Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows HTML Help

2021-06-02 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El mié, 2 de jun. de 2021 a la(s) 15:43, Gerald Combs (ger...@wireshark.org) escribió: > > On 6/1/21 8:08 PM, Guy Harris wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2021, at 4:14 PM, Gerald Combs wrote: > > > >> I just discovered that the HTML Help Workshop download link at > >> > >> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows HTML Help

2021-06-02 Thread Gerald Combs
On 6/1/21 8:08 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Jun 1, 2021, at 4:14 PM, Gerald Combs wrote: I just discovered that the HTML Help Workshop download link at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/htmlhelp/microsoft-html-help-downloads no longer works, and the Chocolatey pa

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows HTML Help

2021-06-01 Thread Guy Harris
On Jun 1, 2021, at 4:14 PM, Gerald Combs wrote: > I just discovered that the HTML Help Workshop download link at > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/htmlhelp/microsoft-html-help-downloads > > no longer works, and the Chocolatey package now downloads from archi

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows HTML Help

2021-06-01 Thread chuck c
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/3213 Wow - quite the change. On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 6:15 PM Gerald Combs wrote: > I just discovered that the HTML Help Workshop download link at > > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/htmlhelp/microsoft-h

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows HTML Help

2021-06-01 Thread Gerald Combs
I just discovered that the HTML Help Workshop download link at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/htmlhelp/microsoft-html-help-downloads no longer works, and the Chocolatey package now downloads from archive.org: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/html-hel

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows HTML Help

2021-05-26 Thread chuck c
Just like the racks of backup tapes that never get tested, I've just found that the CHM files my dev system has been dutifully building are empty. Once I get that resolved, I'll try upping the IE level in https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/blob/master/docbook/custom_layer_chm.xsl . Another o

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows HTML Help

2021-05-26 Thread Gerald Combs
I think the only advantage that HTML Help offers at this point is the ability to search for keywords. It otherwise adds a build requirement which results in shipping a different help format on Windows, and the HTML Help Viewer seems to behave worse as time goes on. I'd be OK with switching to p

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows HTML Help

2021-05-26 Thread Graham Bloice
Personally I prefer help to be local and not require internet access, and I despise those local help abominations that spew hundreds of html files into the filesystem. Not sure what's up with the links, maybe we need to make them pass off to the system default browser rather than trying to render

[Wireshark-dev] Windows HTML Help

2021-05-26 Thread chuck c
https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200701/msg00396.html "Pressing the help button will: - on Win32 only: if available, open the Windows Help viewer with locally installed user-guide.chm file - and if that fails ... - on all systems: start a web browser and open the corresponding wiresha