The blog information about CHM security on this page remains correct. Recently though I have learned of another solution that does not require any registry edits. Tim Green of Help and Manual explains how it works on their support forum.
Technical documentation, online help and manuals are increasingly distributed as HTML on CD or DVD, or installed locally together with the software. The HTML-based “WebHelp” generated by modern documentation tools like Help+Manual, RoboHelp and Doc-to-Help comes with powerful navigation, search and other features and displays in standard web browsers, making it very user-friendly and accessible.
The problem is that browsers are increasingly implementing security features that prevent WebHelp from running properly when it is opened from local drives or optical media without a web server. It used to be possible to get Internet Explorer to run JavaScript locally with the help of proprietary tags. However, the latest versions of modern browsers like Google Chrome are now making it all but impossible to use scripts that communicate between the frames or iFrames needed to display a scrolling table of contents, topics and other elements on the same page.
Help+Manual 2 Go is a mini web server that solves this problem: It consists of a single 1.7MB file that contains everything needed to serve a complete WebHelp system to the local browser - even when opened from optical media. The browser sees a normal web server and behaves accordingly, opening the WebHelp with full functionality. You just need to store the HM2GO.EXE file on the CD or install it along with your software and start it together with the WebHelp documentation.
For more information please browse:
http://www.helpandmanual.at/hm2go.html
Folks we - The Helpware Group - have just released FAR HTML 5.3
This is a minor release so a free update to all 5.x licensed users. Just install over the old version.
Many great improvements including:
Microsoft announced today plans to address issues with VS 2010 offline help viewer.Jeff Bratten’s blog articles tells you all about it.
As part of the announcement Paul O’Rear has provided a video tour of a new offline help viewer due to be released with VS 2010 SP1.
Never ending story - CHM security …
Following link may help some admin’s because well described:
http://tinyurl.com/ylkdbza
WinHlp32.exe is required to display 32-bit Help files that have the “.hlp” file name extension. To view .hlp files on Windows 7, you need to install this application.
Sure preview at:
When starting a “Click-Once” published application from Internet URL a dialog keeps trying to install .NET Framework every time, and even if you run this install it keeps trying to install .NET Framework on subsequent “Click-Once” activations…
And you are sure - .NET Framework is installed on your PC. What’s this?
This is caused when you opened a .application file in e.g. Notepad and set Notepad to be the default handler for .application files. (It needs to be the ClickOnce client runtime component). Resetting this back to the default handler corrected the problem.
Having all the needed files to compile a chm, but when you run the hhc.exe command, the process hangs indefinitely.
We learned that some Windows updates caused the hhc.exe to unregister itself. A batch file that re-registered the server .dlls for the HTMLHelp workshop may work for you. Ran it every Wednesday morning. Rebooting the server also clears this situation.
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