[CS5/JS] Ann: Javascript Help as CHM

Hi Illustrator forum!
For those as frustrated as me about the ESTK Help browser I converted the Help files to an easy readable and searchable, hyper-hyperlinked CHM version. CHM is originally a Windows file format, but don't let that deter you: it also works quite nice on a Mac, using Robin Lu's iCHM viewer.
Download link on my little part of the web (scroll down to "Illustrator").
The file contains just the functions of Illustrator, and you might also be interested in the ScriptUI and JS Base Class sets.
(It's relatively easy to create a same help file for CS4, and/or a set of HTML files. If anyone is interested, I'll make these as well.)

Hi Jongware!
I have been referred to this thread and your website looking for an alternative to the provided Object Model Viewer. You seem to have improved upon the Adobe version and I was hoping to try it out on my Windows 7 64-bit computer.
Unfortunately, I have run into a bit of a snag. After I download and extract the Illustrator CS5 .chm file from your website, I can't seem to view the content. The Index/Table of Contents are all there, but it won't display any of the actual help file.
It seems that my computer needs me to OK a security check from your file, even though it doesn't require that from other .chm files. I wouldn't think that that would mess anything up, but even if I click OK, I can't see the content. I have a suspicion that my computer still has some sort of security measure turned on that is blocking the content.
Here is the security warning I get before I open your file:
When I click Open, the Index/Table of Contents are all there, but none of the pages can be displayed, it looks like this:
Compare this to a "trusted" .chm file (Microsoft Security Essentials) that doesn't require a Security dialog box:
Strange isn't it?
Thanks for your help!

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Hi everyone. The new user-friendly Javascript Help files have been updated with a CS5 version. Download link on its homepage: http://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html
Only in Windows CHM-format for the moment (does anyone at all use the HTML version? If not ... well ... I dunno...).
I spotted a few additions and changes in the Help file -- apart from support for the new commands, obviously -- such as proper Superclass referencing, and a few objects with Class properties, which apparently are something else than Instance properties. Hey, don't ask me. I only converted the file.
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* A new Scripting Preference: measurementUnit. Apparently, this is "the measurement unit used during script processing" and, ya-hey!, we scripters don't have to awkwardly read, save, change, and restore, the measurement units anymore!

Minor cosmetic updates to the CHM version:
* The bullet was shown as a decoded UTF-8 value on Robin Lu's Mac CHM viewer. Changed from its Unicode value to "•" (quite the trick, as Saxon firmly objects to HTML stuff like that!). There may be more 'mangled' characters remaining, dunno if it's worth the trouble hunting them down one by one tho'.
* Contrary to what I stated before, the Help does contain a few examples -- in the JavaScript Base Classes section. Rather terse, so for the experienced scripter they are hardly relevant; but perhaps newbies can put them to good use. They are marked by a pretty-in-pink background.
* The list of parents in the Hierarchy view was not sorted alphabetically -- fixed. (I've finally started using XSLT 2.0 functions. Yay!)
* Lists of multiple object datatypes were not sorted alphabetically -- fixed, by sorting them on the comma and the word "or". However, some of the more incomprehensible descriptions now got just a bit more incomprehensible ...
E.g., common in "resize" functions: "Can accept: Array of 2 Reals, AnchorPoint enumerator or Array of Arrays of 2 Reals, CoordinateSpaces enumerators, AnchorPoint enumerators, BoundingBoxLimits enumerators or Long Integers." I have no idea how to mentally parse that, let alone have my computer do it.
* Added more and more hyperlinks. I think most of ScriptUI's internal links to "Button", "Window", etc. which also have a 'regular' UI counterpart finally point to ScriptUI's own objects. Hard to check, really.
* Also added hyperlinks for the common objects "Boolean", "String", "Number", and "Array" -- just to be complete!
* The total number of internal hyperlinks now tops out above 104,000! (And no, I didn't check all of them.)
Direct link to the CHM version: http://www.jongware.com/binaries/idcs5js_chm_3.0.3.zip
(the minor version number jump from .1 to .3 is because of a lot of testing before I got everything right -- again...)
The HTML version follows, somehow, somewhere, some time later. (HTML users: is that full function index of any use?)
* For some reason the page for the "Global classes" was interpreted in the CHM contents as a 'book', rather than a regular help page, and you could not navigate to there! (A search for 'inifinity' still landed you on that page.) Fixed by hand, but I wonder why this happened ...
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[CS/CS2/CS3/JS] Ann: Javascript Help as CHM

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I don't think it's a mistake.
"InDesign CS4 (3.0)"
means: this is the OM for InDesign 3.0 (i.e., InDesign CS) that is contained in InDesign CS4.
Wait -- do you mean there might be a difference between "the OM for InDesign 4.0 (i.e., InDesign CS2) that is contained in InDesign CS4" and, say, "OM for InDesign 4.0 (i.e., InDesign CS2) that is contained in InDesign CS5" ?
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I have used Jongware's InDesign JavaScript help files and have really found them essential. I am grateful for his efforts to make these available.
I am primarily a FrameMaker user and Adobe is going to provide ExtendScript support for the next version of FrameMaker. The FrameMaker object model is shown in the ExtendScript Toolkit CS5 Object Model Viewer. I would like to do something similar to what Jongware did in extracting the data to a series of HTML files. I am having difficulty figuring out where this data is stored. I can't find an XML file that contains the data. I am mainly posting this here because I haven't been able to contact Jongware directly. Thanks in advance for any help.
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This observation about the way the everyItem() is described applies to every instance.
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