Help as an application

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1 total messages Started by Steve Morvai Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:04

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Author: Steve Morvai
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:04

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I am trying to use the help engine for building a hypertext application.
There seems to be two problems with doing this: 1) the help engine
is shared, so if the user requests help from another application,
the text displayed in my application's help window is replaced by
the other application's help info; 2) I'd like to be able to query
the help engine -- for example, to determine what topic is currently
displayed (being able to do this may solve problem 1).

An ideal alternative would be a private (to my application) copy of
the help engine. I've tried executing a copy of winhelp.exe, but
Windows lets other applications share that one as well. If there
was some way of running winhelp.exe without Windows knowing it
was another copy of the help engine, my problems might be licked.

If someone has done what I basically want to do, please reply
via email (use the address below). Any suggestions are welcome.

Please reply to comeau@crc.sofkin.ca.

Phil Comeau -- Software Kinetics Ltd.

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