To Get Chm Details From Help Id

I have Help string id and some CHM files Through the help string, I want to find details like CHM file name, the page linked to that help id, description, title etc of that page. I

Solution 1:

You may know a CHM is something like a zipped web (HTML archive) with some additional system files of metadata. Context ID's are mostly integrated by compiling a alias.h and map.h file. The purpose of the two files is to ease the coordination between developer and help author. The mapping file links an ID to the map number - typically this can be easily created by the developer and passed to the help author. Then the help author creates an alias file linking the IDs to the topic names (See: Creating Context-Sensitive Help for Applications.

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Following alias.h was compiled into a CHM:

;-------------------------------------------------------------; alias.h file example for HTMLHelp (CHM); www.help-info.de;; All IDH's > 10000 for better format; last edited: 2006-07-09;---------------------------------------------------IDH_90000=index.htm
IDH_10000=Context-sensitive_example\contextID-10000.htm
IDH_10010=Context-sensitive_example\contextID-10010.htm
IDH_20000=Context-sensitive_example\contextID-20000.htm
IDH_20010=Context-sensitive_example\contextID-20010.htm
IDH_30000=CHM-example.chm::/HTMLHelp_Examples\jump_to_anchor.htm#AnchorSample

The CHM can be opened using FAR HTML and by copy and paste you have all ID and topic information.

For doing this by code you must have deep knowledge of the CHM internals.