How to open a CHM help file from another CHM help file

Question

I have a homepage application, it was used to launch individual applications, and the CHM of homepage has a brief description of individual applications and links to launch other CHM help file. How can I archive it? Is there any API in CHM what I can use? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You must install the second CHM file in the same directory as the first. Then, you can create a link with href="name-of-other.chm" (i.e. just put the name of the other file into the href attribute).

If they are not in the same directories, try absolute paths and pray that users always put the files in the same place.

Answer 2

Besides the link Aaron mentioned, there is also something like master/slave chms, which is a deeper integration of CHMs:

• http://www.helpware.net/htmlhelp/how_to_merge_ctx2.htm
• http://www.helpware.net/htmlhelp/how_to_merge.htm