Opening Docs when in the game

[neonlicht]

AFAIK, all JTS games allow the player to open various documents, when in the game, via the Help Menu (e.g. "Getting Started" and "User Help" etc.).

My question is this:

Is it possible to add documents (as text files or PDFs) that can be opened via the Help Menu? In other words, is there any way to open player-made custom docs (e.g. a Hotkeys list, or an Order of Battle, or a list of Commanders) while in-game, via the Help Menu? If so, how to do it?

I realise, of course, that you can just run the game and open a doc in Windows, but I was curious to know if custom docs could be opened via the Help Menu in-game.

Many thanks in advance for replies! :-)

[KAreil]

Well, I think the only way would be to replace the original files in the directory with yours. I did not test this but I think pressing the button in the game simply opens the PDF with the ingrained name.

One thing I noticed is that opening the documents from the game generally only works if you have a dedicated PDF reader like Acrobat installed. Without that opening PDFs will trigger a browser to show them fine but the JT buttons don't work.

[neonlicht]

Hi and many thanks for this--appreciated. :-)

It's not a big deal (by any means) but it would be nice to have the option of a folder/directory within the main game installation into which the User could drop Text/PDF files that could be opened in-game via the Help Menu.