"Peter Row" <get.lost@spammers.com> wrote in message
news:OSxtDA%23BHHA.4672@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I work on a large application (relative I guess) and the help is
> implemented in a CHM file converted from a Word file.
> For the version of the app pending release one of the things done was to
> upgrade to .NET 2.0.
>
> As a result it seems that pressing F1, whilst bring the help up, if you
> click any related links displayed on any of the pages
> then after a short period of the Windows help chm viewer being
> unresponsive it generates an out-of-memory error and
> clicking [ok] closes both the help and the application.
>
> My reason for suspecting this is due to the following investigation:
> 1) Doc-To-Help forum (product being used to convert Word file to help chm
> file) some one has virtually identical
> problem (except they don't get the message and the closure, just no links
> work). The single response was that it was
> a .NET 2.0 framework issue.
>
> 2) If I launch the CHM from Windows explorer then links work fine.
>
> 3) If I copy the help file to the install directory of the previous
> version of our app (which uses .NET 1.1) and launch
> the help from the previous version then links work fine.
>
> If anybody has encountered this problem and knows of any way around it
> then that would most appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>