Need help with Help file

[Zakkie]

Hi All,

Please assist me with the following:

(help "mk:@MSITStore:C:\\Mydims\\help\\Mydims.chm::/Autodim.html")

Works great in 2012 lisps but not in my 2016.

any pointers?

Many thanks.

[rkmcswain]

Not sure if this helps any. Might be worth a look.

http://hyperpics.blogs.com/beyond_th...-commands.html

[Zakkie]

Thank you, I have tried solutions from that post last week without success in 2016. (it did help with 2012 version!)

In AutoCAD 2016 testing with the following syntax works (opens a web browser):

(command "._browser" "mk:@MSITStore:C:\\Mydims\\help\\Mydims.chm::/Autodim.html")

I would like to call the CHM Help file directly and not go via web browser.

[BlackBox]

If only Autodesk could get VLIDE Help to work properly, since they borked it up following Online Help implementation - not sure about VLIDE in vanilla AutoCAD, but in Civil 3D, only ActiveX functions properly display (in .CHM no less, Haha!), but the non-ActiveX functions that launch Civil 3D's 'help' window just display the default landing page (no LISP function is even able to be searched). Grrrr

[rkmcswain]

If only Autodesk could get VLIDE Help to work properly....... the non-ActiveX functions that launch Civil 3D's 'help' window just display the default landing page (no LISP function is even able to be searched). Grrrr

Pathetic.

One reason I keep these sitting around.

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[BlackBox]

One reason I keep these sitting around.

I prefer something searchable, but me too ....

[rkmcswain]

They are searchable. I've been using them for 15 years, I know where to find what I need.

Updates are a problem however

[BlackBox]

They are searchable. I've been using them for 15 years, I know where to find what I need.

Haha... Can you post a Screencast, or Jing, of your using Ctrl+F?



Oddly enough, that last bit is my primary issue with there no longer being Table of Contents, and Index for AutoCAD Online Help. Grrr

[rkmcswain]

ToC and Index.
In every hardcopy book