Jerry,

I have the exact same problem and have resorted to useing the shellapi to view the CHM file. Not at all what I want to do -- hopefully someone will come up with a reason for this and a solution.

Kevin

******
Eample

Do ShellAPIViewing with "MyHelpFile.chm"


**Shell API for Viewing
**ShellAPIViewing.prg
** The only problem is that when a file is not ASSOCIATED there is no warning or message available
** Shellexecute returns integers which I don't know what the values represent.

LPARAMETERS lcLink, lcAction, lcParms

lcAction=IIF(empty(lcAction),"Open", lcAction)
lcParms=IIF(empty(lcParms),"",lcParms)

DECLARE integer ShellExecute ;
in shell32.dll ;
integer nWinHandle , ;
string cOperation, ;
string cFileName, ;
string cParameters, ;
string cDirectory, ;
integer nShowWindow

DECLARE Integer FindWindow ;
in win32api ;
string cNull , ;
string cWinName

IF empty(lcLink)
lcLink=getfile()
ENDIF
*!* llWindow=FindWindow(0,_screen.caption)
IF not empty(lcLink)
lcResult= ShellExecute(FindWindow(0,_screen.caption), ;
lcAction, lcLink, lcParms, sys(2023), 1)
wait window timeout 2 "Opening File "+alltrim(lcLink)+". The file will display if it associated with an application."
ENDIF