Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format

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Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc, alt.lang.basic
Subject	Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format
Date	2011-05-13 10:19 -0600
Organization	L&H Custom Computer
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On Fri, 13 May 2011 10:02:01 +0100, Richard Russell wrote:

> On Fri, 13 May 2011 00:42:18 +0100, Auric__ <not.my.real@email.address>  
> wrote:
>> They'd probably be happier if you wrote it in LB and released the code to
>> their forums... if you could log in, that is...
> 
> Undoubtedly.  Unfortunately it would be impossible to write it in LB,  
> because the program uses COM methods to read the target from a .LNK file  
> (that's how it finds out where Liberty Basic and HTML Help Workshop are  
> installed) and also to create the shortcuts to the CHM on the Desktop and  
> in the Start Menu.
> 
> AIUI, Liberty Basic cannot access methods in COM objects at all.  That  
> means it is limited to the older C-style Windows APIs, which cover a wide  
> range of things but not manipulating shortcuts.
> 
> Richard.
> http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/

I don't know a lot about LB but would this work (properly ported that is)?

HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE GetPath(

    IShellLink FAR *pShlLnk,	
    LPSTR pszFile,	
    int cchMaxPath,	
    WIN32_FIND_DATA *pfd,	
    DWORD fFlags	
   );	

Parameters

pShlLnk

Pointer to the IShellLink interface. In C++, this parameter is implicit.

pszFile

Pointer to a buffer that receives the path and filename of the shell link
object.

cchMaxPath

Maximum number of bytes to copy to the buffer pointed to by pszFile.

pfd

Pointer to a WIN32_FIND_DATA structure that contains information about the
shell link object.

fFlags

Flags that specify the type of path information to retrieve. This parameter
can be a combination of the following values:

SLGP_SHORTPATH	Retrieves the standard short (8.3) filename.
SLGP_UNCPRIORITY	Retrieves the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path name
of the file.

Return Values

Returns NOERROR if successful or an OLE-defined error value otherwise.

-- 
HK

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Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-11 22:55 +0100
  Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-12 04:57 -0700
    Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "news@rtrussell.co.uk" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-12 08:00 -0700
    Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-12 15:15 +0000
      Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-12 18:08 +0100
        Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-12 17:30 +0000
          Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-12 23:34 +0100
            Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-12 23:42 +0000
              Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-13 10:02 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-05-13 10:19 -0600
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-13 17:37 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-05-13 15:14 -0600
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-13 22:37 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-05-16 10:08 -0600
  Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format Derek <derekrss@yahoo.ca> - 2011-05-12 08:14 -0700
  Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-14 01:32 +0000
    Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-13 22:37 -0700
      Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-14 10:28 +0100
        Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 04:57 -0700
          Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 05:00 -0700
            Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 05:04 -0700
              Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-15 03:19 +0000
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-15 10:43 +0100
        Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-15 03:00 +0000
        Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Gordon Rahman" <grahman@planet.nl> - 2011-06-02 22:22 +0200
          Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-06-05 12:40 +0100
            Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Gordon Rahman" <grahman@planet.nl> - 2011-06-05 18:05 +0200
            Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-06-05 17:18 +0000
              Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-06-05 18:50 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-06-05 18:11 +0000
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-06-05 22:47 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format Red Rooster <NewRedRooster@hottmail.com> - 2011-06-09 22:14 -0700
    Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-14 10:14 +0100

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