Re: change from .hlp to ?


"Harvey Brown" <harveybrown2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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I've been using the Helllp program to make .hlp files in Microsoft Word
for many years. Vista doesn't support .hlp, so I've got to change to
something else. I suppose that would be html. Would appreciate some
insight from others who have done this.

Is it worth trying Word's Save As html or better to just copy and paste
into a web page editor like NVU? My help files are very simple, just a
table of contents and a bunch of topics. Quite a few links to these
topics in the text.

How do you change an Application.helpjump('TOPIC') to jump to a topic in
an html file?

I use HTML Help Workshop which you can download from MS. It works under all
modern Windows versions, including Vista. You make the help pages with any
application that can output in html format. Word would be fine, although
Word's html is pretty lousy. Better use a html editor.
The workshop lets you define index, keywords, stoplist, etc. It binds it all
together. It is a bit down-to-earth. There are applications on the web to
further simplify the process.
In the html pages you can insert button-type links to interact with your
Delphi application (so called training cards). In Delphi you can link to the
Help system. E.g. F1 in Delphi can call up a specific Help page for context
help (define HelpType as htContext and assign a HelpContext value in the
form); the help button can instruct the application to open a particular
window related to the help subject. Works fine.
There is a problem in D6 that needs to be circumvented if you want to use F1
(search for D6OnHelpFix).

I was able to implement it all without much ado after consulting the
instructions written by Robert Chandler (www.helpware.net).
Tom


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