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In article <3BEAD55D.5DDA05@vernier.com>,
 ccorbell <ccorbell@vernier.com> wrote:

>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.

Sure. That's a reasonable argument. I just wanted to know what the 
argument was.

>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...

That's actually a pretty neat solution, if all you need is launch the 
viewer. You won't be able to add to your help menu from the helper app, 
of course, just launch the viewer?

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