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YOu can build quite nice HTML-Help files (CHMs) with MS HTML-Helpworkshop. Gives you the neat but professional help file look.
What you need for that is HTML Helpworkshop, your help files saved as HTML (best: one for each topic).
You just include them all in a project, add keywords, bookmarks and compile.
;-)
Andreas Galambos
EDP / Technical Support Specialist
(andreas.galambos@bowneglobal.de)
HP:
What you need for that is HTML Helpworkshop, your help files saved as HTML (best: one for each topic).
You just include them all in a project, add keywords, bookmarks and compile.
;-)
Andreas Galambos
EDP / Technical Support Specialist
(andreas.galambos@bowneglobal.de)
HP:
JeffTullin
Programmer
Locate and download the Help Workshop (its free).
You will need to do a bit of learning about how to format an RTF file appropriately to get hyperlinks and contents working..
You will need to do a bit of learning about how to format an RTF file appropriately to get hyperlinks and contents working..
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I've recently spent some time in Help Workshop.
1. It sucks
2. But once you understand the terminology it works OK.
It has the feel of an internal app that they decided to release as a product. What I've found is:
1. It only knows HTML 4.0 (no XHTML or other modern standards)
2. Start with a small project and work your way up. I had started with a project that had been created by NDoc (open-source .NET documentation tool), and I keep getting odd errors. But once I simplified things, it worked OK.
3. In the table-of-contents editor, get your structure right before writing a lot of content. It has this annoying "feature" of indenting everything below the current node when you just wanted to indent the one node.
4. If you put XML tags at the start of your HTML files (I do this so I can get tag-completion help out of XMLSpy, which is what I like as an editor), it will give you a compilation warning, but it'll keep going.
Chip H.
If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ222-2244 first
1. It sucks
2. But once you understand the terminology it works OK.
It has the feel of an internal app that they decided to release as a product. What I've found is:
1. It only knows HTML 4.0 (no XHTML or other modern standards)
2. Start with a small project and work your way up. I had started with a project that had been created by NDoc (open-source .NET documentation tool), and I keep getting odd errors. But once I simplified things, it worked OK.
3. In the table-of-contents editor, get your structure right before writing a lot of content. It has this annoying "feature" of indenting everything below the current node when you just wanted to indent the one node.
4. If you put XML tags at the start of your HTML files (I do this so I can get tag-completion help out of XMLSpy, which is what I like as an editor), it will give you a compilation warning, but it'll keep going.
Chip H.
If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ222-2244 first
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Thnx for the tips Chip. I found a tutorial on the internet: Although I haven't read it yet (78 pages...) it seems a descent paper.
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