Hello all,
sorry for being trigger-happy. The wxWidgets documentation led me on the 
right track. It works to use the html-filename of the topic, but 
*without* the path part. That is the point wehre the documentation is 
misleading.

DisplayID seems not to work and this makes sense in a way. The .hpp File 
which is read by the controller does not contan the numeric IDs at all.

Norbert

Norbert Klamann schrieb:
>  Hello all,
>  I want to give context-dependant help but I want to do it in a 
>  language-independent an clean way.
>  
>  The wx.html.HtmlHelpController.Display() function seems to work only 
>  with the verbatim title of a help topic .
>  
>  wx.html.HtmlHelpController.DisplayID() shows just the content.
>  
>  Look at the followiing example
>  
>  
>  I create an HtmlhelpController and open some books :
>  in __init__  of the frame
>          self.Help = wx.html.HtmlHelpController()
>          _addBook("helpfiles/incredix_essential.hhp")
>  
>  
>  I have an event handler who gets a context and shall translate it into 
>  something the the Helpcontroller understands. It look like so:
>  
>      def PsOnHelp(self,topic, sequence, context, value=None):
>          print context
>          if context == 'CustomerForm':
>              #self.Help.DisplayID(1004)
>              #self.Help.Display('helpfiles/LP_implementation.htm')
>              self.Help.Display('Zweck') # this works
>          else:
>              self.Help.DisplayContents()
>  
>  As you can see I tried the numeric Ids, the file names and what not. The 
>  only thing that works is the text itself. There are a bunch of problems 
>  with this:
>  * Every redactional change in the help text would break this.
>  * It is language dependant
>  * The headlines must be unique over all help books.
>  
>  There must be a better way
>  
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