[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Inada Naoki added the comment: I know chm is handy. But Microsoft abandoned it already. I think we should stop providing chm. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

胡丹 added the comment: I found another workaround to alleviate this problem. My envrionments: Win 10 Pro 2004, Python 3.9.6, cp936 locale When I open the Python CHM help file, e.g. double click, Win10 actually uses the command: "C:\Windows\hh.exe" D:/Python/Python39/Doc/python396.chm But

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Charles G. added the comment: My previous Windows version (Win 10 1803) does not have this crashing problem. It only crashed after upgrading to 21H1. So I replaced hhctrl.ocx in system32 (Win 10 21H1) with hhctrl.ocx from Windows.old. 2019/03/19 11:45 696.320 hhctrl.ocx

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

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[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Steve Dower added the comment: So I found the "owner" of the HTML Help component in Windows (I put owner in quotes because this tool is _very_ maintenance mode, so nothing short of a critical vulnerability is going to be touched) and he helped me do some debugging. In short, the index file

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Christoph Zwerschke added the comment: Had the same problem for years and wondered why nobody else complained. Still reproducable with Win 10 Pro 2004, Python 3.8, cp1252 locale. Deleting hh.dat did not solve the problem for me. -- nosy: +cito

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Ma Lin added the comment: > when I delete the file %APPDATA%\Microsoft\HTML Help\hh.dat, > the problem seems to go away. It doesn't work for me. Moreover, `Binary Index=Yes` no longer works on my PC. A few days ago, I installed a clean Windows 10 2004, then CHM's index cannot be used.

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Václav Dvořák added the comment: I have just apparently discovered a workaround! (Thanks to @chrullrich whose comment gave me the hint.) Maybe it's been obvious to everybody this whole time but I have only now found out that when I delete the file %APPDATA%\Microsoft\HTML Help\hh.dat (in my

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Ma Lin added the comment: > More realistically, including the docs as unbundled HTML files > and relying on the default browser is probably an all-around better idea. CHM's index function is very convenient, I almost always use this feature when I use CHM. How about use tkinter to write a

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Steve Dower added the comment: We either need someone to contribute a fix to sphinxcontrib\htmlhelp\templates\project.hhp (bearing in mind that this *must* be optional, as it breaks search), or write code to patch the generated file between generation and use (which is probably hard). And

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Václav Dvořák added the comment: @steve.dower: I have cp1250 and I've had this issue for years now, on several Windows versions. Hoping Microsoft will fix it is obviously futile; can I ask for the Python community to apply the workaround suggested by Ma Lin please? Thanks. -- nosy:

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Steve Dower added the comment: > Let's promote ePub and PDF instead. Find a good viewer we can bundle with the installer with equivalent search/index functionality and we can consider it. More realistically, including the docs as unbundled HTML files and relying on the default browser is

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Inada Naoki added the comment: I think it's time to abandon chm file. It is too old. MS doesn't maintain it anymore. Let's promote ePub and PDF instead. -- nosy: +inada.naoki ___ Python tracker

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Steve Dower added the comment: Can anyone confirm that you've got an active code page of something other than 1252 ("standard" US English)? I'm not able to reproduce this easily, and I wonder if it's because of that setting. Easiest way to check is in Python: >>> import locale >>>

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Keelung Yang added the comment: It's reoccurable in Python 3.8.3 (tags/v3.8.3:6f8c832, May 13 2020, 22:37:02) [MSC v.1924 64 bit (AMD64)] on windows version 10.0.19041.264 Just need to open "Python 3.8 Manuals (64-bit)" --> index --> input 'p' on keyboard. -- nosy: +Keelung Yang

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Ma Lin added the comment: I solved this thoroughly: Format disk C: and install a clean Windows 10. Don't forget to backup important files in C:\Users\\ folder. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Christian Ullrich added the comment: Ma Lin, thanks for the suggestion! Yes, it looks like this option fixes the problem. I can reproduce the crash at will with a .chm built without this option, and not at all with one that has it on. If the .chm's directory is not writable, the .chw will

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Ma Lin added the comment: I suffered this problem more than one years. Here is a solution, before compiling the chm, modify like this: --- D:\Python-3.7.1\Doc\build\htmlhelp\python371.hhpSun Dec 02 13:12:37 2018 +++ D:\fix_crash\python371.hhp Sun Dec 02 13:05:57 2018 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

New submission from Christian Ullrich : Typing into the index keyword field frequently crashes the CHM viewer with the first or second character. The Python CHMs are the only ones that I see this crash with; it started around 3.6 or so. >From event log: Faulting application name: hh.exe,