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IWBasic => General Questions => Topic started by: oneplace2u on December 07, 2010, 12:12:20 PM

Title: Users Guide for IWBasic 1.737
Post by: oneplace2u on December 07, 2010, 12:12:20 PM
I am using vista 32 and I can not open the users guide when I am in the program correctely is there a fix for this. It just open up into a text with alot of different charaters in it.
Title: Re: Users Guide for IWBasic 1.737
Post by: Rock Ridge Farm (Larry) on December 07, 2010, 01:32:49 PM
Can you give me a little more information?
Version?
File location?

Anything that may help me look for the issue.

Larry
Title: Re: Users Guide for IWBasic 1.737
Post by: LarryMc on December 07, 2010, 01:41:13 PM
go to the folder where you have IWBasic installed
go to the help folder
right click on the help file and see if it is blocked; if so then unblock it.

LarryMc
Title: Re: Users Guide for IWBasic 1.737
Post by: oneplace2u on December 07, 2010, 02:39:41 PM
nothing seems to be blocked.

I can right click the userguide.chm and it will open.
if I right click the usersguide.hlp this what I get.
"The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that is not included in Windows Vista. "

When I am in the ebasic IDE and I click on the ebasic users guide it brings up Wordpad with userguide.chm and this some of what I see, a lot won't copy.

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I tried to uninstall and then reinstall with a new copy of ebasic, but it didnot change anything
Title: Re: Users Guide for IWBasic 1.737
Post by: Doc on December 07, 2010, 03:16:28 PM
oneplace2u ,
As it appears from your message, you don't (and shouldn't) have any trouble launching the CHM file on either Vista or Win 7. However, Microsoft dropped support for the older help format when Vista was released, so if you are trying to open a help file with the extension of .hlp using Vista or Win 7, you will likely have to install a patch that will allow it.

Here are the details from Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607

HTH,
-Doc-
Title: Re: Users Guide for IWBasic 1.737
Post by: oneplace2u on December 07, 2010, 06:09:55 PM
Downloading the patch help, I could open the usersguide.hlp in the IWBasic folder, but I still could not open the ebasic userguide in the ebasic IDE Help area.
But just in case some one else has this problem I found that I had to change thr way windows open the chm file. In the ebasic folder, and open the help folder, then I right clicked on the usersguide.chm file and then clicked on Properties and in my case I change the way it opened the usersguide.chm file from wordpad to microsoft html help. I think this might have been all that I would have have to done.

Thank you
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