
http://www.jgsoft.com/zips/UseHTMLHelp.zip
http://www.martinstoeckli.ch/delphi/delphi.html#VclHtmlHelp




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