Any way to open more than one .hlp file ?

[Rainstorm]

is there any way to open more than one .hlp file at a time ?

if i have one open & try to open another, it opens in the same window.
can't open them in seperate windows, at the same time
if anyone knows a way around this.. it would be a great help

thanks.

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[Tedd]

Not sure what you're doing there, but I've just opened two .hlp files without any problems.
They both open in separate windows. This works both with different .hlp files and the same one.
How are you opening them?

[rags]

Tedd,
I think Rainstorm is referring to what happens in QEditor.
Same thing happens to me.
If I open a help file from the help menu, say 'Masm32 help', but I also want to check something out in the 'High level macro help',
and I select that from the help menu. The Masm32 help will close and be replaced by the High level macro help.
I'm not shure how to fix that.
Regards,
Rags

[Mincho Georgiev]

Tedd is right. I have the habit to open 10 at time.

[Mincho Georgiev]

Oh, rags, i didn't saw your post, sorry.

[Tedd]

Okay, I see the problem now :lol
But not the solution ::)


I tried modifying the help menu entries in qeditor's "menus.ini" to the form "winhelp helpfile.hlp" but it didn't work.
I assume there are commandline arguments you can pass on to winhelp, but finding out what they are is a different matter :bdg

[MichaelW]

Adding the following to the Quick Editor menu will allow you to open the .hlp files in independent instances of winhlp32, but after each new instance is opened Quick Editor will stop responding for ~30 seconds. I have not thoroughly tested any of this, but after Quick Editor starts responding again it seems to work normally.

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__MASM32 Help,winhlp32.exe \MASM32\HELP\masm32.hlp
__High Level Macro Help,winhlp32.exe \masm32\help\hlhelp.hlp
__MASM32 &Library Reference,winhlp32.exe \MASM32\HELP\Masmlib.hlp
__MASM32 Dialog Help,winhlp32.exe \MASM32\HELP\Dialogs.hlp
__FPU Lib Help,winhlp32.exe \MASM32\HELP\Fpulib.hlp
__Opcodes Help,winhlp32.exe \MASM32\HELP\Opcodes.hlp
__FP Opcodes Help,winhlp32.exe \masm32\HELP\Fphelp.hlp
__ASM Intro Help,winhlp32.exe \masm32\HELP\Asmintro.hlp
__VKdebug Help,winhlp32.exe \masm32\HELP\dbgwin.hlp


[Rainstorm]

hi,

thanks all, for your replies..

I'd been opening them from the menu, & that way they open in the same window (whether
trying to open the other masm .hlp files at the same time or some other program's .hlp)

but i've been trying and..
it seems to me that if you try & open them directly from the explorer directory you can open
many of them in seperate windows. (that's a relief)


Thanks for the tip MichaelW

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[MichaelW]

Rainstorm,

In case you didn't notice, Hutch tweaked the QE help file support to correct this behavior.

http://www.masmforum.com/simple/index.php?topic=4227.0