How to include Help File in Visual Basic Project

[renpal]

Hello,

I have created a help file of .chm extension.

Now i want to include it in my Visual Basic 6.0 Project.

Please tell me how to do it?

[CaptainD]

If you just want to show the file with Windows default program for the help file you could do something like th following.

This code snippet came from: http://www.thescarms.com/

In the general section for your form:

 
Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, _
ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, _
ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
 
Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1
 

In a click event:

Call ShellExecute(Me.hwnd, "open", "C:\PathToHelpFile\HelpFile.chm", "", 0, SW_SHOWNORMAL)