[Closed] How to open .chm file to specific page?

Jan 25, 2011 11:44 am

Hi!
I try to open chm file to a specific page, but with no success. shelllaunch allows me to do this, but only with IE, Firefox, Opera etc, but I just want to press a button to open Microsoft HTML Help application with specified help item highlighted and its content displayed.

                                         On video below I showed how 3dsMax does this -  when the caret is near the name of a control and I press F1 maxscript  reference opens the page of the selected control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okurubV53lY

Can I do this with maxscript or not?
I searched the web for а solutions and found only this:

public static void ShowHelpByKeyword(Control sourceControl, string helpFile, string parameter) {
                           Help.ShowHelp(sourceControl, helpFile, HelpNavigator.KeywordIndex, parameter)

                                         but Im not very familiar with dotnet and do not know how to use it in maxscript.                     

                                         Excuse me for my bad English.

3 Replies

lo1

Jan 25, 2011 11:44 am

this should get you on the right path

rollout testrollout "test" width:150 height:50
(	
	dotnetcontrol button "System.Windows.Forms.Button" pos:[5,5] width:100 height:30
	
	on button click do
	(
		local navigatorType = (dotnetClass "System.Windows.Forms.HelpNavigator").Index
		(dotnetclass "Help").showhelp button "C:\\winrar.chm" navigatorType "Switches"
	)
)
createdialog testrollout

Ruramuq

Jan 25, 2011 11:44 am

another option using mxs:

shellLaunch "hh" "mk:@MSITStore:C:\Program%20Files\Autodesk\3ds%20Max%202011\help\maxscript.chm::/values_rtf/number_values.htm#Numbers_Trigonometry"

miauu

Jan 25, 2011 11:44 am

Thank you guys!