Re: HLP Files in Vista?

On 2007-02-03, Ingvar Nilsen <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Jacobson wrote:

Can someone confirm what I've heard about Vista not allowing the use
of the old Win32 help system in programs? Is it really true that HLP
files will not work on Vista?

If true, that is just plain dumb.

Why do you want them?
Had it been 5 years ago - no doubt. Nowadays I think this technology is
dated, if not outdated.

Dos is more dated and still in Vista.

With HTML help you can easily configure a lot of features and easily
add custom welcome pages etc.

Probably. It probably is also a great kitchen sink. I simply don't care,
since unnecessarily removing winhelp (a few MBs) forces me to revisit,
convert my help system generation, buy/upgrade my tools (and worse, invest
time in them to learn them), rewrite custom tools and scritps, and I have no
interest in custom welcome page. I don't mind them adding 17 formats that
are nicer, just leave massively used ones in.

But I think it will be back in SP1 :-)
.

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