[FIXED] Clicking on Items in Help Takes Me to Wrong Topics

[hanness]

I'm running QB64 1.3, 64-Bit. I go into Help, select the alphabetical listing, and click on a keyword but I'm taken to the wrong help topic.

Some examples:

Click on INKEY$ and I'm taken to the help page for $INCLUDE
Click on LOCK and I'm taken to the help for PRINT
Click on LOOP and it takes me to the LOG math function help
Click on ON KEY and it takes me to the help for ON COM
etc.

I have already chosen the option to refresh all help items but this has not helped.

Any ideas on how I might correct this?

[FellippeHeitor]

LOL, that's the oddest. I'll have a look and get back to you.

[FellippeHeitor]

Before anything, can you please grab the help zip from the release page and replace the contents of your internal/help folder with the contents of the package? https://github.com/Galleondragon/qb64/releases/tag/v1.3

Does that fix it?

[hanness]

LOL. Just noticed that download was available myself and just tried it. That does indeed fix the issue.

Thanks!

Sorry that I didn't notice this until after I posted my question here.

[FellippeHeitor]

Glad to know it's solved. :-)

[hanness]

More information: It seems to be the option to "Update all pages" in help that breaks it. I had a suspicion that this might be the case so I just tried it again and sure enough it is now broken once again.

[hanness]

The previous post was marked as fixed so I wanted to post this to a new thread to make sure it is not overlooked.

I just figured out that it is the option to "Update all pages" in help that breaks help. As noted in my previous post, clicking on help topics was taking me to the wrong topic. Downloading the help files from the download page and replacing all the help files resolved the problem. However, if you choose "Update all pages" within QB64 it will break it again.

[Raven_Singularity]

I recently did Update All Pages on my fresh 1.3 Windows 10 64bit install, and it worked correctly.

Which operating system are you on?

[hanness]

Windows 10, 1809. I think my download of QB64 1.3 was one from within 24 hours of initial release. I'll try it with a newer download when I get a ch

[FellippeHeitor]

Hello. Turns out our server was serving wiki pages with something called "chunked transfer encoding" (more about it here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19952423/extra-characters-when-fetching-http-using-socket)

In summary, the issue has been solved without having to touch QB64. With the update on the server you can now use the Help->Update feature and get proper results.

Again, thanks for the report.