Wednesday, 19th November, 2008

Opening CHMs from other machines via network

Filed under: Ergonomics and Usability, Uncategorized — dominique @ 01:22

A few days ago I fixed some documentation that was compiled to CHM. There where some images missing when opened on other machines - it worked fine on my machine but that's because it found those images on my hard disk. So I added those images and created a new CHM file.

This time I copied my new CHM to a network machine for testing so I could detect if still some images were missing. Double clicked on the new file and …  bang - no content at all! Huh?!!

:-(

I thought I broke that thing now completely and started investigating …. but after a while I came across this webpage where it says:

if you attempt to load a CHM file remotely from another machine (mapped-network drive for instance), the security policy will place a restriction on loading the HTML content

Doh! :-|

Don't waste your time with this kind of #@!§ ! :D

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  1. Lol, that's what you get for trying to document your stuff ;)

    Comment by Patrick — Wednesday, 19th November, 2008 @ 11:35

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