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Article #19462Re: How to call Help file from application?
From: Rekha Venkatesh
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 00:00
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Thanks Rich It worked. Problem now is I don't have any control over that process. I cannot close it before exiting. I tried to destroy the process before my application exits by calling Process.Destroy (), but it does not close the application. Rekha Rich Wilkman <rwilkman@corp.borland.com> wrote in article <34D8AC96.DBE7366F@corp.borland.com>... > Rekha: > > You'll need to include the calling application in your exec string to > have a chance at this working. Windows knows what to use on .hlp > files because it can read the registry. Java doesn't have access to > that. Try something like: "c:\windows\winhelp.exe help.hlp" at a DOS > box. If that works, then use that string in your Runtime.exec() call. > > -Rich > > Rekha Venkatesh wrote: > > > > Hi > > We have a help.hlp excutable file. I would like to invoke it as an action > > for choosing a menu item. I tried to "exec" this file but it does not > > invoke the file. It gives me an "IOException error 193". Does anybody know > > how to do this?. I have an html vesion of the help file also. > > > > Thanks > > Rekha > > -- > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Rich Wilkman > Senior Quality Assurance Engineer > Borland JBuilder Team > > If you see something that looks like an opinion up there, > it's mine and mine alone. > > Mail sent to me from the newsgroups won't bounce but will > be ignored. If I have time, I'll respond, but you have > a better chance if you confine your posts to the newsgroups > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f74b3,64238dedfa924b3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf74b3,public From: "Rekha Venkatesh" <rvenkate@alta-oh.com> Subject: Re: How to call Help file from application? Date: 1998/02/04 Message-ID: <01bd31ac$9ae644c0$18d812c7@rvenkatesh> X-Deja-AN: 322120504 References: <01bd317e$b66ae120$18d812c7@rvenkatesh> <34D8AC96.DBE7366F@corp.borland.com> Organization: None Newsgroups: borland.public.jbuilder.java.language