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meeroh wrote:
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> The normal solution on older Mac OS is to lauch user's default browser
> using the InternetConfig API, rather than trying to muck with the help
> viewer. Is there a reason you insist on the help viewer?
> 
> meeroh
> --
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A normal browser is not a help system.  I use IC and the web browser
for pre-8.6 but that isn't a very friendly solution.  It does not provide
indexing, searching by content, etc.  Help Viewer provides all of
this, not to mention the fact that it looks nicer and more professional
to the user.  It would be a shame to waste the Help Viewer available in 
8.6-9.2, which aren't quite "older Mac OS" systems yet, especially in 
the education market which my company targets.

I think I have a solution worked out that will allow the
non-Carbon app to trigger the carbon call through a high-level
shim, but this involves an additional helper application (which
I'll probably hide in App Support).  I was just hoping this problem 
would have been handled more elegantly by someone...

Thanks for feedback,
Christopher