Help system (i.e. POPPeeper.chm) doesn't work when it's being blocked
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 5:59 am
When I upgrade PP, I use the portable/ZIP version. As result, Windows blocks the files.
I don't mind the EXE files being blocked, because I get an automatic prompt to unblock them upon usage.
The issue is with the help system.
PP doesn't know it's blocked so it launches it in a blank state. That is, you can see the left side (menus, index, search) but not the actual content (right side).
The only way to fix this is to somehow deduce it's because POPPeeper.chm is blocked, which assume not everyone figures out, and manually unblock it.
Maybe there's nothing to do about it, but is there a chance PP can tell if it's blocked and either just ask to manually unblock it or get Windows to launch an unblock prompt?
Regarding the former (detecting it), I found an old treatment that might still be relevant after all these years:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/175 ... ing-system
I don't mind the EXE files being blocked, because I get an automatic prompt to unblock them upon usage.
The issue is with the help system.
PP doesn't know it's blocked so it launches it in a blank state. That is, you can see the left side (menus, index, search) but not the actual content (right side).
The only way to fix this is to somehow deduce it's because POPPeeper.chm is blocked, which assume not everyone figures out, and manually unblock it.
Maybe there's nothing to do about it, but is there a chance PP can tell if it's blocked and either just ask to manually unblock it or get Windows to launch an unblock prompt?
Regarding the former (detecting it), I found an old treatment that might still be relevant after all these years:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/175 ... ing-system