10-22-2021 07:47 AM
I've created a custom help file (.chm) for a LabVIEW class. In the class properties -> Documentation -> Help Path, I specified the path to that file. That should cause the "Detailed help" link for an instance of the class to go to my custom help. But it doesn't, it just goes to the built-in help for "Classes and Objects" (I also tried an .html file; same result). What's the trick to getting instances of a class to link to custom help?
10-25-2021 12:06 AM
Hi Paul
I just tried pointing to a HTML file in the "Help Path" for one of my classes, and it worked. I am using LabVIEW 2020 SP1.
Paul
10-25-2021 07:49 AM
@pauldavey wrote:
Hi Paul
I just tried pointing to a HTML file in the "Help Path" for one of my classes, and it worked. I am using LabVIEW 2020 SP1.
Paul
You're right. I just tried it with LV2020 and both HTML and CHM files work. But for the project I'm working on, I have to use LV2019. I tried copying the 2020 labview.ini over to LV2019 to check if there was some setting that was causing trouble, but that didn't help.
10-25-2021 04:48 PM
This probably won't work, but can you backsave the offending class in 2020 and see if it works in 2019? Also, have you checked the .lvclass file itself (in a text editor) for anything weird between 2019 and 2020, assuming you recompiled/saved? Just spitballing.
10-26-2021 02:07 PM
It also doesn't work with LV2021. I suspect a setting somewhere but I haven't been able to find it.
10-26-2021 07:11 PM
@paul_cardinale wrote:
It also doesn't work with LV2021.
Was that created from scratch in LabVIEW 2021, or created in 2019 but opened in 2021?
10-27-2021 06:55 AM
@pauldavey wrote:
@paul_cardinale wrote:
It also doesn't work with LV2021.
Was that created from scratch in LabVIEW 2021, or created in 2019 but opened in 2021?
Either way, the effect is the same. However I just tried is again with LV2021 and it works.