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how to open .chm?

4 replies on 1 page. Most recent reply: Feb 1, 2004 11:06 AM by Matt Gerrans

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gabri

Posts: 9
Nickname: gabri
Registered: Jan, 2004

how to open .chm?

Posted: Jan 15, 2004 12:14 PM

hello!
could you please help in this matter? i have a JButton whose action i wish to be to open a .chm.. how can i do that?
thank u

mausam

Posts: 243
Nickname: mausam
Registered: Sep, 2003

Re: how to open .chm?

Posted: Jan 19, 2004 5:27 AM

u can open any file using the classes of java.io packages.

Check filereader

Sachin Joshi

Posts: 12
Nickname: aspire
Registered: Jan, 2004

Re: how to open .chm?

Posted: Jan 22, 2004 9:40 PM

hi,

try this option ...it worked for me

*************
import java.io.IOException;

public class OpenChmFile {
public static void main(String args[]) {
openChmFile();
}

public static void openChmFile() {
try {
Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime();
r.exec("cmd.exe /c C:\\j2ee-tutorials\\j2ee-tutorials.chm");
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Exception is :"+e.getMessage());
e. printStackTrace();
}
}
}
************

May be even you can call openChmFile() method on Button Event.

Feel free to comment.

Sachin

gabri

Posts: 9
Nickname: gabri
Registered: Jan, 2004

Re: how to open .chm?

Posted: Jan 31, 2004 3:27 PM

Hi,
Thank you for your reply...really didnt know how to solve problem. Now have experimented with things and came to a version where im using the proj path and a batch file removing the explicit path like this:

Runtime r=Runtime.getRuntime();
String help=CDocuManager.path;
help+="\\"+"\\showhelp.bat";
r.exec(help);

I'm not so experiment-ed, im experiment-ing.. thanx.
Gabri

Matt Gerrans

Posts: 1153
Nickname: matt
Registered: Feb, 2002

Re: how to open .chm?

Posted: Feb 1, 2004 11:06 AM

I haven't tried what you have above, but I'm guessing that if you are doing from a GUI, then you will see a DOS box pop up every time you click that help button, which is a little cheesy. If you can live with that, fine.

If not, then you could write a little JNI class that calls WinExec() (or ShellExecute() or CreateProcess(), etc.) to run c:\windows\hh.exe (the app that is associated with the chm extension and which is automatically launched from the above stuff).

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