xCHM

I've finally managed to compile a new Mac OS X binary, using XCode 3.1 on a Mac OS X 10.5 system. If you want it, you can get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xchm/files/xCHM%20for%20Mac%20OS/xchm-1.19/xchm-1.19.dmg/download Hopefully it will work for everyone.

Version 1.13 is the FINAL version that has been distributed as a Mac .app -- this version (1.15) is uncompiled and will be of NO USE to the vast majority of Mac users. Don't be confused when your download of 1.15 results in a folder full of misc. files.

I tried several CHM Viewers for OS X. iChm, xCHM and ArCHMock are the only one which I can recommend. But all are not perfect yet. ArCHMock 1.1: + Fast + Nice Interface + Good HTML rendering (Webkit) + Highlighting search results in Text + Good keyboard support (Cmd+G etc.) + Bookmarks + Automatically locates the current page in the table of contents + Good search results (can be sorted by relevance) + Zooming can be resetted + Remembers the last position + Open source - No Index - No options for searching - No "find in page" - No toolbar button for print (but Cmd+P works) - No tabs or multiple document windows iChm 0.9.1: + Fast + Nice Interface + Good HTML rendering (Webkit) + Tabs + Auto-update feature - No Index - Bad keyboard support (no Cmd+G) - No options for searching - You habe to manually 'locate' the current page in the table of contents - Only searchs for words (no partial search) - No home button (and no hotkey for that) - Because of the small tabs its hard to get the title of the current page (which is not shown in the window title) xCHM 1.13: + Contents/Index/Results on left side + Searchable index + Options for searching in titles only or partial + Automatically locates the current page in the table of contents + Bookmarks + Open source - Ugly interface - Bad HTML rendering - Does not support custom context menus (like in SelfHTML) - Slow (scrolling) - Search results are always sorted alphabetically - No tabs or multiple document windows - The binary of the Mac version won't be updated anymore At the moment ArCHMock has the best usability for me.

Unfortunately, I no longer have access to the MacMini machine I've been connecting to build xCHM. If you need pre-compiled xCHM binaries that you can drag-and-drop to install, I will continue to create them free of charge, provided that I manage to raise enough money to buy a cheap Mac machine to work on. If you would like to donate, you can use the "Support this project button" at the bottom of any page from http://xchm.sourceforge.net. All you need is a SourceForge.net account (which is free), and a PayPal account. The minimum donation allowed by the SourceForge.net system is $5, and I need to raise about 800 EUROs for the cheapest MacMini machine available here. This is, of course, if you prefer to have pre-built universal binaries. The source code is still available for free, and it is obviously possible to make Mac builds.

It worked fine the first time I use it, after that I only get the splash window and can't open anything else. Any idea? it seems to be the best (unique)alternative to read CHM files...

Worked beautifully in earlier versions. Arghh! I threw them away on two machines before trying 1.9... which does not work at all, except to open its own splash page. I've tried it out on a 1.33MhZ G4 iBook, a brand-new Intel iBook, and 2 G4 733MHz towers. Same on each. Thanks for your continued efforts, Rabbit!

I've made a new build with the Unicode support disabled (my theory is that's what caused the crashes). Of course, I could be wrong. Please test it on i386 and let me know. You can get it from here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xchm/xchm-1.9a-universal.dmg?download

I've built an universal binary of xCHM for version 1.9. Not sure if it works properly on i386 though, I could only test it on a PPC-based machine. Thought you might be interested in that. Cheers.

Yeah the 1.3 version shown by get info is a slip-up (heh, sorry). Please update your links to the latest version (1.5-2) which is even friendlier for Mac OS X users (no more warnings if the locale is not set to default, toolbar buttons added for 'find in page' and 'copy selection', and now Cmd-C also works.

hmmm, the file that downloads when i click on the xCHM v1.5 link appears to be v1.3 (when checked with 'get info') ... what's up with that?

Doesn't show images with SelfHTML 8.1.1, SelfHTML 8.0 works. HTML-Rendering is not perfect.

The file will not let me download, or if I download the link, it will not mount.

Hello. As the old xCHM Mac OS package seems to have been orphaned, there's a new binary of xCHM built for Mac OS X 10.4 available for download on the SourceForge page. The link is: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87007&package_id=171033 Cheers.

please backup your claims with reasons

You can find it at: http://www.dur.ac.uk/durmac/index.php?pageid=software_uni

the download link is broken.. please fix it.

I'm torn between this and chmox - the other one is faster and way smaller. xCHM is huge and slow, but offers searching and bookmarking. Hm. A collaboration would produce a great package...

Very nice... I wanted to compile myself but this is allot easyer. Many thx to the coders

Does exactly what I needed. Dude, you rock!

I need this program but the url is broken