Welcoming Brian Dessent as setup maintainer
Warren Young
warren@etr-usa.com
Tue May 3 23:41:00 GMT 2005
Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> Another possibility might be to embed the .chm or .hlp file in the .exe
> as a resource. I don't know if that's feasible or not.
Tricky at best. Both WinHelp.exe and hh.exe are separate programs, and
their APIs seem to have no way to tell them to look at a resource inside
another EXE. I seem some mumblings in the HTMLHelp docs about using an
ActiveX control with IE, so perhaps you could embed IE in order to
display your HH file, but....ick.
> Still, the context sensitive help would go a long way, and there is a
> manual in html that they can refer to online.
Context-sensitive help is just resources, so that wouldn't require a
traditional Windows installer. I recall that it's tricky to do outside
a dialog, though.
Perhaps setup.exe could have a button to launch the default browser to
open the online Cygwin docs from setup.exe. I believe the Shell API has
a way to do this, where you just "open" a URL. ShellExecute(), perhaps?
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