Winhelp - Derive 6
Eric Pouech
eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr
Tue Jan 24 13:53:00 CST 2006
Felix Möller wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> Is winhelp supposed to be able to handle these help files? It is
>>> listed in the appdb as gold-supported.
>>
>> no. basically, the external DLL registers back into winhelp to get
>> some extended support that we don't provide yet. Basically, most of
>> the core logic is here, but we have to wrap it into the APIs designed
>> for those winhelp plugin DLLs. You also it some bugs in the
>> decompression scheme for help files. Basically, all of this is rather
>> low priority, but if someone wants to jump in, I can boot strap him
>> on those issues.
>
> As we do own Windows 98 licenses, it would be no problem to use real
> Windows 98 DLLs. Is there a chance to get any further with this
> approach? Of Which DLLs or programs should I try to use the native ones?
run native winhelp.exe (or winhlp32.exe) depending on which exe your app
loads
>
>>> There are several other errors I see using derive, but I will have
>>> to do some more research. An easy bug is probably that the user
>>> just gets a black window after clicking on "about wine".
>>
>> may be linked to the external DLL required for some action here.
>
> I will do some more investigation. At least with the default log-level
> wine is not reporting any oddities.
well, you got oddity about the missing winhlp plugin architecture
--
Eric Pouech
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