I've got a Delphi Windows/VCL (XE7) program that embeds CHM help pages in various panels of the program. This largely works fine but the panels always shows an ugly recessed border (looks very windows 95). Here is a screenshot:
Does anyone know how to display the help files with no border? Below is the code I use at the moment. Thanks for any help!
Procedure DoShowEmbeddedHelp(TheWinName: string; ThePanel: TPanel;
var HelpWinHandle: integer; HelpTopic: string; var LastTopic: string;
ByContext: boolean; ContextData: integer; var LastContext: integer);
var
wintypedef: THHWinType;
hf, fn: string;
begin
hf := Gl.ProgramPath + 'leap.chm';
if not FileExists(hf) then
MessageDlg('Help file not found: ' + hf, mtError, [mbOK], 0)
else if ((not ByContext) and (HelpTopic <> LastTopic)) or
(ByContext and (ContextData <> LastContext)) then
begin
if not ByContext then
begin
LastTopic := HelpTopic;
LastContext := 0;
end
else
begin
LastContext := ContextData;
LastTopic := '';
end;
fn := hf + '>' + TheWinName;
FillChar(wintypedef, sizeof(wintypedef), 0);
with wintypedef do
begin
cbStruct := sizeof(wintypedef);
fUniCodeStrings := false;
pszType := PAnsiChar(TheWinName);
fsValidMembers :=
HHWIN_PARAM_PROPERTIES or
HHWIN_PARAM_STYLES or
HHWIN_PARAM_EXSTYLES or
HHWIN_PARAM_RECT or
HHWIN_PARAM_NAV_WIDTH or
HHWIN_PARAM_SHOWSTATE or
HHWIN_PARAM_TB_FLAGS or
HHWIN_PARAM_EXPANSION;
fsWinProperties :=
HHWIN_PROP_NOTITLEBAR or
HHWIN_PROP_NO_TOOLBAR or HHWIN_PROP_NODEF_STYLES or
HHWIN_PROP_NODEF_EXSTYLES or
HHWIN_PROP_TRI_PANE;
wintypedef.pszCaption := '';
wintypedef.dwStyles := WS_VISIBLE or WS_CHILDWINDOW;
wintypedef.dwExStyles := WS_EX_LEFT;
wintypedef.rcWindowPos := Rect(0, 0, ThePanel.ClientWidth, ThePanel.ClientHeight);
wintypedef.nShowState := SW_SHOW;
wintypedef.fsToolBarFlags := HHWIN_BUTTON_PRINT or HHWIN_BUTTON_BACK;
fNotExpanded := true;
end;
if integer(HtmlHelp(0, nil, HH_SET_WIN_TYPE, DWORD(@wintypedef))) < 0 then
ShowMessage('Help failed on topic: ' + HelpTopic)
else if ByContext then
HelpWinHandle := HtmlHelp(ThePanel.Handle, PChar(fn), HH_HELP_CONTEXT, ContextData)
else
HelpWinHandle := HtmlHelp(ThePanel.Handle, PChar(fn), HH_DISPLAY_TOPIC, DWORD(PChar('Expressions\' + HelpTopic + '.htm')));
end;
end;