After much trial and tribulation, I found the solution to the proper installation of HTML Help using Installshield Express and VFP 7. Following instructions from Installshield Express help, you are told to include the Fox HTML Help Support Library merge module in your setup file if you plan to install HTML help with your application. This module installs the Foxhhelp.exe and Foxhhelps.dll files to the Windows/system directory and enables HTML help in Foxpro 7.or so the instructions say. Unfortunately, the instructions are wrong. Foxpro 7 has renamed these two all-important files to Foxhhelp7.exe and Foxhhelps7.dll. They are installed properly in the development version of Visual Fox 7. However, the merge module that is included in the Installshield Express package that comes with Fox 7, installs the older ( Fox6) versions of these files. ( Don't the people at Microsoft test this stuff?) Here's one way to install Help successfully for Foxpro 7 user apps, where the user does NOT have a development version of Fox: 1) First, uncheck the Fox HTML Help Support Library merge module from your installation setup in Installshield. 2) Instead, manually add Foxhhelp7.exe and Foxhhelps7.dll to your installation through the Files and Features section. You can choose to install these files in the System directory or in your application directory. Installshield will register these components for you automatically. See the following file for more info: The help files are very small, less than 70k total. That's it! Fox HTML help now works as intended! UPDATE- OPTION 2: Installshield has now fixed this oversight with the HTML help modules. See the following link to download the proper merge module for Fox7 HTML help: You will.
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