1) Using HTML help:
I have used the shellexecute command to bring up the help pages in the default browser. This works fairly well but seems to depend on the browser and/or operating system.(?) For Netscape Communicator operating under NT 4.0, all seems to go as planned. Under Windows 2000, the user would have to quit the browser between requests for help pages. If the user does not quit between pages, it brings up the last page viewed instead of the one just requested. (IE does not appear to have this problem in Windows 2000.) Is there an easy way around this, or, have I just overlooked some detail?
2) User Documentation:
I would like to put a button on the main menu screen of my application that would request the browser to print the entire user (Help) document. Is there a way to do this from Visual Fox with one call to the browser, or, do I need to call the browser for each page in it's navagational sequence? Given the fact that I am using the shellexecute method, is there an easy way to do this?
3) Different browsers:
User machines may have any browser as the default. I would like keep this as simple as possible so I don't need to worry about which browser is installed on user machines. Is there anything I need to watch out for so the different browsers will, as much as possible, have the same look/feel/execution sequence?
Thanks
WJS
I have used the shellexecute command to bring up the help pages in the default browser. This works fairly well but seems to depend on the browser and/or operating system.(?) For Netscape Communicator operating under NT 4.0, all seems to go as planned. Under Windows 2000, the user would have to quit the browser between requests for help pages. If the user does not quit between pages, it brings up the last page viewed instead of the one just requested. (IE does not appear to have this problem in Windows 2000.) Is there an easy way around this, or, have I just overlooked some detail?
2) User Documentation:
I would like to put a button on the main menu screen of my application that would request the browser to print the entire user (Help) document. Is there a way to do this from Visual Fox with one call to the browser, or, do I need to call the browser for each page in it's navagational sequence? Given the fact that I am using the shellexecute method, is there an easy way to do this?
3) Different browsers:
User machines may have any browser as the default. I would like keep this as simple as possible so I don't need to worry about which browser is installed on user machines. Is there anything I need to watch out for so the different browsers will, as much as possible, have the same look/feel/execution sequence?
Thanks
WJS
