HHC6000 and HHC5007 errors compiling help project.

[Ulrich Kulle]

Hello Banner,

what entry is in the Maximum head level box?
Are there only <H1> heading tags in the HTML files or
<H2> and <H3> heading tags, too?

if you are interested, I would like to have a look into
your project files and try to get your error on my
machine.

To do so, please send all HTML files, graphical files,
HHP, HHK, HHC to my e-mail address - means your complete
project ..

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Ulrich Kulle
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>I tried using HTML Help Workshop for the first time. I
was able to create a .chm file from a set of about 7 html
files. However, when I set the option to automatically
generate an .hhc (table of contents) file, I got the
below errors (and the program hangs and is a bear to
kill, it's a 5 minute process getting the thing to die).
>
>HHC6000: Error: An internal file could not be created.
Make certain there is enough disk space on the drive
where you are compiling your file.
>HHC5007: Error: Fatal navigational compilation error.
This is likely the result of an invalid contents (.hhc)
file.
>
>I found a suggestion on the web that this bug usually
occurs when the header tags in the html files contain
something other than just the text of the header. The
author of that article says:
>
>this would work: <H1>My heading</H1>
>but this wouldn't: <H1 align="center" >My heading</H1>
>
>However, my header tags contain nothing other than just
the header text.
>
>As my first use of the HTML Help Workshop, this feels
like I tried to compile "Hello, World" and got a compiler
bug that locked up my system.
>
>Any input appreciated

[Pete Lees [MVP]]

Banner,

> I tried using HTML Help Workshop for the first time. I
> was able to create a .chm file from a set of about 7
> html files. However, when I set the option to
> automatically generate an .hhc (table of contents)
> file, I got the below errors (and the program hangs and
> is a bear to kill, it's a 5 minute process getting the
> thing to die).
>

> HHC6000...
> HHC5007...

You'll get these two error messages when the contents file
is empty, so manually adding a single entry may make them
disappear.

Failing that, could paste the contents of your .hhp
file, .hhc file, and a typical topic file into your reply
(or zip up and send me the complete project off-list)?

Pete

[Banner]

Ulrich,

It was very kind of you to offer to look at my help project.

Despite having programmed for many years, this was my first use of HTML. I didn't even know what an "Hn" (H1, H2, etc) tag was when I read your post. My source html files contained no Hn tags at all, which was the problem. It seems quite reasonable that the compiler would use the Hn tags when automatically generating the contents. However, since I was unfamiliar with Hn tags and I have found nothing in any documentation indicating that these tags were used to generate a table of content, I had not used them. Reading your post made it appear to me that HTML supported hierarchical headings (and although the "HTML meaning" of the "n" value of Hn is only to designate text size, these tags can still be interpreted to have hierarchical meaning), and I immediately suspect that my document's lack of these tags was the problem. As an experiment, I tried creating a project with a single html (topic) file, without any Hn tags. This resulted in the HHC6000 and HHC5007 error messages (although HTML Help Workshop did not hang in this case).

It would be nice if the compiler bug was fixed, and the documentation indicated that the Hn tags are used when generating the TOC. Of course, anyone but a complete HTML neophyte (who was unaware of the existance of these tags) might suspect their use in TOC generation. Of course, once a TOC was successfully automatically generated it would become obvious.

Thanks again for your help

[Banner]

Pete,

Thank you much for your response and offering to look at my project files. Please read my response to Ulrich.