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winhelp docs to html converters

Phil Veldhuis (veldhui@cc.umanitoba.ca) wrote:

>Well, the winhelp list is finally here.

>Let me begin by mentioning that I am currently coding some macros to

>convert the rft files (topics) for winhelp to html style files.  I also

>eventually need html to winhelp rtf topics converters eventually.

>My macros are being written in wordbasic (word6.0).  If anyone has similar

>plans or product, please let me know what successes/failures you have

>encountered.

Sounds cool! I'd like those utilities. Question: Why not write it in a regular

language so that the program is standalone instead of requiring people to have

Word6.0 (which, of course, I don't have).

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WinHelp File Format

ajagt01@novell.trtsf01.eds.com (Arnold Jagt) wrote:

>In article <2od1bq$enj@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>>From: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis)

>>Subject: WinHelp File Format

>>Date: 11 Apr 1994 22:34:34 -0400

>

>What do I have to do to convert my help source files into MMViewer2.0 files?

>Is it just a recompile?  Is the only thing extra I will see is a search button?

>

 Sorry to say I'm the wrong person to answer this. Despite quite a bit of

work with WinHelp, I haven't worked with Viewer at all. I haven't created

any Viewer files, so I'm not real sure what's involved. Sorry. I'm trying

to get my hands on a copy, though.

  Pete

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Robohelp to The Rescue!

This is my first attempt at posting to the net... so bare with me if I make any serious errors, I apoligize in advance!

I just wanted to say how glad I am this group came to be.  I am a Tech Writer that develops WinHelp files as a source of On-Line Documentation for our firm.  In addition, I am involved in the "attaching" of .hlp files to VB apps contextually, for a large

We are excited by the ease of revision and relatively short development time these files require.  This is thanks to our help authoring tool, RoboHelp.  We have began using RoboHelp 1 just about a year ago and have since moved to RoboHelp 2.  We have foun

y mind.  With a working knowledge of MS Word, myself and another writer here were able to pick up the manual, and start writing.

A note about RoboHelp that might scare some off:  It is not cheap!  Our copies

ran around $200.  But is is worth it if you are serious about your help file.

As an earlier discussion also noted, I also learned a lot from the book "developing online help for windows" by Boggan, Farkas & Welinske.  It is a SAMS publishing book and is available from Prentice Hall.  It is both for the TECHIE and theNON-TECHIE, or

If anyone has questions about any of the discussed topics, please feel free to either post responses or mail me.

See Ya!

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In article <2p41h6$b9u@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>From: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis)

>Subject: Re: Windows help file questions

>Date: 20 Apr 1994 15:58:30 -0400

>phila@isgtec.com (Phil Allen) wrote:

>>Chris Marriott (chris@chrism.demon.co.uk) wrote:

>[deleted]

>>: The help compiler can be freely distributed.

>>

>>I think Microsoft may have something different to say about that.

>>The last I had heard for official Microsoft source was that the

>>help compiler was not to be distributed.  This info came from MS

>>support personel on compuserve.  That is why you do not see any

>>copies of it on the net.

>>

>Phil,

>   I believe the help compiler is available from ftp.microsoft.com. It is

>certainly available on CompuServe. If Microsoft doesn't want it freely

>distributed, perhaps they should stop putting it at arms length of anyone

>with a modem or internet connection.

>   MS will normally not make something available like that unless it is

>freely distributable.

    i was surprised few months ago when I heard about the discribution of the

DOS 6.2 files on CompuServe. I wanted to put them on my BBS and was told by

Microsoft rep that this is illigal. They want their "free" products to be

distributed ONLY (!) from THEIR own sites or CompuServe.

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MicroHelp

Peter Jacobs (pjacobs@netcom9.netcom.com) wrote:

: >

: >  Most of my interests lie in the undocumented aspects of WinHelp, of

: >which, there are plenty, so, if you have questions, fire away. If I don't

: >have the answer, then it's something I should probably know, so I'll

: >probably look into it.

: I would like to get some information about MicroHelp (I believe that's

: what it's called.), which is the one line of context-sensitive help

: text you get at the bottom of a window... Word and Excel both have it,

: as examples.

: Particularly, I am interested in how it is implemented.  Is it part of

: WinHelp?  If so, how do I use it?

: Any info is greatly appreciated, whether provided directly or if you

: point me in the right direction...

: Thanks ahead of time.

: Peter Jacobs

: pjacobs@netcom.com

MicroHelp is the name of a company.  The term you should be using varies,

but is usually Status Line.  You have another reply that indicates this

has nothing to do with WinHelp and is the responsibility of the

programmer.  This statement is correct.

JonM

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Tables *WITH* Borders in Winhelp Files? -PLEASE

Tracy Williams (williamt@catfish.ocpt.ccur.com) wrote:

: Brian Orrell (borrell@netcom.com) wrote:

: : I am currently working on a project that DESPERATELY needs to be able to

: : incorporate tables *WITH* borders in the help file.

: : I realize that the HC compiler that Microsoft released does *NOT* allow

: : borders within their tables... does ANYONE know of a work around to this?

: : My last resort will be somehow making the tables (there are HUNDREDS of

: : them over a page length long) into bmp's and displaying them as graphic

: : images. PLEASE, tell me there is a better way.

: Brian, Are you aware of the work around that MS suggests? Namely, formating

: the pargraphs in each table cell with borders.  Will this work for you?

: Tracy

I have one more solution that worked well for me not long ago.  I had a

complex table with borders that was already in my source .DOC file (for

the manual.  I just formatted it the way I wanted it, captured the

screen, moved the image to paint, then saved the portion I wanted to keep

as a .BMP.  The rest was simple, just added it as a graphic element to

the help.

Jon

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MS *.doc format

Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba (heidi@himmelw.ccsf.caltech.edu) wrote:

: Can anyone tell me the format for the *.doc files on Microsoft's

: ftp site, ftp.microsoft.com?  In short, what are the possible ways

: to read such files?

: Please reply to: goss@ccsf.caltech.edu

: Thanks.

: J. Goss

They are in Word for Windows format.

Jon

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Special Characters in Help File

I am trying, unsuccessfully, to create the Copyright symbol in my help file.

I am using Winword 2.0 and used the Insert | Symbool option.

The symbool appeared correctly in my document but was not visible in the

compiled help file.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

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winhelp docs to html converters

I need a good working .hlp to ascii converter

I got one of Dr Dobbs journal ftp site

10.1993 i think

but it failed on half the .hlp files i have

it looks like in the "free( xxx.datalink1 )" just fails

and exits back to shell with a bit of crap ascii text?

I cant figure it out....

I used Semantec C++ 6.1 DOS compiler  in standard mode

and DOS-X mode (32bit mode)  same results???

are there any converters that are good... and to proper ascii

spacing that looks like the original winhelp file....

thank you

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Robohelp to The Rescue!

bill bledsoe was on the point of gushing about robohelp 2. but here is my

response to him:

so, have you upgraded to 2.6.1 and Word 6.0? 'cause let me tell you, there are

more bugs than cool things. if you do want a list of bugs i have found in the

past 2 months (pretty staggering, actually), then reply to this. robohelp is

still a very good tool, but many things have arisen that are pains in the butt.

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Books on Help

A while back (early last year, I think), Ron Buerk (sp?) wrote a few columns

in Dr Dobbs about Winhelp. In the columns he said he was writing a book about

WinHelp (WinHelp for Programmers and Technical Writers, I think). Has anyone

ever seen this book? It was supposed to come out some time ago as far as I

know. It's certainly not available in the UK, is it available in the States?

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help compiler

I wonder if there is any help compiler available on the network. The one

I have may be a bit old (got it when I bought Visual C++ 1.0). Any anonymous

ftp site where it is located?

thanks.

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Robohelp to The Rescue!

In article <CoKpx2.8DI@agedwards.com>, bledsobl@agedwards.com (Bill Bledsoe) writes:

 [various nice things about RoboHelp]

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I'll second that.  I wanted to make some help without spending a lot of time learning

an elaborate system, and Robohelp seems to work very well.  I got going very quickly

using their tutorial.  I note that some things that people have been asking about, like

changing colors, seem to work just fine in Robohelp.

No, it ain't cheap at all.  The updates, however, are reasonable.

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How to run DOS apps under win with more file handles?

Hello, I'm posting this question for someone who doesn't have net

access.

If you could please email the answer I would really appreciate.

Thanks for your time!

Question:

I have a DOS application that opens many files and it runs well under

DOS. I would like to run it as a non windows application under WINDOWS.

It fails with a 'no more file handles' error. How can I get more file

handles when running under WINDOWS?

More generally, how can non windows apps running under windows tap

into windows API resources -- such as the SetHandleCount function?

If someone could point me to some examples or doc which discusses this

I would be forever grateful!

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in  the january windows/dos developer's journal there was an article by Jim

Mischel. In this article he wrote about undocumented winhelp macros (good

source for those of you wanting to know how to add functionality to your

projects). It was an excerpt from his book Guide to Windows Help published by

John Wiley & Sons. it was supposed to have come out in 'early 1994'. anyone

seen it?

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Is there a way to add my own help files to

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Nick Youd (nick@logcam.co.uk) wrote:

> Can anybody enlighten me as to whether it's possible to use RTF files

> produced by Word 6.0 for compilation by Multimedia Viewer 2? If there are

> incompatibilities, are there any workarounds or patches in existence?

I am also urgently requiring this information.

Please help.

Regards

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RTF doc viewer?

Does anyone know of a way to view simple RTF-formatted files?  Ideally, I'd

like to see a doc viewer, read-only, that can read RTF formatted files and

render them on-screen.

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Looking for Source Control Tool

Hi There,

I'm shopping around for a tool which allows me to manage

source code of the product I'm building for multiple types

of platforms:

ms windows

ms dos

unix

os/2

I'll probably store the source code on an nfs partition

and mount it on my pc or workstation.

It would be nice if the tool helped me build Makefiles or

compile scripts and also run the appropriate compiler.

Also it would be nice if the tool allowed me to keep track of

dependencies between database objects and source code.  For

example, if I want to remove or alter a column in a table,

I'd like to know what source files will need to be changed.

If the tool had an X window or ms window point & click interface

I'd be impressed.

If the tool allowed me to hook up a microphone to it and understand

what I say, then I'd want to buy stock in the company which sells it.

-Dan

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Packaging .HLP files for distribution

I have written a standalone help file, X.HLP, that I would now like to

distribute on floppies.  A "power" Windows user can just copy X.HLP to

his or her hard drive, and then drag it from File Manager to Programmer

Manager.  With those two steps, the installation is complete.

I'd like to make installation just as easy for intermediate Windows

users, and even for the Windows challenged.  But, I have no idea how to

automatically create, say, a new Program Group with the X help file in

it.  I also have an icon, X.ICO, that I'd like to appear in the user's

Program Manager, associated with the X.HLP file.  Again, the power user

can just change the Program Item Properties to select this icon.  But

I'd like to automate this.

Any suggestions ?  Thanks.

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sasjzp@stjohn.unx.sas.com (John Asa Price) writes:

>

> I am performing an automated translated of some internal

> documentation (large quantities of it) into winhelp.

> My converter sometimes has to "punt" and go into a fixed

> font in order to maintain integrity with the original document.

>

> I am currently using Ariel for my proportional font.

> Any suggestions for a good fixed font which looks just like

> Ariel?

I've seen a font called Monospaced which looks like fixed pitch

Hevletica.  I'm not sure where you would find it, though.  In any case,

don't the fonts used in a help file have to exist on the end user's

machine?  I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere.  In this case, you would

have to make sure you had distribution rights to the fonts you use (if

they're not standard Windows fonts).  If it's not present, it will

probably get substituted by some other font and just not look right.

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Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?

My crystal ball says that WinHelp and Viewer are different products

with different missions and different development groups.

Gen (Creator of RoboHELP)

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winhelp docs to html converters

In article <Co43LK.Lqt@cup.hp.com> defaria@cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria) writes:

>Phil Veldhuis (veldhui@cc.umanitoba.ca) wrote:

>>Well, the winhelp list is finally here.

>

>>My macros are being written in wordbasic (word6.0).  If anyone has similar

>>plans or product, please let me know what successes/failures you have

>>encountered.

>

>Sounds cool! I'd like those utilities. Question: Why not write it in a regular

>language so that the program is standalone instead of requiring people to have

>Word6.0 (which, of course, I don't have).

The sort answer:  Because that would be a _lot_ harder.

The long answer:  because I have word 6.0  (the macros may run on word 2.0)

btw: I mean word60 for windows

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Robohelp to The Rescue!

Hi,

As the author of RoboHELP and the victim of a very buggy Word 6

release, I'd be more than interested in your list of problems

you're having with RoboHELP.

You can send it to me at gen@bix.com or 76376.43@compuserve.com

Thanks in advance.

Gen

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WinHelp file size???

In article <2orkjcINN5ob@dns1.NMSU.Edu> tokind@acca.nmsu.edu (Tokind) writes:

>Russel Lopez (rlopez@infinet.com) wrote:

>: Is there a practical or actual limit on the size of a WinHelp file?

>

>: Thanks in advance.

>

>: Russ

>:

>

>I've produced files of up to 700K, downloaded Knowledgebase files of

>up to 1.2M. There is a practical limit to how large a file YOU may

>compile, based on your available memory. Useing HCP and virtual memory,

>I have not had any problems; but then, I like long coffee breaks ;-)

>

>

>C-u

>

I have produced .hlp files of up to 10MB, from a source of 30MB, with around

6000 topics, it was all text (No graphics that caused the file to be that

big).

The HCP program was running in a 10MB VDM, and took almost 24 hours on my

486-66 under OS/2 2.1 .

Just for compile "sake", it is a good idea for you to try and construct

smaller files, and use links between them .. it is very frustrating when

HCP fails after 10 hours, because of memory or disk space problems :-)

Ron.

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Books on Help

You may want to take a look at:

                 Developing On-Line Help for Windows.

                 Scott Boggan, et al

                 $39.00

                 Sams Publishing, 1993

                 800-428-5331

I have not seen the book myself, but have heard good things about it.

I do not know if it's available in the U.K.

Regards,

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Help compiler runs out of file handles

In article <2p05j5$h7p@pcproj.datastream.co.uk>, davec@pcproj.datastream.co.uk (David Castell) writes:

|>

|> If I run hc31 from nmake whilst building my large help file I get an error

|> message saying out of file handles. I have tried files=80 in my config.sys.

running hc31 from nmake to build a large help file is a no-no, and not just

on account of file handles. To do a large help file do it outside of nmake.

Also it helps to have as much sub 640k memory available as possible.

Still, look on the bright side. It's not as bad as the days of hc30 when you

needed to do a minimalist boot disk just to compile a few hundred K of help.

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We have almost exactly the same requirements. If you find a good tool please

could you tell me.

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In article <1994Apr19.193358.6123@nntpserver.calgary.chevron.com>

           vdwit@chevron.com  writes:

>

>I am trying, unsuccessfully, to create the Copyright symbol in my help file.

>

>I am using Winword 2.0 and used the Insert | Symbool option.

>

>The symbool appeared correctly in my document but was not visible in the

>compiled help file.

Do a copy/paste from the "Character Mapper" accessory. The "Insert Symbol"

menu command inserts field codes, which aren't supported by the Help

Compiler.

Chris

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Hi everyone!

I'm using RTFGEN 2.0 to convert my files in .RTF and .HLP format.

I'm trying to assign an icon (xxxx.ICO) to my file by writing the

following line:

ICON = xxxx.ICO

in the .HPJ file

But it doesn't seem to work when it is compiled in .HLP and the line

disappears also in the .HPJ file.

Could someone help me with this?

Thank you

Michel Gamache

gamachem@ere.umontreal.ca

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Are there any tools, anywhere, which allow the production of both WinHelp

files (for Windows & NT) and IPF help files (for OS/2) from a single source

document?

The company I work for is presently using Doc-To-Help to produce user manuals

and help files from the same source, so what I'm looking for may be a tool

that takes .RTF inputs (formatted as for the Windows help compiler) and spits

out an IPF .HLP file, or that spits out one or more .IPF files that can be

fed to IPFC under OS/2.  (That way, the .RTF files that Doc-To-Help creates

could be used.)

Any pointers to any products available anywhere that might help solve this

problem would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

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Nic@skin.demon.co.uk (Nic Gibson) writes:

>A while back (early last year, I think), Ron Buerk (sp?) wrote a few columns

That's Ron Burk

>in Dr Dobbs about Winhelp. In the columns he said he was writing a book about

That would be Windows/DOS Developer's Journal - he is the

editor of that magazine.

>WinHelp (WinHelp for Programmers and Technical Writers, I think). Has anyone

>ever seen this book? It was supposed to come out some time ago as far as I

>know. It's certainly not available in the UK, is it available in the States?

I don't think that the book has been released yet.

Hope this helps...

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Help for both Mac and Windows?

In article <2ounle$m4n@paperboy.gsfc.nasa.gov>,

Rachel_Campbell@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov (Rachel Campbell) wrote:

> I'm documenting a client-server system that runs on both Macs and PCs.

> We're looking into doing online help for the next release, and I need

> to know if there's a reasonably painless way to produce somewhat

> identical help on both platforms.

>

> I know I can take my doc to help on Windows (using DoctoHelp or

> whatever) but how can I port it to the Mac? Do I have to develop

> separately on the Mac, thereby documenting the system in effect 3 times

> (paper, Mac, PC) (please say no please please)?  And better yet, is

> there any way in this universe that I can develop the on-line stuff on

> the mac and port it to the PC (since I do my paper docs on the Mac)?

>

> I do my initial documentation in Word 5.1 for the Mac.

>

> Thanks for any direction you can give me.

>

> Rachel_Campbell@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov

The newer Microsoft applications for the Mac come with the same help engine

that is used in Windows.  All you have to do is rename the file to the Mac

convention and it will run without changes.  Also, you can develop your

online help system from the Mac files you are creating for the paper

documents and save as RTF.  Then you can move the RTF file to Windows and

compile it.

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In article <2ockki$g63@hpscit.sc.hp.com>,  <jjohn@sid.hp.com> wrote:

>Can somebody post the complete steps to implement help for

>an application in MS-Windows. I am new to MS-Windows and

>so can anyone give me some references where I can find more

>information on these. I would like to add my help to

>already existing windows help.

FTP to wuarchive.wustl.edu, and in the /systems/ibmpc/win3/programr directory

you'll find a file called what.zip.  It's pretty big (1308637), but seems

to be a pretty complete help file system.  You need Word for Windows 2.0

for this one.  The help files it installs into Word contains most of the help

you'll need to get going.

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Help Files: Creating both WinHelp and IPF from single source?

In article <2p9aim$h15@coyote.rain.org> erbo@coyote.rain.org (Eric J. Bowersox) writes:

   Are there any tools, anywhere, which allow the production of both WinHelp

   files (for Windows & NT) and IPF help files (for OS/2) from a single source

The hdk* stuff from oak.oakland.edu in pub/msdos/hypertxt/ is

said to satisfy your request.

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Special Characters in Help File

You should be able to use any TrueType font, bit it has to be on the PC

that the help will be viewed on.  You can also create the

character as a graphic element, this is harder to format.

Jon

vdwit@chevron.com

wrote:

: I am trying, unsuccessfully, to create the Copyright symbol in my help file.

: I am using Winword 2.0 and used the Insert | Symbool option.

: The symbool appeared correctly in my document but was not visible in the

: compiled help file.

: Does anyone know how I can do this?

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Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

There is one incompatibility.  Unfortunately I can't remember exactly

what it was.  Leave me a E-Mail and I will get the details.

Jon    jonm@xmission.com

Arnold du Toit

(dtoitah@risc1.unisa.ac.za) wrote: : Nick Youd (nick@logcam.co.uk) wrote:

: > Can anybody enlighten me as to whether it's possible to use RTF files

: > produced by Word 6.0 for compilation by Multimedia Viewer 2? If there are

: > incompatibilities, are there any workarounds or patches in existence?

: I am also urgently requiring this information.

: Please help.

: Regards

: Arnold

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other books on winhelp?

I talked to the publisher about this book today.  It has been delayed.

Title: The Developer's Guide to WinHelp.Exe

ISBN - with disk: 0-471-30326-7

ISBM - no disk: 0-471-30325-9

The version with disk will be out in August, the other one will be out in

June.

Jon

 chou@.notis.com wrote:

: in  the january windows/dos developer's journal there was an article by Jim

: Mischel. In this article he wrote about undocumented winhelp macros (good

: source for those of you wanting to know how to add functionality to your

: projects). It was an excerpt from his book Guide to Windows Help published by

: John Wiley & Sons. it was supposed to have come out in 'early 1994'. anyone

: seen it?

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Packaging .HLP files for distribution

There are several options that work, the following are Microsoft type

options:

Write a setup with the Microsoft Setup Toolkit (Windows SDK)

Write a setup with Visual Basic

Write a setup with Microsoft Test (similar to Setup Toolkit)

Jon

 Steve Metsker

(metskers@ducks.eng.sematech.org) wrote:

: I have written a standalone help file, X.HLP, that I would now like to

: distribute on floppies.  A "power" Windows user can just copy X.HLP to

: his or her hard drive, and then drag it from File Manager to Programmer

: Manager.  With those two steps, the installation is complete.

: I'd like to make installation just as easy for intermediate Windows

: users, and even for the Windows challenged.  But, I have no idea how to

: automatically create, say, a new Program Group with the X help file in

: it.  I also have an icon, X.ICO, that I'd like to appear in the user's

: Program Manager, associated with the X.HLP file.  Again, the power user

: can just change the Program Item Properties to select this icon.  But

: I'd like to automate this.

: Any suggestions ?  Thanks.

: Steve Metsker

: steven_metsker@sematech.org

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winhelp docs to html converters

You are going to have a hard time converting to the original look because

ASCII is not WISIWIG like .HLP files are.

You might try using a text printer driver, sending output to FILE, then

printing the file.

Jon

 Media-Flex Technology (mflex@perth.DIALix.oz.au)

wrote:

: I need a good working .hlp to ascii converter

: I got one of Dr Dobbs journal ftp site

: 10.1993 i think

: but it failed on half the .hlp files i have

: it looks like in the "free( xxx.datalink1 )" just fails

: and exits back to shell with a bit of crap ascii text?

: I cant figure it out....

: I used Semantec C++ 6.1 DOS compiler  in standard mode

: and DOS-X mode (32bit mode)  same results???

: are there any converters that are good... and to proper ascii

: spacing that looks like the original winhelp file....

: thank you

: -Raul

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If anyone has access to the Microsoft Developer's Network, you can find an unpublished

book called Windows Help Authoring Guide under the Unsupported Tools and Utilities category.

This is a book we use a lot. The book was originally intended to be published by Microsoft

Press but something fell through---probably the business case wasn't compelling.

At any rate, it is available to all on the MSDN CD disks. It covers design as well as

hooking up help in applications.

peter lancasters peterl@microsoft.com

"As they say, I speak only for myself."

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Windows .WRI to RTF Converter

I just started to use Windows...

I there a way to convert rtf to TeXinfo (or info...??)

Or texinfo to help...?

Does RTF format maintain the hyptertext links? (I found

an hlp to rtf convertor...)

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In article <2p416g$a8g@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>ajagt01@novell.trtsf01.eds.com (Arnold Jagt) wrote:

>>In article <2od1bq$enj@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>>>From: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis)

>>>Subject: WinHelp File Format

>>>Date: 11 Apr 1994 22:34:34 -0400

>>

>>What do I have to do to convert my help source files into MMViewer2.0 files?

>>Is it just a recompile?  Is the only thing extra I will see is a search button?

>>

>

> Sorry to say I'm the wrong person to answer this. Despite quite a bit of

>work with WinHelp, I haven't worked with Viewer at all. I haven't created

>any Viewer files, so I'm not real sure what's involved. Sorry. I'm trying

>to get my hands on a copy, though.

>

>  Pete

I think that it is very close to a re-compile, the only difference is in

the MVP file which is different than the HPJ one.

There are some differences you will see in the output, the first is the

search button. There is also a difference that has to do with the way

the 2 compilers treat some format defaults. e.g. - if you do not specify

the left indent in your rtf files, the left indent chosen by hc is different

from the one chosen by wmvc.

Ron.

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vdwit@chevron.com wrote:

: I am trying, unsuccessfully, to create the Copyright symbol in my help file.

: I am using Winword 2.0 and used the Insert | Symbool option.

: The symbool appeared correctly in my document but was not visible in the

: compiled help file.

: Does anyone know how I can do this?

: Dale A. Wityshyn

Unfortunatly, the comipler discards characters above ANSI 128. The work-around

I have used is to create the symbols in the base font with Paintbrush and

insert them as bitmaps. Make the size of each bitmap block a point smaller

than the hight of your base font so that it will not offset lines where you

use it. I have a Copyright, Trademark, em dash (--), open and close quotes.

They are located in my root development directory and referred to in the

[BITMAPS] section of each project file. I then insert the bitmap references

on the fly [image] or tm.bmp, em.bmp, oq.bmp, cq.bmp, as I write.

This works well. The only problem is when you use a different background

color. You then must create a special bitmap symbol with that color

painted in.

C-u

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Windows help file questions

Hi there!

I'm developing my first windows application, and I know little or

nothing about Windows' help.

Do I understand it right when I say you need a special compiler

to create the windows help files?

If so, what compiler is refered to, where can I obtain one, and how

much would it cost?

Any help or hint is highly appreciated!

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In article <2pbg9nINN74d@dns1.nmsu.edu>, Tokind <tokind@acca.nmsu.edu> wrote:

>vdwit@chevron.com wrote:

>

>: I am trying, unsuccessfully, to create the Copyright symbol in my help file.

>: I am using Winword 2.0 and used the Insert | Symbool option.

>: The symbool appeared correctly in my document but was not visible in the

>: compiled help file.

>: Does anyone know how I can do this?

>: Dale A. Wityshyn

>

>Unfortunatly, the comipler discards characters above ANSI 128. The work-around

>I have used is to create the symbols in the base font with Paintbrush and

>insert them as bitmaps. Make the size of each bitmap block a point smaller

While you could insert anything as a bitmap, you can also switch to the

symbol font and insert the correct characters. Help does discard(actually I

think it gets an error) chars over 128, but you can insert chars by value

using \'00x (or something like that(Of course you have to be editing the

file as text, not RTF.

>than the hight of your base font so that it will not offset lines where you

>use it. I have a Copyright, Trademark, em dash (--), open and close quotes.

>They are located in my root development directory and referred to in the

>[BITMAPS] section of each project file. I then insert the bitmap references

>on the fly [image] or tm.bmp, em.bmp, oq.bmp, cq.bmp, as I write.

>

>This works well. The only problem is when you use a different background

>color. You then must create a special bitmap symbol with that color

>painted in.

>

>

>C-u

>

>Tom Kindig                      & after all the violence and doubletalk,

>Principal                                  There's just a song,

>LeftJustified Publiks                      There's just a story,

>4875 Beryl St.

>Las Cruces, NM 88012-9446                just a life.

>=== tokind@aol.com =======

>=== tokind@acca.nmsu.edu =

>

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helllp22.zip - Help File Author Tool for WinWord 2.0 & 6.0

I have uploaded to the SimTel Software Repository (available by anonymous

ftp from the primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu and its mirrors):

pub/msdos/windows3/

helllp22.zip    Help File Author Tool for WinWord 2.0 & 6.0

HELLLP! v2.2 <ASP> - Multi-File build and HelpContextID property [MAP]

generation.  User friendly.  Automatically sets up top level table of

contents with Hypertext jumps to your topics.  You add additional jumps

and popups by highlighting the place you want to jump from and pointing

to the place you want to jump to.  Can add SOUND EFFECTS, SECONDARY

windows with buttons, launch other programs for MULTIMEDIA.

Changes: Now works with both US & non-English versions of Word 6 & 2.

ShareWare.  Uploaded by the author.

Ed Guy

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Patch for using MS Help Project Editor with Word 6

Hi all,

(longish)

There was a topic a few weeks back (on the winhelp mailing list; I'm

not sure about the usenet group) about using the MS help project

editor with WORD 6.0.  When you click on a file name in WHPE, it does

not get loaded into Word, and you get a popup message 'Undefined

dialog record field.' I haven't seen that this problem has been

resolved yet (correct me if I'm wrong).  Although this is not a

terrible problem (you can still load the files manually into WORD),

being a programmer, I couldn't just let this one go :-).  I delved

into Word programming a bit and figured out that WHPE uses a DDE

(dynamic data exchange) dialog to send a macro to WORD to open up the

RTF file. I used a hex viewer to look at WHPE.EXE and found the little

WORD macro buried within.  There is a statement

'ToolsOptionsGeneral.ConfirmConversions = 0' which is supposed to

eliminate the annoying popup message that confirms that you want to

convert the RTF file.  Except that there is no general option

ConfirmConversions in WORD 6.0!  It has been moved as an option to the

FileOpen command (note that you can turn it on and off using the

checkbox in the File Open dialog box).  So if you use a hex editor

(like the one built into the XTree viewer, if you have it, or the nice

shareware Windows hex editor, hexedit) you can just search for and

space over this command in the executable. Then things work fine!

Note, use spaces (0x20), not nulls (0x00).

If you have the automatic Tip Of The Day enabled, this macro doesn't

seem to get run (unless WORD is already running).  So you have to turn

Tips off.  Does anyone have another way to get around this?  I sort of

like the Tip Of The Day.

As far as I know, WHPE has not been updated officially from MS.  I've

got the latest compiler, WHAT6.DOT, etc, but the version of WHPE seems

to still be 1.00.0014 (from 1991!).  Please let me know if there is an

update somewhere (it is not on ftp.microsoft.com or the MSDN CD ROM;

that's this version 1).  Also, I am not sure of the legalities of

patching an MS executable.  But in this case, since this is an

unsupported app, and is available on their FTP server, and they

haven't been very quick to update it, I don't think it should be a

problem.

Also, I will NOT become a clearing house for this patch.  I will

ABSOLUTELY NOT not email or ftp it to anyone, so please don't ask.

Note that MS does retain the copyright to this software (it is not

FREE in that sense) so I'm not sure of the legality of shuffling a

modified version of it around the net, and I won't do it anyway, even

if someone tries to convince me that it is legal.  Because of viruses

and such, I'd be leary of anyone offering up an executable anyway.

I suggest, instead, getting the shareware program HexEdit (or some

other hex file editor).  It is available in that big WIN3 archive on

ftp.cica.indiana.edu, or one of its mirrors, in the util directory.

The file is hexedt15.zip.  It takes about 20 seconds to do this.  Just

run HexEdit, open WPHE.EXE (I'd make a backup copy of the file first,

just in case), use Edit Search, enter confirmconv, and when it finds

it, use the SPACE bar to space out the whole

ToolsOptionsGeneral.ConfirmConversions = 0.  Then save the file.

I hope this is helpful.

dale, roberts@ishtar.med.jhu.edu

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Re using Copywrite symbol in Help file:

I use Word 6, not 2, so your instructions may vary, but here's how to do it

in 6:

Method 1: Use Insert Symbol, but choose the 'Normal text' rather than the

'Symbols' pulldown, find the Copywrite symbol, and insert it.  Notice that

this version of the copywrite symbol looks slightly different than the other

 one.  It appears that Word's RTF converter supports the normal text symbol

 set only.

Method 2: Hold down Alt and press 0169 on the numpad (The codes are in

Appendix A of the Word 6 manual) to enter the symbol.

Method 3: Edit the RTF file directly as an ASCII file (use Notepad, DOS

EDIT, or something similar, and insert the characters \'A9 where you want

the symbol to appear.   Note that A9 is the HEX value of decimal 169 (use

the Windows calculator in Scientific mode to convert).

To check to see if Word 2 handles the conversion properly, dump the RTF file

in ASCII format to ensure that \'A9 appears.  If it does, but the Copywrite

symbol still doesn't appear, pick up a copy of the latest version of the

help compiler (HC505.exe) from ftp.microsoft.com. If it doesn't, it's time

to upgrade to Word 6!

We use a lot of French characters above ASCII 127, so I use these methods

often.

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In article <CoMw7G.2yJ@microsoft.com>

           peterl@microsoft.com "Peter Lancaster" writes:

>If anyone has access to the Microsoft Developer's Network, you can find an

> unpublished

>book called Windows Help Authoring Guide under the Unsupported Tools and

> Utilities category.

>This is a book we use a lot. The book was originally intended to be published

> by Microsoft

>Press but something fell through---probably the business case wasn't

> compelling.

>

>At any rate, it is available to all on the MSDN CD disks. It covers design as

> well as

>hooking up help in applications.

It's also on ftp.microsoft.com, directory \developer\MSDN\unsup. File

"WHAG.ZIP".

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roberts@ishtar.med.jhu.edu (Dale Roberts x5-7345) writes:

>As far as I know, WHPE has not been updated officially from MS.  I've

>got the latest compiler, WHAT6.DOT, etc, but the version of WHPE seems

>to still be 1.00.0014 (from 1991!).  Please let me know if there is an

>update somewhere (it is not on ftp.microsoft.com or the MSDN CD ROM;

>that's this version 1).

It's on the newest MSDN CD (April, #7).  I don't believe there are any

plans to make it available elsewhere (via ftp, Compuserve, etc).

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In article <2p185e$9rd@autodesk.autodesk.com> johnbu@autodesk.com writes:

>I've just been tasked with developing WRITING style guidelines for

>authors developing a Windows online information system. So I'm looking

>for resources that will help me form those guidelines. All help

>appreciated.

>

>John Burgdorf

>Editor, Multimedia Technical Publications

>Autodesk, Inc.

>

MS's WHAG is a good start ..

It's on the MSDN CDROMs and ftp.microsoft.com.

Ron.

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Craig Williamson (Craig.Williamson@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM) wrote:

: OK how about a .hlp to rtf.  I know that exists but I don't know where.  With

: that I should be able to convert to html and we'll use that.

Does anyone know where the ".hlp to rtf" package is ?

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>In article <2ounle$m4n@paperboy.gsfc.nasa.gov>,

>Rachel_Campbell@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov (Rachel Campbell) wrote:

>>

>> I know I can take my doc to help on Windows (using DoctoHelp or

>> whatever) but how can I port it to the Mac? Do I have to develop

>> separately on the Mac, thereby documenting the system in effect 3 times

>> (paper, Mac, PC) (please say no please please)?  And better yet, is

>> there any way in this universe that I can develop the on-line stuff on

>> the mac and port it to the PC (since I do my paper docs on the Mac)?

There's a product called QuickHelp from Altura Software in Pacific Grove, CA

that will do what you want.  It takes your Windows help sources (RTF, BMP

and HPJ file etc.) and compiles it into a help file that runs with their

QuickHelp runtime interpreter.  Your QuickHelp file ends up looking pretty

much just like your WinHelp file, except it's a lot bigger and runs slower.

Altura's license fees for the QuickHelp runtime are rather pricey.

Excel 4 for the Mac comes with the Microsoft Help application, which will

run Windows help files without any translation.  But I found that it doesn't

support multiple-window help files (like the one I produced) and bitmaps

appear shrunken/distorted.

You can write your help files in Word 5.1 on the Mac (that's what I did),

then save them as RTF and copy them to a Windows machine for compiling.

Jeff Jungblut

Jostens Learning Corporation, San Diego

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Lines: 56

In article 2pbg9nINN74d@dns1.NMSU.Edu, tokind@acca.nmsu.edu (Tokind) writes:

>vdwit@chevron.com wrote:

>

>: I am trying, unsuccessfully, to create the Copyright symbol in my help file.

>: I am using Winword 2.0 and used the Insert | Symbool option.

>: The symbool appeared correctly in my document but was not visible in the

>: compiled help file.

>: Does anyone know how I can do this?

>: Dale A. Wityshyn

>

>Unfortunatly, the comipler discards characters above ANSI 128. The work-around

I don't think that the  Pipe-Symbol / vertical line has a code above 127.

>I have used is to create the symbols in the base font with Paintbrush and

>insert them as bitmaps. Make the size of each bitmap block a point smaller

>than the hight of your base font so that it will not offset lines where you

>use it. I have a Copyright, Trademark, em dash (--), open and close quotes.

>They are located in my root development directory and referred to in the

>[BITMAPS] section of each project file. I then insert the bitmap references

>on the fly [image] or tm.bmp, em.bmp, oq.bmp, cq.bmp, as I write.

>

>This works well. The only problem is when you use a different background

>color. You then must create a special bitmap symbol with that color

>painted in.

>

Maybe that it works, but it must be terrible to paint every character. I

know what I'm telling about, because I wrote several german rtf-texts for use

with HC31 by hand (can't afford WinWord which costs more than 1000 DM).

If I had to paint all the umlauts...

My favoured method to insert special characters is the following: Backslash and

an

apostroph followed by the character-code in hexacdecimal. Example: to encode the

german  ( is a 'ue' or '"u' if you can't read eight-bit code) you have to type

\'e4 in your rtf-file.

>

>C-u

>

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1. Visual BASIC (the one by Fawcette publications) and BCS (Boston Computer

Society's) PC Report

both have articles on WinHelp in recent issues.

2. It looks like Chicago will have a new WinHelp format (similar to the

TechNet format). Any word

on when the help compiler for this will be available? Is it on the Level II

Devnet CD?

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In article <gen.767015659@BIX.com> gen@BIX.com "gen on BIX" writes:

>

> My crystal ball says that WinHelp and Viewer are different products

> with different missions and different development groups.

>

> Gen (Creator of RoboHELP)

>

But if you change the extension of a winhelp file to whatever it is for

multimedia viewer (MVB?), the viewer will run it (usually, I'm told).

Nic

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In article <2p7suc$lqe@worf.toppoint.de>

           osborn@toppoint.de "Brian Osborn" writes:

> Nic@skin.demon.co.uk (Nic Gibson) writes:

>

> >A while back (early last year, I think), Ron Buerk (sp?) wrote a few columns

> That's Ron Burk

>

> >in Dr Dobbs about Winhelp. In the columns he said he was writing a book about

> That would be Windows/DOS Developer's Journal - he is the

> editor of that magazine.

>

> >WinHelp (WinHelp for Programmers and Technical Writers, I think). Has anyone

> >ever seen this book? It was supposed to come out some time ago as far as I

> >know. It's certainly not available in the UK, is it available in the States?

> I don't think that the book has been released yet.

>

> Hope this helps...

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>

Actually, it was in Dr Dobb's - Undocumented Corner column. Ah well. Wish it

would appear, the articles were interesting. Gave me enough ideas to start on

writing a help decompiler. Problem is that MS have a patent on the compression

technique used so I won't be releasing it.

>From the investigations I've done, it looks like writing a help compiler (sans

compression) wouldn't actually be particularly difficult. Has any ever had a

go?

Nic

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Nic@skin.demon.co.uk wrote:

>A while back (early last year, I think), Ron Buerk (sp?) wrote a few columns

>in Dr Dobbs about Winhelp. In the columns he said he was writing a book about

>WinHelp (WinHelp for Programmers and Technical Writers, I think). Has anyone

>ever seen this book? It was supposed to come out some time ago as far as I

>know. It's certainly not available in the UK, is it available in the States?

>

>Nic

Nic,

   I keep in touch with Ron pretty regularly and my guess is the book

won't come out for a while. The last time I mentioned it, he said he was

upset that I mentioned it 'cause he hadn't had time to work on it in a

long time. Since then he's been incredibly busy, so I doubt he's had time

to work on it. Now that Chicago is getting close, he may wait since, among

other things, he plans on having the WinHelp file format documented, which

will need some modifications for Chicago.

  Pete

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dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) wrote:

>Is there an existing tool to merge two .HLP files into one?  I've got a

>statistical package (S-PLUS) that comes with a big help file, and the

>ability to add my own functions but not my own help.

>

>If not, would it be a practical thing to write?  I wouldn't expect cross-

>links between the two files, I'd just want both indices to be merged into

>one, so a context-sensitive search would see both sets of topics.

>

>Duncan Murdoch

>dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca

Duncan,

   There isn't really a tool out there to do it as you are thinking of.

What you may want to look into, however, is a product called MultiDoc.

I haven't seen it, but the word is that it's great for de-compiling help

files back into RTF files. It's also supposed to be used as a WinHelp

development platform, but from what I hear, it's only mediocre in that

respect.

  Pete Davis

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Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

In article <2p6nkb$5dt@goofy.unisa.ac.za>, dtoitah@risc1.unisa.ac.za

(Arnold du Toit) writes:

|> Nick Youd (nick@logcam.co.uk) wrote:

|> > Can anybody enlighten me as to whether it's possible to use RTF

|> files

|> > produced by Word 6.0 for compilation by Multimedia Viewer 2? If

|> there are

|> > incompatibilities, are there any workarounds or patches in

|> existence?

|>

|> I am also urgently requiring this information.

|>

|> Please help.

|>

|> Regards

|> Arnold

|>

You should find the following patches on ftp.cica.indiana.edu and mirror sites:

VWR20A.ZIP

WMVC.ZIP

Sorry, but I don't remember the exact directory. You need to use the new

 help compiler version for Word 6.0, available in HC505.EXE.

Rich Ilsley

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In article <2pgf6u$go5@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) wrote:

>>Is there an existing tool to merge two .HLP files into one?  I've got a

>>statistical package (S-PLUS) that comes with a big help file, and the

>>ability to add my own functions but not my own help.

>>

>>If not, would it be a practical thing to write?  I wouldn't expect cross-

>>links between the two files, I'd just want both indices to be merged into

>>one, so a context-sensitive search would see both sets of topics.

>   There isn't really a tool out there to do it as you are thinking of.

>What you may want to look into, however, is a product called MultiDoc.

>I haven't seen it, but the word is that it's great for de-compiling help

>files back into RTF files. It's also supposed to be used as a WinHelp

>development platform, but from what I hear, it's only mediocre in that

>respect.

After working through your DDJ articles, it looks to me that a help merge

program is a reasonable target.  If I can get the bugs out of my .HLP file

code I'll try it.  I'd rather not go through RTF, because I'll be adding

small files onto a pretty large one, and recompiling the whole thing in HC31

would take forever.

Duncan Murdoch

Duncan Murdoch

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In article <2pgev8$g50@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>

           pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu "Peter J. Davis" writes:

>

> Nic,

>    I keep in touch with Ron pretty regularly and my guess is the book

> won't come out for a while. The last time I mentioned it, he said he was

> upset that I mentioned it 'cause he hadn't had time to work on it in a

> long time. Since then he's been incredibly busy, so I doubt he's had time

> to work on it. Now that Chicago is getting close, he may wait since, among

> other things, he plans on having the WinHelp file format documented, which

> will need some modifications for Chicago.

>

>   Pete

>

> --

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> vinegar by the label." - Mark Twain

>

Sounds fair enough to me.

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Another patch to WHPE.EXE for Word 6.0 users

Hi all,

Someone mentioned this also a few weeks ago.  New files created in the

Help Project Editor are set to use WHAT31.DOT (or WHAT30.DOT), and

when you first try to edit them, you come up in the Normal template.

To get them to use WHAT6.DOT, use the method in my previous posting of

using a hex editor to patch WHPE.EXE, but this time search for

what31.dot.  Replace the two occurances (one for the string that goes

into the .RTF file, and one for the prompt 'Create it, based on

WHAT31.DOT?') with what6.dot, and add a space to fill out the extra

character.

Now when you create new files in the Help Project Editor, they will

come up with the WHAT6.DOT template, and the template actually gets

loaded, and everything is wonderful!

Hope this stuff is useful to someone (and not too confusing!).

dale

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Hi There,

Browsing through this news group it seems that people here are quite well

established at doing Help files. Is there an FAQ somewhere where I can pick

up the basics of doing these things??

Paul Sargent

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All Symbols Work For Me -- Why for me and not for others?

Hello,

In regards to the current thread about how to insert symbols, I'd have to

say I have no problems whatsoever in using all of them, except the ones MS

have specifically not supported (for reasons I don't fathom as my experience

outlined below indicates).

I compose my Help files using Word for Windows 6.0 to make the RTF files, and

use the HCP505.EXE compiler.  In addition, I exclusively use the Arial

TrueType font (since probably over 95% of all Windows installations have it

installed and it looks nice -- see my electronic books.)

I've experimented with using both the 'Insert Symbol' macro in WFW6, as well

as using the ASCII code 'alt-xxx'.  I've been able to get most of the ASCII

code symbols (up to alt-256) as well as the symbols from 'Insert Symbol'.  The

ones I don't get are the ones that MS themselves say are unsupported:

em,en-dash, typographical quotes (starting, closing), and a couple other

obscure ones I don't recall at the moment.  All this tells me that MS

intentionally "shut-off" these symbols, for reasons that I can't fathom!

Good luck.

Jon Noring

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winhelp -> text??? help!

I need a way to convert WinHELP helps into ascii

text.... any way???

Maybe by redirecting the print to go to afile instead

of the printer.... so then you just do print and you got it??

or is there raelly a program that reads in *.hlp files and makes

new *.txt files

reason: to read the huge winhelp docs on other OS's besides

Win31

-Raul

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Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?

Changing extention names worked in Viewer 1.X files, but not in 2.x.

Nic Gibson (Nic@skin.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: In article <gen.767015659@BIX.com> gen@BIX.com "gen on BIX" writes:

: >

: > My crystal ball says that WinHelp and Viewer are different products

: > with different missions and different development groups.

: >

: > Gen (Creator of RoboHELP)

: >

: But if you change the extension of a winhelp file to whatever it is for

: multimedia viewer (MVB?), the viewer will run it (usually, I'm told).

: Nic

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It looks like Word 6 and Viewer 2 are compatible.  There is, that I know

of, 1 bug in one of the utilities dealing with adding Footnotes.

Arnold du

Toit

(dtoitah@risc1.unisa.ac.za) wrote: : Nick Youd (nick@logcam.co.uk) wrote:

: > Can anybody enlighten me as to whether it's possible to use RTF files

: > produced by Word 6.0 for compilation by Multimedia Viewer 2? If there are

: > incompatibilities, are there any workarounds or patches in existence?

: I am also urgently requiring this information.

: Please help.

: Regards

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I need a DLL or something that will allow me to do the following:  I want to

click an icon, and have a window pop up with a choice of several links.  It's

to be used for cross-referencing a book.  Anyone have any ideas?

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Available: The Hypertext Demo "A History of the Warfare of Science..."

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Hello everybody,

A FREE Demo of the hypertext "A History of the Warfare of Science with

Theology In Christendom", by Andrew Dickson White, and converted to hypertext

by OmniMedia, is available for download on the Internet,  It is written in

Windows 3.1 Help format.

This document can be viewed by Windows 3.1, Windows NT, OS/2 2.x, and

supposedly by some of the newer Microsoft applications for the Macintosh,

such as Excel.

Here's the description from the accompanying text file:

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This is the Demo for the latest electronic book published by OmniMedia, "A

History of the Warfare of Science With Theology in Christendom" by Andrew

Dickson White, the first president of Cornell University.  It is formatted

using the highly-regarded Windows 3.1 Help engine.  It can be viewed using

Windows 3.1, OS/2 2.x, Windows NT, some of the newer Microsoft applications

for the Macintosh, and possibly other operating systems that have software

capable of reading Windows 3.1 Help files.

This extraordinary and powerful scholarly work is considered to be White's

most famous, and is MUST reading for anybody interested in the continual

conflict between science and theology.  Though written almost a century ago,

its message is still very pertinent, and gives unique insights and LOTS of

information, long forgotten, into the origins of, and scientific difficulties

with, Biblical literalism (e.g., Fundamentalism).

The full commercial version (containing all 20 chapters, this Demo has the

first 3) is quite attractively priced and can be purchased from OmniMedia.

This Demo is freeware and can be distributed far and wide;  please upload it

to your favorite BBS sites and distribute it among all your friends  --

everyone will be glad you did.  It is appropriate for all ages.

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You can freely download the Demo from anonymous ftp site:

ftp.netcom.com   /pub/OmniMedia/books/warfare.zip

Be SURE to type 'binary' before issuing the 'get' command!

I encourage you to redistribute this document far and wide - upload it to your

favorite BBS and distribute copies to your friends and acquaintances.  Please

upload only the original zip file.

I'm sure you will enjoy this Demo.

Jon Noring

OmniMedia

(p.s., if you don't have anonymous ftp access, I will e-mail a uuencoded

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Hi,

Contact HyperAct Inc. at 76350.333@Compuserve.Com for a beta of wh2hdk, that

will turrn your winhelp sources to hlpdk, and from there to html.

In article <2p9lt4$6n0@xmission.xmission.com> jonm@xmission.com (JonM) writes:

>You are going to have a hard time converting to the original look because

>ASCII is not WISIWIG like .HLP files are.

>

>You might try using a text printer driver, sending output to FILE, then

>printing the file.

>

>Jon

>

>

> Media-Flex Technology (mflex@perth.DIALix.oz.au)

>wrote:

>

>

>: I need a good working .hlp to ascii converter

>

>: I got one of Dr Dobbs journal ftp site

>: 10.1993 i think

>

>: but it failed on half the .hlp files i have

>

>: it looks like in the "free( xxx.datalink1 )" just fails

>: and exits back to shell with a bit of crap ascii text?

>

>: I cant figure it out....

>

>: I used Semantec C++ 6.1 DOS compiler  in standard mode

>: and DOS-X mode (32bit mode)  same results???

>

>: are there any converters that are good... and to proper ascii

>: spacing that looks like the original winhelp file....

>

>: thank you

>

>: -Raul

Ron.

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In article <2p71mc$4f0@gap.cco.caltech.edu> dbikle@alumni.caltech.edu (Daniel B. Bikle) writes:

>Hi There,

>

>I'm shopping around for a tool which allows me to manage

>source code of the product I'm building for multiple types

>of platforms:

>

>        ms windows

>        ms dos

>        unix

>        os/2

>

>I'll probably store the source code on an nfs partition

>and mount it on my pc or workstation.

>

>It would be nice if the tool helped me build Makefiles or

>compile scripts and also run the appropriate compiler.

>

Currently we are evaluating PVCS Version Manager and PVCS Configuration

Builder to see if these can help us develop ORACLE apps. It is a commercial

product that runs on all the platforms you named (plus some). There is also

GNU's rcs and make. There is a DOS version of rcs, but I have not yet found a

DOS version of their make. It's free anyway.

>Also it would be nice if the tool allowed me to keep track of

>dependencies between database objects and source code.  For

>example, if I want to remove or alter a column in a table,

>I'd like to know what source files will need to be changed.

I think this can be done with PVCS and rcs/make, but you would need a separate

file for each table. When you alter the table, you touch the file and make or

PVCS Configuration Builder will use the new timestamp to trigger the rebuild

of all targets depending on it. I have no knowledge of a product that can look

inside an ORACLE database and start rebuilds based on its contents. I know

Ingres had (has?) a reconciler, which will recompile forms and what have you

when tables they depend on have changed. Rumor has it that Intersolv and

Oracle are talking about integrating PVCS with ORACLE.

>If the tool had an X window or ms window point & click interface

>I'd be impressed.

PVCS has both.

>If the tool allowed me to hook up a microphone to it and understand

>what I say, then I'd want to buy stock in the company which sells it.

With a sound card you might have it talk back to you or hum along while it's

busy building your stuff. Might be fun.

Regards,

Karel

>-Dan

>-----------------------------

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>Independent Oracle Consultant

>dbikle@alumni.caltech.edu

>415/854-9542

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  For those interested, I am working on the FAQ for this newsgroup (I hope

no one else is). I want to cover a lot of topics, but the one topic I'm

not going to cover (unless there is a huge outcry) is how to actually

create a winhelp .HLP file. There are already texts out there on this

topic and I mention them in the FAQ.

   Things I plan on discussing:

 What is WinHelp

 How to learn how to build WinHelp .HLP files (sources of documentation)

 Tools available for building WinHelp .HLP files (PD, Shareware & commercial)

 Common questions about WinHelp

   How do I set the colors?

   What are the limits for WinHelp and the Help compiler?

   etc..

 Source of documentation on WinHelp's 'undocumented' features

 After that, I'm kind of at a loss, so, I'm requesting that anyone who has

questions, send them to me personally, or if you have ideas for things I

should add, let me know.

 If there is someone already working on a FAQ, perhaps we can get together

and combine our efforts, let me know. I think I sort of agreed to do this,

but I just want to make sure no one else has taken it on their own to do

it so that there won't be any wasted effort anywhere.

 My times is going to start freeing up this week, so I'll try get a draft

of it ready by Wednesday and get it posted.

 Pete

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vdwit@chevron.com wrote:

: I am trying, unsuccessfully, to create the Copyright symbol in my help file.

Try using the copyright character in the Arial font (Alt-169)

Winhelp does not understand the Word Insert Symbol RTF codes.

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Where to get HDK?

Where can I get the HDK from?

Also if you know of any other help authoring kits , could

you tell me where to get them from.

Thanks in advance

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Where to get HDK?

Ernst Kraemer (kraemer@D012S436.mch.sni.de) wrote:

: Where can I get the HDK from?

: Also if you know of any other help authoring kits , could

: you tell me where to get them from.

: Thanks in advance

HDK is included in a number of other deveopment kits, including VC++ Pro,

VB Pro, ADK, ODK and (I think) SDK.  You can get most of the nescessary

components from winftp.cica.indiana.edu in the pub/pc/win3 directory.

They're scattered all over the directory tree.

The most important part is, of course, the compiler.  You will need

HC30.EXE (for Win3.0 WinHelp), HC31.EXE (for Win3.1 WinHelp), or HCP.EXE

(for Win3.1 and Word6.0 RTF files).  These are all available at

ftp.microsoft.com's Software Library as well as on Compu$erve.

Good Luck,

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Adding help to application

Apart from the huge manual available through ftp (and, by the way, it's

also available on CDROM), Microsoft provides written documentation in two

sources I've been able to find:  Software Development Kit Programming

Tools, Chapter 3, and SDK Programmer's Reference, Volume 4: Resources,

Chapter 15.  I'm surprised to find it documented in two different places so

I wouldn't be surprised if there were even more.

I found it difficult to get started, with incomplete information in the

first source.  If you can, get a sample help file and figure out what it

does.  Windows help would be more useful if Microsoft would distribute the

source files.

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     The MathWorks, Inc.

     24 Prime Park Way, Natick, MA 01760

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FAQ????

ee92pms@brunel.ac.uk wrote:

>

>Hi There,

>

>Browsing through this news group it seems that people here are quite well

>established at doing Help files. Is there an FAQ somewhere where I can pick

>up the basics of doing these things??

>

>Paul Sargent

>Microelectronics Brunel University

Paul,

   I posted a message a few days back. I am preparing the FAQ for this

newsgroup. I don't plan on covering exactly how to build WinHelp .HLP

files, as it can be a very long and involved process, but I am mentioning

sources of information.

   One really good source is the following groups of files:

WHAT.ZIP, WHAG.ZIP, and HAG.ZIP which are available from:

ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the /pub/pc/win3/programr directory.

   Hope this helps.

   Pete Davis

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Multimedia Viewer Development Kit - where?

I'm trying to locate the developer's kit for the Multimedia Viewer 2.0.

Does anyone know where it is sold and what the part number is?

-fred

[ Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ                       Fred.Lloyd@west.sun.com ]

[ Sun Microsystems,                              Systems Engineer ]

[ Phoenix, AZ                                      (602) 224-3517 ]

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Multimedia Viewer Development Kit - where?

I found mine at a local software store.  To get the part number call

1-800-426,9400.

JOn

Fred Lloyd [Phoenix SE] (flloyd@l1-a.west.sun.com) wrote:

: I'm trying to locate the developer's kit for the Multimedia Viewer 2.0.

: Does anyone know where it is sold and what the part number is?

: -fred

: [ Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ                       Fred.Lloyd@west.sun.com ]

: [ Sun Microsystems,                              Systems Engineer ]

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Online Documentation Workshop

For any of you who might be in the Boulder (CO) area,

The Boulder Writers Alliance invites you to a workshop on

        * * CREATING ONLINE DOCUMENTATION * *

                Saturday, May 7, 1994

Kathy Wolfskill of ForeFront Technology in Boulder, will show

you how to use ForeHelp, a help authoring tool for Windows

software.  You'll get hands-on experience in a lab environment

to create online help.

At this workshop, you will learn how to:

- Design topics for online help

- Plan format and style for online help

- Use hypertext links, jumps, and pop-up windows within your

  online help

- Use an authoring tool to its best capacity to save you time,

  frustration, and money on your next project

Workshop attendees will receive a free demo copy of ForeHelp.

There are three workshops on Saturday, May 7 (all the same),

to allow for increased seating needs.

Workshop 1:   9:30 - 11:30 am

Workshop 2:  12:30 -  2:30 pm

Workshop 3:   3:00 -  5:00 pm

All workshops are at the CU Computing Center, on the corner

of Marine & Arapahoe, in Boulder.

If you would like to receive a registration form for this

workshop to register by snailmail, or for more information

on registering via email, call Kat at 682-9455(h) or send

email to kat@solbourne.com.

There is a nominal charge for this workshop, to cover the

expense of renting the lab.

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In article <gmccombConDE7.K09@netcom.com>, gmccomb@netcom.com (Glenn McComb) says:

>

>

>Does anyone know of a way to view simple RTF-formatted files?  Ideally, I'd

>like to see a doc viewer, read-only, that can read RTF formatted files and

>render them on-screen.

>

>Thanks!

>--

>--

>I haven't come across any rtf doc viewer but I usually view these file

 through Microsoft Word which actually converts them first.

 Hope this helps.  If you find a viewer, let me know.

>

>

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Where to get HDK?

In article <2plr8e$1db@horus.mch.sni.de> kraemer@D012S436.mch.sni.de (Ernst Kraemer) writes:

>From: kraemer@D012S436.mch.sni.de (Ernst Kraemer)

>Subject: Where to get HDK?

>Date: 27 Apr 1994 14:01:50 GMT

>Where can I get the HDK from?

>Also if you know of any other help authoring kits , could

>you tell me where to get them from.

>Thanks in advance

    You might want to take a look at any of the recent MSDN CDROM. They have

two tools that seem to be good, although they are not ifficially supported by

Microsoft.

===================================================================

Jean-Francois Messier                            Windows developper

sysop of SuperByte 486 (819) 775-3471 v32/v42 (bis too!)

jmessier@hookup.net                        74370.340@compuserve.com

             Drag me, Drop me, Treat me like an object !

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thornton@netcom.com (Thornton K. Prime) writes:

>The most important part is, of course, the compiler.  You will need

>HC30.EXE (for Win3.0 WinHelp), HC31.EXE (for Win3.1 WinHelp), or HCP.EXE

>(for Win3.1 and Word6.0 RTF files).  These are all available at

>ftp.microsoft.com's Software Library as well as on Compu$erve.

Help compiler versions are more complicated that this; you can't tell

for sure which version of the help compiler you have from the file

name.

The same compiler has been distributed under multiple names, and the

same names have been used for multiple compilers.  It's pretty safe to

guess that HC30 will be for Windows 3.0, and HC31 and HCP for Windows

3.1.  Likewise, you can assume that HCP is the extended memory

compiler.  HC probably isn't the extended memory version, but it could

be for either Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.1 (or a batch file which can do

either!).  Likewise, HC31 may or may not use extended memory.  The

correct compiler to use with Word 6.0 RTF files can be one of HC31, HC

or HCP; the important part is that it's version number is 3.10.505 or

later.  You can find the version number in the banner printed when you

run the compiler.  If the compiler uses extended memory it will say

"(extended)" after the version number: 3.10.505 (extended).

In summary, you can expect that:

   HC30-for Windows 3.0, doesn't use extended memory

   HC31-for Windows 3.1, probably doesn't not use extended memory, but might

   HC  -for Windows 3.0 or 3.1, or both, but doesn't use extended memory

   HCP -for Windows 3.1, uses extended memory

   HC, HCP, or HC31 version 3.10.505 is required for RTF from Word for

   Windows 6.0.  Versions 3.10.504 or earlier will not work with that

   version of Word.

Visual C++ 1.5 comes with hc30 and hc31 3.10.505 (non-extended).

Visual C++ 1.0 comes with an earlier version of hc31 (non-extended).

Rob Caplan, Private Citizen

caplan@cs.stanford.edu

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RTF doc viewer?

In article <1994Apr27.084438.339@hitech.po.my> Ewan  writes:

> In article <gmccombConDE7.K09@netcom.com>, gmccomb@netcom.com (Glenn McComb)

>  says:

> >

> >

> >Does anyone know of a way to view simple RTF-formatted files?  Ideally, I'd

> >like to see a doc viewer, read-only, that can read RTF formatted files and

> >render them on-screen.

> >

> >Thanks!

> >--

> >--

> >I haven't come across any rtf doc viewer but I usually view these file

>  through Microsoft Word which actually converts them first.

>

>  Hope this helps.  If you find a viewer, let me know.

> >

I use Xtree Gold for DOS, and it reads RTF files fine.

--

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Special Characters in Help File

On 23 Apr 1994 15:53:27 GMT (comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp), Tokind (tokind@acca.nmsu.edu) wrote:

: vdwit@chevron.com wrote:

: : I am trying, unsuccessfully, to create the Copyright symbol in my help file.

: : I am using Winword 2.0 and used the Insert | Symbool option.

: : The symbool appeared correctly in my document but was not visible in the

: : compiled help file.

: : Does anyone know how I can do this?

: : Dale A. Wityshyn

: Unfortunatly, the comipler discards characters above ANSI 128. The work-around

No it doesn't. I have no problems with the HC31 compiler (the Finnish

language has several characters above 128).

You just need to code the characters in hex and quote them (like \'e4

for ANSI 228 character, etc). This enables HC to include any character

of Latin-1 code (255 characters) in the help file.

You might also need to set up a proper language code in your RTF file

(\langN. I use regularly \lang1035).

Mikail

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    been sorted with the help of a computer.' (Knuth: The Art of Comp.Progr.)

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HyperTrack 4.1: Expanding WinHelp's horizon..

Greetings to all WinHelp authors!

I've just completed an updated version of HyperTrack (its still called

Release 4.1 since the changes are very minor) and its available from

the fujitsu.my ftp site under the filename hyptrk41.zip from the /pub

directory.  The changes are, this time I've included both the

hc.pif and hc31.bat files which I left out last time as well made the

online help on using HyperTrack easier to read.  I have also fixed up

a minor bug due to Winword 6 when writing to the HPJ file (sometimes

causing it to fail, especially when Fast Saving is disabled).

I'm also giving a special offer for the source code of all the

WordBasic macros, ie. if you register within the next few weeks,

I'll include with your registered version a completely uncopy-protected

document template, so you can modify them as much as you want!!!

For those who missed the original posting when it was first released,

here is it:

--------------------------------------------------------------------

As was announce a few weeks ago, I've been working on a version

of HyperTrack/HyperDoc that will support Word for Windows 6......

{HyperTrack = a windows application that `attaches' itself to winhelp.exe

 providing numerous functions including full text searches, dynamic

 topic groupings, ability to save history after session, print multiple

 topics at one go, dynamic listing of all help topics, etc....}

{HyperDoc = a Winword document template that allows a normal word document

 to be converted to a WinHelp file with minimal effort; features

 include automatic handling of context string and other footnotes,

 easy insertion of hypertext links/cross references, master listing

 of all help topics, etc.... }

This version (Release 4.1) did take me quite a while to complete

due to the many bugs/peculiarities in Winword (including ver 6.0a).

However, in case there are still some hidden bugs with it, please

feel free to let me know.  Among the major improvements added for

this release include automatic conversion of Footnotes/Endnotes to

help popup topics, as well as macros for easy creation and referencing

of popup topics.

It will be available via anonymous ftp to "fujitsu.my" (161.142.197.1)

and it'll be under the /pub directory with the name "hyptrk41.zip".

I may upload it within the next few days or so to Cica and Simtel.....

Please feel free to let me know also if you've any comments or queries.

Cheers!

Kenneth Liew

email: ken@fujitsu.my

tel:   +603-7555378/7933888

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Bugs? or am I missing something?

I've been trying to develop a help file and have come up with a few

problems.  I've consulted the manuals and think I'm using these features

correctly, but they work in unexpected ways.

(1) I can't get background color.  I can get foreground color (for text)

but when I use the \cb command, it does nothing.  I've even tried the

example in the large manual but it doesn't work.

(2) I get inconsistent result with the left indent (\li) command.  In some

cases it works fine but in others it changes the indent for the entire

topic.  I think I'm using it according to the documentation but maybe

something more is required.

(3) Our product, MATLAB, uses a slightly larger font for the first letter.

I set the default font size at 20 (10 pt), then reduce the size with this

sequence:  M{\fs18ATLAB}.  Unfortunately, at the end of a line, Help breaks

the word after the M.  I can't even rewrite the text because users can

resize the help window and can't prevent this from happening.  An obvious

workaround is to keep the entire word at the default size but this is

undesirable.

(4) Similar to 3, if I have a hot link at the end of a sentence, I will get

the period on the next line rather than having the last word in the link

text (or whatever it's called) wrapping to the next line.  I should mention

that the period is outside the \uldb \v sequence.

Thanks for whatever help you can provide.  If these are bugs, I'll pass

them on to MS.

==== Michael Cooperman ============== mcooperman@mathworks.com ====

     The MathWorks, Inc.

     24 Prime Park Way, Natick, MA 01760

==== Tel: 508-653-1415 ==== Fax: 508-653-6971 =====================

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help compiler

Thanks for the great recommendation on RoboHELP.

It's always great to hear from satisfied customers, and

to make sure you're continually happy, please make sure

and send me any feature requests or comments directly to

me at gen@bix.com or 76376.43@compuserve.com.

One of the reasons RoboHELP 2 is so popular among tech

writers is that they designed it.  When building the

feature list/prototypes for the product I talked to about

50 customers working in tech writing all over the country

and many of them had excellent suggestions that were

incorporated directly (with a little winagination) into

the product.

Gen

(Creator of RoboHELP and Multimedia WinHelp)

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Help and Viewer on NT?

Rich,

Currently, I don't believer there is a 32-bit Viewer

engine.  However, the WinHelp used in WinNT is a

full 32-bit application.

The Help compiler included with NT (and probably VC++

for NT) _used_ to be a bound-mode executable that

ran under the OS/2 text sub-system.  Whether it

was ported to Win32 is not clear to me.  Either way

the Win32 help compiler has never suffered the limits

that the DOS one has.

Gen

(Creator of RoboHELP and Multimedia WinHelp)

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Doc-To-Help vs RoboHELP

rujo@ulrik.uio.no (Rune J|rgensen) writes:

>Can anyone point me to an article that evaluates these two help tools?

>-Rune Jorgensen

> rujo@extern.uio.no

Rune,

There hasn't been a comparison of RoboHELP and Doc-2-Hlp published

in quite some time.  However, all the articles published since

RoboHELP 2.0 was released in August 93 have indicated that RoboHELP

is the most powerful help authoring tool currently available.

Feature for feature, we are still the richest tool around, especially

when considering the extras that are included free in the package.

Chances are, if you see a feature in a competing product that is

not in RoboHELP, that feature can be obtained thru tech-support

and the Blue Sky BBS.  I'm thinking specifically of fancy DLLs here.

As a final plug, you may want to note that RoboHELP was the only

help authoring tool named in the 1994 Top 100 products list in

Windows Magazine.

Gen

(Creator of RoboHELP and Multimedia WinHelp)

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Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

In article <2p6nkb$5dt@goofy.unisa.ac.za> dtoitah@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Arnold du Toit) writes:

>Nick Youd (nick@logcam.co.uk) wrote:

>> Can anybody enlighten me as to whether it's possible to use RTF files

>> produced by Word 6.0 for compilation by Multimedia Viewer 2? If there are

>> incompatibilities, are there any workarounds or patches in existence?

>

>I am also urgently requiring this information.

>

>Please help.

>

>Regards

>Arnold

Hi,

In ftp.microsoft.com in the /drg/Multimedia there is a viewer-20a

directory, that is supposed to include these patches.

Hope this helps.

Ron.

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WinHelp File Format

dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) wrote:

>In article <2pgf6u$go5@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>

>>dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) wrote:

[stuff deleted]

>After working through your DDJ articles, it looks to me that a help merge

>program is a reasonable target.  If I can get the bugs out of my .HLP file

>code I'll try it.  I'd rather not go through RTF, because I'll be adding

>small files onto a pretty large one, and recompiling the whole thing in HC31

>would take forever.

>

>Duncan Murdoch

>dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca

  Duncan,

    You may be underestimating the task. If you intend to actually merge

help topics into an existing help file, you're looking at a really major

ordeal. There isn't enough information in my articles to take on such a

task, I would imagine.

    You would be better off keeping the help files seperate and doing

links between them.

   Pete

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Help Files: Creating both WinHelp and IPF from single source?

Eric

Micrografx had a product called Mirrors that has gone thru many

vendors, packaging and other gymnastics.  When last I talked

to the people at Micrografx, they had a tool for converting

WinHelp sources files into IPF directly, including WinHelp

graphics formats and the like.

However, recently there have been rumours that Micrografx is

no longer supporting Mirrors.  If you do get information,

I'd be interested to know what the status is.

Gen

(Creator of RoboHELP)

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Format of Browse sequence

Does anyone know whether the Browse sequence number can be coded in

hexadecimal instead of decimal (+00a instead of +011)?

Thanx,

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Is it possible to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

I tried having the hotspot call the popup and then having a macro against

the popup topic but the macro only gets called if u JUMP to the topic.

jf

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WORDS 6.0 help me!!!!!!!

Good day people, I need of your help!!!!!!

I have installed the WORDS 6.0 but when I try to open a file, the programm

send me a messages that call: You can't open the file xxx.doc . Other user

is working with it's file.

This is not is logical so I can't use network in the Windows.

I have installed in my machine network by use Ethernet with drivers of

tokenRing...will be it the problem???

I use a Compaq Prolinea net/25s... in my point of view this machine is very

slow and complicated for the mistakes that creates.

Please helpme :)

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Mikail Ruutu (mikruutu@utu.fi) wrote:

: Does anyone know whether the Browse sequence number can be coded in

: hexadecimal instead of decimal (+00a instead of +011)?

  Browse sequences are text, and are sorted as such. That's why "10" comes

before "2" in a browse sequence. You have to use "02" for it to come

before "10" because the ASCII value of "2" is > "1". So the answer to

your question is, yes you can use hex numbers because the ASCII values of

"a" through "f" are > than the ASCII values of "0" through "9".

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    I recently obtained several of the Microsoft Knowledge Base files from

FTP.Microsoft.Com. The files are in "help file" format. As such, they can be

opened and read from within any windows application. However, you must

specifically OPEN the specific knowledge base file you want.

    In addition to the two "help" files, each knowledge base set also

containes 3 other files:

                          FTengine.dll

                          FTui.dll

                          MVAPI.dll

    All of the DLL's are identical, regardless of which knowledge base set

from which they were obtained. It has been suggested by some people on the

net, that the dll's are used by the help engine to access the knowledge base

files. However, I was able to open the help KB files even though I had NOT

installed the three dll's on my system.

    This leads me to believe that there is some sort of application

available specifically to utilize the knowledge base without using the

actual "Help" menus.

    Does anyone know of such an application and/or where to obtain it ?? Or,

is there some way of setting up a specific windows "menu" selection for each

individual KB file ?

    For some reason the folks at MS claim ignorance on the topic. But after

all, if there wasn't an application available, why bother packaging the

DLL's with

EACH set of knowledge base files?????

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Word Docs as Help Files

ee92pms@brunel.ac.uk wrote:

: Hi There,

: We already have all our technical documentation stored as MS Word Files on

: computer. Are there any packages around that enable me to convert these to Help

: files complete with context links and such like. This would then mean

: I could have the equipment documentation on the P.C. its running on as a help

: file very easily.

: Any Offers???

: Paul Sargent

: Microelectronics Brunel University

Well Paul, the road to .HLP from Word is not too difficult.  You can save

your document as an .RTF file with some special formatting and you will

have the beginning of a .HLP file.  Of course you will need to compile

the .RTF to place it in .HLP format.  There are lots of other options,

however most of them will require that you save your document to .RTF format.

Jon

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secondary help window buttons

can anyone tell me how ms inserted real buttons (not hotspot graphics) in their

word 6.0 help? i am part of a team creating a huge modular help system, and we

use secondary windows quite a bit. right now we're just using hotspot graphics

to print secondary help topics, etc that *look* like buttons, but they don't

press in. i'm not a programmer, but if anyone could tell me in which direction

to look i'd be grateful--of course this will all be moot once chicago arrives,

but until then....

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Looking for Source Control Tool

Have you looked at PVCS from Intersolv ?

Lester Sussman

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WinHelp File Format

In article <2poja3$qav@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>    You may be underestimating the task. If you intend to actually merge

>help topics into an existing help file, you're looking at a really major

>ordeal. There isn't enough information in my articles to take on such a

>task, I would imagine.

Your articles certainly don't give all the details of the internal topic

structures, but my hope is that I can accomplish it without knowing all of

that.  "All" that I need to do is to update crossreferences so that they

point to the new positions; other than that, I can treat most topic content

as black boxes and not worry about it.  I'm not going to attempt to do as

good a job as if the whole file were recompiled, but I'm optimistic that I

can create a file that will work.

Duncan

Duncan Murdoch

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WinHelp mulitple links.

In article <1994Apr26.124311.17256@cc.usu.edu> sl4hq@cc.usu.edu writes:

>I need a DLL or something that will allow me to do the following:  I want to

>click an icon, and have a window pop up with a choice of several links.  It's

>to be used for cross-referencing a book.  Anyone have any ideas?

>

>-------------------------------------------------------------

>Michael J. Ames

>

Why DLL, why not to create a link (In your hypergraphic) that will display

a popup, that has the links to the list of topics you are interested in.

Ron.

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Word Docs as Help Files

Hi There,

We already have all our technical documentation stored as MS Word Files on

computer. Are there any packages around that enable me to convert these to Help

files complete with context links and such like. This would then mean

I could have the equipment documentation on the P.C. its running on as a help

file very easily.

Any Offers???

Paul Sargent

Microelectronics Brunel University

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Word Docs as Help Files

In article b5v@snlsu1.london.sinet.slb.com, ee92pms@brunel.ac.uk writes:

>We already have all our technical documentation stored as MS Word Files on

>computer. Are there any packages around that enable me to convert these to Help

>files complete with context links and such like. This would then mean

>I could have the equipment documentation on the P.C. its running on as a help

>file very easily.

  I found something like this on ftp.cica.indiana.edu [129.79.26.27]

  called Dr. Help.  I haven't tried it, but it sounds like what you

  are asking for.  It is stored under /pub/pc/win3/winword/drhelpe5.zip

  Cuyler

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How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

John Foy (DECsplit Contractor) (foy@xagony.enet.dec.com) wrote:

: Is it possible to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

: I tried having the hotspot call the popup and then having a macro against

: the popup topic but the macro only gets called if u JUMP to the topic.

: 	jf

It depends on the timing, but...   If you string a macro and a popup

together with a semicolon (;) you may be able to get results. There are

some quirky timing issues that may cause protection faults, but what the

heck? Give it a try. eg.  macro(); PI("help.hlp","theTopic")

C-u

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Special Characters in Help File

Several contributers have clarified the situation re inserting

special characters (characters over ANSI 128) into help files.

 It seems that there are two approaches to this problem:

 o  Edit the rtf file with an ascii editor, replacing

    the symbols with their flagged HEX equivalent..

     eg. /'8E (for the open-quote character ANSI 142)

              or

 o  Insert //'8E directly into the document text. The

    Help compiler will enterprete the // as a single

    back-slash.

What would be most useful is a utility that would peform this

function for us.  I see two approaches.

 The first would be a WordBasic macro that creates a copy of

your DOC file, scans and replaces all characters above 128

with the hex equivelant, then saves out the RTF file. This

would leave the original DOC in it's WSYWYG form, and would

add a simple pre-proccessing step to the RTF save. The

standard for insertion would be the Insert Symbol function in

W4W.

 The second approach would be a sort of "pre-compiler", used

prior to HC, to substitute the symbols with their hex equiv-

elent.

I like option one above. I can picture how I would do this--

but it would be a couple of months before I could get to it

(three projects on the burner.)

Are there any WordBasic-savant parties out there who would

be interested in taking this on?

C-u

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Principal                                  There's just a song,

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Jump Colors!

OK. I just got a new machine with Windows/DOS pre-loaded. All of a sudden

all my .HLP files(even those I authored) show no green jump labels.

They're all black. Then today I downloaded a shareware program(SmartDoc

for printing all text in a given .HLP file. Nice!) and IT'S .HLP file

displays the jump labels in green! Go figure.

OK. So you're saying "who is this clown? How many .HLP files could he

have authored and not know what's behind this? What a chump!" Yea, sure.

I admit. I AM a rookie .HLP file author. Heck, I even cheat. I use Visual

Help. It allows even rookies like me to quickly author nifty .HLP files.

And I am looking in there to see if there's a variable that can be set.

But damn! Some programs have green labels, some don't. Can't be an

environment variable set in Windows can it?

Any and all help you can provide will be appreciated beyond measure.

Oh...yes...I HAVE looked at the damn manual(RTFMS, yea I get it). I have

VB Pro 3.0. So tell me the page number!

Thanks.

StanO

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First Post

Well, as far as I know, I'm the first one to post.

Since all good newsgroups should be archived, I will volunteer to save all

posts made to this newsgroup for at least a month.  In the meantime, since I

have limited space at my anonymous ftp account, I request that someone else

volunteer to actually archive these posts for access via anonymous ftp.  If

no one steps forward to volunteer, I'll quit saving the posts.

BTW, are there possibilities that this list could be linked with the BITNET

mailing list for WinHelp/Viewer discussion?  There are already over 800 people

on that list (many of whom don't have Usenet access).  I see this being similar

to soc.roots, which is tied together with the Bitnet mailing list ROOTS-L.

Brings together the best of both worlds and allows for maximum participation.

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help compiler

In regards to a help compiler...

   There's one called visual help this thing Rocks...

It's easier then anything i've ever seen..

It should be on winftp.cica.indiana.edu under /win3/programr/vbasic

or on compuservemealargebillfornothing...

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Format of Browse sequence

MMikail,

If you have a browse string FOO:000, I think that the

whole string is interpreted as a string, rather than

as a string/number, so hex should be ok.

If not, then omitting the semi-colon 'FOO0xABC' will

certainly work.

Gen

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Jump Colors!

StanO,

The problem you're seeing is a combination of a bug in WinHelp

and the capabilities of your Video driver.

Apparently, WinHelp looks at the device caps of the screen

and for some hires drivers, thinks that the screen is monochrome,

hence the black hotspots.

Gen

(Creator of RoboHELP and Multimedia WinHelp)

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Help compiler runs out of file handles

In article <2p05j5$h7p@pcproj.datastream.co.uk>, davec@pcproj.datastream.co.uk (David Castell) says:

>

>

>If I run hc31 from nmake whilst building my large help file I get an error

>message saying out of file handles. I have tried files=80 in my config.sys.

>

>Any ideas most welcome.

>

>

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Listen Dave,

I had that problem to but I have found another version the latest 3.10.505 of Help Compiler.

If you want maybe I could send it to you.We took it from some site.

And if you have problems with memory you should make more hlp files and then connect

 them with macros.Also if you are using bmp files it is better if you make them 16 color.

That's it for now.

Have questions ask !!!

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WinHLP Undocumented Stuff??

Not sure if this is a faq but could someone post or email me a list of the

undocumented features for development in WINHELP??

Many thanks,

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Bugs? or am I missing something?

Thanks to all of you who replied to my earlier note.  I also spoke with MS

support people and can provide follow-up information about the problems I

had.

I should start off by saying that the way I create the help source files is

not how most users do it.  I'm using the Help tokens rather than entering

the topic files as I want them to appear.  I then save the files as text

only files, then process them thru the Help compiler.  I generally don't

see them as RTF files (altho when I converted two of the files to RTF, they

made Word crash!).  I don't know whether users who don't use the Help

tokens have these problems.

First, the background color token (\cb) doesn't work.

Second, the left indent (\li) token works in some places and not in others.

 The documentation says that the setting applies to all subsequent

paragraphs until the next \pard or \li token.  Apparently, this setting

applies across topics.  I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work in other

places.

The third and fourth problems are really the same.  Help seems to think it

can break a word at an opening or closing brace ({}).  So, if you define a

link with a \v token and follow that link with a closing parenthesis or

even a period, if necessary, Help will actually break the line between the

link and the following character.  A related rule seems to be that changing

the character format within a word will cause Help to consider the word to

be multiple words, and will, if necessary, break a line between the

character changes.  For example, our product name is MATLAB. We write it

with all caps and reducing the size of the ATLAB by a point.  If the

product name appears at the end of a line, Help will break it between the M

and A.  It obviously shouldn't work that way but who knows when and if

it'll get fixed.  We need to consider whether to discard our standard for

MS Help.

I'll soon begin exploring these help creation tools or, at least, WYSIWYG.

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ee92pms@brunel.ac.uk () wrote:

>We already have all our technical documentation stored

>as MS Word Files on

> computer. Are there any packages around that enable me

>to convert these to Help  files complete with context

>links and such like.

Paul,

I suggest you take a look at our product Doc-To-Help.  It can

easily take exisitng documentation and create a full-featured

.HLP file in an automated fashion. Doc-To-Help is the most

widely-used printed documentation and Windows Online help

system. Version 1.6, a Word for Windows 6.0 (and 2.0)

compatible version will be available very soon and will be

distributed free to all registered Doc-to-Help users along with

the Hyperformance Tools, a set of powerful utilities that add

new and unique capabilities to Windows Help and the Help

authoring environments. For more information, call us at

212-949-9595.

Paul Neshamkin

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Jump Colors!

In article <2q12c2$ivm@nwfocus.wa.com>, stano@coho.halcyon.com (Stan Orchard)

says:

>

>OK. I just got a new machine with Windows/DOS pre-loaded. All of a sudden

>all my .HLP files(even those I authored) show no green jump labels.

>They're all black. Then today I downloaded a shareware program(SmartDoc

>for printing all text in a given .HLP file. Nice!) and IT'S .HLP file

>displays the jump labels in green! Go figure.

>

Changing the INI file settings is one way of changing help colors.

The other is to define a color table in your RTF file and then refer

to those color entries when defining jump labels.  If you open the

RTF file generatesed by VH, you'll see a color table with 16 entries.

These are the sixteen standard Windows colors.  That's why

your help colors are different.  You can also remove the underline

for jump labels.

Sajjad Ahrabi

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Help compiler runs out of file handles

If you are building over a Novell Network you will have to place a line

in your shell.cfg or net.cfg file:

   file handles = 80

Otherwise, I have no idea.

JOn

sasha (sasha@datlin.ee) wrote:

: In article <2p05j5$h7p@pcproj.datastream.co.uk>, davec@pcproj.datastream.co.uk (David Castell) says:

: >

: >

: >If I run hc31 from nmake whilst building my large help file I get an error

: >message saying out of file handles. I have tried files=80 in my config.sys.

: >

: >Any ideas most welcome.

: >

: >

: >--

: >-- davec@pcproj.datastream.co.uk -- david castell -- datastream international ltd

: Listen Dave,

: I had that problem to but I have found another version the latest 3.10.505 of Help Compiler.

: If you want maybe I could send it to you.We took it from some site.

: And if you have problems with memory you should make more hlp files and then connect

:  them with macros.Also if you are using bmp files it is better if you make them 16 color.

: That's it for now.

: Have questions ask !!!

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Looking for Source Control Tool

I've had a similar problem with cross-platform source control products myself.

PVCS is the only option I've come across. Interestingly, a certain Seattle-

based company provide their Mac developers with a PC just to run MS-Delta,

rather than run someone else's source tool!

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Format of Browse sequence

gen on BIX (gen@BIX.com) wrote:

: If you have a browse string FOO:000, I think that the

: whole string is interpreted as a string, rather than

: as a string/number, so hex should be ok.

  Yes, but the two parts (before and after the colon) are treated

seperately. The first part "FOO" defines the browse sequence group. All

browse sequences starting with "FOO:" will be grouped together. The

second part "000" defines the position of the topic in this group.

: If not, then omitting the semi-colon 'FOO0xABC' will

: certainly work.

  If you leave the colon out then all the browse sequences will be

in the same group (which may be just what you want).

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In article <1994Apr12.043535.22165@sol.UVic.CA> cpearson@sol.UVic.CA (Christopher Pearson) writes:

>In article <2ockki$g63@hpscit.sc.hp.com>,  <jjohn@sid.hp.com> wrote:

>>Can somebody post the complete steps to implement help for

>>an application in MS-Windows. I am new to MS-Windows and

>>so can anyone give me some references where I can find more

>>information on these. I would like to add my help to

>>already existing windows help.

>

>FTP to wuarchive.wustl.edu, and in the /systems/ibmpc/win3/programr directory

>you'll find a file called what.zip.  It's pretty big (1308637), but seems

>to be a pretty complete help file system.  You need Word for Windows 2.0

>for this one.  The help files it installs into Word contains most of the help

>you'll need to get going.

Just further detail:  On some ftp sites, this has be renamed what20.zip to

indicate it is the help compiler for word4win 2.0 as opposed to what60.zip

which is for word4win 6.0.  Make sure you get the appropriate one.  If you

have problems check the microsoft ftp archive for an updated general

compiler which I think is called hcp311.505?  Anyway the last three digits

are 505 in the most recent and complete version of the compiler (or so

I've been told).  It seems questionable as to whether this version of the

help compiler is entirely legit and free to all.

Does anyone know what the implications are of using the compiler?  Ie, if

I come up with some wonderous application based on it, do I have to go to

jail if I start selling copies of it?

later, phil

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How to write Help files.

In article <2os20o$ovt@news.umbc.edu> rfarre1@umbc.edu (farrell robert ( bs ifsm)) writes:

>I am interested in learning how to write .hlp files.

>I know there is probably a lot of information to spare,

>so could somebody please throw some my way.  Maybe point me

>in the right direction?

PC Magazine has had a mini-series on creating help files recently.

It spanned multiple issues, so you might want to look through your

last 6 months or so.  Or check a library if you don't get pcmag.

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[Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find what6.zip?

Hi all,

I know this has been asked before (because I once saw it - but at this time

I havn't paid attention to it), so please don't flame me!

I want to develop a .hlp file using MS' WHAT, distributed on their MSDN CD 6.

But for using WinWord 6 with this tool, I'm supposed to install what6

instead of what31 - am I right?

I've been poking around a little bit at MS' ftp site, but due to lack of

a 00index, I couldn't find this what6.zip file.

So, please give me a pointer on where exactly to obtain this zip archive!

Thanx for your efforts - they are greatly appreciated.

Bye,

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[Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find what6.zip?

What is WHAT?  I have never heard of it.

Jon

Philipp Schmitz (philipps@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de) wrote:

: Hi all,

: I know this has been asked before (because I once saw it - but at this time

: I havn't paid attention to it), so please don't flame me!

: I want to develop a .hlp file using MS' WHAT, distributed on their MSDN CD 6.

: But for using WinWord 6 with this tool, I'm supposed to install what6

: instead of what31 - am I right?

: I've been poking around a little bit at MS' ftp site, but due to lack of

: a 00index, I couldn't find this what6.zip file.

: So, please give me a pointer on where exactly to obtain this zip archive!

: Thanx for your efforts - they are greatly appreciated.

: Bye,

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WinHLP Undocumented Stuff??

On 30 Apr 94 21:28:48 EDT (comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp), DUCK@PEMBVAX1.PEMBROKE.EDU (CRAIG TAYLOR) (duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu) wrote:

: Not sure if this is a faq but could someone post or email me a list of the

: undocumented features for development in WINHELP??

Please, post here since there are, for sure, many others who would

have use of the list.

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WinHelp mulitple links.

In article <Cp2vwH.46n@actcom.co.il>, rlsitav@actcom.co.il (Ron Levi) writes:

> In article <1994Apr26.124311.17256@cc.usu.edu> sl4hq@cc.usu.edu writes:

>>I need a DLL or something that will allow me to do the following:  I want to

>>click an icon, and have a window pop up with a choice of several links.  It's

>>to be used for cross-referencing a book.  Anyone have any ideas?

>>

>>-------------------------------------------------------------

>>Michael J. Ames

>>

>

> Why DLL, why not to create a link (In your hypergraphic) that will display

> a popup, that has the links to the list of topics you are interested in.

>

> Ron.

>

Sure.  I often do that.  I've created a bunch of small command button like

graphics in Corel Photopaint.  They have titles like links, comment, examples

map, etc.  I link one of the graphics to a popup with the command

 for example, which takes me to a window that might

have

topic1

topic2

topic3

With each of these linked to the appropriate topic.

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WGW3.11 Question

I've just installed 3.11 to replace the old 3.1...much better drivers etc.

Since I am a stand alone, what files can I safely remove since the network

aspect of 3.11 is of no interest to me? I'm a relative newcomer to the

Windows platform.

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using the ExecProgram macro

Does anyone know of anyway to launch a .wri or .txt file from a help window? i

tried using the EP macro and i can launch the write.exe file, but not a

document using that program. any suggestions?

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Here are some undocumented macros. You should see the Windows/DOS devloper's

Journal (vo. 5 no. 1 January 1994) for more info. also, look for jim mischner's

(?) book to come out (see an earlier posting) in June and August.

To make it so i didn't have to explain anythign and therefore confuse people

(funny taht i'm a tech writer), i offer some macros that you can insert into

your .hpj file. Then you can see first hand what these do.

;Floating menu bar

InsertItem("mnu_floating","ID_Print","Print Topic","Print()",1)

;cascading menus

InsertMenu("mnu_helpme","H&elp Me, I've fallen!",5)

ExtInsertMenu("mnu_helpme","ID_doodah","Doo &Dah",0,0)

ExtInsertItem("ID_doodah","ID_solitaire","Solitaire","EP(`sol.exe',0)",1,0)

ExtInsertItem("ID_doodah","ID_Write","Write me a Note","EP(`write.exe',0)",2,0)

ExtInsertMenu("mnu_helpme","ID_salut","Salut, mon vieux",1,0)

ExtInsertItem("ID_salut","ID_ca_va","Ca Va?","HelpOn()",1,1)

ExtInsertItem("id_salut","id_non","Non","HelpOn()",1,1)

ExtInsertItem('ID_salut","id_oui","OUI!","EP(`pbrush.exe',1)")

;This adds an item, not a menu, to your menu bar

AppendItem("mnu_main","itm_clock","Clock","EP(`clock.exe',0)")

This can be used to reset the menu bar: ResetMenu() no parameters

This can be used to hide the menu bar: HideMenuBar() no parameters

This can be used to redisplay the menu bar: ShowMenu() no parameters

There are some more, but these seemed the most useful.

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Proposal: Special characters

Summerizing the contributions of several people, characters above

ANSI 128 may be inserted into help files by replacing the char-

acter with a hexidecimal marker. There are two ways to do this:

open the RFT file with a text editor and replace characters with

hex markers, eg open-quote becomes /'8E. Or, insert //'8E in the

document to be saved as RTF. (The RTF spec has / as a reserved

symbol, so it must be typed in as // to be properly interpreted

by the help comipler.)

It would be nice to have a WordBasic macro that would do conversion

of standard symbols just prior to RTF save. It would:

   1) Make a copy of the document

   2) Parse the document text, replacing all of

      a set of pre-defined characters with Hex markers,

   3) Save in RTF format (using the standard Wordbasic call),

   4) discard the copy of the document.

This would preserve the WYSIWYG nature of the original document

while taking care of the special character problem.

 I can do this, but it will have to wait a month or so. I have

three projects on the burner right now. Any WordBasic-savant

parties out there interested in taking this on for the benefit

of the group?

C-u

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How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

John, I tried to respond to your e-mail but the message got bumped

back for "unknown host". Anyway, I've had timing problems with the

use of an external DLL that loads a MODAL dialog box (a nag screen).

If I make a call that results in a system event such as re-paint,

window re-size, re-position, or secondary window creation, and then

load this modal dialog, I can get protection faults. These cause

Windows to kill winhelp. They seem to happen when the system event

is interrupted by the modal dialog. Since you won't be loading any

modal dialogs, you probably don't need to worry. But be aware that

in certain respects Winhelp is not too robust.

C-u

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List of Different RTF Compilers?

I am also happy to see this windows help group.

I have heard of a shareware product called "hlpdk" (Help Developers

Kit??), that can compile an RTF file onto multiple targets (WinHelp,

OS/2, etc...) Where can I find this? Does it support MS MultiMedia Viewer?

Thanks for any info.

Tomas

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re: including special characters in help files

I'm confused.  Everyone is talking about writing conversion programs to

convert special characters (above decimal 127) to the proper Rich Text

Format commands after they save their Word document.  When I save a Word 6.0

document (I have no experience with 2.0), it does this automatically!  For

example, I just created a document with 3 characters, e grave, e acute, and

the copywrite symbol, by using the insert character code commands.  I then

saved the document as an RTF, and dumped the output file.  The RTF commands

translate  correctly as \'e8\'e9\'a9.  No additional programming required!

Perhaps this feature is unique to Word 6.0, or they ship we Canadians a

special version which handles this.  All I know is that mine works well.  I

write lots of French text stuff, and never have any problems with creating

Help files with these special characters.

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In article <2pp1f5$76s@news.intelsat.int> l.sussman@intelsat.int writes:

>

>Have you looked at PVCS from Intersolv ?

It might be PVCS or it might be the way we've got it set up, but I didn't

think PVCS was very good.  We're only using Suns, so we don't need its

(supposed) inter-platfrom abilities.

As I understand it, it is a MS-DOS program ported to Unix.  This might

explain why it uses its own "diff" program which I think is

less readable than Unix' diff.  It also goes into an infinate

loop sometimes on a Ctrl-C.

It has a GUI interface that we've never used.  We had a little trouble getting

it setup, but nobody really tried very hard.

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Color Common Dialog help button

When using the Windows 3.1 common dialogs to select colors

how does one respond to the "Help" button?

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Jump Colors!

gen on BIX (gen@BIX.com) wrote:

: StanO,

: The problem you're seeing is a combination of a bug in WinHelp

: and the capabilities of your Video driver.

: Apparently, WinHelp looks at the device caps of the screen

: and for some hires drivers, thinks that the screen is monochrome,

: hence the black hotspots.

: Gen

: (Creator of RoboHELP and Multimedia WinHelp)

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Good answer!

Just switched from 256 colors to standard vga and lo and behold they're

back!

So...anyfixes for this?

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SAHRABI@auvm.american.edu wrote:

: In article <2q12c2$ivm@nwfocus.wa.com>, stano@coho.halcyon.com (Stan Orchard)

: says:

: >

: >OK. I just got a new machine with Windows/DOS pre-loaded. All of a sudden

: >all my .HLP files(even those I authored) show no green jump labels.

: >They're all black. Then today I downloaded a shareware program(SmartDoc

: >for printing all text in a given .HLP file. Nice!) and IT'S .HLP file

: >displays the jump labels in green! Go figure.

: >

: Changing the INI file settings is one way of changing help colors.

: The other is to define a color table in your RTF file and then refer

: to those color entries when defining jump labels.  If you open the

: RTF file generatesed by VH, you'll see a color table with 16 entries.

: These are the sixteen standard Windows colors.  That's why

: your help colors are different.  You can also remove the underline

: for jump labels.

: Sajjad Ahrabi

Yes! Sajjad Ahrabi, you, too win a prize!

(see my response to the first post regarding this dilema)

Thanks for the helpful info!

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In article <1994May3.211514.27520@mksol.dseg.ti.com>,

Michael Vincze <mav@dseg.ti.com> wrote:

>When using the Windows 3.1 common dialogs to select colors

>how does one respond to the "Help" button?

>

Hi!

What you do is this:

Somewhere at the beginning of your program (WinMain() will do

OK), call RegisterWindowMessage(HELPMSGSTRING).  Be sure to

include <commdlg.h> and check if ^^^^^^^^^^^^ is the right

macro (haven't got the docs handy).  Save the returned value

somewhere (e.g. commdlghelp_id).

Then in your main window message loop check for messages with

that id:

switch(msg) {

case WM_COMMAND:

...

...

case .....

....

default:

if(msg==commdlghelp_id)

WinHelp(hwnd, myhelpfile,

HELP_JUMPID, colorhelp_id);

else DefWindowProc(...);

}

Oh, one more thing: don't forget to OR in CC_SHOWHELP into

the Flags field of your CHOOSECOLOR struct.

Now all that's left to do is write the help file :-)

Miguel Carrasquer

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Get topic from command line?

Just wondered if it is possible to start WinHelp at a specified topic in

a help file from the command line? This might be useful for sidestepping

the use of bookmarks if there is a topic commonly referred to. What I

am thinking of is the case where a help file has one or more minor

indices as well as the contents page and a minor index is referred to

on a regular basis. Applications featuring a macro language often

provoke this situation.

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Finished AFXOLECL.RTF? Share it??

Has anyone filled in the blanks in AFXOLECL.RTF? I thought that the framework

would supply a little more about the OLE features since they are pretty much

alike in every program.

I would much appreciate if you would share your AFXOLECL.RTF with me, saving

me a whole bunch of time.

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In article <1994Apr26.124311.17256@cc.usu.edu>,  <sl4hq@cc.usu.edu>

(Michael J. Ames) wrote:

>I need a DLL or something that will allow me to do the following:  I want to

>click an icon, and have a window pop up with a choice of several links.  It's

>to be used for cross-referencing a book.  Anyone have any ideas?

>

Hi!

I wrote a DLL that contains a function that does just that.

Unfortunately, it's to be included in our soon-to-be-released

WP-to-WinHelp conversion tool "HelpPerfect", so I can't give

it to you.  However, just when I had finished debugging that

part of the code, I came across a much simpler solution reading

the Windows/DOS DJ for Jan. '94.  In Jim Mischel's article

"Undocumented WinHelp Macros" you'll find just the thing:

FloatingMenu()  // no params

AppendItems(..) to it first, then call (from within any macro

hotspot).  You'll get a Windows popup menu with your menu-items

(which in turn jump, pop or invoke macros).

If you have more choices than would comfortably fit in a popup

menu, you might consider a jump to a secondary window, which

contains a list of hotspots.

Hope this helps you.

Miguel Carrasquer

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WGW 3.11 Question

Recently installed 3.11 over 3.1 but am standalone and don't need

networking capabilities. Which files can I safely delete from 3.11

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winhelp -> text??? help!

mflex@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Media-Flex Technology) wrote:

>I need a way to convert WinHELP helps into ascii

>text.... any way???

>

  There's a product called Multi-Doc that will convert a Windows .HLP file

back into a .RTF file (from which WinHelp files are generated). This can

then be read into Word for Windows and then saved as ascii text.

  I don't know who makes Multi-Doc, and I don't know how much it costs.

Other than that, I don't know of anyone who has done anything like that.

As for capturing the printing, it's not quite that easy since there will

be graphics and control characters all over the place. An easier method

would be to move the text to the clipboard, in which case, all graphics

are removed, and then store the clipboard somewhere. This would be tedious

with long topics, but it might be possible to write a macro and .DLL to do

this automatically.

  Pete Davis

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HCP from Windows

Hopefully someone can help me with this problem.

I've never been able to run the HCP (extended memory help compiler) from

within Windows... it gives me an "Application has violated system

integrity" error message and then drops out of the DOS prompt.

If I run HCP under straight DOS, it runs fine. What gives? I know it's

probably a simple memory configuration problem under Windows but I can't

for the life of me figure out what it is.

Any and all help appreciated,

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Paul,

This is what we are using RoboHelp for.  It is incredibly easy to convert your

Word documents to .hlp files.  And the key is, you can do this quickly.

RoboHelp is available from Blue Sky software.  We had looked into several

packages (including Doc to Help) and we found RoboHelp to be the easiest

one to use. You do not need to have much of a programming background to

understand what is going on, and what to do.

If you have any particular questions about RoboHelp, I know that GEN

(the creator of RoboHelp) is monitoring the group and can help you out.

Good Luck!

Bill Bledsoe

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           duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu

           "DUCK@PEMBVAX1.PEMBROKE.EDU (CRAIG TAYLOR" writes:

>Not sure if this is a faq but could someone post or email me a list of the

>undocumented features for development in WINHELP??

Why do you want to use undocumented features. Do you WANT your software

to break in future versions of Windows???

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Get topic from command line?

In article 3005@zippy, ggreig@mcs.dundee.ac.uk (Gavin Greig) writes:

>Just wondered if it is possible to start WinHelp at a specified topic in

>a help file from the command line? This might be useful for sidestepping

>the use of bookmarks if there is a topic commonly referred to. What I

>am thinking of is the case where a help file has one or more minor

>indices as well as the contents page and a minor index is referred to

>on a regular basis. Applications featuring a macro language often

>provoke this situation.

>

>GG.

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You could accomplish that by writing a program for which you

pass the help filename and topic as arguments.  The program

in turn would use the WinHelp() function to open the file to the

proper topic.

Here's some code just to keep people happy:

  WinHelp (hWindow, HlpFilename, HELP_PARTIALKEY, Longint (PChar ('topic')));

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in a previous post, chris marriott put forth the notion that undocumented

macros would cause 'your software to break in future versions of Windows'.

the thing is that these undoc'd macros are written into the winhelp engine. it

may not have been the smartest thing to do, but i opened and then saved the

winhelp.exe file as a text file under a different name (not being a programmer

and being ignorant of integrity problems, i could live with myself). these

undocumented macros are encoded in the .exe file. now i know that because these

are undocumented macros, and thus perhaps unsupported, that they may get

screwed up in chicago or other version of windows. but if you're willing to

take the risk to increase functionality, then it's up to that help writer.

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Command line switches for WINHELP.EXE

In the past I've heard of switches that can be used

on a command line start of WINHELP.EXE.

For example,

WINHELP.EXE test.hlp

would run the test.hlp help file.

I believe there is a way to run the help file and

jump directly into a specific topic by context ID using

command line switches or parameters.

Can anybody help?

Thanks.

-Chris

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WORDS 6.0 help me!!!!!!!

I experienced the same problem. My guess is, that you installed

word6 without deleting word2.

There are certain share difficulties that I do not fully

understand, but I called Microsoft and they advised me to

delete word2 before installing word6, and everything has

been working fine ever since.

Good luck,

A Kirshenbaum

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On Wed, 4 May 1994 20:49:23 GMT (comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp), Chris Bowering (chrisb@cognos.COM) wrote:

: In the past I've heard of switches that can be used

: on a command line start of WINHELP.EXE.

: For example,

: 	WINHELP.EXE test.hlp

: would run the test.hlp help file.

: I believe there is a way to run the help file and

: jump directly into a specific topic by context ID using

: command line switches or parameters.

I haven't had any success in getting this to work.

It seems like WinHelp.exe would not take any other command line

parameters than the file name.

That leaves us with just one way of opening a help file with a

specific topic: send an internal call to WinHelp.exe from another help

file (like macros JI and JC or jump command TopicX @file.hlp) or

external application (yeah, that's where you get into API).

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stano@coho.halcyon.com (Stan Orchard) writes:

>gen on BIX (gen@BIX.com) wrote:

>: StanO,

>: The problem you're seeing is a combination of a bug in WinHelp

>: and the capabilities of your Video driver.

>: Apparently, WinHelp looks at the device caps of the screen

>: and for some hires drivers, thinks that the screen is monochrome,

>: hence the black hotspots.

>: Gen

>: (Creator of RoboHELP and Multimedia WinHelp)

>Ding! Ding! Ding!

>Good answer!

>Just switched from 256 colors to standard vga and lo and behold they're

>back!

>So...anyfixes for this?

>Thanks!

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Fixes?  Heh, heh.  Not likely.  To fix this bug, you'd

have to intercept the call that WinHelp makes to

GetDeviceCaps, and substitute the correct value

in place of the one returned by the screen.

I have technology to do the above, but I'm waiting for

a rainy day (after Multimedia WinHelp and another

project are complete) to dive in.

Gen

(Creator of RoboHELP and Multimedia WinHelp)

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Windows Help Magician - any comments?

Anybody has used Windows Help Magician before?  How good is it?

I am looking for some WinHelp Authoring tools that can import from

Winword.  Any other comparable products?  Any comments would be

appreciated.

Thanks.

Nelson

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Adding help to application

jonm@xmission.com (Jonathon Montgomery) wrote:

>jjohn@sid.hp.com wrote:

>: Can somebody post the complete steps to implement help for

>: an application in MS-Windows. I am new to MS-Windows and

>: so can anyone give me some references where I can find more

>: information on these. I would like to add my help to

>: already existing windows help.

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>Then there is a yet to be published book, "Developers Guide to Writing

>Windows Help", or something like that.  I will try to find an ISBN and

   I think the book you are thinking about is Rob Burk's (editor of

Windows/DOS Developer's Journal) forthcoming book, "WinHelp for

Programmers and Technical Writers". Last time I talked to Ron, this book

still had quite a ways to go.

   There is also, "Developing Online Help For Windows" by Scott Boggan,

David Farkas, and Joe Welinske. This book is published by SAMS publishing,

ISBN 0-672-30230-6

   This is a pretty good book and has information on, not only the

technical aspects of building help files, but also aesthetic aspects of

designing .HLP files.

   Pete Davis

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duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu (DUCK@PEMBVAX1.PEMBROKE.EDU (CRAIG TAYLOR)) wrote:

>Not sure if this is a faq but could someone post or email me a list of the

>undocumented features for development in WINHELP??

>

>Many thanks,

>

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Craig,

   At this very moment I am working on the FAQ for this newsgroup. I'm

really hoping to get it out today or tomorrow. It's taken longer than I

expected. As far as undocumented features, I do have a section which lists

magazine articles that cover undocumented WinHelp features.

   The FAQ is in a very early version and it may take several revisions before

I get all the information I'm really going to need. I'm hoping to get a

big response from people about things I missed so that the second version

will have a lot more.

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real buttons

i am very curious as to how word 6.0's secondary help windows have REAL buttons

and not little graphic hotspots. can anyone tell me how they did that--keep in

mind that i am not a programmer. but even if it required some programming, i

would appreciate any answer, just to satisfy my curiousity.

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In article <gen.768135492@BIX.com>, gen@BIX.com (gen on BIX) writes:

> stano@coho.halcyon.com (Stan Orchard) writes:

> >gen on BIX (gen@BIX.com) wrote:

> >: StanO,

> >: The problem you're seeing is a combination of a bug in WinHelp

> >: and the capabilities of your Video driver.

> >: Apparently, WinHelp looks at the device caps of the screen

> >: and for some hires drivers, thinks that the screen is monochrome,

> >: hence the black hotspots.

> >: Gen

> >: (Creator of RoboHELP and Multimedia WinHelp)

> >Ding! Ding! Ding!

> >Good answer!

> >Just switched from 256 colors to standard vga and lo and behold they're

> >back!

> >So...anyfixes for this?

> >Thanks!

>

> Fixes?  Heh, heh.  Not likely.  To fix this bug, you'd

> have to intercept the call that WinHelp makes to

> GetDeviceCaps, and substitute the correct value

> in place of the one returned by the screen.

How about *hard* coding your help colors?  (Yes, I know, hard coding isn't

the best thing to do, but in this case, who cares? :-)  I like to hard code

different colors into my help files, according to user ability levels, so

that beginners don't have to wade thru a ton of technobabble to get what they

want.

To do it:

1.  Pick the word(s) to use.

2.  In Word (2.0 or 6.0), click Format->(Character.../Font...), and choose

a color for the text in the dialog that appears.

3.  Underline the word(s).

4.  Add the link text after this/these word(s).  HOWEVER !!! Here's the

trick:  Put a % (percent sign) BEFORE the link textand after the underlined

word(s) !!

5.  Hide the link text after the underlined word, (including the percent

sign).

6.  Compile w/hc31.  Your hyper link should now be in the color of choice.

Have fun!

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To all comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp subscribers:

Below is a VERY ROUGH draft of the FAQ for this newsgroup. The reason I'm

posting it is that I have some areas that I'm going to need help with.

A: Products - If you are the author or user of WinHelp authoring software,

shareware, freeware, or commercial, send me a description in the format

that I've used. The same goes for non-authoring tools.

B: Questions and Answer - This section is very incomplete. Please send me

questions, preferably with answers, that you feel should go in.

C: Sources of information - Send me any sources for information that you

feel should be included. I should be able to get this thing done this week

(my time has freed up a bit) if people send me information.

Pete

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DISCLAIMER: This FAQ is information. Information is a tool. Like a saw,

if you cut off your arm with it, it ain't my fault. Many of the product

descriptions are provided from users or authors. I can not vouch for their

accuracy. I have neither the money, time, nor incentive to check all of these

products. I will always accept comments regarding products and modify this

FAQ when appropriate.

{ Parts of disclaimer adapted from unknown author. If it's you, let me know

and I'll give you credit. }

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CONTENTS

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[1] Introduction

[1-1] What is WinHelp?

[1-2] What's this document all about?

[1-3] What if this FAQ needs more information?

[2] How to Learn to Build WinHelp Files

[2-1] Software and Online Documentation

[2-2] Books

[2-3] Magazines

[3] WinHelp Authoring Tools

[3-1] Shareware/Freeware

[3-2] Commercial

[4] Other Non-Authoring Tools

[4-1] Shareware/Freeware

[4-2] Commercial

[5] Sources for Undocumented WinHelp Features

[5-1] Magazine Articles

[6] Question and Answer

[7] Misc.

[7-1] Online Sources of WinHelp Help

[7-1-1] Newsgroups

[7-1-2] Listserv Lists

[8] Thanks

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[1] - Introduction

[1-1] - What is WinHelp?

    If you've ever hit the help menu item in a Windows program, you've seen

WinHelp. WinHelp is the program that provides the hypertext help system

for Windows programs. WinHelp is actually a very complex and extendable help

system. It allows programmers to add their own functionality through the

use of macros and .DLLs.

[1-2] - What's this document all about?

This document is written as a supplement to the

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup. It is meant to help answer

some of the more common questions about WinHelp. It also supposed to

provide people with sources of information about authoring and extending

WinHelp .HLP files.

[1-3] - What if this FAQ needs more information?

Think this FAQ is deficient in one or more areas? Let me know. Tell me

what you'd like to see. My product list is very incomplete. I don't have time

to track down all products, so if you have one, let me know. I'll gladly add

your product to the list. If you're a user of a product that's not listed,

let me know about it.

I'll try to monitor the newsgroup for common questions to add to the

Question and Answer section. If you have questions that you think should

be included, let me know.

Send all comments, suggestions, etc to pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu or

on Compuserve, 71644,3570.

[2] - How to learn to build WinHelp files

    It is far beyond the scope of this FAQ to teach people how to build

WinHelp .HLP files. However, there is a bit of documentation out there

on creating them.

[2-1] - Software and Online documentation

what.zip, hag.zip, and whag.zip

These three files go together. what.zip has WinHelp Authoring Templates

for WinHelp. hag.zip and whag.zip go together to become the WinHelp

Authoring Guide. These are put together by Microsoft (I believe) and

are freely available from ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the /pub/win3/programr

directory.

MSDN-CD

The Microsoft Developer's Network CD, besides having the Windows Help

Authoring Guide, also has a great knowledge base with information about

WinHelp and creating WinHelp files. For the WHAG, look under Unsupported

Tools.

[2-2] - Books

Developing Online Help

Published by SAMS, written by Scott Boggan, David Farkas, and Joe

Welinske. ISBN: 0-672-30230-6. This book, besides explaining how to

generate WinHelp files, also goes into great detail about how to make your

help files look  good.

[2-3] - Magazines

Windows/DOS Developer's Journal

I mention W/DDJ, a general Windows and DOS programming magazine,

simply because there is lots of WinHelp coverage in W/DDJ. Ron Burk, the

editor of W/DDJ is a real WinHelp fanatic. He's also working on a book

tentatively titled, 'WinHelp for Programmers and Technical Writers'. When

the book is published, I'll add it to the list here.

[3] - Tools Available for Creating Windows Help Files.

Okay, this list is pathetically short. I don't have time to go research

all of these products. Please, if you are a user or an author, send product

descriptions to me: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu.

[3-1] - Shareware/Freeware

> VB AHA!!!

Availability:

Anonymou FTP

ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/util/vbaha124.zip.

Description:

  VB AHA!!! is an inexpensive and easy to use utility for writing Windows help

files. You won't need any expensive wordprocessors or have to use any cryptic

commands. With simple mouse clicks and Drag n Drop ease you will be able to

construct your help files quickly.

  If you use Visual Basic then VB AHA!!! will handle all of the HelpContextID

values for you and even recompile your programs with the new values. No more

hassles of having to insert the values by hand! If you program in C/C++ or

Pascal then VB AHA!!! will create a header file containing all of the

definitions that you will need for context sensitive help in your programs.

[3-2] - Commercial

> Doc-To-Help - WexTech Systems, Inc.                     Price: ~$250.00

Availability:

WexTech Systems, Inc.

310 Madison Ave.

Suite 905

New York, NY 10017

FAX:   (212) 949-4007

Phone: (212) 949-9595

Description:

Doc-To-Help is perfect for people who want their help files to

accurately reflect what's in the printed documentation. Doc-To-Help allows

you to create your WinHelp file and your printed documentation in the same

Word for Windows document.

> The Windows Help Magician - Software Interphase, Inc.   Price: $149.00

Availability:

Software Interphase, Inc.

82 Cucumber Hill Rd.

Suite 207A

Foster, RI 02825

FAX:   (401) 397-6814

Phone: (800) 542-2742

Description:

Window Help Magician is one of the few products to allow you to easily

create WinHelp .HLP files without Word for Windows. It provides its own

editor and WYSIWYG environment. Imports documents from Word.

[4] Other Non-Authoring Tools

This section is devoted to tools that aren't really authoring tools for

WinHelp files, but may be useful to WinHelp authors and/or users. As with

the other product list, this is real incomplete, so send me descriptions of

products you've used or authored.

[4-1] Shareware/Freeware

[4-2] Commercial

[5] Sources for undocumented WinHelp features.

WinHelp is one of Windows least documented features. As most Windows

programmers are aware these days, many aspects of Windows do go undocumented

by Microsoft, but for the rest of Windows, this tends to be less vital

functionality. With WinHelp, many of the important aspects are kept

undocumented. Whether this is the result of laziness or intentions, is

unclear.

Luckily, a few people have taken a lot of time to discover these

undocumented features and made them available in one way or another. In

particular, Ron Burk (editor of Windows/DOS Developer's Journal) has

spent a lot of time working with WinHelp and he is arguably the most

knowledgeable WinHelp expert outside of Microsoft (and maybe including

Microsoft).

Below are a list of articles and other sources of undocumented WinHelp

features listed in alphabetical order by author.

[5-1] Magazine articles

Ron Burk, "Automatic Help Topic Extraction", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

February 1993

In this article Ron writes a .DLL that allows you to insert an "extract"

button in your help file that will extract a WinHelp topic to a file. He also

discusses the fact that WinHelp executes some macros asynchronously.

Ron Burk, "Automatic Help Topic Printing", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

March 1993

In this article Ron writes a .DLL to allow you to print all topics in

a WinHelp .HLP file.

Ron Burk, "Spying on WinHelp," Dr. Dobb's Journal, June 1993

In this article, Ron discusses the WM_WinHelp message used by the

WinHelp() API call. The article describes some uses of this message and

the parameters associated with it.

Ron Burk, "Controlling WinHelp's Always-on-Top State", Windows/DOS Developer's

Journal, November 1993

Ron shows how to control the Always-on-Top State of WinHelp from your

applications.

Pete Davis, "Documenting Documentation," Dr. Dobb's Journal, September 1993

and October 1993

In this two part article, a detailed, though not quite complete,

description of the WinHelp file format is provided. It discusses WinHelp's

internal file system and the structures of the internal files in a

.HLP file.

Pete Davis, ".mrb and .shg File Formats", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

February 1994

This article contains a fairly complete description of the .mrb

(multi-resolution bitmap) and .shg (segmented hyper-graphic) file formats.

These files are used by WinHelp to display bitmaps. The file formats are

almost identical between the two files, though their purposes are quite

different.

Jim Mischel, "Undocumented WinHelp Macros", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

January 1994

Jim describes a lot of undocumented WinHelp macros such as

ExtAbleItem(), ExtInsertItem(), ExtInsertMenu(), ResetMenu(), JumpHash(),

and PopupHash().

[6] Question & Answer:

Q: How can I view my WinHelp files on the Apple Macintosh? Unix?

A: You can use QuickHelp from Altura Software (see product info)

QuickHelp will convert your .RTF files, .BMPs, etc and converts them

into a format that is compatible with their QuickHelp interpreter.

You can also use the Macintosh version of WinHelp that comes with Excel

to view already made .HLP files.

Q: How do I insert symbols (such as the copyright symbol) in my WinHelp

files?

A: There are three ways. The first way works with Word 6.0 only, I believe:

1> select Insert Symbol

   choose Normal Text, not Symbol font.

   Select the copyright symbol

2> Hold down the Alt key and type: 0169

3> insert the code {\'A9} in the .rtf file or your Word document.

Q: Why won't my Word 6.0 .rtf files compile with hc31?

A:

Q: Why can't I set the background color with the \cb help rtf statement?

A: Simple: It doesn't work. The \cb statement was never implemented by

Microsoft. Ooops.

[7] Misc.

Does anyone know how to spell that word (Misc.)? I always abbreviate it.

This is just a sort of free form, general information about whatever

comes to my mind that I can't pigeon-hole in some other section because it's

not appropriate, or it's too small for its own section.

[7-1] Online Sources of WinHelp Help

[7-1-1] Newsgroups

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup

This FAQ is for the comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup,

so you probably already know about it. Just making sure.

[7-1-2] Listserv Lists

WINHLP-L listserv list

Listservs are a system set-up on BITNET, an IBM mainframe network. They

are very similiar to usenet newsgroups and can be subscribed to over the

internet. The main difference is that all messages are sent as e-mail. After

subscribing, you will be sent a message confirming your subscription and

instructions on how to unsubscribe. For other listserv commands, send

e-mail to the listserv with the contents of your message being:

HELP

- To subscribe to the WINHLP-L list, send e-mail to:

LISTSERV@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA

- The contents of your e-mail should be simply:

SUB WINHLP-L

- To unsubscribe, send e-mail to the same address with the contents:

SIGNOFF WINHLP-L

- To post a message to the WINHLP-L list, send e-mail to:

WINHLP-L@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA

- The subject and contents of the e-mail are sent to all subscribers.

[8] Thanks

I'd like to thank the following people for assistance in this FAQ. If

I've missed your name, it's due to my incompetence and not my lack of

appreciation. Please let me know if I missed you.

Anne Foxworthy - Questions for the Q&A section. She supplied some of the more

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Looking for HTML/C++ toolkit

Hi,

I'm looking for some examples an HTML documentation browser written in

C++ (BC++ would be even better).  I'd even be happy knowing how to get

my hands on the HTML browser now used by Windows Mosaic (isn't it in

the public domain?).  Any pointers appreciated.  I would prefer you

respond directly to me and if it turns out to be useful, i'll make

sure to share it with these groups.

thanx,

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[Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find what6.zip?

Philipp Schmitz (philipps@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de) wrote:

: So, please give me a pointer on where exactly to obtain this zip archive!

Pillipp,

 I know what you are talking about.

FTP to ftp.cica.indiana.edu /pub/pc/win3/programr and get HAG.ZIP, WHAG.ZIP,

WHAT.ZIP. HAG and WHAG are parts one and two of the Help Authoring Guide.

WHAT is toolkit with a segmented bitmap editor and a couple of other use-

full utilities.

 However, none of these packages contain the latest versions of the help

compilers. For this, you need to ftp to ftp.microsoft.com  /Softlib/MSLFILES

and get HC505.exe, a self extracting archive.

 Use the hc.exe and hcp.exe that appear in this file, rather than those

in what.zip.

C-u

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Principal                                  There's just a song,

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using the ExecProgram macro

chou@.notis.com wrote:

: Does anyone know of anyway to launch a .wri or .txt file from a help window? i

: tried using the EP macro and i can launch the write.exe file, but not a

: document using that program. any suggestions?

The form is:

   EP("write.exe filename.wri",0)

   EP("winword.exe filename.doc",0)

   EP("notepad.exe filename.txt",0)

You can generally just call the filename.ext and Windows will figure it

out, but...

To aviod confusion (such as an extension not appearing in the

[extensions] section of your win.ini,) use the exe and filename.

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extra spaces after italicized words

got a question:

Winhelp doesn't seem to like text rendered in italics (though it likes bold--go

figure). so i inserted a '%' as hidden text at the end of the paragraph (this

hidden text, used along with a regular hotspot, i.e., Contents%Contents, will

allow you to change the color of the hotspot from green with  ^^^^^^^^^ double

underlines to whatever you want. nifty.) and italicized a few words that i

wanted to highlight. The problem is that when i print the help topic something

(i don't know if it is winhelp or what) inserts extra spaces after the

italicized words. any clue?

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Word 2.0 TOC Style probs.

I need to know where to post this question if this is not the

appropriate group.

I am using Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0b.  And I am having trouble

generating my TOC using the styles set up for me.  I inherited this

document, so I don't know who set up the styles in the first place,

but the relevant styles are "toc 1", "toc 2", "toc 3" and "toc 4".

They seem to be chosen by Word to correspond to the heading styles

in the document, "heading 1", "heading 2", etc.

The problem is that when the TOC is generated, there are erroneous

tab stops set in the entries.  The effect of this is that if the

section title is very short, the page number appears not on the right,

but right next to the section title.

I tried to remove the tab stops from the "toc" styles and redefine them

without the tab stops, but Word insists on putting them back in every

time I regenerate the TOC.  >:-|

Any ideas?

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FAQ

In article <2qbh6v$r3q@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>From: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis)

>Subject: FAQ

>Date: 5 May 1994 15:25:19 -0400

>  I forgot to mention one thing regarding the FAQ for this newsgroup. When

>I have it done, I will generate a WinHelp version. I think it's important

>to keep the ascii version, however, even if I don't relish the idea of

>maintaining two copies.

    I missed the first messages about it, but When is it to be released, and

where can I ftp it from ?

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sysop of SuperByte 486 (819) 775-3471 v32/v42 (bis too!)

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Knowledge Base Files in Help format

In <safarik.1116552880A@131.225.55.79> safarik@fnts26.fnal.gov (R. E. S.) writes:

>    I recently obtained several of the Microsoft Knowledge Base files from

>FTP.Microsoft.Com. The files are in "help file" format. As such, they can be

>opened and read from within any windows application. However, you must

>specifically OPEN the specific knowledge base file you want.

>    In addition to the two "help" files, each knowledge base set also

>containes 3 other files:

>                          FTengine.dll

>                          FTui.dll

>                          MVAPI.dll

>    All of the DLL's are identical, regardless of which knowledge base set

>from which they were obtained. It has been suggested by some people on the

>net, that the dll's are used by the help engine to access the knowledge base

>files. However, I was able to open the help KB files even though I had NOT

>installed the three dll's on my system.

>    This leads me to believe that there is some sort of application

>available specifically to utilize the knowledge base without using the

>actual "Help" menus.

>    Does anyone know of such an application and/or where to obtain it ?? Or,

>is there some way of setting up a specific windows "menu" selection for each

>individual KB file ?

>    For some reason the folks at MS claim ignorance on the topic. But after

>all, if there wasn't an application available, why bother packaging the

>DLL's with

>EACH set of knowledge base files?????

The three files you mention above are used when the .hlp file comes with a

.ind file. This enables the full text search engine. The .ind file contains

the comprehensive index. These files are created for Viewer which is an

advanced version of the Help engine.

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[Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find wh

In article 2qbb9hINNcpr@dns1.NMSU.Edu, tokind@acca.nmsu.edu (Tokind) writes:

>Philipp Schmitz (philipps@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de) wrote:

>

>: So, please give me a pointer on where exactly to obtain this zip archive!

>

>Pillipp,

> I know what you are talking about.

>FTP to ftp.cica.indiana.edu /pub/pc/win3/programr and get HAG.ZIP, WHAG.ZIP,

>WHAT.ZIP. HAG and WHAG are parts one and two of the Help Authoring Guide.

>WHAT is toolkit with a segmented bitmap editor and a couple of other use-

>full utilities.

> However, none of these packages contain the latest versions of the help

>compilers. For this, you need to ftp to ftp.microsoft.com  /Softlib/MSLFILES

>and get HC505.exe, a self extracting archive.

> Use the hc.exe and hcp.exe that appear in this file, rather than those

>in what.zip.

  WHAT6 -- the Windows Help Authoring Tool for Word for Windows 6.0 --

  was just released on the Microsoft Developer's Network CD.  I don't

  know if it is on any ftp sites...

                                   ...Cuyler

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[Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find what6.zip?

In article <2qbb9hINNcpr@dns1.NMSU.Edu> tokind@acca.nmsu.edu (Tokind) writes:

>From: tokind@acca.nmsu.edu (Tokind)

>Subject: Re: [Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find what6.zip?

>Date: 5 May 1994 17:44:17 GMT

>Philipp Schmitz (philipps@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de) wrote:

>: So, please give me a pointer on where exactly to obtain this zip archive!

>Pillipp,

> I know what you are talking about.

>FTP to ftp.cica.indiana.edu /pub/pc/win3/programr and get HAG.ZIP, WHAG.ZIP,

>WHAT.ZIP. HAG and WHAG are parts one and two of the Help Authoring Guide.

>WHAT is toolkit with a segmented bitmap editor and a couple of other use-

>full utilities.

> However, none of these packages contain the latest versions of the help

>compilers. For this, you need to ftp to ftp.microsoft.com  /Softlib/MSLFILES

>and get HC505.exe, a self extracting archive.

> Use the hc.exe and hcp.exe that appear in this file, rather than those

>in what.zip.

     Microsoft publishes WHAT, latest version, as well as their latest HC on

the MSDN CDROM as well. It also contains a nice setup program. I did not

figure out what changes it made to my WinWord yet. It did, since it prompted

me for the location of WinWord. I don't know about the ftp version, but the

MSDN version looks really nice.....

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sysop of SuperByte 486 (819) 775-3471 v32/v42 (bis too!)

jmessier@hookup.net                        74370.340@compuserve.com

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HyperTrack 4.1: Expanding WinHelp's horizon..

: Greetings to all WinHelp authors!

: I've just completed an updated version of HyperTrack (its still called

: Release 4.1 since the changes are very minor) and its available from

: the fujitsu.my ftp site under the filename hyptrk41.zip from the /pub

: directory.  The changes are, this time I've included both the

: hc.pif and hc31.bat files which I left out last time as well made the

: online help on using HyperTrack easier to read.  I have also fixed up

: a minor bug due to Winword 6 when writing to the HPJ file (sometimes

: causing it to fail, especially when Fast Saving is disabled).

The following offer still applies!!

: I'm also giving a special offer for the source code of all the

: WordBasic macros, ie. if you register within the next few weeks,

: I'll include with your registered version a completely uncopy-protected

: document template, so you can modify them as much as you want!!!

[stuff deleted]

: {HyperTrack = a windows application that `attaches' itself to winhelp.exe

:  providing numerous functions including full text searches, dynamic

:  topic groupings, ability to save history after session, print multiple

:  topics at one go, dynamic listing of all help topics, etc....}

: {HyperDoc = a Winword document template that allows a normal word document

:  to be converted to a WinHelp file with minimal effort; features

:  include automatic handling of context string and other footnotes,

:  easy insertion of hypertext links/cross references, master listing

:  of all help topics, etc.... }

[stuff deleted]

**** Latest news **********

HyperTrack Release 4.1 (hyptr41.zip) is now available from the

SimTel repository (oak.oakland.edu or its mirror sites) under

the /pub/msdos/hypertxt directory.

***************************

: Cheers!

: Kenneth Liew

: email: ken@fujitsu.my

: tel:   +603-7555378/7933888

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---

On  5 May 1994 11:30:19 GMT  rcsnc@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (Nelson Cheng) writes

>> Anybody has used Windows Help Magician before?  How good is it?

>> I am looking for some WinHelp Authoring tools that can import from

>> Winword.  Any other comparable products?  Any comments would be

>> appreciated.

>>

They have a demo version that they will send out, Call or write them. The

demo version will produce a limited help file with up to 7 topics. I have

looked at the demo and liked some things and disliked others. The one

very big thing that I dislike is that it does not attempt to do "what you

see is what you get". There is a status line at the bottom of the screen

and that indicates what the type and style of the selected text will be.

It does appear to be easy to use, however, and it will make both the rtf

file and the project file automatically. It stores the help project in its

own format, and will produce the standard files when it compiles the

help file. It also has a test mode that allows you to do a bit of

simulation without compiling the help file. I am still deciding on what

help author tool I will be using. There are not many commercial packages

out there, and I cannot get shareware packages registered at work. I also

know of robohelp, but the thought of spending $400 or so for a set of

word macros bothers me a lot.

There phone number is (800) 542-2742, fax (401) 397-6814. Since I don't

know where you are, I don't know if you can use the 800 number or not.

Tandy Penn

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Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

When I put a numbered list into a helpfile with WW6 the hanging indentation

gets all screwed up.

The first line gets indented too far.

Is this a WW6 problem or a HC31 problem?

I use HC ver 3.10.505.

/Ola Strandberg, olas@minsk.docs.uu.se

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Windows Help Magician - any comments?

In article <2qalcb$4f5@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU>,

Nelson Cheng <rcsnc@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote:

>Anybody has used Windows Help Magician before?  How good is it?

>I am looking for some WinHelp Authoring tools that can import from

>Winword.  Any other comparable products?  Any comments would be

>appreciated.

>Thanks.

>Nelson

    I don't have any experience with Help Magician, but there is a

shareware program that I use to convert Winword files to WinHelp.

It is called HELLLP!, and it is a macro for Winword (2 or 6).  I just

started writing help files last month, and this program was really easy

to learn, and it builds in some neat capabilities.  I would recommend

checking it out.  The shareware version is fully functional (no limit

to the number of topics or anything), and registration is cheap ($30US or

less).

    I got the file from CompuServe, but the author has posted it to Simtel.

I have included part of his announcement about the program:

 : (available by anonymous

 : ftp from the primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu and its mirrors):

 : pub/msdos/windows3/

 : helllp22.zip    Help File Author Tool for WinWord 2.0 & 6.0

 : HELLLP! v2.2 <ASP> - Multi-File build and HelpContextID property [MAP]

 : generation.  User friendly.  Automatically sets up top level table of

 : contents with Hypertext jumps to your topics.  You add additional jumps

 : and popups by highlighting the place you want to jump from and pointing

 : to the place you want to jump to.  Can add SOUND EFFECTS, SECONDARY

 : windows with buttons, launch other programs for MULTIMEDIA.

 : Changes: Now works with both US & non-English versions of Word 6 & 2.

It is definitely a tool worth checking out.  Hope this helps.

                                        --Chris

                                             cfortner@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

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Wanted: .HLP-editor

I have heard of an editor that can make .hlp files with

links and such directly, or perhaps it produced a correct

.RTF file, I'm not sure. It was made by a young author and

dedicated to the public domain (or was it shareware?).

Hints in any direction appreciated.

--

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Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

> When I put a numbered list into a helpfile with WW6 the hanging indentation

> gets all screwed up.

> The first line gets indented too far.

>

> Is this a WW6 problem or a HC31 problem?

it seems to me like it's a word 6 problem. the problem arises, i believe, from

the fact that the auto-number/bullet features in word 6 no longer insert a tab

(or at least, a regular tab) between the number/bullet and the text. it's like

word 6 applies a new page layout setting just to the auto-number/bullet

paragraphs. if you click the number/bullet button to remove the number/bullet

on a paragraph you will notice that the new 'layout' setting remains.

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Command line switches for WINHELP.EXE

chrisb@cognos.COM (Chris Bowering) wrote:

>I believe there is a way to run the help file and  jump

>directly into a specific topic by context ID using

>command line switches or parameters.

>

>Can anybody help?

Chris,

The following switches can be added to the WINHELP command

line:

-k : Go to Keyword

-n : Go to Context Number

-i : Go to Context Id

For instance:

WINHELP -n299 Foohelp.HLP would open Foohelp at the topic

mapped to 299.

Paul Neshamkin

WexTech Systems Technical Support

(the makers of Doc-To-Help)

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Word 2.0 TOC Style probs.

hopps@mmm.com (Kevin J. Hopps) wrote:

>The problem is that when the TOC is generated, there

>are erroneous  tab stops set in the entries.  The

>effect of this is that if the  section title is very

>short, the page number appears not on the right,  but

>right next to the section title.

>

>I tried to remove the tab stops from the "toc" styles

>and redefine them  without the tab stops, but Word

>insists on putting them back in every  time I

>regenerate the TOC.  >:-|

>

>Any ideas?

Kevin,

The toc styles are not set with any specific tab positions.

When the TOC is generated, any tabs that are in the

corresponding Headings will be included in the toc.  You have a

choice - either remove tabs from the Headings or add Tab

Positions to the corresponding toc styles.

Paul Neshamkin

WexTech Systems Technical Support

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WinHelp File Format

In article <2od1bq$enj@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>  Most of my interests lie in the undocumented aspects of WinHelp, of

>which, there are plenty, so, if you have questions, fire away. If I don't

>have the answer, then it's something I should probably know, so I'll

>probably look into it.

Is there an existing tool to merge two .HLP files into one?  I've got a

statistical package (S-PLUS) that comes with a big help file, and the

ability to add my own functions but not my own help.

If not, would it be a practical thing to write?  I wouldn't expect cross-

links between the two files, I'd just want both indices to be merged into

one, so a context-sensitive search would see both sets of topics.

Duncan Murdoch

dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca

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Windows Help Magician - any comments?

---

On  5 May 1994 11:30:19 GMT  rcsnc@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (Nelson Cheng) writes

>> Anybody has used Windows Help Magician before?  How good is it?

>> I am looking for some WinHelp Authoring tools that can import from

>> Winword.  Any other comparable products?  Any comments would be

>> appreciated.

>>

They have a demo version that they will send out, Call or write them. The

demo version will produce a limited help file with up to 7 topics. I have

looked at the demo and liked some things and disliked others. The one

very big thing that I dislike is that it does not attempt to do "what you

see is what you get". There is a status line at the bottom of the screen

and that indicates what the type and style of the selected text will be.

It does appear to be easy to use, however, and it will make both the rtf

file and the project file automatically. It stores the help project in its

own format, and will produce the standard files when it compiles the

help file. It also has a test mode that allows you to do a bit of

simulation without compiling the help file. I am still deciding on what

help author tool I will be using. There are not many commercial packages

out there, and I cannot get shareware packages registered at work. I also

know of robohelp, but the thought of spending $400 or so for a set of

word macros bothers me a lot.

There phone number is (800) 542-2742, fax (401) 397-6814. Since I don't

know where you are, I don't know if you can use the 800 number or not.

Tandy Penn

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Texas Instruments Inc.

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tpenn@dseg.ti.com

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tpenn@dseg.ti.com "Tandy Penn" writes:

> I also know of robohelp, but the thought of spending $400 or so for a

> set of word macros bothers me a lot.

No kidding.  How they can justify charging more than the cost of Word

itself is beyond me.  I've just bought a copy of SOS-Help and I think

the interface is nicely done.  Instead of requiring Word, it's a standard

MDI app with each open topic displayed within a child window.  It does

an extremely good job of displaying the topic exactly as it appears in

Help, all the way down to the solid/dashed underlines for jumps/popups.

You can follow links without building the project, and it includes a

DLL for building the help file in conjunction with your app (you replace

calls to WinHelp with a call to their function with the same parameters,

which loads the project in SOS Help at the right topic.  I haven't tried

this yet, but it's a nice idea.)

My only reservation so far is that it's not entirely bug-free.  It

causes a lot of junk to be spit out in the debug window, including

some rather nasty looking ones like nested BeginPaint calls.  Under

Bounds Checker, it generates reams of errors.  It's never crashed

on me so far, but it's still a bit disconcerting nonetheless.

   -M-                                     msmith@discreet.demon.co.uk

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Proposal: Special characters

Tokind (tokind@acca.nmsu.edu) wrote:

: Summerizing the contributions of several people, characters above

UT-OH, I did a little research after posting this and found out I

was full of shit! It didn't show up here for three days--so I figured

I have a fairy Godmother or something & breathed a sigh of relief.

BIG FAT RETRACTION -- PLEASE DISREGARD the PRECEDING MESSAGE!!!

I'm working on a WordBasic macro now that will open the ALREADY SAVED

rtf file and replace the \ldblquote, \rdblquote, \lquote, \rquote,

and \emdash rtf symbols with proper hex flags in the form \'99.

Please pardon my stupidity in not checking these things before

posting. I'll be sharing the macro with anyone who's interested

once it is thoroghly tested ;-).

C-u

Tom Kindig                      & after all the violence and doubletalk,

Principal                                  There's just a song,

LeftJustified Publiks                      There's just a story,

4875 Beryl St.

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chou@.notis.com wrote:

: Here are some undocumented macros. You should see the Windows/DOS devloper's

: Journal (vo. 5 no. 1 January 1994) for more info. also, look for jim mischner's

You said there are others? If you have the time, please tell us more.

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R these lists available via E-mail?

   I am familiar with comp.os.vms that is available via E-mail as

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chou@.notis.com wrote:

: This can be used to reset the menu bar: ResetMenu() no parameters

: This can be used to hide the menu bar: HideMenuBar() no parameters

I can't get HideMenuBar() to work. I also tried HideMenu(), HideBar(),

and ShowMenu(1) & ShowMenu(0) as wild guesses. What's up?

The extended menu macros work great. Thanks.

C-u

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In article <mediaCpCGDK.FuD@netcom.com> media@netcom.com "Max Headroom" writes:

>How about *hard* coding your help colors?  (Yes, I know, hard coding isn't

>the best thing to do, but in this case, who cares? :-)  I like to hard code

>different colors into my help files, according to user ability levels, so

>that beginners don't have to wade thru a ton of technobabble to get what they

>want.

Who cares? People who change their help colour care, that's who!

I like to have help running with white text on a dark blue background, for

example. Help files with hard-coded colours can be impossible to use with

such a configuration.

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Windows Help Magician - any comments?

In article <2qalcb$4f5@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU>, rcsnc@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (Nelson Cheng) writes:

> Anybody has used Windows Help Magician before?  How good is it?

> I am looking for some WinHelp Authoring tools that can import from

> Winword.  Any other comparable products?  Any comments would be

> appreciated.

>

> Thanks.

>

> Nelson

> rcsnc@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU

>

I use a product called HWA/w, help writer's assistant for windows.  I

can say a new version is just about to come out that I find super, as

a beta tester.  It'll import rtf, although I don't use Word.  I find

it as good as the expensive commerical products like Forehelp, except

hwa doesn't have a spelling checker.

It has a visual editor and a slick outline control to manage topics.  I

don't want to say too much right now 'cause I'll sound like a fan.

I am, but I'm not in any way connected to the author or the company.

Email the author - stefan olson - at hwa-supp@olson.acme.gen.nz

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WFW6.0 find file problem

Dear alll,

I installed WFW6.0 and the find file does not work. The OK button is

ghosted. Any idea?

Simpson.

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Can someone please post the admin address of the Winhelp authoring discussion

Listserver?  Thanks!

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Does anyone know of any Ami Pro 3.0 macros for writing help files?

Thanks,

Chris

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HC31 out of memory

My help project consists of 6 rtf-files. Each file has a

number of small bitmaps in it, together with some text.

When I try to compile the help file, hc31 runs out of memory.

How large projects can hc31 handle?

Help Assistant for Word 6 says I should use hcp.exe.

Where can I get HCP.EXE?

Appreciate any help!

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HC31 out of memory

In article <2qkmnn$7lm@ugle.unit.no>

           stigs@uranus.ifi.unit.no "Stig Skjervold" writes:

>

> My help project consists of 6 rtf-files. Each file has a

> number of small bitmaps in it, together with some text.

> When I try to compile the help file, hc31 runs out of memory.

>

> How large projects can hc31 handle?

> Help Assistant for Word 6 says I should use hcp.exe.

> Where can I get HCP.EXE?

>

> Appreciate any help!

>

> Stig Skjervold

> stigs@ifi.unit.no

>

>

I'm getting the same problem using HC31, ver 505, with only 1 RTF file, with

5 bitmaps in it (ranging in size from 20K to 75K). I got HCP from

ftp.microsoft.com, but cannot figure out how it should be run. It doesn't

seem to like Windoze, and under DOS, complains that there is no expanded

memory available. When I change my emm386 to give it 2MB of expanded mem,

then I get either 'Out of Memory', or some more obscure statement.

Any help on this one most appreciated.

Best Wishes

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other undocumented winhelp macros

i quote from jim mischel's article in the windows/dos developer's journal (i

apologize for any typos. the ... indicate that these were sections already

discussed beofre):

Winjhelp offers built-in macros that let you add, change, and delete items on

the help window's menu. 3 undocumented macros, ExtAbleItem(), ExtInsertItem(),

and ExtInsertMenu(), offer more general versions of the documented help macros

for manipulating the help window menu. ExtAbleItem() combines the functions of

the documented DisableItem() and EnableItem() macros to provide applications

programs with a more convenienct means of enabling and disabling menu items.

ExtInsertItem() and ExtInsertMenu() provide enhanced item and menu creation

options (these last two were mentioned in a previous post)

         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Like DisableItem() and EnableItem(), ExtAbleItem() takes as its first

parameters the item identifier of the help window menu item taht you want you

modity. ExtAbleItem() requires a second parameter, which specifies whether you

wnat the menu item enabled or disabled. For example, if you create a menu item

with an item identifier of itm_clock, eitehr of the following will disable it:

DisableItem('itm_clock')

ExtAbleItem(`itm_clock',1)

To enable the menu item, you could write:

ExtAbleItem(`itm_clock',0)

...

ExtAbleItem() isn't especially useful to help authors, but programmers will

probably ifnd it easier to use in WinHelp() API calls than DisableItem() and

EnableItem()...

..

The undocumented JumpHash() and PopupHash() macros operate similarly to the

JumpContext(), JumpId(), PopupContext(), and PopupId() macros. All six of these

macros provide links to topics in toher help files. JI() and PI() each accept a

help file name and a context string, and then display the topic that matches

that context string in the specified help file. JumpContext() and

PopupCotnext() also display topics in toehr help files, but they accept a

context # rather than the string.

JumpHash() and PopupHash(), rahtehr than accepting a context string or context

#, accept a hash code, which si formed from a topic's context string. Sicne

topic cotnext strings are not stored in the help file (only the hash codes

formed from the context strings are stored), these 2 macros are probably used

internally by WinHelp when processing the JI() and PI() macros. JumpHash() and

PopupHash() are useful when exploring help files for which you don't have the

source. (See Pete Davis' article in Andrew Schulman's 'Undocumented Corner'

column in the Sept. 1993 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal for a more detailed

discussion of hash codes and the .hlp file format.) hash.c, courtesty of Ron

Burk, contains a fucntion that creates a hash code from a contest string.

OtherUndocumented Macros

2 other undocumented macros, Generate() and Command(), look interesting, but as

of this writing i have been unable to come up with any idea of what they do. Id

do know that passing certain values to Generate() can crash WinHelp, but i

haven't been able to get the macro to do anything useful.

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regarding HideMenuBar(),etc

The HideMenuBar() and ShowMenuBar() are for the MSDN CD Viewer program. they

come from the Windows Tech Journal feb. 1994.

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HC31 out of memory

stigs@uranus.ifi.unit.no (Stig Skjervold) wrote:

>

>My help project consists of 6 rtf-files. Each file has a

>number of small bitmaps in it, together with some text.

>When I try to compile the help file, hc31 runs out of memory.

>

>How large projects can hc31 handle?

>Help Assistant for Word 6 says I should use hcp.exe.

>Where can I get HCP.EXE?

>

>Appreciate any help!

>

>Stig Skjervold

>stigs@ifi.unit.no

>

  Stig, here are a few limitations on WinHelp. You're probably running

into bitmap problems, but here goes:

Topic Paragraph size: 32,000 chars

Pasted Bitmaps: 32k (this is included in the topic paragraph size)

  So, if you have, say, a 31k bitmap pasted into a paragraph that's 4k,

you'll exceed the 32k limit.

  The best way around this is not to paste your bitmaps but to insert them

by reference -> e.g.  {bmx bitmap.ext}

   Hope this helps.

   I'm going to be including this and other WinHelp limitations in the

next version of the FAQ.

   Pete Davis

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Jump Colors!

In article <768246523snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>, chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

> In article <mediaCpCGDK.FuD@netcom.com> media@netcom.com "Max Headroom" writes:

>

> >How about *hard* coding your help colors?  (Yes, I know, hard coding isn't

> >the best thing to do, but in this case, who cares? :-)  I like to hard code

> >different colors into my help files, according to user ability levels, so

> >that beginners don't have to wade thru a ton of technobabble to get what they

> >want.

>

> Who cares? People who change their help colour care, that's who!

>

> I like to have help running with white text on a dark blue background, for

> example. Help files with hard-coded colours can be impossible to use with

> such a configuration.

>

Okay, you got me there, (but I *did* say that hard coding wasn't the *best*

thing to do, it's just one of the things you could do.  Besides, to prevent

your predefined colo(u)rs from being impossible to use, I would also hard

code all the other colo(u)rs too!  ;-)

-Max

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Need help building beav140 with Borland C++ 4.0

Could any of you kind souls who have done this (or may have, like Ford,

a better idea :-) please email the makefile, patches, whatever required to

compile beav140 with the Borland C++ 4.0 compiler.  I have tried to compile

as both a DOS (Large model) and EasyWin (Windows 3.1 but NOT object windows

compatible).  I have made some progress but eventually, I run up against an

error which indcates that the TEXT segment exceeds 64k.

I figure this gotta be doable.  I just ain't figured it out yet.

Any ideas?

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How can I get my own fonts, that I created, into WinHelp files??. I created

both truetype and fixed fonts. Actually what I mean is how to get them

displayed correctly. Now they are converted to some other fonttype.

___

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Problems with Windows HLP-files

Hello everybody!

I have a problem I'm sure some of may help me to solve. The problem

is that I'm tired of "clicking" around in Windows-helpfiles, every time

there are something I want to know. I want to be able to read those files in

plain ASCII. With the file is ASCII-format it should be easy to scroll

trough the file like a faq, and getting the information you want fast and

ALL AT ONCE. It should also be easy to search for text.

What I want, is to know if there is a program out there somewhere, which

takes every section (and it's subsections) of a hlp-file, convert the

contents into ASCII and puts the result in order into a textfile.

This is what I basically want to know, but if anyone know some way of doing

this without a program, (and without using the print option in the help-file..)

I would really appreciate it.

Please mail me at

hbjoerge@nvg.unit.no

as I seldom read this newsgroup.

Thanks in advance.

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        Department of Economics

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In article <CpKp43.Iyo@utu.fi>, Jyrki Laine <jyrlaine@utu.fi> wrote:

>How can I get my own fonts, that I created, into WinHelp files??. I created

>both truetype and fixed fonts. Actually what I mean is how to get them

>displayed correctly. Now they are converted to some other fonttype.

>___

>Jyrki Laine

>University of Turku

Hi!

WinHelp will only accept fonts that have charset ANSI_CHARSET.

Maybe that's your problem?  I had to tweak some bits in the

Terminal and Wingdings fonts to get them displayed in WinHelp.

If that's not it, then it might be a problem with how your

fonts eventually wind up in RTF (I don't know what tool you're

using).  Check the \fonttbl RTF-statement, it should be at

the beginning of your RTF files.

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WinHelp File Format

Pete,

Just wanted to say thanks in public for the work you have done on the

help and shg,mrb file formats.

I wrote a tool called QDHELP for generating help from plain ascii text

and have been writing some tools to do auto generation of template help

files from VB form files.  I decided to do something that would auto

segment a screen grab of a window using the values in the .FRM file.

Without the information on the .SHG file format I would never been

able to get it working in 2 days.  I don't think the .SHG file format

stuff was in DDJ though some other programmers rag as I remember.

The only detail I noticed about the format that was not covered is that

when there are no hot spots the image size ( I cant remember the name

you used) field, it is the last field in the BMPHeader struct, is set

to zero!  This sent my SHG reading/writing program into the toliet.

Once I figured that out things have been going much better ;-).

I look forward to getting some more of your findings on this newsgroup.

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FAQ

Hi,

I am looking for a utility to extract on-line documentation from C/C++

source code into MS/Windows help file. Most of the documentation is

embedded in the input source comments, based on several notation

conventions.

Thanks,

Benny

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Hidden paragraph?

When I compile my help file using hc31, I get a message warning me

about a hidden paragraph in Topic 18.  I don't think I changed anything,

and I believe that hc30 did not generate the same warning.

I've tried to look over the generated help program, but I can't find

anything wrong.

Does anyone know what this message means, and what I should do in

response?

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Hidden paragraph?

> When I compile my help file using hc31, I get a message warning me

> about a hidden paragraph in Topic 18.  I don't think I changed anything,

> and I believe that hc30 did not generate the same warning.

i've gotten this message without thinking i did something, but you might want

to create a macro (if you're using a word processor like word) to 'unhide' all

of your carriage returns. this fixes the problem for me. however, if you're not

using word or wp or whatever, then i don't know what to do.

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Hidden paragraph?

In article <1994May10.164041.14801@delfin.com> dan@delfin.com (Dan Stickel) writes:

>When I compile my help file using hc31, I get a message warning me

>about a hidden paragraph in Topic 18.  I don't think I changed anything,

>and I believe that hc30 did not generate the same warning.

>

>I've tried to look over the generated help program, but I can't find

>anything wrong.

>

>Does anyone know what this message means, and what I should do in

>response?

>

This is an easy error to make if you are using WinWord to

create the file.  What you've got is probably something like

this:

...blah blah blah keywordlabel |

  =======hhhhhh

where 'keyword' is the hot item that is underscored with '=' or '-'

in WinWord and 'label' is the context string that is 'hidden'.

I have put a '|' to indicate where the paragraph ends.  Notice

that the 'h' (hidden text attribute) continues on past the

'label'.  In fact it may continue on to the next line.  If the

'hidden' text is just whitespace, you won't see the hidden

attribute.  It's hard to see anyway, because it's underscore with

dots.

The way to fix it is to select the text starting at (and including

the first character following 'label' and continuing on through

any whitespace to the next printable character in your text (but

not including it).  Then clear the 'hidden' attribute on that

selection.

I know this, because I've done it several times.

Now all you have to do is track it down in the .DOC file.  You're

lucky it's only in topic 18.  Some of my similar errors have been

in topic 200+!!!! You'd think they could print the first line or

2 of the offending topic when an error is encountered!

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'what' with german Winword Version 2.0b / 6.0

Hi!

I have a problem using the 'what'-tool with a german Winword (2.0b or 6.0),

because in this Winword-Version all Keywords are translated to german. The

Tool tries to call a function of Winword with help of DDE and I get an error

from Winword, because there is an undefined function.

Does anyone know a solution for my problem ?

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Winhelp on MAC ?

I suspect this is a silly question but I've promised someone I would ask it.

Is there any way a winhelp file can be viewed on an Apple Mac ?

It could either take the form of a reader on the Mac or a compiler that

takes the Winhelp RTF source and produces Mac help files ?

Regards

Ross Keatinge               icosa@iconz.co.nz

Auckland

New Zealand

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WinHelp() API call

Okay, I'm not sure you guys are going to want me writing the FAQ after

posting this stupid question, but here goes:

I have a .DLL in WinHelp. From the DLL, I'm trying to execute a WinHelp

macro. As a test, I just did the following:

WinHelp(hWnd, "mytest.hlp", HELP_COMMAND, (DWORD)(LPSTR)"About()");

This should simply pop-up the About box for mytest.hlp, right? Why doesn't

it do anything?

  Thanks,

   Pete

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how to get bmc to work with hc31?

I know this will be a FAQ but this is a last resort.

I have written a small help file in WW2 and it compiles fine execpt that I

cann't get hc31 to recognise the line

\

as anything but part of the text.

I assume it is necessary to format the \{ and \} in some way.

I know the main.shg file is being included because I got loads of warnings

until I put in all the context strings defined by hotspots.

thanks in advance

Dave

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how to get bmc to work with hc31?

> I have written a small help file in WW2 and it compiles fine execpt that I

> cann't get hc31 to recognise the line

>

> \

>

> as anything but part of the text.

>

>

> I assume it is necessary to format the \{ and \} in some way.

>

> I know the main.shg file is being included because I got loads of warnings

> until I put in all the context strings defined by hotspots.

when i have a .shg file or a .bmp file i don't put the back slashes in. it

would simply be [image]. i don't understand the need for the back

slashes.

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WinHelp() API call

In article <2qqke2$b60@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>,

Peter J. Davis <pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> wrote:

>Okay, I'm not sure you guys are going to want me writing the FAQ after

>posting this stupid question, but here goes:

>

>I have a .DLL in WinHelp. From the DLL, I'm trying to execute a WinHelp

>macro. As a test, I just did the following:

>

>WinHelp(hWnd, "mytest.hlp", HELP_COMMAND, (DWORD)(LPSTR)"About()");

>

>This should simply pop-up the About box for mytest.hlp, right? Why doesn't

>it do anything?

>

>  Thanks,

>   Pete

>--

This is "normal" for HELP_COMMAND.  You should first call:

WinHelp(hWnd, "mytest.hlp", HELP_FORCEFILE, NULL);

That should do the trick!

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Cox  Dennis James (dennis@ponder.csci.unt.edu) wrote:

: In regards to a help compiler...

:    There's one called visual help this thing Rocks...

: It's easier then anything i've ever seen..

: It should be on winftp.cica.indiana.edu under /win3/programr/vbasic

: or on compuservemealargebillfornothing...

Actually visual help is a front end to the help compiler from

microsoft.  It is a sort of drap and droppy thingama bob for

doing help.  People may also want the check out QDHELP which

is avialable on cica also (look for version 3.0).  QDHELP lets

you write help files using your own ascii editor. It is also

a front end to the microsoft help compiler.

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WinHelp() API call

In article <2qqke2$b60@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>,

Peter J. Davis <pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> wrote:

>Okay, I'm not sure you guys are going to want me writing the FAQ after

>posting this stupid question, but here goes:

>

>I have a .DLL in WinHelp. From the DLL, I'm trying to execute a WinHelp

>macro. As a test, I just did the following:

>

>WinHelp(hWnd, "mytest.hlp", HELP_COMMAND, (DWORD)(LPSTR)"About()");

>

>This should simply pop-up the About box for mytest.hlp, right? Why doesn't

>it do anything?

>

>  Thanks,

>   Pete

>--

This is "normal" for HELP_COMMAND.  You should first call:

WinHelp(hWnd, "mytest.hlp", HELP_FORCEFILE, NULL);

That should do the trick!

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In article <2qqbkh$6j9@status.gen.nz>, icosa@iconz.co.nz (Ross Keatinge) writes:

>I suspect this is a silly question but I've promised someone I would ask it.

Not at all, I have asked it myself some year ago...

>

>Is there any way a winhelp file can be viewed on an Apple Mac ?

>

>It could either take the form of a reader on the Mac or a compiler that

>takes the Winhelp RTF source and produces Mac help files ?

>

>

>Regards

>

>Ross Keatinge               icosa@iconz.co.nz

I have been told (not verified however :-) that Microsoft Word for Mac

and Microsoft Excel comes with a WinHelp reader. If you have Word or

Excel you can easily move a Windows helpfile to the Mac and use it "as

is" with that reader. Of course, it is copyrighted, and cannot be

distributed (that's *my* problem).

/Fredrik

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Hi,

I'm working on simple (as in not much time) demo of various apps

written in house, but I'm having trouble getting the functionality of

the apps over to the user's who usually don't read the manual/documentation

or bother looking through the help file. Thus I was looking at using the

macro recorder to produce a working example of how to use the apps without

expecting any effort on behalf of the user, ie click here and away we go.

However, I can't get automated playback from the recorder, using

recorder.exe myfile.rec just lands me in the recorder app. Any clues, hints

etc, all gratefully appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Anthony

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In article <2qqs5t$hji@news.acns.nwu.edu>,  <chou@.notis.com> wrote:

>

>

>> I have written a small help file in WW2 and it compiles fine execpt that I

>> cann't get hc31 to recognise the line

>>

>> \

>>

>> as anything but part of the text.

>>

>>

>> I assume it is necessary to format the \{ and \} in some way.

>>

>> I know the main.shg file is being included because I got loads of warnings

>> until I put in all the context strings defined by hotspots.

>

>

>when i have a .shg file or a .bmp file i don't put the back slashes in. it

>would simply be [image]. i don't understand the need for the back

>slashes.

In your word processor you can use simple braces:

{ ... }

When this is converted to RTF, the braces are automatically `escaped':

\{ ... \}

When the Microsoft documentation on WinHelp refers to the

\ [image] statement, you should keep in mind that they are talking

about the RTF format.  Can get a bit confusing...

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one of my coworkers who ported her winhelp file to the mac used something

called QuickHelp by Altura Software. She brought her pc files to the mac and

did it from there.

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REQUEST: Doc check for Viewer2

Would someone reply with list of documentaion for viewer

I loaned it out to a friend 6 months ago for a project

and now that I get it back ( NO piracy intended!! )

I have this strange feeling that I am missing manuals.

Would some kind soul aliviate the anxiety my bud and I are

going through by listing the docs distributed in that package.

Thanks in advance

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Hidden paragraph?

jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>In article <1994May10.164041.14801@delfin.com> dan@delfin.com (Dan Stickel) writes:

>>When I compile my help file using hc31, I get a message warning me

>>about a hidden paragraph in Topic 18.  I don't think I changed anything,

>>and I believe that hc30 did not generate the same warning.

>>

>>I've tried to look over the generated help program, but I can't find

>>anything wrong.

>>

>>Does anyone know what this message means, and what I should do in

>>response?

>>

>	This is an easy error to make if you are using WinWord to

>	create the file.  What you've got is probably something like

>	this:

>

>	...blah blah blah keywordlabel |

>	  =======hhhhhh

>	where 'keyword' is the hot item that is underscored with '=' or '-'

>	in WinWord and 'label' is the context string that is 'hidden'.

>	I have put a '|' to indicate where the paragraph ends.  Notice

>	that the 'h' (hidden text attribute) continues on past the

>	'label'.  In fact it may continue on to the next line.  If the

>	'hidden' text is just whitespace, you won't see the hidden

>	attribute.  It's hard to see anyway, because it's underscore with

>	dots.

>	The way to fix it is to select the text starting at (and including

>	the first character following 'label' and continuing on through

>	any whitespace to the next printable character in your text (but

>	not including it).  Then clear the 'hidden' attribute on that

>	selection.

>	I know this, because I've done it several times.

>	Now all you have to do is track it down in the .DOC file.  You're

>	lucky it's only in topic 18.  Some of my similar errors have been

>	in topic 200+!!!! You'd think they could print the first line or

>	2 of the offending topic when an error is encountered!

>--

>John A. Grant	jagrant@emr1.emr.ca

>Airborne Geophysics

>Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

Thanks for the tip, though in my case it was a hidden carriage-return.

From somewhere!nowhere Thu May 11 11:30:54 PDT 1994

Status: RO

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Subject: Windows Help compiler?

From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)

Date: 11 May 1994 20:27:37 GMT

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This may be an absolutely inane question, but I've just been told that

I need to develop some Windows help files and need to find out where to

get a) some sort of development environment; and b) the 3.1 help compiler.

I've noticed tools like RoboHELP, Doc-to-Help, and the Help Magician in

the trades--any recommendations for any of these, or for public-domain

tools?

Sorry if this is amazingly obvious, but the project was just dropped on me

today...

Many thanks in advance...

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In article <2qqke2$b60@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>Okay, I'm not sure you guys are going to want me writing the FAQ after

>posting this stupid question, but here goes:

>

>I have a .DLL in WinHelp. From the DLL, I'm trying to execute a WinHelp

>macro. As a test, I just did the following:

>

>WinHelp(hWnd, "mytest.hlp", HELP_COMMAND, (DWORD)(LPSTR)"About()");

>

>This should simply pop-up the About box for mytest.hlp, right? Why doesn't

>it do anything?

>

>  Thanks,

>   Pete

>--

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>vinegar by the label." - Mark Twain

Hi,

There's a bug in winhelp that does not do help_command's right if

the help file you want is not loaded before.

I use help_index first, and help_command after that, and it works

all the time. A MS employee suggested in the winhelp-l that I use

help_forcefile instead of help_index, I never tried it, but assume this

is just as good an answer as I currently use.

Ron.

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In article <CoyEuq.M39@utu.fi>, <mikruutu@utu.fi> writes:

> On 23 Apr 1994 15:53:27 GMT

(comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp), Tokind

(tokind@acca.nmsu.edu) wrote:

> : vdwit@chevron.com wrote:

>

> : : I am trying, unsuccessfully, to create the Copyright symbol

in my help file.

> : : I am using Winword 2.0 and used the Insert | Symbool option.

> : : The symbool appeared correctly in my document but was not

visible in the

> : : compiled help file.

> : : Does anyone know how I can do this?

> : : Dale A. Wityshyn

>

>

> use the ALT+186 in Arial Font to create the copyright symbol.

G Parsons

Ft. McMurray,Alberta,Canada

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>

>

OOPS, sorry, that should read ALT+0169 in Arial font to create

the copyright symbol. To find the ALT+<number> combination for

other symbols, start the CHARACTOR MAP program in Windows and

select the symbol you want. The ALT+<number> combination is shown

in the lower right corner.

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List of Different RTF Compilers?

It's great to see that this newsgroup has finally started up.

I've heard references to the various compilers that are out there for RTF

files BEYOND the MS Help Compiler (I'm using 3.10.505). Is there a list

floating out there that someone could point me to on the different

compilers and also places to obtain these.

Thanks in advance,

Brian Orrell

Power Computing Company

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New newsgroup comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

tymix.Tymnet.COM!uunet!tale requested that a new newsgroup called 'comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp' be created.

It was approved by tale@uunet.uu.net

tymix.Tymnet.COM!uunet!tale says:

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp is a unmoderated newsgroup which passed

its vote for creation by 341:82 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on

5 April 1994.

For your newsgroups file:

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The charter, culled from the call for votes:

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Windows Help compiler?

 > This may be an absolutely inane question, but I've just been told that

> I need to develop some Windows help files and need to find out where to

> get a) some sort of development environment; and b) the 3.1 help compiler.

> I've noticed tools like RoboHELP, Doc-to-Help, and the Help Magician in

> the trades--any recommendations for any of these, or for public-domain

> tools?

as i've said before, i use robohelp which is a very decent help making tool.

unfortunately, it has some bugs with word 6.0 that it didn't have before. a

lot of messy workarounds. i've never used the other help file makers, so don't

ask me about them. but mr. robohelp sometimes wanders this group, which is

nice, as does mr. doc-to-help, so you can complain directly to the source (mr.

robohelp has been quite helpful to me in the past)

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Waiting on Console & Sockets in Win32

Does anyone know of a utility like the unix c2man which takes

C code and write WinHelp files from it?

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Unix .hlp viewer?

In article <1994Apr18.215459.24100@template.com> kmo@sae.com (Mike Ovington) writes:

   In article <Co94Mv.8oG@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>, Craig Williamson <Craig.Williamson@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> writes:

   |> Is there a UNIX viewer that will view .hlp files?  I've pulled several .hlp

   |> files from the net that would be beneficial to our UNIX users also.

   |>

   I looked around a few months ago and couldn't find any. The best I could

   come up with is a the ability to generate windows hlp files and Unix

   help files (for an unknown viewer) from the same rtf files. I can dig

   out a reference if you want one. It might be useful so someone authoring

   hlp files but not to someone who wants to use hlp files authored by someone

   else.

Check out HyperHelp from Bristol. It is a help compiler/viewer

that reads RTF files and uses the same .hpj as the WinHelp

compiler. It will also accept MIF (FrameMaker) format and maybe

some others. For info, send email to amy@bristol.com. She's my

contact there.

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FAQ

Pete,

If you need contact information or product information

about RoboHELP, please do not hesitate to ask.

After all, why should a FAQ about WinHelp omit the

help authoring tool that Windows Magazine includes

in it's top 100 products of 1994, and suggests is

"quite simply the best tool around for constructing

elegant help files."

Just curious, I guess.

Gen

(Creator of RoboHELP)

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Windows Help Magician - any comments?

Tandy,

Just thought I'd clear up a little inaccuracy of your

perception of RoboHELP.  Granted, there are about 50K

of Microsoft Word macros which comprise the document

templates used for RoboHELP documents.

However, let's not forget the some 200K lines of C and

C++ code which provide the powerful engine for the

product.

I'd be happy to address any concerns you might have

about spending top dollar for the high-end help authoring

product.

A customer writes:

"At Dun&Bradstreet Software, we looked at all the options

-- _all_ the options -- and then we adopted RoboHelp to

handle our massive help systems.  We tried "manual"

SDK WinHelp development with the aid of our own templates

and macros.  We tested many products for creating

Windows Help systems, and we even used Visual Basic

to develop our own WinHelp front-end too, but all our

efforts could not match the ease of use and support

benefits that we found with RoboHelp.

Dun & Bradstreet Software is committed to delivering the

highest quality online help systems that we can produce.

Over the past three years, we developed hundreds of

HLP files and thousands of WinHelp topics for D&B

client/server applications.  And, in the past three years,

Blue Sky's RoboHelp progressed from being a 'nice to have'

to an absolute necessity for us.  For our work today

and for our planned growth in the future, we are confident

that RoboHelp will streamline our WinHelp development efforts

and keep us on the leading edge of technologies for online

information delivery."

So yes, there are Word macros, and they are completely

customizable.  But the real power of RoboHELP is in the

collection of DLLs written in C and C++, not to mention

all the cool tools included in the product (also written

in C and C++).

Gen

(Creator of RoboHELP)

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Windows Help Magician - any comments?

In article <gen.768775594@BIX.com> gen@BIX.com (gen on BIX) writes:

>

>Tandy,

>

>Just thought I'd clear up a little inaccuracy of your

>perception of RoboHELP.  Granted, there are about 50K

>of Microsoft Word macros which comprise the document

>templates used for RoboHELP documents.

>

>However, let's not forget the some 200K lines of C and

>C++ code which provide the powerful engine for the

>product.

>

>I'd be happy to address any concerns you might have

>about spending top dollar for the high-end help authoring

>product.

>

>A customer writes:

>"At Dun&Bradstreet Software, we looked at all the options

>-- _all_ the options -- and then we adopted RoboHelp to

>handle our massive help systems.  We tried "manual"

>SDK WinHelp development with the aid of our own templates

>and macros.  We tested many products for creating

>Windows Help systems, and we even used Visual Basic

>to develop our own WinHelp front-end too, but all our

>efforts could not match the ease of use and support

>benefits that we found with RoboHelp.

>

>Dun & Bradstreet Software is committed to delivering the

>highest quality online help systems that we can produce.

>Over the past three years, we developed hundreds of

>HLP files and thousands of WinHelp topics for D&B

>client/server applications.  And, in the past three years,

>Blue Sky's RoboHelp progressed from being a 'nice to have'

>to an absolute necessity for us.  For our work today

>and for our planned growth in the future, we are confident

>that RoboHelp will streamline our WinHelp development efforts

>and keep us on the leading edge of technologies for online

>information delivery."

>

>So yes, there are Word macros, and they are completely

>customizable.  But the real power of RoboHELP is in the

>collection of DLLs written in C and C++, not to mention

>all the cool tools included in the product (also written

>in C and C++).

>

>Gen

>(Creator of RoboHELP)

Look, enough's enough, ok?  If you want to be here to

discuss the technical issues of creating help files and

occasionaly refer to your product, that's fine, but don't

make self-promotion your only reason for being here.  You've

made several posts recently and they all seem to be for

the purpose of promoting your product.

It's a bit annoying to be continually reading your commercials

and testimonials from 'satisfied customers'.  If you have a

product to announce, do it in the .announce group, otherwise

be silent.

i

You also seem to have an axe to grind about not being in the FAQ

for this group.  Ok, take that up with the person who created

the FAQ, but spare us the snide little remarks related to your

product.

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Please help, I'm a greenhorne!

Hi everybody.

I just need a suggestion to get started.

I must learn (if possible quickly) how to implement a

program for MS-Windows in Borland C++. It should be

a very simple program with a window, few buttons,

something where I can put text, or similar things.

I would like to use Standard APIs (actually I don't

know what I am referring to). I mean that I want my

program to be able to be compiled and linked in

almost any PC system, without using particular tools.

I would like to know if there are manuals where I can

learn this. Not only manuals for Borland C++ but also

for the APIs. I mean books where I can find specifications

for any function.

If possible I would like to obtain these manuals via

Internet. Do you know some sites where I can try?

Excuse me for my poor english, and excuse me too if I

seemed indefinite, but I really know little about

MS-Windows. I have done applications in C for X Windows

(Unix).

If you are able to help me, please send me e-mail. If

you want to post an answer let me know via e-mail in

which newsgroup.

Thank you very much.

                                Luca Dionisi, Italy

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Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 22:12:02 GMT

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assosiate a hot key with the recorder and

in there is a command line option when running the

playing back to execute the playback imm.

Ziv Dascalu

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> Hi,

> 	I'm working on simple (as in not much time) demo of various apps

> written in house, but I'm having trouble getting the functionality of

> the apps over to the user's who usually don't read the manual/documentation

> or bother looking through the help file. Thus I was looking at using the

> macro recorder to produce a working example of how to use the apps without

> expecting any effort on behalf of the user, ie click here and away we go.

> However, I can't get automated playback from the recorder, using

> recorder.exe myfile.rec just lands me in the recorder app. Any clues, hints

> etc, all gratefully appreciated.

>

> Thanks in advance.

>

> Anthony

>

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WHAT6

Hi,

I'm trying to find what6, that is the version of WHAT

suitable for use with WORD6.

thank you

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Windows Help Magician - any comments?

Sorry to upset you so!

I think it's fair game to respond to technical inaccuracies

with respect to things said about products.  I'd do the

same for other products I am familiar with, and the reason

I clearly state the color of my flag is not for self promotion,

but rather to allow readers to properly assess objectivity,

You'll also note that I never respond to reader's posts about

which help authoring tools are worthwhile.for the newsgroup.

It seems clear to me now why so many send me their questions

via email...who'd want to risk the wrath of a negative text

stream....

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gen@BIX.com "gen on BIX" writes:

> I think it's fair game to respond to technical inaccuracies

> with respect to things said about products.

On Thursday you posted a followup addressing the "technical inaccuracy"

that RoboHelp was outrageously expensive for a bunch of Word macros.

You did that in the first 8 lines of the article, and then tacked 40

lines of irrelevant testimonial on the end.  The same day, you posted

a whiny followup to the FAQ which I can only assume was posted here

rather than mailed to the author so you'd have an excuse for another

shameless plug.

> It seems clear to me now why so many send me their questions

> via email...who'd want to risk the wrath of a negative text

> stream....

Perhaps they don't want you to use their question as an excuse for

yet more advertising.  Usenet is not CompuServe or BIX or AOL or

Prodigy; please learn something about its culture before barging in.

   -M-                                     msmith@discreet.demon.co.uk

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gen@BIX.com (gen on BIX) writes:

>Sorry to upset you so!

I doubt you really are.

>I think it's fair game to respond to technical inaccuracies

>with respect to things said about products.  I'd do the

>same for other products I am familiar with, and the reason

>I clearly state the color of my flag is not for self promotion,

>but rather to allow readers to properly assess objectivity,

It _is_ fair game, but that's not what you were doing.  Posting

200 lines of marketing ad copy is not a technical post, no matter

how neat you think your product is.

You should be careful.  I have seen product boycots arise from

backlash to behavior such as yours.

Heath

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In article <2quka7$qnl@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU> rcomg@cse.rmit.EDU.AU (Mark Gregory) writes:

>From: rcomg@cse.rmit.EDU.AU (Mark Gregory)

>Subject: WHAT6

>Date: 13 May 1994 01:14:47 GMT

>Summary: WHAT6

>Keywords: WHAT6

>Hi,

>I'm trying to find what6, that is the version of WHAT

>suitable for use with WORD6.

>thank you

    You might be able to ftp it from ftp.microsoft.com. It is also included in

the latest TechNet cdrom.....

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Is HC31.EXE public domain? If so, where can I get it (I

looked around at microsoft.com a bit, but didn't find it).

If not, are there any other compilers?

P.S. I do not need any hypertext editors. I understand RTF

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Keylime (gmoriart@doofus.helios.nd.edu) wrote:

> Is HC31.EXE public domain? If so, where can I get it (I

  ftp.microsoft.com

softlib/mslfiles/hc505.exe

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In article <2r4i0f$4th@crl2.crl.com>, Craig Villalon <villalon@crl.com> wrote:

>Keylime (gmoriart@doofus.helios.nd.edu) wrote:

>> Is HC31.EXE public domain? If so, where can I get it (I

>

>  ftp.microsoft.com

>	softlib/mslfiles/hc505.exe

>

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I would advise you to look for HCP*.exe, if it's at microsoft.com.

HCP is the protected mode version of HC31, and it doesn't run out

of memory as fast as HC31 (especially if you're running it in a

DOS box in 386Enh mode).

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Mark,

Yes, I see now that the author testimonial was inappropriate

for the newsgroup.  I realize that the proper thing to do

in this case is to wait for individuals to elicit more

expansive commentary via email.  This I apologize for

and will endeavor to act properly henceforth.

As to the nature of commercialism within the newsgroup, I

personally prefer to receive commercials in explicit form

rather than submitted under the guise of ______.

Respectfully yours,

Gen

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Heath,

I had chosen poorly in posting testimonial rather than

elaborating on the technical aspects of the subject

matter.

Now, I'd like to ask your advice with respect to such issues

, would a more appropriate reply have been:

"Product xx consists of Word macros yes, and an additional

collection of DLLs less apparent.  Many customers have

found the purchase price is representative of the value of

the product".

Forgive me for the rather explicit inquiry into protocol, but

it would appear that this might be the best way to learn, since

it is obvious that I am neither the first nor the last to

refer to commercial products in a newsgroup.  Additionally,

I have observed other commercial vendors explicitly offering

tel. #s in response to public questions.

Respectfully,

Gen

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In article <2r4i0f$4th@crl2.crl.com> villalon@crl.com "Craig Villalon" writes:

>Keylime (gmoriart@doofus.helios.nd.edu) wrote:

>> Is HC31.EXE public domain? If so, where can I get it (I

>

>  ftp.microsoft.com

>        softlib/mslfiles/hc505.exe

But note that it most definitely is NOT in the public domain! You are

free to use it, but Microsoft would, I suspect, get a little irked if you

were to sell it as your own product (which of course you could do if it

were PD).

Chris

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winhelp docs to html converters

I just today put together an anthology called

World Wide Windows Help: Word for Windows/Help/HTML kit.

This is a collection of tools for windows-using denizens of

Downtown Anywhere.

If you own a copy of Word for Windows 2.0, you can use these

tools to create WYSIWIG Word for Windows documents.

Which can be automatically converted into HTML (for the World

Wide Web) or into HLP files (for Windows Help).

The trick is to create documents in Word for based only  on the

relatively few (but generally adequate) formats styles recognized

by the tools herein.

The trick is to create documents in Word for based only  on

the relatively few (but generally adequate) formats styles

recognized by the tools herein.  For example, the various

heading levels (1-9) are perfect (DRHelpe will construct a

heirarchical table of contents from it; CU_HTML will create

heading-appropriate HTML tags), bold and italic carry

through perfectly.

The collection comprises two different Word Macro packages

which just happen to complement each other without conflict.

   CU_HTML.zip (from Singapore)   converts to DOC to HTML

   DRHelpe5.zip goes DOC->RTF--helpcompiler---->HLP

   converts to windows help file format (and augments them very

   elegantly)

The collection also includes a recent version of the Windows

help compiler

   HC505.exe is a self-extracting archive of the windows

   help compiler (which is triggered by DRHelpe5)

Finally the deluxe collection includes SAM (Stand Alone

Mosaic), a version of NCSA Mosaic configured for use with

windows, in the absence of an ongoing network connection.

It is an important but little known fact that Mosaic works

quite nicely as a browser for all sorts of documents

residing on one's own hard drive.

   DISK_10.EXE is a self-extracting SAM

All of these packages are copyrighted by their respective

owners.  Furthermore DRHelpe is a shareware program which

will restrict you to 30 topics until you register.

(Hopefully registration will soon be just a matter of

dialing 1-800-SoftLock, or accessing Downtown Anywhere

through the world wide web

http:[stay tuned].)

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In <2oc6ti$sa8@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> veldhui@cc.umanitoba.ca (Phil Veldhuis) writes:

>Well, the winhelp list is finally here.

>Let me begin by mentioning that I am currently coding some macros to

>convert the rft files (topics) for winhelp to html style files.  I also

>eventually need html to winhelp rtf topics converters eventually.

>My macros are being written in wordbasic (word6.0).  If anyone has similar

>plans or product, please let me know what successes/failures you have

>encountered.

>Thanks in advance, Phil

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> >  ftp.microsoft.com

> >	softlib/mslfiles/hc505.exe

> I would advise you to look for HCP*.exe, if it's at microsoft.com.

> HCP is the protected mode version of HC31, and it doesn't run out

  It contains both versions of the help compiler, hc.exe and hcp.exe.

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> But note that it most definitely is NOT in the public domain! You are

  True, sorry I didn't point that out. It's basically freeware and still

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In article <gen.769020229@BIX.com> gen@BIX.com (gen on BIX) writes:

>

>Heath,

>

>I had chosen poorly in posting testimonial rather than

>elaborating on the technical aspects of the subject

>matter.

>

>Now, I'd like to ask your advice with respect to such issues

>, would a more appropriate reply have been:

>"Product xx consists of Word macros yes, and an additional

>collection of DLLs less apparent.  Many customers have

>found the purchase price is representative of the value of

>the product".

>

>Forgive me for the rather explicit inquiry into protocol, but

>it would appear that this might be the best way to learn, since

>it is obvious that I am neither the first nor the last to

>refer to commercial products in a newsgroup.  Additionally,

>I have observed other commercial vendors explicitly offering

>tel. #s in response to public questions.

>

>Respectfully,

>Gen

I've never heard so much bullshit polite doubletalk in my life.

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.HLP internals - "Character" offsets?

I've been trying to write a .HLP file viewer based on the information in

Pete Davis's articles in DDJ last fall.  I've got a lot of it working, but

have hit one stumbling block that's driving me crazy.  I can't figure out

how to use a "character" offset to find a topic reliably.

The character offsets give a 4K block number, and an offset into the

decompressed version of it.  It looks to me as though I can follow the topic

links and use the DataLen2 field to get the decompressed size; I don't

actually need to do the decompression (but I think I get the same size

when I do).  This works, sometimes; but it pretty frequently misses a few

bytes, so that the total size I get is short of the one I'm looking for by

3 or 4 or 6 bytes.

Does anyone know of any source code that can do random selection of topics?

The DDJ articles only come with source code for a full sequential dump.

Doesn't matter to me what language it's written in, if I can get a copy I'll

figure it out.

Duncan Murdoch

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Please give a polite reply to the question on what *would* be an acceptable

way of posting commercial information without advertising. I don't like

being advertised to on the net either but if you don't say what would

be an acceptable form you're not helping.

Thanks,

Gavin (fairly new to the net and nothing to sell).

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FAQ

>in it's top 100 products of 1994, and suggests is

Surely, you mean "its" and not "it's."

"Its" is a possessive, just like "hers" and "his" and "ours."  You don't go

around writing "her's" or "hi's" or "our's," do you?

"It's" is a contraction and stands for "it is."

I discovered that the person who wrote your Robohelp documentation doesn't

know the vast difference between these two words.

Bev Freed

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Dallas, TX

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It seems to me that some people are "cutting off their nose to spite their

face". Sure, "junk promo's" are an agrivation but if a vendor has the

good sense to participate in an appropriate newsgroup can we not give

them a little lee way. It's surely in our interest to get questions answered

direct from the horse's mouth. Obviously you have to bear in mind

that the poster has a certain self interest but you can use your own

judgement in evaluating a response. And as far as "testamonials" go,

unfortunately a not insignificant amount of Usenet traffic is just that.

"I use XYZ and it's great". I haven't come across software yet that doesn't

have minus's as well as plus's. It's the proportion of one to the other

and their importance relevent to your particular requirements that matters.

But I digress. Yes, vendors would be advised to try and limit their

contribution to technical support although I would have thought details

of new releases would be acceptable. Just being on hand to answer questions

is advertisement enough for their product. I for one welcome their

participation.

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jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>In article <gen.769020229@BIX.com> gen@BIX.com (gen on BIX) writes:

>>

>>Heath,

>>

>>I had chosen poorly in posting testimonial rather than

>>elaborating on the technical aspects of the subject

>>matter.

>>

>>Now, I'd like to ask your advice with respect to such issues

>>, would a more appropriate reply have been:

>>"Product xx consists of Word macros yes, and an additional

>>collection of DLLs less apparent.  Many customers have

>>found the purchase price is representative of the value of

>>the product".

>>

>>Forgive me for the rather explicit inquiry into protocol, but

>>it would appear that this might be the best way to learn, since

>>it is obvious that I am neither the first nor the last to

>>refer to commercial products in a newsgroup.  Additionally,

>>I have observed other commercial vendors explicitly offering

>>tel. #s in response to public questions.

>>

>>Respectfully,

>>Gen

>	I've never heard so much bullshit polite doubletalk in my life.

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John,

Nor have I experienced such inconsistent pseudo-egalitarian

systems of nonsense propagated by self-important would

be power wielders...

And to think, the taxes from my Canadian corporation

pays for your internet connection.  The irony of it all.

Gen

"Post no bills"

"Scrawl no grafitti"

 "I wrote a simple daemon on a unix machine in Edmonton

that would accept mail from anonymous mailers and post

the text in newsgroups under a pseudonym cyberspace

personality.  A random name selection algorithm chose

primarily male avatars as an added element of realism.

I had modified Eliza to accept text OCR'd from the

LL Bean Catalog and rephrase the content as a question.

AWK plus a Bourne shell script made the system completely

general.  Now that it's working I've been able to

get the GNUisual Basic underway."

And besides, winhelp is a product.

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Commercial

There are many excellent commercial help authoring tools

available from software vendors worldwide.  I have had

a chance to use many of them and feel the need to

shamelessly promote these tools here in the winhelp

newsgroup.  There are many excellent shareware tools

available as well, in addition to freeware offerings

from many industrious individuals and Microsoft.

Since this is a commercial, only the excellent tools

which cost moola will be discussed.

Doc-2-Help

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Doc2Hlp has been available since late '92 by my reckoning.

Developed by Wextech Systems, who, among other endeavors,

wrote the original Using WordBasic manual for Microsoft

Word 2.0, Doc-2-Hlp particularly excels at single-source

management of printed and on-line information.  Doc-2-Hlp

consists of macros (hidden from prying eyes by the

macro-encryption system of Word) as well as a dynamic

link library and document templates (which is where the

Word macros are housed).  Many people have had success

using Doc-2-Hlp to manage single-source management of

online and printed documentation, philosophical considerations

notwithstanding.  Technical support for the product is

provided by telephone and on WEXTECH forum (compuserve).

Product updates are very cheap.  Version 1.5 supports

Word 2.0x and a version 1.6 promised for the end of May, 1994,

will support the latest version of Microsoft Word, version

6.0a.  6.0a will be required.

Doc-2-Hlp

$295.00

WexTech Systems Inc.

310 Madison Ave, Suite 905

New York, NY 10017

(212) 949-9595

ForeHelp

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ForeHelp is the most recent entry into the winhelp authoring

foray.  ForeHelp would appear to be the most well-designed

of all standalone help authoring tools.  Yes, ForeHelp

includes it's own word processor, capable of handling

multiple fonts and styles, but understandably less featured

than Microsoft Word or WordPerfect.  ForeHelp is semi-WYSIWYG

in that links popups and the like are authored in an environment

that looks like windows help.  I suggest semi-WYSIWYG since

there appears to be some discontinuity in the way fonts are

handled.  Thus, compiling is the only way to guarantee visual

consistency.  In any event, ForeHelp will appeal to those

not owning Microsoft Word.  ForeHelp also includes the nifty

capability of in-place editing of hotspot graphics, no

doubt made possible by Pete Davis' efforts in reverse engineering

the .SHG file format.  Credit where credit is due, that's

what I always say.

ForeHelp also includes some tools for browsing and navigating

a help project, which can help make sense of hyperspace,

which can quickly grow unwieldy when authoring help systems.

ForeHelp

$395.00

(limited time offer of $199, act now!)

ForeFront Technologies

800-357-8507

5171 Eldorado Springs Drive

Boulder, CO 80303

Windows Help Magician

=====================

Help Magician was the first standalone tool for authoring

windows help.  It is written in Visual Basic and is

currently in revision 2.5.

While I'd have to say that ForeHelp is a superior product

in the standalone authoring tool genre, it is also

considerably more expensive.  Undoubtably, most casual

help authors will find Windows Help Magician to be

more than enough tool for the task.  Some may find it's

implementation of GUI unusual.

The text editor included with Help Magician, while supporting

multiple fonts and so forth, is not quite functional in

the way we commonly expect windows word processors (including

Write) to behave.  My suggestion is to try it for yourself,

reviews never an adequate replacement for hands-on experience.

Along these lines, most of these tools have money back

guarantees, so just load up that VISA, set aside a week or

so for evaluation, and send all but the winner back.

Competition is such an excellent value for the help authoring

customer.

HelpBreeze

==========

HelpBreeze is another tool for authoring help in conjuntion

with the functionality of Microsoft Word.  HelpBreeze uses

the Borland-style chiseled steel controls, possibly the

only one in the bunch.  If you have a hankering for the

Borland aesthetic, this could be your deal.

HelpBreeze is modeled more upon the 'import document text,

then add help functionality' style of help authoring, distinct

from the Doc-2-Hlp single source strategy.  This solution

means more attractive help systems at the expense of added

work each time documentation is updated.

HelpBreeze is the first help tool to ship with a redistributable

DLL which implements an embedded window.  Embedded windows

are similar to Visual Basic custom controls.  A DLL (dynamic

link library) controls the painting and mouse clicks in a

rectangular area of the winhelp display.  Windows help is

basically a universal turing machine then, capable of acting

as a hypertext front end for _any_ task.  For information

on creating your own embedded window DLLs, check out the

help authoring guide available on the MSDN (Microsoft) CDROM,

or if you can find a copy, the original Microsoft

Multimedia Development Kit (MDK), which includes the documentation

for Viewer 1.0.  Viewer is another hypertext engine from

Microsoft, very similar to windows help in both presentation form

and authoring style, which is word-processor markup based.

But I digress.  The embedded window DLL which ships with HelpBreeze

and is freely distributable with your own .HLP files, allows

help authors to create animations and interactive slide shows

without the need for the Video for Windows bulky run-time.

Video lite, if you will.

HelpBreeze supports both Word 2 and Word 6.

HelpBreeze

==========

$279.00

Solutionsoft

Sunnyvale, CA

(408) 736-1431

email:  75210.2214@compuserve.com

There are a few other moola-based tools that I have no direct

knowledge of, merely heresay.  One of them is called HDK and

was developed by a company in Australia.  They had a US

office for awhile, in Laguna Nigel, but I think they have

since closed it.  Another tool, forthcoming I understand,

is called H.A.T. from ExpoTech USA.  Someone associated

with the company has been quite active on compuserve

recently, indicating the impending release of the software.

While in England last year, I located another tool which

appears to be only available in the UK.  Called ABC Help Author

or something to that effect, I have not yet seen any sign

of it's presence here in North America.  Perhaps a UK resident

can dig up a copy of Program Now! and see if it's still

advertised.

My personal opinion, not to be trusted under any circumstances,

is that one would be crazy to undertake any substantial

help authoring product without at least one tool.  The

shareware and freeware tools are of varying quality.  I've

downloaded most of them and tried them out with some success.

If you're planning to do help authoring with MS-Word, I'd suggest

sticking with Word 2, since Word 6 appears to be less-suited

for Help Authoring for reasons that I cannot say in a public

forum for fear of litigation.

As a final plug, I'd have to say that Boggan, Welinske et al.'s

Windows Help tome is an essential part of help authoring.

Jim Mischel, noted "PC Techniques all-around cool guy" also

has a book out, and sounds like it has some good content.

Ron Burk, editor of "Windows/DOS developers journal" (a bad-ass

magazine to say the least) is also working on a book, tentatively

titled "WinHelp for Programmers and Technical Writers".

I've seen and read a few chapters and it's very meaty.

Undoutably more information will be posted as it arrives.

Please excuse the numerous typos, and feel free to ask me

any question about winhelp, you might be suprised to find I

may answer candidly upon any subject.  Good luck with your

hypertext projects, private, commercial, corporate or

recreational--Ted Nelson would be proud, and the first to

suggest that information has no inherent moral value.

Gen

"not an expert at all"

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how to get bmc to work with hc31?

>I have written a small help file in WW2 and it compiles fine execpt that I

>cann't get hc31 to recognise the line

>\

>as anything but part of the text.

I had a dickens of a time with something similar: the compiler insisted that a

.SHG file was an invalid string on some compile passes or it was plain text

during others.  I shot the .SHG file, recreated it, and everything has been

fine ever since.

Go figure...

Bev Freed

Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

Dallas, TX

e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

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printing out a help file?

How do I postscriptize a whole helpfile?

There's a print topic option  in the menu, I want something which is

print file...

--

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.HLP internals - "Character" offsets?

In article <dmurdoch.915.769057172@mast.queensu.ca>,

Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca> wrote:

>I've been trying to write a .HLP file viewer based on the information in

>Pete Davis's articles in DDJ last fall.  I've got a lot of it working, but

>have hit one stumbling block that's driving me crazy.  I can't figure out

>how to use a "character" offset to find a topic reliably.

>

>The character offsets give a 4K block number, and an offset into the

>decompressed version of it.  It looks to me as though I can follow the topic

>links and use the DataLen2 field to get the decompressed size; I don't

>actually need to do the decompression (but I think I get the same size

>when I do).  This works, sometimes; but it pretty frequently misses a few

>bytes, so that the total size I get is short of the one I'm looking for by

>3 or 4 or 6 bytes.

>

Forgive me if this is a stupid suggestion, I haven't tried this,

but could it have something to do with linefeeds/carriage-returns/

binary vs. text mode?  In my experience, when you get random off by N

errors, this is usually the case.

--

Miguel Carrasquer         ____________________  ~~~

Amsterdam                [                  ||]~

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Help DLLs

I remember reading somewhere that it's possible to create a DLL that

interfaces with the winhelp program.  Can someone point me in the right

direction of where I can read up on this?

  Specifically, I need to be able to change the font (send a WM_SETFONT

message) to the edit control in the search dialog box, since we are

translating our program to Russian.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Dave

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Mystifying Memory Problem...

Dear Colleagues

I wonder whether anyone can enlighten me.

I am working on converting a baking book into Winhelp. I had memory

problems with my final builds, so I have been building step by

step. I have reached the point where I get the 'Out of Memory'

message from the HC31 Compiler, which is the most recent HC505

flavour. I was originally working in Winword 6, but I converted

everything over to Winword 2, as I thought that might be the problem.

So at present, I have seven chapters, with Bitmaps (not Multi Res),

all converted to .SHGs, (all these .SHGs are external, referenced by

{bmc}), as follows....

1) Overview.rtf......7,915 bytes

  a)  1.shg.........59,975 bytes

2) Intro.rtf........39,057 bytes

  a)  2.shg.........54,303 bytes

  b)  3.shg.........16,342 bytes

  c)  4.shg..........9,734 bytes

  d)  5.shg.........13,181 bytes

  e)  6.shg.........19,093 bytes

  f)  7.shg.........19,486 bytes

  g)  8.shg.........11,419 bytes

  h)  9.shg.........16,244 bytes

3) Help.rtf.........41,866 bytes

  a) 10.shg.........13,113 bytes

4) Banana.rtf.......44,860 bytes

  a) 11.shg..........6,293 bytes

5) Citrus.rtf.......51,043 bytes

  a) 12.shg..........4,882 bytes

6) Light.rtf........72,186 bytes

7) Nuts.rtf.........32,668 bytes

  a) 13.shg.........54,465 bytes

Does this seem excessive to anyone? I have looked in vain for

guidelines on total bitmap inclusions. HAG.HLP was good, but didn't

answer this crucial point. I am using a 486SX25,  with 8mb RAM.

I tried slimmimg down my Config.sys, and Autoexec.bat - to no avail.

I tried both from within Windows, and from DOS. I tried on a

different machine.

I then went on to try to use HCP.EXE. This one caused a GPF in

Windows when I tried, so I reverted to DOS.

At first, it gave this message

Runtime Error R6921...

-DOSX16: 'No expanded memory available under VCPI host'

I changed my EMM386 from noems, to 4096

HCP then gave me...

Runtime Error R6921...

-DOSX16: 'Unhandled exception'

I'm not a programmer, just a writer, who thinks that the

future lies in Hypertext and Multimedia. I have some knowledge of

the machines I am using, but I don't understand what is happening

here. I would be very grateful for any tips, or any pointers to

useful documents.

Best Wishes

Bhagavat

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hlp2doc version 1.22 available

HLP2DOC Version 1.22 is uploaded to ftp.lrz-muenchen.de . The path is

/pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows/hlpdc122.zip.

HLP2DOC is a DOS utility to convert a Windows 3.x Help File to a Word for

Windows 2.0 Document File including formatting information. Now there is also

a windows front end program H2DSTART for easy handling.

This version (1.22) is still a beta version, there are bugs and drawbacks, but

I think it may be of some interest. I dont't know any other programs which

can do the HLP file conversion. HLP2DOC is freeware, you may give it to

anyone who want it.

Version 1.22 supports fonts arial, times new roman and courier at all

possible sizes. Attributes bold, italic, underlined, strike through and

as well as topics highlighting (green/underlined) are handled.

Some colors are implemented, lines and boxes should be displayed.

Command line

------------

hlp2doc [-p] helpfile[.hlp]

hlp2doc writes a file <helpfile>.doc to the actual directory, where <helpfile>

is the name of the input file.

When specified with the optional parameter '-p', hlp2doc puts a form feed

at the end of each help topic, otherwise only two empty lines are inserted

to save paper on printing.

Windows front end:

------------------

Steve Martindill wrote a windows front end for HLP2DOC named H2DSTART that

I inluded in the distribution file. Thank you Steve !

HLPDC122.ZIP containing HLP2DOC.EXE, HLP2DOC.TXT (this text) and H2DSTART.EXE

is uploaded to ftp.lrz-muenchen.de in directory /pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

Email: beyer@lrz-muenchen.de.

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Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

Are there any workarounds for doing lists with Word 6.0,

short of using tables?

I tried using RoboHelp 2.6 and compiling with HCP.EXE.

I also tried compiling for Viewer. Here's what I got

for a multilevel list:

1.      first-level list	(text indent doubled)

   2.   first-level list	(number incorrectly indented)

   o    second-level list	(correct!)

        o      second-level list	(bullet indented, text indent doubled)

               third-level list	(text indent doubled)

               third-level list	(text indent doubled)

   o    second-level list	(correct!)

o       second-level list	(bullet outdented)

3.      first-level list	(text indent doubled)

4.      first-level list	(text indent doubled)

It should look like this:

1. first-level list

2. first-level list

   o  second-level list

   o  second-level list

         third-level list

         third-level list

   o  second-level list

   o  second-level list

3. first-level list

4. first-level list

Rich Ilsley

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Windows Help Magician - any comments?

In article <768936054snz@discreet.demon.co.uk>, msmith@discreet.demon.co.uk (Mark Smith) writes:

> gen@BIX.com "gen on BIX" writes:

>> I think it's fair game to respond to technical inaccuracies

>> with respect to things said about products.

>

(stuff deleted)

>

> Perhaps they don't want you to use their question as an excuse for

> yet more advertising.  Usenet is not CompuServe or BIX or AOL or

> Prodigy; please learn something about its culture before barging in.

>

>    -M-                                     msmith@discreet.demon.co.uk

I, for one, find the commercials more interesting than the endless

discussions of those who write testimonials.  I'm one of those who

buy computer magazines in part for the advertisements.  I want

to read the commercials and testimonials by those who create

tools to create help projects.  I've tried a lot of them, and

have my favorite, which I've pumped before.  When the appropriate

times arise, I'll pump it again.

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this is regarding messed up numbered lists in word 6.0 and robohelp 2.6:

i don't believe this is a robohelp error or a compiler error, but has to do

with word itself. if you look closely, word no longer inserts tabs between

bullets and numbers and the text that follows; instead, it seems that pressing

the bullet and number list buttons changes the page layout of those particular

paragraphs. at the company i work at, we found this out the hard way.

so, to use bullets, either read past posts in this newsgroup, or create a

bitmap of a bullet.

for numbers, ya' gotta do it manually.

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Copyright Symbol and others

Hi!,

I would like to add some symbols to my help file, but I don't have

them.

Does any body has a list of this symbols already in a text format file?

(Best way).

Or send me a list of instructions to make the symbols.

Thank you in advance,

Patrick

lamastus@swlavc.dnet.ge.com

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FAQ

gen@BIX.com (gen on BIX) wrote:

>

>Pete,

>

>If you need contact information or product information

>about RoboHELP, please do not hesitate to ask.

>

>After all, why should a FAQ about WinHelp omit the

>help authoring tool that Windows Magazine includes

>in it's top 100 products of 1994, and suggests is

>"quite simply the best tool around for constructing

>elegant help files."

>

>Just curious, I guess.

>

>Gen

>(Creator of RoboHELP)

Gen,

   RoboHelp was not intentionally left out. As I said in the preliminary

version of the FAQ I posted, I invite people (tool authors and users) to

send me info on the tools they use or author. I've received quite a few of

these. I don't know anything about the cost, description, or availability

of RoboHelp. Please send me e-mail with this information (try to keep to

the format of the FAQ I posted) and I will be happy to add it to the FAQ.

Pete Davis

--

"The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines. One tells them from

vinegar by the label." - Mark Twain

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gen@BIX.com (gen on BIX) wrote:

>

>Pete,

>

>If you need contact information or product information

>about RoboHELP, please do not hesitate to ask.

>

>After all, why should a FAQ about WinHelp omit the

>help authoring tool that Windows Magazine includes

>in it's top 100 products of 1994, and suggests is

>"quite simply the best tool around for constructing

>elegant help files."

>

>Just curious, I guess.

>

>Gen

>(Creator of RoboHELP)

Gen,

   RoboHelp was not intentionally left out. As I said in the preliminary

version of the FAQ I posted, I invite people (tool authors and users) to

send me info on the tools they use or author. I've received quite a few of

these. I don't know anything about the cost, description, or availability

of RoboHelp. Please send me e-mail with this information (try to keep to

the format of the FAQ I posted) and I will be happy to add it to the FAQ.

Pete Davis

--

"The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines. One tells them from

vinegar by the label." - Mark Twain

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WinHelp printing

Dear all,

If there are someways (or softwares) to select some topics together

and then print it out to a single postscript file?

If it is possible to print out a whole small win help file into a

single postscript file?

I only can print a single topic each time, even if there are only 2 or 3

lines in the topic.

Thank you in advance for any of your help.

Bingyang

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> 	I've never heard so much bullshit polite doubletalk in my life.

Lighten up, people!  We're only dealing with

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp.  It is not a big deal.

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Copyright Symbol and others

I

>

> Hi!,

>

> I would like to add some symbols to my help file, but I don't have

> them.

>

> Does any body has a list of this symbols already in a text format file?

> (Best way).

>

>

>

> To add special symbols,such as the copyright symbol, switch to Arial font and

type ALT+0169 using the ALT key and the number keypad on the right side of the

keyboard. Other symbols key combinations can be found by using the Character

Map program that comes with Windows 3.1, selecting the Arial font and then

selecting the symbol. The keypad combination for that symbol is then displayed

in the lower right corner of the character map display.

Other fonts give different symbols, i.e. TTSymbol font and SHIFT+D

gives the Delta symbol. Arial font ALT+0186 gives degree symbol.

CIAO

G Parsons

Ft. McMurray, Alberta

(Oil sand country)

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HP Editor

I know you probably get this question a million times a day, but I am in

a hurry to find this prog. I need the Microsoft help project editor. I

have looked around at ftp.microsoft.com but am to blind to see it.

please reply via e-mail

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WinHelp() vs. FAPI()

I originally posted a note asking about executing WinHelp macros from the

WinHelp() API function. It seems WinHelp won't accept any commands from

the WinHelp() API function unless WinHelp was started with the WinHelp()

API function. (Incidentally, the window classes for the main WinHelp

window are different when WinHelp is started from WinExec() and when it's

started from WinHelp())

  The fix seems to be the poorly (and almost undocumented) FAPI()

function. This function is exported from WinHelp itself. If you're

interested, read the Windows Help Authoring Guide (available from

ftp.cica.indiana.edu in pub/pc/win3/programr). There's a section on

accessing WinHelp's exported functions. It's a little more complex than I

should go into here, but FAPI() is functionally equivilent to WinHelp()

(it seems). The parameters are the same except you don't pass a window

handle.

  I'll try to address this in the FAQ.

  Pete

--

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Has anyone come up with a converter for WinHELP to HTML or vice versa yet?

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ilsley@hannah.enet.dec.com () writes:

>Are there any workarounds for doing lists with Word 6.0,

>short of using tables?

>I tried using RoboHelp 2.6 and compiling with HCP.EXE.

>I also tried compiling for Viewer. Here's what I got

>for a multilevel list:

>1.      first-level list	(text indent doubled)

>   2.   first-level list	(number incorrectly indented)

>   o    second-level list	(correct!)

>        o      second-level list	(bullet indented, text indent doubled)

>               third-level list	(text indent doubled)

>               third-level list	(text indent doubled)

>   o    second-level list	(correct!)

>o       second-level list	(bullet outdented)

>3.      first-level list	(text indent doubled)

>4.      first-level list	(text indent doubled)

>It should look like this:

>1. first-level list

>2. first-level list

>   o  second-level list

>   o  second-level list

>         third-level list

>         third-level list

>   o  second-level list

>   o  second-level list

>3. first-level list

>4. first-level list

>Rich Ilsley

>ilsley@hannah.enet.dec.com

I think the solution is to insert a blank paragraph in between

or after the paragraphs that aren't working correctly.  Anil

at Blue Sky tech support knows the exact steps.  If you

don't have the tech support number, call 619-459-6365.

And you are correct, it is an anomaly in the way Word outputs

.RTF and formats bullet lists.

Gen

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FAQ

bfreed@fasttax.com (Bev Freed) writes:

>>in it's top 100 products of 1994, and suggests is

>Surely, you mean "its" and not "it's."

>"Its" is a possessive, just like "hers" and "his" and "ours."  You don't go

>around writing "her's" or "hi's" or "our's," do you?

>"It's" is a contraction and stands for "it is."

>I discovered that the person who wrote your Robohelp documentation doesn't

>know the vast difference between these two words.

>Bev Freed

>Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

>Dallas, TX

>e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

>My opinions are very much my own, and my mother will tell you that.

Bev,

As surely as I get my left and right hand mixed up, I get

its and it's mixed up.  As Timothy Leary would say, they're

only words...

Gen

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FAQ

Pete,

Righty ho, will do.

Gen

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FAQ

PEte,

YOu could also include the summary of commercial tools

I wrote yesterday.

See 'Commercial' in this newsgrope.

Gen

Its a wonderful life, but watch out for it's pitfalls.

Gen

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Help DLLs

David A Hanekamp <dh4h+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>I remember reading somewhere that it's possible to create a DLL that

>interfaces with the winhelp program.  Can someone point me in the right

>direction of where I can read up on this?

>  Specifically, I need to be able to change the font (send a WM_SETFONT

>message) to the edit control in the search dialog box, since we are

>translating our program to Russian.

>  Any help would be appreciated.

>

>  Dave

David,

There are two kinds of DLLs that can be used with WinHelp.

Existing ones, that have no knowledge of the beast, and DLLs

that include an LDLLHandler function that receives event

notifications from the WinHelp engine.

Given the event notifications, it would be possible to

install a windows message hook that watches for WM_NCCREATE

for a dialog with the appropriate title text (i.e. the title

text of the search dialog).  Use the message hook to install

an instance-subclass of the dialog box, and then, when the

dialog box receives a WM_INITDIALOG message, do the

WM_SETFONT yourself.  If you are creating the hFont, then

you will have to use DeleteObject to destroy it in the

WM_NCDESTROY message.

Your tracking of the hFont and instance sub-class should be on

a per-window basis, since there may be multiple instances of

WinHelp running with your .HLP loaded as the document.

Ciao for Now.

Gen

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Trapping Windows Messages (How To?)

I'm writing an app in VB that (legally) includes a common third-party mail

program.  Our client would like to add their own WinHelp topic to the

mail program's Help menu.  I'll have to come up with my own help file, and

i've already gotten the custom menu entry inserted in the menu.  Problem is,

I need some way to figure out when the user has clicked on this option so

i can bring up my own help file.  I think the way to do this is to trap the

WM_MENUSELECT and WM_COMMAND messages.  Problem is, i can't figure out how

to do this.  The manuals say the "PeekMessage" function only works with

messages your own app creates, so it does me no good.  i've noticed that

Micosoft can do it with their "Spy.exe" program, so obviously it can be

done.  Any clues?

P.S.  Any info on recognizing when the "WinHelp" function is called would

      also be helpful.

Please respond to "bob@epsilon.com" or post here.

thanks!

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sascrh@norman.unx.sas.com (Chris Hemedinger) wrote:

>

>I have a brochure from Virtual Media Tech. describing HDK help authoring

>system.  In their brochure, they talk about a table of contents system

>(that looks suspiciously similar to MS Viewer) and an automated Glossary

>system.

>

>I currently use RoboHelp, and am happy with it; but these two features

>advertised by HDK would be handy.  Anybody have an idea how well the

>product lives up to its image in the brochure?

  Chris,

    I'm not familiar with HDK, but several other help authoring tool

developers are coming out with table of contents type navigators. I

believe RoboHelp either has one or will have one in the near future, as

will Doc-to-Help. Both of those companies (Blue Sky and WexTech Systems)

have representatives here that could tell you about them (though, not too

many plugs guys).

  Pete Davis

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HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

I have a brochure from Virtual Media Tech. describing HDK help authoring

system.  In their brochure, they talk about a table of contents system

(that looks suspiciously similar to MS Viewer) and an automated Glossary

system.

I currently use RoboHelp, and am happy with it; but these two features

advertised by HDK would be handy.  Anybody have an idea how well the

product lives up to its image in the brochure?

The software is distibuted by DEK, out of New Jersey.  But I assume that

the product is developed by Virtual Media in Australia--right?

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Windows Help Magician - any comments?

In your response to <gen.768775594@BIX.com>, the RoboHelp author, you said...

> It _is_ fair game, but that's not what you were doing.  Posting

> 200 lines of marketing ad copy is not a technical post, no matter

> how neat you think your product is.

>You should be careful.  I have seen product boycots arise from

>backlash to behavior such as yours.

I agree with you 100%.  Some of us are in positions to make major

purchases regarding tools and utilities that help us and the people who report

to us in their tasks.

I read announce groups to keep up with new products and releases.  I read

support groups for technical assistance.  People who self-aggrandize in

technical support groups give us all the more reason to go to a moderated

platform -- and I'm a foaming-mouthed anarchist.

And I'm also naughty, naughty for taking us further into this thread.

Bev Freed

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Dallas, TX

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tech writer's style guide for Windows

Does anyone have an idea if there is a Microsoft style guide for writing

Windows documentation. Our tech pubs department is rather new to the concept of

PCs and Microsoft products. They keep defaulting to Motif jargon when trying to

describe the Windows universe.  I've been modeling my documentation after

the Windows User Guide for Workgroups, but the writers at our company's mother

ship insist that I'm simply making it all up. Any help in finding a Windows

writing style guide will be tremendously appreciated. Really. I mean it.

Please.

Thanks in advance.

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tech writer style guide

Although this doesn't apply to on-line help, I'm looking for information about

a style guide for writing Windows documentation. Anyone have a clue if such a

thing exists?

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Hi all. I have two questions. WHere can I find a good font editor? How do

I change the default green link colours?

reply via e-mail

and thanks to those who responded to my last inquiry.

cheers

mike

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Windows Application Localization (language change)

Hi!

I'm currently working on localizing some US Windows applications to be

used in Japan. And I don't even know where to start! Our company ordered

a Windows SDK Far East Edition but we won't get it for a while because

Microsoft back-ordered it. We need to know what modifications are needed

and what tools/resources we can use.  Any help is appreciated.  We're

very tight on our schedule.

Specifically we need information on how to change the code to work with

the double-byte character set used in Japanese Windows.

Thank you very much!

-TK.

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Hi!

I'm currently working on localizing some US Windows applications to be

used in Japan. And I don't even know where to start! Our company ordered

a Windows SDK Far East Edition but we won't get it for a while because

Microsoft back-ordered it. We need to know what modifications are needed

and what tools/resources we can use.  Any help is appreciated.  We're

very tight on our schedule.

Specifically we need information on how to change the code to work with

the double-byte character set used in Japanese Windows.

Thank you very much!

-TK.

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Questoin

I can

t gaurantee how this is going to look cause I am using a slip connection

with a telnet prog that was not designed for my systems terminal

emulation. But, here goes. I need superscript fonts

numbers). Has anyone got some or know of a good font editor.

signed

last you

ll here from me

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Gen,

Why don't you let someone who has a more friendly user-interface address this

conference for you?

Better yet, why not start comp.bluesky.robohelp?

Bev Freed

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Dallas, TX

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Windows help file questions

You would use the Windows Help Compiler.  This compiler is shipped with

several of the development packages offered by Microsoft.

Knut Espen Vonheim (knutv@Hadrian.Boers.no) wrote:

: Hi there!

: I'm developing my first windows application, and I know little or

: nothing about Windows' help.

: Do I understand it right when I say you need a special compiler

: to create the windows help files?

: If so, what compiler is refered to, where can I obtain one, and how

: much would it cost?

: Any help or hint is highly appreciated!

: --

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Weird kerning in MS Word screen font

This is a minor problem, but one I've been noticing ever since I

upgraded to Word 6.0.

I use MS Sans Serif (almost exclusively) in my help files.  Usually

when I'm creating these files in Word, the screen font looks crunched;

that is, it isn't kerned correctly on the screen.  Also, the characters

look too narrow. I haven't worried about it too much because it prints

okay, and the compiled help files look fine.

But sometimes the font looks fine on the screen.  I have several help

projects that I work on (using RoboHelp), and there seems to be no

consistency about which files work and when.  I've checked all of the

Word options settings--there seems to be no difference in them when the

font looks right and when it doesn't.

The only way I can make it consistently right is to open Word first,

then open the doc (instead of having RoboHelp launch Word by opening a

help project).

Anyone else have this problem?  Anyone solve it?

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HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

>

> The software is distibuted by DEK, out of New Jersey.  But I assume that

> the product is developed by Virtual Media in Australia--right?

>

> Chris Hemedinger                         SAS Institute, Doc Development

Actually, the author is a fellow Israeli.  It's a good product,

especially if you have many targets, such as dos help, os/2

help and so on.  but for just plain ol' winhelp, I find

Help Writer's Assistant for Windows the best for my needs.

-dennis turner

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QUESTIONS

In article <2rbne4$p7d@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>,

M. Sosteric <msosteri@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> wrote:

>Hi all. I have two questions. WHere can I find a good font editor? How do

>I change the default green link colours?

>

Hi!

Changing the default link colors is easy:

WIN.INI, [Windows Help]

JumpColor=0 128 0

PopupColor=0 255 0

MacroColor=0 128 128

IFJumpColor=0 128 64

IFPopupColor=64 128 64

DON'T use the same values as are here: they're ugly.  I was

fooling around with the settings, and I forgot to set

them back to something nicer.  The IF... colors are for links

to other help files, btw.

As to a good font editor...  are you referring to GDI fonts

or Truetype/Adobe Type 1 ?  I use FontMonger, from Ares Software,

and it's great for editing TT/ATM fonts (haven't built a font

from scratch yet, but it should be possible).  FontMonger

won't touch GDI fonts, though.

Hope this helps,

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how to get bmc to work with hc31?

In article <bfreed.85.0A58C7F5@fasttax.com>

           bfreed@fasttax.com "Bev Freed" writes:

>>I have written a small help file in WW2 and it compiles fine execpt that I

>>cann't get hc31 to recognise the line

>

>>\

>

>>as anything but part of the text.

The "\{" is the actual RTF statement. If you're writing the text in a

word processor, simply say:

ie get rid of the "\" characters.

Chris

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Guys I value my time.

This thread is pointless.

Cut the crap and let's get on with something that has a point.

This is all going back and forth saying "A acted on B. B acted on A".

Whoope-de-doo.

Next topic.

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People don't notice what's common to them (such as air) and hence they don't

act on what's common to them (such as dealing with other people). Instead the

problem with most individuals is that they _react_ to the uncommon instead of

_acting_ on the common.

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Mystifying Memory Problem...

In article <769104625snz@dharma.demon.co.uk>, bhagavat@dharma.demon.co.uk (bhagavat dharma) writes:

> Dear Colleagues

>

> I wonder whether anyone can enlighten me.

>

> I am working on converting a baking book into Winhelp. I had memory

> problems with my final builds, so I have been building step by

> step. I have reached the point where I get the 'Out of Memory'

> message from the HC31 Compiler, which is the most recent HC505

> flavour. I was originally working in Winword 6, but I converted

> everything over to Winword 2, as I thought that might be the problem.

>

[File list deleted]

>

> Does this seem excessive to anyone? I have looked in vain for

> guidelines on total bitmap inclusions. HAG.HLP was good, but didn't

> answer this crucial point. I am using a 486SX25,  with 8mb RAM.

> I tried slimmimg down my Config.sys, and Autoexec.bat - to no avail.

> I tried both from within Windows, and from DOS. I tried on a

> different machine.

Actually the best way to include bitmaps is by reference. Instead of using the

WORD (I'm assuming you're using the word macros due to your reference to HAG

above...) "include graphic" - make sure you use the insert grahic function

that's down at the bottom of the menu (I think it's "graphic" under the INSERT

menu..) Anyway - that will generate something strange that will have the

filename etc in your word file.

I think the actual total (don't quote me on this is somewhere around 32k for

included bitmaps and text) for a single file.

[Stuff deleted]

>

> Best Wishes

>

> Bhagavat

>

>

>

>

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problem with most individuals is that they _react_ to the uncommon instead of

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In article <2rbne4$p7d@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>, msosteri@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (M. Sosteric) writes:

> Hi all. I have two questions. WHere can I find a good font editor? How do

> I change the default green link colours?

>

> reply via e-mail

> and thanks to those who responded to my last inquiry.

>

> cheers

>

> mike

Not sure if it's covered in the FAQ but here goes:

One method is (I'm sure there are others - just can't think of any) to make the

character the color you want, underline it and then select it as a jump using

the macros and I believe that there is a little button on the jump menu saying

"don't hilite" or something similair.

(Green is ickey isn't it?)

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People don't notice what's common to them (such as air) and hence they don't

act on what's common to them (such as dealing with other people). Instead the

problem with most individuals is that they _react_ to the uncommon instead of

_acting_ on the common.

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DUCK@PEMBVAX1.PEMBROKE.EDU (CRAIG TAYLOR) (duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu) wrote:

: Guys I value my time.

: This thread is pointless.

: Cut the crap and let's get on with something that has a point.

: This is all going back and forth saying "A acted on B. B acted on A".

: Whoope-de-doo.

: Next topic.

: Craig Taylor   (910)521-3814 The sayings I uttereth I utter for myself only.

: * duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu(preferred) _or_ c.taylor37@genie.geis.com     *

: People don't notice what's common to them (such as air) and hence they don't

: act on what's common to them (such as dealing with other people). Instead the

: problem with most individuals is that they _react_ to the uncommon instead of

: _acting_ on the common.

So, what's your point?

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>   Chris,

>     I'm not familiar with HDK, but several other help authoring tool

> developers are coming out with table of contents type navigators. I

> believe RoboHelp either has one or will have one in the near future, as

> will Doc-to-Help. Both of those companies (Blue Sky and WexTech Systems)

> have representatives here that could tell you about them (though, not too

> many plugs guys).

>

>   Pete Davis

>

Help Writer's Assistant also has a nifty outline control that helps

the author navigate through his project, as well as a "contents"

creator that places a links list of children of a parent topic

into another topic of the author's choice.  That target topic

can serve as a convenient pop-up link list, especially in the

non-scrolling region.

contact:  hwa-supp@olson.acme.gen.nz

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Floating Table of Contents?

Does anyone know of an add-on to Winhelp/Viewer2 which provides a floating

table of contents? It should have outline mode behaviour, ie opening and

closing nodes in the hierarchy should be possible.

Apparently HDK doesn't support Viewer2---and doesn't retain any of the

files input to the help compiler, so can't easily be adapted.

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List of Different RTF Compilers?

I have heard this too!  I think the application is ShareWare or

DemoWare.  I will post if I am able to find it!

ETSI DP Dept. (nsadp@access1.digex.net) wrote:

: I am also happy to see this windows help group.

: I have heard of a shareware product called "hlpdk" (Help Developers

: Kit??), that can compile an RTF file onto multiple targets (WinHelp,

: OS/2, etc...) Where can I find this? Does it support MS MultiMedia Viewer?

: Thanks for any info.

: Tomas

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HCP causes system integrity violation

Hi,

I am using HCP505.EXE to compile a relatively large help project (.HLP is

currently > 1.5MB and rising). Using a PIF file, I compile within Windows in

a DOS window.

Because the help is context sensitive to the control level, I have to utilize

a lot of mapping information. The mapping information is implemented as text

files which I #include in the map section of the .HPJ file.

Today I included 13 new include files (each less that 64k to the map section

and when I try to compile I get a system integrity violation error. My FILES=

in my config.sys is 99.

Is there a limit on the amount of map information which can be included? Is it

limited by memory? Has anyone experienced the same problem and if so how did

you solve it?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,

Brendan Young

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WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

My WHAT macros no longer work with Word 6.0! Is there an upgrade?

Simon

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HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

I am trying to write a C++ windows application in which the constructor for an

object takes a char* (actually a large character array) and use this to create

a stream that it writes to. After the object has it course I want to display

the contents of the character array to the user. If I created a MessageBox

from the char* then appears fine but if I dump the text to the "edit" box then

I get alot of funny looking characters, very thick vertical bars. I think the

bars are where the newlines or in C++ endl are ? I have created the "edit" box

with the control statement in my .rc file, I also use ES_MULTILINE.

What is the problem ? Does C++ have anything to do with it ?

Thanks

David

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tech writer's style guide for Windows

nash@mudshark.sunquest.com wrote:

: Does anyone have an idea if there is a Microsoft style guide for writing

: Windows documentation. Our tech pubs department is rather new to the concept of

: PCs and Microsoft products. They keep defaulting to Motif jargon when trying to

: describe the Windows universe.  I've been modeling my documentation after

:

It's not a style guide, but it does define all of the elements of the interface

and has a certain style of it's own. Try "The Windows Interface: An application

design guide" from Microsoft press. ISBN 1-55615-384-8   1-800-mspress.

This will at least give you all of the "official" names of screen elements &

controls.

C-u

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Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

In article <2qd1g7$ta7@columba.udac.uu.se>, olas@Riyadh.docs.uu.se (Ola Strandberg) writes:

> When I put a numbered list into a helpfile with WW6 the hanging indentation

> gets all screwed up.

> The first line gets indented too far.

Having started my WinHelp history with WinWord 2.0, I never tried to use

WinWord 6.0's bullets and numbering.. if they didn't work then, why would

they work now:-)

But I tried it out, and saw similar problems to what you describe..

lines seemingly the same get justified and indented all over the place.

I think i have found a solution:

Set a tab where you want each line to start indenting.. For me, this

is at 0.2".

I am using DWHAT - my WinWord 6.0 version of the WHAT template, and have

found that using the "Bulletted List" styles does not help.. I can only

get nice output with the "Normal" style.

I created DWHAT from WHAT as Microsoft didn't seem to be supporting it,

though I see mention of WHAT6 for WinWord 6.0 - I would be interested

in comments on this template - how much better than WHAT is it?

have fun,

-dave

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HP Editor

In article <2rae5a$as6@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>

           msosteri@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca "M. Sosteric" writes:

>I know you probably get this question a million times a day, but I am in

>a hurry to find this prog. I need the Microsoft help project editor. I

>have looked around at ftp.microsoft.com but am to blind to see it.

Download the file "WHAT.ZIP" (or WHAT6.ZIP if you're using WfW v6) from

ftp.microsoft.com, directory /developer/MSDN/unsup.

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In article <DAO.94May19093213@arcadia.mitre.org>

           dao@arcadia.mitre.org "David A. Ondzes" writes:

>

>I am trying to write a C++ windows application in which the constructor for an

>object takes a char* (actually a large character array) and use this to create

>a stream that it writes to. After the object has it course I want to display

>the contents of the character array to the user. If I created a MessageBox

>from the char* then appears fine but if I dump the text to the "edit" box then

>I get alot of funny looking characters, very thick vertical bars. I think the

>bars are where the newlines or in C++ endl are ? I have created the "edit" box

>with the control statement in my .rc file, I also use ES_MULTILINE.

>

>What is the problem ? Does C++ have anything to do with it ?

The answer to this question is.....

[Ask in the correct newsgroup "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls" and

I'll tell you :-) ]

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WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

In article <Cq1yop.8Ms@midge.bath.ac.uk>

           mssshb@midge.bath.ac.uk "S H Bowman" writes:

>My WHAT macros no longer work with Word 6.0! Is there an upgrade?

Yes. Download "WHAT6.ZIP" from ftp.microsoft.com. This contains new versions

of both the WHAT macros and the Help compiler itself.

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"Super" WinHelp-like Help????

WinHelp is not bad, but I'm looking for a help system for Windows that is

superior - it needs to be:

1)  present as well as WinHelp

2)  be able to have hypertext links to topics *on a page*, so that links are

to different sections of one topic page

3)  hopefully be customizable - the client needs to be able to easily modify

the help files - particularly the text, but possibly adding or deleting links

Any ideas???  Please email, will post if interest.

Thanks,

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Winhelp on MAC ?

In article <2qqbkh$6j9@status.gen.nz>, icosa@iconz.co.nz (Ross Keatinge) writes:

> I suspect this is a silly question but I've promised someone I would ask it.

>

> Is there any way a winhelp file can be viewed on an Apple Mac ?

I've had no problem reading Help files on the Mac using the program callled,

appropriately, Microsoft Help, a program that ships with every copy of

Microsoft Word or Excel for the Mac.  I have to mess a little with Res Edit

and make sure the type of the Windows Help File that I want to view is HELP

and the creator is MSHE-- Alternatively, you can use AccessPC or PC Exchange

and map DOS files with the extension .HLP to Microsoft Help.

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Adding help to application

The book I refered too was scheduled for release 1q and is already in the

catalogs of book distributers.  But it is good to finally see others.

The one I mentioned is directed to the programmer.

Peter J. Davis (pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu) wrote:

: jonm@xmission.com (Jonathon Montgomery) wrote:

: >jjohn@sid.hp.com wrote:

: >: Can somebody post the complete steps to implement help for

: >: an application in MS-Windows. I am new to MS-Windows and

: >: so can anyone give me some references where I can find more

: >: information on these. I would like to add my help to

: >: already existing windows help.

: [Deleted]

: >Then there is a yet to be published book, "Developers Guide to Writing

: >Windows Help", or something like that.  I will try to find an ISBN and

:    I think the book you are thinking about is Rob Burk's (editor of

: Windows/DOS Developer's Journal) forthcoming book, "WinHelp for

: Programmers and Technical Writers". Last time I talked to Ron, this book

: still had quite a ways to go.

:    There is also, "Developing Online Help For Windows" by Scott Boggan,

: David Farkas, and Joe Welinske. This book is published by SAMS publishing,

: ISBN 0-672-30230-6

:    This is a pretty good book and has information on, not only the

: technical aspects of building help files, but also aesthetic aspects of

: designing .HLP files.

:    Pete Davis

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HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

In article <1994May18.191807.3863@vms.huji.ac.il> tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il writes:

>>

>> The software is distibuted by DEK, out of New Jersey.  But I assume that

>> the product is developed by Virtual Media in Australia--right?

>>

>> Chris Hemedinger                         SAS Institute, Doc Development

>

>Actually, the author is a fellow Israeli.  It's a good product,

>especially if you have many targets, such as dos help, os/2

>help and so on.  but for just plain ol' winhelp, I find

>Help Writer's Assistant for Windows the best for my needs.

>-dennis turner

I think you mistake HDK with HLPDK. HDK is from Australia.

Ron.

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Location of What6

I've spent quite a while combing through ftp.microsoft.com looking fot

WHAT6, and I just can't find it.  I've found the help guide

(WHATHLP.ZIP), but I just can't locate WHAT6.  If somebody could be so

kind as to provide the actual path location on microsoft or anywhere

else, I would be much appreciative.

Thanks,

Fraser.

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How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

I recently downloaded from the Microsoft ftp server the fully

indexed VB knowledge base help files which come with the 'free

text search engine' (FTENGINE.DLL, FTUI.DLL). The simple

question is if anyone out there knows how to prepare a .HLP file

so it can be used with that engine. Are there any tools, conversion

programs, etc.?

Thanks

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doc2help vs robohelp

We are evaluating Help Authoring systems for the purpose of providing help

file source (rtf + hpj) from our existing manual text, with the intention of

producing the help and the manual from the same source in future. We have

Doc-to-Help on a 30-day money-back basis and have got a sheaf of bumpf from

RoboHelp which made it look imho very much the same as doc2help. I would be

interested in hearing from anyone who has used RoboHelp and especially those

who have compared the 2 products. Which do people prefer and for which

purposes ? Or does anyone know of some obscure yet marvellous product which

outstrips them both ?(well, u never know.). We are getting towards the latter

stages of our project and although I do want to pick the right tool, I don't

want to spend ages battling through Purchasing only to find nothing special

in the RoboHelp purchased for evaluation!

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Floating Table of Contents?

nick@logcam.co.uk (Nick Youd) wrote:

>Does anyone know of an add-on to Winhelp/Viewer2 which

>provides a floating  table of contents? It should have

>outline mode behaviour, ie opening and  closing nodes

>in the hierarchy should be possible.

Nick,

The new Doc-To-Help Navigator will do exactly this (and more).

It will be distributed as part of the Hyperformance Tools and

will be available very soon with version 1.6 (the Word 6.0 and

2.0 compatible version).  We will have demo files available

very soon.

Paul Neshamkin

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WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

In article <769374844snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>,

Chris Marriott <chris@chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>My WHAT macros no longer work with Word 6.0! Is there an upgrade?

>

>Yes. Download "WHAT6.ZIP" from ftp.microsoft.com. This contains new versions

>of both the WHAT macros and the Help compiler itself.

After spending a lot of time looking for it, I could not find it.

I asked the person who maintains the archive and he said that it

is not there.  He said it probably will be in the future, but not

yet.  If you disagree, could you give us the directory name?

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"Super" WinHelp-like Help????

In article <bruceb.13.00085425@orb.mincom.oz.au>,

Bruce Blackshaw <bruceb@orb.mincom.oz.au> wrote:

>

>

>WinHelp is not bad, but I'm looking for a help system for Windows that is

>superior - it needs to be:

>

>1)  present as well as WinHelp

I'm afraid I don't quite understand you here...

>

>2)  be able to have hypertext links to topics *on a page*, so that links are

>to different sections of one topic page

>

WinHelp can do that...  Just start a new topic without a preceding

\page.

>3)  hopefully be customizable - the client needs to be able to easily modify

>the help files - particularly the text, but possibly adding or deleting links

Well, WinHelp allows you to make annotations, which is *something*.

It's also possible to embed an Edit Control in the page.  As it's part

of a product I'm working on (Help Perfect), I can't tell you exactly

how it's done, but the word "embed" is a dead give-away.

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In article <6031@rhino.qpsx.oz.au>, Manuel Mall <mmall@qpsx.oz.au> wrote:

>I recently downloaded from the Microsoft ftp server the fully

>indexed VB knowledge base help files which come with the 'free

>text search engine' (FTENGINE.DLL, FTUI.DLL). The simple

>question is if anyone out there knows how to prepare a .HLP file

>so it can be used with that engine. Are there any tools, conversion

>programs, etc.?

>

>Thanks

>

To actually make a full-text index (*.IND), you need three DOS-based

utilities: FORAGE(P).EXE, W_SCAN.EXE and INDEX.EXE.  They extract the

words from a .HLP file and create an index.  The two DLLs you mentioned

use the index file to put up the full-text-search dialog  (BTW, you'll

also need MVAPI.DLL).  Unfortunately, these tools were available only

on the Multimedia Viewer 1.0 MDK, which I believe has been dicontinued.

Viewer 2 uses a different set of DLLs, and the indexers are integrated

with the viewer compiler WMVC.EXE.  The nice thing about the Viewer 1

full-text search was that it also worked on plain HLP files (although

Microsoft wasn't telling anybody).

*However* I recall having seen the 3 proggies somewhere else...

I think it was the Windows NT SDK, but I'm just not sure.

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Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

(here's one for the FAQ)

A number of people have asked about using the Auto-number and Auto-bullet

feature of WinWord 6.0.

Used on their own, the compiled help file will often be weirdly indented

quite different to that expected.

Here are a couple of styles that I have found produce expected results:

"Bullet List"

        Indent: Left 0.1" Hanging 0.3" Flush Left, Space After 3pt,

                Bullet, Tab stops: 0.4"

        Font: Arial, 10pt, English (AUS)

"Number List"

        Indent: Left 0.1" Hanging 0.3" Flush Left, Space After 3pt,

                Auto Numbering, Tab Stops 0.4"

        Font: Arial, 10pt, English (AUS)

In addition, go into Tools|Style|Modify|Format|Numbering|Modify (!) and

check the following are set:

        Alignment of List Text:         Left

        Distance from Indent to Text:   0.3"

        Distance from Number to Text:   0.1"

Probably the most critical of the all the settings is the "Tab Stops 0.4" "

setting, which the Auto-* functions use to align and hang from.

have fun,

-dave

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In article <1994May20.142003.22242@levels.unisa.edu.au>, xadrg@levels.unisa.edu.au (David Gardiner) writes:

> (here's one for the FAQ)

maybe not yet.. I have since discovered that those irregularities are still

occurring.. back to the drawing board.

sorry if i raised anyones hopes :-)

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help compiler

Why wouldn't Visual Help compile for me until I placed the help compiler

in my path.  In fact I even had to rename the compiler before it would work.

Cox  Dennis James (dennis@ponder.csci.unt.edu) wrote:

: Excuse me but visual help is not a front end...

: I thing you meant to say add-on or something like that

: It will complie the help file for you

: and there is no need for any outside junk (e.g. Word for windows or ascii

: text editors)

: It's great... I didn't make it or anything but I use It an like it...

: Dennis@ponder.csci.unt.edu

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Weird kerning in MS Word screen font

sascrh@norman.unx.sas.com (Chris Hemedinger) writes:

>This is a minor problem, but one I've been noticing ever since I

>upgraded to Word 6.0.

>I use MS Sans Serif (almost exclusively) in my help files.  Usually

>when I'm creating these files in Word, the screen font looks crunched;

>that is, it isn't kerned correctly on the screen.  Also, the characters

>look too narrow. I haven't worried about it too much because it prints

>okay, and the compiled help files look fine.

>But sometimes the font looks fine on the screen.  I have several help

>projects that I work on (using RoboHelp), and there seems to be no

>consistency about which files work and when.  I've checked all of the

>Word options settings--there seems to be no difference in them when the

>font looks right and when it doesn't.

>The only way I can make it consistently right is to open Word first,

>then open the doc (instead of having RoboHelp launch Word by opening a

>help project).

>Anyone else have this problem?  Anyone solve it?

>Chris Hemedinger                         SAS Institute, Doc Development

>sascrh@unx.sas.com                       919/677-8000 x5776

> "I've all my wisdom teeth--two up top, two beneath.

>  And yet I recognize my mouth says things that aren't so wise."

>               -Crash Test Dummies

Chris,

This is an excellent question, and I myself, wonder at its

proper resolution.

I myself discovered at some point that 'Helv' was the best

font to use in Windows Help files.  You'll notice that

xxxxHELP 1.0 used Helvetica as it's default font, and

that  RoboHELP 2.0 used MS Sans Serif/Helv (I can't

remember offhand which).

In any event, WinHelp/Windows appears to treat the Helf

(woof) font differently and provides that groovy nice

font that has been optimized from the screen.

Under Windows NT, MS Sans Serif and Helv appear to grab

the same gorgeous screen font.

Gen

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RoboHelp review in Info World

There is a review of RoboHelp in the May 16 edition of Info World, on page 101.

The review, by Paul Speranza, is extremely favorable.

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tech writer style guide

I would also be interested in this type of a style guide if anyone

has a clue on where it might exist, please send me a mail.

Also very glad to hear that RoboHelp will be coming out with a Glossary

functionality.  This will be a big help!

See Ya!

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> WinHelp is not bad, but I'm looking for a help system for Windows that

is

> superior - it needs to be:

> > 1)  present as well as WinHelp

> > 2)  be able to have hypertext links to topics *on a page*, so that

links are

> to different sections of one topic page

> > 3)  hopefully be customizable - the client needs to be able to easily

modify

> the help files - particularly the text, but possibly adding or deleting

links

well, you can jump to different sections on a page. if you have the word 6

help system and look at their glossary, you can see that pressing a letter

at the top of the help topic jumps to that specific letter while the topic

itself scrolls. this is achieved, if you're using a word processor like 6,

by creating topics and then just removign the page breaks before it. (i'm

not sure about you folks who manually create help ssytems, because i am a

woos and use an automated system.) robohelp has this thing called a

mid-context jump or something like that which basically creates a topic

without that usual page break, but there is no help on it i'm afraid.

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for bullets, i use a bitmap (i know, archaic, but it works nicely unless

you want to print the .doc/.rtf files out). here are the dimensions of my

bullet.bmp which looks just like the bullets used in word 2 (i use word 6

now)

the overall size of the entire bitmap is 16x16

the actual size of jsut the bullet is 5x5 with the corners missing so it

looks sort of octagonal

the bullet is located at 3x and 9y (dust off your algebra books)

then i just assign a style with a hanging indent at about .25".

for numbers, i do it manually.

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>comparing robohelp to doc2help ,etc etc etc

before i got to my present employer, my co-workers said they compared a

few help authoring tools. we use robohelp which is very convenient and

easy to use, though the bugs it has with word 6 make it somewhat annoying,

especially after having had near-problem-free performance with word 2. but

the robohelp people, after i called/emailed for tech support every few

days, sent me a free update to 2.6.1 which was nice of them i thought.

being somewhat of a newcomer to the software world, i'm not sure if that's

standard (somehow, i doubt it), but it was courteous.

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mhamilton@aivis.demon.co.uk (Maria Hamilton) wrote:

> We have  Doc-to-Help on a 30-day money-back basis

Maria,

I hope that if you are going to make a comparison of

Doc-To-Help and RoboHelp you will wait for our next version

(1.6).  This will include the Hyperformanace Tools, which add

much functionality to WINHELP and Doc-To-Help. We hope to have

this release ready very soon and will have demo files ready

almost immediately.

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Windows Application Localization (language change)

tehyang@crl.com (Teh Kao Yang) writes:

>Hi!

>I'm currently working on localizing some US Windows applications to be

>used in Japan. And I don't even know where to start! Our company ordered

>a Windows SDK Far East Edition but we won't get it for a while because

>Microsoft back-ordered it. We need to know what modifications are needed

>and what tools/resources we can use.  Any help is appreciated.  We're

>very tight on our schedule.

>Specifically we need information on how to change the code to work with

>the double-byte character set used in Japanese Windows.

>Thank you very much!

>-TK.

TK,

You can call XLSoft at 714.453.2781 amd asNEC porting lab they operate in Irvine, CA.  They

also market a Kanji help authoring tool, but we also

know how dangerous words are, so I won't go into

the specifics of it.

GK.

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tehyang@crl.com (Teh Kao Yang) writes:

>Hi!

>I'm currently working on localizing some US Windows applications to be

>used in Japan. And I don't even know where to start! Our company ordered

>a Windows SDK Far East Edition but we won't get it for a while because

>Microsoft back-ordered it. We need to know what modifications are needed

>and what tools/resources we can use.  Any help is appreciated.  We're

>very tight on our schedule.

>Specifically we need information on how to change the code to work with

>the double-byte character set used in Japanese Windows.

>Thank you very much!

>-TK.

TK,

You can call XLSoft at 714.453.2781 amd asNEC porting lab they operate in Irvine, CA.  They

also market a Kanji help authoring tool, but we also

know how dangerous words are, so I won't go into

the specifics of it.

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WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

mssshb@midge.bath.ac.uk (S H Bowman) writes:

>My WHAT macros no longer work with Word 6.0! Is there an upgrade?

>Simon

>E-mail:S.H.Bowman@bath.ac.uk

Simon,

An updated version of WHAT that supports Word 6 is included

on the latest MSDN CDROM, which I assume implies that

the files are available for FTP from microsoft.com.

In the forums on Compuserve, there have been a number of

complaints regarding the stability of the WHAT for WORD6.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire!

Gen

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winhelp docs to html converters

Well, the winhelp list is finally here.

Let me begin by mentioning that I am currently coding some macros to

convert the rft files (topics) for winhelp to html style files.  I also

eventually need html to winhelp rtf topics converters eventually.

My macros are being written in wordbasic (word6.0).  If anyone has similar

plans or product, please let me know what successes/failures you have

encountered.

Thanks in advance, Phil

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Knowledge Base Files in Help format

R. E. S. (safarik@fnts26.fnal.gov) wrote:

:     I recently obtained several of the Microsoft Knowledge Base files from

: FTP.Microsoft.Com. The files are in "help file" format. As such, they can be

: opened and read from within any windows application. However, you must

: specifically OPEN the specific knowledge base file you want.

:     In addition to the two "help" files, each knowledge base set also

: containes 3 other files:

:                           FTengine.dll

:                           FTui.dll

:                           MVAPI.dll

:     All of the DLL's are identical, regardless of which knowledge base set

: from which they were obtained. It has been suggested by some people on the

: net, that the dll's are used by the help engine to access the knowledge base

: files. However, I was able to open the help KB files even though I had NOT

: installed the three dll's on my system.

:     This leads me to believe that there is some sort of application

: available specifically to utilize the knowledge base without using the

: actual "Help" menus.

:     Does anyone know of such an application and/or where to obtain it ?? Or,

: is there some way of setting up a specific windows "menu" selection for each

: individual KB file ?

:     For some reason the folks at MS claim ignorance on the topic. But after

: all, if there wasn't an application available, why bother packaging the

: DLL's with

: EACH set of knowledge base files?????

It is more likely that these DLL's are used by the help files.  For

example MVAPI.DLL is a Microsoft Video API DLL.

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From: jonm@xmission.com (Jonathon Montgomery)

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The early word is that the Multimedia Viewer will be the replacement to

WinHelp.  This will provide a similar format that is easy to port if this

is the case, in fact it was possible to view helps with version 1.x of

the viewer.

Has anyone else heard anything about this?

Hal German (hhg1@gte.com) wrote:

: 1. Visual BASIC (the one by Fawcette publications) and BCS (Boston Computer

: Society's) PC Report

: both have articles on WinHelp in recent issues.

: 2. It looks like Chicago will have a new WinHelp format (similar to the

: TechNet format). Any word

: on when the help compiler for this will be available? Is it on the Level II

: Devnet CD?

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From: mullican@interzone.com (Andrew Mullican)

Subject: Mac Hypertext to Winhelp

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Hello.  I have a problem I hope someone can help me with.

A friend of mine has a certain document he has written up

using Pagemaker on the Mac (he only owns a Mac).  He is

interested in doing this document in hypertext, but has not

decided on exactly what he will use (Hypercard, etc).  Now,

when he is done he wants to provide this to me in Winhelp

format.  It seems to me to be a waste to do this in Hypertext

twice (although it should be easier the second time!).  Is there

any sort of program that converts any Mac Hypertext to Winhelp

format?  (Or RTF? - I have the Winhelp compiler).  Thanks for

any pointers (even if it is to another newsgroup. :-))

Andy

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Bingyang Zhou (bingyang@fit.qut.edu.au) wrote:

: Dear all,

: If there are someways (or softwares) to select some topics together

: and then print it out to a single postscript file?

: If it is possible to print out a whole small win help file into a

: single postscript file?

: I only can print a single topic each time, even if there are only 2 or 3

: lines in the topic.

: Thank you in advance for any of your help.

: Bingyang

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If you are writing the help yourself you can write a macro that will do

the trick of printing all topics.  Printing in postscript is a function

of the printer driver/s setup for windows.

Jon

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From: ketil@colargol.edb.tih.no (Ketil Albertsen)

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Peter J. Davis (pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu) wrote:

:   For people who have questions on it, or WinHelp in general, I'd like to

: offer my services on this newsgroup. Since the article was released I have

: been doing more and more work with WinHelp and have been working for a

: company that produces a commercial WinHelp product.

You make it sound as if you're offering your services as a FAQ editor for

the group ... Thanks a lot! :-)

In the old c.o.w.programmer.misc group, there was a whole series of

questions asked again and again, so I think there really is a need for a

FAQ.

ketil

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From: dennis@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Cox  Dennis James)

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Excuse me but visual help is not a front end...

I thing you meant to say add-on or something like that

It will complie the help file for you

and there is no need for any outside junk (e.g. Word for windows or ascii

text editors)

It's great... I didn't make it or anything but I use It an like it...

Dennis@ponder.csci.unt.edu

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From: fv@LINK.Physchem.KTH.SE (Fredrik Viklund)

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Well, I think it is time to think of the FAQ.

I can already imagine at least 20 questions that will come up each

month.

- What tools are there to help me to write Winhelp files?

- How can I convert my Winhelp files to HTML/Mac/Hypertext?

- What is RTF/HTML?

- Are there any site that archives Winhelp info?

(Please note that these are not my questions, but only possible FAQs :-)

I do no know how to organize the FAQ-writing, and I cannot do it myself.

So if you know anything about it or if you want to write AND maintain t

he FAQ: please let us know with a simple posting.

(Sorry if this is a FAQ... :-)

        /Fredrik

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From: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis)

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bob@epsilon.com wrote:

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>i can bring up my own help file.  I think the way to do this is to trap the

>WM_MENUSELECT and WM_COMMAND messages.  Problem is, i can't figure out how

>to do this.  The manuals say the "PeekMessage" function only works with

>messages your own app creates, so it does me no good.  i've noticed that

>Micosoft can do it with their "Spy.exe" program, so obviously it can be

>done.  Any clues?

Bob, what you're thinking about is doing a message hook, but there are

several ways to do this.

  If you do a message hook, you'll need to do a SetWindowsHook (or

SetWindowsHookEx) and create hooks for both WH_CALLWNDPROC and

WH_GETMESSAGE. This is how spy does it. Since the messages delivered to

these hooks are in slightly different forms (wParam, lParam, and stuff are

packed differently, Spy then puts the data into a common structure and

calls a routine to handle the message.

  This is the harder way. The easiest way would be to sub-class WinHelp.

Then you can have a windows routine that gets messages prior to WinHelp.

If you want to handle the message, you can, otherwise, you can pass it on

to WinHelp.

  I would recommend subclassing, if for no other reason, when you do the

hooks, the messages tend to come out of order. Here's an example of why:

  When WinHelp receives the WM_VSCROLL message, it handles scrolling, then

sends itself a WM_ERASEBKGND and WM_PAINT.

  If you sub-class, you'll get the WM_VSCROLL, WM_ERASEBKGND, then

WM_PAINT, as you'd expect.

  If you do a hook, you'll get WM_VSCROLL, WM_PAINT, and WM_ERASEBKGND.

  Why? I think I have an idea, but I haven't set down to figure this out,

so I'll give you my fuzzy understanding of why. It has to do with the

fact that the hook sends the message after the message is 'Gotten' and not

when it's sent, or something like that. I still haven't really looked into

it, so I'm not positive. Maybe someone else can clear this up.

  Pete

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From: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis)

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ketil@colargol.edb.tih.no (Ketil Albertsen) wrote:

>Peter J. Davis (pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu) wrote:

>:   For people who have questions on it, or WinHelp in general, I'd like to

>: offer my services on this newsgroup. Since the article was released I have

>: been doing more and more work with WinHelp and have been working for a

>: company that produces a commercial WinHelp product.

>

>You make it sound as if you're offering your services as a FAQ editor for

>the group ... Thanks a lot! :-)

>

>In the old c.o.w.programmer.misc group, there was a whole series of

>questions asked again and again, so I think there really is a need for a

>FAQ.

>

>ketil

  I always seem to get myself in these kinds of messes. Okay, I'd be

willing to do a FAQ, but I'd need at least two weeks before I could begin.

I am under a deadline for some work this week and next and I have a talk

to give next week, so I'm really swamped, but one of my contracts ended on

Monday, so I'll have a bit more free time after this deadline is over. Is

that an acceptible period of time?

  I've never written a FAQ before, so what would be a good model? It

almost looks as if there's standard format for FAQs. Is that the case?

  On a slightly different note, I've had a lot of requests for the Windows

Help File Format. I do not have an electronic copy of the format, at least

not one that I'm allowed to distribute. The articles I wrote for Dr.

Dobb's Journal haven become their property, so I may not release it. I am

currently working on a book that will include a much more complete

description of the Windows Help File Format, but it's essentially the

centerpiece of the book, so the publisher wouldn't be too keen on me

releasing that.

  What I will do is answer specific questions (if I can) about the format,

and if someone wants to do a FAQ on the file format, I'd be more than

happy to provide any information I have, but I would recommend the

articles below as a starting point.

  I have actually written 2 WinHelp related articles.

1>  WinHelp File Format: Dr. Dobb's Journal - Sept. & Oct. 1993

2>  .SHG and .MRB File Formats: Windows/DOS Developer's Journal - Feb. 1994

  Hope this helps.

  Pete

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In article <2oei1k$erb@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>, pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>mflex@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Media-Flex Technology) wrote:

>>I need a way to convert WinHELP helps into ascii

>>text.... any way???

>>

>

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>

>  Pete Davis

>

>--

>"The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines. One tells them from

>vinegar by the label." - Mark Twain

>

If you followed Pete's excellent articles in DDJ, then you would have seen

that extracting the text from a WinHelp file is rather straightforward.

By the way, the code featured in these articles is available for ftp from

ftp.mv.com in /pub/ddj (at least it was last time I looked).

I cobbled up an application that makes a first cut at converting WinHelp

to HTML, and a component of this includes extraction of the text. If

it's felt worthwhile, I could post it (MS Fortran, I'm afraid ....)

Julian

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I'm looking for information on writing help files for NT.

Ideally, I'd like to write in RoboHelp then compile the

project in Multimedia Viewer. This works okay on a Windows 3.1

system. I'll be developing on a Windows 3.1 system.

I know I can display Viewer titles on NT, but I don't know

anyone who has used Viewer to develop context-sensitive help

for NT applications. Is this possible? Is there a way for a

32-bit NT app to talk to the 16-bit Viewer files, so you can

display particular topics?

If I can't use Viewer, I'll stick with help files. Is there

a 32-bit help compiler for NT?

--Rich Ilsley

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I am not sure about the internet, but CompuServe does have a file which

contains AmiPro 3.0 macros for creating help files. Instead of this, try

a great commercial program called ForeHelp by ForeFront. It is the best

tool out there!

Hope this helps.

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Subject: INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups

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Archive-name: ms-windows/newsgrp.guide

Last-modified: 1994-04-12

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains the purpose

of the usenet newsgroups for Microsoft Windows.  Please follow these

guidelines when posting your articles, and make life easier for all of

us.

These are the current Windows newsgroups:

    GENERAL:

    comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   Comparisons and arguments about Windows &

  Windows NT vs. other operating systems

    comp.os.ms-windows.announce   MODERATED.  Announcements and news about

  Windows applications, drivers, events etc.

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps       Windows & NT applications, including hints,

  tips, bugs and comparisons

    comp.os.ms-windows.setup      Questions and problems with setting up

  and configuring Windows.

    comp.os.ms-windows.video      Video display cards, drivers and monitors

  for use with Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.misc       All other Windows discussions except

  advocacy with other operating systems.

    NETWORKING:

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip  TCP/IP-based networking for

  Windows, includign NFS and apps

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows Windows' native networking: WFWG,

  NT, NTAS and LAN Manager

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc    All other networks, such as Netware,

  Banyan Vines and LANtastic

    WINDOWS NT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup   Setting up and configuring Windows NT and

  Windows NT Advanced Server

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc    All other Windows NT-specific discussions

  except programming and advocacy

    PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls   Using controls, custom controls,

     VBXs, OCXs and dialogs

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.drivers    Driver and  VxD development for

     Windows 3.1, NT and Chicago

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics   Graphics and GDI programming in

     Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory     Memory and process management,

     threads and IPC in Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia Development of multimedia and

     video applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks   Network-specific application

     development for Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole        Creating OLE, COM and DDE-based

     applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools      Windows development tools, class

     libraries and compilers

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32      Developing for the Win32 API

     (including NT and Win32s)

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp    Developing WinHelp and Multimedia

     Viewer files and applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc       All other Windows programming and

     development discussions

    OTHER RELATED GROUPS:

    comp.lang.basic.visual	  Visual Basic programming issues for both

  Windows and MS-DOS

    comp.binaries.ms-windows	  MODERATED.  Shareware, freeware, drivers and

  other binary files.

    bit.listserv.win3-l           This newsgroup is a copy of the BITNET WIN3-L

  mailing list for all Windows discussions

Please try to post to the appropriate newsgroup, and try to avoid crossposting

whenever possible.  This makes it easier for everyone to find the information

they are looking for without wading through irrelevant articles.

Second, please do not get involved in arguments about Windows vs. OS/2 vs.

Macintosh vs. NeXTSTEP *except* in the .advocacy group.  Don't post any

comparison or argument, and if someone else posts one -- don't post a

followup!  Ignore this flamebait, and help increase the signal-to-noise

ratio of the newsgroups.

If you have questions about these guidelines, you can email to Tom Haapanen

(maintainer of the FAQ, tomh@metrics.com) or Sean Graham (moderator of the

.announce group, sgraham@shiloh.nimh.nih.gov).

--

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Subject: Re: Macros

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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 16:47:36 GMT

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> Does anyone know of any Ami Pro 3.0 macros for writing help files?

>

> Thanks,

> Chris

Here follows the "helpmkr" macros for Ami Pro... Place the .SMM file in your

macros directory the .STY in your style directory and the .HLP file in your Ami

Pro directory.....

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Subject: Tables *WITH* Borders in Winhelp Files? -PLEASE

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I am currently working on a project that DESPERATELY needs to be able to

incorporate tables *WITH* borders in the help file.

I realize that the HC compiler that Microsoft released does *NOT* allow

borders within their tables... does ANYONE know of a work around to this?

My last resort will be somehow making the tables (there are HUNDREDS of

them over a page length long) into bmp's and displaying them as graphic

images. PLEASE, tell me there is a better way.

Any and all help appreciated,

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Subject: Re: Tables *WITH* Borders in Winhelp Files? -PLEASE

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In article borrell@netcom.com (Brian Orrell) writes:

>I am currently working on a project that DESPERATELY needs to be able to

>incorporate tables *WITH* borders in the help file.

>

>I realize that the HC compiler that Microsoft released does *NOT* allow

>borders within their tables... does ANYONE know of a work around to this?

>My last resort will be somehow making the tables (there are HUNDREDS of

>them over a page length long) into bmp's and displaying them as graphic

>images. PLEASE, tell me there is a better way.

[I'm assuming you're using Word in the following "answer".]

One workaround that *might* work for you is to use paragraph borders

instead of table borders.  You see, within a table cell, you have text that

also forms a paragraph.  By selecting on the text (not the table cell),

you can then add a border that the Help compiler will be able to use.  It's

worked for me.  Experiment.

Jon Noring

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From: kitk@mudshark.sunquest.com (Kit Kauffmann)

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In article <Co5Hzv.F41@epsilon.com> bob@epsilon.com writes:

>I'm writing an app in VB that (legally) includes a common third-party mail

>program.  Our client would like to add their own WinHelp topic to the

>mail program's Help menu.  I'll have to come up with my own help file, and

>i've already gotten the custom menu entry inserted in the menu.  Problem is,

>I need some way to figure out when the user has clicked on this option so

>i can bring up my own help file.  I think the way to do this is to trap the

>WM_MENUSELECT and WM_COMMAND messages.  Problem is, i can't figure out how

>to do this.  The manuals say the "PeekMessage" function only works with

>messages your own app creates, so it does me no good.  i've noticed that

>Micosoft can do it with their "Spy.exe" program, so obviously it can be

>done.  Any clues?

>P.S.  Any info on recognizing when the "WinHelp" function is called would

>      also be helpful.

There are two common techniques for this:

1. Install a system-wide message hook (SetWindowsHookEx), which notifies a

callback function which goes in a DLL and posts your app a message.

2. Subclass the application.  This won't work for your needs, because WinHelp

is invoked by the 3rd party pgm.  (If you want to know more about this

technique, read Richter's "A Developer's Guide")

To be notified when WinHelp is run requires that you install a callback with

NotifyRegister( NFY_STARTTASK... ).  Again, this callback goes in a DLL, and

can only post messages to the owning app.

Cheers,

Kit Kauffmann   kitk@mudshark.sunquest.com (Internet)

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From: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis)

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jonm@xmission.com (Jonathon Montgomery) wrote:

>The early word is that the Multimedia Viewer will be the replacement to

>WinHelp.  This will provide a similar format that is easy to port if this

>is the case, in fact it was possible to view helps with version 1.x of

>the viewer.

>

 Actually, Chicago is going to have a new WinHelp, different from Viewer.

It should be released with the next alpha or beta of chicago. I don't

recall what all the new features are, but I do know that the existing file

format is capable of handling the ones I have heard about. It would

require extensions, but my guess is the files will be viewable from both

the old WinHelp and Viewer, though I'm sure certain features won't be

available.

  Viewer and WinHelp have, essentially, the same file format. Viewer has

some extensions within the file itself that WinHelp can't understand.

Each, however is composed of a HFS (Help File System) with many common

'internal' files in common, such as:

|FONT

|SYSTEM

|TOPIC

|CONTEXT

etc...

  These 'internal' HFS files have the same format in WinHelp and in Viewer

and will continue to have the same format in Chicago, though there will

probably be additional internal files and some minor extensions to

existing ones.

  Pete

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In article <1994Apr13.163644.9939@relay.nswc.navy.mil> snshah@excelsior.nswc.navy.mil (S. N. Shah) writes:

>From: snshah@excelsior.nswc.navy.mil (S. N. Shah)

>Subject: Re: Macros

>Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 16:36:44 GMT

>... try

>a great commercial program called ForeHelp by ForeFront. It is the best

>tool out there!

I acquired ForeHelp just a short time ago, and I agree that it's very

convenient.  They are selling it for $199 (half price) until the end of April.

ForeHelp is by ForeFront, Inc., Boulder Colorado.  Phone number is

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Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

I spoke to RoboHelp about this problem, and they said that WinWord6

doesn't put the correct stuff in the RTF file. Whether or not this is

true... ? :)

In article <1994May18.161010.22221@levels.unisa.edu.au> xadrg@levels.unisa.edu.au (David Gardiner) writes:

   In article <2qd1g7$ta7@columba.udac.uu.se>, olas@Riyadh.docs.uu.se (Ola Strandberg) writes:

   > When I put a numbered list into a helpfile with WW6 the hanging indentation

   > gets all screwed up.

   > The first line gets indented too far.

   Having started my WinHelp history with WinWord 2.0, I never tried to use

   WinWord 6.0's bullets and numbering.. if they didn't work then, why would

   they work now:-)

   But I tried it out, and saw similar problems to what you describe..

   lines seemingly the same get justified and indented all over the place.

   I think i have found a solution:

   Set a tab where you want each line to start indenting.. For me, this

   is at 0.2".

   I am using DWHAT - my WinWord 6.0 version of the WHAT template, and have

   found that using the "Bulletted List" styles does not help.. I can only

   get nice output with the "Normal" style.

   I created DWHAT from WHAT as Microsoft didn't seem to be supporting it,

   though I see mention of WHAT6 for WinWord 6.0 - I would be interested

   in comments on this template - how much better than WHAT is it?

   have fun,

   -dave

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msosteri@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (M. Sosteric) writes:

>Hi all. I have two questions. WHere can I find a good font editor? How do

>I change the default green link colours?

>reply via e-mail

>and thanks to those who responded to my last inquiry.

>cheers

>mike

Mike,

If you need a good font editor, then Fontographer is the

way to go.  It is a commercial product, however, so I

won't discuss any of it's finer attributes.

Company is Altsys, but I have no contact info handy.

Gen

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bfreed@fasttax.com (Bev Freed) writes:

>Gen,

>Why don't you let someone who has a more friendly user-interface address this

>conference for you?

>Better yet, why not start comp.bluesky.robohelp?

>Bev Freed

>Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

>Dallas, TX

>e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

>My opinions are very much my own, and my mother will tell you that.

Bev,

I'm not sure exactly what part of my user interface is

unfriendly.  All I've done is post a couple of testimonials

and have since stopped.  You don't find me crusing cyberspace

looking for peoples knuckles to rap over grammer and syntax.

It's all just text, isn't it!  No absolute reality here.

Culturally speaking, I find it absurd that the forum can

tolerate profanity but not valid information about

commercial products.  I feel like alice in wonderland.

and if the qUEstiON is DId i WRITE the origINAL xxxxHELP 2.0

manual & MAKE errrors in the pUnCtUaTion, den de answha ss

ys.

If you have suggestions and feedback about the DOCs,

feel free to fax them into XXXX XXX Software, others

have and their changes were incorporated directly

into the book.  A literature student is now in

charge of the docs and I'm sure all the i's will

be dotted and t's crossed.

Gen

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Winhelp on MAC ?   Yeah but...

In article <1994May19.214221.7824@yvax.byu.edu> erichc@yvax.byu.edu writes:

>From: erichc@yvax.byu.edu

>Subject: Re: Winhelp on MAC ?

>Date: 19 May 94 21:42:21 -0700

>In article <2qqbkh$6j9@status.gen.nz>, icosa@iconz.co.nz (Ross Keatinge) writes:

>> I suspect this is a silly question but I've promised someone I would ask it.

>>

>> Is there any way a winhelp file can be viewed on an Apple Mac ?

>I've had no problem reading Help files on the Mac using the program callled,

>appropriately, Microsoft Help, a program that ships with every copy of

>Microsoft Word or Excel for the Mac.  I have to mess a little with Res Edit

>and make sure the type of the Windows Help File that I want to view is HELP

>and the creator is MSHE-- Alternatively, you can use AccessPC or PC Exchange

>and map DOS files with the extension .HLP to Microsoft Help.

I have developed a nifty help file on the PC under Windows, and want to use it

with the MAC version of my program.  Unfortunately, I believe that anyone who

wanted to view the help file would need to purchase a MAC-based Microsoft

product to do that.  I don't think that Microsoft distributes their MAC help

viewer any other way, do they?

Dave Allen, DSR Inc.

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Is there any utility that will convert a help file to a text

file?

I'm trying to make a document out of my help file.

Thank you in advance,

Patrick

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dao@arcadia.mitre.org (David A. Ondzes) writes:

>I am trying to write a C++ windows application in which the constructor for an

>object takes a char* (actually a large character array) and use this to create

>a stream that it writes to. After the object has it course I want to display

>the contents of the character array to the user. If I created a MessageBox

>from the char* then appears fine but if I dump the text to the "edit" box then

>I get alot of funny looking characters, very thick vertical bars. I think the

>bars are where the newlines or in C++ endl are ? I have created the "edit" box

>with the control statement in my .rc file, I also use ES_MULTILINE.

>What is the problem ? Does C++ have anything to do with it ?

>Thanks

>David

David,

This probably isn't the most appropriate newsgroup for this

request, but here goes.

My experience with this stuff (I have a viewer that shows

source files in an edit window for a debugger I created)

is that yes, the edit control interprets some of the

CR/LF codes as garbage.  I seem to remember the garbage

as the funny looking ANSI blocks in the upper 128 bytes

of some of the Windows character sets, but my memory could

be failing.

Probably the best route would be to copy the bytes to another

array before sending to the message box (or hmmm, is there

an edit style that will solve this problem?).  The octal

character codes for CR/LF are \015 and \012.  Probably

it is the \012 that is appearing as garbage.

Gen

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nick@logcam.co.uk (Nick Youd) writes:

>Does anyone know of an add-on to Winhelp/Viewer2 which provides a floating

>table of contents? It should have outline mode behaviour, ie opening and

>closing nodes in the hierarchy should be possible.

>Apparently HDK doesn't support Viewer2---and doesn't retain any of the

>files input to the help compiler, so can't easily be adapted.

Nick,

A product I am working on contains just this functionality.

The TOC is primarily for WinHelp, but I will probably roll

it as a custom piece for severy MVIEWER sites that have

requested it.  You could be among them.

Please send me some email where we can discuss this further

without fear of violating anyone's sense of commercializm.

Gen

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lamastus@raccoon.dab.ge.com (Patrick Lamastus) writes:

>Is there any utility that will convert a help file to a text

>file?

I've heard that a utility called multidoc will decompile help files, but

I haven't been able to find it.

>I'm trying to make a document out of my help file.

The problem is that the file format for help files is proprietary, and

once compiled, not readable without the help program or a

possibly-mythical decompiler like multidoc.

An alternative I've used for small amounts of text is simply to use the

COPY command in the EDIT menu to copy one page at a time to the

clipboard, thence to an editor or word processor for formatting and

printout. Or set Windows to print to a file and use the PRINT command.

Don

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I just discovered a compromise solution on CICA. SmartDoc 1.2 automates

the copy-to-clipboard-and-paste process. Better than doing it one page at

a time, but not as good as a decompiler. Look in CICA for

/pub/pc/win3/util/smtdoc12.zip.

Don

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           lamastus@raccoon.dab.ge.com "Patrick Lamastus" writes:

> Is there any utility that will convert a help file to a text

> file?

>

> I'm trying to make a document out of my help file.

>

> Thank you in advance,

>

> Patrick

> lamastus@swlavc.dnet.ge.com

>

Patrick, just recently this message was posted to this newsgroup....

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HLP2DOC Version 1.22 is uploaded to ftp.lrz-muenchen.de . The path is

/pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows/hlpdc122.zip.

HLP2DOC is a DOS utility to convert a Windows 3.x Help File to a Word for

Windows 2.0 Document File including formatting information. Now there is also

a windows front end program H2DSTART for easy handling.

This version (1.22) is still a beta version, there are bugs and drawbacks, but

I think it may be of some interest. I dont't know any other programs which

can do the HLP file conversion. HLP2DOC is freeware, you may give it to

anyone who want it.

Version 1.22 supports fonts arial, times new roman and courier at all

possible sizes. Attributes bold, italic, underlined, strike through and

as well as topics highlighting (green/underlined) are handled.

Some colors are implemented, lines and boxes should be displayed.

Command line

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hlp2doc [-p] helpfile[.hlp]

hlp2doc writes a file <helpfile>.doc to the actual directory, where <helpfile>

is the name of the input file.

When specified with the optional parameter '-p', hlp2doc puts a form feed

at the end of each help topic, otherwise only two empty lines are inserted

to save paper on printing.

Windows front end:

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Steve Martindill wrote a windows front end for HLP2DOC named H2DSTART that

I inluded in the distribution file. Thank you Steve !

HLPDC122.ZIP containing HLP2DOC.EXE, HLP2DOC.TXT (this text) and H2DSTART.EXE

is uploaded to ftp.lrz-muenchen.de in directory /pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

Email: beyer@lrz-muenchen.de.

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I got this programme from the ftp address, and have tried it. It worked

beyond my expectations. It seems to preserve all the formattting very nicely.

It is much better than Smartdoc, which produces only text files, which are

quite scrambled.

Best Wishes

Bhagavat

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In article <2og2k6$h1s@xmission.xmission.com> jonm@xmission.com (Jonathon Montgomery) writes:

>ETSI DP Dept. (nsadp@access1.digex.net) wrote:

>: I am also happy to see this windows help group.

>: I have heard of a shareware product called "hlpdk" (Help Developers

>: Kit??), that can compile an RTF file onto multiple targets (WinHelp,

>: OS/2, etc...) Where can I find this? Does it support MS MultiMedia Viewer?

>: Thanks for any info.

>: Tomas

Ron Loewy's HLPDK is available on garbo.uwasa.fi as hdk*.zip in the

/pc/programming directory.  But RTF is an *output* format; it's not an RTF

compiler.  You write your text in his format, and you can get outputs

for lots of different targets.  Most of them (like RTF) require a separate

compiler for the final stage.

Duncan Murdoch

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In article <2rj1ho$40r@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> lamastus@raccoon.dab.ge.com (Patrick Lamastus) writes:

>From: lamastus@raccoon.dab.ge.com (Patrick Lamastus)

>Subject: Converting a help file to a text file

>Date: 20 May 1994 19:03:20 GMT

>Is there any utility that will convert a help file to a text

>file?

>I'm trying to make a document out of my help file.

>Thank you in advance,

>Patrick

>lamastus@swlavc.dnet.ge.com

    Ther is no autpmated way to completely convert a .HLP file to a text file.

However, with the help of WinHelp hlp reader, you can go for each topic

through the clipboard. This will give you plain text you can then paste into

Word for example, and then reformat it as you wish. There might be some tools

out there, but I then don't know them. If you find such, lemme know....

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sysop of SuperByte 486 (819) 775-3471 v32/v42 (bis too!)

jmessier@hookup.net                        74370.340@compuserve.com

             Drag me, Drop me, Treat me like an object !

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--> Have Saved All Posts -- Anyone Volunteer to Make 'Em Available?

noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:

> Since I am constrained (monetarily-wise) as to how many bytes to put

> into my ftp archive, I'd like to ask if someone else here would like

> to make the archive available via their anonymous ftp site?

I'll do it.  As of now, ftp.metrics.com is archiving this newsgroup --

available by ftp by month of article in /archive/compwh.YYMM.  Jon, can

we make arrangements to copy your archive over here, too?  (I tried

emailing you, but mail bounced.)

> I await with bated breath for the hundreds of volunteers who will come forth!

Here is one, at least.  :)

--

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Little Icons in links

I was reading hag.hlp and like the little text and folder icons imbedded

in the links. I tried to make these with my paint program but could not

size them down properly. DOes anyone have a set of these little icons

that they wouldn't mind sending to me.

You can mail them in binary format if your mailer supports mime to

msosteri@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

One other questions, in the file hag.hlp, in the secondary windows,

buttons are included in the no scroll region. Anyone know how to do that.

TIF

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MS-DOS Windows Help File transfering to Apple Mac Windows Help File

Dear Ladies and Gentlemens ,

i am programing a Budged Analysing program under Excel for Apple.

I had to write a documentation  for this program.

i could not found a Help Compiler for Apple and so i began to write it under DOS.

After finishing , i compiled it with Windows Help Compiler Ver. 3.

If I call the Help File from Excel under Apple every things works quit ok but special charekters

like Ae, ae, Ue, ue, Oe, oe, German double s doesn' t works.

If some one can help me, i would be very lucky.

With best wishes.

Ibrahim SERT

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Win. Help Compiler for Apple < ? >

Dear Guys,

1 =>  are there any Windows Help Compiler for Apples .... ?

2 =>   in the RTF Files special charaters  defined as Hex. decimal numbers like

 	Ae  	80

 	ae	8a

 	Ue	86

 	ue	9f

 	ss	a7

 	Oe	85

 	oe	9a < all from Apple	charakter set >

 	if i use it in the RTF file and compile with Windows Help Compiler 3.0 for MS-DOS

and calling it from Excel for APPLE-Mac, this charakters doesn't works.

What must I do ?

With best wishes..

Ibrahim SERT

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doc2help vs robohelp

Paul Neshamkin (pauln@pipeline.com) wrote:

: mhamilton@aivis.demon.co.uk (Maria Hamilton) wrote:

: > We have  Doc-to-Help on a 30-day money-back basis

: Maria,

: I hope that if you are going to make a comparison of

: Doc-To-Help and RoboHelp you will wait for our next version

: (1.6).  This will include the Hyperformanace Tools, which add

: much functionality to WINHELP and Doc-To-Help. We hope to have

: this release ready very soon and will have demo files ready

: almost immediately.

: Paul Neshamkin

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jonm@xmission.com (Jonathon Montgomery) wrote:

>R. E. S. (safarik@fnts26.fnal.gov) wrote:

>:     I recently obtained several of the Microsoft Knowledge Base files from

>: FTP.Microsoft.Com. The files are in "help file" format. As such, they can be

>: opened and read from within any windows application. However, you must

>: specifically OPEN the specific knowledge base file you want.

>:     In addition to the two "help" files, each knowledge base set also

>: containes 3 other files:

>

>:                           |FTengine.dll

>:                           FTui.dll

>:                           MVAPI.dll

>

[Deleted stuff]

  FTENGINE.DLL and FTUI.DLL are part of the Full Text search stuff used by

the knoweldge base. I don't believe Microsoft has released any

documentation for the APIs. Hmmm, I smell an article....

  Pete

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help compiler

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From: dforinge@space.honeywell.com (David Foringer)

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In article <2oeghg$8m6@hermes.unt.edu>, dennis@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Cox  Dennis James) says:

>

>

>In regards to a help compiler...

>   There's one called visual help this thing Rocks...

>It's easier then anything i've ever seen..

>It should be on winftp.cica.indiana.edu under /win3/programr/vbasic

>or on compuservemealargebillfornothing...

I have purchased both Visual Help and Help Magician.. The Visual Help

cost about $50 and Help Magician about $250. I LOVE Visual Help. Help

Magician is a pain. Visual Help is a as close to WYSIWYG for help as I've seen.

The version I have does not support ALL of the features of help (at least not

in the version I have). If you need help producing a help file, Visual Help

is a must have. There is a cripple ware version of it floating around somewhere.

Try it out before spending the extra money for the overpriced tools.

Thanks a lot to the author of VisualHelp!!

Dave Foringer (TRISYS, Inc).

PS: It needs a spell checker... hint, hint.

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List of Different RTF Compilers?

jonm@xmission.com (Jonathon Montgomery) writes:

>One of the other compiles that will utilize a RTF it the Multimedia

>Viewer Development Kit available from Microsoft.

>Jon

>Brian Orrell

>(borrell@netcom.com)

>wrote: : It's great to see that this newsgroup has finally started up.

>: I've heard references to the various compilers that are out there for RTF

>: files BEYOND the MS Help Compiler (I'm using 3.10.505). Is there a list

>: floating out there that someone could point me to on the different

>: compilers and also places to obtain these.

Check the index of downloadable files in ftp/pub/pc/win3/programr at

ftp.cica.indiana.edu. There's enough Help tools in there to keep you off

the streets for a couple of weeks, including tools that do multimedia

Helps for multiple platforms.

If you need help, I'm available (for a pretty good hourly rate) for

freelance work. My own resume is a Windows 3.1 Help file and includes

sound and a video clip.

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Don Chaffee

Riparian Writes

19 Columbia St.

Wellesley Hills, MA 02181-1602

(617) 237-1170

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In article <safarik.1116552880A@131.225.55.79>, safarik@fnts26.fnal.gov (R. E. S.) writes:

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wh2hdk does it exist?

These are some sort of additions for the Winhelp, that allows one to use the

advanced FIND operation. If you install these files into windows/system

directory, then when you open a knowledge base, there will be a button "FIND".

It is advanced find, since there is operations like AND, OR, NOT etc.

My question, could it be possible to have this find-operation incorporated so,

that it would be available in any help-file ?

Wbrgds, Timo

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In another newsgroup, somebody mentioned wh2hdk.  I couldn't

find the program anywhere on the net.  It apparently

converts help files to hdk format.  Does anybody know more

about it?

-dennis turner

Such as where I can ftp it, or whether it exists, but

under a different name?

tia

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help compiler

I have been using "Help Writer's Assistant for Windows V1.0-Beta III.30"

and it is the best, I actually tried all of the help programs I could

download and hwab330.zip is the best.  I register and only paid $22.00

dollars.

It can be downloaded from ftp.marcam.com and is in /pub/pc/win3/util

the program is hwab330.zip

BTW, This program was written by a 16 year old...

Patrick

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From: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis)

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veldhui@cc.umanitoba.ca (Phil Veldhuis) wrote:

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>compiler which I think is called hcp311.505?  Anyway the last three digits

>are 505 in the most recent and complete version of the compiler (or so

>I've been told).  It seems questionable as to whether this version of the

>help compiler is entirely legit and free to all.

>

>Does anyone know what the implications are of using the compiler?  Ie, if

>I come up with some wonderous application based on it, do I have to go to

>jail if I start selling copies of it?

>

  Microsoft releases the help compilers publicly, so use and distribution

of the help compiler is perfectly legal. Microsoft releases several things

like that, including WinHelp itself.

  Compuserve is one of the first places Microsoft tends to release

information and software upgrades, although ftp.microsoft.com is a good

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Tables *WITH* Borders in Winhelp Files? -PLEASE

  Pete

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Yeah, I know I can use the paragraph command *if* it's merely text...

(there's no differentiation between table and paragraph borders with the

border command... if you call up the format borders from within a table,

it applies it to the surrounding cell... and if you call if it up from

within a non-table paragraph, it applies it like you said)

My problem is more with vertical lines than with horizontal ones. I don't

think vertical lines are supported whether they be in tables OR

paragraphs... but maybe I'm wrong.

-Brian

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In article <2ogoqb$e8j@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>  On a slightly different note, I've had a lot of requests for the Windows

>Help File Format. I do not have an electronic copy of the format, at least

>not one that I'm allowed to distribute. The articles I wrote for Dr.

>Dobb's Journal haven become their property, so I may not release it. I am

>currently working on a book that will include a much more complete

>description of the Windows Help File Format, but it's essentially the

>centerpiece of the book, so the publisher wouldn't be too keen on me

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hlp2doc.zip available

Note though that Simtel20 has the DDJ files from those issues, so people can

download them from there.  Your article is probably necessary for

interpretation as well.

I got ddj9310.zip from wuarchive.wustl.edu, in a .../msdos/ddjmag

directory. (I forget the leadin.  It's something like /systems/pc, but I

might have it wrong.)  It's quite huge (1.7Meg) because of some stuff from

other articles, and because it includes 2 copies of most of your stuff (in

the embedded files undoc.zip and allhelp.zip).

Duncan Murdoch

dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca

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Subject: hlp2doc.zip available

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Summary: hlp2doc - help file to winword conversion

Keywords: hlp word

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      HLP2DOC  - Windows Help File to Winword Document File Conversion

                      Wolfgang Beyer    12.4.94

                        (C)     Wolfgang Beyer

HLP2DOC is a DOS utility to convert a Windows 3.x Help File to a Word for

Windows 2.0 Document File including formatting information.

This version (1.07) is a beta version, there are bugs and drawbacks, but

I think it may be of some interest. I dont't know any other programs which

can do the HLP file conversion. HLP2DOC is freeware, you may give it to

anyone who want it.

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Third Post

Well I wasn't first, but I am happy to see yet another NewsGroup for my

development pleasure.

I have heard that Microsoft has released a maint release of the

Multimedia Viewer (version 2.0a I think).  Anyone know anything about this?

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D:\COMPWH\SRC\9404\50.944

Because of the complexity of the HLP formatting structure I have implemented

only some formatting features. The only font used is Arial, the only font

sizes are 10 pt and 14 pt. Bold, italic and green/underlined are supported.

I am working on a new version that should support other character formatting

features as well as imbedded pictures (bitmaps). This may take some weeks,

please be patient.

Command line

------------

hlp2doc [-p] helpfile[.hlp]

hlp2doc writes a file <helpfile>.doc to the actual directory, where <helpfile>

is the name of the input file.

When specified with the optional parameter '-p', hlp2doc puts a form feed

at the end of each help topic, otherwise only two empty lines are inserted

to save paper on printing.

Known Bugs:

-----------

- Bitmaps (BMP) appear as big dot

- unusual fonts may appear with wrong character size

- HLP2DOC is rather slow, big help files may take some minutes

- some HLP files run into a "topic link error", this may result in missing

  topics at the end of the DOC-file.

- Colors (other than green for topics) are not supported

How it was done:

----------------

I have to thank Ron Burk and Peter Davis for their work on the structure

of the Windows Help Files which was published in Dr. Dobbs Journal some time

ago. In addition I had to spend a lot of time to analyze the mysteries of

the HLP and DOC files, printing many sides of paper with hex dumps. I will

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Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

HLP2DOC is written in Turbo-C for DOS.

                         ------------------

HLPDC107.ZIP containing HLP2DOC.EXE and HLP2DOC.TXT is uploaded

to ftp.lrz-muenchen.de in directory /pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

Email: beyer@lrz-muenchen.de

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Table Dialog?

Can anybody enlighten me as to whether it's possible to use RTF files

produced by Word 6.0 for compilation by Multimedia Viewer 2? If there are

incompatibilities, are there any workarounds or patches in existence?

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From: dedwards@stella.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Dave Edwards)

Subject: Table Dialog?

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Is there such a thing as a Table Dialog, somebody has described it as a multi

page Dialog to me. Any Information would be greatfully recieved.

Thanks

Dave Edwards

email dedwards@uk.oracle.com

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From: dmacewen@bud.peinet.pe.ca (Derek MacEwen)

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There was some discussion on this on the Winhelp discussion list a few weeks

ago.  Multimedia Viewer release 2 allows full text search.  It is a superset

of Winhelp, but is not compatible with Winhelp.  Viewer release I was

compatible.  If you have MM Viewer I, (I don't) you can produce a viewer

file, with the full-text search .IND file build, you can rename the output

file to a .HLP extension, bundle it with the 3 DLLs and the IND file, and

you then have a Winhelp file with full-text search!  Unfortunately, you

can't do this with MM Viewer 2.  Perhaps Microsoft can provide a downgrade

to version 1?  Also, it is not clear how licensing for a combined

Winhelp/Viewrer product would work!

Hopefully Winhelp for Windows 4 will include full-text search and retrieval

capability.

Derek MacEwen

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Does anybody know where I can get ahead of what60.zip?

If so, please respond directly to me, rather than by posting to

the group, since I don't get a chance to check the newsgroups on

a regular basis. Thanks.

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Windows help file questions

>     I recently obtained several of the Microsoft Knowledge Base files from

> FTP.Microsoft.Com. The files are in "help file" format. As such, they can be

> opened and read from within any windows application. However, you must

> specifically OPEN the specific knowledge base file you want.

>     In addition to the two "help" files, each knowledge base set also

> containes 3 other files:

>

>                           FTengine.dll

>                           FTui.dll

>                           MVAPI.dll

>

>     All of the DLL's are identical, regardless of which knowledge base set

> from which they were obtained. It has been suggested by some people on the

> net, that the dll's are used by the help engine to access the knowledge base

> files. However, I was able to open the help KB files even though I had NOT

> installed the three dll's on my system.

>     This leads me to believe that there is some sort of application

> available specifically to utilize the knowledge base without using the

> actual "Help" menus.

>

>     Does anyone know of such an application and/or where to obtain it ?? Or,

> is there some way of setting up a specific windows "menu" selection for each

> individual KB file ?

>     For some reason the folks at MS claim ignorance on the topic. But after

> all, if there wasn't an application available, why bother packaging the

> DLL's with

> EACH set of knowledge base files?????

    Some Help file may call subroutines from the DLL libaries. So the DLLs

 pack with the knowledge base may be useful. Try it anyway.

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From: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis)

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knutv@Hadrian.Boers.no (Knut Espen Vonheim) wrote:

>Hi there!

>

>I'm developing my first windows application, and I know little or

>nothing about Windows' help.

>

>Do I understand it right when I say you need a special compiler

>to create the windows help files?

>

>If so, what compiler is refered to, where can I obtain one, and how

>much would it cost?

>

  There are three versions of the Windows Help Compiler that I'm aware of.

There's HC, HC31, and HCP.

  HC is the Windows 3.0 Help Compiler

  HC31 Win3.1 compiler

  HCP  Win3.1 compiler with extended memory support for compiling larger

files.

  These should be available from the WINSDK forum of CompuServe, or from

ftp.microsoft.com. HCP is probably the compiler you'll want to get since

it's completely compatble with HC31.

  Pete

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From: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis)

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autiokar@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi (TIMO AUTIOKARI, P: INT+358 0 511 5280, FAX: INT+358 0 511 6496) wrote:

>In article <safarik.1116552880A@131.225.55.79>, safarik@fnts26.fnal.gov (R. E. S.) writes:

>

>>                           FTengine.dll

>>                           FTui.dll

>>                           MVAPI.dll

>

>These are some sort of additions for the Winhelp, that allows one to use the

>advanced FIND operation. If you install these files into windows/system

>directory, then when you open a knowledge base, there will be a button "FIND".

>It is advanced find, since there is operations like AND, OR, NOT etc.

>

>My question, could it be possible to have this find-operation incorporated so,

>that it would be available in any help-file ?

>

  As I said earler, to my knowledge, Microsoft has not release any

information on using the FTUI.DLL or FTENGINE.DLL. Since I enjoy

reverse-engineering things like this, as soon as I finish my latest

deadline, I'll see what I can do about these two.

  My guess is that there are probably some indexes involved, so some code

would have to be written to generate the indexes. I'm not sure about this,

though. I should have my work done by next week, so I'll start on these

DLLs right after that.

  Pete Davis

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From: lil@tc.fluke.COM (Lilly-Anne Wilder)

Subject: Re: Tables *WITH* Borders in Winhelp Files? -PLEASE

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In article <borrellCo7vE7.50I@netcom.com> borrell@netcom.com (Brian Orrell) writes:

>I am currently working on a project that DESPERATELY needs to be able to

>incorporate tables *WITH* borders in the help file.

>

>I realize that the HC compiler that Microsoft released does *NOT* allow

>borders within their tables... does ANYONE know of a work around to this?

>My last resort will be somehow making the tables (there are HUNDREDS of

>them over a page length long) into bmp's and displaying them as graphic

>images. PLEASE, tell me there is a better way.

>

>Any and all help appreciated,

>Brian Orrell

Before I answer this, I should admit to the fact that I haven't been

writing online help for very long.  However, I have been able to get

borders around my tables in the following fashion:

I have used two different help authoring tools, RoboHelp and ForeHelp.

RoboHelp uses Word for Windows, ForeHelp uses its own word processor.

In both cases, I create a table with one column and one row. Then, I

enter my text. Next, I go back and replace all my hard returns with

soft returns. Last, I put a border around the paragraph.

When I compile it, it looks great.

Not sure if this will work for you but, I had the same situation as

you and was I glad when I tried this and it worked.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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Subject: Windows .WRI to RTF Converter

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Because I didn't have access to a RTF wordprocessor, I wrote a converter

which can convert a Windows a .WRI file into a RTF file for HC.

Font formats are preserved by the converter.  Context jumps are

created by using subscripts.

I'd like to know if anyone else thinks the converter, WRI2RTF, is useful

and what might the interest level in it be.  I've written several

magazine articles before and thought this might make a good topic, or

perhaps some sort of product.

Thanks in advance,

Winefred

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From: roncox@indirect.com (Ron Cox)

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There was a message saying to try QDHelp, and to get version 3.0, and the

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>  There are three versions of the Windows Help Compiler that I'm aware of.

>There's HC, HC31, and HCP.

>

>  HC is the Windows 3.0 Help Compiler

>  HC31 Win3.1 compiler

>  HCP  Win3.1 compiler with extended memory support for compiling larger

>files.

>

>  These should be available from the WINSDK forum of CompuServe, or from

>ftp.microsoft.com. HCP is probably the compiler you'll want to get since

>it's completely compatble with HC31.

   Does this mean Microsoft allows me to use their help compiler

   without charge?  I am asking because we want to distribute

   out help files and the compiler to our offices overseas so

   they can create their own version in French, German, ect.

   Can we do this legally or are they forced to purchase the SDK

   just to get the help compiler?..

                                   ...Cuyler

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Does anybody of you know a tool to make WinHelp files from HTML.

HTML is the HyperText Markup Language used for the World Wide Web.

I know there are some converters for RTF -> HTML, but I'm interested in the

other way.

Thanks

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From: dmacewen@bud.peinet.pe.ca (Derek MacEwen)

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RE: QDHELP 3.0 availability on CICA.

QDHELP 3.01 is available on CICA (FTP.CICA.INDIANA.EDU and mirrors).  It is

called QDHELP.ZIP, is dated April 11, and is in directory

/pub/pc/win3/programr.  This new version adds a bunch of features such as

the ability to add a glossary, the ability to specify a helpid, and a

program for reporting on help files.

You can also find it (and other Winhelp files) at gmutant.wrlc.org.

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In article <0097CD77.CBA1F420@FHYDRA.FYSEL.UNIT.NO> dahls@fhydra.dnet.unit.no (Joern Yngve Dahl-Stamnes) writes:

>From: dahls@fhydra.dnet.unit.no (Joern Yngve Dahl-Stamnes)

>Subject: help compiler

>Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 10:33:08 EDT

>I wonder if there is any help compiler available on the network. The one

>I have may be a bit old (got it when I bought Visual C++ 1.0). Any anonymous

>ftp site where it is located?

>thanks.

yopu can get ftp HC505.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com. Wonderful tool...

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Is there a practical or actual limit on the size of a WinHelp file?

Thanks in advance.

Russ

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Is there a UNIX viewer that will view .hlp files?  I've pulled several .hlp

files from the net that would be beneficial to our UNIX users also.

Craig

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In article <2oq7qa$6m4@rigel.infinet.com>,

Russel Lopez <rlopez@infinet.com> wrote:

>Is there a practical or actual limit on the size of a WinHelp file?

>From someplace on ftp.microsoft.com and/or the MSDN CD....

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DOCUMENT:Q85676  15-DEC-1993  [P_WINSDK]

TITLE   :INF: Windows Help and Help Compiler Capacity Limits

PRODUCT :Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit

PROD/VER:3.10

OPER/SYS:WINDOWS

KEYWORDS:

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows version 3.1

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SUMMARY

=======

The following lists the limits of the Windows Help application,

version 3.1. These limits are subject to change in future versions.

Paragraph size(1): approximately 32,000 bytes

Topic title string length: 127 characters

Topics per RTF source file: approximately 32,700

Topics per help file: 42,000,000

By-reference bitmaps per help file : 32,767

Help file size: approximately 2,157,000,000 bytes (2 gigabytes)

Topic footnote character limit: 1023 characters

Keywords per help file: limited only by file size

Keyword length: 255 bytes

Topics per keyword(2): 32,767

Browse sequence length: limited only by the number of topics

Bookmarks per help file: limited only by file size

Annotations per topic: 1

Annotations per help file: 32,767

History list length: 40 topics

Text that can be copied to clipboard: limited only by machine memory

Macro length: 512 characters

Main windows per topic: 1

Secondary windows per topic: 5

(1) The maximum paragraph size includes graphics pasted into the RTF

source. Therefore, each pasted graphic is limited to 32,000 bytes. To

work around this limitation, import large bitmaps by reference.

(2) Performance degrades for files with more than several hundred

topics. The Search dialog box displays a maximum of 400 topics.

Additional reference words: 3.10 HC HCP.EXE HC31.EXE WinHelp

KBCategory:

KBSubcategory: TlsHlpMisc

=============================================================================

THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE BASE IS

PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.  MICROSOFT DISCLAIMS

ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES

OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  IN NO

EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR

ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,

CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF

MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE

POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.  SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION

OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES

SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.

>

>Thanks in advance.

>

>Russ

>

>

>

-Keith

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Peter J. Davis (pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu) wrote:

:   As I said earler, to my knowledge, Microsoft has not release any

: information on using the FTUI.DLL or FTENGINE.DLL. Since I enjoy

: reverse-engineering things like this, as soon as I finish my latest

: deadline, I'll see what I can do about these two.

I'm not sure if this is what you want, but there is an entire section on

using the multimedia viewer (and the above mentioned dlls) on the MSDN CD.

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StanOrch (stanorch@aol.com) wrote:

: I have been trying the product called Visual Help version 2.0c. This is

: shareware. It allows use of 3 topics only until registered. It seems to work

: quite well, especially considering its $49 price.

: Anyone have comments on this product? Compared to more expensive programs such

: as DoctoHelp or RoboHelp? Know of any similar shareware products? How do they

: compare?

: Thanks for any help.(pun intended)

: StanO

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Very nice product, if you have the registered version.  I still reccomend

the old fashioned way, but Visual Help sure helps to produce the initial

help.

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WinHelp file size???

Russel Lopez (rlopez@infinet.com) wrote:

: Is there a practical or actual limit on the size of a WinHelp file?

: Thanks in advance.

: Russ

:

I've produced files of up to 700K, downloaded Knowledgebase files of

up to 1.2M. There is a practical limit to how large a file YOU may

compile, based on your available memory. Useing HCP and virtual memory,

I have not had any problems; but then, I like long coffee breaks ;-)

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I am interested in learning how to write .hlp files.

I know there is probably a lot of information to spare,

so could somebody please throw some my way.  Maybe point me

in the right direction?

thanks,

rob

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How to write Help files.

farrell robert ( bs ifsm) (rfarre1@umbc.edu) wrote:

: I am interested in learning how to write .hlp files.

: I know there is probably a lot of information to spare,

: so could somebody please throw some my way.  Maybe point me

: in the right direction?

: thanks,

: rob

This should really be one of the FAQ's.  But here goes.  This will be

really quick:

1.  Design the document, this includes writing the text and determining

topics.

2.  Create the required RTF file (source for you programmers).

3.  Create the project file

4.  Compile with the help compiler

One of the easiest ways to do this is with a product called Visual Help.

It will help with all the details, but you must still have a help

compiler.  There is a Shareware demo and a full blown version of VH, get

the full version.

JonM@XMission.com

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>I know there is probably a lot of information to spare,

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First you need to create a .RTF file in a prescribed format.

Then you compile that .RTF file to .HLP using the Microsoft

Help Compiler aka HC.EXE, HC31.EXE, HCP.EXE etc.

I've seen all different names and they differ by versions, but they

are all available only from Microsoft who controls the format

of the .HLP file.  I believe the current version is 3.10.505.

You can get the help compiler from ftp.microsoft.com in

/developer/MSDN/unsup.  Get both the WHAG.ZIP & WHAT.ZIP files.

They contain a lot of information!

I think the simplest way to create .RTF files is to use Word for

Windows to create the document, using special formatting for the

hypertext jumps and cross-references.  Then 'save as' an .RTF

file and compile it with HC.  Using Word, it's very simple:

  1. each topic begins with a hard page break and you give it

     special footnotes:

$ - the title of the topic (for WinHelp to display)

# - the label which identifies the topic (used for

    'goto' statements)

+ - a browse sequence number

K - a list of keywords for WinHelp's 'search' feature

  2. use single underscore for popup topics (definitions)

     followed by 'hidden text' for the 'goto'

  3. use double underscore for hypertext jumps followed by

     'hidden text' for the 'goto'

Other wp apps (i.e. WordPerfect, Ami Pro) can also 'save as'

RTF files, but the formatting methods are not as clear or

as easy to use as in Word.

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Change default colors?

On my system, the light green color that most winhelp writers

use to indicate links is almost invisible.  My new ATI card and/or

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Is there any way I can change the color that winhelp uses to indicate

these links?  Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated

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Brent Gossett - 6108 (bgossett@lsil.com) wrote:

: On my system, the light green color that most winhelp writers

: use to indicate links is almost invisible.  My new ATI card and/or

: driver seems to be the cause.

: Is there any way I can change the color that winhelp uses to indicate

: these links?  Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated

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: Brent Gossett

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There is a .INI setting that will take care of this problem.

I will see if I can locate the parameter.

JonM@XMission.com

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In article <2osien$165@lsi.lsil.com> bgossett@lsil.com (Brent Gossett - 6108) writes:

>On my system, the light green color that most winhelp writers

>use to indicate links is almost invisible.  My new ATI card and/or

>driver seems to be the cause.

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List of Different RTF Compilers?

One of the other compiles that will utilize a RTF it the Multimedia

Viewer Development Kit available from Microsoft.

Jon

Brian Orrell

(borrell@netcom.com)

wrote: : It's great to see that this newsgroup has finally started up.

: I've heard references to the various compilers that are out there for RTF

: files BEYOND the MS Help Compiler (I'm using 3.10.505). Is there a list

: floating out there that someone could point me to on the different

: compilers and also places to obtain these.

: Thanks in advance,

: Brian Orrell

: Power Computing Company

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Is there a .HLP Editor?

Here are some settings for your win.ini file:

[Windows Help]

TextColor=255 0 0

HelpColor=0 255 0

TColor=255 0 255

IfJumpColor=255 255 0

IfPopupColor=255 255 0

JumpColor=255 255 0

PopupColor=255 255 0

MacroColor=255 255 0

Most of these are from the Windows Resource Kit, I think.

Winhelp seems to ignore TextColor & HelpColor, but I set all the rest

of them to YELLOW and got what I wanted (I use dark blue background

for my Windows text setting).  Don't know what TColor is.

--

John A. Grant	jagrant@emr1.emr.ca

Airborne Geophysics

Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

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Is there a .HLP Editor?

I would like to know if there is a help file editor available somewhere.

It's ok to use another editor, export in RTF,, and then compile, but why

not do the editing directly, and then also allow changes to existing

help files.

Another quirk, when I use Amipro to edit my RTF files, it inserts additional

information in the RTF file on formatting, which separates my footer code

and symbols.  Then the compiler ignores my footers, and the compile doesnt'

do what I wanted it to do and the "footer" is left in the body of the text

in the help file.  I can provide examples...

I like the .HLP idea.

;Adam

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Adam Cinzion (adc@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au) wrote:

: I would like to know if there is a help file editor available somewhere.

: It's ok to use another editor, export in RTF,, and then compile, but why

: not do the editing directly, and then also allow changes to existing

: help files.

: Another quirk, when I use Amipro to edit my RTF files, it inserts additional

: information in the RTF file on formatting, which separates my footer code

: and symbols.  Then the compiler ignores my footers, and the compile doesnt'

: do what I wanted it to do and the "footer" is left in the body of the text

: in the help file.  I can provide examples...

: I like the .HLP idea.

: ;Adam

: --

:  Adam Cinzio             /--------------------------------------------

:  adc@it.ntu.edu.au      /     "My son, give Me thine heart,

:  Ph aus 089 82 5065 ___/       And let thine eyes observe My ways"

One idea, try Visual Help.  This should be a FAQ.

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This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains the purpose

of the usenet newsgroups for Microsoft Windows.  Please follow these

guidelines when posting your articles, and make life easier for all of

us.

These are the current Windows newsgroups:

    GENERAL:

    comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   Comparisons and arguments about Windows &

  Windows NT vs. other operating systems

    comp.os.ms-windows.announce   MODERATED.  Announcements and news about

  Windows applications, drivers, events etc.

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps       Windows & NT applications, including hints,

  tips, bugs and comparisons

    comp.os.ms-windows.setup      Questions and problems with setting up

  and configuring Windows.

    comp.os.ms-windows.video      Video display cards, drivers and monitors

  for use with Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.misc       All other Windows discussions except

  advocacy with other operating systems.

    NETWORKING:

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip  TCP/IP-based networking for

  Windows, includign NFS and apps

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows Windows' native networking: WFWG,

  NT, NTAS and LAN Manager

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc    All other networks, such as Netware,

  Banyan Vines and LANtastic

    WINDOWS NT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup   Setting up and configuring Windows NT and

  Windows NT Advanced Server

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc    All other Windows NT-specific discussions

  except programming and advocacy

    PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls   Using controls, custom controls,

     VBXs, OCXs and dialogs

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.drivers    Driver and  VxD development for

     Windows 3.1, NT and Chicago

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics   Graphics and GDI programming in

     Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory     Memory and process management,

     threads and IPC in Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia Development of multimedia and

     video applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks   Network-specific application

     development for Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole        Creating OLE, COM and DDE-based

     applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools      Windows development tools, class

     libraries and compilers

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32      Developing for the Win32 API

     (including NT and Win32s)

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp    Developing WinHelp and Multimedia

     Viewer files and applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc       All other Windows programming and

     development discussions

    OTHER RELATED GROUPS:

    comp.lang.basic.visual	  Visual Basic programming issues for both

  Windows and MS-DOS

    comp.binaries.ms-windows	  MODERATED.  Shareware, freeware, drivers and

  other binary files.

    bit.listserv.win3-l           This newsgroup is a copy of the BITNET WIN3-L

  mailing list for all Windows discussions

Please try to post to the appropriate newsgroup, and try to avoid crossposting

whenever possible.  This makes it easier for everyone to find the information

they are looking for without wading through irrelevant articles.

Second, please do not get involved in arguments about Windows vs. OS/2 vs.

Macintosh vs. NeXTSTEP *except* in the .advocacy group.  Don't post any

comparison or argument, and if someone else posts one -- don't post a

followup!  Ignore this flamebait, and help increase the signal-to-noise

ratio of the newsgroups.

The Windows FAQs are available by anonymous ftp from ftp.metrics.com and

other sites; see the companion posting "How to get ..." posted simulta-

neously with this one for further details.

If you have questions about these guidelines, you can email to Tom Haapanen

(maintainer of the FAQ, tomh@metrics.com) or Sean Graham (moderator of the

.announce group, sgraham@shiloh.nimh.nih.gov).

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Adding help to application

>Then there is a yet to be published book, "Developers Guide to Writing

>Windows Help", or something like that.  I will try to find an ISBN and

>post it here.  I actually have a copy of this book on order because it

>contains lots of tips, tricks, and undocumented features.

>If you have any further questions I may be reached at:

>Internet: jonm@xmission.com

>FAX: (801) 486-1345

The best book out there is "Developing Online Help for Windows"  by a a trio

of Authors.  IT is very good and includes a disk.

-aj

-=SDG=-

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>Then there is a yet to be published book, "Developers Guide to Writing

>Windows Help", or something like that.  I will try to find an ISBN and

>post it here.  I actually have a copy of this book on order because it

>contains lots of tips, tricks, and undocumented features.

>If you have any further questions I may be reached at:

>Internet: jonm@xmission.com

>FAX: (801) 486-1345

The best book out there is "Developing Online Help for Windows"  by a a trio

of Authors.  IT is very good and includes a disk.

-aj

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WinHelp File Format

In article <2od1bq$enj@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>From: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis)

>Subject: WinHelp File Format

>Date: 11 Apr 1994 22:34:34 -0400

What do I have to do to convert my help source files into MMViewer2.0 files?

Is it just a recompile?  Is the only thing extra I will see is a search button?

-aj

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Unix .hlp viewer

(Apologies in advance for the plug)

Bristol Technology puts out a product called HyperHelp which is basically

a clone of WinHelp under Motif.  HH doesn't read in native .hlp files however;

you need to use our own compiler to convert to a HH recognizable .hlp format.

Besides RTF format, HH can also generate .hlp files from FrameMaker (MIF) formats,

SGML, and ASCII text as well (in a troff like format).  We follow the WinHelp

calling convention, so the context sensitive API should be familiar to those

Windows programmers who utilize context sensitive help.  A demo is available

via anonymous ftp at bristol.com.  Further information can be received by contacting

Amy Wholtjen at (203)438-6969, or by emailing to info@bristol.com.

Furthermore, there is a text based version of HyperHelp, as well as a product

called "HyperHelp Bridge" which converts HyperHelp .hlp format files into a

format which can then be compiled by the MS hc31 compiler (thus providing an

indirect path from Frame .MIF --> MS Help, and SGML --> MS Help).

(plug off)

Thanks

Aris Buinevicius

Bristol Technology

> Is there a UNIX viewer that will view .hlp files?  I've pulled several .hlp

> files from the net that would be beneficial to our UNIX users also.

> Craig

> AT&T Global Information Solutions

> Craig Williamson

> Craig.Williamson@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM

> (803) 939-6431

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Macros

In article <hogan.3.0013352D@cis.ohio-state.edu> hogan@cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M. Hogan) writes:

>From: hogan@cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M. Hogan)

>Subject: Macros

>Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 19:12:20

>Does anyone know of any Ami Pro 3.0 macros for writing help files?

>Thanks,

>Chris

Some guy wrote a pretty elaborate macro/style sheet for AmiPro 3.0.  Its

available on CompuServe.  Since I got ForeHelp I haven't gotten around to

using it...

-aj

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Windows help file questions

Chris Marriott (chris@chrism.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: In article <1994Apr16.010339.14689@exu.ericsson.se>

:            ebuhcb@EBU.Ericsson.SE "Cuyler Buckwalter" writes:

: >   Does this mean Microsoft allows me to use their help compiler

: >   without charge?  I am asking because we want to distribute

: >   out help files and the compiler to our offices overseas so

: >   they can create their own version in French, German, ect.

: >   Can we do this legally or are they forced to purchase the SDK

: >   just to get the help compiler?..

: >                                   ...Cuyler

: The help compiler can be freely distributed.

I think Microsoft may have something different to say about that.

The last I had heard for official Microsoft source was that the

help compiler was not to be distributed.  This info came from MS

support personel on compuserve.  That is why you do not see any

copies of it on the net.

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Adding help to application

Can somebody post the complete steps to implement help for

an application in MS-Windows. I am new to MS-Windows and

so can anyone give me some references where I can find more

information on these. I would like to add my help to

already existing windows help.

Thanks in advance,

Joe

Jijo G John

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(Bus) 415-857-6548

(Res) 408-735-7969

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help compiler

In article <2of3o0$dd4@bud.peinet.pe.ca>,

Derek MacEwen <dmacewen@bud.peinet.pe.ca> wrote:

>The latest Winhelp version is at ftp.microsoft.com in file hc505.exe

I couldn't find it there.  What directory is it in?

>

> Signature deleted

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It is correct that the Help Compiler can't be freely distributed, it can

be freely updated if you already have a legal copy of it.  Sources

include the Microsoft BBS, and FTP.MICROSOFT.COM

Jon Montgomery

Phil Allen

(phila@isgtec.com)

wrote: : Chris Marriott (chris@chrism.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: : In article <1994Apr16.010339.14689@exu.ericsson.se>

: :            ebuhcb@EBU.Ericsson.SE "Cuyler Buckwalter" writes:

: : >   Does this mean Microsoft allows me to use their help compiler

: : >   without charge?  I am asking because we want to distribute

: : >   out help files and the compiler to our offices overseas so

: : >   they can create their own version in French, German, ect.

: : >   Can we do this legally or are they forced to purchase the SDK

: : >   just to get the help compiler?..

: : >                                   ...Cuyler

: : The help compiler can be freely distributed.

: I think Microsoft may have something different to say about that.

: The last I had heard for official Microsoft source was that the

: help compiler was not to be distributed.  This info came from MS

: support personel on compuserve.  That is why you do not see any

: copies of it on the net.

: --

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: ISG Technologies Inc.  6509 Airport Rd. Mississauga.   Ont.  Can.  L4V 1S7

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Help for both Mac and Windows?

I'm documenting a client-server system that runs on both Macs and PCs.

We're looking into doing online help for the next release, and I need

to know if there's a reasonably painless way to produce somewhat

identical help on both platforms.

I know I can take my doc to help on Windows (using DoctoHelp or

whatever) but how can I port it to the Mac? Do I have to develop

separately on the Mac, thereby documenting the system in effect 3 times

(paper, Mac, PC) (please say no please please)?  And better yet, is

there any way in this universe that I can develop the on-line stuff on

the mac and port it to the PC (since I do my paper docs on the Mac)?

I do my initial documentation in Word 5.1 for the Mac.

Thanks for any direction you can give me.

Rachel_Campbell@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov

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Change default colors?

my coworker had a similar problem, except taht the jump and popup hotspots were

displaying as black. he called up the microsoft people, and they told him it

was the display settings ofr his monitor. so try different resolutions, font

sizes, etc. maybe that'll work. maybe not.

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I am performing an automated translated of some internal

documentation (large quantities of it) into winhelp.

My converter sometimes has to "punt" and go into a fixed

font in order to maintain integrity with the original document.

I am currently using Ariel for my proportional font.

Any suggestions for a good fixed font which looks just like

Ariel?

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i use robohelp and was just wondering if there was any reason why i cannot use

more than 35 macros in the *.hpj file. i know that sounds like a lot, but i am

working on a very large project with 4 other people and we are trying to tie

them all together using cascading menus (ExtInsertMenu and

ExtInsertItem--undocumented macros) while using a glossary button, index

button, icon button, etc. when i reach a certain number of macros (35 is just a

guess--i counted them a long time ago, and i know it's in the 30s) other macros

that i might want to insert do not work--and there is no error message saying

that i have reached the max, or whatever. any answers to this?

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>I think Microsoft may have something different to say about that.

>The last I had heard for official Microsoft source was that the

>help compiler was not to be distributed.  This info came from MS

>support personel on compuserve.  That is why you do not see any

>copies of it on the net.

I thought that I saw one on CICA...

Brett

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Tables *WITH* Borders in Winhelp Files? -PLEASE

Brian Orrell (borrell@netcom.com) wrote:

: I am currently working on a project that DESPERATELY needs to be able to

: incorporate tables *WITH* borders in the help file.

: I realize that the HC compiler that Microsoft released does *NOT* allow

: borders within their tables... does ANYONE know of a work around to this?

: My last resort will be somehow making the tables (there are HUNDREDS of

: them over a page length long) into bmp's and displaying them as graphic

: images. PLEASE, tell me there is a better way.

Brian, Are you aware of the work around that MS suggests? Namely, formating

the pargraphs in each table cell with borders.  Will this work for you?

Tracy

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Unix .hlp viewer?

In article <Co94Mv.8oG@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>, Craig Williamson <Craig.Williamson@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> writes:

|> Is there a UNIX viewer that will view .hlp files?  I've pulled several .hlp

|> files from the net that would be beneficial to our UNIX users also.

|>

I looked around a few months ago and couldn't find any. The best I could

come up with is a the ability to generate windows hlp files and Unix

help files (for an unknown viewer) from the same rtf files. I can dig

out a reference if you want one. It might be useful so someone authoring

hlp files but not to someone who wants to use hlp files authored by someone

else.

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In article <ajagt01.122.000A9578@novell.trtsf01.eds.com> ajagt01@novell.trtsf01.eds.com (Arnold Jagt) writes:

>From: ajagt01@novell.trtsf01.eds.com (Arnold Jagt)

>Subject: Re: Macros

>Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 10:34:57

>In article <hogan.3.0013352D@cis.ohio-state.edu> hogan@cis.ohio-state.edu

>(Christopher M. Hogan) writes:

>>From: hogan@cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M. Hogan)

>>Subject: Macros

>>Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 19:12:20

>>Does anyone know of any Ami Pro 3.0 macros for writing help files?

>>Thanks,

>>Chris

>Some guy wrote a pretty elaborate macro/style sheet for AmiPro 3.0.  Its

>available on CompuServe.  Since I got ForeHelp I haven't gotten around to

>using it...

If these Amipro 3.0 macros are avaiable on the internet, could someone post a

site?

Laurens Cloete

>-aj

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jjohn@sid.hp.com wrote:

: Can somebody post the complete steps to implement help for

: an application in MS-Windows. I am new to MS-Windows and

: so can anyone give me some references where I can find more

: information on these. I would like to add my help to

: already existing windows help.

: Thanks in advance,

: Joe

: Jijo G John

: (email) jjohn@hpldsi7.sid.hp.com

: (Bus) 415-857-6548

: (Res) 408-735-7969

It is a very simple process, of course the really neat stuff can get

complicated.  There are two basic areas to consider.

1.  You must decide how the help will be called, it can be from a menu,

or it can be context sensitive.  If you want context sensitivity you will

need to assign context id's.  From here you are at the mercy of the

programming language.

2.  You write the document (usually in Word for Windows), divide the

document into topic areas, create any cross references like a toc or

index.  Then you compile the help.

Where to get info is a different story.  I have found several help files

from Microsoft to be quite useful.  Of course there is the documentation

that is packaged with the Help Compiler (it is pretty bad.)

Watch the Windows oriented programming publications, they through out

good ideas.

Then there is a yet to be published book, "Developers Guide to Writing

Windows Help", or something like that.  I will try to find an ISBN and

post it here.  I actually have a copy of this book on order because it

contains lots of tips, tricks, and undocumented features.

If you have any further questions I may be reached at:

Internet: jonm@xmission.com

FAX: (801) 486-1345

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If I run hc31 from nmake whilst building my large help file I get an error

message saying out of file handles. I have tried files=80 in my config.sys.

Any ideas most welcome.

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Unix .hlp viewer?

These is a UNIX application that can take Windows help source files (rtf etc) and

build them into a .hlp file. The .hlp file can be viewed using a UNIX viewer

application that looks very like the winhelp. For more info contact

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MicroHelp

>

>  Most of my interests lie in the undocumented aspects of WinHelp, of

>which, there are plenty, so, if you have questions, fire away. If I don't

>have the answer, then it's something I should probably know, so I'll

>probably look into it.

I would like to get some information about MicroHelp (I believe that's

what it's called.), which is the one line of context-sensitive help

text you get at the bottom of a window... Word and Excel both have it,

as examples.

Particularly, I am interested in how it is implemented.  Is it part of

WinHelp?  If so, how do I use it?

Any info is greatly appreciated, whether provided directly or if you

point me in the right direction...

Thanks ahead of time.

Peter Jacobs

pjacobs@netcom.com

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>In article <1994Apr18.215459.24100@template.com> Mike Ovington writes:

>In article <Co94Mv.8oG@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>, Craig Williamson

<Craig.Williamson@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> writes:

>|> Is there a UNIX viewer that will view .hlp files?  I've pulled several .hlp

>|> files from the net that would be beneficial to our UNIX users also.

>|>

>I looked around a few months ago and couldn't find any. The best I could

>come up with is a the ability to generate windows hlp files and Unix

>help files (for an unknown viewer) from the same rtf files. I can dig

>out a reference if you want one. It might be useful so someone authoring

>hlp files but not to someone who wants to use hlp files authored by someone

>else.

>

OK how about a .hlp to rtf.  I know that exists but I don't know where.  With

that I should be able to convert to html and we'll use that.

Craig

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StanOrch (stanorch@aol.com) wrote:

: I have been trying the product called Visual Help version 2.0c. This is

: shareware. It allows use of 3 topics only until registered. It seems to work

: quite well, especially considering its $49 price.

: Anyone have comments on this product? Compared to more expensive programs such

: as DoctoHelp or RoboHelp? Know of any similar shareware products? How do they

: compare?

I've used Visual Help 2.0j; the author says 2.1 ought to be out any day now.

Prior to using Visual Help, I hadn't written any help files or used any other

help tools. I've been very happy with how easy it's been to write help using

VH and with the quality of the result.

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Can anyone tell me the format for the *.doc files on Microsoft's

ftp site, ftp.microsoft.com?  In short, what are the possible ways

to read such files?

Please reply to: goss@ccsf.caltech.edu

Thanks.

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On-Line Books: how to create?

In article <jhesseCoHM69.LDJ@netcom.com>, <jhesse@netcom.com> writes:

> We are building an application and we want to put all the documentation

> on line. Ie, we want to create something that works like the on-line

> book that is supplied with the MSVC++ 1.5 CD-ROM.

The MSDN CDs use Multimedia Viewer. You can get it in Multmediat Viewer

Toolkit available where MS software is sold. Same tool was used for MS Encarta.

There have been some rumors that it may become the help standard for Chicago.

Books-On-Line uses slightly different technology that MS does not release.

For other options listen to comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp.

> I am very familiar with HLP file creation, and I hope that the methods

> used to create help files can be somehow migrated to creating on-line books.

Viewer is a almost proper superset of WINHELP. It started as a strict superset,

and then in v2.0 they dropped some WINHELP features to try to force you to use

Viewer equivalent techniques. In my opinion poor judgment.

> Is there some information somewhere that describes how to do this?

>

>

> Also, we want to _print_ the "on-line" books and ship them with the

> product: the documentation will be available to the user in both printed

> and on-line form. I hope and pray that there is some way (a W4W macro?)

> that can convert the RTF file to a format that can be printed.

I have posted queries to this affect in the WINHELP e-mail list that was the

prefered mode of communication before the new newgroups. A previous MS employee

told me they try to encapsulate as much of the text into single files they

reuse in both the online and printed versions of Word masters. They use Word

WordBasic macros for the modifying the online version to be printed (since the

online version is more complicated, that is the master master).

Another post I got mentioned HLPDK available at various ftp sites that lets you

do ifdefs for specific versions. It also supports generating versions for OS/2,

MSDOS, and UNIX.

> Any help is appreciated.

>

>

> --

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In article <jhesseCoHM69.LDJ@netcom.com>, <jhesse@netcom.com> writes:

> We are building an application and we want to put all the documentation

> on line. Ie, we want to create something that works like the on-line

> book that is supplied with the MSVC++ 1.5 CD-ROM.

The MSDN CDs use Multimedia Viewer. You can get it in Multmediat Viewer

Toolkit available where MS software is sold. Same tool was used for MS Encarta.

There have been some rumors that it may become the help standard for Chicago.

Books-On-Line uses slightly different technology that MS does not release.

For other options listen to comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp.

> I am very familiar with HLP file creation, and I hope that the methods

> used to create help files can be somehow migrated to creating on-line books.

Viewer is a almost proper superset of WINHELP. It started as a strict superset,

and then in v2.0 they dropped some WINHELP features to try to force you to use

Viewer equivalent techniques. In my opinion poor judgment.

> Is there some information somewhere that describes how to do this?

>

>

> Also, we want to _print_ the "on-line" books and ship them with the

> product: the documentation will be available to the user in both printed

> and on-line form. I hope and pray that there is some way (a W4W macro?)

> that can convert the RTF file to a format that can be printed.

I have posted queries to this affect in the WINHELP e-mail list that was the

prefered mode of communication before the new newgroups. A previous MS employee

told me they try to encapsulate as much of the text into single files they

reuse in both the online and printed versions of Word masters. They use Word

WordBasic macros for the modifying the online version to be printed (since the

online version is more complicated, that is the master master).

Another post I got mentioned HLPDK available at various ftp sites that lets you

do ifdefs for specific versions. It also supports generating versions for OS/2,

MSDOS, and UNIX.

> Any help is appreciated.

>

>

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Derek MacEwen (dmacewen@bud.peinet.pe.ca) wrote:

: RE HC505.EXE at ftp.microsoft.com:  well, it used to be there, somewhere.

  It's in the /softlib/mslfiles directory.

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Writing Style Guidelines for Online Information Systems

I've just been tasked with developing WRITING style guidelines for

authors developing a Windows online information system. So I'm looking

for resources that will help me form those guidelines. All help

appreciated.

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WinHelp File Format

  Hello to all. I'm glad to see a WinHelp newsgroup here. I've become rather

involved with WinHelp since I wrote an article for Dr. Dobb's Journal on

the WinHelp file format. Although not entirely completed, the article

seems to have been very popular and I have slowly been collecting

information on additional aspects of the .HLP file format.

  For people who have questions on it, or WinHelp in general, I'd like to

offer my services on this newsgroup. Since the article was released I have

been doing more and more work with WinHelp and have been working for a

company that produces a commercial WinHelp product.

  Most of my interests lie in the undocumented aspects of WinHelp, of

which, there are plenty, so, if you have questions, fire away. If I don't

have the answer, then it's something I should probably know, so I'll

probably look into it.

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help compiler

> In article <2oeghg$8m6@hermes.unt.edu>, dennis@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Cox  Dennis

James) says:

> >

> >

> >In regards to a help compiler...

> >   There's one called visual help this thing Rocks...

> >It's easier then anything i've ever seen..

> >It should be on winftp.cica.indiana.edu under /win3/programr/vbasic

> >or on compuservemealargebillfornothing...

> I have purchased both Visual Help and Help Magician.. The Visual Help

> cost about $50 and Help Magician about $250. I LOVE Visual Help. Help

> Magician is a pain. Visual Help is a as close to WYSIWYG for help as I've seen.

> The version I have does not support ALL of the features of help (at least not

> in the version I have). If you need help producing a help file, Visual Help

> is a must have. There is a cripple ware version of it floating around somewhere.

> Try it out before spending the extra money for the overpriced tools.

> 	Thanks a lot to the author of VisualHelp!!

> 	Dave Foringer (TRISYS, Inc).

> PS: It needs a spell checker... hint, hint.

I ran across a program named VB AHA!!.  I forget what this acronym stands for.  It

is available on cica as vbaha124.zip, I think in the programr subdirectory.  It is

shareware, about $50 registration.  I took a glance at it and it seemed pretty

complete and well featured.  You might want to take a look at it too.

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Mike Ovington (kmo@sae.com) wrote:

: I looked around a few months ago and couldn't find any. The best I could

: come up with is a the ability to generate windows hlp files and Unix

: help files (for an unknown viewer) from the same rtf files.

I think this is because the .hlp file format is a Microsoft proprietary one

and not published. Microsoft help compilers (so far as I know) are the only

ones which can generate hlp files and presumably writing something to read

them (on another system) would be problematic for the same reasons.

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In article <mcooperman-120494102511@144.212.1.62> mcooperman@mathworks.com (Michael Cooperman) writes:

>I've been trying to develop a help file and have come up with a few

>problems.  I've consulted the manuals and think I'm using these features

>correctly, but they work in unexpected ways.

>

>(1) I can't get background color.  I can get foreground color (for text)

>but when I use the \cb command, it does nothing.  I've even tried the

>example in the large manual but it doesn't work.

WinHelp does not support this keyword (The docs. are in error), you can

set the bg color to the entire window, using the [windows] part of

your hpj file ..

>

>

>==== Michael Cooperman ============== mcooperman@mathworks.com ====

I do not know the answers to your other questions ..

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Can anyone point me to an article that evaluates these two help tools?

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use a hcp.exe help compiler if you have one. also, and this is for businesses

only, do not run ccmail when compiling or else you'll get these annoying out of

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In article <CoGo11.44n@isgtec.com> phila@isgtec.com "Phil Allen" writes:

> : ....

> : The help compiler can be freely distributed.

>

> I think Microsoft may have something different to say about that.

> The last I had heard for official Microsoft source was that the

> help compiler was not to be distributed.  This info came from MS

> support personel on compuserve.  That is why you do not see any

> copies of it on the net.

I asked a UK Microsoft rep if it was allowable to put a copy of the new

Word 6.0 compatible help compiler on our BBS. He said it was ok, provided we

offered the complete HC505.EXE archive as supplied on ftp.microsoft.com.

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Jim Davis (p00137@psilink.com) wrote:

: I ran across a program named VB AHA!!.  I forget what this acronym stands for.  It

: is available on cica as vbaha124.zip, I think in the programr subdirectory.  It is

  Sorry, I forgot to mention that the directory is /pub/pc/win3/util.

: shareware, about $50 registration.  I took a glance at it and it seemed pretty

: complete and well featured.  You might want to take a look at it too.

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Jim Davis (p00137@psilink.com) wrote:

: I ran across a program named VB AHA!!.  I forget what this acronym stands for.  It

  Visual Basic Automatic Help Author!!!

: is available on cica as vbaha124.zip, I think in the programr subdirectory.  It is

: shareware, about $50 registration.  I took a glance at it and it seemed pretty

  The registration fee is $50.

: complete and well featured.  You might want to take a look at it too.

:  - Jim Davis

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phila@isgtec.com (Phil Allen) wrote:

>Chris Marriott (chris@chrism.demon.co.uk) wrote:

[deleted]

>: The help compiler can be freely distributed.

>

>I think Microsoft may have something different to say about that.

>The last I had heard for official Microsoft source was that the

>help compiler was not to be distributed.  This info came from MS

>support personel on compuserve.  That is why you do not see any

>copies of it on the net.

>

Phil,

   I believe the help compiler is available from ftp.microsoft.com. It is

certainly available on CompuServe. If Microsoft doesn't want it freely

distributed, perhaps they should stop putting it at arms length of anyone

with a modem or internet connection.

   MS will normally not make something available like that unless it is

freely distributable.

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pjacobs@netcom9.netcom.com (Peter Jacobs) wrote:

>

>I would like to get some information about MicroHelp (I believe that's

>what it's called.), which is the one line of context-sensitive help

>text you get at the bottom of a window... Word and Excel both have it,

>as examples.

>

>Particularly, I am interested in how it is implemented.  Is it part of

>WinHelp?  If so, how do I use it?

Peter,

   No, it's not part of WinHelp. That's just done by the programmers.

You'd have to implement it yourself or use someone's publicly available

libraries.

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--> Have Saved All Posts -- Anyone Volunteer to Make 'Em Available?

noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:

> Since I am constrained (monetarily-wise) as to how many bytes to put

> into my ftp archive, I'd like to ask if someone else here would like

> to make the archive available via their anonymous ftp site?

I'll do it.  As of now, ftp.metrics.com is archiving this newsgroup --

available by ftp by month of article in /archive/compwh.YYMM.  Jon, can

we make arrangements to copy your archive over here, too?  (I tried

emailing you, but mail bounced.)

> I await with bated breath for the hundreds of volunteers who will come forth!

Here is one, at least.  :)

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In article <2rae5a$as6@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>

           msosteri@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca "M. Sosteric" writes:

>I know you probably get this question a million times a day, but I am in

>a hurry to find this prog. I need the Microsoft help project editor. I

>have looked around at ftp.microsoft.com but am to blind to see it.

Download the file "WHAT.ZIP" (or WHAT6.ZIP if you're using WfW v6) from

ftp.microsoft.com, directory /developer/MSDN/unsup.

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chou@notis.com writes:

>> dsampson@su102d.ess.harris.com writes:

>> I'm running into the bitmap size limitation when I try to include a

>> screen snapshot in my help file.  I am using Corel's Snapshot utility

>> that comes with Corel Draw, pasting from the clipboard into

>> Paintbrush, and then saving the file as a BMP.  I made my application

>> main window real small so that the size would be reduced and I set the

>> BMP attibutes to 16 colors.  But the exported BMP file is still too

>> large.

Also set the bitmap size in Paintbrush (same dialog box as setting 16

colours) to the size you want. You may find the big BMP file is a result

of Paintbrush producing a large bitmap with a lot of empty space.

Bill.

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Anyone out there got any utilities etc. on how to do this??

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Converting .hlp to OS/2 ipf help format

niall@quay.ie (Niall Shanahan) writes:

>Anyone out there got any utilities etc. on how to do this??

1- Get a copy of HDK (Help development kit from HyperAct Inc.), which

   is shareware.

2- Get the utility hlp2hdk (I think), which converts RTF+HPJ files to

   HDK format

3- With HDK compile the file to IPF format

You can the programs by FTP, but I don't know the exact locations from

the top of my head.

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NEED HELP WITH SCREEN SAVERS

Does anyone know of a good package designed for the creation of screen

savers?  (Windows and or DOS) I need to be able to play animations

(fli/flc) and or .avi files, play .wav files as well a scroll text, show

bitmaps, and all of the usual stuff.  The wish list includes: Date and

time stamps, Date and time triggers for new scenes, passwords and

printing.

Any information or pointers would be most helpful !!!  Thanks in

advance....

John Wheeler

Multi Media Technologies

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How to deactivate network messages ?

Hi,

I'm trying to deactivate network messages and warnings, as it can

be done via the "network" item of the control panel.  I need to

do it inside of  a program, instead of doing it via the control

panel.

I found GetProfileString and WriteProfileString, which can be used

to obtain and modify the .INI files, but I need a way to tell

Windows (or maybe someone else) that it has been updated.

We are running under Novell.

Thanks for any help

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BC++ 3.1 for sale

Borland C++ 3.1 & Application frameworks for Windows and DOS for sale.

I have all the manuals (in good shape - they've been used but not badly),

original disks, I even have the box.

$100.00, or make an offer.

Chris

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HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

In article <DAO.94May19093213@arcadia.mitre.org>

           dao@arcadia.mitre.org "David A. Ondzes" writes:

>

>I am trying to write a C++ windows application in which the constructor for an

>object takes a char* (actually a large character array) and use this to create

>a stream that it writes to. After the object has it course I want to display

>the contents of the character array to the user. If I created a MessageBox

>from the char* then appears fine but if I dump the text to the "edit" box then

>I get alot of funny looking characters, very thick vertical bars. I think the

>bars are where the newlines or in C++ endl are ? I have created the "edit" box

>with the control statement in my .rc file, I also use ES_MULTILINE.

>

>What is the problem ? Does C++ have anything to do with it ?

The answer to this question is.....

[Ask in the correct newsgroup "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls" and

I'll tell you :-) ]

Chris

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WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

In article <Cq1yop.8Ms@midge.bath.ac.uk>

           mssshb@midge.bath.ac.uk "S H Bowman" writes:

>My WHAT macros no longer work with Word 6.0! Is there an upgrade?

Yes. Download "WHAT6.ZIP" from ftp.microsoft.com. This contains new versions

of both the WHAT macros and the Help compiler itself.

Chris

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Gateway test -- please ignore

Testing the gateway -- please ignore this message.

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Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

In article <2qd1g7$ta7@columba.udac.uu.se>, olas@Riyadh.docs.uu.se (Ola Strandberg) writes:

> When I put a numbered list into a helpfile with WW6 the hanging indentation

> gets all screwed up.

> The first line gets indented too far.

Having started my WinHelp history with WinWord 2.0, I never tried to use

WinWord 6.0's bullets and numbering.. if they didn't work then, why would

they work now:-)

But I tried it out, and saw similar problems to what you describe..

lines seemingly the same get justified and indented all over the place.

I think i have found a solution:

Set a tab where you want each line to start indenting.. For me, this

is at 0.2".

I am using DWHAT - my WinWord 6.0 version of the WHAT template, and have

found that using the "Bulletted List" styles does not help.. I can only

get nice output with the "Normal" style.

I created DWHAT from WHAT as Microsoft didn't seem to be supporting it,

though I see mention of WHAT6 for WinWord 6.0 - I would be interested

in comments on this template - how much better than WHAT is it?

have fun,

-dave

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"Super" WinHelp-like Help????

WinHelp is not bad, but I'm looking for a help system for Windows that is

superior - it needs to be:

1)  present as well as WinHelp

2)  be able to have hypertext links to topics *on a page*, so that links are

to different sections of one topic page

3)  hopefully be customizable - the client needs to be able to easily modify

the help files - particularly the text, but possibly adding or deleting links

Any ideas???  Please email, will post if interest.

Thanks,

Bruce

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Winhelp on MAC ?

In article <2qqbkh$6j9@status.gen.nz>, icosa@iconz.co.nz (Ross Keatinge) writes:

> I suspect this is a silly question but I've promised someone I would ask it.

>

> Is there any way a winhelp file can be viewed on an Apple Mac ?

I've had no problem reading Help files on the Mac using the program callled,

appropriately, Microsoft Help, a program that ships with every copy of

Microsoft Word or Excel for the Mac.  I have to mess a little with Res Edit

and make sure the type of the Windows Help File that I want to view is HELP

and the creator is MSHE-- Alternatively, you can use AccessPC or PC Exchange

and map DOS files with the extension .HLP to Microsoft Help.

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HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

In article <1994May18.191807.3863@vms.huji.ac.il> tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il writes:

>>

>> The software is distibuted by DEK, out of New Jersey.  But I assume that

>> the product is developed by Virtual Media in Australia--right?

>>

>> Chris Hemedinger                         SAS Institute, Doc Development

>

>Actually, the author is a fellow Israeli.  It's a good product,

>especially if you have many targets, such as dos help, os/2

>help and so on.  but for just plain ol' winhelp, I find

>Help Writer's Assistant for Windows the best for my needs.

>-dennis turner

I think you mistake HDK with HLPDK. HDK is from Australia.

Ron.

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Location of What6

I've spent quite a while combing through ftp.microsoft.com looking fot

WHAT6, and I just can't find it.  I've found the help guide

(WHATHLP.ZIP), but I just can't locate WHAT6.  If somebody could be so

kind as to provide the actual path location on microsoft or anywhere

else, I would be much appreciative.

Thanks,

Fraser.

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How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

I recently downloaded from the Microsoft ftp server the fully

indexed VB knowledge base help files which come with the 'free

text search engine' (FTENGINE.DLL, FTUI.DLL). The simple

question is if anyone out there knows how to prepare a .HLP file

so it can be used with that engine. Are there any tools, conversion

programs, etc.?

Thanks

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Windows Help Magician - any comments?

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: This thread is pointless.

: Cut the crap and let's get on with something that has a point.

: This is all going back and forth saying "A acted on B. B acted on A".

: Whoope-de-doo.

: Next topic.

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: People don't notice what's common to them (such as air) and hence they don't

: act on what's common to them (such as dealing with other people). Instead the

: problem with most individuals is that they _react_ to the uncommon instead of

: _acting_ on the common.

So, what's your point?

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doc2help vs robohelp

We are evaluating Help Authoring systems for the purpose of providing help

file source (rtf + hpj) from our existing manual text, with the intention of

producing the help and the manual from the same source in future. We have

Doc-to-Help on a 30-day money-back basis and have got a sheaf of bumpf from

RoboHelp which made it look imho very much the same as doc2help. I would be

interested in hearing from anyone who has used RoboHelp and especially those

who have compared the 2 products. Which do people prefer and for which

purposes ? Or does anyone know of some obscure yet marvellous product which

outstrips them both ?(well, u never know.). We are getting towards the latter

stages of our project and although I do want to pick the right tool, I don't

want to spend ages battling through Purchasing only to find nothing special

in the RoboHelp purchased for evaluation!

Ta v.much,

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WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

In article <769374844snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>,

Chris Marriott <chris@chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>My WHAT macros no longer work with Word 6.0! Is there an upgrade?

>

>Yes. Download "WHAT6.ZIP" from ftp.microsoft.com. This contains new versions

>of both the WHAT macros and the Help compiler itself.

After spending a lot of time looking for it, I could not find it.

I asked the person who maintains the archive and he said that it

is not there.  He said it probably will be in the future, but not

yet.  If you disagree, could you give us the directory name?

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"Super" WinHelp-like Help????

In article <bruceb.13.00085425@orb.mincom.oz.au>,

Bruce Blackshaw <bruceb@orb.mincom.oz.au> wrote:

>

>

>WinHelp is not bad, but I'm looking for a help system for Windows that is

>superior - it needs to be:

>

>1)  present as well as WinHelp

I'm afraid I don't quite understand you here...

>

>2)  be able to have hypertext links to topics *on a page*, so that links are

>to different sections of one topic page

>

WinHelp can do that...  Just start a new topic without a preceding

\page.

>3)  hopefully be customizable - the client needs to be able to easily modify

>the help files - particularly the text, but possibly adding or deleting links

Well, WinHelp allows you to make annotations, which is *something*.

It's also possible to embed an Edit Control in the page.  As it's part

of a product I'm working on (Help Perfect), I can't tell you exactly

how it's done, but the word "embed" is a dead give-away.

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How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

In article <6031@rhino.qpsx.oz.au>, Manuel Mall <mmall@qpsx.oz.au> wrote:

>I recently downloaded from the Microsoft ftp server the fully

>indexed VB knowledge base help files which come with the 'free

>text search engine' (FTENGINE.DLL, FTUI.DLL). The simple

>question is if anyone out there knows how to prepare a .HLP file

>so it can be used with that engine. Are there any tools, conversion

>programs, etc.?

>

>Thanks

>

To actually make a full-text index (*.IND), you need three DOS-based

utilities: FORAGE(P).EXE, W_SCAN.EXE and INDEX.EXE.  They extract the

words from a .HLP file and create an index.  The two DLLs you mentioned

use the index file to put up the full-text-search dialog  (BTW, you'll

also need MVAPI.DLL).  Unfortunately, these tools were available only

on the Multimedia Viewer 1.0 MDK, which I believe has been dicontinued.

Viewer 2 uses a different set of DLLs, and the indexers are integrated

with the viewer compiler WMVC.EXE.  The nice thing about the Viewer 1

full-text search was that it also worked on plain HLP files (although

Microsoft wasn't telling anybody).

*However* I recall having seen the 3 proggies somewhere else...

I think it was the Windows NT SDK, but I'm just not sure.

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Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

(here's one for the FAQ)

A number of people have asked about using the Auto-number and Auto-bullet

feature of WinWord 6.0.

Used on their own, the compiled help file will often be weirdly indented

quite different to that expected.

Here are a couple of styles that I have found produce expected results:

"Bullet List"

        Indent: Left 0.1" Hanging 0.3" Flush Left, Space After 3pt,

                Bullet, Tab stops: 0.4"

        Font: Arial, 10pt, English (AUS)

"Number List"

        Indent: Left 0.1" Hanging 0.3" Flush Left, Space After 3pt,

                Auto Numbering, Tab Stops 0.4"

        Font: Arial, 10pt, English (AUS)

In addition, go into Tools|Style|Modify|Format|Numbering|Modify (!) and

check the following are set:

        Alignment of List Text:         Left

        Distance from Indent to Text:   0.3"

        Distance from Number to Text:   0.1"

Probably the most critical of the all the settings is the "Tab Stops 0.4" "

setting, which the Auto-* functions use to align and hang from.

have fun,

-dave

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Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

In article <1994May20.142003.22242@levels.unisa.edu.au>, xadrg@levels.unisa.edu.au (David Gardiner) writes:

> (here's one for the FAQ)

maybe not yet.. I have since discovered that those irregularities are still

occurring.. back to the drawing board.

sorry if i raised anyones hopes :-)

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RoboHelp review in Info World

There is a review of RoboHelp in the May 16 edition of Info World, on page 101.

The review, by Paul Speranza, is extremely favorable.

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tech writer style guide

I would also be interested in this type of a style guide if anyone

has a clue on where it might exist, please send me a mail.

Also very glad to hear that RoboHelp will be coming out with a Glossary

functionality.  This will be a big help!

See Ya!

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AGE Systems Admin.

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> WinHelp is not bad, but I'm looking for a help system for Windows that

is

> superior - it needs to be:

> > 1)  present as well as WinHelp

> > 2)  be able to have hypertext links to topics *on a page*, so that

links are

> to different sections of one topic page

> > 3)  hopefully be customizable - the client needs to be able to easily

modify

> the help files - particularly the text, but possibly adding or deleting

links

well, you can jump to different sections on a page. if you have the word 6

help system and look at their glossary, you can see that pressing a letter

at the top of the help topic jumps to that specific letter while the topic

itself scrolls. this is achieved, if you're using a word processor like 6,

by creating topics and then just removign the page breaks before it. (i'm

not sure about you folks who manually create help ssytems, because i am a

woos and use an automated system.) robohelp has this thing called a

mid-context jump or something like that which basically creates a topic

without that usual page break, but there is no help on it i'm afraid.

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for bullets, i use a bitmap (i know, archaic, but it works nicely unless

you want to print the .doc/.rtf files out). here are the dimensions of my

bullet.bmp which looks just like the bullets used in word 2 (i use word 6

now)

the overall size of the entire bitmap is 16x16

the actual size of jsut the bullet is 5x5 with the corners missing so it

looks sort of octagonal

the bullet is located at 3x and 9y (dust off your algebra books)

then i just assign a style with a hanging indent at about .25".

for numbers, i do it manually.

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HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

>   Chris,

>     I'm not familiar with HDK, but several other help authoring tool

> developers are coming out with table of contents type navigators. I

> believe RoboHelp either has one or will have one in the near future, as

> will Doc-to-Help. Both of those companies (Blue Sky and WexTech Systems)

> have representatives here that could tell you about them (though, not too

> many plugs guys).

>

>   Pete Davis

>

Help Writer's Assistant also has a nifty outline control that helps

the author navigate through his project, as well as a "contents"

creator that places a links list of children of a parent topic

into another topic of the author's choice.  That target topic

can serve as a convenient pop-up link list, especially in the

non-scrolling region.

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doc2help vs robohelp

>comparing robohelp to doc2help ,etc etc etc

before i got to my present employer, my co-workers said they compared a

few help authoring tools. we use robohelp which is very convenient and

easy to use, though the bugs it has with word 6 make it somewhat annoying,

especially after having had near-problem-free performance with word 2. but

the robohelp people, after i called/emailed for tech support every few

days, sent me a free update to 2.6.1 which was nice of them i thought.

being somewhat of a newcomer to the software world, i'm not sure if that's

standard (somehow, i doubt it), but it was courteous.

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Floating Table of Contents?

nick@logcam.co.uk (Nick Youd) wrote:

>Does anyone know of an add-on to Winhelp/Viewer2 which

>provides a floating  table of contents? It should have

>outline mode behaviour, ie opening and  closing nodes

>in the hierarchy should be possible.

Nick,

The new Doc-To-Help Navigator will do exactly this (and more).

It will be distributed as part of the Hyperformance Tools and

will be available very soon with version 1.6 (the Word 6.0 and

2.0 compatible version).  We will have demo files available

very soon.

Paul Neshamkin

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mhamilton@aivis.demon.co.uk (Maria Hamilton) wrote:

> We have  Doc-to-Help on a 30-day money-back basis

Maria,

I hope that if you are going to make a comparison of

Doc-To-Help and RoboHelp you will wait for our next version

(1.6).  This will include the Hyperformanace Tools, which add

much functionality to WINHELP and Doc-To-Help. We hope to have

this release ready very soon and will have demo files ready

almost immediately.

Paul Neshamkin

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Windows Application Localization (language change)

tehyang@crl.com (Teh Kao Yang) writes:

>Hi!

>I'm currently working on localizing some US Windows applications to be

>used in Japan. And I don't even know where to start! Our company ordered

>a Windows SDK Far East Edition but we won't get it for a while because

>Microsoft back-ordered it. We need to know what modifications are needed

>and what tools/resources we can use.  Any help is appreciated.  We're

>very tight on our schedule.

>Specifically we need information on how to change the code to work with

>the double-byte character set used in Japanese Windows.

>Thank you very much!

>-TK.

TK,

You can call XLSoft at 714.453.2781 amd asNEC porting lab they operate in Irvine, CA.  They

also market a Kanji help authoring tool, but we also

know how dangerous words are, so I won't go into

the specifics of it.

GK.

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QUESTIONS

msosteri@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (M. Sosteric) writes:

>Hi all. I have two questions. WHere can I find a good font editor? How do

>I change the default green link colours?

>reply via e-mail

>and thanks to those who responded to my last inquiry.

>cheers

>mike

Mike,

If you need a good font editor, then Fontographer is the

way to go.  It is a commercial product, however, so I

won't discuss any of it's finer attributes.

Company is Altsys, but I have no contact info handy.

Gen

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Weird kerning in MS Word screen font

sascrh@norman.unx.sas.com (Chris Hemedinger) writes:

>This is a minor problem, but one I've been noticing ever since I

>upgraded to Word 6.0.

>I use MS Sans Serif (almost exclusively) in my help files.  Usually

>when I'm creating these files in Word, the screen font looks crunched;

>that is, it isn't kerned correctly on the screen.  Also, the characters

>look too narrow. I haven't worried about it too much because it prints

>okay, and the compiled help files look fine.

>But sometimes the font looks fine on the screen.  I have several help

>projects that I work on (using RoboHelp), and there seems to be no

>consistency about which files work and when.  I've checked all of the

>Word options settings--there seems to be no difference in them when the

>font looks right and when it doesn't.

>The only way I can make it consistently right is to open Word first,

>then open the doc (instead of having RoboHelp launch Word by opening a

>help project).

>Anyone else have this problem?  Anyone solve it?

>Chris Hemedinger                         SAS Institute, Doc Development

>sascrh@unx.sas.com                       919/677-8000 x5776

> "I've all my wisdom teeth--two up top, two beneath.

>  And yet I recognize my mouth says things that aren't so wise."

>               -Crash Test Dummies

Chris,

This is an excellent question, and I myself, wonder at its

proper resolution.

I myself discovered at some point that 'Helv' was the best

font to use in Windows Help files.  You'll notice that

xxxxHELP 1.0 used Helvetica as it's default font, and

that  RoboHELP 2.0 used MS Sans Serif/Helv (I can't

remember offhand which).

In any event, WinHelp/Windows appears to treat the Helf

(woof) font differently and provides that groovy nice

font that has been optimized from the screen.

Under Windows NT, MS Sans Serif and Helv appear to grab

the same gorgeous screen font.

Gen

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Windows Help Magician - any comments?

bfreed@fasttax.com (Bev Freed) writes:

>Gen,

>Why don't you let someone who has a more friendly user-interface address this

>conference for you?

>Better yet, why not start comp.bluesky.robohelp?

>Bev Freed

>Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

>Dallas, TX

>e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

>My opinions are very much my own, and my mother will tell you that.

Bev,

I'm not sure exactly what part of my user interface is

unfriendly.  All I've done is post a couple of testimonials

and have since stopped.  You don't find me crusing cyberspace

looking for peoples knuckles to rap over grammer and syntax.

It's all just text, isn't it!  No absolute reality here.

Culturally speaking, I find it absurd that the forum can

tolerate profanity but not valid information about

commercial products.  I feel like alice in wonderland.

and if the qUEstiON is DId i WRITE the origINAL xxxxHELP 2.0

manual & MAKE errrors in the pUnCtUaTion, den de answha ss

ys.

If you have suggestions and feedback about the DOCs,

feel free to fax them into XXXX XXX Software, others

have and their changes were incorporated directly

into the book.  A literature student is now in

charge of the docs and I'm sure all the i's will

be dotted and t's crossed.

Gen

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DISCLAIMER: This FAQ is information. Information is a tool. Like a saw,

if you cut off your arm with it, it ain't my fault. Many of the product

descriptions are provided from users or authors. I can not vouch for their

accuracy. I have neither the money, time, nor incentive to check all of these

products. I will always accept comments regarding products and modify this

FAQ when appropriate.

{ Parts of disclaimer adapted from unknown author. If it's you, let me know

and I'll give you credit. }

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CONTENTS

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[1] Introduction

    [1-1] What is WinHelp?

    [1-2] What is Viewer?

    [1-3] What's this document all about?

    [1-4] What if this FAQ needs more information?

[2] How to Learn to Build WinHelp Files

    [2-1] Software and Online Documentation

    [2-2] Books

    [2-3] Magazines

[3] WinHelp Authoring Tools

    [3-1] Shareware/Freeware

    [3-2] Commercial

[4] Other Non-Authoring Tools

    [4-1] Shareware/Freeware

    [4-2] Commercial

[5] Sources for Undocumented WinHelp Features

    [5-1] Magazine Articles

[6] Question and Answer

[7] Misc.

    [7-1] Online Sources of WinHelp Help

        [7-1-1] Newsgroups

        [7-1-2] Listserv Lists

    [7-2] Online Sources of WinHelp Related Software

        [7-2-1] Authoring Tools

        [7-2-2] Authoring Guides and Info

        [7-2-3] Non-Authoring Software

    [7-3] Differences Between HC.EXE, HC30.EXE, HC31.EXE, and HCP.EXE

    [7-4] WinHelp limits

[8] Thanks

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[1] - Introduction

    This FAQ is for the comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup.

Notice the WinHelp at the end of that. This newsgroup is not for general

programming questions, but for questions regarding WinHelp. In particular,

it's for questions on development of WinHelp .HLP files and DLLs and macros

to be used with WinHelp.

[1-1] - What is WinHelp?

    If you've ever hit the help menu item in a Windows program, you've seen

WinHelp. WinHelp is the program that provides the hypertext help system

for Windows programs. WinHelp is actually a very complex and extendable help

system. It allows programmers to add their own functionality through the

use of macros and .DLLs.

[1-2] - What is Viewer?

    Viewer is the short name for Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer. It too is

covered by this newsgroup and FAQ. Viewer can be thought of as an extended

version of WinHelp. Its entire foundation of code is based on WinHelp and

the two are very similiar in many ways. In fact, Multimedia Viewer files

(.MVB files) are essentially the same format as WinHelp (.HLP) files.

    There are a lot of places in this document where I will use the name

WinHelp, but in all cases (except where pointed out), it applies to both

WinHelp and Viewer.

[1-3] - What's this document all about?

    This document is written as a supplement to the

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup. It is meant to help answer

some of the more common questions about WinHelp. It also supposed to

provide people with sources of information about authoring and extending

WinHelp .HLP files.

[1-4] - What if this FAQ needs more information?

    Think this FAQ is deficient in one or more areas? Let me know. Tell me

what you'd like to see. My product list is very incomplete. I don't have time

to track down all products, so if you have one, let me know. I'll gladly add

your product to the list. If you're a user of a product that's not listed,

let me know about it.

    I'll try to monitor the newsgroup for common questions to add to the

Question and Answer section. If you have questions that you think should

be included, let me know.

    Send all comments, suggestions, etc to pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu or

on Compuserve, 71644,3570.

[2] - How to learn to build WinHelp files

    It is far beyond the scope of this FAQ to teach people how to build

WinHelp .HLP files. However, there is a bit of documentation out there

on creating them.

[2-1] - Software and Online documentation

what.zip, hag.zip, and whag.zip

    These three files go together. what.zip has WinHelp Authoring Templates

for WinHelp. hag.zip and whag.zip are the WinHelp authoring guides. whag.zip

contains the Word for Windows .DOC version and hag.zip contains a .HLP file.

These are put together by Microsoft (I believe) and are freely available from

ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the /pub/win3/programr directory.

MSDN-CD

    The Microsoft Developer's Network CD, besides having the Windows Help

Authoring Guide, also has a great knowledge base with information about

WinHelp and creating WinHelp files. For the WHAG, look under Unsupported

Tools.

[2-2] - Books

Developing Online Help

    Published by SAMS, written by Scott Boggan, David Farkas, and Joe Welinske.

ISBN: 0-672-30230-6. This book, besides explaining how to generate WinHelp

files, also goes into great detail about how to make your help files look

good.

[2-3] - Magazines

Windows/DOS Developer's Journal

    I mention W/DDJ, a general Windows and DOS programming magazine, simply

because there is lots of WinHelp coverage in W/DDJ. Ron Burk, the editor

of W/DDJ is a real WinHelp fanatic. He's also working on a book tentatively

titled, 'WinHelp for Programmers and Technical Writers'. When the book is

published, I'll add it to the list here.

[3] - Tools Available for Creating Windows Help Files.

    Okay, this list is pathetically short. I don't have time to go research

all of these products. Please, if you are a user or an author, send product

descriptions to me: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu.

[3-1] - Shareware/Freeware

> VB AHA!!!

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

    ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/util/vbaha124.zip.

Description:

    VB AHA!!! is an inexpensive and easy to use utility for writing Windows

help files. You won't need any expensive wordprocessors or have to use any

cryptic commands. With simple mouse clicks and Drag n Drop ease you will be

able to construct your help files quickly.

    If you use Visual Basic then VB AHA!!! will handle all of the

HelpContextID values for you and even recompile your programs with the new

values. No more hassles of having to insert the values by hand! If you program

in C/C++ or Pascal then VB AHA!!! will create a header file containing all of

the definitions that you will need for context sensitive help in your programs.

> HLPDK - The Help development Kit.

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

    ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/programr as :

    hdk115a.zip, hdk115b.zip, hdk115l.zip

    HLPDK is a Hypertext and Hypermedia generation system, that supports

multiple targets from one source. With HLPDK's Help Compiler, one help

source can be translated to Windows WinHelp and Multimedia Viewer, DOS

(THELP, QuickHelp, Turbo-Vision Help, POPHelp, Native Engines),

DESQview/X, OS/2 IPF, World Wide Web HTML, Ascii and Word Processor

documents. HLPDK allows you to *Write Once, Help Many*.

Features :

Topics, PopUps, Links, Keywords, Text Formats, Navigational and

Structural facilities, Target Code insertion, Multiple module files,

Automatic Pascal/C/C++ reference generation, Exception handling,

Multiple file target databases, Graphics, Sound, Groups, Application

Launch, Automatic exports creation, user defined link templates and

more.

    HLPDK Contains 4 Native Help Readers (Engines) for the Dos and DPMI

target, and 4 Help Compilers hosted on Dos, DPMI, Windows and OS/2.

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> DWHAT.ZIP

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

       ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/winword/dwhat.zip

Description:

        DWHAT is a version of WHAT.ZIP for Word for Windows 6.0. It

includes a handy Toolbar with the most used Help-Creation functions. It

also can link to the on-line help in HAG.ZIP (see previous section). The

package is Freeware. A major upgrade is due to be released within the

next month(s) (when I get the time), with new features like fancy dialogs

for inserting and editing graphic links.

>Help Writer's Assistant for Windows                      Price: $40NZ

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

    ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/util/hwab330.zip

Description:

    Previously, building help files under Windows had to be done either by

coding RTF commands by hand, or by using a word processor that understands

RTF.  There were problems with this.  You had to remember the context

string of the help topic you wanted to link to, and you had to enter

footnotes.  At the best of times, it was a pain!  Macros helped make

the task easier, but it didn't provide everything you needed. Help

Writer's Assistant for Windows (HWA/w) does that and helps to make Windows

help writing visual and exciting!

A new version, Beta IV is due out by the end of May.  This version is

totally visual and contains some great new features!  The price

for Beta IV will be $85NZ.  (Upgrades from Beta III.30 are free)

>Help File Author Tool for WinWord 2.0 & 6.0

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

    oak.oakland.edu - pub/msdos/windows3/helllp22.zip

Description:

    HELLLP! v2.2 <ASP> - Multi-File build and HelpContextID property [MAP]

generation.  User friendly.  Automatically sets up top level table of

contents with Hypertext jumps to your topics.  You add additional jumps

and popups by highlighting the place you want to jump from and pointing

to the place you want to jump to.  Can add SOUND EFFECTS, SECONDARY

windows with buttons, launch other programs for MULTIMEDIA.

Changes: Now works with both US & non-English versions of Word 6 & 2.

[3-2] - Commercial

> Doc-To-Help - WexTech Systems, Inc.                Price: $295.00 (U.S)

                                                            $375.00 (Intl)

Availability:

    WexTech Systems, Inc.

    310 Madison Ave.

    Suite 905

    New York, NY 10017

    FAX:   (212) 949-4007

    Phone: (212) 949-9595

Description:

    Doc-To-Help is perfect for people who want their help files to accurately

reflect what's in the printed documentation. Doc-To-Help allows you to create

your WinHelp file and your printed documentation in the same Word for Windows

document.

> The Windows Help Magician - Software Interphase, Inc.   Price: $149.00

Availability:

    Software Interphase, Inc.

    82 Cucumber Hill Rd.

    Suite 207A

    Foster, RI 02825

    FAX:   (401) 397-6814

    Phone: (800) 542-2742

Description:

    Windows Help Magician is one of the few products to allow you to easily

create WinHelp .HLP files without Word for Windows. It provides its own

editor and WYSIWYG environment. Imports documents from Word.

> Help Perfect - Niceware                         Price: $495.00

Availability:

    Niceware

    Oosterstraat 33

    3581 ML  UTRECHT

    FAX:   ++31 30 517 555

    Phone: ++31 30 520 018

    CIS:   100041,2760

    e-mail: niceware@let.ruu.nl

Description:

    Help Perfect converts WordPerfect documents to WinHelp/

Multimedia Viewer.  Does not rely on WordPerfect for RTF conversion.

Use any WordPerfect style, attribute or mark for setting topics and

hotspots.  Automatic conversion of foot/endnotes, header/footers,

index words, lists and autorefs.  Extension DLL provides graphics,

multimedia, advanced searching, window color manipulation, menu links,

etc.

>SOS Help! for Windows v2.01 - QBS Software        Price: 195 pounds sterling

Availability:

          QBS Software Ltd                email willw@qbss.demon.co.uk

          10 Barley Mow Passage

          Chiswick

          London W4 4PH, UK

          Fax +44 81 994 3441

          Tel +44 81 994 4842

          BBS +44 81 747 1979

 Anonymous FTP (demo version: limited to 10 topics)

         ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/uploads/soshp201.zip

Description:

    WYSIWYG Help design system for Windows creates all files required by

the help compiler. RTF editors, such as Word for Windows, are redundant.

    Add jumps, popups and Windows Help macros quickly and easily using

the Topic editor.

    Full support for styles and sylesheets: design a house style for use

in any Help project.

    Application Programming Interface - create context sensitive help

from within an application with one function call.

> RoboHELP 2.6

Availability:

RoboHELP 2.6 is available NOW at a suggested retail price of $499.  For

more information, please contact Blue Sky Software Sales Department at 1-

800-677-4WIN, tel: 619-459-6365 or

fax: 619-459-6366

Description:

RoboHELP 2.6, the award-winning Help Authoring Tool for Windows and Windows

NT automates the task of creating on-line Help for Windows-based

applications.  Supports both Word 6.0 and Word 2.0.  Lets you easily create

features such as jumps, popups, topics, secondary windows, multiple hotspot

graphics and more.  Includes VBX and special custom controls.  Version 2.6

of RoboHELP, turns both Microsoft Word 6.0 and Word 2.0 for Windows into

hypertext authoring tools capable of producing Windows Help files as easily

as text documents.  RoboHELP 2.6 guides users step by step through the

creation of their Windows Help systems.  The whole process is automated and

allows users to rapidly create elegant and professional Help systems.

RoboHELP has won numerous awards.  In 1994, RoboHELP received the Win 100

1994 Award from Windows Magazine and the Productivity Award from Software

Development Magazine.

[4] Other Non-Authoring Tools

    This section is devoted to tools that aren't really authoring tools for

WinHelp files, but may be useful to WinHelp authors and/or users. As with

the other product list, this is real incomplete, so send me descriptions of

products you've used or authored.

[4-1] Shareware/Freeware

> NewsDB - Usenet News and unstructured text to HLPDK conversion Tool.

Availability :

Anonymous FTP - Oak.OAKLAND.EDU : /pub/SimTel/msdos : newsdb10.zip

Description:

    News Hypertext Database generator - The tool that allows you to enjoy

"Other People's Wizdom" - Create sophisticated hypertext databases

from Usenet News articles. A companion to HLPDK, allows you to store

the news articles that are of value to you, with smart news groups

directories, automatic keywords generation for fast search, user

defined groups, automatic article association from articles textual

information to user groups, Author directories and references,

article references to other (previous) and from other (later) articles

and more. Database can be compiled to all the targets supported by

HLPDK, including Windows, OS/2, DOS (several targets), DESQview/X and

documents. Can even handle non Usenet text articles, with user groups

links as well.

    If you have large sets of ascii articles, you would like to create a

hypertext heirarchy, using user defined associations, NewsDB may be

the fastest way to create the hypertext database.

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> WinHelp -> HLPDK Conversion Tool

Availability :

Anonymous FTP - garbo.uwasa.fi : /pc/programming/wh2hdk10.zip

Description:

    WinHelp -> HLPDK Conversion Tool. With WH2HDK you can port your

Windows Help Databases to other platforms such as OS/2, World Wide

Web, DOS, DESQview/X and more. Use WH2HDK (with HLPDK) to save the

additional investment required for multiple target development !

    Now you can create your Help Databases in your favorite winHelp

authoring tool, and still benefit from HLPDK cross-platform portability,

and enhanced navigation and code generation tools.

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> RC2HDK -> RC Help Template Generator

Availability :

Anonymous FTP - ftp.cica.indiana.edu : /pub/pc/win3/programr/rc2hdk30.zip

Description:

    Generate Help Templates for Windows Programs from RC resource

description files. User's interaction with your application is done

through the resources described in the RC file. With this tool, Your

RC files are parsed, and a help template for your project is created.

All you need to do is feel in your application options specific help,

compile, and go!

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

[4-2] Commercial

> HyperHelp

Availability :

    Bristol Technology

    (203) 438-6969

    Internet: info@bristol.com)

Description:

    Hyperhelp is a WinHelp compiler and viewer for Unix. You simply recompile

your rtfs, bmps, and hpjs and you get a Unix versions of your help file.

Hyperhelp supports MIF and SGML and has a bridge that lets you use these on

the Windows WinHelp too.

[5] Sources for undocumented WinHelp features.

    WinHelp is one of Windows least documented features. As most Windows

programmers are aware these days, many aspects of Windows do go undocumented

by Microsoft, but for the rest of Windows, this tends to be less vital

functionality. With WinHelp, many of the important aspects are kept

undocumented. Whether this is the result of laziness or intentions, is

unclear.

    Luckily, a few people have taken a lot of time to discover these

undocumented features and made them available in one way or another. In

particular, Ron Burk (editor of Windows/DOS Developer's Journal) has

spent a lot of time working with WinHelp and he is arguably the most

knowledgeable WinHelp expert outside of Microsoft (and maybe including

Microsoft).

    Below are a list of articles and other sources of undocumented WinHelp

features listed in alphabetical order by author.

[5-1] Magazine articles

Ron Burk, "Automatic Help Topic Extraction", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

February 1993

    In this article Ron writes a .DLL that allows you to insert an "extract"

button in your help file that will extract a WinHelp topic to a file. He also

discusses the fact that WinHelp executes some macros asynchronously.

Ron Burk, "Automatic Help Topic Printing", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

March 1993

    In this article Ron writes a .DLL to allow you to print all topics in

a WinHelp .HLP file.

Ron Burk, "Spying on WinHelp," Dr. Dobb's Journal, June 1993

    In this article, Ron discusses the WM_WinHelp message used by the

WinHelp() API call. The article describes some uses of this message and

the parameters associated with it.

Ron Burk, "Controlling WinHelp's Always-on-Top State", Windows/DOS Developer's

Journal, November 1993

    Ron shows how to control the Always-on-Top State of WinHelp from your

applications.

Pete Davis, "Documenting Documentation," Dr. Dobb's Journal, September 1993

and October 1993

    In this two part article, a detailed, though not quite complete,

description of the WinHelp file format is provided. It discusses WinHelp's

internal file system and the structures of the internal files in a

.HLP file.

Pete Davis, ".mrb and .shg File Formats", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

February 1994

    This article contains a fairly complete description of the .mrb

(multi-resolution bitmap) and .shg (segmented hyper-graphic) file formats.

These files are used by WinHelp to display bitmaps. The file formats are

almost identical between the two files, though their purposes are quite

different.

Jim Mischel, "Undocumented WinHelp Macros", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

January 1994

    Jim describes a lot of undocumented WinHelp macros such as ExtAbleItem(),

ExtInsertItem(), ExtInsertMenu(), ResetMenu(), JumpHash(), and PopupHash().

[6] Question & Answer:

[6-1] WinHelp Q & A

Q: How can I view my WinHelp files on the Apple Macintosh? Unix?

A: You can use QuickHelp from Altura Software (see product info)

QuickHelp will convert your .RTF files, .BMPs, etc and converts them

into a format that is compatible with their QuickHelp interpreter.

You can also use the Macintosh version of WinHelp that comes with Excel

to view already made .HLP files.

Q: How do I insert symbols (such as the copyright symbol) in my WinHelp

files?

A: There are three ways. The first way works with Word 6.0 only, I believe:

1> select Insert Symbol

   choose Normal Text, not Symbol font.

   Select the copyright symbol

2> Hold down the Alt key and type: 0169

3> insert the code {\'A9} in the .rtf file or your Word document.

Q: Why won't my Word 6.0 .rtf files compile with hc31?

A: Microsoft changed RTF slightly with the release of Word 6.0 which made

it incompatible with the old help compiler. You need to get Release 505

(HC505.ZIP) of the compiler. See section [7-2-1] for availability.

Q: Why can't I set the background color with the \cb help rtf statement?

A: Simple: It doesn't work. The \cb statement was never implemented by

Microsoft. Ooops.

Q: When I sub-class the WinHelp window, my DLL breaks when the help file is

executed from the WinHelp() API function.

A: WinHelp uses the class name MS_WINDOC for the main window when run

as a standalone program however, when WinHelp is executed from the WinHelp()

API function, the class name is MS_WINHELP.

Q: I get out of memory errors when running the help compiler. Why?

A: There are several reasons this could be happening:

   1> You can't paste bitmaps larger than 32k into a topic. The solution is

      to include them by reference using the \bml, \bmc, and \bmr commands.

   2> You really are running out of memory. If you're using HC31 or HC30, try

      using HCP.

   [see other limitations in section 7-4]

Q: I get an out of file handles error when running the help compiler.

A: Try increasing the number of file handles in your config.sys file to

FILES=40 or higher.

[6-2] Viewer Q & A

[editor's note: This section is for questions and answers that are specific

 to Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer. The Q & A section for WinHelp applies

 to WinHelp and Viewer. This section does not apply to WinHelp at all.]

[7] Miscellaneous

[Ed. Note: Everyone thought I was serious about the spelling of Misc.

 I guess it wasn't very funny, but I was joking. I do own a dictionary.]

    This is just a sort of free form, general information about whatever

comes to my mind that I can't pigeon-hole in some other section because it's

not appropriate, or it's too small for its own section.

[7-1] Online Sources of WinHelp Help

[7-1-1] Newsgroups

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup

    This FAQ is for the comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup,

so you probably already know about it. Just making sure.

[7-1-2] Listserv Lists

WINHLP-L listserv list

    Listservs are a system set-up on BITNET, an IBM mainframe network. They

are very similiar to usenet newsgroups and can be subscribed to over the

internet. The main difference is that all messages are sent as e-mail. After

subscribing, you will be sent a message confirming your subscription and

instructions on how to unsubscribe. For other listserv commands, send

e-mail to the listserv with the contents of your message being:

HELP

- To subscribe to the WINHLP-L list, send e-mail to:

LISTSERV@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA

- The contents of your e-mail should be simply:

SUB WINHLP-L

- To unsubscribe, send e-mail to the same address with the contents:

SIGNOFF WINHLP-L

- To post a message to the WINHLP-L list, send e-mail to:

WINHLP-L@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA

- The subject and contents of the e-mail are sent to all subscribers.

[7-2] Online Sources of WinHelp Related Software

    This section lists various files related to WinHelp and where they

can be obtained. In all cases, the files are available via anonymous

FTP from the sites and directories listed. I can't guarantee the accuracy

of this list as sites go up and down and move files around. Please

notify me of any changes or additions I should make.

    Some of the files are shown elsewhere in this document. In this area

I'll try to provide alternate sites.

[7-2-1] Authoring Tools

HC505.ZIP - Version 5.05 of the help compiler

ftp.microsoft.com           /Softlib/MSLFILES

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/misc

WHAT.ZIP - Windows Help Authoring Templates

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

HLPDK40.ZIP - Help System Deveopment Kit for Windows

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/util

HELPED19.ZIP - Help Edit V1.9 Windows Help File Generator

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/util

VH.ZIP - Visual Help - A Windows 3.1 Help File Creating program

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/util

[7-2-2] Authoring Guides and Info

WHAG.ZIP - Windows Help Authoring Guide

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

HAG.ZIP - Help Authoring Guide

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

WFWHLP.ZIP - Info on constructing Windows Help Files

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

[7-2-3] Non-Authoring Software

[7-4]

    This section describes limits of WinHelp, not necessarily the

compilers, however. Some of these limits are not shared by the 32-bit

version of WinHelp, though I don't have specifics yet. I will investigate.

    This information is adapted from Microsoft's knowledge base article

Q85676

Paragraph: ~32,000 bytes - Includes any pasted bitmaps

Topic title string: 127 characters

Topics per RTF source: ~32,000

Topics per help file: ~42,000,000

Help file size: 2 gigabytes

By-reference bitmaps per help file: 32,767

Topic footnote (# chars): 1023 characters

Keywords per help file: Limited by file size

Keyword length: 255 characters

Topics per keyword: 32,767 ( Large #'s will effect performance )

Browse sequence length: Limited by # of topics

Bookmarks per help file: Limited by file size

Annotations per topic: 1

Annotations per help file: 32,767

History List Length: 40 topics

Macro Length: 512 characters

Main windows per topic: 1

Secondary Windows per topic: 5

[8] Thanks

    I'd like to thank the following people for assistance in this FAQ. If

I've missed your name, it's due to my incompetence and not my lack of

appreciation. Please let me know if I missed you.

Roger Burton - Some corrections.

Anne Foxworthy - Questions for the Q&A section. She supplied some of the more

important ones that I missed.

Ron Levi - Provided WINHLP-L Listserv information

Derek MacEwen - Suggested talking about Viewer

Duncan Murdoch - Provided information on how to distribute the FAQ

Richard Prince - Came up with the idea for section [7-2]

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The FAQ

Okay, the FAQ is up. Now, someone told me where I can post it and I lost

the message. Where should I post the faq for FTP?

  The FAQ is a dynamic document, meaning, this is by no means a final

release. It's just the latest and I will continue to update it and improve

it. If I forgot to add your name to the thanks section, let me know and

I'll add it. I've been doing the FAQ in hurried bursts. I haven't had a

chance to really go over it with a fine-tooth comb, so there could be

problems with it.

   I'll work on a WinHelp version at the earliest opportunity.

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Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

I spoke to RoboHelp about this problem, and they said that WinWord6

doesn't put the correct stuff in the RTF file. Whether or not this is

true... ? :)

In article <1994May18.161010.22221@levels.unisa.edu.au> xadrg@levels.unisa.edu.au (David Gardiner) writes:

   In article <2qd1g7$ta7@columba.udac.uu.se>, olas@Riyadh.docs.uu.se (Ola Strandberg) writes:

   > When I put a numbered list into a helpfile with WW6 the hanging indentation

   > gets all screwed up.

   > The first line gets indented too far.

   Having started my WinHelp history with WinWord 2.0, I never tried to use

   WinWord 6.0's bullets and numbering.. if they didn't work then, why would

   they work now:-)

   But I tried it out, and saw similar problems to what you describe..

   lines seemingly the same get justified and indented all over the place.

   I think i have found a solution:

   Set a tab where you want each line to start indenting.. For me, this

   is at 0.2".

   I am using DWHAT - my WinWord 6.0 version of the WHAT template, and have

   found that using the "Bulletted List" styles does not help.. I can only

   get nice output with the "Normal" style.

   I created DWHAT from WHAT as Microsoft didn't seem to be supporting it,

   though I see mention of WHAT6 for WinWord 6.0 - I would be interested

   in comments on this template - how much better than WHAT is it?

   have fun,

   -dave

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Floating Table of Contents?

Does anyone know of an add-on to Winhelp/Viewer2 which provides a floating

table of contents? It should have outline mode behaviour, ie opening and

closing nodes in the hierarchy should be possible.

Apparently HDK doesn't support Viewer2---and doesn't retain any of the

files input to the help compiler, so can't easily be adapted.

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Converting a help file to a text file

Is there any utility that will convert a help file to a text

file?

I'm trying to make a document out of my help file.

Thank you in advance,

Patrick

lamastus@swlavc.dnet.ge.com

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Floating Table of Contents?

nick@logcam.co.uk (Nick Youd) writes:

>Does anyone know of an add-on to Winhelp/Viewer2 which provides a floating

>table of contents? It should have outline mode behaviour, ie opening and

>closing nodes in the hierarchy should be possible.

>Apparently HDK doesn't support Viewer2---and doesn't retain any of the

>files input to the help compiler, so can't easily be adapted.

Nick,

A product I am working on contains just this functionality.

The TOC is primarily for WinHelp, but I will probably roll

it as a custom piece for severy MVIEWER sites that have

requested it.  You could be among them.

Please send me some email where we can discuss this further

without fear of violating anyone's sense of commercializm.

Gen

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HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

dao@arcadia.mitre.org (David A. Ondzes) writes:

>I am trying to write a C++ windows application in which the constructor for an

>object takes a char* (actually a large character array) and use this to create

>a stream that it writes to. After the object has it course I want to display

>the contents of the character array to the user. If I created a MessageBox

>from the char* then appears fine but if I dump the text to the "edit" box then

>I get alot of funny looking characters, very thick vertical bars. I think the

>bars are where the newlines or in C++ endl are ? I have created the "edit" box

>with the control statement in my .rc file, I also use ES_MULTILINE.

>What is the problem ? Does C++ have anything to do with it ?

>Thanks

>David

David,

This probably isn't the most appropriate newsgroup for this

request, but here goes.

My experience with this stuff (I have a viewer that shows

source files in an edit window for a debugger I created)

is that yes, the edit control interprets some of the

CR/LF codes as garbage.  I seem to remember the garbage

as the funny looking ANSI blocks in the upper 128 bytes

of some of the Windows character sets, but my memory could

be failing.

Probably the best route would be to copy the bytes to another

array before sending to the message box (or hmmm, is there

an edit style that will solve this problem?).  The octal

character codes for CR/LF are \015 and \012.  Probably

it is the \012 that is appearing as garbage.

Gen

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WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

mssshb@midge.bath.ac.uk (S H Bowman) writes:

>My WHAT macros no longer work with Word 6.0! Is there an upgrade?

>Simon

>E-mail:S.H.Bowman@bath.ac.uk

Simon,

An updated version of WHAT that supports Word 6 is included

on the latest MSDN CDROM, which I assume implies that

the files are available for FTP from microsoft.com.

In the forums on Compuserve, there have been a number of

complaints regarding the stability of the WHAT for WORD6.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire!

Gen

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Converting a help file to a text file

lamastus@raccoon.dab.ge.com (Patrick Lamastus) writes:

>Is there any utility that will convert a help file to a text

>file?

I've heard that a utility called multidoc will decompile help files, but

I haven't been able to find it.

>I'm trying to make a document out of my help file.

The problem is that the file format for help files is proprietary, and

once compiled, not readable without the help program or a

possibly-mythical decompiler like multidoc.

An alternative I've used for small amounts of text is simply to use the

COPY command in the EDIT menu to copy one page at a time to the

clipboard, thence to an editor or word processor for formatting and

printout. Or set Windows to print to a file and use the PRINT command.

Don

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Winhelp on MAC ?   Yeah but...

In article <1994May19.214221.7824@yvax.byu.edu> erichc@yvax.byu.edu writes:

>From: erichc@yvax.byu.edu

>Subject: Re: Winhelp on MAC ?

>Date: 19 May 94 21:42:21 -0700

>In article <2qqbkh$6j9@status.gen.nz>, icosa@iconz.co.nz (Ross Keatinge) writes:

>> I suspect this is a silly question but I've promised someone I would ask it.

>>

>> Is there any way a winhelp file can be viewed on an Apple Mac ?

>I've had no problem reading Help files on the Mac using the program callled,

>appropriately, Microsoft Help, a program that ships with every copy of

>Microsoft Word or Excel for the Mac.  I have to mess a little with Res Edit

>and make sure the type of the Windows Help File that I want to view is HELP

>and the creator is MSHE-- Alternatively, you can use AccessPC or PC Exchange

>and map DOS files with the extension .HLP to Microsoft Help.

I have developed a nifty help file on the PC under Windows, and want to use it

with the MAC version of my program.  Unfortunately, I believe that anyone who

wanted to view the help file would need to purchase a MAC-based Microsoft

product to do that.  I don't think that Microsoft distributes their MAC help

viewer any other way, do they?

Dave Allen, DSR Inc.

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Converting a help file to a text file

I just discovered a compromise solution on CICA. SmartDoc 1.2 automates

the copy-to-clipboard-and-paste process. Better than doing it one page at

a time, but not as good as a decompiler. Look in CICA for

/pub/pc/win3/util/smtdoc12.zip.

Don

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In article <2rj1ho$40r@theopolis.orl.mmc.com>

           lamastus@raccoon.dab.ge.com "Patrick Lamastus" writes:

> Is there any utility that will convert a help file to a text

> file?

>

> I'm trying to make a document out of my help file.

>

> Thank you in advance,

>

> Patrick

> lamastus@swlavc.dnet.ge.com

>

Patrick, just recently this message was posted to this newsgroup....

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HLP2DOC Version 1.22 is uploaded to ftp.lrz-muenchen.de . The path is

/pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows/hlpdc122.zip.

HLP2DOC is a DOS utility to convert a Windows 3.x Help File to a Word for

Windows 2.0 Document File including formatting information. Now there is also

a windows front end program H2DSTART for easy handling.

This version (1.22) is still a beta version, there are bugs and drawbacks, but

I think it may be of some interest. I dont't know any other programs which

can do the HLP file conversion. HLP2DOC is freeware, you may give it to

anyone who want it.

Version 1.22 supports fonts arial, times new roman and courier at all

possible sizes. Attributes bold, italic, underlined, strike through and

as well as topics highlighting (green/underlined) are handled.

Some colors are implemented, lines and boxes should be displayed.

Command line

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hlp2doc [-p] helpfile[.hlp]

hlp2doc writes a file <helpfile>.doc to the actual directory, where <helpfile>

is the name of the input file.

When specified with the optional parameter '-p', hlp2doc puts a form feed

at the end of each help topic, otherwise only two empty lines are inserted

to save paper on printing.

Windows front end:

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Steve Martindill wrote a windows front end for HLP2DOC named H2DSTART that

I inluded in the distribution file. Thank you Steve !

HLPDC122.ZIP containing HLP2DOC.EXE, HLP2DOC.TXT (this text) and H2DSTART.EXE

is uploaded to ftp.lrz-muenchen.de in directory /pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

Email: beyer@lrz-muenchen.de.

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I got this programme from the ftp address, and have tried it. It worked

beyond my expectations. It seems to preserve all the formattting very nicely.

It is much better than Smartdoc, which produces only text files, which are

quite scrambled.

Best Wishes

Bhagavat

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In article <2rj1ho$40r@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> lamastus@raccoon.dab.ge.com (Patrick Lamastus) writes:

>From: lamastus@raccoon.dab.ge.com (Patrick Lamastus)

>Subject: Converting a help file to a text file

>Date: 20 May 1994 19:03:20 GMT

>Is there any utility that will convert a help file to a text

>file?

>I'm trying to make a document out of my help file.

>Thank you in advance,

>Patrick

>lamastus@swlavc.dnet.ge.com

    Ther is no autpmated way to completely convert a .HLP file to a text file.

However, with the help of WinHelp hlp reader, you can go for each topic

through the clipboard. This will give you plain text you can then paste into

Word for example, and then reformat it as you wish. There might be some tools

out there, but I then don't know them. If you find such, lemme know....

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cursor lost

In article <2rrhlf$129@xanth.cs.odu.edu> hu_j@quarterhorse.cs.odu.edu "

" writes:

>Hi, everybody! I hope this is a right group which can give me help.

>

>When I run microsoft window 3.1, sometimes the cursor suddenly disappears.

>If I go on moving the mouse and press the button, it can hit some icons

>by chance. Even if like that, the cursor would not appear again.

>

>What's wrong about that?

No, this isn't the right group. This is a group for discussion WinHelp -

the Windows "Help Engine", NOT a group for getting help with Windows.

Try asking in "comp.os.ms-windows.setup".

Chris

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HCP causes system integrity violation

Hi,

I am using HCP505.EXE to compile a relatively large help project (.HLP is

currently > 1.5MB and rising). Using a PIF file, I compile within Windows in

a DOS window.

Because the help is context sensitive to the control level, I have to utilize

a lot of mapping information. The mapping information is implemented as text

files which I #include in the map section of the .HPJ file.

Today I included 13 new include files (each less that 64k to the map section

and when I try to compile I get a system integrity violation error. My FILES=

in my config.sys is 99.

Is there a limit on the amount of map information which can be included? Is it

limited by memory? Has anyone experienced the same problem and if so how did

you solve it?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,

Brendan Young

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DDJ (Dr. Dobb's Journal) had a series of articles in the "Undocumented Corner"

column by andrew Schulman about the WinHelp format which included help printing.

try looking for these issues (~1 year ago).

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Windows Application Localization (language change)

Teh Kao Yang (tehyang@crl.com) wrote:

: Hi!

: I'm currently working on localizing some US Windows applications to be

: used in Japan. And I don't even know where to start! Our company ordered

: a Windows SDK Far East Edition but we won't get it for a while because

: Microsoft back-ordered it. We need to know what modifications are needed

: and what tools/resources we can use.  Any help is appreciated.  We're

: very tight on our schedule.

: Specifically we need information on how to change the code to work with

: the double-byte character set used in Japanese Windows.

: Thank you very much!

: -TK.

Microsoft publishes a book called "Windows 3.1 Developer's Workshop" that

contains a good section on internationalization and localization at least as

a good introduction and background into what is involved.

Also, a company named International Language Engineering (ILE) Corporation

provides translation and modification of Windows apps into other languages,

and they seem to know quite a bit about double-byte charaters set use

with Kanji, Kana, etc.  They have developed their own (internal use only)

tools for databasing your application's text resources for evolution of your

source code throughout the development cycle.  They can provide consulting or

full modification of your Windows application for localization.

ILE is located:

   4875 Pearl East Circle

   Suite 200

   Boulder, Colorado   80301

Phone:  303-447-2363

Fax:    303-449-2897

I have no affiliation with ILE; we have had them look at our international

requirements and show us what they can do, but we have not engaged their

services (yet?).

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Little Icons in links

I was reading hag.hlp and like the little text and folder icons imbedded

in the links. I tried to make these with my paint program but could not

size them down properly. DOes anyone have a set of these little icons

that they wouldn't mind sending to me.

You can mail them in binary format if your mailer supports mime to

msosteri@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

One other questions, in the file hag.hlp, in the secondary windows,

buttons are included in the no scroll region. Anyone know how to do that.

TIF

mike

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MS-DOS Windows Help File transfering to Apple Mac Windows Help File

Dear Ladies and Gentlemens ,

i am programing a Budged Analysing program under Excel for Apple.

I had to write a documentation  for this program.

i could not found a Help Compiler for Apple and so i began to write it under DOS.

After finishing , i compiled it with Windows Help Compiler Ver. 3.

If I call the Help File from Excel under Apple every things works quit ok but special charekters

like Ae, ae, Ue, ue, Oe, oe, German double s doesn' t works.

If some one can help me, i would be very lucky.

With best wishes.

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Paul Neshamkin (pauln@pipeline.com) wrote:

: mhamilton@aivis.demon.co.uk (Maria Hamilton) wrote:

: > We have  Doc-to-Help on a 30-day money-back basis

: Maria,

: I hope that if you are going to make a comparison of

: Doc-To-Help and RoboHelp you will wait for our next version

: (1.6).  This will include the Hyperformanace Tools, which add

: much functionality to WINHELP and Doc-To-Help. We hope to have

: this release ready very soon and will have demo files ready

: almost immediately.

: Paul Neshamkin

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Title Bar creation?

I'm programming a help file, and I can't for the life of me figure out

how to create those title bars that stay at the top of the screen for

each page.  All of the Microsoft help files use them, and they make them

look really professional.

Thanks in advance,

Fraser Cain

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In article <fmitch.769631264@unixg.ubc.ca>,

Fraser Cain <fmitch@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:

>I'm programming a help file, and I can't for the life of me figure out

>how to create those title bars that stay at the top of the screen for

>each page.  All of the Microsoft help files use them, and they make them

>look really professional.

>

>Thanks in advance,

>Fraser Cain

>

Hi!

The technical term is "non-scrolling region" (or: zone).  You don't

specify how you're `programming' your help file, but you need to

create a paragraph (or a group of paragraphs) with the \keepn

attribute.  In Word, that should be something like  "keep with next

paragraph" (I'm not sure, I don't use Word myself).

In RTF you should get something like:

... here's the \footnote stuff for the topic ...

\keepn your text for the NSR... \par\pard

... topic text ...

The \keepn paragraph(s) should be the very first one(s) in

the topic, otherwise the HelpCompiler will complain, and you'll

not get the desired behavior.

Hope this helps,

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Summary:

Keywords:

I'm documenting a commerical application that runs on Windows and Mac,

and I need to PORT the help over to Mac for users who don't own any MS

products. Are there any development tools out there to do this?

Mary Connor

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Paul Neshamkin (pauln@pipeline.com) wrote:

: I hope that if you are going to make a comparison of

: Doc-To-Help and RoboHelp you will wait for our next version

: (1.6).

: Paul Neshamkin

: WexTech Systems Technical Support

I've been studying Doc-To-Help 1.5 for WW2, and it seems to me that many

things might change in v1.6 to work with WW6 (cross-refs, indexes,

bullets and numb., master documents, etc.). I've gotta get that new

version ASAP; could you give details on what will be different? And will

WexTech be distributing v1.6 to users, or should we call up? Thanks!

Mary Connor 	Advanced Solutions Intl., Inc., Austin, TX

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HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

I am trying to write a C++ windows application in which the constructor for an

object takes a char* (actually a large character array) and use this to create

a stream that it writes to. After the object has it course I want to display

the contents of the character array to the user. If I created a MessageBox

from the char* then appears fine but if I dump the text to the "edit" box then

I get alot of funny looking characters, very thick vertical bars. I think the

bars are where the newlines or in C++ endl are ? I have created the "edit" box

with the control statement in my .rc file, I also use ES_MULTILINE.

What is the problem ? Does C++ have anything to do with it ?

Thanks

David

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novell netware and windows interface?

Hi

I am implementing a client-server network support for sql windows.

The underlying network is novell netware 3.21 with windows 3.1.

I am a novice to the windows world.

Can someone help me find some source code that would give me an idea

as to how I could develop the interface between the sql windows and

the novell netware. I am having a number of dlls(wmipxspx.dll etc.)

but I do not know how to use it or what modules are available in the dll's.

Can some help me find some book on windows networking with novell netware

and also some sample source code.

I am desparate.

THANKS IN ADVANCE

-Bhat

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  Okay, it's obvious some people are missing the point. This newsgroup is

for WINHELP, not any old windows programming questions. I'm not mentioning

names or trying to give anyone a hard time. Just please, look at the

titles of the newsgroups you post to. This newsgroup is for discussing

development of WinHelp and Viewer titles and applications. Other than

that, it has very little to do with windows programming questions. There

are many other comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.xxxxx groups that cover the

gambit of windows programming. Please check for the appropriate one.

  Thank you.

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WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?

Hi

It seems to me that WHAT6 may have disappeared from the Net???

Please be so kind as to point me to an ftp site (and directory) which may

still have it available.

I would also greatly appreciate it if someone could email the file to me in

uuencoded format.

Kind regards

Arnold

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pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>  Okay, it's obvious some people are missing the point. This newsgroup is

>for WINHELP, not any old windows programming questions. I'm not mentioning

>names or trying to give anyone a hard time. Just please, look at the

>titles of the newsgroups you post to. This newsgroup is for discussing

>development of WinHelp and Viewer titles and applications. Other than

>that, it has very little to do with windows programming questions. There

>are many other comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.xxxxx groups that cover the

>gambit of windows programming. Please check for the appropriate one.

I guess a newsgroup name such as "..ms-windows.programmer.winhelp" may mislead

newbies to think that WINHELP is the equivalent of a helpdesk for windows

programmers. I'm sure a few newbies don't even know that a winhelp.exe is the

magic behind the windows helpfile and when they see the words "programmer"

and "help" together, it rings "programmer's helpline" in their head. I wonder

how many do read the contents of Tom's monthly pointers on the comp.ms-windows

hierarchy before they post their letters appropriately?

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WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?

dtoitah@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Arnold du Toit) wrote:

>Hi

>

>It seems to me that WHAT6 may have disappeared from the Net???

>

>Please be so kind as to point me to an ftp site (and directory) which may

>still have it available.

>

>I would also greatly appreciate it if someone could email the file to me in

>uuencoded format.

>

>Kind regards

>Arnold

Arnold,

   You sent me personal e-mail about this and I started looking. I haven't

been able to get through to ftp.cica.indiana.edu, but I believe there is a

copy of WHAT6 in the pub/pc/win3/programr directory. I'm not positive and

none of the mirror sites seem to have it. You might also try the

pub/pc/win3/incoming directory. I know I've seen it on the net, I'm just

not sure where.

  Pete

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gwkfong@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg "Fong Whye Koon" writes:

> I wonder how many do read the contents of Tom's monthly pointers on the

> comp.ms-windows hierarchy before they post their letters appropriately?

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!  Ask the people in comp.windows.news, which has nothing

to do with Microsoft Windows whatsoever, posts a *weekly* FAQ, and still

gets regular floods of irrelevant articles.  During the last inevitable

flame war, one guy was claiming that if at least one other equally confused

person replied to your off-topic articles, you must be in the right place

regardless of what anyone else thought.  If there's such a thing as digital

karma, this is it.

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Peter J. Davis (pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu) wrote:

: dtoitah@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Arnold du Toit) wrote:

: >It seems to me that WHAT6 may have disappeared from the Net???

: >Please be so kind as to point me to an ftp site (and directory) which may

: >still have it available.

: >I would also greatly appreciate it if someone could email the file to me in

: >uuencoded format.

: >

: >Kind regards

: >Arnold

: Arnold,

:    You sent me personal e-mail about this and I started looking. I haven't

: been able to get through to ftp.cica.indiana.edu, but I believe there is a

: copy of WHAT6 in the pub/pc/win3/programr directory. I'm not positive and

: none of the mirror sites seem to have it. You might also try the

: pub/pc/win3/incoming directory. I know I've seen it on the net, I'm just

: not sure where.

:   Pete

Within the last two weeks I have downloaded it from one of cica's mirror

sites.  Unfortunately I don't remember which one.  It was one of the US

sites.  I'll go looking today and if I find it I'll let you know.

Steve

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HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

sascrh@norman.unx.sas.com (Chris Hemedinger) writes:

>I have a brochure from Virtual Media Tech. describing HDK help authoring

>system.  In their brochure, they talk about a table of contents system

>(that looks suspiciously similar to MS Viewer) and an automated Glossary

>system.

>I currently use RoboHelp, and am happy with it; but these two features

>advertised by HDK would be handy.  Anybody have an idea how well the

>product lives up to its image in the brochure?

>The software is distibuted by DEK, out of New Jersey.  But I assume that

>the product is developed by Virtual Media in Australia--right?

>Chris Hemedinger                         SAS Institute, Doc Development

>sascrh@unx.sas.com                       919/677-8000 x5776

> "I've all my wisdom teeth--two up top, two beneath.

>  And yet I recognize my mouth says things that aren't so wise."

>               -Crash Test Dummies

I have been using HDK for over six months. A colleague has been using it

for about 18 months. We both think it's great. Simple to use, powerful. My

colleague used to use RoboHelp, but switched for the added functionality

in HDK.

Support has been excellent, with questions generally answered the same

day, and an update sent out for free within a week if a problem prevented

us using it (which happened once).

If you have any specific questions about functionality, ease of use, etc,

email me.

One thing to be aware of, if you change from Robohelp: the way HDK works

is quite different to RoboHelp, so it will probably take you longer to

learn it than if you had never used RoboHelp - it takes a while to unlearn

things!

Cheers,

Anne.

PS I have no connection with Virtual Media (from Sydney, Australia),

except as a very satisfied user.

PPS To enable the table of contents, you click a check box in a dialogue.

To enable the glossary, you create all glossary headings using Word's

heading 9 style, and click another check box.

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In article <Cq826D.67x@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net "Miguel Carrasquer" writes:

>In article <fmitch.769631264@unixg.ubc.ca>,

>Fraser Cain <fmitch@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:

>>I'm programming a help file, and I can't for the life of me figure out

>>how to create those title bars that stay at the top of the screen for

>>each page.  All of the Microsoft help files use them, and they make them

>>look really professional.

>>

>>Thanks in advance,

>>Fraser Cain

>>

>

>Hi!

>

>The technical term is "non-scrolling region" (or: zone).  You don't

>specify how you're `programming' your help file, but you need to

>create a paragraph (or a group of paragraphs) with the \keepn

>attribute.  In Word, that should be something like  "keep with next

>paragraph" (I'm not sure, I don't use Word myself).

>In RTF you should get something like:

>

>... here's the \footnote stuff for the topic ...

>\keepn your text for the NSR... \par\pard

>... topic text ...

>

>The \keepn paragraph(s) should be the very first one(s) in

>the topic, otherwise the HelpCompiler will complain, and you'll

>not get the desired behavior.

In Word for Windows 2 all you have to do is select (highlight) the paragraph

you want as the non-scrolling region, then go to Format/Paragraph and click

the "Keep with next" checkbox.

Chris

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WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

My WHAT macros no longer work with Word 6.0! Is there an upgrade?

Simon

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How can I create .WMF files from clipboard

How can I create .WMF files from the metafiles stored on the clipboard.

Are there utilities available that will do this? What format does the

help compiler expect for .WMF files - is it a standard file metafile - or

does it want an aldus placeable metafile (a memory metafile with an extra

header?)

Thanks in advance,

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smart quotes

Help!  I haven't been using WORD or a PC for very long. I am not

too familiar with all the available fonts or WORD.  I can't seem to

get inch and feet marks instead of smart quotes.  Is there a font

or some kind of setting I can use in WORD6 to get rid of the beasties.

I know the compiler doesn't recognize smart quotes.

I've tried turning off the replace straight quotes with smart quotes

under tools/options/autoformat.  It didn't seem to make any

difference.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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Converting a help file to a text file

In article <Cq4oF7.MwK@world.std.com> dchaffee@world.std.com writes:

>

>lamastus@raccoon.dab.ge.com (Patrick Lamastus) writes:

>

>>Is there any utility that will convert a help file to a text

>>file?

>

>I've heard that a utility called multidoc will decompile help files, but

>I haven't been able to find it.

>

>>I'm trying to make a document out of my help file.

>

>The problem is that the file format for help files is proprietary, and

>once compiled, not readable without the help program or a

>possibly-mythical decompiler like multidoc.

>

>An alternative I've used for small amounts of text is simply to use the

>COPY command in the EDIT menu to copy one page at a time to the

>clipboard, thence to an editor or word processor for formatting and

>printout. Or set Windows to print to a file and use the PRINT command.

>

>Don

>

There is a utility called smartdoc that will do exactly this.  The

following is an excerpt from the help file:

"SmartDoc is a simple utility with two functions:

        It will allow you to extract all the text from a Windows Help

        file and put it into a plain-text file which you can load into your

        favourite Word-Processor for further processing.

        It will allow you to print a complete Windows Help File.

        You can also restrict the range of topics extracted/printed if

        required."

I don't know where you can ftp it from but I think it is at garbo.

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lil@tc.fluke.COM (Lilly-Anne Wilder) writes:

>Help!  I haven't been using WORD or a PC for very long. I am not

>too familiar with all the available fonts or WORD.  I can't seem to

>get inch and feet marks instead of smart quotes.  Is there a font

>or some kind of setting I can use in WORD6 to get rid of the beasties.

>I know the compiler doesn't recognize smart quotes.

>I've tried turning off the replace straight quotes with smart quotes

>under tools/options/autoformat.  It didn't seem to make any

>difference.

>Any help would be much appreciated.

>Lilly-Anne Wilder

Make sure your keyboard numeric pad is in Num-Lock mode.  Hold down the

ALT key.  Type 0148 *on the numeric keypad*.  Release the ALT key.  A

'closing' double quote should appear on the screen, suitable for the

inches indicator.  For the feet, type ALT 0180.  You may want to

experiment with ALT 0000 through ALT 0256 to see all the special

characters available in your various fonts.

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In article <2s2e5g$78i@nic.cerf.net> century@nic.cerf.net (Century Software) writes:

>Peter J. Davis (pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu) wrote:

>

>:    You sent me personal e-mail about this and I started looking. I haven't

>: been able to get through to ftp.cica.indiana.edu, but I believe there is a

>: copy of WHAT6 in the pub/pc/win3/programr directory. I'm not positive and

>: none of the mirror sites seem to have it. You might also try the

>: pub/pc/win3/incoming directory. I know I've seen it on the net, I'm just

>: not sure where.

>

>:   Pete

>

>Within the last two weeks I have downloaded it from one of cica's mirror

>sites.  Unfortunately I don't remember which one.  It was one of the US

>sites.  I'll go looking today and if I find it I'll let you know.

>

>Steve

>

>--

Guess it's already summer break, I was easily connected to cica but

without avail.  I also checked the ftp.wustl.edu and couldn't find

the file you mentioned, I even use archie server to locate 'what6,'

well, nothing I can find so far.  Can anyone kindly give me some clues?

-Barry

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Help missing characters

When I write "It's" in WinWord and compile it using HCP, it becomes "Its" in

the help file. How can I get the quotation mark back in the help file?

Thanks.

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In article <2s165g$cp6@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>  Okay, it's obvious some people are missing the point. This newsgroup is

>for WINHELP, not any old windows programming questions. I'm not mentioning

>names or trying to give anyone a hard time. Just please, look at the

>titles of the newsgroups you post to. This newsgroup is for discussing

>development of WinHelp and Viewer titles and applications. Other than

I hope this isn't the reason I haven't gotten any help on my problem

with smart quotes?  Perhaps I didn't explain my project enough?

I'm creating a help file and the Help compiler is ignoring all the

quotation marks and apostrophies.  I know the workaround is to use feet

and inches marks but, I can't seem to get WORD6 to stop giving me smart quotes.

Is there a trick to this?  A certain font I need to use?  Do I have to

edit the RTF file?  If so, how do I do that?  I can't believe that no one

else has run into this problem.

Help me Peter! Help, help me Peter!

Help me Peter! Help, help me Peter!

Help me Peter, yeah! Get smart quotes out of my file.

(Sung to the tune of "Help me Rhonda")

LA

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Capture a sequence of screens?

Anyone know of a tool for capturing a screen sequence?

For example, I'd like to create some animated examples

that show how to fill in a sequence of dialog boxes. I want a

tool that creates an AVI or similar file I can run from

Help/Viewer files. Oh, and it should run on NT.

I remember reading about a Lotus screen capture tool, but

I can't remember in what newsgroup.

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I'm not Peter, but:

You did the right thing by turning smart quotes off in Word's options,

but you might still have to replace all the quotes that Word already

substituted.  A simple search and replace.

If your problem is more complex than that, I apologize for the

simplistic answer.  It's just that this was my experience, too.

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In article <CqGwEB.LwC@tc.fluke.COM>, lil@tc.fluke.COM (Lilly-Anne Wilder) writes:

|> In article <2s165g$cp6@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

|> >  Okay, it's obvious some people are missing the point. This newsgroup is

|> >for WINHELP, not any old windows programming questions. I'm not mentioning

|> >names or trying to give anyone a hard time. Just please, look at the

|> >titles of the newsgroups you post to. This newsgroup is for discussing

|> >development of WinHelp and Viewer titles and applications. Other than

|>

|> I hope this isn't the reason I haven't gotten any help on my problem

|> with smart quotes?  Perhaps I didn't explain my project enough?

|> I'm creating a help file and the Help compiler is ignoring all the

|> quotation marks and apostrophies.  I know the workaround is to use feet

|> and inches marks but, I can't seem to get WORD6 to stop giving me smart quotes.

|> Is there a trick to this?  A certain font I need to use?  Do I have to

|> edit the RTF file?  If so, how do I do that?  I can't believe that no one

|> else has run into this problem.

|>

|> Help me Peter! Help, help me Peter!

|> Help me Peter! Help, help me Peter!

|> Help me Peter, yeah! Get smart quotes out of my file.

|>

|> (Sung to the tune of "Help me Rhonda")

|>

|> LA

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Bitmaps in Help Files

I'm running into the bitmap size limitation when I try to include a

screen snapshot in my help file.  I am using Corel's Snapshot utility

that comes with Corel Draw, pasting from the clipboard into

Paintbrush, and then saving the file as a BMP.  I made my application

main window real small so that the size would be reduced and I set the

BMP attibutes to 16 colors.  But the exported BMP file is still too

large.

How do you guys get around this problem?

thanks in advance

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INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

Archive-name: ms-windows/newsgrp.guide

Last-modified: 1994-04-28

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains the purpose

of the usenet newsgroups for Microsoft Windows.  Please follow these

guidelines when posting your articles, and make life easier for all of

us.

These are the current Windows newsgroups:

    GENERAL:

    comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   Comparisons and arguments about Windows &

  Windows NT vs. other operating systems

    comp.os.ms-windows.announce   MODERATED.  Announcements and news about

  Windows applications, drivers, events etc.

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps       Windows & NT applications, including hints,

  tips, bugs and comparisons

    comp.os.ms-windows.setup      Questions and problems with setting up

  and configuring Windows.

    comp.os.ms-windows.video      Video display cards, drivers and monitors

  for use with Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.misc       All other Windows discussions except

  advocacy with other operating systems.

    NETWORKING:

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip  TCP/IP-based networking for

  Windows, includign NFS and apps

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     development for Windows

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     applications

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If you have questions about these guidelines, you can email to Tom Haapanen

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Bitmaps in Help Files

> dsampson@su102d.ess.harris.com writes:

> I'm running into the bitmap size limitation when I try to include a

> screen snapshot in my help file.  I am using Corel's Snapshot utility

> that comes with Corel Draw, pasting from the clipboard into

> Paintbrush, and then saving the file as a BMP.  I made my application

> main window real small so that the size would be reduced and I set the

> BMP attibutes to 16 colors.  But the exported BMP file is still too

> large.

>

are you pasting the bmp INTO the help file or referencing it? there have been several

posts regarding bitmap and size conflicts, and what i remember from these posts is that

each help topic can contain only 32k of info, so referencing bmps saves a lot of space.

if you're using ms word or another word processor to write your help topics, type {bmc

filename.bmp}. if you're writing directly to the .rtf file, you have to had slashes (/)

somewhere around the brackets, but i don't remember where.

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Bitmaps in Help Files

In article <2s5jt6$92b@news.acns.nwu.edu> chou@notis.com writes:

>From: chou@notis.com

>Subject: Re: Bitmaps in Help Files

>Date: Fri, 27 May 94 15:07:48 PDT

>> dsampson@su102d.ess.harris.com writes:

>> I'm running into the bitmap size limitation when I try to include a

>> screen snapshot in my help file.  I am using Corel's Snapshot utility

>> that comes with Corel Draw, pasting from the clipboard into

>> Paintbrush, and then saving the file as a BMP.  I made my application

>> main window real small so that the size would be reduced and I set the

>> BMP attibutes to 16 colors.  But the exported BMP file is still too

>> large.

>>

>are you pasting the bmp INTO the help file or referencing it? there have been several

>posts regarding bitmap and size conflicts, and what i remember from these

>posts is that each help topic can contain only 32k of info, so referencing

>bmps saves a lot of space. If you're using ms word or another word processor

>to write your help topics, type [image]. if you're writing

>directly to the .rtf file, you have to had slashes (/) somewhere around the

>brackets, but i don't remember where.

     That might be either impossible or a stupid question, but how can I have

a bit map along with text both at the left and right of that bitmap ? I'd like

to be able to have the main bitmap of my program with some of the key features

on each side of the bitmap. Thanks :-)

===================================================================

Jean-Francois Messier                            Windows developper

sysop of SuperByte 486 (819) 775-3471 v32/v42 (bis too!)

jmessier@hookup.net                        74370.340@compuserve.com

             Drag me, Drop me, Treat me like an object !

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Page feed in topic?

I have a topic that is two pages when printed out.  Is there a way I can

set a hard page break in the topic?

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Bitmaps in Help Files

In article <2s5jt6$92b@news.acns.nwu.edu>,  <chou@notis.com> wrote:

>

>> dsampson@su102d.ess.harris.com writes:

>> I'm running into the bitmap size limitation when I try to include a

>> screen snapshot in my help file.

>> [..]

>

>are you pasting the bmp INTO the help file or referencing it? there have

>been several posts regarding bitmap and size conflicts, and what i remember

>from these posts is that each help topic can contain only 32k of info, so

>referencing bmps saves a lot of space. if you're using ms word or another

>word processor to write your help topics, type [image]. if you're

>writing directly to the .rtf file, you have to had slashes (/) somewhere

>around the brackets, but i don't remember where.

>

Small correction here: that's *back*slashes, like so:

 \{bmX picture.bmp\}

But you only need to worry about that if you're writing raw RTF, as was

correctly stated above.

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In article <jmessier.118.0013E11D@hookup.net>,

Jean-Francois Messier <jmessier@hookup.net> wrote:

>

>     That might be either impossible or a stupid question, but how can I have

>a bit map along with text both at the left and right of that bitmap ?

>I'd like

>to be able to have the main bitmap of my program with some of the key

>features

>on each side of the bitmap. Thanks :-)

>

Jean-Francois,

this is possible, but only by using a trick!  You should define a

three column table.  Columns 1 and 3 have text, the middle column

contains the bitmap.

Hope this helps,

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Page feed in topic?

In article <emmetthCqHu22.3Dw@netcom.com>,

Emmett Henderson <emmetth@netcom.com> wrote:

>I have a topic that is two pages when printed out.  Is there a way I can

>set a hard page break in the topic?

No, a page break marks the start of a new topic.

If your problem is that you want the topic to be visible on the screen

without having to scroll, breaking it up into two topics might not be

a bad idea.

If your problem is that you want to be able to control where the page

break goes if you say "Print Topic", that's a tough one.  Everything

is possible in WinHelp, of course, but I'm afraid it would involve

writing a DLL routine that overrides the Print() macro.

Can anybody think of an easier solution?  (I've tried embedding

^L in the RTF text (\'0C): doesn't work on my DeskJet, although it works

if you select the "Generic/Text Only" printer).

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Bitmaps in Help Files

Dave Sampson (dsampson@stingray.ess.harris.com) wrote:

: I'm running into the bitmap size limitation when I try to include a

: screen snapshot in my help file.  I am using Corel's Snapshot utility

: that comes with Corel Draw, pasting from the clipboard into

: Paintbrush, and then saving the file as a BMP.  I made my application

: main window real small so that the size would be reduced and I set the

: BMP attibutes to 16 colors.  But the exported BMP file is still too

: large.

: How do you guys get around this problem?

: thanks in advance

One way to work around this is to use the Segmented HyperGraphic editor

SHG.exe. The output of this, a .shg file, is compressed. The help comp-

ilers don't mind if you did not put any hotspot references in. Just

load the bitmap & save out the .shg without otherwise changing anything.

C-u

Tom Kindig                      & after all the violence and doubletalk,

Principal                                  There's just a song,

LeftJustified Publiks                      There's just a story,

4875 Beryl St.

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: Emmett Henderson <emmetth@netcom.com> wrote:

: >I have a topic that is two pages when printed out.  Is there a way I can

: >set a hard page break in the topic?

: If your problem is that you want to be able to control where the page

: break goes if you say "Print Topic", that's a tough one.  Everything

: is possible in WinHelp, of course, but I'm afraid it would involve

: writing a DLL routine that overrides the Print() macro.

: Can anybody think of an easier solution?  (I've tried embedding

: ^L in the RTF text (\'0C): doesn't work on my DeskJet, although it works

: if you select the "Generic/Text Only" printer).

This is the case that I want to do.  The help files may end up being

distributed.  In that case I would prefer to just send them the HLP file

and not have to worry about including any extra DLLs.

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Windows Programming

Hi,

I'm thinking of getting a Windows Programming software. Can anyone

recommand a good Windows Programming tool? And has anyone tried one of

those VISUAL languages? If so, could you e-mail me and explain what it's

all about? E mail at times9@clark.net. THanks! :)

MK

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WANTED: WINDOWS Puzzle Source Code

WANTED:   I would like to know if anyone knows where I can find

'C' or 'C++' source code for a WINDOWS version of the  common

slider puzzle game.  You know, like the little plastic toys that have

15 numbers and a blank space all mixed up and you have to put it back in

order.  I need it to move the numbers, and rescramble.  It would also help if

there was a way for the player to know which numbers where in the right order

and which ones were not.

Does anyone have such source code, or does anyone know of where I can find this.

Perhaps a particular file on a BBS or ftp site.

ANY information would be most appreciative.

Thank you

- Melissa

  gypsy@cc.ysu.edu

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tech writer's style guide for Windows

nash@mudshark.sunquest.com wrote:

: Does anyone have an idea if there is a Microsoft style guide for writing

: Windows documentation. Our tech pubs department is rather new to the concept of

: PCs and Microsoft products. They keep defaulting to Motif jargon when trying to

: describe the Windows universe.  I've been modeling my documentation after

:

It's not a style guide, but it does define all of the elements of the interface

and has a certain style of it's own. Try "The Windows Interface: An application

design guide" from Microsoft press. ISBN 1-55615-384-8   1-800-mspress.

This will at least give you all of the "official" names of screen elements &

controls.

C-u

Tom Kindig                      & after all the violence and doubletalk,

Principal                                  There's just a song,

LeftJustified Publiks                      There's just a story,

4875 Beryl St.

Las Cruces, NM 88012-9446                just a life.

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Capture a sequence of screens?

ilsley@hannah.enet.dec.com wrote:

: Anyone know of a tool for capturing a screen sequence?

: For example, I'd like to create some animated examples

: that show how to fill in a sequence of dialog boxes. I want a

: tool that creates an AVI or similar file I can run from

: Help/Viewer files. Oh, and it should run on NT.

: I remember reading about a Lotus screen capture tool, but

: I can't remember in what newsgroup.

I think the Lotus tool is called SmartCam. It is for use with Notes,

maybe, and also lets you put in an audio track that plays along with your

screen sequence. This is all just hearsay -- I haven't seen it yet, or

read any reviews even, but it might put you on the track of finging it. I

am not at all sure that the file can be brought directly into winhelp,

but probably can be called in?

George

_____________________________________________

George Hasty                    ghasty@io.com

Illuminati Online                  Austin, TX

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Lilly-Anne Wilder (lil@tc.fluke.COM) wrote:

: I hope this isn't the reason I haven't gotten any help on my problem

: with smart quotes?  Perhaps I didn't explain my project enough?

: I'm creating a help file and the Help compiler is ignoring all the

: quotation marks and apostrophies.  I know the workaround is to use feet

: and inches marks but, I can't seem to get WORD6 to stop giving me smart quotes.

: Is there a trick to this?  A certain font I need to use?  Do I have to

: edit the RTF file?  If so, how do I do that?  I can't believe that no one

: else has run into this problem.

I think (warning: this is from memory and may not be reliable!) that what

you want to do is go to Tools|Autocorrect and remove the smartquotes from

the list of autocorrections - or just switch off AutoCorrect altogether,

which will either be done here or in Tools|Options, I'm not sure which.

GG.

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Bitmaps print in black/white

When I use the {bmX bitmpa.bmp} command to include a bitmap

in one of my help topics and I do Print Topic the bitmap is

printed in black and white. If I paste the bitmap it prints

out in gray scales.

Is this normal ?

Is there a way to have gray scaled printouts when using the

 method ?

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Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

Archive-name: ms-windows/faqprg.how-to

Last-modified: 1994-03-29

Related-archives: ms-windows/faqprg.asc,ms-windows/faqprg.zip

Last-FAQ-Update: Mar 24 03:00

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains how you can

obtain a copy of the Microsoft Windows Programmer FAQ (Frequently Asked

Questions) list.  The Windows Programmer FAQ is an extensive compilation of

Windows software development facts, tips, techniques, and other useful

information.  The FAQ is about 5800 lines long (in ASCII format) or 140K (as

a ZIP archive of a Windows Help file).

The Windows NT FAQ, authored by Adam Hamilton, is currently only available

in ASCII format.

All updates to the Windows FAQ and Windows Programmer FAQs are posted to the

following two newsgroups:

comp.binaries.ms-windows	WinHelp format

comp.os.ms-windows.announce	ASCII text format

The updates are usually 2-3 months apart, depending on the amount of new

information and the maintainer's workload.

You can also FTP the FAQs from the following sites:

    ftp.nimh.nih.gov	156.40.186.8	/pub/win3/FAQ

    wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4	/usenet/comp.binaries.ms-windows/faqs

    ftp.metrics.com	198.133.164.1	/faq

The FAQs will have filenames in the format of FAQWINxx.ZIP (Windows),

FAQPRGxx.zip (Windows Programmer), and FAQWNTxx.zip where xx is the version

number.  Please do not abuse these sites; limit your FTP activity to time

outside business hours (8 PM EST through 9 AM EST, or 0100 GMT through 1400

GMT).

If you wish to retrieve the FAQs using Gopher, you can locate them at

gopher.nimh.nih.gov.

If the news postings have expired on your site, and you have no FTP access,

you can obtain it using the decwrl ftp mail server.  For instructions, send

a mail message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with a body containing simply:

       help

You will receive a full set of instructions by return mail.

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Archive-name: ms-windows/newsgrp.guide

Last-modified: 1994-05-29

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains the purpose

of the usenet newsgroups for Microsoft Windows.  Please follow these

guidelines when posting your articles, and make life easier for all of

us.

These are the current Windows newsgroups:

GENERAL:

    comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   Comparisons and arguments about Windows &

  Windows NT vs. other operating systems

    comp.os.ms-windows.announce   MODERATED.  Announcements and news about

  Windows applications, drivers, events etc.

    comp.os.ms-windows.setup      Questions and problems with setting up

  and configuring Windows.

    comp.os.ms-windows.video      Video display cards, drivers and monitors

  for use with Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.misc       All other Windows discussions except

  advocacy with other operating systems.

APPLICATIONS:

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm       Communications and fax applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial  Financial applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities  Utilities, desktops and accessories

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc  Word processing and desktop publishing

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc       Miscellaneous Windows & NT applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps            [Superceded by apps.misc]

NETWORKING:

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip  TCP/IP-based networking for

  Windows, includign NFS and apps

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows Windows' native networking: WFWG,

  NT, NTAS and LAN Manager

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc    All other networks, such as Netware,

  Banyan Vines and LANtastic

WINDOWS NT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup   Setting up and configuring Windows NT and

  Windows NT Advanced Server

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc    All other Windows NT-specific discussions

  except programming and advocacy

PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls   Using controls, custom controls,

     VBXs, OCXs and dialogs

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.drivers    Driver and  VxD development for

     Windows 3.1, NT and Chicago

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics   Graphics and GDI programming in

     Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory     Memory and process management,

     threads and IPC in Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia Development of multimedia and

     video applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks   Network-specific application

     development for Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole        Creating OLE, COM and DDE-based

     applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools      Windows development tools, class

     libraries and compilers

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32      Developing for the Win32 API

     (including NT and Win32s)

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp    Developing WinHelp and Multimedia

     Viewer files and applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc       All other Windows programming and

     development discussions

OTHER RELATED GROUPS:

    comp.lang.basic.visual	  Visual Basic programming issues for both

  Windows and MS-DOS

    comp.apps.spreadsheets        Spreadsheets and related applications,

  including Excel, Quattro and 1-2-3.

    comp.os.msdos.mail-news       Administering mail and news software

  on Windows and MS-DOS.

    comp.binaries.ms-windows	  MODERATED.  Shareware, freeware, drivers and

  other binary files.

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    comp.lang.visual   Visual programming languages, *not* Visual Basic or C++

    comp.lang.pascal   The language itself; not appropriate for Windows topics

    comp.lang.c	       The language itself; not appropriate for Windows topics

    comp.lang.c++      The language itself; not appropriate for Windows topics

    comp.windows.news  For the NeWS windowing system

    comp.windows.misc  For other windowing systems, not Microsoft Windows

GENERAL GUIDELINES:

    Please try to post to the appropriate newsgroup, and try to avoid

    crossposting whenever possible. This makes it easier for everyone

    to find the information they are looking for without wading through

    irrelevant articles.

    Second, please do not get involved in arguments about Windows vs.

    OS/2 vs. Macintosh vs. NeXTSTEP *except* in the .advocacy group.

    Don't post any comparison or argument, and if someone else posts one

    -- don't post a followup! Ignore this flamebait, and help increase

    the signal-to-noise ratio of the newsgroups.

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    To subscribe to a Usenet newsgroup, you can use the "gnewsgroupname"

    command at the newsgroup level in rn, trn and strn.  To unsubscribe,

    hit "u" while in that newsgroup, if you are using rn, trn or strn.

    To subscribe to a LISTSERV mailing list, send a mail message to the

    LISTSERV at the mailing list address (ie LISTSERV@uicvm.bitnet for the

    WINHLP-L@uicvm.bitnet list) containing just the text "SUBSCRIBE listname"

    in the body.  To unsubscribe, send mail to that same LISTSERV with the

    body "UNSUBSCRIBE listname" or "SIGNOFF listname".

WINDOWS FAQS:

    The Windows FAQs are available by anonymous ftp from ftp.metrics.com and

    other sites; see the companion posting "How to get ..." posted simulta-

    neously with this one for further details.

MICROSOFT FTP SITE:

    Microsoft also maintains an ftp site (ftp.microsoft.com) with drivers,

    patches and utilities on it for all of Microsoft's operating systems,

    including Windows, Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT.

MORE INFORMATION:

    If you have questions about these guidelines, you can email to Tom

    Haapanen (maintainer of the FAQ, tomh@metrics.com) or Sean Graham

    (moderator of the .announce group, sgraham@shiloh.nimh.nih.gov).

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What wrong with my VC++ f/NT

I am using MS VC++ v1.1 32-bit edition and I am trying to write

a help file for an application I wrote.  I read all the book and followed

all the steps, but when I actually try to run hc31.exe that comes with

VC++, I get a message from NT that says that HC31.EXE, and OS/2 program

caused a general protection fault and will be terminated.

In the documentation, it refers to a version

3.10.504, but I have version 3.10.445.  Could this be my problem?

Anyone know anything about how to get a new version to replace the one

I have.  Thanks in advance.

Adam Hayek

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In article <u1376.770328844@sparc10.cs.uiuc.edu> u1376@sparc10.cs.uiuc.edu (hayek adam michael) writes:

>I am using MS VC++ v1.1 32-bit edition and I am trying to write

>a help file for an application I wrote.  I read all the book and followed

>all the steps, but when I actually try to run hc31.exe that comes with

>VC++, I get a message from NT that says that HC31.EXE, and OS/2 program

>caused a general protection fault and will be terminated.

>In the documentation, it refers to a version

>3.10.504, but I have version 3.10.445.  Could this be my problem?

>Anyone know anything about how to get a new version to replace the one

>I have.  Thanks in advance.

>

>Adam Hayek

>

I do not know what your problem is and if this is going to solve it

but I'm pretty sur you can find hc31 3.10.505 on ftp.microsoft.com

directory:  Softlib/MSLFILES   HC505.EXE and VBHC505.EXE

I do not know the difference between these two....

Ludovic

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I'm having trouble placing bitmaps.  I use references with bml or

bmr, but I can't seem to find an accurate/consistent way to determine

vertical placement. .It looks like the bottom of the bitmap will always

be the same as the baseline of the surrounding text.  Is there any way

to change this to make the  top of the bitmap even with the ascender line

of the current line of text.  I'd be much happier if I could place the

graphic in an absolute position relative to the top of the topic!

Is this possible?  My graphics are usually too large or repeated too

many times to be pasted in directly.

thx

jennifer moter

btw, has anyone seen a drawing or picture of a spinning wheel?

(making Sleeping Beauty into a help file)

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In article <26MAY199417391750@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> gwkfong@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg (Fong Whye Koon) writes:

>pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>>  Okay, it's obvious some people are missing the point. This newsgroup is

>>for WINHELP, not any old windows programming questions. I'm not mentioning

>>names or trying to give anyone a hard time. Just please, look at the

>>titles of the newsgroups you post to. This newsgroup is for discussing

>>development of WinHelp and Viewer titles and applications. Other than

>>that, it has very little to do with windows programming questions. There

>>are many other comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.xxxxx groups that cover the

>>gambit of windows programming. Please check for the appropriate one.

>

>I guess a newsgroup name such as "..ms-windows.programmer.winhelp" may mislead

>newbies to think that WINHELP is the equivalent of a helpdesk for windows

>programmers. I'm sure a few newbies don't even know that a winhelp.exe is the

>magic behind the windows helpfile and when they see the words "programmer"

>and "help" together, it rings "programmer's helpline" in their head. I wonder

>how many do read the contents of Tom's monthly pointers on the comp.ms-windows

>hierarchy before they post their letters appropriately?

When I was first given access to the  net, I was required to read a couple

of pages of mostly good advice, one chunk  of which was the idea that it was

considered bad form to post into any newsgroup that you had  not at least

read for one week. I think this is good advice.  I wish it could be made

mandatory. In fact, nowaadyas, I'd alos inblcude a requirement to read the

FAQ if one exists, and submit to an entry level exam. For this group, for

example, the entrance exam might be as simple as:

    1. What does "winhelp" signify in the groups name?

    2. Which version of the help compiler do you use (or plan to use)?

    3. What help authoring systems are you using (pr considering)?

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Doc-To-Help and other help programs

Greetings.  I have created on-line help in UNIX environments using

FrameMaker and FrameVIewer.  Now a client is asking me to create on-line

help in an MS Windows environment.  The goal is to take MS Word

documentation and turn it quickly into on-line materials.  The client has

a package called Doc-To-Help which they know almost nothing about, but

they want me to use.

How easy is this software to learn and use?  Are there better (= easier)

on-line help packages for MS Windows help?

All comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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Did you manage to change the list parameters so that it allows posts by

non-members?  I'd like to try the two-way gating again...

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Can you use a path to find the file? Re: hyperlinks between hlp Files

So, where does JumpId look for the new .hlp file? I'd like to be able

to reference .hlp files that are not part of my product (if they

exist). Is there some way to set a path to control where JumpId looks

for .hlp files?

Thanks,

Mark

In article <2svnon$khq@news.acns.nwu.edu> chou@n5145.notis.com writes:

   > Anybody know how to make links between two hlp Files?

   Use the Macro JumpId (abbreviated JI) like so in the [CONFIG]

   section of your .hpj file:

   JI("your.hlp","context_string")

   the your.hlp is the .hlp file that contains the help topic you want

   to jump to, and the context_string is just the context string of the

   jump you're jumping to.

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Windows & Modem

In article <Cr3sE4.xz@westminster.ac.uk>

           hihec@westminster.ac.uk "Stephen Bennett" writes:

>I am currently trying to install a modem into my computer. I have a comms

>program to run it outside windows, which works fine. However, I cant't seem

>to get any of the window versions of the programs to recognize the

>modem.

>

>I have played about with setup etc.

>This problem is on a dell 486 computer, running windows 3.1, with dos 5.0

>and 12mb of mem. I have installed the modem to com port 4.

>

>Any help gladly recieved

>

>Thanks

>

>Steve

The connection between your question and this newsgroup's purpose of

discussing Windows "Help" file programming eludes me!

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can anyone get into ftp.cica.indiana.edu? i've tried anonymously

ftping and also trying to access via gopher, but it's not working. i

would really like to look at HWAB40_1.zip and _2.zip help authoriing

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I'm looking for any recommended papers/books on how to think about

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would be for a person who has tradtionally built terminal apps.

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MWHAG

In <Cr4pJs.7Hx@metrics.com> Geoffrey William Peters <gwp@CS.PURDUE.EDU> writes:

+ In a previous message, David Reichelt said:

+ > Can anyone give me an e-mail address to retrieve the Microsoft Windows Help

+ >  Authoring Guide?

+ Sorry I can't help -- but I have been looking for the same thing...

+ Could you forward any direct replies or post a summary to the

+ group? Thanks a bunch!

Here's the ftp site:

gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/micro/msdos/win3/programr

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In article <MWARREN.94Jun9125503@ap207sun.oracle.com>,

Mark Warren <mwarren@oracle.com> wrote:

>

>So, where does JumpId look for the new .hlp file? I'd like to be able

>to reference .hlp files that are not part of my product (if they

>exist). Is there some way to set a path to control where JumpId looks

>for .hlp files?

>

>Thanks,

>

>Mark

>

Windows Help uses the following algorithm to find a help file

1. look in the same directory as the .hlp file containing the

   interfile jump

2. look in the MS-DOS current directory (i.e. if the .hlp file

   was started by F1 from an application, that app's CWD, if the

   .hlp file was started from a ProgMan ?-icon, the default-dir

   as specified for the icon...)

3. look in the Windows dir

4. look in the Windows System dir

5. look in the directory where WINHELP.EXE is located

6. look in the DOS PATH directory-list

7. look in the [FILES] section of WINHELP.INI:

   this may contain entries like:

   [FILES]

   helpfile=D:\dir,please insert My Wonderful CD-ROM in drive D:

(that is: name=drive:\directory,message to display if media removable)

After that, WinHelp gives up and displays the "Help file not found"

message.

You can also use a full path name.  I would advice UNIX-style notation

(c:/dir/subdir/fname.hlp), because backslashes need to be doubled,

and even redoubled, depending on the number of times they are

re-read (Word=>RTF=>HLP...)

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We would like to compose a Windows Help document for Chinese Windows

(Big 5 code version) and will be grateful to people who have such

experience to offer some valuable advice.

Presumably, one needs the Chinese Windows SDK with an appropriate

Help Compiler. What documentation can I find in the SDK? Do I need

Chinese Word for Windows to edit the source?

As we understand it, the traditional format of RTF files cannot

handle Chinese characters. What file format does the help compiler

work on?

In short, what is the proper procedure for the whole business?

Is there any tool (similar to Microsoft Help Authoring tool) that we

can use to speed up the process?

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There's probably no solution to this, but I'll ask anyway... Does anyone

out there, who uses a video driver with 65K colors (or more), have colored

hypertext???   According to Diamond Corp and Microsoft Corp, it can't be done.

But I haven't given up hope yet.....

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what6.dot

i just downloaded the Window Help Author Toolkit. Looks pretty

simple. However, i am running word 6.0 but don't have the correct

templates. i think i remember reading somewhere that you could get

the templates off of ftp.cica.indiana.edu, but i can't connect to it

for some reason. anyone know of anywhere else that i can get the

correct templates. also, i WHAT free, shareware, a demo?

thanks for any info.

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How do you make a word-breaker for viewer?

Does anyone know what the arguments passed to word-breaker functions in

Multimedia Viewer are?  I have looked all over the place, and I have found

*NO* documentation about writing your own word-breaker, except how to

associate a DLL and function with a particular data type in the .MVP file.

My problem is that I have very long UUCP path lines in my title, and for

some reason the default word-breaker doesn't recognize the '!' characters

as a good place to break, so the text doesn't wrap and you have to scroll

to the right to see the rest.

So what rules does FBreakWords follow?  I looked at ANSIUSA.TBL (which

allegedly contains the rules for classifying characters), and the '!' is

defined the same as ' ' -- NO_CLASS (character is a word-breaker

character), which should allow it to wrap the path.

Please reply via e-mail [our news is on the fritz :(] to blake@gstream.com

and I'll summarize.

Thanks for the help!

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posting by non-subscriber

Perhaps you can help me,

The author of Helpwriter's Assistant for Windows has a new

version.  He wishes to post an announcement to this list, but

he is not a subscriber.

Is he allowed to post his announcement nevertheless?  Who or where

does he send it to, if so.

If not, may I forward the announcement for him?

Thanks.

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Phone numbers for RoboHelp and ForeHelp

Thanks to everyone who responded to my query about Help authoring

software for Windows, and for Microsoft Word in particular.  The majority

of respondents seemed to feel that RoboHelp and/or ForeHelp were better,

friendlier products than Doc-2-Help.

Can any please provide phone numbers for the companies that make RoboHelp

and ForeHelp?  Tech support and/or sales phone numbers would be helpful.

Thank you,

Steven Oppenheimer

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furture help

Microsoft says they are coming out with a new style of

help when they deliver Chicago (Windows 4.0) later this

year.  They also say Chicago help files will not be

supported on Windows NT (not even on Daytona or Cairo).

Does anyone know if the WinHelp 3.1 help files will still

work on Chicago? (I would they must in order to maintain

compatibility)  What is different about Chicago help files

anyway?  Why wouldn't they run on NT?  Are tools like RoboHelp

and Word-to-Doc planning support for Chicago help files?

(Microsoft is coming out with a WYSIWYG Chicago help file

editor).

I'm hoping someone in netland has some insight into what

Microsoft has planned for the future of WinHelp...

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what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

In <2t8392$csp@news.acns.nwu.edu> chou@n5145.notis.com writes:

>can anyone get into ftp.cica.indiana.edu? i've tried anonymously

>ftping and also trying to access via gopher, but it's not working. i

>would really like to look at HWAB40_1.zip and _2.zip help authoriing

>stuff.

I've been trying for the last two weeks to get in, and it always

"reached the maximum connections."  I don't quite believe that.

Anyway, have you tried it's mirror sites?

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what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

chou@n5145.notis.com wrote:

: can anyone get into ftp.cica.indiana.edu? i've tried anonymously

: ftping and also trying to access via gopher, but it's not working. i

: would really like to look at HWAB40_1.zip and _2.zip help authoriing

: stuff.

There is a mirror of this file at polecat.law.indiana.edu.  It's buried

way deep in their directory structure: find the MIRROR directory and

keep following WIN3.

I haven't unzipped it yet, but I will as soon as I'm done posting.  It

HAS to be better than dealing with Microsoft's unsupported kludgefest...

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re: ftp.cica.indiana.edu

> I've been trying for the last two weeks to get in, and it always

> "reached the maximum connections."  I don't quite believe that.

>

> Anyway, have you tried it's mirror sites?

yeah. i tried wuarchive.something.something using gopher, and

couldn't get in.

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Help files in Chicago

When I took a look a Chicago I noticed that almost all of the help files

were compiled with MVC.EXE, the Multimedia Viewer Compiler.

Chicago's Winhelp.exe can also view help files compiled by the help compiler,

but I'd like to know how easy it is to convert my help files to Viewer files.

Is MVC.EXE like HC.exe freely distributable?

What are the advantages of the Multimedia Viewer over the old winhelp files?

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ebuhcb@EBU.Ericsson.SE wrote:

>Microsoft says they are coming out with a new style of

>help when they deliver Chicago (Windows 4.0) later this

>year.  They also say Chicago help files will not be

>supported on Windows NT (not even on Daytona or Cairo).

  Well, actually, it should be supported on NT, you'll just need to copy

the Chicago version of WinHelp over. Since Chicago is going to be a subset

of Win32 and Windows NT is the superset, WinHelp on Chicago must run with

Windows NT. QED.

>Does anyone know if the WinHelp 3.1 help files will still

>work on Chicago? (I would they must in order to maintain

>compatibility)  What is different about Chicago help files

>anyway?  Why wouldn't they run on NT?  Are tools like RoboHelp

>and Word-to-Doc planning support for Chicago help files?

>(Microsoft is coming out with a WYSIWYG Chicago help file

>editor).

Windows 3.1 help files will continue to work under Chicago to maintain

compatibility. Chicago help files are just going to be extended versions

of regular help files. I seriously doubt there are going to be any major

changes to the file format itself, only extensions within the internal

file system and perhaps some modifications to the internal |TOPIC file.

  I'm sure all the major WinHelp Authoring Tool developers are planning on

supporting chicago.

>I'm hoping someone in netland has some insight into what

>Microsoft has planned for the future of WinHelp...

>                                                  ...Cuyler Buckwalter

>

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Arthur Muller <muller@FWI.UVA.NL> wrote:

>When I took a look a Chicago I noticed that almost all of the help files

>were compiled with MVC.EXE, the Multimedia Viewer Compiler.

  Interesting. How did you 'Notice this?" Did the files have .MVB extensions?

  Chicago is supposed to have some fairly new features that won't be

supported by the old help compiler or MVC. They will need to upgrade the

help compiler or MVC to support the new features planned for Chicago.

>Chicago's Winhelp.exe can also view help files compiled by the help compiler,

>but I'd like to know how easy it is to convert my help files to Viewer files.

  Piece of cake. Viewer is an extension of WinHelp. The differences are

few. Viewer just has a few more features.

>Is MVC.EXE like HC.exe freely distributable?

  No. To get MVC, you need to Viewer Development kit or whatever the hell

they're calling it this week. It's a few hundred bucks as I recall.

>What are the advantages of the Multimedia Viewer over the old winhelp files?

  As I said before, the existing Viewer is simply an extended WinHelp. It

has support for more multimedia things, like AVI file and .WAV files and

such. It also allows 256 color bitmaps comes with the full-text search

engine (which, of course, works with WinHelp too).

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smb@fig.citib.com (Scott M Bulmahn) writes:

>Could anyone please tell me where I could purchase a copy of this utility?

>I am interested in doing the exact same thing -- turning a MS Word file into

>a help file Useable by MSVC.

>Anyone know the vendor off hand???

I don't know about Doc-To-Help (or whatever the name of the orgininal utility

that you were asking about was) but one that I know will do it is HDK

(Hypertext Development Kit). It's available from:-

In the US:

Mark Koch

DEK Software

(609) 424-6565

f(609) 424-0785

Everywhere Else:

Virtual Media

+61 2 959-2355

f+61 2 953-4044

Hope this helps!

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The mirror site I have the most consistent luck with (at least until I

posted this )-:) is the cdrom mirror site.

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Speaking as a list member, I think it's quite useful if members forward

"relevant" material to the list. Where to draw the line at what is relevant

shouldn't be that hard. For example, there's a new product called Skinny

Dip ....!

So let's hear from the author of Help Assistant. Of course, it would be nice

if she or he would join the list.

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I guess I should upload hwab40_1.zip

and hwab40_2.zip to this group's ftp site.

Could somebody please give me the ip number again,

and instructions on how to upload something?  I'll

do it during the coming week.

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I would like to try the evaluation copy of Help Writer's

Assistant (HWAB40_1.ZIP and HWAB40_2.ZIP) said to be on

ftp.cica.indiana.edu, but since I can never get on CICA, do

the files reside elsewhere? Or could a kindly Pegasus Mail

user attach and email them to me?

Thanks very much!

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Help for NT

I'd like to enable the Find button for a Windows NT help file. I can't seem

to find any doc on the subject, though it appears what I need to do is

register a routine (which one?), define the button, and call the routine.

Anybody have a source for information, or some experience with this?

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Help files in Chicago

When I took a look a Chicago I noticed that almost all of the help files

were compiled with MVC.EXE, the Multimedia Viewer Compiler.

Chicago's Winhelp.exe can also view help files compiled by the help compiler,

but I'd like to know how easy it is to convert my help files to Viewer files.

Is MVC.EXE like HC.exe freely distributable?

What are the advantages of the Multimedia Viewer over the old winhelp files?

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Howdy, I'm just starting to convert from Word 2.0 to Word 6.0. I see from

this mailing that there are some pitfalls. Could someone who has been there

please outline the problems that they have noted to date to get WHAT to work

with Word 6.0 . Much grass, ... Dave Rapp

>Hi All,

>

>I've just discovered the following file on ftp.microsoft.com:

>

>/developer/MSDN/NEWUP/WHATHLP.ZIP

>

>file size: 543803 Bytes

>

>It contains the 'missing' help file for the WHAT6.DOT Word template

>and what appears to be a new version of the Help Authoring Guide in

>Windows Help format.

>

>Hope that you find these useful.

>

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Mac Viewer ??

Apologies for what is most probably a novice question. I've just completed

my first Viewer 2.0 project (under Windows). I've been asked what the issues

are in porting the project to the Mac platform. Some extremely basic

questions:

a.      Is there a version of Viewer for the Mac?

b.      If so, what is the process of porting multimedia files across

        to the Mac.

As a quick aside .. I'm also trying to figure out how to display 24bit

images in viewer, using a set of display DLLs. Is there some way of

extracting either the device context or the windows handle to a pane within

a topic? I intend to pass that to the DLL and "attempt" to display a 24 bit

image in a pane.

Would appreciate any help ..

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In article <Cr858B.B2E@metrics.com>,

Gilson,  Stephen <POWERSOFT/BURLINGTON/gilson%Powersoft_Corporation@MCIMAIL.COM> wrote:

>I'd like to enable the Find button for a Windows NT help file. I can't seem

>to find any doc on the subject, though it appears what I need to do is

>register a routine (which one?), define the button, and call the routine.

>

>Anybody have a source for information, or some experience with this?

>

I don't have NT installed, but I do have it on CD-ROM (MS

Devel. Libr.), and I happened to notice that the NT SDK included

the full-text search DLLs and compilers.

What you need to do is (assuming it all works just like in

Viewer 1.0):

compile yor Help file

run forage(p).exe, w_scan.exe and index.exe on your .hlp file

This will create a .ind file, containing the full-text index

to your help file.  The three programs above require quite a lot

of parameters, let me see if I can get them right:

(assuming <proj> is your help file's name):

foragep.exe /w <proj>.hlp

w_scan.exe <proj>.ans,,generic.stp,generic.fld,,<proj>.lst;

index.exe <proj>,,<proj>,generic.stp,generic.fld,<proj>.map;

(generic.stp and generic.fld should also be in the SDK)

Now in your .HPJ file add this:

[CONFIG]

RegisterRoutine("ftengine","LoadFtEngine", "U")

LoadFtEngine(0)

RegisterRoutine("ftui","InitRoutines","SU")

InitRoutines(qchPath, 1)

RegisterRoutine("ftui","ExecFullTextSearch","USSS")

RegisterRoutine("ftui","SwitchToTopicsFound","U")

AddAccelerator(0x46,2,"SwitchToTopicsFound(hWndApp)")

CreateButton("btn_find","&Find","ExecFullTextSearch(hwndApp,qchPath,"","")

....

[BAGGAGE]

bag.ini

Finally you should create a file BAG.INI, containing:

[bag.ini]

groupcount=1

group1=<proj>

[AUTO]

Title=<proj>

Indexfile=<proj>.ind

A lot of this could be automated, of course.

If this doesn't work in NT, it should be something

similar.  Maybe there's a readme file somewhere in the

SDK.

Greetings,

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Help files in Chicago

>When I took a look a Chicago I noticed that almost all of the help files

>were compiled with MVC.EXE, the Multimedia Viewer Compiler.

It has been rumored that Viewer will be 'the' help engine of Chicago (several

people on the net have reported heard comments to that affect). It may be

 official

now, but I have seen no official statement to that affect.

>Chicago's Winhelp.exe can also view help files compiled by the help compiler,

>but I'd like to know how easy it is to convert my help files to Viewer files.

Several people have reported that they were able to convert over existing help

projects to Viewer with almost no effort (and instantly gain word cross

 indexing).

Viewer at one time was a strict superset of WINHELP. Version 2.0 has diverged in

 a

couple of minor ways (I think they are all limited to the help 'project' file

format and options).

>Is MVC.EXE like HC.exe freely distributable?

The Viewer runtime needed to run Viewer titles is freely distributable.

>What are the advantages of the Multimedia Viewer over the old winhelp files?

Viewer has better support of displaying bitmap images.

It provides Viewer enabled DLL's that specifically support the MCI standard.

 This

includes AVI file format Video for Windows and any data/device with MCI

 compliant

drivers. The Viewer DLLs provide 'controller' windows that can be

embedded in the Viewer title and configured with many options by the Viewer

author, and allow the end user access to all the standard MCI features.

Viewer also provides a text search and 'retrieval' engine. This, in my mind, is

its most significant advantage to the author of traditional help files. If you

use, or need, none of the additional multimedia support, converting to Viewer

allows your end users to contruct a text expression 'query' that produces a list

of topics that contain text satisfying the query, which they can jump to by

picking the topic from the 'query list'.

Its like WINHELP with exhaustive, auto-generated 'search' keywords.

I hope I haven't misrepresented anything about Viewer. I'm sure someone will

correct me if I have.

Gregory J. Peto

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what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

umyin@mctrf.mb.ca (Qing Yin) writes:

>In <2t8392$csp@news.acns.nwu.edu> chou@n5145.notis.com writes:

>>can anyone get into ftp.cica.indiana.edu? i've tried anonymously

>>ftping and also trying to access via gopher, but it's not working. i

>>would really like to look at HWAB40_1.zip and _2.zip help authoriing

>>stuff.

>I've been trying for the last two weeks to get in, and it always

>"reached the maximum connections."  I don't quite believe that.

Why don't you believe what the sysadmin there tells you?  And don't

forget that unless you're in a very special category you're using

their facilities for free.  If something associated with the official

mission of the cica folk has come up, there may be a quite legitimate

reason why they must keep access to the archives throttled.

Anyway, I just checked the server at cica and got in on the first

try -- as number 64 of 65 max.

Joe Morris / MITRE

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pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>>When I took a look a Chicago I noticed that almost all of the help files

>>were compiled with MVC.EXE, the Multimedia Viewer Compiler.

>  Interesting. How did you 'Notice this?" Did the files have .MVB extensions?

No, I used HELPDUMP.EXE (from DDJ), which can be found at CICA.

>  Chicago is supposed to have some fairly new features that won't be

>supported by the old help compiler or MVC. They will need to upgrade the

>help compiler or MVC to support the new features planned for Chicago.

Helpdump.exe gave as the version number of the compiler 3.33 .

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Cue cards

Cue Cards are the little helpful windows that float on top of (for

example) Microsoft Access.  They contain information on and guidance

for different tasks in the application, e.g. creating a query,

designing a form etc.

Visually, they consist of a navigational toolbar at the top of the

window and a text area with buttons, text and graphics.  The buttons in

the text area are typically used for branching.

They often guide you through a task in great detail: "Choose the File

New Query command", "In the dialog box, type the name of your query",

"When you have done this, press the Next button".  They are a little

bit like a wizard, except they make you do the actual work instead of

doing it for you based on your input.

This is not a very complete description, but I hope it helps.

-- peter, microsoft corp.

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#

# A potential client recently asked me if I could create interactive help

# for a Win app along the lines of Microsoft Cue Cards. I know what

# Wizards are, but am not sure about Cue Cards. So, I have two questions:

#

# 1. Can someone give me a brief description of what Cue Cards do?

#

# 2. Are there either public domain, shareware, or commercially sold

# tools available to author Cue Cards for a Windows application? If so,

what are

#  they, approximately how $, and are they similar to the standard WinHelp

# tools, or do they require some programming expertise?

#

# Thanks,

# Bill Downing

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pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>>When I took a look a Chicago I noticed that almost all of the help files

>>were compiled with MVC.EXE, the Multimedia Viewer Compiler.

>  Interesting. How did you 'Notice this?" Did the files have .MVB extensions?

No, they have .HLP extensions, but I used HELPDUMP.EXE (from DDJ) and found:

'helpdump winhelp.hlp SYSTEM' results in;

---------------

MVC.EXE  Multimedia Compiler used.

Version: 3

Revision: 33

Flag: 0x0000  - No compression

Help File Generated: Fri Mar 04 14:28:16 1994

Help File Title: Help for Windows Help

Contents ID: 0xFF82

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Mac Viewer ??

>a.      Is there a version of Viewer for the Mac?

Yes... and no.   To port Encarta, Dinosaurs, Cinemania, etc. to the Mac,

I'm told that Microsoft used a product called Multidoc from:

Foundation Software Solutions, Inc.

2000 Regency Parkway, Suite 345

Cary, NC 27511 USA

(800) 247-7890

(919) 481-3517

Fax: (919) 481-3551

The product reads all of the viewer authoring files you worked so hard on,

and I'm not sure whether it spits out Mac binaries, or just gives you a

class library that you have to use in your own program.

It's $7500us for Multidoc

They get a royalty of $2000us per title

>b.      If so, what is the process of porting multimedia files across

>        to the Mac.

I'd love to answer your question, but the price scared me away  :-)

Viewer for Windows is a steal at twice the price.

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In <jcmorris.771340774@mwunix> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:

| umyin@mctrf.mb.ca (Qing Yin) writes:

| >In <2t8392$csp@news.acns.nwu.edu> chou@n5145.notis.com writes:

| >I've been trying for the last two weeks to get in, and it always

| >"reached the maximum connections."  I don't quite believe that.

| Why don't you believe what the sysadmin there tells you?  And don't

| forget that unless you're in a very special category you're using

| their facilities for free.  If something associated with the official

| mission of the cica folk has come up, there may be a quite legitimate

| reason why they must keep access to the archives throttled.

I'm not saying I don't like their policy of setting a connection limit.

I mean I've been trying *all* the time to get in, even in late night,

and it's hard to believe that it *always* reach the connection limit.

Well if you have got in, congratulations!

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viewer FAQ?

A few questions regarding viwer:

1. what is the latest version?

2. how easy is it to and how do you port your existing .hlp files to viewer?

3. since I'm not the only one asking viewer questions in here is there a

viewer FAQ?

TIA

StanO

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heiko@mai.de (Heiko Schulz) wrote:

>Our main problem with Doc-To-Help is the non-support of

>Wextech. There seems to  be no local support avaiable

>(here in Germany). Calling the hotline number in NY we

>left some messages on there recorder but never got an

>answer. Also to our faxes we got no answer.

Heiko,

I'm very sorry to hear you are having trouble with our

Technical Support department. I have searched our fax logs and

can find no record of receiving any from you. Our Technical

Support number is 212-949-0093 (phone) or 212-949-4007 (fax).

You can reach me on the Internet at pauln@wextech.com or on

Compuserve at 71333,1400. We maintain a Forum there (GO

WEXTECH) in section 4 of WINAPD. We have a full-time staff of 5

people dedicated to technical support and make every attempt to

answer calls or return them within 2 hours. Faxes and Internet

messages should be responded to the same day. We are fully

aware of the critical, deadline nature of most help file

development and are committed to give our users professional

and timely response.

Paul Neshamkin

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In article <2t8392$csp@news.acns.nwu.edu>, chou@n5145.notis.com writes:

> can anyone get into ftp.cica.indiana.edu? i've tried anonymously

>

> ftping and also trying to access via gopher, but it's not working. i

>

> would really like to look at HWAB40_1.zip and _2.zip help authoriing

>

> stuff.

There are many mirror sites.  When cica is busy, it says

sorry, then lists all the mirror sites.  Help Writer's Assistant

is now in the /util subdirectory of cica and the mirror sites.

-dennis turner

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Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

In article <Cr6650.1y5@dcs.ed.ac.uk> jch@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Jen Cheng) writes:

>We would like to compose a Windows Help document for Chinese Windows

>(Big 5 code version) and will be grateful to people who have such

>experience to offer some valuable advice.

>

>Presumably, one needs the Chinese Windows SDK with an appropriate

>Help Compiler. What documentation can I find in the SDK? Do I need

>Chinese Word for Windows to edit the source?

You don't need the Chinese Windows SDK. Only Microsoft Chinese Windows 3.1

with any word processor that can handle Chinese and create RTF files will

be sufficient. The Help compiler can be found in CICA, or Microsoft ftp

site.

>

>As we understand it, the traditional format of RTF files cannot

>handle Chinese characters. What file format does the help compiler

>work on?

The key is that you need a Chinese Windows to display Chinese characters.

RTF format is not a issue.

>In short, what is the proper procedure for the whole business?

>Is there any tool (similar to Microsoft Help Authoring tool) that we

>can use to speed up the process?

Assume Chinese Windows and Word for Windows are both available.

1. Use Word for Windows to create files that contains topics, context

   strings, etc., and save them as RTF format.

2. Create a .hpj file containing above RTF files.

3. Use help compiler to compile the .hpj file, thus obtaining a .hlp file.

4. Use winhelp.exe came from Chinese Windows to view the .hlp file.

Regards,

-Terry Chung

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>

> Anyway, have you tried it's mirror sites?

>

> --

>

> Qing Vincent Yin	|	Repeat

> umyin@mctrf.mb.ca	|	   delete(next_bug);

> 	|	Until 0 = 1;

I often have luck with monu6.cc.monash.edu.au, or

128.252.135.4, or oak.oakland.edu

-dennis turner

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Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

In article <Cr83x3.ABM@metrics.com>, Richard Scott <RSCOTT@USRD.NRL.NAVY.MIL> writes:

> I would like to try the evaluation copy of Help Writer's

> Assistant (HWAB40_1.ZIP and HWAB40_2.ZIP) said to be on

> ftp.cica.indiana.edu, but since I can never get on CICA, do

> the files reside elsewhere? Or could a kindly Pegasus Mail

> user attach and email them to me?

>

> Thanks very much!

Have you tried to ftp from mirrors oak.oakland.edu or 128.252.135.4?

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DWHAT2.0 for WinWord 6.0 Released

DWHAT20.ZIP - Help Author Template for WinWord 6.0

--------------------------------------------------

Currently on ftp.cica.indiana.edu (or its mirrors) in:

        /pub/pc/win3/uploads

to be moved to:

        /pub/pc/win3/winword

This is v2.0 of DWHAT, my WinWord 6.0 version of the WHAT WinWord 2.0

template - originally by Microsoft.

DWHAT ports the original functionality of WHAT, with additional features.

Version 2.0 includes many minor bug fixes, and a nifty bitmap dialog -

preview the bitmap before you insert it.

The styles have also been renamed to be slightly more understandable.

DWHAT contains a useful Toolbar with all the popular help-creation functions

available. It also contains a link to load HAG (the Microsoft Help Author

Guides), available as HAG.ZIP on CICA.

Requirements:

        For full functionality, also get the original WHAT.ZIP (DWHAT uses

        help file, and contains useful examples)

DWHAT is Public Domain. Microsoft's original was, and so I am continuing

the tradition. I have heard of but not seen WHAT6, so I don't know how

similar or different they are.

-dave

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> i posted an article earlier about printing .hlp files from within the

> winhelp engine. however, as i read some follow-ups to the original

Could you _please_ re-post? ;-)

Thanks!

Peter

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Long: Word 2 -> Word 6 (was Re: Help Files for WHAT6)

In response to Dave's query:

Moving from Word 2 to Word 6 is possible, but it takes a little work.

From my experience you need to do the following things:

1.    Back  up your .HPJ and RTF files!

2.    Obtain WHAT6.EXE, the Word 6 Help Authoring Template, from:

      gmutant.wrlc.org (198.91.36.126) in /pub/winhelp

3.    Install WHAT6 by running WHAT6.EXE, then running the setup

      program. N.B. Some of the program icons created by the setup

      do not point to the correct directories, or even to actual

      files. We will fix that later. :)

4.    Obtain WINHLP.ZIP from ftp.microsoft.com (198.105.232.1) in

      /developer/MSDN/NEWUP

5.    Install the Help files from WINHLP.ZIP. The directory into

      which you installed WHAT6 is probably best place to put them.

6.    Go to the program manager group created by WHAT6 and check that

      the paths which the icons point to reflect their locations on

      your system. You will have to change the paths for several. You

      should now have all of the files referenced by this program

      manager group.

7.    Edit the macro HelpOnWHAT in the WHAT6.DOT template so that it

      relects the location of the file WHAT6.HLP.

8.    The Windows Help Project Editor as supplied in WHAT6 does not

      work with the Word 6 Templates! The only way to fix this is to

      use a 'patched' version of the WHPE. The original patch was

      discovered by Dale Roberts, and I have modified it slightly. To

      quote Dale:

        There was a topic a few weeks back about using the

        MS help project editor with WORD 6.0.  When you click

        on a file name in WHPE, it does not get loaded into

        Word, and you get a popup message 'Undefined dialog

        record field.' I haven't seen that this problem has

        been resolved yet (correct me if I'm wrong).

        Although this is not a terrible problem (you can

        still load the files manually into WORD), being a

        programmer, I couldn't just let this one go :-).  I

        delved into Word programming a bit and figured out

        that WHPE uses a DDE (dynamic data exchange) dialog

        to send a macro to WORD to open up the RTF file. I

        used a hex viewer to look at WHPE.EXE and found the

        little WORD macro buried within.  There is a

        statement 'ToolsOptionsGeneral.ConfirmConversions =

        0' which is supposed to eliminate the annoying popup

        message that confirms that you want to convert the

        RTF file.  Except that there is no general option

        ConfirmConversions in WORD 6.0!  It has been moved

        as an option to the FileOpen command (note that you

        can turn it on and off using the checkbox in the File

        Open dialog box).  So if you use a hex editor (like

        the one built into the XTree viewer, if you have it,

        or the nice shareware Windows hex editor, hexedit)

        you can just search for and space over this command

        in the executable. Then things work fine! Note, use

        spaces (0x20), not nulls (0x00).

        If you have the automatic Tip Of The Day enabled,

        this macro doesn't seem to get run (unless WORD is

        already running).  So you have to turn Tips off.

        Does anyone have another way to get around this?  I

        sort of like the Tip Of The Day...

        dale, roberts@ishtar.med.jhu.edu

      My modification to this patch is that instead of simply spacing

      over 'ToolsOptionsGeneral.ConfirmConversions = 0', type over it

      'FileConfirmConversions 0' (no quotes) and fill out the

      remainder with spaces. 'FileConfirmConversions 0' is the Word

      6 version of 'ToolsOptionsGeneral.ConfirmConversions = 0'.

      It is also necessary to replace all instances of the string

      'WHAT31.DOT' with 'WHAT6.DOT ' (note the extra space).

      Please note that the legality of distributing a patched

      version of one of Microsoft's executables is unclear. Dale has

      stated that he will not distribute the patched WHPE.EXE. Nor

      will I. (Unless someone from MS gives an official O.K.)

9.    If using the (patched) WHPE, ensure that 'Tip of the Day' is

      turned off (as mentioned in Dale's post).

Given that you have completed the above steps, you should have a Help

Authoring Environment compatible with Word 6.

Hope this helps,

Stuart.

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macros in [config] section

I would like to place the following macro in the [CONFIG] section

of my project file:

   CBB( "btn_search", "SaveMark(`Test');Search()" )

Observe the presence of the semicolon! The help compiler considers text

following a semicolon to be a comment.  Therefore it disregards my second

macro command.

It seems likely that there is a way of stringing togther macro commands

in the project file.  Perhaps there is another valid delimiter besides

semicolon.

Anyone encounter this problem before?

And, more importantly, anyone resolve it?

Thanks for your consideration,

Kevin

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WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

After reading a number of comments about bugs and

compatability problems with WinWord 6 and RoboHelp,

I would be very appreciative of this group's reader's

answers to these questions:

Does RoboHelp 2.6 correct and/or workaround WinWord 6's problems?

Does the WinWord 6.0a "upgrade" improve its performance vis-a-vis

RoboHelp?

Would it be more prudent to stick with WinWord 2 for now?

Thanks,

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Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

Archive-name: ms-windows/faqprg.how-to

Last-modified: 1994-03-29

Related-archives: ms-windows/faqprg.asc,ms-windows/faqprg.zip

Last-FAQ-Update: Mar 24 03:00

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains how you can

obtain a copy of the Microsoft Windows Programmer FAQ (Frequently Asked

Questions) list.  The Windows Programmer FAQ is an extensive compilation of

Windows software development facts, tips, techniques, and other useful

information.  The FAQ is about 5800 lines long (in ASCII format) or 140K (as

a ZIP archive of a Windows Help file).

The Windows NT FAQ, authored by Adam Hamilton, is currently only available

in ASCII format.

All updates to the Windows FAQ and Windows Programmer FAQs are posted to the

following two newsgroups:

comp.binaries.ms-windows	WinHelp format

comp.os.ms-windows.announce	ASCII text format

The updates are usually 2-3 months apart, depending on the amount of new

information and the maintainer's workload.

You can also FTP the FAQs from the following sites:

    ftp.nimh.nih.gov	156.40.186.8	/pub/win3/FAQ

    wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4	/usenet/comp.binaries.ms-windows/faqs

    ftp.metrics.com	198.133.164.1	/faq

The FAQs will have filenames in the format of FAQWINxx.ZIP (Windows),

FAQPRGxx.zip (Windows Programmer), and FAQWNTxx.zip where xx is the version

number.  Please do not abuse these sites; limit your FTP activity to time

outside business hours (8 PM EST through 9 AM EST, or 0100 GMT through 1400

GMT).

If you wish to retrieve the FAQs using Gopher, you can locate them at

gopher.nimh.nih.gov.

If the news postings have expired on your site, and you have no FTP access,

you can obtain it using the decwrl ftp mail server.  For instructions, send

a mail message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with a body containing simply:

       help

You will receive a full set of instructions by return mail.

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Archive-name: ms-windows/newsgrp.guide

Last-modified: 1994-05-29

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains the purpose

of the usenet newsgroups for Microsoft Windows.  Please follow these

guidelines when posting your articles, and make life easier for all of

us.

These are the current Windows newsgroups:

GENERAL:

    comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   Comparisons and arguments about Windows &

  Windows NT vs. other operating systems

    comp.os.ms-windows.announce   MODERATED.  Announcements and news about

  Windows applications, drivers, events etc.

    comp.os.ms-windows.setup      Questions and problems with setting up

  and configuring Windows.

    comp.os.ms-windows.video      Video display cards, drivers and monitors

  for use with Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.misc       All other Windows discussions except

  advocacy with other operating systems.

APPLICATIONS:

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm       Communications and fax applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial  Financial applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities  Utilities, desktops and accessories

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc  Word processing and desktop publishing

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc       Miscellaneous Windows & NT applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps            [Superceded by apps.misc]

NETWORKING:

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip  TCP/IP-based networking for

  Windows, includign NFS and apps

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows Windows' native networking: WFWG,

  NT, NTAS and LAN Manager

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc    All other networks, such as Netware,

  Banyan Vines and LANtastic

WINDOWS NT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup   Setting up and configuring Windows NT and

  Windows NT Advanced Server

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc    All other Windows NT-specific discussions

  except programming and advocacy

PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls   Using controls, custom controls,

     VBXs, OCXs and dialogs

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.drivers    Driver and  VxD development for

     Windows 3.1, NT and Chicago

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics   Graphics and GDI programming in

     Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory     Memory and process management,

     threads and IPC in Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia Development of multimedia and

     video applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks   Network-specific application

     development for Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole        Creating OLE, COM and DDE-based

     applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools      Windows development tools, class

     libraries and compilers

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32      Developing for the Win32 API

     (including NT and Win32s)

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp    Developing WinHelp and Multimedia

     Viewer files and applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc       All other Windows programming and

     development discussions

OTHER RELATED GROUPS:

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  Windows and MS-DOS

    comp.apps.spreadsheets        Spreadsheets and related applications,

  including Excel, Quattro and 1-2-3.

    comp.os.msdos.mail-news       Administering mail and news software

  on Windows and MS-DOS.

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    Please try to post to the appropriate newsgroup, and try to avoid

    crossposting whenever possible. This makes it easier for everyone

    to find the information they are looking for without wading through

    irrelevant articles.

    Second, please do not get involved in arguments about Windows vs.

    OS/2 vs. Macintosh vs. NeXTSTEP *except* in the .advocacy group.

    Don't post any comparison or argument, and if someone else posts one

    -- don't post a followup! Ignore this flamebait, and help increase

    the signal-to-noise ratio of the newsgroups.

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    To subscribe to a Usenet newsgroup, you can use the "gnewsgroupname"

    command at the newsgroup level in rn, trn and strn.  To unsubscribe,

    hit "u" while in that newsgroup, if you are using rn, trn or strn.

    To subscribe to a LISTSERV mailing list, send a mail message to the

    LISTSERV at the mailing list address (ie LISTSERV@uicvm.bitnet for the

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    The Windows FAQs are available by anonymous ftp from ftp.metrics.com and

    other sites; see the companion posting "How to get ..." posted simulta-

    neously with this one for further details.

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    Microsoft also maintains an ftp site (ftp.microsoft.com) with drivers,

    patches and utilities on it for all of Microsoft's operating systems,

    including Windows, Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT.

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    If you have questions about these guidelines, you can email to Tom

    Haapanen (maintainer of the FAQ, tomh@metrics.com) or Sean Graham

    (moderator of the .announce group, sgraham@shiloh.nimh.nih.gov).

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Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

> I would like to try the evaluation copy of Help Writer's

> Assistant (HWAB40_1.ZIP and HWAB40_2.ZIP) said to be on

> ftp.cica.indiana.edu, but since I can never get on CICA, do

> the files reside elsewhere? Or could a kindly Pegasus Mail

> user attach and email them to me?

>

This may not be compleatly list-related but I thought the following

info would be of interest to all.  The ftp sites below are "mirrors"

of cica and are usually far more accessible -- in particular, try

overseas sites during business hours.   Enjoy...

grind.isca.uiowa.edu

gatekeeper.dec.com

ftp.cdrom.com

ftp.marcam.com

monu6.cc.monash.edu.au

nic.funet.fi

ftp.uni-paderborn.de

ftp.uni-stuttgart.de

ftp.uni-koeln.de

ftp.uni-regnesburg.de

ftp.iij.adjp

src.doc.ic.ac.uk

nic.switch.ch

ftp.technion.ac.il

ftp.nectec.or.th

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Director

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MIAMI UNIVERSITY, Oxford OH 45056        513-529-2811

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In article <Cqr7JK.1Br@metrics.com> Dennis Turner <TABITHA%HUJIVMS.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> writes:

>Perhaps you can help me,

>

>The author of Helpwriter's Assistant for Windows has a new

>version.  He wishes to post an announcement to this list, but

>he is not a subscriber.

>

>Is he allowed to post his announcement nevertheless?  Who or where

>does he send it to, if so.

>

>If not, may I forward the announcement for him?

>

>Thanks.

>

>-dennis turner

The correct place for announcements is, oddly enough,

comp.os.ms-windows.announce

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macros in [config] section

In article <2tg2tg$2eh@bach.seattleu.edu>,

Kevin Burrows <kburrows@bach.seattleu.edu> wrote:

>

>I would like to place the following macro in the [CONFIG] section

>of my project file:

>

>   CBB( "btn_search", "SaveMark(`Test');Search()" )

>

>Observe the presence of the semicolon! The help compiler considers text

>following a semicolon to be a comment.  Therefore it disregards my second

>macro command.

>

I had this problem too.  In the end I found a solution buried deep

inside the Microsoft WinSDK Knowledge Base:

It's simple, actually: use a colon.

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WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

>Does RoboHelp 2.6 correct and/or workaround WinWord 6's problems?

>Does the WinWord 6.0a "upgrade" improve its performance vis-a-vis

>RoboHelp?

>Would it be more prudent to stick with WinWord 2 for now?

We're using Word for Windows 6.1 and RoboHELP 2.61.

We're very happy with both, although some of RoboHELP's features

are broken under Word 6. Overall, Word 6 is *soooo* much superior

to Word 2, that I'd recommend switching.

The main reason we switched is that there were somethings that we just

could *not* do with Word 2. For example, in Word 2, write a macro to open

doc1.doc (which contains a line with "aaa" in it). Now, search for "aaa", \

open doc2.doc (which is identical to doc1.doc), search for "aaa",

switch back to doc1.doc, and now search for "aaa".

Word 2 will *NOT* find "aaa" in doc1.doc, even though it found it before.

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How to make *.HLP more easy?

I try to find if any tools that can make *.HLP more easy?

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> >Does RoboHelp 2.6 correct and/or workaround WinWord 6's problems?

> >Does the WinWord 6.0a "upgrade" improve its performance vis-a-vis

> >RoboHelp?

> We're using Word for Windows 6.1 and RoboHELP 2.61.

> We're very happy with both, although some of RoboHELP's features

> are broken under Word 6. Overall, Word 6 is *soooo* much superior

> to Word 2, that I'd recommend switching.

>

> The main reason we switched is that there were somethings that we

just

> could *not* do with Word 2.

true, word 6 is superior to word 2, especially when writing manuals

(becasue of the new file linking functinality). but global searching

and replacing is screwed in robohelp (one moment, word's replace

format is 'hidden text', the next moment it's not); also, at certain

points in time, the 'Typing Repalces Selection' in Tools-Option is

deselected for no apparent reason other than to piss me off. but,

workarounds exist (such as creating a macro for that latter bug). and

as for word 6.0a, that just supposedly fixes problems relating to the

OLE functionality and doesn't seem to affect robohelp positively or

negatively.

ps-does word 6.1 exist, or was that just a typo?

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HC31 has OutOfMemory ...

Perhaps this problem has been addressed already, but as a newcomer in

authoring helpfiles...

I encountered the following message:

"Error 5059: Not enough memory to build help file"

Even when run from DOS commandline and no TSR's installed. The RTF file

is only about 85K, but includes about 70 bitmap (each not too large). Can

anyone give me a clue? How do guys like Borland create helpfiles of over

4 Mb? I seem to come into trouble even at a 85K RTF...

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Hans

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HC31 has OutOfMemory ...

hdebue@inter.NL.net (Hans de Bue) wrote:

>Perhaps this problem has been addressed already, but as a newcomer in

>authoring helpfiles...

>

>I encountered the following message:

>"Error 5059: Not enough memory to build help file"

>

>Even when run from DOS commandline and no TSR's installed. The RTF file

>is only about 85K, but includes about 70 bitmap (each not too large). Can

>anyone give me a clue? How do guys like Borland create helpfiles of over

>4 Mb? I seem to come into trouble even at a 85K RTF...

>

>What am I doing wrong?

>

  Most likely, you're including a bitmap in the help file that is larger

than 32k. If you've embedded the bitmap, you are limited to 32k. If you're

doing that, remove the embedded window and include the bitmap by

reference. Just insert the following into your WORD file:

bmc is centered. bml is left, bmr is right.

  Each paragraph in a WinHelp file is limited to 32k. If you embed a

graphic, it becomes part of the paragraph data and must adhere to the 32k

limit. If you include the bitmap by reference, you can use much larger

bitmaps.

  Pete Davis

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.hlp -> .rtf conversion

Does anyone know of a converter or decompiler to convert .hlp files back to

.rtf or .doc?

David Chung

chungr@uni.edu

72032,325@compuserve.com

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help with ftp.microsoft.com

Does somebody know how to unpack files from ftp.microsoft.com

I can't realize how to that

thank you Stan

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Help files in Chicago

Gregory J. Peto (gpeto@MUDSHARK.SUNQUEST.COM) wrote:

: >When I took a look a Chicago I noticed that almost all of the help files

: >were compiled with MVC.EXE, the Multimedia Viewer Compiler.

: It has been rumored that Viewer will be 'the' help engine of Chicago (several

: people on the net have reported heard comments to that affect). It may be

:  official

: now, but I have seen no official statement to that affect.

Is MVC.EXE  used in Windows 3.1? Or is this a new program for Chicago?

Martin Bechard

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In article <2tiesr$q28@Tandem.CAM.ORG>, Martin Bechard <martinb@CAM.ORG> wrote:

>Gregory J. Peto (gpeto@MUDSHARK.SUNQUEST.COM) wrote:

>: >When I took a look a Chicago I noticed that almost all of the help files

>: >were compiled with MVC.EXE, the Multimedia Viewer Compiler.

>

>Is MVC.EXE  used in Windows 3.1? Or is this a new program for Chicago?

>

MVC.EXE is a character mode program (dual DOS-OS/2), just like

HC.EXE.  There's also a protected mode version, MVCP.EXE (cf.

HCP.EXE).  I don't think there's any real difference between

MVC and HC, apart from the file extensions they use by

default (.HPJ .HLP vs. .MVP .MVB) and some other minor points.

Viewer 2.0 uses a Windows-based compiler (finally!), called

WMVC.EXE.  I would hope Chicago will use that one (ported to

WIN32, of course).

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"Console"-type window for Windows App?

In article <CarlVern.186.2DECD828@psy.aau.dk> CarlVern@psy.aau.dk (Carl Verner Skou) writes:

>In article <2sifkd$fe3@network.ucsd.edu> bruss@cs.ucsd.edu (Brian Russ) writes:

>>so forth.  We're using Visual C++ and the debugger often gets lost --

>>so, we'd like to revert to the old tried-and-true method of printf()

>>style debugging messages.  The original author claimed that there

>>really isn't any way to redirect standard output to another window --

>The most easy thing with VC++ is to use the macro TRACE( "What?%#&!!!\n"),

>compile with debug on. Use DBWIN.EXE ( Debugwin ) and TRACE.EXE ( MFC Trace

>Options ) and redirect the output and all traced ( TRACE, ASSERT, VERIFY )

>messaged are displayed in DBWIN. Remember to set output to window in DBWIN.EXE

>and enable trace in TRACE.EXE.

This assumes that you are using MFC and not programming the SDK directly

though.

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Peter Drayton (peter@aztec.co.za) wrote:

: > i posted an article earlier about printing .hlp files from within the

: > winhelp engine. however, as i read some follow-ups to the original

: Could you _please_ re-post? ;-)

: Thanks!

: Peter

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I missed this thread...I'd like to see it again...

What I'm doing seems to work:

1) I run a program called hlp2doc.

2) I important the doc file into word

3) I print from word (actually, I'm making a file...)

I'm using lptx and lpt1.dos...

It seems you can't print to a file (well, you can make an encapsluated file, but

you don't run through a driver to a file...

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Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

This may not be compleatly list-related but I thought the following

info would be of interest to all.  The ftp sites below are "mirrors"

of cica and are usually far more accessible -- in particular, try

overseas sites during business hours.   Enjoy...

Vicky Evans

Director

Procter & Gamble Communication and Information Center

MIAMI UNIVERSITY, Oxford OH 45056        513-529-2811

vevans@sba-laws.sba.muohio.edu

What a  bizarre post, Vicky.  Something practical and to the point.

Strange, strange...

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Recommendation on tutorial tools

Greetings!

For the next release of the product I am currently supported, the

publications team would like to add a an online tutorial  we are not familiar

with the tools that we could use to create the tutorial.  what I am requesting

here your suggestions for these tutorials.  But wait do you want to know more

about the tutorials?  OK here goes.  They are for a software application running

in Windows 3.1.  the product is very complicated with many features .  We would

like for the tutorial at least simulate interaction with the product

(even if we are just faking it) and contain lots of graphics.  This is not a

training tool, it is a customer run tutorial highlight, explaining, or

demonstrating the product capabilities

O.K., so now what tools have you used to develop online Windows-based

tutorials and can you recommend them to me?

Thanks

Teresa Urutia

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In article <2t8392$csp@news.acns.nwu.edu> chou@n5145.notis.com writes:

>

>can anyone get into ftp.cica.indiana.edu? i've tried anonymously

>ftping and also trying to access via gopher, but it's not working. i

>would really like to look at HWAB40_1.zip and _2.zip help authoriing

>stuff.

Good luck. I tried for about 20 minutes today, and my Internet server

finally  got a disconnect from them. They only have 25 incoming lines, and

until they disonnected, they were listing the 25 connections - ony 7 or 8

were coming from within the US, the remainder from China, Israel, South

America, Russia, Denmark, Finland, Lebanon and a few other countries I have

forgotten. I was trying at 7:00 am PST, which I believe is 9 am for Indiana,

which I imagine is prime time. If someone there is reading this, maybe you

could find out and tell us the least busy times, and if there are any plans

to expand the service...

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In article <1994Jun8.033110.10439@cognos.com> nigelc@cognos.com (Nigel Campbell) writes:

>I'm looking for any recommended papers/books on how to think about

>creating help libraries for applications. The specific audience

>would be for a person who has tradtionally built terminal apps.

I always recommend "Developing Online Help for Windows" published by Sams.

The book is pretty much a standard reference for this kind of work, and

while it may not have precise advice about libraries, it will give you

plenty to think about!

>

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Cue cards

Peter--

Could you complete your answer by giving us some info as to what tools,

etc. we could obtain so that we may create Cue Cards (including cost of

said kits)?

TIA

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Capturing/editing screen shots

I like to include bitmaps of menus, client windows, etc in my help

files.  Using this with the hot spot editor is especially cool.

Currently I have to go through the following sequence:

1. Press Alt-PrintScrn to copy a window into the clipboard.

2. Alt-Tab over to Paintbrush.

3. Paste the clipboard into Paintbrush.

4. Choose "show pen position" from the View menu and obtain the coordinates

(in pixels) of the lower-right corners of the paste-in.

5. Change image-attributes to the dimensions of the .bmp to the size of

the paste, obtained from (4).

6. Paste the image again, this time leaving a bitmap with the size of the

image we pasted.

7. Save the .bmp file.

8. Reset the image attributes to "Default"

Is there a way to avoid having to change the image attributes so that

when I paste the clipboard contents, I automatically get a .bmp image the

size of the paste?

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How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

How does one determine the value of the second argument when calling JumpId

to jump into a standard help file (e.g. WINHELP.HLP).  When I used the standard

IDH_CONTENTS, it jumped to the right place, that is the Contents section, but

complained "Help topic does not exist.".  I assume that is because when it

doesn't know to where in the file to jump, it jumps to the beginning.

IDH_CONTENTS, it jumped to the right place, that is the Contents section, but

complained "Help topic does not exist.".  I assume that is because when it

doesn't know to where in the file to jump, it jumps to the beginning.

TIA,

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.hlp -> .rtf conversion

chungr@cobra.uni.edu wrote:

>Does anyone know of a converter or decompiler to convert .hlp files back to

>.rtf or .doc?

>

>David Chung

David, it's in the FAQ. Multi-Doc will convert .HLP files back to the

source .RTF. It's a commercial package.

You could also look at HLP2DOC. I'm not sure if it's freeware or

shareware, but the latest version I have is 1.22, which says it's a beta

version. It's not complete, but it does a pretty good job if you don't

need a 100% reversal. It doesn't do bitmaps and does have some bugs, but

definately worth the price. Once the bugs are out, I'd be willing to put

some money down for a registered version if he does it as shareware.

  Pete Davis

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In article <cbmillerCrDGKw.8DF@netcom.com>,

Charles Miller <cbmiller@netcom.com> wrote:

>I like to include bitmaps of menus, client windows, etc in my help

>files.  Using this with the hot spot editor is especially cool.

>Currently I have to go through the following sequence:

>

>1. Press Alt-PrintScrn to copy a window into the clipboard.

>2. Alt-Tab over to Paintbrush.

>3. Paste the clipboard into Paintbrush.

>4. Choose "show pen position" from the View menu and obtain the coordinates

>(in pixels) of the lower-right corners of the paste-in.

>5. Change image-attributes to the dimensions of the .bmp to the size of

>the paste, obtained from (4).

>6. Paste the image again, this time leaving a bitmap with the size of the

>image we pasted.

>7. Save the .bmp file.

>8. Reset the image attributes to "Default"

>

>Is there a way to avoid having to change the image attributes so that

>when I paste the clipboard contents, I automatically get a .bmp image the

>size of the paste?

There isn't with Paintbrush.  I seem to recall that "Bitedit",

another MS tool included with the MDK/Viewer toolkit, and with the

Video for Windows SDK (?) doesn't have this problem.  I've erased

it from my hard disk, so I can't check now.

But there are many non-MS picture editors and screen-capture tools

around, shareware or PD.

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Re:This Newsgroup

In article <769958439snz@discreet.demon.co.uk>

           msmith@discreet.demon.co.uk "Mark Smith" writes:

> BWAHAHAHAHAHA!  Ask the people in comp.windows.news, which has nothing

> to do with Microsoft Windows whatsoever, posts a *weekly* FAQ, and still

> gets regular floods of irrelevant articles.  During the last inevitable

> flame war, one guy was claiming that if at least one other equally confused

> person replied to your off-topic articles, you must be in the right place

> regardless of what anyone else thought.  If there's such a thing as digital

> karma, this is it.

>

The same is true of comp.lang.visual (visual programming languages) and

comp.windows.misc (misc. windowing systems not dealt with elsewhere and

things like XVT that work with more than one GUI). This sort of thing has

all but killed comp.lang.visual - the 'if we want to use it for this, we

will' argument is a very popular one.

John Styles

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How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

In article <2tjhdq$t27@delphinium.cig.mot.com>,

Amir Raveh <amirr@milcse.rtsg.mot.com> wrote:

>How does one determine the value of the second argument when calling JumpId

>to jump into a standard help file (e.g. WINHELP.HLP). When I used the standard

>IDH_CONTENTS, it jumped to the right place, that is the Contents section, but

>complained "Help topic does not exist.".  I assume that is because when it

>doesn't know to where in the file to jump, it jumps to the beginning.

>IDH_CONTENTS, it jumped to the right place, that is the Contents section, but

>complained "Help topic does not exist.".  I assume that is because when it

>doesn't know to where in the file to jump, it jumps to the beginning.

>

Yes, if a topic id is not found, WinHelp jumps to the Contents topic,

displaying this error.  The recommended way to jump to the contents

topic is JumpContents(), of course.  WINHELP.HLP is not using IDH_CONTENTS

for its contents topic.

If you have a foreign help file, using JumpId or JumpContext is difficult.

Using a program like HELPDUMP, you see that the MAP-id points you to

a topic offset, and the context-strings are stored as hash-values.

Neither of these is very helpful (except you can use the undocumented

JumpHash() macro to jump to a hash-value).  The only easy and reliable

way to call topics in a help file you have not written is by using

JumpKeyword.  Unfortunately, there are many brain-damaged, keywordless

help files around...

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Recommendation on tutorial tools

In article <CrDx7K.8uE@metrics.com>,

Teresa Urutia  <Teresa_Urutia@CCM.JF.INTEL.COM> wrote:

>Greetings!

>

>For the next release of the product I am currently supported, the

>publications team would like to add a an online tutorial  we are not familiar

>with the tools that we could use to create the tutorial.  what I am requesting

>here your suggestions for these tutorials.  But wait do you want to know more

>about the tutorials?  OK here goes.  They are for a software application running

>in Windows 3.1.  the product is very complicated with many features .  We would

>like for the tutorial at least simulate interaction with the product

>(even if we are just faking it) and contain lots of graphics.  This is not a

>training tool, it is a customer run tutorial highlight, explaining, or

>demonstrating the product capabilities

>

>O.K., so now what tools have you used to develop online Windows-based

>tutorials and can you recommend them to me?

>

Hello,

if you have the MS Developers Library CD-ROM, there's an article

on creating CBT (Computer-Based Training) applications by Nancy

Winnick Cluts.  It's a very basic instroduction (to make something

that's commercially viable you'll need to put in a lot more work),

and it is Windows NT based, but it's a start.

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Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

The two best tools on the market, as far as I am concerned are Authorware

Professional and Icon Author. Both are object oriented applications which are

easy to use and relatively easy to learn. I am a tech writer, and have no

trouble using either of them, however our company uses Authorware. If you

need any more information about these, please let me know.

David Dubin@notes.pw.com@Internet

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mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

...

>Yes, if a topic id is not found, WinHelp jumps to the Contents topic,

>displaying this error.  The recommended way to jump to the contents

To be precise, if I'm not mistaken, WinHelp simply displays its

window, showing whatever topic was last displayed, when it can't find

the requested context--along with the alert, of course. If there

hasn't been a previous call, it displays the Contents topic; but if

there has, it shows the most recent topic.

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In article <CrE2pw.E19@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>If you have a foreign help file, using JumpId or JumpContext is difficult.

>Using a program like HELPDUMP, you see that the MAP-id points you to

>a topic offset, and the context-strings are stored as hash-values.

>Neither of these is very helpful (except you can use the undocumented

>JumpHash() macro to jump to a hash-value).  The only easy and reliable

>way to call topics in a help file you have not written is by using

>JumpKeyword.  Unfortunately, there are many brain-damaged, keywordless

>help files around...

It's not hard to construct a string which hashes to a given hash value; the

hash algorithm is pretty simple. You map the digits '1','2',...,'0' to the

values 1 to 10, the letters to 17 to 42, and the legal symbols like '_'

to values I forget in between.  Then treat the whole string as a giant base

43 number, and the hash value will be this number mod 2^32. To undo it, just

try to write the hash value in base 43, possibly adding multiples

of 2^32 if it doesn't correspond entirely to legal symbols (e.g. there's no

letter with base 43 representation as a 0).

But if there's a JumpHash() macro around, you might as well use that.

Duncan Murdoch

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Help metrics

Hello,

I am interested in measuring usage of help topics in an attempt to

discover which topics are most frequently used.  Is there a tool available

that we can tie to WinHelp that can increment counters based on topic usage or

possibly write out and append to a file containing the help history

information?

Any leads would be appreciated!!

Tom Maynard    EMail: maynard@marcam.com

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WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

In article <2ti7cj$f1j@news.acns.nwu.edu> chou@n5145.notis.com writes:

>

>true, word 6 is superior to word 2, especially when writing manuals

>(becasue of the new file linking functinality). but global searching

>and replacing is screwed in robohelp (one moment, word's replace

>format is 'hidden text', the next moment it's not); also, at certain

Yes, I really have to pay attention when I'm doing a global search

because I haven't figured out when and why it decides to change the

format.  I don't know if this is a RoboHelp problem or a Word6 problem

because I don't use Word6 unless I'm using RoboHelp.

>points in time, the 'Typing Repalces Selection' in Tools-Option is

>deselected for no apparent reason other than to piss me off. but,

>workarounds exist (such as creating a macro for that latter bug). and

Oh, I am so glad I am not the only one having this problem.

I thought maybe I was doing it inadvertently.  Very irritating.

Here's another one I run into once in a while.  It will suddenly start

typing over text instead of inserting text. (This one really makes me

mad!)  Has anyone else run into this?  Or is this one my fault?

>ps-does word 6.1 exist, or was that just a typo?

I lost who originally started this thread but, ditto to that question?

I was wondering this myself.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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In article <dmurdoch.1081.771607491@mast.queensu.ca>,

Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca> wrote:

>

>It's not hard to construct a string which hashes to a given hash value; the

>hash algorithm is pretty simple. You map the digits '1','2',...,'0' to the

>values 1 to 10, the letters to 17 to 42, and the legal symbols like '_'

>to values I forget in between.  Then treat the whole string as a giant base

>43 number, and the hash value will be this number mod 2^32. To undo it, just

>try to write the hash value in base 43, possibly adding multiples

>of 2^32 if it doesn't correspond entirely to legal symbols (e.g. there's no

>letter with base 43 representation as a 0).

>

Might as well give my algorithm for converting a string to a WinHelp

hash value:

unsigned long help_hash(char *s)

{

        unsigned i, c;

        unsigned long res=0L;

        for(i=0; s[i]; i++) {

        // shift 43 places:

        // 0..9         : 0..9

        // 10,11        : ??

        // 12,13        : . _

        // 14,15,16     : ???

        // 17..42       : A..Z

                res=43*res;

                if(s[i]=='_') c=13;

                else if(s[i]=='.') c=12;

                else if(isalnum(s[i])) c=toupper(s[i])-0x30;

                else {

                // not a valid context-string!!

                        return(0L);

                }

                res+=c;

        }

return res;

}

hmmm... I give '0' the value 0.  I must have tested that, I hope.

I guess you could synthesize a string for a given hash-value,

but my point was that such a thing wouldn't be intuitive.

You can't assume that "QUITTING_WINDOWS" is the context-string

for the topic in PROGMAN.HLP that carries that title, and a dump

of the hash-values won't tell you a lot either.  You'll have to loop

through them until you find the one you want, then hard-code that

in your WinHelp() call.

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MSVC 1.5: WinHelp Question

How can I provide field level help in a dialog box? That is,

if the user presses F1 key when he/she is in particular control;

help for the control should be displayed.

Any idea please?

Is it possible to find out active control ID in a dialog box

when the user presses F1 key?

Please help. Thanks in advance

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In <CrDtGI.1t9@tc.fluke.COM> inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes:

>Good luck. I tried for about 20 minutes today, and my Internet server

>finally  got a disconnect from them. They only have 25 incoming lines, and

>until they disonnected, they were listing the 25 connections - ony 7 or 8

>were coming from within the US, the remainder from China, Israel, South

>America, Russia, Denmark, Finland, Lebanon and a few other countries I have

>forgotten. I was trying at 7:00 am PST, which I believe is 9 am for Indiana,

>which I imagine is prime time. If someone there is reading this, maybe you

>could find out and tell us the least busy times, and if there are any plans

>to expand the service...

That's the mirrors list.  You can try one of them to get the files you need.

Chris

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pLeasE hELpmE

Kindly email me if you have WHAT6.EXE

I am missing some of its files and wish to request you to mail them to me in

uuencoded format.

For some or other reason I can't locate what6 on the net and nObOdy is

replying to my pleas for pointers to mentioned file.

Kind regards

Arnold

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MSVC 1.5: WinHelp Question

In article <CrEE8o.AxD@btcase.bt.co.uk>,  <K. Muthu Kumar> wrote:

>How can I provide field level help in a dialog box? That is,

>if the user presses F1 key when he/she is in particular control;

>help for the control should be displayed.

>Is it possible to find out active control ID in a dialog box

>when the user presses F1 key?

>

GetFocus() gives you the window handle of the active control.

If you want the ID, there's GetWindowWord(hwnd, GWW_ID).

I'm sorry, I don't speak MFC.

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Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

Am trying to use CloseWindow() macro to close a secondary window

(I have it attached to a bitmap hotspot) but get an "undefined variable"

warning from HC31.  Any suggestions?  Exact syntax I've used is:

       !CloseWindow("terms")

where "terms" is the name of my secondary window.  This is hidden

text following a bitmap included by reference (picture of a "close"

button w/ double-underlining for the hotspot).

What have I missed?  My deadline was yesterday... HELP!!

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How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

In article <CrEE6p.I4K@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>Might as well give my algorithm for converting a string to a WinHelp

>hash value:

 ...

>hmmm... I give '0' the value 0.  I must have tested that, I hope.

I'm pretty sure I've got the '0' code right; I'll check again though.

I think your point about this not really being much use is well taken. But

just for completeness, here are my routines for forward and backward hashing:

function Hash(const s:string):longint;

var

  result : longint;

  i,code : integer;

  c : char;

begin

  result := 0;

  for i:=1 to length(s) do

  begin

    c := upcase(s[i]);

    case c of

     'A' .. 'Z' : code := ord(c) - ord('A') + 17;

     '1' .. '9' : code := ord(c) - ord('0');

     '0' : code := 10;

     '!' : code := 11;

     '.' : code := 12;

     '_' : code := 13;

     else

       code := 0;      { Not really right, but I don't know the default }

    end;

    result := 43*result + code

  end;

  Hash := result;

end;

procedure UnsignedDivMod(u:longint;base:integer;var rem:integer;var quotient:longint);

{ Does an unsigned divide of u by base, storing the remainder in rem

  and the quotient in quotient. }

begin

  if test8086 < 2 then        { This is done in 386 assembler, because

                                I'm too lazy to work out how to do it in Pascal }

    runerror(255);

  asm

    db $66

    mov ax,word ptr u

    db $66

    xor dx,dx

    db $66

    xor bx,bx

    mov bx,base

    db $66

    div bx

    les di,quotient

    db $66

    mov es:[di],ax

    les di,rem

    mov es:[di],dx

  end;

end;

function UnHash(value : longint):string;

var

  result : string;

  rem : integer;

  c : char;

const

  biglongdiv43 = 99882960;  { 2^32 div 43 }

  biglongmod43 = 16;        { 2^32 mod 43 }

begin

  result := '';

  while (value <> 0) do

  begin

    UnsignedDivMod(value,43,rem,value);

    while rem in [0,14..16] do

    begin

      { Simulate adding 2^32 to value, and redoing the UnsignedDivMod }

      value := value + biglongdiv43 + (rem + biglongmod43) div 43;

      rem := (rem + biglongmod43) mod 43;

    end;

    case rem of

     1..9 : c := chr(rem + ord('0'));

    10 :    c := '0';

    11 :    c := '!';

    12 :    c := '.';

    13 :    c := '_';

    17..42: c := chr(rem-17 + ord('a'));

    else

        runerror(255);  { This shouldn't be possible }

    end;

    inc(result[0]);

    result[length(result)] := c;

  end;

  { We built the string in the wrong order; reverse it now }

  ReverseBytes(result[1],length(result));

  unhash := result;

end;

Duncan Murdoch

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Context Sensitive

Hi There,

I've been working on developing apps for this company for a while, and we

had to throw together :-< context sensitive help, Fairly quickly.  Having

done the MS Work route, I went out and got ForeHelp and WYSI-Help.  Both

are great timesavers.

BUT (there's always a butt in there) neither one handles context sensitive

help acceptably.

WYSI-Help is kind of neat in that it can act as a wrap-around exe that

spawns your exe and traps the calls to winhelp and can grab the window ID

from the indicated control.  Neat if you are a help desk and want to write

help for someone else's products.  But, as a developer, the thought of

introducing another potential level of complexity (and potential bugs)

scares me.

Fore-Help seems to handle it but the co-worker who checked it out couldn't

find an easy way to pull in the resource ID's and get them to match to the

Help ID's.

So I created my own alias file and was able to produce it fairly easily.

But, (its back :) ) its not really ideal to have to go through so many

processes for something that is fairly straightforward (or should be).

Are we just not seeing it correctly, or is this truly a problem with these

products (or this one, I know WYSI-help doesn't handle it)

What do you guys do when it comes to context sensitive help.  Basically, I

want to be able to maintain the help file(s) like I would my source code.

Thanx in advance,

Randy Carver.

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WINHLP-L Digest - 13 Jun 1994 to 14 Jun 1994 -Reply

I am on vacation. I'll be back on Monday, June 20th.

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Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

Has anyone had experience using Lotus' Screencam. I have heard good

things about it but do not know its limitations or strengths.

John

jhall@ccit.arizona.edu

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Digest problem?

Hi,

Is there a problem with DIGEST mode for this list? I seem to

be getting posts individually. Do I need to resubmit a request for

DIGEST mode?

Ruth-Ellen Flanagan

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WINHLP-L Digest - 13 Jun 1994 to 14 Jun 1994 -Reply

On Wed, 15 Jun 1994 00:15:56 -0600 Bruce Michelsen said:

>I am on vacation. I'll be back on Monday, June 20th.

NOOAAAW!!!

Oh, man, I just had one of those over at win3-l.  PLEASE, SOMEBODY, kill his

account before it's too late!

Yossi.

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| = | Yossi Oren, Al-Daf Technological Mercenaries.             | v | ^ |

+---+------------------------------------------------++---------+---+--+|

|LIOREN1@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il (or just @weizmann) || GUS - hearing  ||

|Doom's JUST A GAME, OK?  Now give me back that gun. || is believing.  ||

[The People are with the Golan Heights!]=============++================++

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Lotus Screencam

Has anyone had experience using Lotus' Screencam. I have heard good

things about it but do not know its limitations or strengths.

** The Lotus rep here in Israel tells me that Screencam can't react

   to any input from the user other than commands to start and stop.

   Essentially it's non-interactive.  Also it's not available (at

   least over here) in a version past beta.

_________________________________________________________________________

 Mark L. Levinson           | E-mail:   mark@sd.co.il

 Summit EDA Technologies    | Voice:    +972-9-507102, ext. 230 (work),

 Box 544                    |           +972-9-552411 (home)

 46105 Herzlia, ISRAEL      | Fax:      +972-9-509118

_________________________________________________________________________

    "You can't judge right by looking at the wrong."  -- Willie Dixon

_________________________________________________________________________

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Concurrent Authoring System

Hello

Can anyone shed some light about concurrent authoring

systems and their uses in online help?

Concurrent authoring systems are supposed to watch the

users' keyboard actions. Help is provided with such system

by comparing users' actions with some template. Comtrain's

Smart Help for Lotus 123 is a good example of it I have

seen. This type of system makes online help embedded and

system initiated.

I wish someone could please share experience and knowledge

about such type of help system.

Ashok

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Open Sesame!

What are the magic words to ftp microsoft.com?

It rejected all the usual login and passwords I tried.

Is there a navigation utility available online for it?

Thanks,

dennisc@world.std.com

--

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Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

> Am trying to use CloseWindow() macro to close a secondary window

> (I have it attached to a bitmap hotspot) but get an "undefined

variable"

> warning from HC31.  Any suggestions?  Exact syntax I've used is:

>        !CloseWindow("terms")

> where "terms" is the name of my secondary window.  This is hidden

> text following a bitmap included by reference (picture of a "close"

> button w/ double-underlining for the hotspot).

> What have I missed?  My deadline was yesterday... HELP!!

i do the same thing with a hotspot bitmap and i don't have any

troubles. the only thing i can think of is that is your secondary

window really called 'terms' or 'term' (not trying to imply that you

haven't looked at this already), or is referenced bitmap incorrectly

referenced? (if you're using a help authoring product that uses Word

2/6, the reference should look like this: . if you're

writing directly to an .rtf file, there are back-slashes before or

after the brackets--i forget which)

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associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

The help file for the WindowsNT command reference guide comes up in a

"double" window.  One window contains the book's index; the other the

command ref guide itself.  The two windows are seemlessly joined.  Each

index entry is a hotspot to the appropriate command ref entry.  Very nice.

I would like to do the same with the indices and TOCs of other manuals I

will be putting on-line.  Does anyone know the procedure for incorporating

an index (.ind) file or TOC file with the main .hlp file so they appear as

one screen and can be used in a complimentary fashion.

Appreciate any suggestions.

thanks

Mike

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Lotus Screencam

I've used ScreenCam in small tutorial applications where user input was not

essential. I used the Screencam "movies" to "show" users how to apply the tasks

they learned about in a lesson.

It's is very simple to use;  the box contains a "getting started" sheet with

tips for capturing screen activity. The application has online help. It is very

simple to use. I found the tips to be useful.

The application provides a utility to turn the Screencam original movie format

(.SCM) into an .EXE file. You can also record voice when capturing screen

activity. Sound can be saved as a .WAV soundtrack file. (I haven't tried that

yet.)

The movies tend to be quite large. For example, one of the tasks I showed was

how to create and send a mail message. The activities consisted in clicking a

button to display the create message window, entering information in the To: and

subject fields, typing a four word sentence and clicking the send button. The

resulting .EXE file was about 600KB.

The first time a user starts a ScreenCam .EXE file, ScreenCam displays it

opening window AND the name and company name you entered during installation. I

find it annoying that personal information is part of the opening screen. If

anyone knows how to get rid of that, I'm interested to find out.

True, the application does not allow user interaction save for starting and

stopping. If "show"ing is sufficient for what you want to to, then it's a good

tool.

Lotus quoted me a price of US$79.00 - I bought it at Lechmere for $59.00.

Frangoise Hembert

Digital Equipment, Nashua, NH

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On Tue, 14 Jun 1994 12:00:05 EDT If I were a masochist, I would be having a lot

>Hi,

>

>Is there a problem with DIGEST mode for this list? I seem to

>be getting posts individually. Do I need to resubmit a request for

>DIGEST mode?

>

>Ruth-Ellen Flanagan

Another list member reported this problem to me. Recently, we reset a default

to allow news group users to post to Winhlp-L. It's possible that resetting

this default has affected those who receive the list as a digest, but I have

no reason to believe that this is so.

Those who wish to receive the list as a digest might take the precaution of

send ing another "set winhlp-L digests" command to

listserv@Admin.HumberC.On.Ca

if they are receiving individual posts.

I apologize for this inconvenience.

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Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

In article <JA3Ov19.lew721@delphi.com>,

varies  depending on mood  <lew721@delphi.com> wrote:

>Am trying to use CloseWindow() macro to close a secondary window

>(I have it attached to a bitmap hotspot) but get an "undefined variable"

>warning from HC31.  Any suggestions?  Exact syntax I've used is:

>       !CloseWindow("terms")

>where "terms" is the name of my secondary window.  This is hidden

>text following a bitmap included by reference (picture of a "close"

>button w/ double-underlining for the hotspot).

>What have I missed?  My deadline was yesterday... HELP!!

How is the 2ndary window defined in the HPJ file?  It should

be something  like:

terms="Terms",(.....) etc

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associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

In article <2tn0nl$h87@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>,

Mike Bellusci <bellusci@tnpubs.enet.dec.com> wrote:

>

>The help file for the WindowsNT command reference guide comes up in a

>"double" window.  One window contains the book's index; the other the

>command ref guide itself.  The two windows are seemlessly joined.  Each

>index entry is a hotspot to the appropriate command ref entry.  Very nice.

>

>I would like to do the same with the indices and TOCs of other manuals I

>will be putting on-line.  Does anyone know the procedure for incorporating

>an index (.ind) file or TOC file with the main .hlp file so they appear as

>one screen and can be used in a complimentary fashion.

>

I don't have NT installed, so I don't know exactly how it looks,

but I guess there are two ways to do this:

Using a secondary window that is placed exactly next to the main help

window.  Of course, if you start moving the windows, the effect is lost.

RoboHelp's Navigator demo does it like this.

The other way is to use Viewer 2.0.  In Viewer2 you can define "panes"

within your main window that can be separateley manipulated.

Which reminds me of a third way to do it: WinHelp of course already

has two "panes": the main area and the non-scrolling zone.  Not so

flexible (you can't put them side by side, or put empty space between

them), but it should work.

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pnaabg frcnengr gurz.

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>jvguva lbhe znva jvaqbj gung pna or frcnengryrl znavchyngrq.

Jung vf Ivrjre 2.0?  Vf vg sebz Zvpebfbsg be vf vg n frcnengr

cebqhpg?

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gb qb gur fnzr.  Ohg ubj?

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MAPI-VIM-API details / White paper

Can somebody point me to good articles/WhitePapers/references

on MAPIand VIM.

Thanks

nataraj/.

nataraj@netcom.com

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associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

No idea why that got scrambled like that!

>Using a secondary window that is placed exactly next to the main

help

>window.  Of course, if you start moving the windows, the effect

is lost.

In the NT Command Ref, the windows look as if they are one.  You

cannot separate them.

>The other way is to use Viewer 2.0.  In Viewer2 you can define

"panes"

>within your main window that can be separateley manipulated.

What is Viewer 2.0?  Is it from Microsoft or is it a separate

product?

What I want to do is ship a single help file that combines the TOC

or index as part of the main .hlp file.  Just as it is with the NT

command ref guide.  The NT command ref help directory show two

files:  the .ind file and the .hlp file.  When you bring up the

.hlp file, the .ind file is somehow "attached" to the main screen

and serves as a very nice hot-spotted index to the book.  I want

to do the same.  But how?

Any additional info appreciated.

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Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

I have gotten the trial version of Help Writer's Assistant for Windows up

and running, and what I can say so far is, COOL!!!

This is much nicer than using a template balancing on top of a word

processor, especially when the word processor is Word 6.  You get instant

WYSIWYG with full editing capabilities, a very handy directory tree that

shows you the connections between your topics (similar to the contents

window in the Microsoft Developer's CD), and a program that tracks your

topics' keywords so you don't have to.  I am ordering the full version.

One note: if you get the trial version off of FTP, you will need a copy

of the Windows Help Compiler (HCP.EXE and HCP.ERR) to actually compile

your help files.  (HWA/w acts as a front end for the compiler of your

choice.)  If you get the full version from Olson Software, the compiler is

included on your diskettes.

This is a VERY useful piece of software, and with good documentation, too!

Jon Acheson

thag@access.netaxs.com

"If you can pick up the manuals it's not properly documented..."

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smart quotes

In article <CqF6JH.B4D@tc.fluke.COM>,

Lilly-Anne Wilder <lil@tc.fluke.COM> wrote:

>I know the compiler doesn't recognize smart quotes.

>

>I've tried turning off the replace straight quotes with smart quotes

>under tools/options/autoformat.  It didn't seem to make any

>difference.

>

>Lilly-Anne Wilder

This is definitely an appropriate topic for this newsgroup.  The HCP (compiler)

software does not recognize WFW6's "Smart Quotes" or the character that Word

uses instead of your garden-variety ASCII 39 apostrophe.  This will result in

the same problem someone else mentioned of having __It's__ be compiled as

__Its__ because Winword defaults to replacing ASCII39 with ASCII146.

To answer Lilly-Anne's question:

These (annoying) auto-replacements of straight quotes can be disabled by going

to the Tools-AutoCorrect menu option.  In the dialog box, you will see an

option for "Change Straight Quotes to Smart Quotes".  Clearing the X in the box

for this option will make it so Winword does not replace the quotes and single

quotes marks with the curling "smart quotes".  This will insure that your

quotation characters will appear properly in your help file.

I have misplaced the post from the person who asked about the _It's_ compiling

as _Its_ issue.  If someone knows who asked that question, please forward this

article to him or her.

--Chris

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NEED HELP WITH SCREEN SAVERS

In article <2sg1qv$jba@crl3.crl.com> jwheeler@crl.com "John Wheeler" writes:

>Does anyone know of a good package designed for the creation of screen

>savers?  (Windows and or DOS) I need to be able to play animations

>(fli/flc) and or .avi files, play .wav files as well a scroll text, show

>bitmaps, and all of the usual stuff.  The wish list includes: Date and

>time stamps, Date and time triggers for new scenes, passwords and

>printing.

>

>Any information or pointers would be most helpful !!!  Thanks in

>advance....

John,

This is not a newsgroup for requesting "general help" with Windows

programming - it's specifically for discussing "WinHelp" - the Windows

Help engine. Try asking your question on the newsgroup

"comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia" and I'm sure that you'll get

lots of help.

Chris

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Have you looked at the screen capture program in Video for Windows?

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From: 381-1143  <hembert@BOOKIE.ENET.DEC.COM>

To: Multiple recipients of list WINHLP-L

<netmail!WINHLP-L%HUMBER.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>

Subject: Re: Lotus Screencam

Date: Wednesday, June 15, 1994 8:59AM

I've used ScreenCam in small tutorial applications where user input was not

essential. I used the Screencam "movies" to "show" users how to apply the tasks

they learned about in a lesson.

It's is very simple to use;  the box contains a "getting started" sheet with

tips for capturing screen activity. The application has online help. It is very

simple to use. I found the tips to be useful.

The application provides a utility to turn the Screencam original movie format

(.SCM) into an .EXE file. You can also record voice when capturing screen

activity. Sound can be saved as a .WAV soundtrack file. (I haven't tried that

yet.)

The movies tend to be quite large. For example, one of the tasks I showed was

how to create and send a mail message. The activities consisted in clicking a

button to display the create message window, entering information in

the To: and

subject fields, typing a four word sentence and clicking the send button. The

resulting .EXE file was about 600KB.

The first time a user starts a ScreenCam .EXE file, ScreenCam displays it

opening window AND the name and company name you entered during installation. I

find it annoying that personal information is part of the opening screen. If

anyone knows how to get rid of that, I'm interested to find out.

True, the application does not allow user interaction save for starting and

stopping. If "show"ing is sufficient for what you want to to, then it's a good

tool.

Lotus quoted me a price of US$79.00 - I bought it at Lechmere for $59.00.

Frangoise Hembert

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In article <2tnd44$3pb@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> bellusci@tnpubs.enet.dec.com (Mike Bellusci) writes:

>

>>Hfvat n frpbaqnel jvaqbj gung vf cynprq rknpgyl arkg gb gur znva uryc

>>jvaqbj.  Bs pbhefr, vs lbh fgneg zbivat gur jvaqbjf, gur rssrpg

>> vf ybfg.

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>pnaabg frcnengr gurz.

[...]

Huh?!?!?!?

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Using FrameMaker to author help files

I want create 3 different help files from a single source file.

To do so, I want to use FrameMaker's conditional text

feature. I can save the file as mif and then use mif-to-rtf

translator. But how do I code my hyperlinks in the source file?

Currently my source file is in Word. I use double-underscore

and footnotes to code hyperlinks. I don't use tools like

robohelp or doctohelp. Would these tools

allow me to create the help source  file in FrameMaker with

conditional text and easily maintain 3 or more different versions

of the help?

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Lotus Screencam

So, has anyone seen the tutorial program in PageMaker 5.0?  It's obviously

trapping windows calls, because when you move the mouse when it's moving

the mouse the mouse will skitter on the screen, but eventually go to

where it's going...  Don't know what it's called, though, but it

essentially "runs" PM5.0 for the tutorial.

-Corey Lawson

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> >jvaqbj.  Bs pbhefr, vs lbh fgneg zbivat gur jvaqbjf, gur rssrpg

> > vf ybfg.

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> Va gur AG Pbzznaq Ers, gur jvaqbjf ybbx nf vs gurl ner bar.  Lbh

> pnaabg frcnengr gurz.

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I don't know that  I entirely agree...

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In article <cbmillerCrDGKw.8DF@netcom.com> cbmiller@netcom.com (Charles

Miller) writes:

>I like to include bitmaps of menus, client windows, etc in my help

>files.  Using this with the hot spot editor is especially cool.

>Currently I have to go through the following sequence:

[ description of various steps deleted ]

>Is there a way to avoid having to change the image attributes so that

>when I paste the clipboard contents, I automatically get a .bmp image the

>size of the paste?

Charles,

There is an easy way to do this. As soon as you paste (while marquee is still

showing) select Edit|Copy To... menu. It will prompt you for a name of a .bmp

file to save the current selection.

This is a very good example of a non-intuitive command. I discovered it by

accident. Of course, I did not read the manual either.

Hope this helps,

Marko

PS BTW, just checked pbrush.hlp file. In the Contents, "How To..." section,

click on "Save Cutouts". Oh, no, I feel it comiing... I just can't resist it...

Oh, to hell with it: Charles, RTFM! :-)

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Lotus ScreenCam

To eliminate the title screen from standalond movies, try the /s command line

switch.

You can create a ProgMan icon with a command line like, c:\scrncam\scrncamp /s

movie.scm.

The title screen and closing ad won't appear.

There's a bit more info on these switches in the readme and on the QuickHelp

screen.  It looks like these also work for the player icon (without a movie

name on the command line).

ScreenCam is new to me too, but one suggestion I heard to help keep files small

is to set a solid "wallpaper" in Control Panel.  Repainting regions of your

desktop, including repainting wallpaper, gets recorded in the file.

have fun,

Jeff Lucas

jlucas@crd.lotus.com

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header file COMPDDK.H

Hello,  does anyone out there know which library (Microsoft) the header file

COMPDDK.H sits in? I need to look at it since it contains the information for

video compression/decompression.

I'll appreciate this very much if you can help. Please reply to :

zhan@cs.stanford.edu

Thanks! --Xiaowei

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Sound in Help

Hi all,

     First of all, I am not a programmer, but I do want to learn how to

generate Help files.

     I am now using Help Writer's Assistant for Windows and Visual Help to

create Help files.  They are great to me since I don't have to deal with

the codes, but I am not sure if they are good in a programmer's eyes, can

you give any advices?  Are there any better programs out there for the

same purposes?

     Another thing, Visual Help can let you build jump macros that play

sounds (*.wav), is this ability rather new?  I never knew Help can play

sounds before, does this mean Help can also play other multi-media files

as well?

     In short, pleas help me:

-Advices on Help generators that are easy to use.

-How to write jumps that play sounds in *.rtf?  sth like !sndPLAY.....

-Any advices at all.

     Again, I am not a programmer, any advices would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Patrick

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Viewer 2.0 experts?

One of my co-tech communicators is presently in a very tight spot: a

higher-up is damned and determined we're GONNA "have multimedia" in the next

version of one of our flagship products come hell or high water. Now, she

has a Master's in educational tech, and no shortage of experience in

multimedia authoring, BUT:

o    This is the first time our department does multimedia ANYthing,

o    She has a paltry three months to do this

o    We have no departmental standard for mm authoring software

o    We have to pick something PRONTO

She's on the verge of going with Viewer 2.0 -- in fact, we don't have much

choice. However, she would still like to hear what people are using as

collateral tools. If you're using or have used Viewer 2, what are you using

to produce your collateral sound, animation, etc., files? What CAN you use?

We'd also like to hear about what mm file formats Viewer 2 supports natively

(e.g., .FLI animation?) as we've had a tough time getting information from

MS about this puppy. Sheesh, you think it'd be EASY to get mailed or faxed

some propaganda....

Thanx

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Lotus Screencam

Have you looked at the screen capture program in Video for Windows?

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From: 381-1143  <hembert@BOOKIE.ENET.DEC.COM>

To: Multiple recipients of list WINHLP-L

<netmail!WINHLP-L%HUMBER.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>

Subject: Re: Lotus Screencam

Date: Wednesday, June 15, 1994 8:59AM

I've used ScreenCam in small tutorial applications where user input was not

essential. I used the Screencam "movies" to "show" users how to apply the tasks

they learned about in a lesson.

It's is very simple to use;  the box contains a "getting started" sheet with

tips for capturing screen activity. The application has online help. It is very

simple to use. I found the tips to be useful.

The application provides a utility to turn the Screencam original movie format

(.SCM) into an .EXE file. You can also record voice when capturing screen

activity. Sound can be saved as a .WAV soundtrack file. (I haven't tried that

yet.)

The movies tend to be quite large. For example, one of the tasks I showed was

how to create and send a mail message. The activities consisted in clicking a

button to display the create message window, entering information in

the To: and

subject fields, typing a four word sentence and clicking the send button. The

resulting .EXE file was about 600KB.

The first time a user starts a ScreenCam .EXE file, ScreenCam displays it

opening window AND the name and company name you entered during installation. I

find it annoying that personal information is part of the opening screen. If

anyone knows how to get rid of that, I'm interested to find out.

True, the application does not allow user interaction save for starting and

stopping. If "show"ing is sufficient for what you want to to, then it's a good

tool.

Lotus quoted me a price of US$79.00 - I bought it at Lechmere for $59.00.

Frangoise Hembert

Digital Equipment, Nashua, NH

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Lotus Screencam

Why is Lotus ScreenCam better than the AVI ScreenCap, which is distribbed free

by MS?  I created a little movie with it (I don't really need it, I was just

fooling around), and it seems the file sizes are much more reasonable.  What's

better, AVI is a device so you can do as you damn well please with it.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developer/drg/multimedia/???? is it.  It's cool.

Yossi.

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Concurrent Authoring System

I would have to imagine that the type of intelligence required for a "concurrent

authoring" system, as you call it, cannot be encoded using a traditional

"authoring" package (which tend to be for non-programmers).

I doubt the activities of watching each keystroke, tracking "state" information,

determining whether the user is making a mistake, or potentially needs help,

 could

be done by anything but a custom coded program. The program would have to track,

or be able to determine what state (entering data in a field, choosing an option

from a list, etc.,) the software application is in, look at "state" information

for the system (does the file selected exist, is the necessary components

configured into the system, etc.), determine if a user action is incorrect or

 that

the user is "confused", and then bring up an appropriate help topic that might

 be

useful, or actually jump in a profer keystrokes/events to be done on the users

behalf.

Lotus 123 for MSDOS is a fairly straight forward "state machine". By tracking

choices from the menu, you can follow the logic and predict the next step the

 user

should take. Windows applications tend to be much less simple.

In a Windows app the user can choose any one of a multitude of commands at any

 one

time (any active menu item, any one of numberous buttons on a dialog box, etc.).

The internal states of the application are much more dynamic. Often there is no

"correct next response".

I have not seen the Smart Help for Lotus 123, but I would bet it was not

 developed

with an "authoring system." It would take a CASE tool with a tremendous amount

 of

"knowledge base", and state transition tracking information, etc., to try to

tackle this program outside of just using a low-level programming language.

If I am the author of the Windows application, I could possbily build in to the

application the ability to do some of what you talk of. The Windows application

has to monitor its internal state to determine which user actions are "legal."

Knowing what is legal, it knows what possible "steps" could be exercised by the

user next. It is another order of magnitude more difficult to try to "estimate"

what the user is trying to do, or what they should be doing next.

Microsoft spends a lot of resources on their office products. The best they have

been able to come up with is the "wizards" you have seen in recent years. The

wizards allow the user to "declare" to the app what he/she wants to do, and the

wizard tries to provide a flexible, straight forward step by step procedure to

accomplish the "declared" task. Wizards take a lot of programming resources and

would be difficult to do in an "authoring environment." The concurrent help

capability you talk of in a windows app would be even more difficult than

developing a wizard.

Once a wizard starts, it has a straight forward "state transition" path. You can

either traverse each step, and then the next, or abort. A tool to do what you

describe would have to dynically determine possible "next steps" after each

previous "step." The command hierarchy of typical windows apps are too "flat"

 and

"hyper-graphed" (has a large set of possible directions in which to got next at

any one time) to do what you propose, without some fairly complicated, custom

code.

Menu transitions in Lotus 123 for MSDOS also has a fairly straight forward

 command

hierarchy. Once you choose a menu item off the root menu, there are only a short

list of possibilities of what can be done next. Event driven windows

 applications

allow a user to roam over the screen and send an event to active "object", which

may be outside the active application.

Tracking legal states in Windows apps is such a problem, it requires object

oriented techniques that were not used or available when Lotus 123 was

 developed.

I can't imagine doing what you propose without a fairly sophisticated CASE tool

with advanced object oriented technologies built into it.

Now, after proselytizing why an authoring environment for non-programmers to

deveope concurrent help can't be done, someone will announce tommorrow they have

done it. Just part of the wonderful world we live in.

Gregory J. Peto

gpeto@mudshark.sunquest.com

>From: A Banerji Research <A.Banerji@TEESSIDE.AC.UK>

>

>Hello

>

>Can anyone shed some light about concurrent authoring

>systems and their uses in online help?

>

>Concurrent authoring systems are supposed to watch the

>users' keyboard actions. Help is provided with such system

>by comparing users' actions with some template. Comtrain's

>Smart Help for Lotus 123 is a good example of it I have

>seen. This type of system makes online help embedded and

>system initiated.

>

>I wish someone could please share experience and knowledge

>about such type of help system.

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Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

The request was for "tutorial tools." She specifically states she wants to have

the tutorial interact with her Windows app, or at least simulate it.

Neither Authroware or Icon Author support developing "tutorial" titles. They are

fine for authoring certain types multimedia titles and training materials (if

you have lots of patience to sit and wait for AuthorWare to run a title), but

 not

tutorials.

I too have been looking for good tools for developing tutorial titles for

 Windows

products. I have found none yet I could recommend.

The MS Word and Excel products have some good tutorial materials. Parts of their

tutorials seem to be normal Windows help titles, with custom DLLs that were

developed (probably internally to Microsoft) to be able to embed tutorial type

interaction in a Windows help title. Looking at some of the visual aspects and

controls, they look like Windows help titles 'with extensions.'

For example, the Excel tutorial has screens where they have a series of buttons

with instructions on what you should do with Excel which is running behind the

tutorial screen. Each button corresponds to a 'step' you are to perform in

 Excel.

As you select menu item, button, type in text, etc., for a given 'step', that

button becomes grayed out (disabled) and the next button becomes enabled. This

could be done with a custom DLL that displayed each 'button' using a Windows

 Help

DLL command.

It is not a simulation of Excel in the background. You can exercise other menus,

etc., outside what the tutorial wants you to. Although Word 6 does have portions

of the tutorials that do not seem to be simulations, I'd say 80 - 90% of the

online Computer Based Training (CBT) materials are simulation, where Excel

tutorials are mostly "live."

I would like to see a commercial custom DLL for Windows help to allow me to do

the same thing as the Excel tutorials, but I have not heard of one. The DLLs

 that

come with Microsoft Test could be used to 'control' your Windows application

from a Windows Help title, wait for events, etc., but then you have

redistribution licensing of the Test DLLs as an issue.

Let me know if you find an easier answer. I'm afraid Icon Author and AuthorWare

are not it though.

Gregory J. Peto

gpeto@mudshark.sunquest.com

>From: David Dubin <David_Dubin@NOTES.PW.COM>

>Subject:      Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

>

>The two best tools on the market, as far as I am concerned are Authorware

>Professional and Icon Author. Both are object oriented applications which are

>easy to use and relatively easy to learn. I am a tech writer, and have no

>trouble using either of them, however our company uses Authorware. If you

>need any more information about these, please let me know.

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>Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 07:50:58 -0700

>From: borrell@netcom.com (Brian Orrell)

>To: gpeto@mudshark.sunquest.com

>Subject: Re: Help files in Chicago

>In article <Cr8E98.FA1@metrics.com> you write:

>>>Is MVC.EXE like HC.exe freely distributable?

>>

>>The Viewer runtime needed to run Viewer titles is freely distributable.

>>

>

>Unfortunately, you are wrong on that one. You must pay royalties for ANY

>distribution of the Multimedia Viewer runtime... whether it be commercial

>or non-commercial.

After seeing your post I went home, dug out the licensing agreements, etc., for

Viewer, and read it very closely.

The royalty payments and licensing apply only to titles targeted to the Sony

Multimedia CD-ROM Player.

The cover letter for v2.0 says "If you plan to use the Sony platform, be sure to

review the necessary license agreements." The page titled "IMPORTANCE NOTICE.

Please read prior to using this product" that talks of the royalty requirements

says in paragragh one, "If you wish to reproduce and distribute copies of the

multimedia titles you create with ... Viewer for the Sony Multimedia CD-ROM

Player, you must first ..." This page, and the flip side witha sample royalty

report form letter, apply only to titles targeted to the Sony player.

There are also two card stock cards titled "Microsoft License Agreement." One is

for the Sony player, the other says "MULTIMEDIA VIEWER FOR WINDOWS 2.0" at the

top. Paragraph number 4 says, "Microsoft grants to the right to reproduce and

distribute the run-time modules of the SOFTWARE provided that you:" a) do it as

part of a title, b) do not use Microsoft name or logo, c) display their

 copyright

notice on on product (more legalese about holding Microsoft harmless, etc.).

 Later

in the same paragraph, "... to distribute the run-time modules is

royalty-free provided that your application program or data file incorporating

 the

^^^^^^^^^^^^

run-time modules is created for operation on the Microsoft Windows, Windows NT,

 or

Modular Windows operating systems."

The Microsoft License Agreement card for the Sony player says in paragraph 2 in

bold letters, "The rights granted you in this License Agreement do not include

 the

right to reproduce or distribute the runtime modules as part of any products

 ..."

My statement that you can distribute the run-time royalty free is true if you

target the standard Windows operating systems.

If you have been paying royalty on your Windows titles, I'm afraid you been

donating free gifts to our good buddy Bill.

If you don't have your License Agreement cards handy (one should always try to

tuck a copy away somewhere), call me and I'll be glad to FAX it to you (if the

fine print will come across).

801-277-6098

>If Chicago includes the viewer as their help engine with their operating

>system, then that would be great-- no run-time would need to be

>distributed. Right now though, you definitely DO have to pay... and it's

>a pain in the ass.

The license agreement does not specifically mention Chicago, but since that will

be released and "Windows 4.0" and they grant you license for NT, it is unlikely

they will want royalites for Chicago titles since they are not required for

Windows.

Gregory J. Peto

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>Can somebody point me to good articles/WhitePapers/references

>on MAPIand VIM.

Well, you know.  FTP to ftp.microsoft.com and cd developer.  There's a lot of

stuff there about any specs you want.

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Lotus Screencam

> Why is Lotus ScreenCam better than the AVI ScreenCap, which is

>distribbed free by MS?  I created a little movie with it (I don't

>really need it, I was just fooling around), and it seems the file

>sizes are much more reasonable.  What's better, AVI is a device so

>you can do as you damn well please with it.

>ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developer/drg/multimedia/???? is it.

you know, i can never get anything meaningful from ftp.microsoft.com.

i can get to the directory, but he only thing that shows up is a file

called 'group' with which i can do nothing (not copy, view, append).

how do you get access to files in ftp.microsoft.com (i would really

like to look at avi screencap)? am i missing something? i'm trying to

anonymously ftp, by the way. is there another ftp where i can get

this?

oh, as an afterthought, i sent a post about 'what's up with

ftp.cica.indiana.edu' and then got in the next day. might as well go

to oak.oakland.edu because it's not as busy.

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Subject says it all.  Baring that, what is the cheapest way to buy the

MS help compiler?  We need to use it with PowerBuilder.

-Phil

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When viewing the Visual C++ online documentation, the viewer used for

the help files uses a font that is to small. Is there a way to

select the font used for winhelp and other viewers. I didn't see

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Open Sesame!

In article <Cqru2J.3rI@world.std.com> dennisc@world.std.com (Dennis Carothers) writes:

>What are the magic words to ftp microsoft.com?

>It rejected all the usual login and passwords I tried.

>Is there a navigation utility available online for it?

>

>Thanks,

>

>dennisc@world.std.com

>

>

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>dennisc@world.std.com

>

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You realize that you can NOT telnet in to that site and you

must use ftp? (just in case you were trying to telnet).

Anyway, anonymous ftp requires a username of 'anonymous' or 'ftp'.

Then enter your email address for the password.  That should

do it.

Username: ftp

Password: dennisc@world.std.com

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How do you fix ugly graphics?

Greetings, winhelp folk.

I'm using the current version (1.5) of Doc-To-Help and

Word for Windows 2.0b to create an on-line product manual.

This manual is basically a reorganization of relevant sections

of the hard-copy manual with rewrites and other changes made to

exploit winhelp's jump and pop-up capabilities.

My problem is with graphics -- the bottom line is that they

don't look good on screen after I resize them. What, if anything,

can I do?

I'm capturing screen shots of the product's menus and various

displays using Hijaak Pro and saving them as .BMP files. In the

hard-copy manual these look great when printed (I size them using

Word's Format Picture command), but apparently I need to do

something else for the help file.

Since they're reset to 100-percent size by Doc-to-Help, many

graphics just display too big in the compiled help file. I've

tried pulling these into MS Word Draw and resizing them, but when

I do, they lose detail.  Same thing happens when I resize the

BMPs using Hijaak. BTW, Word Draw saves files as .WMF, I think.

This also seems to be an acceptable format for the help compiler.

Anyone have suggestions on how I can resize these huge screen-

shots and still keep a reasonable amount of detail? Thanks in

advance for your suggestions.

Mike

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Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

Terry Chung (chung@grep.cs.fsu.edu) wrote:

: >As we understand it, the traditional format of RTF files cannot

: >handle Chinese characters. What file format does the help compiler

: >work on?

:

: The key is that you need a Chinese Windows to display Chinese characters.

: RTF format is not a issue.

:

: >In short, what is the proper procedure for the whole business?

: >Is there any tool (similar to Microsoft Help Authoring tool) that we

: >can use to speed up the process?

:

: Assume Chinese Windows and Word for Windows are both available.

:

: 1. Use Word for Windows to create files that contains topics, context

:    strings, etc., and save them as RTF format.

: 2. Create a .hpj file containing above RTF files.

: 3. Use help compiler to compile the .hpj file, thus obtaining a .hlp file.

: 4. Use winhelp.exe came from Chinese Windows to view the .hlp file.

But I found the chinese version WORD 5.0 can not be used to crate RTF.

becuase this will cause HC31.exe fail. The reason is above - RTF format

in Chinese version WORD. why is the RTF format different between

English and Chinese Version. Now I use WORD 2.0 (English) to create

Chinese Help. It works.  Above are my exepereince.

(Anyone use Chinese WORD 5.0 to create Help file OK?)

Jenwen,Chien-Wen Huang

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Capturing/editing screen shots

In article <cbmillerCrDGKw.8DF@netcom.com> cbmiller@netcom.com (Charles

Miller) writes:

>I like to include bitmaps of menus, client windows, etc in my help

>files.  Using this with the hot spot editor is especially cool.

>Currently I have to go through the following sequence:

[ description of various steps deleted ]

>Is there a way to avoid having to change the image attributes so that

>when I paste the clipboard contents, I automatically get a .bmp image the

>size of the paste?

Charles,

I've avoided this problem by using a tool called FullShot by INBIT (it's about

$100, and worth every darn penny, too!).  It's not shareware, but a demo of it

was on ftp.cc.monash.edu.au (ftp.cica mirror), in /pub/win3/demo.  It solved

my problems with size, and colors, and clipping.  It will also "black and white"

your shots according to your color prefs (i.e. dark blue goes to black, while

light green goes to white).  Cropping is fairly easy, and if you're documenting

Windoze apps, it has a great menu capture option.

Good Luck!

dawn-marie

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In article <CrHs9E.LCw@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> prs9k@brain.neuro.virginia.edu (Phil Scarr) writes:

   Subject says it all.  Baring that, what is the cheapest way to buy the

   MS help compiler?  We need to use it with PowerBuilder.

   -Phil

You don't have to buy it.  Look on ftp.microsoft.com or whpe.zip or what.zip.

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In article <2tq1qv$clq@news.tv.tek.com>,

Mike Hinchman <mikeh@soul.tv.tek.com> wrote:

>Greetings, winhelp folk.

>

>I'm using the current version (1.5) of Doc-To-Help and

>Word for Windows 2.0b to create an on-line product manual.

>My problem is with graphics -- the bottom line is that they

>don't look good on screen after I resize them. What, if anything,

>can I do?

>I'm capturing screen shots of the product's menus and various

>displays using Hijaak Pro and saving them as .BMP files. In the

>hard-copy manual these look great when printed (I size them using

>Word's Format Picture command), but apparently I need to do

>something else for the help file.

>Since they're reset to 100-percent size by Doc-to-Help, many

>graphics just display too big in the compiled help file. I've

>tried pulling these into MS Word Draw and resizing them, but when

>I do, they lose detail.  Same thing happens when I resize the

>BMPs using Hijaak. BTW, Word Draw saves files as .WMF, I think.

>This also seems to be an acceptable format for the help compiler.

>

Yes, you can use .WMF with WinHelp using the bmX notation.

You can try if that looks any better.

Scaling bitmaps is always a problem.  I don't know how big

your bitmaps are.  In principle, you'll get the best result if

you scale/reduce them by an integer factor.  But half or 1/4

the size might be too small...

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In article <2tq3c5$fnv@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> jenwen@pdd.iii.org.tw (Jenwen) writes:

>Terry Chung (chung@grep.cs.fsu.edu) wrote:

>: >As we understand it, the traditional format of RTF files cannot

>: >handle Chinese characters. What file format does the help compiler

>: >work on?

>:

>: The key is that you need a Chinese Windows to display Chinese characters.

>: RTF format is not a issue.

>:

>: >In short, what is the proper procedure for the whole business?

>: >Is there any tool (similar to Microsoft Help Authoring tool) that we

>: >can use to speed up the process?

>:

>: Assume Chinese Windows and Word for Windows are both available.

>:

>: 1. Use Word for Windows to create files that contains topics, context

>:    strings, etc., and save them as RTF format.

>: 2. Create a .hpj file containing above RTF files.

>: 3. Use help compiler to compile the .hpj file, thus obtaining a .hlp file.

>: 4. Use winhelp.exe came from Chinese Windows to view the .hlp file.

>

>But I found the chinese version WORD 5.0 can not be used to crate RTF.

>becuase this will cause HC31.exe fail. The reason is above - RTF format

>in Chinese version WORD. why is the RTF format different between

>English and Chinese Version. Now I use WORD 2.0 (English) to create

>Chinese Help. It works.  Above are my exepereince.

>(Anyone use Chinese WORD 5.0 to create Help file OK?)

>

I don't have Chinese Word 5.0. All RTF files I create are using

English version of Word 2.0. Have you tried the latest version of HC

or HCP? I know they are available from ftp.microsoft.com.

>Jenwen,Chien-Wen Huang

>

-Terry Chung

 chung@cs.fsu.edu

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winhelp => html

has anybody written an scripts to convert winhelp files to

html?

thnx, vishal.

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Mike Bellusci asked about how to get a TOC window running with the

help window.

I don't know the techo details but I do know of a product that will do this

automatically for you. It's HDK or help/hypertext development kit. It

provides a proprietary DLL with the TOC functionality and you can fairly

simply just compile a system with a TOC option switched on. You can

distribute the DLL freely with your compiled systems.

The contact for HDK is Virtual Media in Sydney, fax (61) 2 953- 4044

Hope this helps.

Mike Floyd.

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Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

It comes with the Visual C++ and Basic development environments if you want to

consider purchasing those.

I saw a post earlier on some help development tool that includes the help

 compiler

when you purchase the tool.

You might try nosing around in ftp.microsoft.com as anonymous FTP. They have

 some

"updated" versions of the help compiler on there. But that method does not

 provide

any documentation.

>From: Phil Scarr <prs9k@BRAIN.NEURO.VIRGINIA.EDU>

>

>Subject says it all.  Baring that, what is the cheapest way to buy the

>MS help compiler?  We need to use it with PowerBuilder.

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Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

This might be a good time to remind everyone that we presently have an

ftp site for Winhelp related files at 192.75.71.35 winhlp. The help

compiler is here along with a number of related files.

The problem with the prsent site is that it does not allow for uploading.

In July, Wally Grotophorst has agreed to make room available on a machine

he has available. This will then become the most convenient place to

access winhelp files. Wally will make an announcement when the new site

is available.

Cheers.

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In article <ccahdm.55.002D4D8A@beluga.upe.ac.za> ccahdm@beluga.upe.ac.za (Donald Munro) writes:

>>The most easy thing with VC++ is to use the macro TRACE( "What?%#&!!!\n"),

>This assumes that you are using MFC and not programming the SDK directly

>though.

Yes, if not MFC then use something like this:

#ifdef DEBUG

OutputDebugString( "What?%#&!!!\n");

#endif

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associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

Has anybody tried the syntax to create a second pane ala Viewer in normal

 Windows

Help? I would not be surprised if it was an undocumented feature.

Gregory J. Peto

gpeto@mudshark.sunquest.com

>From: Mike Bellusci <bellusci@TNPUBS.ENET.DEC.COM>

>No idea why that got scrambled like that!

>

>>Using a secondary window that is placed exactly next to the main

>help

>>window.  Of course, if you start moving the windows, the effect

>is lost.

>

>In the NT Command Ref, the windows look as if they are one.  You

>cannot separate them.

>

>>The other way is to use Viewer 2.0.  In Viewer2 you can define

>"panes"

>>within your main window that can be separateley manipulated.

>

>What is Viewer 2.0?  Is it from Microsoft or is it a separate

>product?

>

>What I want to do is ship a single help file that combines the TOC

>or index as part of the main .hlp file.  Just as it is with the NT

>command ref guide.  The NT command ref help directory show two

>files:  the .ind file and the .hlp file.  When you bring up the

>and serves as a very nice hot-spotted index to the book.  I want

>to do the same.  But how?

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Using FrameMaker to author help files

You already have the ability to create 3 different help files from one source by

using the BUILDTAG footnote on your help topics.  Not a lot of developers use

buildtags, but they are there for just this purpose.  In the help project file

(.hpj) there is a control called BUILD=xxxxx, where xxxxx is the buildtag for

that help file.

This tag identifies which topics to bring together to create the help.  Each

topic in the file(s) has a buildtag, and only the buildtags matching the one

specified by the BUILD control are compiled.  So you can have different

buildtags for different builds.  For instance my buildtags are BLECH, BLECH1,

and BLECH2.

I may have three different .hpj files to accommodate the three help files, or I

may edit one .hpj file for each build.  At any rate, I am interested in building

the help for BLECH2.  In my .hpj file I ensure that the BUILD control is set to

BLECH2.  Now only those topics with that buildtag will be included.

As to the buildtag footnote on your topics, it may be that a topic could apply

for both BLECH1 and BLECH2.  OK, so that's what the footnote looks like.

*BLECH1;BLECH2.  Now this topic will be included in two help files, the one for

BLECH1 and the one for BLECH2.

But your plan to mark the text as conditional, for this use that, that sort of

thing, is at a level of intelligence that the help compiler has not reached.  In

order to have different builds from the same source, you must copy the topic of

interest, assign the appropriate buildtag(s) and change the text of the topic.

This increases the size of the source files, but does maintain all of the source

in one place for you.

If this is not enough explanation let me know.

Teresa Urutia

teresa_urutia@ccm.jf.intel.com

I want create 3 different help files from a single source file.

To do so, I want to use FrameMaker's conditional text

feature. I can save the file as mif and then use mif-to-rtf

translator. But how do I code my hyperlinks in the source file?

Currently my source file is in Word. I use double-underscore

and footnotes to code hyperlinks. I don't use tools like

robohelp or doctohelp. Would these tools

allow me to create the help source  file in FrameMaker with

conditional text and easily maintain 3 or more different versions

of the help?

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> In article <2tq3c5$fnv@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> jenwen@pdd.iii.org.tw (Jenwen)

>  writes:

> >Terry Chung (chung@grep.cs.fsu.edu) wrote:

> >: >As we understand it, the traditional format of RTF files cannot

> >: >handle Chinese characters. What file format does the help compiler

> >: >work on?

> >:

> >: The key is that you need a Chinese Windows to display Chinese characters.

> >: RTF format is not a issue.

> >:

> >: >In short, what is the proper procedure for the whole business?

> >: >Is there any tool (similar to Microsoft Help Authoring tool) that we

> >: >can use to speed up the process?

> >:

> >: Assume Chinese Windows and Word for Windows are both available.

> >:

> >: 1. Use Word for Windows to create files that contains topics, context

> >:    strings, etc., and save them as RTF format.

> >: 2. Create a .hpj file containing above RTF files.

> >: 3. Use help compiler to compile the .hpj file, thus obtaining a .hlp file.

> >: 4. Use winhelp.exe came from Chinese Windows to view the .hlp file.

> >

> >But I found the chinese version WORD 5.0 can not be used to crate RTF.

> >becuase this will cause HC31.exe fail. The reason is above - RTF format

> >in Chinese version WORD. why is the RTF format different between

> >English and Chinese Version. Now I use WORD 2.0 (English) to create

> >Chinese Help. It works.  Above are my exepereince.

> >(Anyone use Chinese WORD 5.0 to create Help file OK?)

> >

>

> I don't have Chinese Word 5.0. All RTF files I create are using

> English version of Word 2.0. Have you tried the latest version of HC

> or HCP? I know they are available from ftp.microsoft.com.

I suppose that the cause of the trouble is either of the followings

(maybe the latter is, I think):

o Chinese Word enters a garbage, that the English help compiler cannot

  understand, into an RTF file.

o Your help compiler does not understand an RTF file generated by the

  Word 5.0, or your help is too large (only when you are NOT using HCP).

When we were working for Japanese help files (Japanese is another

2-byte code language, you know.), the compiler supplied with the

Japanese SDK cannot compile the RTF file, because it is too large.

The English HCP can, however, compile it.

The problem of using English compiler is the Search function.

It cannot correctly sort the keywords in the Search dialog box,

because (of course) we uses 2-byte characters.

After all, we call Microsoft Japan and ask them to send a new Japanese

(not commercially sold) HCP.

Hope this helps

Rika Fukuda

Technical Writer

P.S. I don't like Search function of Japanese winhlp.exe.  It sorts

     keywords in order of JIS code, but no one knows that order!

     How about Chinese Windows?

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Besides the well-known WHAT.ZIP, I just saw a posting on VisualBasic group

about a free help file writer.  It's supposed to be cool.  One of the

features is that you can use drag-and-drop to link hot spots to topics.

Interested people may want to browse today's postings in comp.lang.basic.visual.

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Hi all,

> In article <2tq3c5$fnv@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> jenwen@pdd.iii.org.tw (Jenwen)

>  writes:

> >Terry Chung (chung@grep.cs.fsu.edu) wrote:

> >: >As we understand it, the traditional format of RTF files cannot

> >: >handle Chinese characters. What file format does the help compiler

> >: >work on?

> >:

> >: The key is that you need a Chinese Windows to display Chinese characters.

> >: RTF format is not a issue.

> >:

> >: >In short, what is the proper procedure for the whole business?

> >: >Is there any tool (similar to Microsoft Help Authoring tool) that we

> >: >can use to speed up the process?

> >:

> >: Assume Chinese Windows and Word for Windows are both available.

> >:

> >: 1. Use Word for Windows to create files that contains topics, context

> >:    strings, etc., and save them as RTF format.

> >: 2. Create a .hpj file containing above RTF files.

> >: 3. Use help compiler to compile the .hpj file, thus obtaining a .hlp file.

> >: 4. Use winhelp.exe came from Chinese Windows to view the .hlp file.

> >

> >But I found the chinese version WORD 5.0 can not be used to crate RTF.

> >becuase this will cause HC31.exe fail. The reason is above - RTF format

> >in Chinese version WORD. why is the RTF format different between

> >English and Chinese Version. Now I use WORD 2.0 (English) to create

> >Chinese Help. It works.  Above are my exepereince.

> >(Anyone use Chinese WORD 5.0 to create Help file OK?)

>

> I don't have Chinese Word 5.0. All RTF files I create are using

> English version of Word 2.0. Have you tried the latest version of HC

> or HCP? I know they are available from ftp.microsoft.com.

I suppose that the cause of the trouble is either of the followings

(maybe the latter is, I think):

o Chinese Word enters a garbage, that the English help compiler cannot

  understand, into an RTF file.

o Your help compiler does not understand an RTF file generated by the

  Word 5.0, or your help is too large (only when you are NOT using HCP).

When we were working for Japanese help files (Japanese is another

2-byte code language, you know.), the compiler supplied with the

Japanese SDK cannot compile the RTF file, because it is too large.

The English HCP can, however, compile it.

The problem of using English compiler is the Search function.

It cannot correctly sort the keywords in the Search dialog box,

because (of course) we uses 2-byte characters.

After all, we call Microsoft Japan and ask them to send a new Japanese

(not commercially sold) HCP.

Hope this helps

Rika Fukuda

Technical Writer

P.S. I don't like Search function of Japanese winhlp.exe.  It sorts

     keywords in order of JIS code, but no one knows that order!

     How about Chinese Windows?

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I found your exposition on BUILDTAGS very interesting. It seems like a

 reasonible

approach for selecting a subset of topics for a given help file.

I think that ther interest in conditional text is more to parameterize of text

 of

the topics and not just the list of topics to be included.

For example, you may have a version of a product for Windows and MSDOS. Some

entire topics may belong in one or the other, and could be organized by

BUILDTAGS, however you can accomplish the same thing by just grouping the

 Windows

specific topics into one set of RTF files and the MSDOS ones into different RTF

files.

The real trick is having an automated way to modify the text of a topic that

 must

change depending on whether I am building for Windows or MSDOS.

Some one responded to an earlier post of mine that one of the help tools that

supports different environments has the ability to embed conditional inclusion

statements so that you can modify the actual text of the help file based on

parameters. I could not find the post in my stuff.

Another way to handle the situation is to maintain a "master" version that has

everything in it, and then write a Word Basic macro that can strip out the parts

you don't need for a particular version. I have been told this is one of the

techniques used by staff at Microsoft when they have a file used for both online

manuals and hardcopy manuals. The master version of the document has all the

online footers, hidden text, etc., need for the online manual. When they want to

generate a version for hardcopy printing, they make a copy of the master

version, and then run a Word Basic macro to strip out the hidden text, double

underlines, etc., not needed for the hardcopy version.

If there was some way to "mark" the optional pieces of material with hidden text

perhaps you could write a Word Basic macro to strip out the parts you don't want

in a particular version.

Gregory J. Peto

gpeto@mudshark.sunquest.com

>From: Teresa Urutia <Teresa_Urutia@CCM.JF.INTEL.COM>

>

>You already have the ability to create 3 different help files from one source

 by

>using the BUILDTAG footnote on your help topics.

> [stuff deleted]

----------------Original post--------------------

>I want create 3 different help files from a single source file.

>To do so, I want to use FrameMaker's conditional text

>feature. I can save the file as mif and then use mif-to-rtf

>translator. But how do I code my hyperlinks in the source file?

>

>Currently my source file is in Word. I use double-underscore

>and footnotes to code hyperlinks. I don't use tools like

>robohelp or doctohelp. Would these tools

>allow me to create the help source  file in FrameMaker with

>conditional text and easily maintain 3 or more different versions

>of the help?

>

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Hi all,

Gregory J. Peto wrote:

> I found your exposition on BUILDTAGS very interesting. It seems like a

>  reasonible

> approach for selecting a subset of topics for a given help file.

I have created two help files from a single set of source RTF files by

using buildtags.

There was a trouble to do this.

Paragraph style of the first paragraph were *sometimes* lost

during compiling.

I inserted a waste paragraph (3pt. Arial) at the top of every topic to

avoid this trouble.  I think the buildtag is the cause of this

trouble, but I don't know why.  I saw the RTF file, but I could not

see any difference between correctly formatted topics and NG topics.

And the waste paragraph of 3pt. MS Sans Serif did not work fine.

I don't know why, either.

Besides, I am not sure of the non-scroll region.

Non-scroll region is a kind of paragraph style.  I did not insert any

waste paragraph to the topics with non-scroll regions, because they

appeared fine when I place a topic, that has a non-scroll region and

all types of buildtags in its footnote, at the top of the RTF file.

Does anyone has any idea about these?

Rika Fukuda

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Works for Win and *rtf ?

Hi all,

     Is there anybody using Works for Windows?  I have problems displaying

the *.rtf files, the documents can be opened, but there is nothing on the

screen.

     Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Patrick

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When I use the {bmX bitmap.bmp} command to include a bitmap

in one of my help topics and I do Print Topic the bitmap is

printed in black and white. If I paste the bitmap it prints

out in gray scales.

Is this normal ?

Is there a way to have gray scaled printouts when using the

 method ?

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Help i need help on Help files

Hello-world,

I ave a big problem with visual C++ and HELP files.

I've a problem to create the .hlp file with HC31.XV compiler purshased by MS

with VC++ 1.5 PRO. I'm using WinWord 2.0 C to create the RTF Text and when i do

like the doc tell me to, it don't work ???????

Someone can help me?,yes if you known something about it.

thanks...

Olivier Stolzenberg.

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pLeasE hELpmE

 dtoitah@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Arnold du Toit) writes:

>Kindly email me if you have WHAT6.EXE

>

>I am missing some of its files and wish to request you to mail them to me in

>uuencoded format.

>

>For some or other reason I can't locate what6 on the net and nObOdy is

>replying to my pleas for pointers to mentioned file.

  I got WHAT6.ZIP off the Spring '94 MSDN CD-ROM.  It had missing files,

  too, and obvious bugs.  Either it was not ready for release or someone

  at Microsoft placed an old version on the CD-ROM.  I waiting for Microsoft

  to place a working version at the Microsoft ftp site.

  Maybe it's better to try David Gardiner's version called DWHAT20.ZIP

  under /pub/pc/win3/winword at ftp.cica.indiana.edu (described in an

  earlier post)...

                  ...Cuyler

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Hello-world,

I ave a big problem with visual C++ and HELP files.

I've a problem to create the .hlp file with HC31.XV compiler purshased by MS

with VC++ 1.5 PRO. I'm using WinWord 2.0 C to create the RTF Text and when i do

like the doc tell me to, it don't work ???????

Someone can help me?,yes if you known something about it.

thanks...

Olivier Stolzenberg.

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Searching programs.

Can anybody send me server address where I could find some education programs

for phisic for MS Windows or Dos.

Thanks.

Jerzy

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How do you fix ugly graphics?

>I'm using the current version (1.5) of Doc-To-Help and

>Word for Windows 2.0b to create an on-line product manual.

>This manual is basically a reorganization of relevant sections

>of the hard-copy manual with rewrites and other changes made to

>exploit winhelp's jump and pop-up capabilities.

>

>My problem is with graphics -- the bottom line is that they

>don't look good on screen after I resize them. What, if anything,

>can I do?

>

>I'm capturing screen shots of the product's menus and various

>displays using Hijaak Pro and saving them as .BMP files. In the

>hard-copy manual these look great when printed (I size them using

>Word's Format Picture command), but apparently I need to do

>something else for the help file.

>

>Since they're reset to 100-percent size by Doc-to-Help, many

>graphics just display too big in the compiled help file. I've

>tried pulling these into MS Word Draw and resizing them, but when

>I do, they lose detail.  Same thing happens when I resize the

>BMPs using Hijaak. BTW, Word Draw saves files as .WMF, I think.

>This also seems to be an acceptable format for the help compiler.

>

>Anyone have suggestions on how I can resize these huge screen-

>shots and still keep a reasonable amount of detail? Thanks in

>advance for your suggestions.

[Mike Hinchman]

Get Paint Shop Pro 2.0  from ftp.cica.indiana.edu (pub/pc/win3/util/pspro200)

When I need to shrink an image, I convert it to 16M colors, resample it to

the desired size, then move it down the color depth again, to 8 or 4 bits.

It looks kinda fuzzy but I like it much better.

Yossi.

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Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

OK, here's the log:

<snip>

>>>PWD

257 "d:/developer/drg/multimedia" is current directory.

>>>PORT 132,76,64,10,54,232

200 PORT command successful.

>>>LIST scrcap.zip

150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.

-r--r--r--   1 owner    group        152120 Nov  3  1993 SCRCAP.ZIP

226 Transfer complete.

<snip>

OK?  Now have fun.

Yossi.

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Digest problem?

>

>Another list member reported this problem to me. Recently, we reset a default

>to allow news group users to post to Winhlp-L. It's possible that resetting

>this default has affected those who receive the list as a digest, but I have

>no reason to believe that this is so.

>

believe me, it's so.  At least it affected me too!

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WWORKS.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com

Hi all,

     I got the fiel WWORKS.EXE from the ftp site, it is supposed to be the

KB files in help format for Works for Windows, however, it is not a

self-extracting file, and when ran it violated system integrity, can

anybody help?

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Message Boxes

Hi y'all,

I have found a routine which will allow me to create message boxes in a

help file:

Under [config] in the hpj include

RegisterRoutine( "USER.EXE, "MessageBox", "uSSu")

and to activate it, use the macro

!MessageBox(0, "Body Text", "Window Title", 0)

This will bring up a MB with only an OK button.

By playing around with the last 0, I found the following:

0 = OK Button

1 = OK & Cancel Buttons

2 = Abort, Retry & Ignore Buttons

3 = Yes, No and Cancel Buttons

Various questions arise from this:

1) What is the first 0 for?

2) Is it possible for the help file to know which button was pressed. If not

then the only useful button is OK (0)

3) Is there a list of functions which can be called from USER.EXE ?

Ta Muchly,

James

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Buildtags (was: Using FrameMaker to author help files)

In article <CrJ4HL.HM1@metrics.com>,

Rika Fukuda  <fukuda@SYS1.CPG.SONY.CO.JP> wrote:

>

>I have created two help files from a single set of source RTF files by

>using buildtags.

>

>There was a trouble to do this.

>Paragraph style of the first paragraph were *sometimes* lost

>during compiling.

I'm not sure, but the docs state that the TAG footnote

(* footnote) should be the very first footnote in the

topic.  Could that be it?

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Message Boxes

I don't know how you got to this by mistake, but the MessageBox routine is

fully documented in the SDK.  You supply it with a bunch of flags which you OR

together, such as MB_OK (0), MB_ICONINFORMATION (64), MB_DEFBUTTON2, and so

on.  The declares are in windows.h and in the Visual Basic API reference.

The return value can be IDYES or IDNO if you use MB_YESNO as a style, which

means you can ask some questions.

A list of calls is available in the SDK (win31wh.hlp), and some multimedia

calls can be found in the Multimedia help (win31mhw.hlp).  Look for them.

Yossi.

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In article <CrJ8Ko.JEB@metrics.com>,

Johan Jacobs 3241  <jacobsjo@BSG.BEL.ALCATEL.BE> wrote:

>When I use the {bmX bitmap.bmp} command to include a bitmap

>in one of my help topics and I do Print Topic the bitmap is

>printed in black and white. If I paste the bitmap it prints

>out in gray scales.

>

>Is this normal ?

>Is there a way to have gray scaled printouts when using the

> [image] method ?

This seems to be a problem.  The bmX commands can only

handle 16 colors (or shades of grey).  If you have Viewer 1

(more specifically, MVBMP.DLL), you could try the

{ewX MVBMP, ViewerBmp, filename} command.

I'm not sure if the Viewer2 equivalent

{ewX MVBMP2, ViewerBmp2, filename}

will work in WinHelp.  MVBMP sure does.

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posting by non-subscriber

>

> 	The correct place for announcements is, oddly enough,

>

> 	comp.os.ms-windows.announce

>

> --

> John A. Grant	jagrant@emr1.emr.ca

       *The* correct place?  Or *a* correct place?  That's why I was asking.

I want to read announcements on winhelp products in this newsgroups, and

of visual basic products in that newsgroup.  I wanted to see if others

agreed with me, and it seems that many do.

-dennis turner

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Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

Yossi, when I unzipped scrcap.zip the readme file indicated I would need

certain files found in Video for Windows. Is VFW necessary to use scrcap?

If so, will the runtime version of VFW, which is available at ftp MS, do?

Thanks.

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WWORKS.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com

On Fri, 17 Jun 1994 12:27:23 GMT Ng Chi Him said:

>Hi all,

>

>     I got the fiel WWORKS.EXE from the ftp site, it is supposed to be the

>KB files in help format for Works for Windows, however, it is not a

>self-extracting file, and when ran it violated system integrity, can

>anybody help?

>

>Patrick

Are you sure you set the system to binary transfer before downloading the

file?

Just a thought.

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TOC windows with help

Responding to msg by mikef@SYACUS.ACUS.OZ.AU (Mike Floyd) on

>Mike Bellusci asked about how to get a TOC window

>running with the  help window.

Doc-To-Help version 1.6 will ship with the Hyperformance Tools.

This includes the Doc-To-Help Navigator that automatically sets

up an expandable and collapsible outline tree of the entire

help file. This opens as a separate true child Window and can

be used to go to any topic in the help file.  It stays in sync

with the topics as you use other methods to move through the

help file. It also can be used to print out multiple topics and

in author mode allows for drag and drop context sensitive help

for Visual Basic and drag and drop linkage to hotspots in

graphics edited in SHED. The help author has full control over

the configuration of the Navigator. Sample demo help files and

more information about additional feature of the Hyperformance

Tools and version 1.6 can be found in the Library of our

Compuserve Forum, section 4 in WINAPD (GO WEXTECH).

Paul Neshamkin

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Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

> the scrcap.zip readme file indicated I would need

> certain files found in Video for Windows. Is VFW necessary to use

scrcap?

i just downloaded vfw 1.1 from cica (ftp.microsoft.com wouldn't let

me download it even though it let me download scrcap). the version of

vfw on cica is not the 'complete version' since there is no paledit,

bitedit, whateveredit programs, just the media player and

soundrecordder. so, basically, i can play the file, i just can't edit

it (bummer).

question, is there some way of making the .avi file that scrcap

creates into an .exe file so that it can be shipped with products

without requiring a viewer/player? someone said that lotus screencap

did this. anyone know where i can get it or a demo? and does anyone

know where i can get this 'complete version' of vfw 1.1 (there's an

email address in the scrcap readme file to get a free Video fro

Windows Developer's Kit, but the address is invalid)? questions

questions questions

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help .dlls

does anyone know about help .dll files that let you incorporate a

small tutorial within a help file? i guess it would be something

along the lines of the word tutorial in word 6?

thanks,

chou

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Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

A tip for anyone out there in Netland who is using Bitmaps in their Help

Files.

I was getting very tangled up, trying to compile a Cake Book I'm working on.

I finally got some help from the Knowledge Base at ftp.microsoft.com. It

seems that the Developers CD ROM is actually on line there.

I was getting some bizarre problems, getting out of memory errors with really

small files, and the extended HCP would just crash my system each time I

tried to run it. My bitmaps were all referenced by {bmc...}.

I figured that I had corrupted Bitmaps after reading the KB files. These

bitmaps were all produced with Paint Shop Pro. Some were screen captures,

others conversions from GIF files.

Having taken all the bitmaps out, and replaced them with files generated

mainly in Paintbrush, but also in Corel, everything is running smoothly.

So if you get strange problems, and you are using Paint Shop Pro, (I was

trying ver 2.00), then you know why......

Best wishes

Bhagavat

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Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

> So if you get strange problems, and you are using Paint Shop Pro,

>(I was trying ver 2.00), then you know why......

this seems to jibe well with my experience, too. when i tried to

resize some bitmaps in paintshop pro, for some reason the help

compiler couldn't read them (if you try to edit a paintshop pro

bitmap with a shed editor, then you'll get that 'cannot display'

error, at least in robohelp). also, i could never open paintshop pro

bitmaps in paintbrush (keeps on saying 'wrong format' or something).

strange.

chou

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Message Boxes

In article <CrJM41.32q@metrics.com>,

James Poole  <jpo@KOBE.PFBS.PHILIPS.SE> wrote:

>Under [config] in the hpj include

>

>RegisterRoutine( "USER.EXE, "MessageBox", "uSSu")

>

>and to activate it, use the macro

>

>!MessageBox(0, "Body Text", "Window Title", 0)

>

Yes, in principle you can call any function in a DLL from

WinHelp, including all the WINAPIs, provided you register

them.  Of course, passing the right parameters, unless

integers or strings, can be a problem.

>2) Is it possible for the help file to know which button was pressed. If not

>then the only useful button is OK (0)

The only built in macros that use return values are:

IfThen(), IfThenElse() and Not()

so if you call a BOOL function, there's already some things

you can do.

If I have the time, I was planning to write a DLL that includes

other handy macros, maybe WhileDo(), For(), Assign(), IsEqual(),

etc.  Just imagine, a turning your [config] section into a full-

fledged Windows programming environment!

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help with ftp.microsoft.com

In article <2tigo3$fvb@news.bu.edu> semen@bu.edu "Stan Seltser" writes:

>Does somebody know how to unpack files from ftp.microsoft.com

>I can't realize how to that

>thank you Stan

Can you be more specific about what your problem is?

This is NOT, by the way, a newsgroup for getting help with Windows. This is

a newsgroup for discussion "WinHelp" - the Windows "on-line help" system.

Chris

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header file COMPDDK.H

In article <2tomfc$p7m@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>

           zhan@cs.stanford.edu "Xiaowei Zhan" writes:

>Hello,  does anyone out there know which library (Microsoft) the header file

>COMPDDK.H sits in? I need to look at it since it contains the information for

>video compression/decompression.

>

>I'll appreciate this very much if you can help. Please reply to :

>zhan@cs.stanford.edu

As its name implies, this header file is a part of the DDK.

Chris

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Viewer 2.0 experts?

>She's on the verge of going with Viewer 2.0 -- in fact, we don't have much

>choice. However, she would still like to hear what people are using as

>collateral tools. If you're using or have used Viewer 2, what are you using

>to produce your collateral sound, animation, etc., files? What CAN you use?

>

>We'd also like to hear about what mm file formats Viewer 2 supports natively

>(e.g., .FLI animation?) as we've had a tough time getting information from

>MS about this puppy.

You might want to look for a new book that just came out, "Microsoft

Multimedia Viewer Hot-To CD" by Stephen Pruitt (CIS resident Winhelp/Viewer

expert.)  Published by The Waite Group.   It includes a CD with a stripped

down version of Viewer.  Actually, the only way it is stripped down is that

the compiler that is included will only handle a maximum of 25 topics.

BUT... this compiler doesn't work with W4W 6.0, either, so you have to get a

newer version from CIS.  And once you do that, you have a fully functional

Viewer Toolkit.

The book is nicely done.  Lots of information for both the novice and

expert, with examples throughout.  I think it is $39.95 or thereabouts.

Good luck!

kh

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Capturing/editing screen shots

Regarding screen capture utilities, I've used one called Collage Complete.

It's quite simple to use, you can either capture the active window to a

file or copy it into a preview window so you can crop, and you can save in

any of several file types.  It's made by Inner Media in Hollis NH.  Their

phone number is (603) 465-2696.

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One warning message per compile?

I really should be calling Microsoft about this complaint, but I'm tired of

waiting, even though I get to hear how long everybody else is waiting too.

So, if someone from MS is listening, kindly route this comment as

appropriate.

When I compile my help file, I often get just a single warning message when

I know I've done exactly the same thing (such as reference a link by a name

I've since changed) many times.  It's quite annoying to compile the file,

find one place where I've done something wrong, recompile the file, find

one more place I've done something wrong, etc.

I mentioned this once to a support person but he assured me it only happens

on fatal errors, indicated with the "Error" label.  Not so.  These bad

links are warnings.  So, Microsoft, fix it.

I feel much better now.

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One warning message per compile?

> When I compile my help file, I often get just a single warning

>message when I know I've done exactly the same thing (such as

>reference a link by a name I've since changed) many times.  It's

>quite annoying to compile the file,find one place where I've done

>something wrong, recompile the file, find one more place I've done

>something wrong, etc. I mentioned this once to a support person but

>he assured me it only happens on fatal errors, indicated with the

>"Error" label.  Not so.  These bad links are warnings.  So,

>Microsoft, fix it.

i know your problem, becaue it's happened to me before; you find an

error, fix it, and then the same goddamn error occurs again but in a

different topic. well, the robohelp people also told me it was due

to a fatal error, but who cares? it's annoying as shit.  but, if you

have robohelp, before you compile hit the Quick Check button--this

checks all of the links and makes sure they're sound.

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WWORKS.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com

I've had the same problem with other MS help files supposedly made into

self-extracting pkzip files.  The solution is to use pkunzip (from pkzip

2.04g) to extract them.  At least it worked for the Access KB and index

files... (for example, 'pkunzip wworks.exe')

-Corey Lawson

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On Fri, 17 Jun 1994, George Byrnes wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jun 1994 12:27:23 GMT Ng Chi Him said:

> >Hi all,

> >

> >     I got the fiel WWORKS.EXE from the ftp site, it is supposed to be the

> >KB files in help format for Works for Windows, however, it is not a

> >self-extracting file, and when ran it violated system integrity, can

> >anybody help?

> >

> >Patrick

>

> Are you sure you set the system to binary transfer before downloading the

> file?

>

> Just a thought.

>

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Converting Ventura codes

Our doc department is considering switching to Word 6.0 for Windows as

our primary documentation tool. We currently use either WordPerfect or

Word for DOS create the text and the various tags and codes read by Ventura.

Does anyone know if the codes used by Ventura can be converted into codes

used by Word? This would keep our formatting intact and hopefully some of

the page referencing, figure anchors, etc. It could of course be done

manually but we were hoping for an existing utility.

Your help and/or advice is appreciated.

Thanks!

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Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

In article <EDM.94Jun16124829@gocart.eng.hou.compaq.com> edm@gocart.eng.hou.compaq.com (Edward Mccreary) writes:

>From: edm@gocart.eng.hou.compaq.com (Edward Mccreary)

>Subject: Re: Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

>Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 17:48:28 GMT

>In article <CrHs9E.LCw@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> prs9k@brain.neuro.virginia.edu (Phil Scarr) writes:

>   Subject says it all.  Baring that, what is the cheapest way to buy the

>   MS help compiler?  We need to use it with PowerBuilder.

>           -Phil

>You don't have to buy it.  Look on ftp.microsoft.com or whpe.zip or what.zip.

      Those two files are tools (unsupported by microsoft) to assist you in

developping the .RTF files that will get compiled to produce the .HLP files.

The Help Compiler itself is in the file HC505.ZIP (or .EXE). This includes a

help compiler that works in real mode (DOS prompt) as well as the one that

requires a DOS prompt under WINDOWS (VCPI/DPMI).

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sysop of SuperByte 486 (819) 775-3471 v32/v42 (bis too!)

jmessier@hookup.net                        74370.340@compuserve.com

             Drag me, Drop me, Treat me like an object !

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Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

And another question, the Paint Shop Pro I got when I paid the

registration had a few bugs fixed (like automatically appending file

extensions during save operations). Could these problems be specific

to the shareware version?

John Hall

jhall@ccit.arizona.edu

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Digest problem?

> >Another list member reported this problem to me. Recently, we reset a default

> >to allow news group users to post to Winhlp-L. It's possible that resetting

> >this default has affected those who receive the list as a digest, but I have

> >no reason to believe that this is so.

> >

>

>

> believe me, it's so.  At least it affected me too!

Me TOO!  It started with a trickle, and now I get ALL the messages

separately, including the digests!

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Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

On Fri, 17 Jun 1994 12:00:04 -0700 John R. Hall said:

>And another question, the Paint Shop Pro I got when I paid the

>registration had a few bugs fixed (like automatically appending file

>extensions during save operations). Could these problems be specific

>to the shareware version?

>

I believe these are not "bugs" but rather prods to have users pay up.

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Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

>Yossi, when I unzipped scrcap.zip the readme file indicated I would need

>certain files found in Video for Windows. Is VFW necessary to use scrcap?

>If so, will the runtime version of VFW, which is available at ftp MS, do?

[George Byrnes]

Sure boss.  The capture libraries are there.  VFW11A.ZIP from f.m.c is perfect.

I use it.

Yossi.

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Viewer 2.0 experts?

>One of my co-tech communicators is presently in a very tight spot: a

>higher-up is damned and determined we're GONNA "have multimedia" in the next

>version of one of our flagship products come hell or high water. Now, she

>has a Master's in educational tech, and no shortage of experience in

>multimedia authoring, BUT:

>

>o    This is the first time our department does multimedia ANYthing,

>o    She has a paltry three months to do this

>o    We have no departmental standard for mm authoring software

>o    We have to pick something PRONTO

>

>She's on the verge of going with Viewer 2.0 -- in fact, we don't have much

>choice. However, she would still like to hear what people are using as

>collateral tools. If you're using or have used Viewer 2, what are you using

>to produce your collateral sound, animation, etc., files? What CAN you use?

>

>We'd also like to hear about what mm file formats Viewer 2 supports natively

>(e.g., .FLI animation?) as we've had a tough time getting information from

>MS about this puppy. Sheesh, you think it'd be EASY to get mailed or faxed

>some propaganda....

>

>

>Thanx

>PatO'

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>

Patrick you might want to consider a multimedia authoring product

called Q-Media for Windows Version 2.0. I am doing some work for

this firm - here is a background product spec sheet for you:

Q-MEDIA FOR WINDOWS RELEASE 2.0

EFFORTLESS CREATION

Drag and Drop multimedia files directly onto the screen.

No scripting, importing or file conversions.

Integrated Outliner simplifies planning, organizing, and updating your

production.

Synchronize media objects on the graphical Timeline.

Use built-in Templates to get you started quickly.

500 MB royalty-free library of clip media included.

INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA WITH QUICK LINK NAVIGATION

Quickly create interactive multimedia; branch to scenes, link to other

applications, control embedded objects, display messages or trigger

MCI events.

Automatic Button Tool with six button styles including 3D and

transparent buttons.

INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA WITH QUICK LINK NAVIGATION

Drag and Drop from other OLE 2.0 compatible applications.

Using Windows metafiles import individual slides from PowerPoint, Freelance,

or other popular presentation applications as background.

Use charts and graphs from Excel or any other OLE compatible

application.

Use applications such as Adobe Premiere, Turtle Beach WAVE for Windows

and Autodesk 3D Studio as an editor to transparently perform on-screen

editing of media objects.

Use with any MCI (Media Control Interface) compatible device.

INTEGRATED TEXT AND DRAW TOOLS

Advanced text editor and user-defined text styles for a consistent,

professional look.

Integrated draw tools to create diagrams and charts.

Over 20 transitions and effects for draw and text objects.

Automatic alignment and sizing of objects.

Create stunning effects with multi-color gradient backgrounds.

ANIMATION SUPPORT

Add animation from Autodesk Animator, 3D Studio, Animation Works Interactive

and any other FLC or FLI compatible animation program.

Play multiple animations simultaneously.

Loop animations and play complete animation or set in and out points.

AUDIO SUPPORT

Add background sound with WAVE, MIDI, RIFF, MIDI or CD Audio files.

Synchronize audio with images, animation or video

IMAGE SUPPORT

Seamlessly import images from any popular draw, paint, or presentation

application.

Automatically manage palettes for images, animations and video.

Supports BMP,WMF,DIB,PCX,TARGA,TIFF,EPS,GIF,WPG,JPEG,DCX, and PICT.

Supports Kodak PhotoCD

Supports 4, 8, 16, and 24 bit color

VIDEO SUPPORT

Supports Microsoft Video for Windows(AVI)

Supports Quick Time for Windows(MOV)

Supports Intel/IBM DVI Card (AVS)

Supports MPEG (MPG)

Using popular video overlay boards, Drag and Drop video onto the

screen from your Laser Disc, VCR, or Camcorder.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Minimum:                Windows 3.1, 386 25Mhz, 4MB RAM, 10 MB Free Disk

                        Space

Recommended:            MPC Level 2 PC (486SX, 8MB RAM, SVGA, CD-ROM)

Cost: Suggested retail price: $199.00 (special promotion during June

$139.00!)

Call: Q-Media at 1-800-444-9356 and you can ask for me - John Falloon

John Falloon

Knowledge on Demand

#1505 - 1348 Barclay Street

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Canada

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WWORKS.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com

Does anyone know where I can get some windows screen savers?

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Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

I've used scrcap.zip for a while and paid no attention to the files

warning. Since I had video for windows installed from other apps,

everything worked fine. Of course, my learning approach is to keep

pushing buttons until something smokes.

Now, of course, unless you have the full fledged video for windows

installed, or alternative editor, you're not going to be editing

anything but the capture and playback works fine.

John

jhall@ccit.arizona.edu

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Ever beamed Win messages at a VB app from Help?

I'm trying to get a KeyPress event to occur in a VB app by using the Win API

FindWindow and PostMessage functions (RR'd and used via a ! macro

statement). What I'm trying to is just NOT working. If you have any

experience with this at all, I'd like to hear from you. Also welcome is

advice from C/C++-using Windows programmers, if any are subscribed to this

list.

Thanks!

 PatO'

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Bad "Digest"ion

The Digests feature has stopped working for me as well.  I tried to

reestablish it by sending a set winhlp-l digests message to the listserver

and the reply indicated that I am indeed set to DIGEST mode.  I am

still receiving individual messages however.  Is something broke?

I have noticed something curious though.  All the individual messages have

this appended to them:

  [## X-Gateway: newsmail@metrics.com ##]

It indicates that my winhlp-l mail is somehow being routed through this

puppy.  Is this accurate?  Could this be the culprit?

I prefer the DIGEST format (so does my system administrator) since I

primarily lurk on this list.  I'll take this opportunity to send Kudos

to all the participants.  This is definitely one of my favourite lists

due to the quality of the exchange.  Cool stuff.

Tim Pascal

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Your winhlp-l posting re: Sound in Help

]     I am now using Help Writer's Assistant for Windows and Visual Help to

]create Help files.  They are great to me since I don't have to deal with

]the codes, but I am not sure if they are good in a programmer's eyes, can

]you give any advices?  Are there any better programs out there for the

]same purposes?

Hi Patrick,

There are all kinds of programs out there these days -- RoboHelp, ForeHelp,

Doc-to-Help, Windows Help Magician, and a swack o' shareware packages like

Help Writer's Assistant (what's Visual Help?). As to what's best, that's

best determined by one person and one person only: YOU. Whatever you feel

most comfortable with, and provides what you want, is the best package. Here

at Eicon we're mostly using RoboHelp, but it has its imperfections, so we're

looking at other options.

]     Another thing, Visual Help can let you build jump macros that play

]sounds (*.wav), is this ability rather new?  I never knew Help can play

]sounds before, does this mean Help can also play other multi-media files

]as well?

The ability to play .WAV files isn't new at all. There's not too much Help

or its bastard cousin, Viewer, *can't* do because you can extend the

functionality of both programs by registering routines in external DLLs, and

calling those routines either in your project file, or via macro (!)

statements embedded in your Help file. In fact, I don't know that Viewer is

anything but Help with a bunch of extra DLLs and built-in links to the

routines in them, and links to the Windows system MCI-related routines.

So far as I know Help itself cannot play the multimedia files that Viewer

creates (although a little experimentation might prove me wrong). For that

you'd need Viewer itself. What you *could* do with Help files is: for

sounds, execute Sound Recorder with the name of a .WAV file when a user

clicks an embedded ! macro; for FLIs, get ahold of a freeware FLI player

that checks command-line parameters, and do something similar.

If you don't know what I'm talking about with the !'s, get yourself a copy

of the Microsoft Windows Help Authoring Guide, which is available in either

.DOC or .HLP formats (the latter is online and inifinitely cooler). I think

the name of the FTP site run by the list administrator is dc1.humberC.on.ca

(IP address 192.75.71.35), and you should be able to obtain hag.zip (online)

or whag.zip (.DOC) from there via anonymous FTP. If that site name doesn't

work, mail byrnes@admin.humberc.on.ca for the real name, or instructions on

how to access Jon Noring's Netcom anonymous-FTP stuff.

Have fun,

Pat

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Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

chou@n5145.notis.com wrote:

: > So if you get strange problems, and you are using Paint Shop Pro,

: >(I was trying ver 2.00), then you know why......

: this seems to jibe well with my experience, too. when i tried to

I've done extensive graphic work with a registered PaintShop Pro. No such

problems here.  Make sure you are saving in Win/OS2 RGB (not RLE) format

with a maximum of 16 colors.

 PaintShop Pro is a fine product for a reasonable price. It has never

failed to impress me.

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Warning From uucp

We have been unable to contact machine 'robohack' since you queued your job.

        robohack!mail ibmcan!mcnc!gatech!gatech!woodowl!bsanders   (Date 06/16)

The job will be deleted in several days if the problem is not corrected.

If you care to kill the job, execute the following command:

        uustat -krobohacZ17ab

        Sincerely,

        telly!uucp

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From:   George Byrnes <BYRNES@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA>

Subject:      Re: Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

To:     Multiple recipients of list WINHLP-L <WINHLP-L@HUMBER.BITNET>

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This might be a good time to remind everyone that we presently have an

ftp site for Winhelp related files at 192.75.71.35 :winhlp. The help

compiler is here along with a number of related files.

The problem with the prsent site is that it does not allow for uploading.

In July, Wally Grotophorst has agreed to make room available on a machine

he has available. This will then become the most convenient place to

access winhelp files. Wally will make an announcement when the new site

is available.

Cheers.

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  3199 Lakeshore Blvd. W., Toronto, ON. Canada M8V 1K8

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We have been unable to contact machine 'robohack' since you queued your job.

        robohack!mail ibmcan!mcnc!gatech!gatech!woodowl!bsanders   (Date 06/16)

The job will be deleted in several days if the problem is not corrected.

If you care to kill the job, execute the following command:

        uustat -krobohacZ17ae

        Sincerely,

        telly!uucp

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Subject:      Re: Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

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It comes with the Visual C++ and Basic development environments if you want to

consider purchasing those.

I saw a post earlier on some help development tool that includes the help

 compiler

when you purchase the tool.

You might try nosing around in ftp.microsoft.com as anonymous FTP. They have

 some

"updated" versions of the help compiler on there. But that method does not

 provide

any documentation.

>From: Phil Scarr <prs9k@BRAIN.NEURO.VIRGINIA.EDU>

>

>Subject says it all.  Baring that, what is the cheapest way to buy the

>MS help compiler?  We need to use it with PowerBuilder.

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Mike Bellusci asked about how to get a TOC window running with the

help window.

I don't know the techo details but I do know of a product that will do this

automatically for you. It's HDK or help/hypertext development kit. It

provides a proprietary DLL with the TOC functionality and you can fairly

simply just compile a system with a TOC option switched on. You can

distribute the DLL freely with your compiled systems.

The contact for HDK is Virtual Media in Sydney, fax (61) 2 953- 4044

Hope this helps.

Mike Floyd.

Australian Centre for Unisys Software

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Subject:      Re: associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

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Has anybody tried the syntax to create a second pane ala Viewer in normal

 Windows

Help? I would not be surprised if it was an undocumented feature.

Gregory J. Peto

gpeto@mudshark.sunquest.com

>From: Mike Bellusci <bellusci@TNPUBS.ENET.DEC.COM>

>No idea why that got scrambled like that!

>

>>Using a secondary window that is placed exactly next to the main

>help

>>window.  Of course, if you start moving the windows, the effect

>is lost.

>

>In the NT Command Ref, the windows look as if they are one.  You

>cannot separate them.

>

>>The other way is to use Viewer 2.0.  In Viewer2 you can define

>"panes"

>>within your main window that can be separateley manipulated.

>

>What is Viewer 2.0?  Is it from Microsoft or is it a separate

>product?

>

>What I want to do is ship a single help file that combines the TOC

>or index as part of the main .hlp file.  Just as it is with the NT

>command ref guide.  The NT command ref help directory show two

>files:  the .ind file and the .hlp file.  When you bring up the

>and serves as a very nice hot-spotted index to the book.  I want

>to do the same.  But how?

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animations in help files, change symbol of hlp File

Hi,

Please help me with these two questions concerning hlp Files:

How can I integrate animations into a help window? Is there

a program that can do this on an internet server somewhere?

I have found one but its only for Windows NT help files.

If you know of any way how to include animations in help files,

(other than.mmm Movies) please let me know. Thanks.

My second question: How can I change the symbol of a minimized help

file from a question mark to another symbol?

Thanks a lot.

1. How can I integrate animations (simple but full screen) into

a help window? IS there a programm on a server that can do this.

I have found one but it's only for Windows NT. Im using HelpMAgician

as deve

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Searching programs.

In article <CrJFs1.MxC@metrics.com>

           ve002jp@SMOKIE.ELKA.PG.GDA.PL "Jerzy Proficz" writes:

>Can anybody send me server address where I could find some education programs

>for phisic for MS Windows or Dos.

Sorry, but you've asked on the wrong newsgroup. This is a group for

discussing Windows Help File writing, not for requesting help with

Windows problems.

Chris

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Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

In article <771868907snz@dharma.demon.co.uk>,

bhagavat@dharma.demon.co.uk (bhagavat dharma) writes:

> So if you get strange problems, and you are using Paint Shop Pro,

(I was

> trying ver 2.00), then you know why......

I've also had problems with Paint Shop Pro.. but they involve PSP

distorting the Palette.  Any BMP image I open or fool with under PSP

and then try to open in the HotSpot editor is severly off-colored

(usually toward a greenish tent).  I've made sure that I was dealing

with only 16 color images thru the whole process.  I've tried going

thru the same steps using Paintbrush and no problems..the images

appear perfectly in the HotSpot editor.. just a bit of food for

thought ;>

eaglemage@aol.com

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Non-FTP sight for WHAT.ZIP??

Anyone know of a BBS where the file WHAT.ZIP is located? As an AOL

member, we STILL don't have FTP.   I located WHAG.ZIP , but as fate

would have it.. it didn't have WHAT.ZIP.  I've searched everywhere.

Any phone numbers for a BBS that allows access to download WHAT.ZIP

would be GREATLY appreciated.  THANKS !!

eaglemage@aol.com

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Your removal from the WINHLP-L list

Dear subscriber,

  As  of Saturday,  June the  18th  of 1994,  you  have been  removed from  the

WINHLP-L distribution list (Windows Help Compiler (WINHELP) Discussion List) by

George Byrnes <BYRNES@HUMBER.BITNET>.

Virtually,

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TOC windows with help

Can I use the DLL without Word, as I create my helpfiles

with HelpWriter's Assistant for Windows.  I asked when an

earlier  version of  HDK was out and  the author said it'd

be possible but difficult.  How about now?

-dennis turner

In article <CrIpr5.4y@metrics.com>, Mike Floyd <mikef@SYACUS.ACUS.OZ.AU> writes:

> Mike Bellusci asked about how to get a TOC window running with the

> help window.

>

> I don't know the techo details but I do know of a product that will do this

> automatically for you. It's HDK or help/hypertext development kit. It

> provides a proprietary DLL with the TOC functionality and you can fairly

> simply just compile a system with a TOC option switched on. You can

> distribute the DLL freely with your compiled systems.

>

> The contact for HDK is Virtual Media in Sydney, fax (61) 2 953- 4044

>

> Hope this helps.

>

> Mike Floyd.

> Australian Centre for Unisys Software

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Need help with bug when COMPRESS=HIGH is set

I've run into a rather interesting bug with a compiled help file. We've

created our own screen font for use in the product, and I use this font in

two specific help topics.

We use RoboHelp 2.0 and MS Help compiler 3.10.505.

In the compiled file, when I select (via Search or the Browse buttons or a

jump) the first of these topics -- a topic that uses the font extensively in

a table of characters --  I get this message:

                Application Error

WINHELP caused a General Protection Fault in

     module WINHELP.EXE at 0001:13B8

When I select the second of these topics, which has only 3 characters that

use this font, I get this message:

                WINHELP

An error has occurred in your application. If you choose

Ignore, you should save your work in a new file. If you

 choose Close, your application will terminate.

If I choose Ignore several times, I get the topic, but the font has been

replaced (I think with Helvetica. All the characters show the little hollow

box character.)

If I now choose Close, I get this message:

                Application Error

WINHELP caused a General Protection Fault in

     module WINHELP.EXE at 0044:0221

At first, I thought these crashes were a problem with the font. But then I

discovered I could generate these problems only when the file had been

compiled with COMPRESS = HIGH. If I change this to COMPRESS = OFF or

COMPRESS = MEDIUM, the problem disappears.

Is there is any way of getting the file to work with compression on high?

Any work-arounds?

Thanks

Susan

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What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

Hello, fellow netters!

I am trying to install WHAT6 from MSDN 2 but it seems there are some missing

files. Are these files supposed to be anywhere else or am I just plain stupid?

Thanks!

Regards,

Carlos Antunes.

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Recommendation on tutorial tools

>O.K., so now what tools have you used to develop online Windows-based

>tutorials and can you recommend them to me?

You can try the shareware demo/tutorial builder.

The file is called stdm15.zip and can be found on

ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/win3/util

here is a short description:

STDEMO PLAYER v1.5 - Demo/tutorial builder for Windows 3.x applications.

You write demo or tutorial as a script from which you can start several

programs, "play" some keystrokes and mouse actions in it, and interact

with the user by numerous dialogs (coded in script). Thus you are able

to demonstrate application simply by running it. Also can be used as a

Windows batch language or scheduler.

Mik

mik@cnj.digex.com

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.hlp -> .rtf conversion

In article <1994Jun13.153726.28611@cobra.uni.edu>,

 <chungr@cobra.uni.edu> wrote:

>Does anyone know of a converter or decompiler to convert .hlp files back to

>.rtf or .doc?

>

>David Chung

>chungr@uni.edu

>72032,325@compuserve.com

Reportedly, the new version of rtftohtml.zip does both ways, but I can't

find the reference right now... anybody else??

I think it it is on the Simtel-20 and similar mirrors, under hypertext...

Karen.

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What about Ami Pro 2.0?? Is rtf=rtf regardless? :)

Has anywbody ever used Ami Pro 2.0 to generate RTF files... are they the

same as any otehr (One could only hope) Since Word for Windows 6.0 has

this problem with save-as, would Ami Pro be ok to use to generate the RTF

files in preparation for conversion/compiling into help files (and html

too) ??

I just haven't seen any discussion about Ami Pro although I have seen it

mentioned in some documentation somewhere... I am beginning to be

innandated with data! :)

Karen.

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Am I blind or crazy?

Hi everybody,

after hours of weeping (my keyboard being full of tears) I decided

to ask for your assistance:

Usually, I use only the default winhelp buttons, but yesterday I tried

to include a custom button to execute a JumpID macro.

I used the syntax shown in Borlands reference guide "cwh.hlp" and

tried and tried and tried - but always got error messages during

compilation ("syntax error"), although I tried every possible kind

of combination of " and ) .

This is the syntax according to cwh.hlp (for the [config] - section)

     CreateButton("B1", "fussnoten", "JumpID("dipl.hlp", "fussnoten1")")

and I tried also

     CreateButton("B1", "fussnoten", "!JumpID("dipl.hlp", "fussnoten1")")

This is the correct combination of corresponding right and left brackets,

but nevertheless all the Compilers (hc, hc31, hcp) complain about

syntax errors. It seems to be a problem with nesting brackets into each

other. When I start the help file produced, Winhelp pops up with a

message saying "  ')' missing  ".

What went wrong?????????

Greetings,   Uli

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Non-FTP sight for WHAT.ZIP??

In article <2tuolq$6d7@search01.news.aol.com> eaglemage@aol.com writes:

>Anyone know of a BBS where the file WHAT.ZIP is located? As an AOL

>member, we STILL don't have FTP.   I located WHAG.ZIP , but as fate

>would have it.. it didn't have WHAT.ZIP.  I've searched everywhere.

>Any phone numbers for a BBS that allows access to download WHAT.ZIP

>would be GREATLY appreciated.  THANKS !!

It matters not whether your host provides FTP access or not as in their

CompuServe support forums Microsoft have said several times that the only

means of getting WHAT is now on the Level II developers CD-ROM. (That is

the WHAT for W4W v6.) One of the FTP archives has a bugged version of WHAT6

which will presumably NOT be updated from the level II stuff.

--

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What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

In article <1994Jun19.030522.320@softsousa.pt> cmsa@softsousa.pt (Carlos Antunes) writes:

>From: cmsa@softsousa.pt (Carlos Antunes)

>Subject: What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

>Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 03:05:22 GMT

>Hello, fellow netters!

>I am trying to install WHAT6 from MSDN 2 but it seems there are some missing

>files. Are these files supposed to be anywhere else or am I just plain stupid?

>Thanks!

    I've read in previous messages that there are missing files. The whole

package could be ftp'd from ftp.microsoft.com.....

===================================================================

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sysop of SuperByte 486 (819) 775-3471 v32/v42 (bis too!)

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             Drag me, Drop me, Treat me like an object !

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Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

Archive-name: ms-windows/faqprg.how-to

Last-modified: 1994-03-29

Related-archives: ms-windows/faqprg.asc,ms-windows/faqprg.zip

Last-FAQ-Update: Mar 24 03:00

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains how you can

obtain a copy of the Microsoft Windows Programmer FAQ (Frequently Asked

Questions) list.  The Windows Programmer FAQ is an extensive compilation of

Windows software development facts, tips, techniques, and other useful

information.  The FAQ is about 5800 lines long (in ASCII format) or 140K (as

a ZIP archive of a Windows Help file).

The Windows NT FAQ, authored by Adam Hamilton, is currently only available

in ASCII format.

All updates to the Windows FAQ and Windows Programmer FAQs are posted to the

following two newsgroups:

comp.binaries.ms-windows	WinHelp format

comp.os.ms-windows.announce	ASCII text format

The updates are usually 2-3 months apart, depending on the amount of new

information and the maintainer's workload.

You can also FTP the FAQs from the following sites:

    ftp.nimh.nih.gov	156.40.186.8	/pub/win3/FAQ

    wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4	/usenet/comp.binaries.ms-windows/faqs

    ftp.metrics.com	198.133.164.1	/faq

The FAQs will have filenames in the format of FAQWINxx.ZIP (Windows),

FAQPRGxx.zip (Windows Programmer), and FAQWNTxx.zip where xx is the version

number.  Please do not abuse these sites; limit your FTP activity to time

outside business hours (8 PM EST through 9 AM EST, or 0100 GMT through 1400

GMT).

If you wish to retrieve the FAQs using Gopher, you can locate them at

gopher.nimh.nih.gov.

If the news postings have expired on your site, and you have no FTP access,

you can obtain it using the decwrl ftp mail server.  For instructions, send

a mail message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with a body containing simply:

       help

You will receive a full set of instructions by return mail.

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Archive-name: ms-windows/newsgrp.guide

Last-modified: 1994-05-29

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains the purpose

of the usenet newsgroups for Microsoft Windows.  Please follow these

guidelines when posting your articles, and make life easier for all of

us.

These are the current Windows newsgroups:

GENERAL:

    comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   Comparisons and arguments about Windows &

  Windows NT vs. other operating systems

    comp.os.ms-windows.announce   MODERATED.  Announcements and news about

  Windows applications, drivers, events etc.

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  and configuring Windows.

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  for use with Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.misc       All other Windows discussions except

  advocacy with other operating systems.

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    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial  Financial applications

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    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc  Word processing and desktop publishing

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc       Miscellaneous Windows & NT applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps            [Superceded by apps.misc]

NETWORKING:

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip  TCP/IP-based networking for

  Windows, includign NFS and apps

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows Windows' native networking: WFWG,

  NT, NTAS and LAN Manager

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc    All other networks, such as Netware,

  Banyan Vines and LANtastic

WINDOWS NT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup   Setting up and configuring Windows NT and

  Windows NT Advanced Server

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc    All other Windows NT-specific discussions

  except programming and advocacy

PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls   Using controls, custom controls,

     VBXs, OCXs and dialogs

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.drivers    Driver and  VxD development for

     Windows 3.1, NT and Chicago

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics   Graphics and GDI programming in

     Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory     Memory and process management,

     threads and IPC in Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia Development of multimedia and

     video applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks   Network-specific application

     development for Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole        Creating OLE, COM and DDE-based

     applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools      Windows development tools, class

     libraries and compilers

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32      Developing for the Win32 API

     (including NT and Win32s)

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp    Developing WinHelp and Multimedia

     Viewer files and applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc       All other Windows programming and

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OTHER RELATED GROUPS:

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  Windows and MS-DOS

    comp.apps.spreadsheets        Spreadsheets and related applications,

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    Please try to post to the appropriate newsgroup, and try to avoid

    crossposting whenever possible. This makes it easier for everyone

    to find the information they are looking for without wading through

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    Second, please do not get involved in arguments about Windows vs.

    OS/2 vs. Macintosh vs. NeXTSTEP *except* in the .advocacy group.

    Don't post any comparison or argument, and if someone else posts one

    -- don't post a followup! Ignore this flamebait, and help increase

    the signal-to-noise ratio of the newsgroups.

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    To subscribe to a Usenet newsgroup, you can use the "gnewsgroupname"

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Non-FTP sight for WHAT.ZIP??

In article <772037623snz@apusapus.demon.co.uk>,

tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins) writes:

Well, I don't need What6.zip as I don't have W4W6.. all i have is

W4W2, so as long as the WHAT.ZIP file for W4W v 2 is out there.. I'll

be happy :>  thanks for the info about WHAT6.ZIP, though.

Bill M.

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HELP!!!  Word Perfect & Garamond REWARD !

HELP!!!  Word Perfect & Garamond REWARD !

Please HELP

We have a client using Word Perfect 6.0 on a Windows platform, with ATM.

When the client prepares a postscript file for print production on our

Xerox Docutech printer, the type changes from Garamond to Times. We cannot

find ANY reason for the substitution. We feel that the problem is in the

clients Windows, ATM or WP configuration as the substitution occurs even if

the client sends the a non Postscript file to thier HP PCL printer.

We have reviewed this problem with Word Perfect, Adobe, Xerox and Micro

Soft, nobody can figure it out.

Any ideas?

The first response with the right answer will recieve our everlasting

gratitude, recognition as the SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD and a free full

colour T Shirt, imprinted with the image of your choice.

Please reply via E Mail

Thanking you in advance, Alan

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PO Box 10360, 609 Granville St   | Postscript, HP-PCL, B&W or Full Colour

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Missing Bullets in help file - AmiPro 3.01, WinHelp

Hello,

I am using AmiPro 3.01 to write my help files. When I try to use paragraphs

that have bullets in them, the bullets disappear when I view the help file.

I keep the original file as an AmiPro file (.SAM extension) and when I am

ready to make my help file, I save the file as a Rich Text File (.RTF) file.

The bullets are present in the .SAM file.

Also, if you know of any sites that may have help file template for

AmiPro, please let me know.

If it matters, I use HC31 that came with MS Visual C++ 1.5.

Thanks

Ravi

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Help metrics

I recently received a reply from Damir Simunic concerning a tool for measuring

Help usage. I have been trying to send him a direct EMail reply, but it has

been bounced back to me each time.  Since I am unsure which newsgroup Damir

read my original post, I am giving it a try in the newsgroups I originally

posted in.

Damir,

Sorry about the amount of time it is taking to get this to you.  I am very

interested in your work. Let's figure out how to talk about it!

Tom Maynard    Marcam Corporation    maynard@marcam.com

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HELP!!!  Word Perfect & Garamond REWARD !

Alan Gratland (guidelin@wimsey.com) wrote:

: HELP!!!  Word Perfect & Garamond REWARD !

: Please HELP

: We have a client using Word Perfect 6.0 on a Windows platform, with ATM.

: When the client prepares a postscript file for print production on our

: Xerox Docutech printer, the type changes from Garamond to Times. We cannot

: find ANY reason for the substitution. We feel that the problem is in the

: clients Windows, ATM or WP configuration as the substitution occurs even if

: the client sends the a non Postscript file to thier HP PCL printer.

: We have reviewed this problem with Word Perfect, Adobe, Xerox and Micro

: Soft, nobody can figure it out.

: Any ideas?

: The first response with the right answer will recieve our everlasting

: gratitude, recognition as the SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD and a free full

: colour T Shirt, imprinted with the image of your choice.

: Please reply via E Mail

: Thanking you in advance, Alan

: --------------------------------------------------------------------------

: Alan Gratland,                   | Cost effective print production

: Guideline Digital Printing       | from digital sources. "Print On Demand"

: PO Box 10360, 609 Granville St   | Postscript, HP-PCL, B&W or Full Colour

: Vancouver, BC CANADA V7Y 1H6     | 604-893-5761 (vox) 604-687-2664 (fax)

: --------------------------------------------------------------------------

One thing that you've probably already tried, but...

Check your client's printer setup to see if their print driver's

substitution table (should be under TrueType Font options)

substitutes Times for Garamond instead of downloading it as a soft font.

That would give the results you are describing.

Hope this helps,

Jon Acheson

thag@access.netaxs.com

"My housemates went to see the movie SPEED this weekend.  They said it

looked just like the O.J. Simpson coverage..."

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Printing entire .hlp files

Marty Leisner 25733 (leisner@gemini) wrote:

:

: What I'm doing seems to work:

:

: 1) I run a program called hlp2doc.

: 2) I important the doc file into word

: 3) I print from word (actually, I'm making a file...)

: I'm using lptx and lpt1.dos...

:

Does anyone know where to get hlp2doc?

-- Johannes Karanitsch

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"Console"-type window for Windows App?

We are developing (actually, we have inherited someone else's

code) a Windows application that basically handles recording and

playback of events such as mouse clicks, button/menu selection, and

so forth.  We're using Visual C++ and the debugger often gets lost --

so, we'd like to revert to the old tried-and-true method of printf()

style debugging messages.  The original author claimed that there

really isn't any way to redirect standard output to another window --

his method of debugging was to call MessageBox() for each print

message he wanted displayed.  This seemed slow and clumsy to us.

Isn't there a simple way to open a display-only window for redirection

of printf()?  Note that we are Unix programmers, so it might be

helpful to keep replies short and stupid :-)  Thanks for any help ...

Brian Russ

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Sites for GIF Files

Good Morning,

I am looking for GIF or BMP files of the Continents or sub-divisions thereof

to use as segmented hypergraphics in a WINDOWS help file. I anyone one knows

of an FTP site for these please let me know directly.

Thanks

Bill Fray - Yale Law Library

fray@mail.law.yale.edu

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awk and rtf files

I'm not planning on doing this myself, but has anybody

tried manipulating rtf files with the text pattern recognition

language awk?

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Printing Entire Help Files

I posted a request for some information from the windows/dos programers

journal. Some individual was nice enough to provide an issue and

publishers phone number. However, since that time my mailer trashed all

my mail.

So if that nice individual is still out there, mind responding again.

Thanks

Mike Sosteric

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OS/2 and Visual C++ 1.1

I'm trying to get Visual C++ 1.1 to work under Win-OS/2 3.1 on an OS/2 2.11

Box.

I keep getting the error MMD.386 not loaded when trying to compile/do anything

useful.

Does anyone have any suggestions how I might be able to work around this one?

Direct email replies would be appreciated as I am unable to subscribe to these

news groups at present.

Ciao,

B-)arney

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What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

cmsa@softsousa.pt (Carlos Antunes) writes:

>I am trying to install WHAT6 from MSDN 2 but it seems there are some missing

>files. Are these files supposed to be anywhere else or am I just plain stupid?

   Some files are missing from WHAT6 on the MSDN CD-ROM.

   They posted the missing help file at ftp.microsoft.com

   as /developer/MSDN/CD7/WHATHLP.ZIP.  Even so, the version

   of WHAT6 calls word basic routines that are not there.

   It doesn't seem like Microsoft checked this one out before

   they placed it on the CD-ROM.  You would think they would

   post a new version to ftp.microsoft.com, but I haven't seen

   it...

        ...Cuyler

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Missing Bullets in help file - AmiPro 3.01, WinHelp

In article <2u46ju$1q5@rcsuna.gmr.com> M. G. Ravichandran,

mravicha@gmr.com writes:

>Also, if you know of any sites that may have help file template for

>AmiPro, please let me know.

I think there may be one on ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  I have one if you are

interested and can't find the one on indiana.  e-mail me.

+----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+

| James Klaas                      | Currently Looking for a mechanical|

| jklaas@uv1.im.med.umich.edu      | engineering job in the United     |

| james.klaas@med.umich.edu        | States.                           |

+----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+

|*****   they are = they're   *****  you are = you're  ****************|

|***********  and folks it's spelled Windows not Windoze  *************|

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ForeHelp

Anyone used this help authoring tool?

Thanks,

  - Antonio Dias

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Dots in Help Compiler

Just wondering.... Anybody knows the meaning of the dots showing up

after each RTF file while compiling ??

  - Size of RTF ??

  - Time ??

  - Nb of topics ??

  - Nb of external bitmaps ??

  - Speed of the wind ??

  - Subtile MS-mean of all the above ??

Any other ??

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API doc for DLL

Hi all,

     Does anybody know where to find the API documentation of DLL's?

Especially MMSYSTEM.DLL.

     I need to RegisterRoutine.

     BTW, any idea on how to write a screen saver for windows?

Thanks in advance

Patrick

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HTML to RTF/winhelp converter needed!!!

Does anyone in this group know where I can find a utility to convert HTML

(HyperText Manipulation Language) documents to RTF?? I've made help files

using HTML, and I don't wan't to do all the work again to port the system

to a MSDOS/Windows platform.

Thanks in advance.

Knut Martin Tornes

e-mail: knut_t@ifi.uib.no

    or  sinkt@alf.uib.no

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This newsgroup is for WRITING HELP SYSTEMS, NOT for asking random wind

the subject says it all, i think.

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Where is WHAT6.DOT?

  I was at ftp.microsoft the other day and I picked up a file called

whathlp.zip.  It happens that this was the Windows Help Authoring Toolkit,

at least it was the help files.  In the main help file, it said that

I should use the template WHAT6.DOT, that this template makes Word an

easy-to-use help editor.  Has anyone seen this file, or better yet, does

anyone have it and would be willing to post it.  Thanks in advance.

Andy.

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awk and rtf files

In article <1994Jun20.212856.4181@vms.huji.ac.il>,

 <tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il> wrote:

>I'm not planning on doing this myself, but has anybody

>tried manipulating rtf files with the text pattern recognition

>language awk?

>

I've used sed, yacc and lex on rtf files, but not awk.  If you

want to get a programmatic grip on the contents of an rtf file,

I would think that lex and yacc would be a better choice than

awk.  I didn't go so far as to parse the whole thing, so I don't

have template lex or yacc files to send you.  The O'Reilly book

on lex and yacc might be enough to get you started.

- Steve

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Anyone hear of a program called "Filewalker"?

Anyone out there ever hear of a file access utility called

"Filewalker" (or some variation of this spelling)? I

understand that this program lets you get into BMP files

to manipulate their X- and Y-coordinates. If so, I'd like to

know where I might locate a copy.

It's not in the Microsoft SDK, but it may possibly be

in one of the Microsoft CD-ROMs for developing on-line

help files. I'm not sure of the latter, because I don't

have access to these Microsoft offerings.

Anyone know where I might find this utility?

Thanks for any information you might have.

Mike

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Calling Winhelp.exe to find a specific topic - How do I?

Does anybody out there know whether it is possible to invoke

WINHELP.EXE from another Windows application, and have it display

a specific topic within a help file?

As I gather most people reading this conference know, it is possible to

start "WINHELP.EXE" from Program Manager or whatever with a .hlp file

as a command line argument. This opens the help file, and displays

the "contents" topic. What I am trying to find out is whether it is possble

to feed WINHELP.EXE a command line argument to find a specific topic, or

any other alternative which does not involve wading through the WINAPI calls.

The background is this: I may in the near future be involved in developing

a tutorial, using a Windows-based scripting tool. If the project goes ahead,

my potential customers would be very interested in having Windows-style

context-sensitive online help available at most times during the tutorial.

The downside of this is that the chosen scripting tool does not have a

(documented) way to call the windows API directly (which would be the

conventional way to implement context-sensitivity), but is able to run

other Windows applications, feeding them command lines.

Yours,

Peter N. M. Hansteen (peternm@oslonett.no)

phone:	+47 55 32 08 02 (daytime, CET)

fax:	+47 55 32 14 95 (all day, all night)

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Pictures in floating text

Hello!

Is it possible to place a picture in a Winword (or WP).rtf-file

with floating text around it? Can it be connected to a topic?

If possible, how is it done?

Thanks!

/Thomas

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Pictures in floating text

In article <2u9237$pp0@nyheter.chalmers.se>, <thka@me.chalmers.se>

writes:

> Is it possible to place a picture in a Winword (or WP).rtf-file

> with floating text around it? Can it be connected to a topic?

>

> If possible, how is it done?

if you create a table, that might work, but the columns would have to

be small, or you could merge all of the cells except for the cell

that the bitmap is in.

tip: if you create a 2 column table and make the left column as

skinny as it can get and then reference a bitmap in that left column

and put text in the right, it will look like the text is layed over

the graphic (you have to use a light-colored picture, or change the

color of your text). a little clumsy, but not too shabby for a

Welcome type screen

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Clickable image maps

Is there a way to make clickable image maps in windows help?

tif

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HC vs. HCP   143K difference

Could someone please explain this??

When I compile my help file using Microsoft HC version 3.10.505 my help file

is 210,274 bytes.

When I compile with Microsoft HCP version 3.10.505 (extended) my help file is

67,316 bytes.

This is a big difference and I don't understand what is going on here.  If you

have an explanation, I'd like to hear it.

By the way, I got both of these HELP compliers from WHAT6.

Thanks

<-------------------------------------------------------->

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color background for non-scrollable area

Hello,

I have seen some help files which seem to use a background color (non white) for

non-scrollable area. How can it be done?

Thanks

Ravi

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Calling Winhelp.exe to find a specific topic - How do I?

Peter N. M. Hansteen (peternm@oslonett.no) wrote:

: Does anybody out there know whether it is possible to invoke

: WINHELP.EXE from another Windows application, and have it display

: a specific topic within a help file?

Write a small app in Visual Basic with simply a Common Dialog box control.

Extract the command line from the VB app and use it to get the name of

the help file and the context string.

There is a mode of calling Winhelp in this way which bring ups the context

at once.

In the VB app, put the procedures into the Form_Load event, but ensure that it

does not ever actually Show the form.

Just a thought....

Roger Layton.

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Pictures in floating text

In article <2u9237$pp0@nyheter.chalmers.se>,  <thka@me.chalmers.se> wrote:

>Hello!

>

>Is it possible to place a picture in a Winword (or WP).rtf-file

>with floating text around it?

Put the picture in a table, as has been explained.

>Can it be connected to a topic?

A picture can be connected to a topic in 2 ways:

{\uldb \ [image]}{\v !JumpId(qchPath,`topic')}

or you can use the HotspotEditor to make the picture one

big hotspot and reference the .SHG.

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Amsterdam                [                  ||]~

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Doc-To-Help and other help programs

In article oqu@access3.digex.net, riker@access.digex.net () writes:

>Greetings.  I have created on-line help in UNIX environments using

>FrameMaker and FrameVIewer.  Now a client is asking me to create on-line

>help in an MS Windows environment.  The goal is to take MS Word

>documentation and turn it quickly into on-line materials.  The client has

>a package called Doc-To-Help which they know almost nothing about, but

>they want me to use.

>

>How easy is this software to learn and use?  Are there better (= easier)

>on-line help packages for MS Windows help?

>

>All comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I have worked with Doc-to-Help since it's introduction. It is very easy to learn. I have converted 100K of Wordperfect text to a windows help file in about 4 hours. A lot of it depends on what you expect. I have found that after I

produced the help file I wanted a few more links and other neat features. Having a good knowledge of how to

do these things manually I found it easier to edit the file that way. I would recommend Doc-to-help especially to the novice. It is a great product to produce a mnual and on-line help in one easy step.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Christopher J. Allen e3ucja@fnma.com

Federal National Mortgage Association

4000 Wisconsin Ave

Washington, DC 20016

(202) 752-7156

All statements and opinions represent purely my own and are in no way a reflection or statement of the Federal National Mortgage Association. I am acting as an Individual.

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color background for non-scrollable area

In article <2u9jnl$4me@rcsuna.gmr.com>,

M. G. Ravichandran  <mravicha@rcsuna.gmr.com> wrote:

>Hello,

>

>I have seen some help files which seem to use a background color (non white) for

>non-scrollable area. How can it be done?

>

In your HPJ file you can define a [WINDOWS] section.

For the main window, you should add a line:

main=,,,,(192,192,192)

to make the non-scrolling zone light grey.  The numbers are

simply the RGB values (in that order) from 0-255

You can also change the color of the text region:

main=,,,(255,0,0),(192,192,192)

This should give you a bright red background.

(The above assumes you'll have to do it manually.

A friendlier way would be to let you choose the

colors interactively with a ChooseColor dialog box)

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Convert Text file to Binary?

Using VC++, can someone suggest a place to get code which will

convert a text file into a binary type file? The file is quite

large. Any FTP sites?

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ForeHelp

In article <DIAS.94Jun20161807@tomodachi.pal.xerox.com> dias@tomodachi.pal.xerox.com (antonio dias) writes:

>Anyone used this help authoring tool?

>

>Thanks,

>

>  - Antonio Dias

You bet! ForeHelp is the new wave way to do help. You create your topics and

jumps and everything in an almost exact replica of the final compiled file.

Besides the graphical editing, you also get a couple of neat visualizaton

tools that show you your system's links. They have a demo disk available

that lets you try it out with a small help system - limited to 10 topics I

believe, and a few other little cripplings. I prefer it a LOT over RoboHlep,

for example, because you never have to see the silly footnote codes unless

you want to print out the RTF file.

No connection with ForeFront except as a satisfied, (and maybe too easily

impressed :-) customer.

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Dots in Help Compiler

In article <2u68qs$aq6@info.epfl.ch> ferrez@masg1.epfl.ch (J.-Albert Ferrez) writes:

>Just wondering.... Anybody knows the meaning of the dots showing up

>after each RTF file while compiling ??

>  - Size of RTF ??

>  - Time ??

>  - Nb of topics ??

>  - Nb of external bitmaps ??

>  - Speed of the wind ??

>  - Subtile MS-mean of all the above ??

>

>Any other ??

The algorithm computes a speed figure of merit by estimating the completion

time based on file size versus machine speed of your computer, then outputs

dots at the rate given by:

  ___________

\/ Wind Speed

        _____________  * [(speed figure of merit) (estimated dot-count)]

Phase of moon

Always glad to help.

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Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

In article <2tq56c$443@mailer.fsu.edu> chung@delta.cs.fsu.edu (Terry Chung) writes:

>From: chung@delta.cs.fsu.edu (Terry Chung)

>Subject: Re: Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

>Date: 16 Jun 1994 18:20:59 GMT

>In article <2tq3c5$fnv@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> jenwen@pdd.iii.org.tw (Jenwen) writes:

>>Terry Chung (chung@grep.cs.fsu.edu) wrote:

>>: >As we understand it, the traditional format of RTF files cannot

>>: >handle Chinese characters. What file format does the help compiler

>>: >work on?

>>:

>>: The key is that you need a Chinese Windows to display Chinese characters.

>>: RTF format is not a issue.

>>:

>>: >In short, what is the proper procedure for the whole business?

>>: >Is there any tool (similar to Microsoft Help Authoring tool) that we

>>: >can use to speed up the process?

>>:

>>: Assume Chinese Windows and Word for Windows are both available.

>>:

>>: 1. Use Word for Windows to create files that contains topics, context

>>:    strings, etc., and save them as RTF format.

>>: 2. Create a .hpj file containing above RTF files.

>>: 3. Use help compiler to compile the .hpj file, thus obtaining a .hlp file.

>>: 4. Use winhelp.exe came from Chinese Windows to view the .hlp file.

>>

>>But I found the chinese version WORD 5.0 can not be used to crate RTF.

>>becuase this will cause HC31.exe fail. The reason is above - RTF format

>>in Chinese version WORD. why is the RTF format different between

>>English and Chinese Version. Now I use WORD 2.0 (English) to create

>>Chinese Help. It works.  Above are my exepereince.

>>(Anyone use Chinese WORD 5.0 to create Help file OK?)

>>

>I don't have Chinese Word 5.0. All RTF files I create are using

>English version of Word 2.0. Have you tried the latest version of HC

>or HCP? I know they are available from ftp.microsoft.com.

>>Jenwen,Chien-Wen Huang

>>

>-Terry Chung

> chung@cs.fsu.edu

We have no problems to use C-Word 5.0 to create the Help file.

Recheck the steps listed in the Prof. Book 1 for VB 3.0.

Run HC31 under DOS instead of Windows!

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Help! SetIndex and SetContents

I need someone to explain the following WinHelp commands. They do not work

as I expect they would.

HELP_SETCONTENTS, HELP_SETINDEX (and HELP_CONTENTS, HELP_INDEX)

First, CONTENTS:

This is the code I executed:

tmpint1 = WinHelp(0, "tutor.hlp", HELP_SETCONTENTS, 6L);

tmpint2 = WinHelp(0, "tutor.hlp", HELP_CONTENTS, 0L);

tmpint1 and tmpint2 were both true

I expected that when the later was run, it would open the help displaying the

topic with context number of 6 (which is valid ). Instead, it opened

at the topic as defined by the Contents option in the project file.

Doesn't HELP_SETCONTENTS override this option?

Simarly,

tmpint1 = WinHelp(0, "tutor.hlp", HELP_SETINDEX, 6L);

tmpint2 = WinHelp(0, "tutor.hlp", HELP_INDEX, 0L);

tmpint1 and tmpint2 were both true

I expected that help would open at topic with context number of 6.

Instead, it opened at the topic as defined by the Contents option in the

project file. I do not have a Index option set in the project file.

I thought maybe if I dont have a Contents option set in the project file, then

HELP_SETCONTENTS would work as above. But this doesnt explain the INDEX

problem.

Any help or explaination of how HELP_SETCONTENTS, and HELP_SETINDEX are

meant to be used will be greatly apprechiated..

You can email me privately if you wish.

Thanks,

Linda

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In article <2ubber$mr8@bohra.cpsg.com.au>,

Linda McKenna <lindam@cpsg.com.au> wrote:

>

>I need someone to explain the following WinHelp commands. They do not work

>as I expect they would.

>	HELP_SETCONTENTS, HELP_SETINDEX (and HELP_CONTENTS, HELP_INDEX)

>

>	tmpint1 = WinHelp(0, "tutor.hlp", HELP_SETCONTENTS, 6L);

>	tmpint2 = WinHelp(0, "tutor.hlp", HELP_CONTENTS, 0L);

>

>tmpint1 and tmpint2 were both true

>I expected that when the later was run, it would open the help displaying the

>topic with context number of 6 (which is valid ). Instead, it opened

>at the topic as defined by the Contents option in the project file.

>Doesn't HELP_SETCONTENTS override this option?

>

Hi,

In the first place: HELP_SETCONTENTS/HELP_SETINDEX and

HELP_CONTENTS/HELP_INDEX are different names for the same

thing (you can see in <windows.h>, for instance, that they

have the same #defined values).  You should use the

CONTENTS forms; the INDEX ones are merely for compatiblity

with Windows 3.0, where the "Contents" button was mistakenly

labeled "Index", and all the docs said Index instead of

Contents.  The Contents page of a Help file should contain

a Table of Contents of some sort.  The real Index (as in a

book) is more like what you get in the Search dialog box.

Your second question, why doesn't it work?, is tougher.

If I read the documentation correctly, it seems that

HELP_SETCONTENTS will affect the topic that the user gets

when (s)he presses the F1 key, or the "Contents" button

in WinHelp.  The exact quote (from the Help Authoring Guide)

is:

"HELP_SETCONTENTS	An unsigned long integer containing

the context number for the topic the application wants to

designate as the Contents topic.

Determines which Contents topic Help should display when a

user presses F1 or chooses the Contents button in Help.

This call should never be used with HELP_CONTENTS."

My God!  Well, you can always remember what the Contents

topic should be (store it in a variable MyContentsTopic),

and do a WinHelp(... HELP_CONTEXT, ...) to it.

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drag and drop?!

can anyone help me in imlementing the 'drag and grop' option for the

text(not for files), like it's done in new versions of MS products,

using BC++ 3.1?

thanks

Ilia

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'guide' re how-to-create-help

: I always recommend "Developing Online Help for Windows" published by Sams.

: The book is pretty much a standard reference for this kind of work, and

: while it may not have precise advice about libraries, it will give you

: plenty to think about!

I'll second that opinion. The book is the best I've seen on the subject

to date.

I would also recommend you buy on of the many tools on the market to aid

in help creation. Almost any of these tools will save you immense amounts

of time (=money?) and help you build a superior helpfile.

These tools generally fall into two camps; 1) Add-ins to WORD, and

2)Standalone programs.

You can obtain a copy of my company's product "VB HelpWriter" from

"netcom2.netcom.com" in /ftp/pub/vb_helpwriter.  This version of the

program is free and may be used in any way you choose, as long as your

helpfile is 20 topics or less.

(And of course, we'll allow you to upgrade to the PRO version anytime<g>)

If you're a WORD fanatic, you may also want to look at ROBOHELP,

Doc-To-Help, and HelpBreeze, among others.  I've heard good things about

all of these products, and each has it's strengths.

Our product's strength is in the VB environment, where we automate a

*lot* of the helpfile creation process.  VB HelpWriter does work nicely as a

stand-alone tool as well, however! (IMHO<g>)

Good luck,

Fred Bunn

President, Teletech Systems (Home of VB HelpWriter)

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Looking for Multimedia Viewer

I'm looking for information on Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer, and would

appreciate hearing from people who have developped with it.

I'm also looking for the FAQ for this newsgroup

(comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp).

Thanks,

Martin Bechard

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Doc-To-Help and other help programs

Could anyone please tell me where I could purchase a copy of this utility?

I am interested in doing the exact same thing -- turning a MS Word file into

a help file Useable by MSVC.

Anyone know the vendor off hand???

Thanks,

Scott

smb@fig.citib.com

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header file COMPDDK.H

In article <771789022snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>, chris@chrism.demon.co.uk

(Chris Marriott) wrote:

>

> In article <2tomfc$p7m@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>

>            zhan@cs.stanford.edu "Xiaowei Zhan" writes:

>

> >Hello,  does anyone out there know which library (Microsoft) the header file

> >COMPDDK.H sits in? I need to look at it since it contains the information for

> >video compression/decompression.

> >

> >I'll appreciate this very much if you can help. Please reply to :

> >zhan@cs.stanford.edu

>

> As its name implies, this header file is a part of the DDK.

>

Sorry, no.

COMPDDK.H is part of the Video for Windows 1.1 SDK.

If you have a copy of the VFW 1.1 SDK, look in the include directory ( inc

in the default install ) and you will see a group of comp???.h files.

Header compddk.h deals with the installable compression manager and you

will see ICM prefixes all over the place. It seems that mainly #defines and

structures are defined in here.

Header compman.h is the master compression manager header, and includes

compddk.h. Most of the API calls are defined in here.

The third comp???.h header is compobj.h and is OLE 2.0 related.

Hope this helps,

PhilT

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The opinions expressed here are solely my own, and do not

reflect any official opinions or positions of Kaleida Labs.

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FAQ for this group?

Hi

   can someone let me know how to get a copy of the FAQ for this group?

Thanks in advance.

Regards

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|             H. TSURU                                                     |

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Anybody heard of HelpBreeze ?

Can anybody tell how does HelpBreeze compare to other help-authoring

tools ?

E-mail would be appreciated.

Regards

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Names of commercial/shareware compilers?

The subject pretty much says it all. I would appreciate anyone who could send

me names/companies for programs for making .hlp files. Any help is greatly appreciated, as this is the first time I have ever messed with making such files.

Thanks!

Russ

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WHAT6.DOT ftp availability

1.)  Is ther an ftp site that carries what6.dot?

2.)  Does anyone know is you can still use the project and

     hotspot editors with WinWord6?

Thanks

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In article <2uenci$m4b@Tut.MsState.Edu> jfr2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Jackie F. Russell) writes:

>From: jfr2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Jackie F. Russell)

>Subject: Names of commercial/shareware compilers?

>Date: 24 Jun 1994 13:34:10 GMT

>The subject pretty much says it all. I would appreciate anyone who could send

>me names/companies for programs for making .hlp files. Any help is greatly

>appreciated, as this is the first time I have ever messed with making such

>files.

     There is only one compiler that produces .HLP files. This is the help

compiler from ftp.microsoft.com. This compiler is also part of Visual C++

package.      -----------------

     I don't remember the exact directory location, but the fil to retrieve is

HC505.ZIP (or is it HC505.EXE ?).

     The help compiler won't do too much by itself. You have to produce a

document that will indicate, through footnotes in pages the hotlinks in your

hypertext file. There are sveral books on the market about developpnig your

help files. There are also a lot of tools that will assist you in developping

the .RTF files. Yeah, the files have to be saved in the RichTextFormat, This

format can be produced by Microsoft Word for Windows, as well as most major

word processor under Windows.

    For myself, I found easier to simply use the word processor. It gives me

all the flexibility I want. By developping some simple macros, I made a

toolbar that does just what I want.

    If you want more info, lemme know, I may be able to send you an example

source file. I made a complete hypertext guide for FreeNet system in

Ottawa.... That was a hot file for a while on my BBS......

===================================================================

Jean-Francois Messier                            Windows developper

sysop of SuperByte 486 (819) 775-3471 v32/v42 (bis too!)

jmessier@hookup.net                        74370.340@compuserve.com

             Drag me, Drop me, Treat me like an object !

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Anybody heard of HelpBreeze ?

Frank Tallelt (lhstalet@reading.ac.uk) wrote:

: Can anybody tell how does HelpBreeze compare to other help-authoring

: tools ?

The current issue of _Windows_ magazine has a review of WinHelp authoring

tools that includes ForeHelp, HelpBreeze, as well as RoboHelp and

Doc-to-Help and a couple of others.

_____________________________________________

George Hasty                    ghasty@io.com

Illuminati Online                  Austin, TX

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ForeHelp

antonio dias (dias@tomodachi.pal.xerox.com) wrote:

: Anyone used this help authoring tool?

Yep!  ...and I LOVE it!  I did an eval of RoboHelp and Doc-to-Help for

work and found that ForeHelp is the best.  I found that it was the

easiest to use and especially liked the ability to instantly switch to a

"help file" mode from the authoring mode, (let's you instantly test out

the help file WITHOUT compiling it)!

They have a free demo disk, call them at 303 499-9181.

(No, I have NO connection with the company, I just think this program is

GREAT--I was able to build a fairly sophisticated help file within one

hour of starting the demo.  Soon after that even created one that had

full color video and stereo sound, graphic hotspots, etc)!

Good luck!

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Vis C++ Bug?

Okay, I know this is not a general Help with programming topic, but many

people seem to be using it as one, so:

WHen I build a project with Microsoft Visual C++ the screen redraws get very

screwed up afterwards, and I have to exit windows to clear them up.  I.e. it

messes up not once, but every solid fill from then on, making it striped.

The text in the output window is also messed up, but recovers if I force a

redraw by scrolling.

It happens when I run in a Truecolor mode, but not when I run in 16 colors

or 256 colors.

Is Visual C++ not compatable with 64K or 16.4M color modes?

p.s. thi is on a Spider VLB card with 2 megs VRAM.

     ~Chris

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In article <2ucin0$ql2@Tandem.CAM.ORG>, martinb@CAM.ORG (Martin

Bechard) writes:

I'm looking for information on Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer, and

would

appreciate hearing from people who have developped with it.

Hi! The best way to learn about Viewer and actually take a test drive

of the product is to get a copy of the new book by Steve Pruitt

titled, "Microsoft Multimedia Viewer How-To CD" published by Waite

Group Press. Sticker price is $39.95 with a CD that has a COMPLETE

copy of the Viewer toolkit. The only thing that is different from the

real kit is that the included compiler has a limit of 25 topics and

has "Demo Version" appearing in each one. Other than that, it's a

cheap way to learn about Viewer!  BTW, Viewer is virtually identical

to WinHelp (it's a superset of commands on top of Winhelp and a new

compiler.) So, if you know about authoring WinHelp, Viewer is a snap.

I still prefer WinHelp for most projects because Viewer has nearly

850 KB of runtime files a user has to load on their hard drive versus

the Winhelp.exe that comes with every copy of Win 3.1. But, there is

definitely a benefit to using Viewer, particularly if you want an

incredibly powerful Boolean search engine that comes with it.  Viewer

was used to author Multimedia Beethoven, Cinemania and Encarta.

Another advantage of learning Viewer now, is that the gossip

regarding the new Win 4.0 (Chicago) is that the help system will be a

hybrid of Winhelp and Viewer. So, check it out! Thanx. John Daigle,

Winning Solutions, Austin, Texas

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Open Sesame!

In article <Cqru2J.3rI@world.std.com>

           dennisc@world.std.com "Dennis Carothers" writes:

>What are the magic words to ftp microsoft.com?

>It rejected all the usual login and passwords I tried.

>Is there a navigation utility available online for it?

It works the usual way for me - log on with a username of "anonymous",

and your e-mail address as the password.

Chris

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In article <2ujg9r$k92@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>

           aspect@cats.ucsc.edu "Christopher Taylor Oates" writes:

>

>

>Okay, I know this is not a general Help with programming topic, but many

>people seem to be using it as one, so:

But do you know that this is not a "general Help with programming"

NEWSGROUP?

This group is for discussing "WinHelp" - the Windows on-line Help system.

It is NOT for asking for "general help" with Windows programming. If you

have a question about Visual C++ - a programming tool - why don't you ask

on the correct newsgroup, which is "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools"?

Are you saying that just because other people abuse the group, that makes it

OK for you to do so too?

Chris

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Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

Hello there,

       Does anyone know what microsoft uses to develop its KB help file, which

allows _FULL-TEXT_ search of the .HLP file contents?

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Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

Archive-name: ms-windows/faqprg.how-to

Last-modified: 1994-03-29

Related-archives: ms-windows/faqprg.asc,ms-windows/faqprg.zip

Last-FAQ-Update: Mar 24 03:00

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains how you can

obtain a copy of the Microsoft Windows Programmer FAQ (Frequently Asked

Questions) list.  The Windows Programmer FAQ is an extensive compilation of

Windows software development facts, tips, techniques, and other useful

information.  The FAQ is about 5800 lines long (in ASCII format) or 140K (as

a ZIP archive of a Windows Help file).

The Windows NT FAQ, authored by Adam Hamilton, is currently only available

in ASCII format.

All updates to the Windows FAQ and Windows Programmer FAQs are posted to the

following two newsgroups:

comp.binaries.ms-windows	WinHelp format

comp.os.ms-windows.announce	ASCII text format

The updates are usually 2-3 months apart, depending on the amount of new

information and the maintainer's workload.

You can also FTP the FAQs from the following sites:

    ftp.nimh.nih.gov	156.40.186.8	/pub/win3/FAQ

    wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4	/usenet/comp.binaries.ms-windows/faqs

    ftp.metrics.com	198.133.164.1	/faq

The FAQs will have filenames in the format of FAQWINxx.ZIP (Windows),

FAQPRGxx.zip (Windows Programmer), and FAQWNTxx.zip where xx is the version

number.  Please do not abuse these sites; limit your FTP activity to time

outside business hours (8 PM EST through 9 AM EST, or 0100 GMT through 1400

GMT).

If you wish to retrieve the FAQs using Gopher, you can locate them at

gopher.nimh.nih.gov.

If the news postings have expired on your site, and you have no FTP access,

you can obtain it using the decwrl ftp mail server.  For instructions, send

a mail message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with a body containing simply:

       help

You will receive a full set of instructions by return mail.

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Archive-name: ms-windows/newsgrp.guide

Last-modified: 1994-05-29

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains the purpose

of the usenet newsgroups for Microsoft Windows.  Please follow these

guidelines when posting your articles, and make life easier for all of

us.

These are the current Windows newsgroups:

GENERAL:

    comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   Comparisons and arguments about Windows &

  Windows NT vs. other operating systems

    comp.os.ms-windows.announce   MODERATED.  Announcements and news about

  Windows applications, drivers, events etc.

    comp.os.ms-windows.setup      Questions and problems with setting up

  and configuring Windows.

    comp.os.ms-windows.video      Video display cards, drivers and monitors

  for use with Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.misc       All other Windows discussions except

  advocacy with other operating systems.

APPLICATIONS:

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm       Communications and fax applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial  Financial applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities  Utilities, desktops and accessories

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc  Word processing and desktop publishing

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc       Miscellaneous Windows & NT applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps            [Superceded by apps.misc]

NETWORKING:

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip  TCP/IP-based networking for

  Windows, includign NFS and apps

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows Windows' native networking: WFWG,

  NT, NTAS and LAN Manager

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc    All other networks, such as Netware,

  Banyan Vines and LANtastic

WINDOWS NT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup   Setting up and configuring Windows NT and

  Windows NT Advanced Server

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc    All other Windows NT-specific discussions

  except programming and advocacy

PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls   Using controls, custom controls,

     VBXs, OCXs and dialogs

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.drivers    Driver and  VxD development for

     Windows 3.1, NT and Chicago

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SETWINPOS broken?

I'm trying to control the position of the main help window.

Following the example in MSDN disk 6, I did the following:

int	hsize;

HGLOBAL 	hhi;

HELPWININFO 	*hi;

char	help_name[] = "main";

help_called = WinHelp(h_main, (LPSTR)"c:\\windows\\system\\myhelp.hlp",

HELP_CONTENTS, 0L);

hsize = sizeof(HELPWININFO) + lstrlen(help_name);

hhi = GlobalAlloc(GHND, hsize);

hi = (HELPWININFO *)GlobalLock(hhi);

hi->wStructSize = hsize;

hi->x = 10;

hi->y = 10;

hi->dx = 400;

hi->dy = 400;

hi->wMax = 0;

lstrcpy(hi->rgchMember, help_name);

WinHelp(h_main, (LPSTR)"c:\\windows\\system\\myhelp.hlp",

HELP_SETWINPOS, (long)hi);

GlobalUnlock(hhi);

GlobalFree(hhi);

On Windows 3.1, the help just goes where it wants to and the SETWINPOS

is ignored.

On Windows NT, WINHLP32 crashes with an access violation just after its

window appears.

Any ideas?

= Giles Puckett =                           giles@research.canon.oz.au

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Looking for Multimedia Viewer

JohnMovie (johnmovie@aol.com) wrote:

: In article <2ucin0$ql2@Tandem.CAM.ORG>, martinb@CAM.ORG (Martin

: Bechard) writes:

: I'm looking for information on Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer, and

: would

: appreciate hearing from people who have developped with it.

I have a simple question about Viewer.

Is there royalty free distribution of your finished product ?

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.hpjwin

I need help with the command .hpjwin, I would like to know how to change the

size of the help window. Currently the line looks like this...

hpjwin main = , , 0, , (192, 192, 192), 0

which makes a nonmaxized window with a grey nonscrolling background.

I think i understand the math of 'help units' I just don't know where the

numbers go

I would like the window to be about half the with of the screen and almost

the full height.

Due to current financial restraints, the light at the end of the tunnel has

been turned off till further notice.

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Need scroll bars

         Can you have scroll bars in a pop up window?  I have a

floor plan diagram that I would like to have as a pop up window.

When viewed on a VGA display the window is smaller than the

diagram, cutting off the right and bottom sides.  I tried to

make a multi resulation bitmap but you could not read the

text at the lower resulation.  It did fit within the pop up

window.  I have looked to make sure that there wasn't any

"keep together" formatting.  I have also tried the scalable

WMF format.  I don't know what to try next.

Robert Futscher rfutscher@pbs.org

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tip of the day -- how?

How can I implement `tip of the day' in my own application?  `tip of the

day' comes with all the new WinWord6, Excel, PowerPoint.  But I can't

think of a way to do it myself other than duplicating the help text in

my own application and make sure the topic ID's are correct.

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RTF

Does anyone know of any documents (on the net or otherwise) that offer an

explanation of the rules and syntax of RTF?

Thanks.

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Am I blind or crazy?

Ulrich Babiak (v9100055@athena.rrz.uni-koeln.de) wrote:

> This is the syntax according to cwh.hlp (for the [config] - section)

>

>      CreateButton("B1", "fussnoten", "JumpID("dipl.hlp", "fussnoten1")")

>

> and I tried also

>

>      CreateButton("B1", "fussnoten", "!JumpID("dipl.hlp", "fussnoten1")")

  Try this syntax:

cb("btn_overview","&Overview","jumpid(`',`Overview')")

  Note that you can't use nested quotes, use  ^^ ^        ^ instead.

--

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RTF

rosebud@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Joseph Kowaleski) writes:

>Does anyone know of any documents (on the net or otherwise) that offer an

>explanation of the rules and syntax of RTF?

Way back when, Microsoft Press published the _Word for Windows and

OS/2 Technical Reference_, which documented RTF 1.0 as well as

Word Basic.  When WinWord 2.0 hit the streets, Word Basic got its

own manual, but the RTF documentation vanished - available only if

you signed an NDA.  (Which I did, but they never got around to

sending me the docs. <grumble, gritch>)  Pretty damned cheesy

trick, if you ask me:  promote a standard, publish it freely,

suck us into developing for it, then slam the doors.

Brett

*SLMW 1.0*  Closet PL/I programmer.  Native VSE bigot.

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Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

In article <mvang.8.000BCF9B@msrad1.uth.tmc.edu>,

Meng C. Vang <mvang@msrad1.uth.tmc.edu> wrote:

>Hello there,

>Does anyone know what microsoft uses to develop its KB help file, which

>allows _FULL-TEXT_ search of the .HLP file contents?

They probably use the MultimediaViewer 1.0 fulltext-search tools.

These are also part of the Windows NT SDK.

To make the full-text index, there's a set of programs:

FORAGE.EXE (FORAGEP.EXE)

W_SCAN.EXE

INDEX.EXE

The run time support is supplied by these DLL's:

FTENGINE.DLL

FTUI.DLL

MVAPI.DLL

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Looking for Multimedia Viewer

In article <2um379$3er@status.gen.nz>, Ross Keatinge <icosa@iconz.co.nz> wrote:

>

>Is there royalty free distribution of your finished product ?

>

Yes, it's royalty free.  The exception is (for Viewer2) titles that

you want to release on the SONY XA platform.  On Windows, no problem.

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.hpjwin

In article <J+xR4tx.herr67@delphi.com>, Herr  <herr67@delphi.com> wrote:

>I need help with the command .hpjwin, I would like to know how to change the

>size of the help window. Currently the line looks like this...

>hpjwin main = , , 0, , (192, 192, 192), 0

>which makes a nonmaxized window with a grey nonscrolling background.

>I think i understand the math of 'help units' I just don't know where the

>numbers go

>I would like the window to be about half the with of the screen and almost

>the full height.

The syntax is:

main="window caption",(250,0,500,1000),0,(255,255,255),(192,192,192),0

                       x   y w   h   state  maincolor   NSRcolor     ontop

(If the main window is now pitch black, substitute (0,0,0) -- I can

never remember wich is which)

This should give you more or less what you want.

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RTF

In article <2umk7k$k87@umcc.umcc.umich.edu>,

Joseph Kowaleski <rosebud@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> wrote:

>Does anyone know of any documents (on the net or otherwise) that offer an

>explanation of the rules and syntax of RTF?

>

>Thanks.

The full specs are on the Microsoft Developer's Library CD-ROM.

Maybe they also have them on Compuserve or ftp.microsoft.com.

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SETWINPOS broken?

In article <Cs1L2r.L4M@research.canon.oz.au>,

 <giles@research.canon.oz.au> wrote:

>I'm trying to control the position of the main help window.

>Following the example in MSDN disk 6, I did the following:

>

>	int	hsize;

>	HGLOBAL 	hhi;

>	HELPWININFO 	*hi;

>	char	help_name[] = "main";

>

>	help_called = WinHelp(h_main, (LPSTR)"c:\\windows\\system\\myhelp.hlp",

>	HELP_CONTENTS, 0L);

>

>	hsize = sizeof(HELPWININFO) + lstrlen(help_name);

HELPWININFO defines a dummy character array of two elements,

so maybe this isn't necessary, but I always get nervous

about allocating space for a string with (l)strlen,

if I don't add the ritual +1.

>	hhi = GlobalAlloc(GHND, hsize);

>	hi = (HELPWININFO *)GlobalLock(hhi);

>	hi->wStructSize = hsize;

>	hi->x = 10;

>	hi->y = 10;

>	hi->dx = 400;

>	hi->dy = 400;

>	hi->wMax = 0;

This was documented incorrectly by Microsoft.  You should

use one of the SW_XXXX codes here.  It so happens that 0

is SW_HIDE.  WinHelp probably doesn't want that, and (probably)

ignores the whole HELP_SETWINPOS call.

>	lstrcpy(hi->rgchMember, help_name);

>

>	WinHelp(h_main, (LPSTR)"c:\\windows\\system\\myhelp.hlp",

>	HELP_SETWINPOS, (long)hi);

>

>	GlobalUnlock(hhi);

>	GlobalFree(hhi);

>

I guess Microsoft, like us Usenet posters, also doesn't

always verify the code they publish.

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on-line Tutorial / tour - How?

Hello,

I was impressed with the on-line tutorial for AmiPro 3.01. It is more

like a tour of some of the features of the software. Does any one know

how it is done? It seems a like a nice way to show the highlights of

an application.

Thanks

Ravi

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Help/Search ... - How can it be done?

Hello,

I'd like to have a menu item "Search ..." under the "Help" menu. When this

item is activated, I'd like to see the Winhelp start (with the application's

help file) with the Search dialog popped up. Do you have any suggestions

on how this can be done?

I am using Visual C++ 1.5/MFC. I have read the manuals, and a few books.

I have no clues.

Thanks

Ravi

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RTF

In article <2umk7k$k87@umcc.umcc.umich.edu>,

rosebud@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Joseph Kowaleski) writes:

>>Does anyone know of any documents (on the net or otherwise) that

offer an

>>explanation of the rules and syntax of RTF?

There is a file available on the Microsoft BBS that documents the RTF

specs.  I'm not completely sure..but I *think* the filename is

GA0650.EXE.  (Microsoft never has had a talent for coming up with

descent file names on their BBS ;> )

eaglemage@aol.com

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comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

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            FAQ for comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

          maintained by Pete Davis (pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu)

               cheesy "BIG-ASCII" type by Pete Davis

                        Last Update: 6/27/94

==============================================================================

DISCLAIMER: This FAQ is information. Information is a tool. Like a saw,

if you cut off your arm with it, it ain't my fault. Many of the product

descriptions are provided from users or authors. I can not vouch for their

accuracy. I have neither the money, time, nor incentive to check all of these

products. I will always accept comments regarding products and modify this

FAQ when appropriate.

{ Parts of disclaimer adapted from unknown author. If it's you, let me know

and I'll give you credit. }

========

CONTENTS

========

[1] Introduction

    [1-1] What is WinHelp?

    [1-2] What is Viewer?

    [1-3] What's this document all about?

    [1-4] What if this FAQ needs more information?

[2] How to Learn to Build WinHelp Files

    [2-1] Software and Online Documentation

    [2-2] Books

    [2-3] Magazines

[3] WinHelp Authoring Tools

    [3-1] Shareware/Freeware

    [3-2] Commercial

[4] Other Non-Authoring Tools

    [4-1] Shareware/Freeware

    [4-2] Commercial

[5] Sources for Undocumented WinHelp Features

    [5-1] Magazine Articles

[6] Question and Answer

[6-1-1] Hardcoding Colors

[7] Misc.

    [7-1] Online Sources of WinHelp Help

        [7-1-1] Newsgroups

        [7-1-2] Listserv Lists

    [7-2] Online Sources of WinHelp Related Software

        [7-2-1] Authoring Tools

        [7-2-2] Authoring Guides and Info

        [7-2-3] Non-Authoring Software

    [7-3] Differences Between HC.EXE, HC30.EXE, HC31.EXE, and HCP.EXE

    [7-4] WinHelp limits

[8] Thanks

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[1] - Introduction

    This FAQ is for the comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup.

Notice the WinHelp at the end of that. This newsgroup is not for general

programming questions, but for questions regarding WinHelp. In particular,

it's for questions on development of WinHelp .HLP files and DLLs and macros

to be used with WinHelp.

[1-1] - What is WinHelp?

    If you've ever hit the help menu item in a Windows program, you've seen

WinHelp. WinHelp is the program that provides the hypertext help system

for Windows programs. WinHelp is actually a very complex and extendable help

system. It allows programmers to add their own functionality through the

use of macros and .DLLs.

[1-2] - What is Viewer?

    Viewer is the short name for Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer. It too is

covered by this newsgroup and FAQ. Viewer can be thought of as an extended

version of WinHelp. Its entire foundation of code is based on WinHelp and

the two are very similiar in many ways. In fact, Multimedia Viewer files

(.MVB files) are essentially the same format as WinHelp (.HLP) files.

    There are a lot of places in this document where I will use the name

WinHelp, but in all cases (except where pointed out), it applies to both

WinHelp and Viewer.

[1-3] - What's this document all about?

    This document is written as a supplement to the

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup. It is meant to help answer

some of the more common questions about WinHelp. It also supposed to

provide people with sources of information about authoring and extending

WinHelp .HLP files.

[1-4] - What if this FAQ needs more information?

    Think this FAQ is deficient in one or more areas? Let me know. Tell me

what you'd like to see. My product list is very incomplete. I don't have time

to track down all products, so if you have one, let me know. I'll gladly add

your product to the list. If you're a user of a product that's not listed,

let me know about it.

    I'll try to monitor the newsgroup for common questions to add to the

Question and Answer section. If you have questions that you think should

be included, let me know.

    Send all comments, suggestions, etc to pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu or

on Compuserve, 71644,3570.

[2] - How to learn to build WinHelp files

    It is far beyond the scope of this FAQ to teach people how to build

WinHelp .HLP files. However, there is a bit of documentation out there

on creating them.

[2-1] - Software and Online documentation

what.zip, hag.zip, and whag.zip

    These three files go together. what.zip has WinHelp Authoring Templates

for WinHelp. hag.zip and whag.zip are the WinHelp authoring guides. whag.zip

contains the Word for Windows .DOC version and hag.zip contains a .HLP file.

These are put together by Microsoft (I believe) and are freely available from

ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the /pub/win3/programr directory.

MSDN-CD

    The Microsoft Developer's Network CD, besides having the Windows Help

Authoring Guide, also has a great knowledge base with information about

WinHelp and creating WinHelp files. For the WHAG, look under Unsupported

Tools.

[2-2] - Books

Developing Online Help

    Published by SAMS, written by Scott Boggan, David Farkas, and Joe Welinske.

ISBN: 0-672-30230-6. This book, besides explaining how to generate WinHelp

files, also goes into great detail about how to make your help files look

good.

[2-3] - Magazines

Windows/DOS Developer's Journal

    I mention W/DDJ, a general Windows and DOS programming magazine, simply

because there is lots of WinHelp coverage in W/DDJ. Ron Burk, the editor

of W/DDJ is a real WinHelp fanatic. He's also working on a book tentatively

titled, 'WinHelp for Programmers and Technical Writers'. When the book is

published, I'll add it to the list here.

PC Magazine

The following articles by Ray Duncan were in PC Magazine and are a good

tutorial on building Windows help files.

Ray Duncan, "Constructing Your Own Windows Help Files", PC Magazine, April 27,

1993

   Ray gives an overview of WinHelp .HLP files and talks abou the basics of

the help project file.

Ray Duncan, "Building the Basic Structure of a Windows Help File", PC Magazine,

May 11, 1993

    Ray describes the very basics of generating a simple help file.

Ray Duncan, "Integrating a Windows Help File into an Application, PC Magazine,

May 25, 1993

    Ray shows how to implement code in your Windows programs to use Windows

help files.

Ray Duncan, "Four Techniques to Enhance Your Windows Help Files", PC Magazine,

June 11, 1993

Ray Duncan, "Implementing Macros In Your Help Files", PC Magazine, June 29,

1993

    Ray gives an overview of the macros available in WinHelp 3.1.

Ray Duncan, "Extending WinHelp with Custom DLLs", PC Magazine, September 14,

1993

[3] - Tools Available for Creating Windows Help Files. (Authoring Software)

    Okay, this list is pathetically short. I don't have time to go research

all of these products. Please, if you are a user or an author, send product

descriptions to me: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu.

[3-1] - Shareware/Freeware

> VB AHA!!!

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

    ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/util/vbaha124.zip.

Description:

    VB AHA!!! is an inexpensive and easy to use utility for writing Windows

help files. You won't need any expensive wordprocessors or have to use any

cryptic commands. With simple mouse clicks and Drag n Drop ease you will be

able to construct your help files quickly.

    If you use Visual Basic then VB AHA!!! will handle all of the

HelpContextID values for you and even recompile your programs with the new

values. No more hassles of having to insert the values by hand! If you program

in C/C++ or Pascal then VB AHA!!! will create a header file containing all of

the definitions that you will need for context sensitive help in your programs.

> HLPDK - The Help development Kit.

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

    ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/programr as :

    hdk115a.zip, hdk115b.zip, hdk115l.zip

    HLPDK is a Hypertext and Hypermedia generation system, that supports

multiple targets from one source. With HLPDK's Help Compiler, one help

source can be translated to Windows WinHelp and Multimedia Viewer, DOS

(THELP, QuickHelp, Turbo-Vision Help, POPHelp, Native Engines),

DESQview/X, OS/2 IPF, World Wide Web HTML, Ascii and Word Processor

documents. HLPDK allows you to *Write Once, Help Many*.

Features :

Topics, PopUps, Links, Keywords, Text Formats, Navigational and

Structural facilities, Target Code insertion, Multiple module files,

Automatic Pascal/C/C++ reference generation, Exception handling,

Multiple file target databases, Graphics, Sound, Groups, Application

Launch, Automatic exports creation, user defined link templates and

more.

    HLPDK Contains 4 Native Help Readers (Engines) for the Dos and DPMI

target, and 4 Help Compilers hosted on Dos, DPMI, Windows and OS/2.

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> DWHAT.ZIP

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

       ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/winword/dwhat.zip

Description:

        DWHAT is a version of WHAT.ZIP for Word for Windows 6.0. It

includes a handy Toolbar with the most used Help-Creation functions. It

also can link to the on-line help in HAG.ZIP (see previous section). The

package is Freeware. A major upgrade is due to be released within the

next month(s) (when I get the time), with new features like fancy dialogs

for inserting and editing graphic links.

>Help Writer's Assistant for Windows                      Price: $40NZ

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

    ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/util/hwab330.zip

Description:

    Previously, building help files under Windows had to be done either by

coding RTF commands by hand, or by using a word processor that understands

RTF.  There were problems with this.  You had to remember the context

string of the help topic you wanted to link to, and you had to enter

footnotes.  At the best of times, it was a pain!  Macros helped make

the task easier, but it didn't provide everything you needed. Help

Writer's Assistant for Windows (HWA/w) does that and helps to make Windows

help writing visual and exciting!

A new version, Beta IV is due out by the end of May.  This version is

totally visual and contains some great new features!  The price

for Beta IV will be $85NZ.  (Upgrades from Beta III.30 are free)

>Help File Author Tool for WinWord 2.0 & 6.0

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

    oak.oakland.edu - pub/msdos/windows3/helllp22.zip

Description:

    HELLLP! v2.2 <ASP> - Multi-File build and HelpContextID property [MAP]

generation.  User friendly.  Automatically sets up top level table of

contents with Hypertext jumps to your topics.  You add additional jumps

and popups by highlighting the place you want to jump from and pointing

to the place you want to jump to.  Can add SOUND EFFECTS, SECONDARY

windows with buttons, launch other programs for MULTIMEDIA.

Changes: Now works with both US & non-English versions of Word 6 & 2.

[3-2] - Commercial

> Doc-To-Help - WexTech Systems, Inc.                Price: $295.00 (U.S)

                                                            $375.00 (Intl)

Availability:

    WexTech Systems, Inc.

    310 Madison Ave.

    Suite 905

    New York, NY 10017

    FAX:   (212) 949-4007

    Phone: (212) 949-9595

Description:

    Doc-To-Help is perfect for people who want their help files to accurately

reflect what's in the printed documentation. Doc-To-Help allows you to create

your WinHelp file and your printed documentation in the same Word for Windows

document.

> The Windows Help Magician - Software Interphase, Inc.   Price: $149.00

Availability:

    Software Interphase, Inc.

    82 Cucumber Hill Rd.

    Suite 207A

    Foster, RI 02825

    FAX:   (401) 397-6814

    Phone: (800) 542-2742

Description:

    Windows Help Magician is one of the few products to allow you to easily

create WinHelp .HLP files without Word for Windows. It provides its own

editor and WYSIWYG environment. Imports documents from Word.

> Help Perfect - Niceware                         Price: $495.00

Availability:

    Niceware

    Oosterstraat 33

    3581 ML  UTRECHT

    FAX:   ++31 30 517 555

    Phone: ++31 30 520 018

    CIS:   100041,2760

    e-mail: niceware@let.ruu.nl

Description:

    Help Perfect converts WordPerfect documents to WinHelp/

Multimedia Viewer.  Does not rely on WordPerfect for RTF conversion.

Use any WordPerfect style, attribute or mark for setting topics and

hotspots.  Automatic conversion of foot/endnotes, header/footers,

index words, lists and autorefs.  Extension DLL provides graphics,

multimedia, advanced searching, window color manipulation, menu links,

etc.

>SOS Help! for Windows v2.01 - QBS Software        Price: 195 pounds sterling

Availability:

          QBS Software Ltd                email willw@qbss.demon.co.uk

          10 Barley Mow Passage

          Chiswick

          London W4 4PH, UK

          Fax +44 81 994 3441

          Tel +44 81 994 4842

          BBS +44 81 747 1979

 Anonymous FTP (demo version: limited to 10 topics)

         ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/uploads/soshp201.zip

Description:

    WYSIWYG Help design system for Windows creates all files required by

the help compiler. RTF editors, such as Word for Windows, are redundant.

    Add jumps, popups and Windows Help macros quickly and easily using

the Topic editor.

    Full support for styles and sylesheets: design a house style for use

in any Help project.

    Application Programming Interface - create context sensitive help

from within an application with one function call.

> RoboHELP 2.6

Availability:

RoboHELP 2.6 is available NOW at a suggested retail price of $499.  For

more information, please contact Blue Sky Software Sales Department at 1-

800-677-4WIN, tel: 619-459-6365 or

fax: 619-459-6366

Description:

RoboHELP 2.6, the award-winning Help Authoring Tool for Windows and Windows

NT automates the task of creating on-line Help for Windows-based

applications.  Supports both Word 6.0 and Word 2.0.  Lets you easily create

features such as jumps, popups, topics, secondary windows, multiple hotspot

graphics and more.  Includes VBX and special custom controls.  Version 2.6

of RoboHELP, turns both Microsoft Word 6.0 and Word 2.0 for Windows into

hypertext authoring tools capable of producing Windows Help files as easily

as text documents.  RoboHELP 2.6 guides users step by step through the

creation of their Windows Help systems.  The whole process is automated and

allows users to rapidly create elegant and professional Help systems.

RoboHELP has won numerous awards.  In 1994, RoboHELP received the Win 100

1994 Award from Windows Magazine and the Productivity Award from Software

Development Magazine.

[4] Other Non-Authoring Tools

    This section is devoted to tools that aren't really authoring tools for

WinHelp files, but may be useful to WinHelp authors and/or users. As with

the other product list, this is real incomplete, so send me descriptions of

products you've used or authored.

[4-1] Shareware/Freeware

> NewsDB - Usenet News and unstructured text to HLPDK conversion Tool.

Availability :

Anonymous FTP - Oak.OAKLAND.EDU : /pub/SimTel/msdos : newsdb10.zip

Description:

    News Hypertext Database generator - The tool that allows you to enjoy

"Other People's Wizdom" - Create sophisticated hypertext databases

from Usenet News articles. A companion to HLPDK, allows you to store

the news articles that are of value to you, with smart news groups

directories, automatic keywords generation for fast search, user

defined groups, automatic article association from articles textual

information to user groups, Author directories and references,

article references to other (previous) and from other (later) articles

and more. Database can be compiled to all the targets supported by

HLPDK, including Windows, OS/2, DOS (several targets), DESQview/X and

documents. Can even handle non Usenet text articles, with user groups

links as well.

    If you have large sets of ascii articles, you would like to create a

hypertext heirarchy, using user defined associations, NewsDB may be

the fastest way to create the hypertext database.

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> WinHelp -> HLPDK Conversion Tool

Availability :

Anonymous FTP - garbo.uwasa.fi : /pc/programming/wh2hdk10.zip

Description:

    WinHelp -> HLPDK Conversion Tool. With WH2HDK you can port your

Windows Help Databases to other platforms such as OS/2, World Wide

Web, DOS, DESQview/X and more. Use WH2HDK (with HLPDK) to save the

additional investment required for multiple target development !

    Now you can create your Help Databases in your favorite winHelp

authoring tool, and still benefit from HLPDK cross-platform portability,

and enhanced navigation and code generation tools.

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> RC2HDK -> RC Help Template Generator

Availability :

Anonymous FTP - ftp.cica.indiana.edu : /pub/pc/win3/programr/rc2hdk30.zip

Description:

    Generate Help Templates for Windows Programs from RC resource

description files. User's interaction with your application is done

through the resources described in the RC file. With this tool, Your

RC files are parsed, and a help template for your project is created.

All you need to do is feel in your application options specific help,

compile, and go!

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> HLP2DOC

Availability:

Anonymous FTP - ftp.lrz-muenchen.de :

                /pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows/hlpdc132.zip

Description:

HLP2DOC is a utility to convert WinHelp .HLP files and Multimedia Viewer

.MVB files into Word for Windows 2.0 .DOC files. HLP2DOC is still in the early

stages, but the author is continuing to work on it and improve it rapidly.

HLP2DOC does not yet do a full translation. Bitmaps aren't converted as of the

latest version (1.32). Despite the few drawbacks, it does a very good job

and will make it possible for people to print entire help files by converting

them to .DOC files. HLP2DOC is freeware.

[4-2] Commercial

> HyperHelp

Availability :

    Bristol Technology

    (203) 438-6969

    Internet: info@bristol.com)

Description:

    Hyperhelp is a WinHelp compiler and viewer for Unix. You simply recompile

your rtfs, bmps, and hpjs and you get a Unix versions of your help file.

Hyperhelp supports MIF and SGML and has a bridge that lets you use these on

the Windows WinHelp too.

[5] Sources for undocumented WinHelp features.

    WinHelp is one of Windows least documented features. As most Windows

programmers are aware these days, many aspects of Windows do go undocumented

by Microsoft, but for the rest of Windows, this tends to be less vital

functionality. With WinHelp, many of the important aspects are kept

undocumented. Whether this is the result of laziness or intentions, is

unclear.

    Luckily, a few people have taken a lot of time to discover these

undocumented features and made them available in one way or another. In

particular, Ron Burk (editor of Windows/DOS Developer's Journal) has

spent a lot of time working with WinHelp and he is arguably the most

knowledgeable WinHelp expert outside of Microsoft (and maybe including

Microsoft).

    Below are a list of articles and other sources of undocumented WinHelp

features listed in alphabetical order by author.

[5-1] Magazine articles

Ron Burk, "Automatic Help Topic Extraction", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

February 1993

    In this article Ron writes a .DLL that allows you to insert an "extract"

button in your help file that will extract a WinHelp topic to a file. He also

discusses the fact that WinHelp executes some macros asynchronously.

Ron Burk, "Automatic Help Topic Printing", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

March 1993

    In this article Ron writes a .DLL to allow you to print all topics in

a WinHelp .HLP file.

Ron Burk, "Spying on WinHelp," Dr. Dobb's Journal, June 1993

    In this article, Ron discusses the WM_WinHelp message used by the

WinHelp() API call. The article describes some uses of this message and

the parameters associated with it.

Ron Burk, "Controlling WinHelp's Always-on-Top State", Windows/DOS Developer's

Journal, November 1993

    Ron shows how to control the Always-on-Top State of WinHelp from your

applications.

Pete Davis, "Documenting Documentation," Dr. Dobb's Journal, September 1993

and October 1993

    In this two part article, a detailed, though not quite complete,

description of the WinHelp file format is provided. It discusses WinHelp's

internal file system and the structures of the internal files in a

.HLP file.

Pete Davis, ".mrb and .shg File Formats", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

February 1994

    This article contains a fairly complete description of the .mrb

(multi-resolution bitmap) and .shg (segmented hyper-graphic) file formats.

These files are used by WinHelp to display bitmaps. The file formats are

almost identical between the two files, though their purposes are quite

different.

Jim Mischel, "Undocumented WinHelp Macros", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

January 1994

    Jim describes a lot of undocumented WinHelp macros such as ExtAbleItem(),

ExtInsertItem(), ExtInsertMenu(), ResetMenu(), JumpHash(), and PopupHash().

[6] Question & Answer:

[6-1] WinHelp Q & A

Q: How can I view my WinHelp files on the Apple Macintosh? Unix?

A: You can use QuickHelp from Altura Software (see product info)

QuickHelp will convert your .RTF files, .BMPs, etc and converts them

into a format that is compatible with their QuickHelp interpreter.

You can also use the Macintosh version of WinHelp that comes with Excel

to view already made .HLP files.

Q: How do I insert symbols (such as the copyright symbol) in my WinHelp

files?

A: There are three ways. The first way works with Word 6.0 only, I believe:

1> select Insert Symbol

   choose Normal Text, not Symbol font.

   Select the copyright symbol

2> Hold down the Alt key and type: 0169

3> insert the code {\'A9} in the .rtf file or your Word document.

Q: Why won't my Word 6.0 .rtf files compile with hc31?

A: Microsoft changed RTF slightly with the release of Word 6.0 which made

it incompatible with the old help compiler. You need to get Release 505

(HC505.ZIP) of the compiler. See section [7-2-1] for availability.

Q: Why can't I set the background color with the \cb help rtf statement?

A: Simple: It doesn't work. The \cb statement was never implemented by

Microsoft. Ooops.

Q: When I sub-class the WinHelp window, my DLL breaks when the help file is

executed from the WinHelp() API function.

A: WinHelp uses the class name MS_WINDOC for the main window when run

as a standalone program however, when WinHelp is executed from the WinHelp()

API function, the class name is MS_WINHELP.

Q: I get out of memory errors when running the help compiler. Why?

A: There are several reasons this could be happening:

   1> You can't paste bitmaps larger than 32k into a topic. The solution is

      to include them by reference using the \bml, \bmc, and \bmr commands.

   2> You really are running out of memory. If you're using HC31 or HC30, try

      using HCP.

   [see other limitations in section 7-4]

Q: I get an out of file handles error when running the help compiler.

A: Try increasing the number of file handles in your config.sys file to

FILES=40 or higher.

[6-1-1] Hardcoding Colors

Q: Should I hard-code the colour of the text of my help system?

A: A certain amount of colour can help the user find important information.

Therefore, judicious use of colour in a help system may be beneficial.

The key words here, though, are "judicious" and "may".

Researchers into user interfaces seem to agree that overuse of colour is

significantly worse than under-use: too much colour distracts the user from

the message of the text, making it more difficult for them to understand

what they are reading. (For those who have some experience in publishing:

it's very similar to too many fonts on a page).

But there are other points, some of which are specific to PCs and the

Windows WinHelp environment, that also argue against the use of coloured

text (or even hard-coded black!).

1. The user can set their own colour scheme using Control Panel. This allows

   the user to choose the background colour that most suits them. Hence, a

   help writer should NEVER assume that the background that their help text

   will be displayed on is white. It may, for example, be blue.  If the help

   system contains blue text, it will be impossible to read on a blue

   background! And the "standard" black text is almost impossible to read on

   a dark blue background.

2. The user can set the colour of the text of jumps and popups. If they set

   their jump colour to, say, green, and you have green text in your help

   system, they WILL click on the non-jump green text. Frequently, they will

   click repeatedly, wondering why a new topic hasn't appeared. I have

   watched people do this several times (and I have done it myself).

3. You could overcome problem 1 by hard coding the colour of the background

   as well. Most people who take this approach hard-code a white background.

   But a user who has changed the colour of their background from the white

   default has probably done so for a good (to them) reason. Will they

   appreciate you forcing them to use a colour they felt was not appropriate

   for them? Will you be encouraging them to use your help system? Or will

   you be encouraging them to look elsewhere, perhaps to a competing product

   which allows them to do things their way?

4. Monitors can differ markedly in their display of colours. Hence you have

   no way of knowing how the colour scheme you carefully selected to look

   good on your monitor will look on the monitors of users. Two recent

   examples from my own experience may help explain this.

   I frequently use two computers, each of which uses the same graphics card

   and the same driver. The monitors are different brands. Both monitors are

   good quality, reasonably expensive monitors. But a colour scheme which

   looks good on one, looks atrocious on the other. The differences in the

   individual colours are not obvious; it is only combinations that show up

   the differences.

   I recently wrote a program which displayed a graph (among other things).

   Several colours were needed for the graph, and one of the graph

   components I defaulted to red (though the colours were user-selectable).

   I ran this program on four different computers, all with different

   monitors. The default colour scheme looked attractive (though not

   identical) on all monitors. I delivered the initial version of the

   software. The person paying for the software did not like my choice of

   red for the default for this graph component. When I saw the program

   running on their computer, I realised why. On the monitor they were

   using (yes, a cheap one), red was a horrible, washed out, sickly looking

   thing. The other colours were also different, but the red now clashed

   terribly with them all.

5. Don't forget that some users will probably be colour-blind.

6. Different colours imply different things to different cultures, so if

   you want your help system to be read by people from more than one

   country, carefully consider any colour choices you make.

And finally, you may wish to read the section on colour in help systems in

Chapter 4 of the Help Author's Guide, under "Formatting and Style" (Search

on "Color" in the newer version of this file).

[6-2] Viewer Q & A

[editor's note: This section is for questions and answers that are specific

 to Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer. The Q & A section for WinHelp applies

 to WinHelp and Viewer. This section does not apply to WinHelp at all.]

[7] Miscellaneous

[Ed. Note: Everyone thought I was serious about the spelling of Misc.

 I guess it wasn't very funny, but I was joking. I do own a dictionary.]

    This is just a sort of free form, general information about whatever

comes to my mind that I can't pigeon-hole in some other section because it's

not appropriate, or it's too small for its own section.

[7-1] Online Sources of WinHelp Help

[7-1-1] Newsgroups

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup

    This FAQ is for the comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup,

so you probably already know about it. Just making sure.

[7-1-2] Listserv Lists

WINHLP-L listserv list

    Listservs are a system set-up on BITNET, an IBM mainframe network. They

are very similiar to usenet newsgroups and can be subscribed to over the

internet. The main difference is that all messages are sent as e-mail. After

subscribing, you will be sent a message confirming your subscription and

instructions on how to unsubscribe. For other listserv commands, send

e-mail to the listserv with the contents of your message being:

HELP

- To subscribe to the WINHLP-L list, send e-mail to:

LISTSERV@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA

- The contents of your e-mail should be simply:

SUB WINHLP-L

- To unsubscribe, send e-mail to the same address with the contents:

SIGNOFF WINHLP-L

- To post a message to the WINHLP-L list, send e-mail to:

WINHLP-L@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA

- The subject and contents of the e-mail are sent to all subscribers.

[7-2] Online Sources of WinHelp Related Software

    This section lists various files related to WinHelp and where they

can be obtained. In all cases, the files are available via anonymous

FTP from the sites and directories listed. I can't guarantee the accuracy

of this list as sites go up and down and move files around. Please

notify me of any changes or additions I should make.

    Some of the files are shown elsewhere in this document. In this area

I'll try to provide alternate sites.

[7-2-1] Authoring Tools

HC505.ZIP - Version 5.05 of the help compiler

ftp.microsoft.com           /Softlib/MSLFILES

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/misc

WHAT.ZIP - Windows Help Authoring Templates

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

HLPDK40.ZIP - Help System Deveopment Kit for Windows

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/util

HELPED19.ZIP - Help Edit V1.9 Windows Help File Generator

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/util

VH.ZIP - Visual Help - A Windows 3.1 Help File Creating program

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/util

[7-2-2] Authoring Guides and Info

WHAG.ZIP - Windows Help Authoring Guide

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

HAG.ZIP - Help Authoring Guide

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

WFWHLP.ZIP - Info on constructing Windows Help Files

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

[7-2-3] Non-Authoring Software

[7-4]

    This section describes limits of WinHelp, not necessarily the

compilers, however. Some of these limits are not shared by the 32-bit

version of WinHelp, though I don't have specifics yet. I will investigate.

    This information is adapted from Microsoft's knowledge base article

Q85676

Paragraph: ~32,000 bytes - Includes any pasted bitmaps

Topic title string: 127 characters

Topics per RTF source: ~32,000

Topics per help file: ~42,000,000

Help file size: 2 gigabytes

By-reference bitmaps per help file: 32,767

Topic footnote (# chars): 1023 characters

Keywords per help file: Limited by file size

Keyword length: 255 characters

Topics per keyword: 32,767 ( Large #'s will effect performance )

Browse sequence length: Limited by # of topics

Bookmarks per help file: Limited by file size

Annotations per topic: 1

Annotations per help file: 32,767

History List Length: 40 topics

Macro Length: 512 characters

Main windows per topic: 1

Secondary Windows per topic: 5

Items in [MAP] section: 4096

[8] Thanks

    I'd like to thank the following people for assistance in this FAQ. If

I've missed your name, it's due to my incompetence and not my lack of

appreciation. Please let me know if I missed you.

Roger Burton - Some corrections.

Anne Foxworthy - Questions for the Q&A section. She supplied some of the more

important ones that I missed. She also supplied the text for the question

about hardcoding colors in [6-1-1]. E-mail to:anne@greebo.apana.org.au

Ron Levi - Provided WINHLP-L Listserv information

Derek MacEwen - Suggested talking about Viewer

Duncan Murdoch - Provided information on how to distribute the FAQ

Arthur Muller - Coming up with the original WinHelp version of the FAQ

Richard Prince - Came up with the idea for section [7-2]

Brenden Young - Updates to section [7-4]

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animations in help files, change symbol of hlp File

In article <1994Jun3.080002.1939@sgcl1.unisg.ch>,

 <91625590s@sgcl1.unisg.ch> wrote:

>Hi,

>

>Please help me with these two questions concerning hlp Files:

>

>How can I integrate animations into a help window?

>If you know of any way how to include animations in help files,

>(other than.mmm Movies) please let me know. Thanks.

Sorry, I've only worked with MMM.

>My second question: How can I change the symbol of a minimized help

>file from a question mark to another symbol?

>

This one I know.  In the HPJ file, [OPTIONS] section,

you can specify:

ICON=myicon.ico

this should work for a minimized help file.  I does not

work, however, in a Program Manager group window.  You'll

have to specify the correct icon manually there.

--

Miguel Carrasquer         ____________________  ~~~

Amsterdam                [                  ||]~

mcv@inter.NL.net         ce .sig n'est pas une .cig

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FAQ for this newsgroup

  I've just posted the FAQ for this newsgroup. Can someone send me e-mail

telling me where I can post this ascii version of the FAQ and the WinHelp

version of the faq for anonymous FTP?

  Thanks to everyone for all the help. I'll continue to update the faq, so

if you have suggestions or new information, please send it.

  Pete

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Help/Search ... - how can it be done?

In article <2umsjc$quj@rcsuna.gmr.com>,

M. G. Ravichandran  <mravicha@rcsuna.gmr.com> wrote:

>

>Hello,

>

>I'd like to have a menu item "Search ..." under the "Help" menu. When this

>item is activated, I'd like to see the Winhelp start (with the application's

>help file) with the Search dialog popped up. Do you have any suggestions

>on how this can be done?

The item should activate this code:

WinHelp(hwnd, "apphelp.hlp", HELP_PARTIALKEY, NULL);

--

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Amsterdam                [                  ||]~

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--> Password Protect a Help File?

Hello,

I'm very interested in being able to distribute a Help file which would

require entering a password to be able to read some parts of it.  Is this

possible using a DLL or something?

Jon Noring

--

Jon Noring          | Famous literary works in Windows 3.1 Help format are

OmniMedia           | available via anonymous ftp from ftp.netcom.com

1312 Carlton Place  | /pub/OmniMedia/books.  Current titles include "Fanny

Livermore, CA 94550 | Hill", "Aesop's Fables", "Devil's Dictionary", "Warfare

510-294-8153        | of Science With Theology...", and more coming!

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--> Password Protect a Help File?

In article <noringCs2I57.D4D@netcom.com> noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:

>From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)

>Subject: --> Password Protect a Help File?

>Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 18:03:06 GMT

>Hello,

>I'm very interested in being able to distribute a Help file which would

>require entering a password to be able to read some parts of it.  Is this

>possible using a DLL or something?

>Jon Noring

      There is no interactive Dialog possible in the middle of an HLP file.

However, if you're brave enough to do a little bit of programming in C, here's

what I would suggest to you :

      Have your main help topic displaying a hotspot that would run an

external program. This program would display a simple dialog box for a

password entry. If the password is correct, you call WinHelp(), with a

specific Help Context id, that, of course, is not obvious. You could use

something like:"h^#@1aF7687*", or something criptic like that, so it cannot be

found in the .EXE file, nor in the .HLP file as being a help topic, but

rather as a piece of the EXE code.

      Also, in this same small C program, you could try (I say TRY !) to close

the first help window. Use the FindWindow() API call to find the handle of the

window, and then send a WM_CLOSE message, or something like that.....

      Have fun.....

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Need scroll bars

In article <1994Jun27.075848.1@pbs.org>, rfutscher@pbs.org writes:

>>         Can you have scroll bars in a pop up window?  I have a

>> floor plan diagram that I would like to have as a pop up window.

I don't believe scroll bars are possible in a pop up. My best

suggestions is that if you are wanting the user to be able to view

the diagram without loosing their place in the helpfile, then create

a topic with the diagram (since scroll bars are available in topics)

and then also have a MACRO in the topic that will take them directly

back to the topic they came from.  ( yes I know, the user could

simply click the BACK icon, but some help file readers _really_ need

things spelled out to them plainly ;> Anyway.. IMO, it just makes it

easier to have a line telling the user to click here to go back to

wherever.

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Off-Topic Question

In article <2ug2fu$gt7@illuminati.io.com> George Hasty writes:

>: Can anybody tell how does HelpBreeze compare to other help-authoring

>: tools ?

Sorry I'm off-topic, but this posting reminded me of this question, and this

group is as qualified as any to answer.

This questioner asked about HELP-AUTHORING TOOLS, and we have all come to

accept the implied meaning of "AUTHORING" -- this is the tool that includes

the editor, a passle of macros, and probably the compiler. You begin with a

bucket of bits, and you end up with a HELP SYSTEM!

In other contexts, I've heard AUTHORING used to mean something more than

writting or inputting data but something less than final product creation,

for example, an SGML Authoring tool assists the writer in creation of SGML

compliant files, but not neccesarily in the final production effort.

Now, I am on a team whose leader wants to define our mission as "USING

MICROSOFT WORD FOR WINDOWS AS AN AUTHORING TOOL", by which he means, a tool

to permit an author to convert a bucket of bits into pages. I want to

restrict the meaning of AUTHORING to mean that the writer converst bits (or

brainstorms, whatever) into files compatible with the next step in

publishing. When I argued this way, the decision by the team (with my sole

any vote) was that the team should be about "USING MICROSOFT WORD AS A

PUBLISHING TOOL".

Does anyone have any comments, insights, or ideas about this minor debacle?

What does AUTHORING mean to you, versus PUBLISHING, versus, , , , , ??

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--> Password Protect a Help File?

In article <jmessier.172.0011F5BB@hookup.net>,

Jean-Francois Messier <jmessier@hookup.net> wrote:

>In article <noringCs2I57.D4D@netcom.com> noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:

>>From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)

>>Subject: --> Password Protect a Help File?

>>Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 18:03:06 GMT

>

>>Hello,

>

>>I'm very interested in being able to distribute a Help file which would

>>require entering a password to be able to read some parts of it.  Is this

>>possible using a DLL or something?

>

>>Jon Noring

>

>      There is no interactive Dialog possible in the middle of an HLP file.

>However, if you're brave enough to do a little bit of programming in C, here'

>what I would suggest to you :

>

>      Have your main help topic displaying a hotspot that would run an

>external program. This program would display a simple dialog box for a

>password entry. If the password is correct, you call WinHelp(), with a

>specific Help Context id, that, of course, is not obvious. You could use

>something like:"h^#@1aF7687*", or something criptic like that, so it cannot

>be found in the .EXE file, nor in the .HLP file as being a help topic, but

>rather as a piece of the EXE code.

>

>   Also, in this same small C program, you could try (I say TRY !) to close

>the first help window. Use the FindWindow() API call to find the handle of

>the window, and then send a WM_CLOSE message, or something like that.....

>

Well, there's a better way.  Not that it avoids writing a DLL

function in C, though.  Now let's suppose you've done that (basic

dialog box with password edit box and OK button), and that the function

is called int FAR PASCAL GetPasswd(char *helpfile), and that it

returns 0 on success, some error-code on error.

In your .HPJ's [CONFIG] section, put:

RR("passwd.dll","GetPasswd","i=S")

...

IfThen(GetPasswd(qchPath),"Exit()")

Doing it this way ensures that whenever your helpfile is

opened (no matter if it's a jump to a topic other than the

first), a user will always have to supply a password.

Putting a hotspot in the first topic wouldn't help much.

If there are keywords, you can jump elsewhere by "Search",

if there are browse-buttons, just browse away.  And if none

of the above apply, I could always do a dump of the helpfile,

note the context-strings (hash-values) and JumpHash() to them.

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Need scroll bars

In article <1994Jun27.075848.1@pbs.org>,  <rfutscher@pbs.org> wrote:

>         Can you have scroll bars in a pop up window?  I have a

>floor plan diagram that I would like to have as a pop up window.

No, but you can have scrollbars in a "secondary window".

Just make a hotspot that will display your picture in a

secondary window, and the effect will be that the secondary

window will pop-up: almost the same as a pop-up window.

The main difference is that the user  has to close that window

explicitly by dclicking on its close box.

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What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

The missing .hlp files can be found at ftp.microsoft.com in the

/developer/msdn/newup area as WHATHLP.ZIP.  This error has been corrected

for the next CD.  The entire WHAT6 setup is *not* available for download.

These can also be found on CompuServe in the MSDN forum's Library 1 as

WHATHL.ZIP.

..James  :-)

>I am trying to install WHAT6 from MSDN 2 but it seems there are some missing

>files. Are these files supposed to be anywhere else or am I just plain stupid?

>

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HELP - Macro Problem

I am trying to create a button which pops up and plays an avi file then

exits, but I have not met with much success. This is what I am trying to

do:

CB("btnqt", "&Quit","pi(`tjr.hlp',`playavi');Exit()")

What am I doing wrong?

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Am I blind or crazy?

In article <2snu25$ghn@crl3.crl.com>, Craig Villalon <villalon@crl.com> wrote:

>Ulrich Babiak (v9100055@athena.rrz.uni-koeln.de) wrote:

>

>> This is the syntax according to cwh.hlp (for the [config] - section)

>>

>>      CreateButton("B1", "fussnoten", "JumpID("dipl.hlp", "fussnoten1")")

>>

>> and I tried also

>>

>>      CreateButton("B1", "fussnoten", "!JumpID("dipl.hlp", "fussnoten1")")

>

>

>  Try this syntax:

>

>	cb("btn_overview","&Overview","jumpid(`',`Overview')")

>

>  Note that you can't use nested quotes, use  ^^ ^        ^ instead.

Something must have gone wrong in the last line, but the example just

before it is correct: use `(backquote) ... '(quote).

Another thing which can be handy (e.g. if you rename your help file),

is to use WinHelp's internal variable qchPath, which expands to the

full pathname of the current help file.  Don't put single or double

quotes around qchPath!

  CreateButton("B1", "fussnoten", "JumpID(qchPath, `fussnoten1')")

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.hlp -> translated to unix

What are the options for converting an .hlp (or the underlying

.rtf file) to something unix readable (Say, under Motif).

I'm afraid I know nothing about available unix software.

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HELP - Macro Problem

In article <1994Jun27.230216.25249@dal1>, TIM ROBERTS <tjr@ac.dal.ca> wrote:

>I am trying to create a button which pops up and plays an avi file then

>exits, but I have not met with much success. This is what I am trying to

>do:

>

>CB("btnqt", "&Quit","pi(`tjr.hlp',`playavi');Exit()")

>

>What am I doing wrong?

>

If this is in the [CONFIG] section of the HPJ file,

and what you get are syntax errors from the Help Compiler

(it helps to know what the matter is exactly), then

it's simple: substitute a colon for the semicolon in

your macro.  Everything after ; in the HPJ file is

taken to be a comment.

If not, then I don't know: I'm not familiar with

the "pi" function.  All I can tell you is to check

if it has been RR'ed properly in the [CONFIG] section.

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hlp2doc 1.32 available

HLP2DOC Version 1.32 is uploaded to ftp.lrz-muenchen.de . The path is

/pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows/hlpdc132.zip.

HLP2DOC is a DOS utility to convert a Windows 3.x Help File to a Word for

Windows 2.0 Document File including formatting information. Now there is also

a windows front end program H2DSTART for easy handling.

New features:

- Supports of winhelp tables.

- Files with very much phrase definitions can now be processed.

- .mvb files

HLPDC132.ZIP containing HLP2DOC.EXE, HLP2DOC.TXT and H2DSTART.EXE

is uploaded to ftp.lrz-muenchen.de in directory /pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

Wolfgang Beyer

Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Barer Strasse 21,  80333 Muenchen,  Germany

beyer@lrz-muenchen.de

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Trapping Help messages and altering output

Does anyone know how  to trap Windows programmes error messages and then change

them?

 Other than the FAQ does anyone know of course source literature for Help files?

 Please e-mail me at

 ckoziol@cs.strath.ac.uk

 Thanks

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fonts under WinHelp

Hello,

I got some problems using mathematical fonts under WInhelp (I am

      using WinWord 6.0 and BC++ 4.0)

, I do absolutly do not know why some fonts work and some don`t .

I hope someone can help me with (Win)Help :-) !

murray@uni-paderborn.de

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FAQ: It's NEW FTP Home.

The FAQ in both formats (txt/hlp) can be acquired via anonymous ftp

at:

quasar.sba.dal.ca

The txt file is located under /www/doc

The hlp file is located under /www/hlp

Please refer any problems or questions concerning this ftp

site to TJR@AC.DAL.CA.

Cheers.

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Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

In article <mvang.8.000BCF9B@msrad1.uth.tmc.edu>

           mvang@msrad1.uth.tmc.edu "Meng C. Vang" writes:

>Hello there,

>       Does anyone know what microsoft uses to develop its KB help file, which

>allows _FULL-TEXT_ search of the .HLP file contents?

It's the Multimedia Viewer. To develop such files you use the appropriate

SDK, on the Level II MSDN disks.

Chris

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In article <1994Jun27.230216.25249@dal1>, <tjr@ac.dal.ca> writes:

> I am trying to create a button which pops up and plays an avi file

>then exits, but I have not met with much success. This is what I am

trying to

> do:

>

> CB("btnqt", "&Quit","pi(`tjr.hlp',`playavi');Exit()")

>

> What am I doing wrong?

PI is an abbreviation of the Popupid macro. You are asking winhelp to

bring up an .avi file, play it in  mplayer.exe (or some type of

player), and then quit. I think you're going to have to get into that

whole .DLL thing of which i know nothing of (if someone could point

me to a good programming kit for novices i'd be much obliged). and

unless your `playavi' is a help topic which actually plays the .avi

file (which i cannot really believe, though if you can do it, then

tell me!) then to play an .avi file you're going to have to use the

ExecProgram("file.*",0) to play it as a standalone apart from your

hlp file.

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jmessier@hookup.net (Jean-Francois Messier) wrote:

>In article <noringCs2I57.D4D@netcom.com> noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>

>      Also, in this same small C program, you could try (I say TRY !) to close

>the first help window. Use the FindWindow() API call to find the handle of the

>window, and then send a WM_CLOSE message, or something like that.....

>

>      Have fun.....

  Actually, you wouldn't have to close the initial window if you used the

FAPI() routine instead of the WinHelp() API. FAPI() is exported from

WinHelp and has the following parameters: (LPSTR Filename, UINT Command,

DWORD Data) This is the same as the WinHelp() API call except it doesn't

have the HWND as a first parameter.

  To get the FAPI() routine's address, you need to use an LDLLHandler()

routine in your DLL. I suggest you look in the Windows Help Authoring

Guide or on the MSDN-CD (for the Authoring guide there) for instructions

on doing an LDLLHandler. It's too much to go into here.

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utility to check/optimize RAM utilization

I just upgraded from 4 to 8Meg RAM. Is there a public domain utility that can ch

eck/optimize

and make sure all 8Meg are utilized properly? I'm talking about a Windows utilit

y naturally.

I'm skeptical if 'msd' and other DOS stuff can handle this effectively.

Thank you anticipately,

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NonScroling regions

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Returning a non-zero value from winhelp?

How do I return a value, any value, from a Windows help file?

Here's what I'm trying to do:

-fire up winhelp.exe with some help file

-user clicks a hotspot or button

-winhelp returns a value (context ID for example) that

 corresponds to the hotspot or button clicked

-winhelp exits, politely (ie, no GPF)

Is that possible? I've done lots of poking around ftp.microsoft.com and

RTFMing but I haven't stumbled across anything that suggests I can do

what I want.

Any help would be much appreciated.

I'll collect what is posted and sent to me (relating to this question

only :-) and post a summary.

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FAQ for this newsgroup

In article <2umt5i$hca@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>

           pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu "Peter J. Davis" writes:

>  I've just posted the FAQ for this newsgroup. Can someone send me e-mail

>telling me where I can post this ascii version of the FAQ and the WinHelp

>version of the faq for anonymous FTP?

>

>  Thanks to everyone for all the help. I'll continue to update the faq, so

>if you have suggestions or new information, please send it.

>

>  Pete

Pete,

One suggestion - put the section "this is not a newsgroup for asking

general help about windows programming" right at the very start, so it

can be seen without scrolling down!

Chris

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In article <2upa0j$ami@news.uni-paderborn.de>,

Oliver Niggemann <murray@uni-paderborn.de> wrote:

>Hello,

>I got some problems using mathematical fonts under WInhelp (I am

>using Word 6.0 and BC++ 4.0)

>I do absolutly do not know why some fonts work and some don`t .

>

Hi,

WinHelp will refuse to display fonts that are not ANSI charset,

with *one* explicit exception: "Symbol".  I guess the fonts

that don't work have another charset flag set (SYMBOL_CHARSET?).

You can give up, try to change the charset flags in the font,

or rename your font "Symbol" (never tried this, but might work :-).

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In article <Cs4Cws.Io2@maunakea.Data-IO.COM>,

Cal Jewell <jewell@Data-IO.com> wrote:

>How do I return a value, any value, from a Windows help file?

>

>Here's what I'm trying to do:

>

>	-fire up winhelp.exe with some help file

>	-user clicks a hotspot or button

>	-winhelp returns a value (context ID for example) that

>	 corresponds to the hotspot or button clicked

>	-winhelp exits, politely (ie, no GPF)

>

>Is that possible? I've done lots of poking around ftp.microsoft.com and

>RTFMing but I haven't stumbled across anything that suggests I can do

>what I want.

>

It's not possible quite the way you want it, but something similar

can be done.  You can have a button or hotspot that invokes a

macro that you have defined in a DLL.  In your DLL function, you

might Post a Message, write something to a file, whatever, to

communicate some information to your application.

Another thing you might try is writing an LDLLHandler.  This is

a function in a DLL that must have that name ("LDLLHandler").

Whenever WinHelp opens a helpfile, jumps to a different topic, etc.

your LDLLHandler is informed.  You can read about this in the

"Writing DLLs for Windows Help" chapter of the WinHelp Authoring

Guide.  That way, you can keep track of which topic is accessed,

without even requiring the user to click on a button.

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Lotus AMI Pro??

Can Lotus AMI Pro be used instead of Word for help file authoring?

......larry

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Help for converting Japanese rtf file, Please...

Hello,

I have a question about how to fix a junk words.

I am now compiling rtf file (in Japanese) with hc31.

I made the rtf file with Japanese MS-Word 5.0 (under the Japanese

MS-DOS 6.2 and MS-Windows 3.1).

When I compiled the rtf file, almost all the documents could be

compiled into good helpfile but I found some junk words. I guess those

came from the mis-conversion of 2-byte character(kanji or kana).

Does someone have any solution for that?

Or Can I find help compiler which supports Japanese(or 2-byte code)?

I also found that when I compiled rc files on the Borland C++ 3.1(US),

I have some errors at some characters which are Japanese characters.

I got "invalid escape character" error at certain Japanese characters.

Does this software have a parameters or switches to ignore those characters?

Or should I buy a Japanese Borland software?

Thank you.

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TOC windows with help (+ more!)

Mike Floyd (mikef@SYACUS.ACUS.OZ.AU) wrote:

: Mike Bellusci asked about how to get a TOC window running with the

: help window.

: I don't know the techo details but I do know of a product that will do this

: automatically for you. It's HDK or help/hypertext development kit. It

: provides a proprietary DLL with the TOC functionality and you can fairly

: simply just compile a system with a TOC option switched on. You can

: distribute the DLL freely with your compiled systems.

Sorry for the late follow-up to this thread due to our network going down...

Anyway I would like the WinHelp developer community to know that the

there's another WinHelp development system providing full and dynamic

Table of Contents available called HyperTrack.  It was first developed

back in October 1993 (probably just before HDK, RoboHelp, etc. got

the idea....) and it's something like the the Electronic Book stuff

around except it's much, much cheaper (basic registration is only

US$30).  You can obtain the evaluation copy from oak.oakland.edu

(under /pub/msdos/hypertxt) or from fujitsu.my (under /pub) with the

filename hyptrk41.zip (remember to use binary transfer).  It has lots of

other features like full-text search (with boolean capabilities), dynamic

topic groupings (create topic groups at run-time), etc....

If you are serious about developing HyperText TOC in WinHelp and want

to see for yourself the full source code, I am willing to offer them

to anyone for the price of just US$70 (both the Borland C++ code and

the unprotected document template macros).  This is my final `contribution'

to WinHelp development since my current job does not give me much

opportunity to futher work with it (but I'll still provide support for

the product).

For more information, please contact the author: ken@fujitsu.my

Happy Help-Writing,

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On Fri, 24 Jun 1994 19:16:58 GMT, Chester Garfield (jamesva@microsoft.com) said:

  >> The missing .hlp files can be found at ftp.microsoft.com in the

  >> /developer/msdn/newup area as WHATHLP.ZIP.  This error has been corrected

  >> for the next CD.  The entire WHAT6 setup is *not* available for download.

  >> These can also be found on CompuServe in the MSDN forum's Library 1 as

  >> WHATHL.ZIP.

  >> ..James  :-)

Thanx, James!

Regards,

Carlos Antunes.

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--> Password Protect a Help File?

Jon Noring (noring@netcom.com) wrote:

: I'm very interested in being able to distribute a Help file which would

: require entering a password to be able to read some parts of it.  Is this

: possible using a DLL or something?

SoftLock Services has a scheme where you can password protect whole

WinHelp files or just selected topics.  The way they do it lets you

sell passwords to people that are tied to their particular PC.

They've also got a system for selling the passwords through an 800#,

collecting money, and sending you the money.

You can find out about it at http://www.awa.com/ or, if you're just

interested in the bits for password protecting a WinHelp file, you can

find the source code for a DLL and a registration program via

anonymous ftp to zeb.nysaes.cornell.edu as file sl4win.zip in directory pub.

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FAQ for this newsgroup

>  I've just posted the FAQ for this newsgroup

I thank you for your efforts.  Much appreciated.

Bev Freed

Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

Dallas, TX

e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

My opinions are very much my own, and my mother will tell you that.

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Minimized Startup of a Help File

Hello Everyone,

I was asked today if there is a way to run a help file minimized as part of

windows startup. I didn't know, but it appears that it is not possible. Are

there any compile-time options I could use that would permit this? Wrap the

help file in an EXE or BAT? Yuck.

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Winhelp on Unix?

Hi!

Does anyone know if there is a tool available to let me use my Windows

Help files on a Unix workstation?  I really like the MS Help system,

and it would be nice to have it available on Unix as well.

Thanks,

   Dan

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Winhelp on Unix?

In article <2urso9$ihb@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>,

Daniel Smith <smithda@cps.msu.edu> wrote:

>Hi!

>

>Does anyone know if there is a tool available to let me use my Windows

>Help files on a Unix workstation?  I really like the MS Help system,

>and it would be nice to have it available on Unix as well.

>

Bristol Technologies has a product (I forget the name).

They used to provide a demo at their site (ftp.bristol.com?)

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Macro convert

Has anyone tried to convert the Word 2.0 macros

included with the book "Developing Online Help

for Windows" to Word 6?

Thanks,

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Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

Could anyone tell me which software is better and why?

I am trying to decide using one of them, but I have a

hard time to make my mind as which one is better..

Any comment appreciated.

Lu Cheng

lcheng@cs.umn.edu

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Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

as has been said in many posts before this, this ain't a newsgroup

for random windows questions. this newsgroup, unbeliveable as it may

be to you, is for questions regarding Windows Help (like, you know,

when you, like, hit, you know, like, the F1 key, and you know, a help

thingy like comes up and, like, provides you with, ya' know, HELP).

i'm sure there are other newsgroups out there that deal with your

problem...

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{bmc} bitmaps are HUGE!

When I include a bitmap DIRECTLY into an RTF file, it comes up

looking fine, just like the original.

But if i indirectly include it using [image] it shows

up in the .HLP file looking about 1.5 times larger than the original,

and because of this inflation it is missing pixels, uneven, etc.

This is unrelated to the size of the WINHELP window -- it doesn't

do any kind of resizing of the bitmap when I resize the window.

What is the problem?  How do I make it come up in its original size?

thanks,

burtle@TYRELL.NET

burtle@sunflower.cs.uiuc.edu

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Lotus AMI Pro??

In article <2uqg4t$oa@infmx.informix.com>

           lrau@migration.com "Larry Rau (Migration Software" writes:

>

>Can Lotus AMI Pro be used instead of Word for help file authoring?

Yes, but with EXTREME difficulty. The problem you'll have will be to

get footnotes in the specific format which the Help Compiler requires.

It's honestly a heck of a lot easier to just buy a copy of Word.

Chris

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{bmc} bitmaps are HUGE!

burtle@sunflower.cs.uiuc.edu (Bill Burtle) writes:

>When I include a bitmap DIRECTLY into an RTF file, it comes up

>looking fine, just like the original.

>

>But if i indirectly include it using [image] it shows

>up in the .HLP file looking about 1.5 times larger than the original,

>and because of this inflation it is missing pixels, uneven, etc.

>

>This is unrelated to the size of the WINHELP window -- it doesn't

>do any kind of resizing of the bitmap when I resize the window.

>

>What is the problem?  How do I make it come up in its original size?

I had the same problem when I made a bitmap in Photoshop, but

when I saved it from Paintshop the problem was gone.

So try saving the bitmap in another program, maybe that'll work

for you too.

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CFormView, F1-Help does not work?

I am using MS-Visual C++ 1.5.

I created a SDI app using AppWiz, then followed the directions in

Tech note 39 to make my app a 'CFormView'.

The application consists of the CFormView window, and the main menu, with

options like File,Configure, Help...

Problem:

  None of the controls in the CFormView activate 'Context Sensitive Help'

  when the F1 key is pressed. Instead of context sensitive help, I get

  the help index.

I know that some of the help is working fine, because I can open a dialog

box (from the 'Configure' menu...) and I get great context sensitive help.

I am sure the help file is set up correctly.

How do I modify my program to enable context sensitive help in my CFormView?

billr@halcyon.com

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WinHelp with Chinese Word 5.0

I recall that someone reported difficulties when using Chinese Word

for Windows 5.0 to generate RTF-files for the help compiler.

I have encountered the same problem. The help-compiler (HCP.exe) used

is the newest version (3.10.505) downloaded from Microsoft. No matter

what it is inside the RTF-file, I get an error message like the

following:

>Microsoft (R) Help Compiler Version 3.10.505 (extended)

>Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1990 - 1992. All rights reserved.

>c:\tools\helpauth\sample\sample.hpj

>Error 4639: Error in file 'c:\helpauth\sample\try2.rtf' at byte offset 0x3C.

Can anyone tell me what this means?

I seem to recall another person reported success in using Chinese

Word 5.0 for RTF-files. I wonder which version of the help compiler

he/she was using.

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Converting .hlp to OS/2 ipf help format

>

> 1- Get a copy of HDK (Help development kit from HyperAct Inc.), which

>    is shareware.

> 2- Get the utility hlp2hdk (I think), which converts RTF+HPJ files to

>    HDK format

At least on cica it was wh2hdk

And, the latest version I've heard of is 11.5

And, I think I recall that wh2hdk will only work with version 11.5

-dennis turner

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Minimized Startup of a Help File

>I was asked today if there is a way to run a help file minimized as part of

>windows startup. I didn't know, but it appears that it is not possible. Are

>there any compile-time options I could use that would permit this? Wrap the

>help file in an EXE or BAT? Yuck.

>Gary Benson-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-inc@tc.fluke.com_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

I must have missed your question the first time, but this is really easy to do.

In the startup group in program manager add a new item.

winhelp.exe [path]filename.hlp

and check the "Run minimized" box.

Click OK and you're off. Each time you start Windows this will load and place

itself quietly on your screen.

-Tod Massa

massatr@sluvca.slu.edu

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Lotus AMI Pro??

>It's honestly a heck of a lot easier to just buy a copy of Word.

...I was afraid of that!

........larry

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kill the menu!!

I want to kill (i.e. delete) any and all standard menu items in my

help file.

I want to kill (i.e. destroy) any and all standard buttons in my

help file.

To accomplish these tasks I need the UNDOCUMENTED (as far as I can tell)

buttonid's and itemid's so that I will be able to pass the appropriate

parameters to the DeleteItem and DestroyButton macros.

Anybody hacked these yet??  Is it possible??  Is it documented somewhere

that I just haven't wandered across??

Thanx ya'll.

Peter Lakanen

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Windows/DOS Prog Journal - how, where??

I saw mention of this cool sounding mag in the FAQ for our little group.

How do I subscribe??

How do I get back issues??

Thanx a bunch.

Peter Lakanen

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kill the menu!!

In article <2uvdfj$2u9@mailer.fsu.edu>, <lakanen@otto.cmr.fsu.edu>

writes:

> I want to kill (i.e. delete) any and all standard menu items in my

> help file.

>

> I want to kill (i.e. destroy) any and all standard buttons in my

> help file.

>

> To accomplish these tasks I need the UNDOCUMENTED (as far as I can

tell)

> buttonid's and itemid's so that I will be able to pass the

appropriate

> parameters to the DeleteItem and DestroyButton macros.

>

> Anybody hacked these yet??  Is it possible??  Is it documented

somewhere

> that I just haven't wandered across??

i've tried to remove the standard help buttons and menus, but ya'

can't, i'm afraid.

the button ids are

btn_contents

btn_search

btn_back

btn_history

btn_previous

btn_next

the menu ids are

mnu_main

mnu_file

mnu_edit

mnu_help

the menu item ids are

i don't know them

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Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

In article <cheng.772909069@s6.math.umn.edu>

           cheng@s6.math.umn.edu "Lu Cheng" writes:

>Could anyone tell me which software is better and why?

>I am trying to decide using one of them, but I have a

>hard time to make my mind as which one is better..

These are PROGRAMMING TOOLS, so why don't you ask on the correct

newsgroup, which is "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools"?

This is a newsgroup for discussing "WinHelp" - the Windows on-line Help

engine.

Chris

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FTP Site with Windows Source Code in C/C++

Does anyone know of any ftp sites offering Windows source code in C/C++?

Pleases reply directly to me because this topic does not fit the discussion

on this list!

TIA.

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"Console"-type window for Windows App?

In article <kitk.784.000D9878@mudshark.sunquest.com>,

Kit Kauffmann <kitk@mudshark.sunquest.com> wrote:

>In article <2sifkd$fe3@network.ucsd.edu> bruss@cs.ucsd.edu (Brian Russ) writes:

>

>

>>        We are developing (actually, we have inherited someone else's

>>code) a Windows application that basically handles recording and

>>playback of events such as mouse clicks, button/menu selection, and

>>so forth.  We're using Visual C++ and the debugger often gets lost --

>>so, we'd like to revert to the old tried-and-true method of printf()

>>style debugging messages.  The original author claimed that there

>>really isn't any way to redirect standard output to another window --

>>his method of debugging was to call MessageBox() for each print

>>message he wanted displayed.  This seemed slow and clumsy to us.

>>Isn't there a simple way to open a display-only window for redirection

>>of printf()?  Note that we are Unix programmers, so it might be

>>helpful to keep replies short and stupid :-)  Thanks for any help ...

>

>>                                        Brian Russ

>

>>--

>>Brian Russ

>>CSE Department, UC San Diego

>>bruss@beowulf.ucsd.edu

>

>There is a a program called DBWin which comes with VC which can be the

>receptacle of all debug output, normally via OutputDebugString.  This program

>must be running (I have it in my Startup group) to receive (or re-direct) the

>debug output stream.

>

>Here is a printf which targets DBWin (or other similar window):

>

>void dprintf( const char* pFormat, ... )

>{

>        char buf256;

>        wvsprintf( buf, pFormat, (&pFormat+1) );

>        ::OutputDebugString( buf );

>        ::OutputDebugString( "\r\n" );

>}

>

>If you prefer stream-style output, I published a stream class in the Dec. '93

>issue of C Users Journal which can direct output to either OutputDebugString

>or MessageBox.  You can obtain the latest edition of this class from:

>

>mudshark.sunquest.com/ftp/pub/kitk/wstream.zip.

>

>Chairs,

>

>Kit Kauffmann   kitk@mudshark.sunquest.com (Internet)

>                73363,447 (Compu$erve)

>                (801) 277-5790

As well, the June 94 (the most recent) issue of Windows/DOS Developer's

Journal has an article titled "A C++ Debugging Output Stream".  It covers

all the issues that have been raised.  It relies on OutputDebugString() too,

it behaves like a C++ stream I/O class (probably similar to KitK's class,

but the mag is probably still in stores).  BTW, even if you don't use DBwin,

most debuggers will log OutputDebugString() output.  However, DBwin has some

nice options, such as putting the output in a window, on a monochrome

monitor, or to an AUX device.

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Viewer 2.0 experts?

>>One of my co-tech communicators is presently in a very tight spot: a

>>higher-up is damned and determined we're GONNA "have multimedia" in the next

>>version of one of our flagship products come hell or high water.

[stuff deleted ...]

>Patrick you might want to consider a multimedia authoring product

>called Q-Media for Windows Version 2.0. I am doing some work for

>this firm - here is a background product spec sheet for you:

>

>Q-MEDIA FOR WINDOWS RELEASE 2.0

>

>INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA WITH QUICK LINK NAVIGATION

>

>Quickly create interactive multimedia; branch to scenes, link to other

>applications, control embedded objects, display messages or trigger

>MCI events.

>

>Automatic Button Tool with six button styles including 3D and

>transparent buttons.

This description doesn't seem to describe the end user GUI environment very

 well.

Is a "branch to scene" similar to WinHELP/Viewer "jump to topic". I understand

 that

what Q-MEDIA calls a "scene" may be much more than a "topic". My interest is in

 the

overall paradign.

Can I use Q-MEDIA to deliver an interactive, hyperlinked book or encyclopedia

 type

title? It sounds like Q-MEDIA may be nothing more than AuthorWare with some

 jazier

authoring features/capabilities.

The part I deleted said "no scripting", but your post does mention "integrated

timeline". What is the authoring technique for sequencing, and branching (beyond

 hyper

link jumps)? Does it provide a high level iconic like authoring tool like

 AuthorWare?

>INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA WITH QUICK LINK NAVIGATION

>

>

>Drag and Drop from other OLE 2.0 compatible applications.

This sounds very interesting. This is one of the areas where authoring in Viewer

 is

very limited. The primary authoring environment (Word) supports drag and drop,

 but very

little of that information survives the transfrom to RTF and makes it to Viewer.

[more stuff deleted...]

>INTEGRATED TEXT AND DRAW TOOLS

>

[ more stuff deleted ...]

Are there any hooks for importing text, or RTF from other sources? One big plus

 for

Viewer is that you can use automated mechanims to generate RTF format files to

 compile

into a Viewer title.

Does Q-MEDIA have some similar "import" text format with support for embedding

commands, hyperlinks, etc., that could be generated in an automated fashion by a

software external to Q-MEDIA (OLE features would not be sufficient for what I'm

 talking

about)?

Another significant features in Viewer is its text indexing and retreival

 engine. There

is a slew of multimedia authoring environments offering more than Viewer in

 terms of

cross platform capability, multimedia resource authoring, pretty buttons, etc.,

 but I

have not found one that provides the integrated text indexing and retreival

 features.

For multimedia titles of a technical nature or with lots of text, text indexing

 is

critical. In my opinion, hyperlinks will never fully replace the need for ad hoc

queries. The ideal multimedia authoring and delivery environment will provide

 both

capabilities.

>ANIMATION SUPPORT

>

>Add animation from Autodesk Animator, 3D Studio, Animation Works Interactive

>and any other FLC or FLI compatible animation program.

>

>Play multiple animations simultaneously.

A user better make sure the drivers for the media being used can handle multiple

animation/movie sequences simultanously. Have you verified this can be done with

 all

the "movie" technologies/sources mentioned in your post (or with just some of

 them)?

[stuff deleted ...]

>AUDIO SUPPORT

>

>Add background sound with WAVE, MIDI, RIFF, MIDI or CD Audio files.

>

>Synchronize audio with images, animation or video

How far beyond simple MCI "frame" commands does the synchronization features go?

 What

events can be used as sync points in the "timeline"?

[more stuff deleted...]

>Cost: Suggested retail price: $199.00 (special promotion during June

>$139.00!)

What about royalty and redistribution licensing. That is usually a very

 important part

of the financial equation.

>Call: Q-Media at 1-800-444-9356 and you can ask for me - John Falloon

>

>John Falloon

>Knowledge on Demand

>#1505 - 1348 Barclay Street

>Vancouver, British Columbia

>V6E 1H7

>Canada

>Phone: (604) 685-2355

>Fax:   (604) 685-2355

>Internet Address: jfalloon@zeke.win.net

>Compuserve ID:    76616,1716

Q-MEDIA seems to have a lot of features to make authoring easier, and the end

 product

"look cool."

Whom should one contact to try to get a demo or evalutation copy?

Gregory J. Peto

gpeto@mudshark.sunquest.com

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Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

Dear Helpers,

I am forwarding this announcement on behalf of Olson Software.

Help Writer's Assistant for Windows is a visual help authoring package

with features only normally seen in expensive products - at a price that

you can afford.  Help Writer's Assistant for Windows is a WYSIWYG help

development environment.  HWA/w works the way you do, not forcing you

to change the way you work.

Previously, building help files under Windows had to be done either

by coding RTF commands by hand, or by using a word processor that

understood RTF.  There were problems with this.  You had to remember

the context string of the help topic you wanted to link to, and you

had to enter footnotes.  At the best of times, it was a pain!

Word Processor macros helped make the task easier, but they didn't

provide everything you needed. Help Writer's Assistant for Windows (HWA/w)

does that and helps to make Windows help authoring visual and exciting!

This saves a considerable amount of time when developing help files.

This version is available as a public beta by request of many people.

HWA/w has a wide variety of uses:

  To help a user use a program (a traditional help file)

  To teach a user to use a program (a tutorial)

  To teach a user about anything by using hypergraphic jumps (that is files

  created with the Hotspot editor) and hypertext jumps.

  To store commonly used information like in a database (such as company

  policies)

Training about programs or about anything can be made easier by using

help files.

System requirements:

  MS-DOS operating system version 3.1 or later

  Any of the following (must be acquired separately):

  Microsoft Windows operating system version 3.1 or later

  Microsoft Windows for Workgroups version 3.1 or later

  Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1 or later

  Personal computer using a 386 or higher processor

  2Mb of Memory (4Mb or greater recommended)

  2Mb of Hard disk space

  A 3.5" or 5.25" disk drive

  EGA or higher resolution monitor compatible with Microsoft Windows 3.1

  or later.

  Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device recommended

HWA for Windows has many powerful and useful features:

Topic Management

  Drag & Drop topic management through hierarchical topic tree (topic

  listbox).

  Properties window for editing all topic properties.

  Support for all help topic properties, including: titles, entry macros,

  comments, keywords, multichar keywords and more!

  Topics can be easily moved around through dialogs.

Ease of use interface

  Right mouse button displays context-sensitive menus.

  Toolbars above editors and topic listbox as well as a general toolbar.

  Toolbar buttons to move to previous/next, first/last topics.

  Links listbox which lists the topics that the current topic links to -

  making it easy to change to those topics.

  Preference information (Help compiler, Hierarchical view, Auto Browse

  Sequences etc...) can be made default for all new projects but can be

  changed for each specific project.

  List of the 4 most recently used files is easily accessible from the file

  menu.

  Goto dialog has the same look and feel as all dialogs dealing with

  topics (e.g: link and move dialogs).  All use the same hierarchical

  topic tree used in the main window - decreasing learning time.

Visual editor

  The visual editor is used for editing the text of topics.  It allows

  multiple fonts, colors, styles, justification, indentation and line

  spacing.  No need to know anything about RTF!

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Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) !!

Hello

I am trying to contact people who know about EPSS or are working

in similar type of project. Obvoiusly, many different terms might

be in use, for example - PSS, elctronic job aid and so on.

To give an idea what I mean by EPSS I am appending a brief and

references. I would be glad to hear from you.

As online help is an important component in EPSS I am posting

it here hoping that it might be interest to someone.

Ashok

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           ELECTRONIC PERFORMANCE SUPPORT SYSTEMS

                     Ashok Banerji

            email:  a.banerji@tees.ac.uk

An Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS) is an

approach to integrating hardware, software and end-user

interfaces in order to produce more useful computer-based

information delivery systems that embed various types of job

performance aid. Essentially, an EPSS is intended to be a

computer-based job performance aid that is able to provide

'just-in-time' (JIT) training and effective human-task

interaction through interactive support environment. The

following working definition of an EPSS facility have been

adopted by us:

    'an electronic performance support facility is a

    human-activity system that is able to manipulate

    large amounts of task related information in order

    to provide both a problem solving capability as well

    as learning opportunities to augment human

    performance in a job task by providing information

    and concepts in either a linear or a non-linear way,

    as and when they are required by a user.'

The avenues of research that we are investigating involve an

array of techniques involving: full-text retrieval; hypertext and

hypermedia techniques; interactive training; online help and

job aids; intelligent agents; and communication tools.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Adie, C., (1993). A Survey of Distributed Multimedia:

Research, Standards and Products, RARE Project OBR(92)046v2,

available by anonymous FTP from 'ftp.edinburgh.ac.uk' in the

directory pub/mmsurvey, Edinburgh University Computing

Service, Edinburgh, UK.

Banerji, A.K., (1994). Designing Electronic Performance

Support Systems, Draft PhD Thesis, Human-Computer Interaction

Laboratory, Interactive Systems Research Group, University of

Teesside, UK.

Barker, P.G., (1989). Multimedia Computer-Assisted Learning,

Kogan Page, London.

Barker, P.G., (1992). Developing Competence Through CBT, 172-

178 in Aspects of Educational and Training Technology, Volume

XXV: Developing and Measuring Competence, edited by D.

Saunders and P. Race, Kogan Page London.

Barker, P.G., (1993). Exploring Hypermedia, Kogan Page, London.

Barker, P.G., (1994). Designing Interactive Learning, Chapter

to appear in 'Design and Production of Multimedia and

Simulation-based Training', edited by T. de Jong and L.

Sarti, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.

Barker, P. and Banerji, A., (1993a). Multimedia Environments

for EPSS Development, 423-430 in Innovative Applications in

Computing, Proceedings of the 3rd Indian Computing Congress,

edited by E. Balagurusamy and B. Sushila, Tata/McGraw-Hill

Publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi.

Barker, P. and Banerji, A., (1993b). Designing Electronic

Performance Support Systems, 140-142, Vol 1, Rethinking the

Role of Teaching in Education, Proceedings of the 10th

International Conference on Technology and Education, edited

by N. Estes and M.Thomas, Boston, MA, USA.

Barker, P. and Banerji, A., (1993c). Multimedia Documentation

for Performance Support, IEE Colloquium on Issues in Computer

Support for Documentation and Manuals, IEE Professional Group

G5, Digest No 1993/169, 3/1-3/4.

Barker, P.G. and Banerji, A.K., (1994a). An Object-Oriented

Approach to Performance Support, paper submitted to 'Object-

Oriented Technology: Methods and Applications', 5th

International Computing Congress, 9th-11th January, 1995,

Hyderabad, India.

Barker, P.G. and Banerji, A.K., (1994b). Evolving Principles

of Performance Support, paper submitted to Association for

Learning Technology Conference 94, Enabling Active Learning,

University of Hull, 19-21 September.

Barker, P., Banerji, A. and Richards, S., (1994). A Neural

Network-based Information Retrieval Engine, 932-934 in

Deciding Our Future: Technological Imperatives for Education,

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on

Technology and Education, edited by M. Thomas, T. Sechrest

and N. Estes, London, UK.

Barker, P., Banerji, A., Richards, S. and Lamont, C.,

(1993). Digital Video in a PC Environment, 583-592 in  Online

Information '93, Proceedings of the 17th International Online

Information Meeting, edited by D.I. Raitt and B. Jeaps,

Learned Information, Oxford, England.

Barker, P.G., Banerji, A.K., Richards, S.R. and Tan, C.M.

(1994). A Global Performance Support for Students and Staff,

paper submitted to Special Edition of Educational and

Training Technology International on Performance Support,

Volume 32, Issue 1, 1995.

Barker, P., Richards, S. and Banerji, A., (1994). Intelligent

Approaches to Performance Support, ALT-J, Vol 2, No 1, 63-69.

Duncan, C.S., (1985). Job Aids Really Can Work: A Study of

the Military Applications of Job Aid Technology, Performance

and Instruction, 24(4), 1-4.

Gery, G.J., (1989). Electronic Performance Support Systems,

CBT Directions, June, 12-15.

Gery, G.J., (1991). Electronic Performance Support Systems -

How and Why to Remake the Workplace Through the Strategic

Application of Technology, Weingarten Publications, Boston,

MA 02111, USA.

Harless, J.H., (1986). Guiding Performance with Job Aids. In

Introduction to Performance Technology, National Society for

Performance and Instruction, Washington, DC, 129-144.

Inaba, K., (1990). Some Useful Lessons Learned about

Electronic Presentation of Job Performance Aids, Proceedings

of the Topical Meeting on Advances in Human Factors Research

on Man/Computer Interactions: Nuclear and Beyond, 146-50, 10-

14 June, Nashville, TN, USA.

Lewis, R., Goodyear, P. and Boder, A. (1992). Just-in-Time

Open Learning - a DELTA Project Outline, Occasional Paper:

NL/1/92, Neurope Lab, International Business Park, Le Forum,

74166 Archamps, France.

Mader, R., (1992). Managing and Organising an Electronic

Performance Support System Project, 10th Annual Computer-

Based Training Conference and Exposition, March 2-5, Orlando,

USA.

McGraw, K.L., (1994). Performance Support Systems: Integrating

AI, Hypermedia, and CBT to enhance User Performance, Journal

of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Vol 5, No 1, 3-26.

Puterbaugh, G., (1990). CBT and Performance Support, CBT

Directions, June.

Raybould, B., (1990). Solving Human Performance Problems with

Computers - A Case Study: Building an Electronic Performance

Support System, Performance and Instruction, Nov/Dec, 4-14.

Rossett, A. and Gautier-Downes, J., (1991). Handbook of Job

Aids, Pfeiffer and Company, California, USA.

Wilson, P., (1991). Computer Supported Cooperative Work - An

Introduction, Intellect Books, Oxford, UK.

Wolman, R., (1989), Individual Performance, CBT Directions,

November, 18-24.

********************************************************************

Ashok Banerji                        | !!!! M.Tech, completing PhD.

Interactive Systems Research Group   | Banking & Industry experience

School of Computing and Mathematics  | Computer-based training.

University of Teesside               | Looking for JOB or BUSINESS

Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS1 3BA, UK | links in multimedia or EPSS

                                                    eventually!!!!!

 a.banerji@uk.ac.tees  Tel:(44) 0642-342661  Fax:(44) 0642-342067

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In article <1994Jun3.235504.24435@aristo.tau.ac.il>,

Choen Adi <adi@libra.math.tau.ac.il> wrote:

> How can i make nonscroling region in a topic?

>

> Please post it here or mail to adi@libra.math.tau.ac.il

>

>	Thanx adi.

Hello,

you don't say what authoring tool you're using. I'm

assuming you use Word to write your topics.

The non-scrolling zone is a paragraph (or sequence

of paragraphs) formatted in Word as "Keep with next".

In RTF, the paragraph has the \keepn attribute.

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>I was asked today if there is a way to run a help file minimized as part of

>windows startup. I didn't know, but it appears that it is not possible. Are

>there any compile-time options I could use that would permit this? Wrap the

>help file in an EXE or BAT? Yuck.

[Gary Benson]

Put the .HLP in an icon in your startup group and check the "show minimized"

box.

Yossi.

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In article <CquzvL.L3E@metrics.com>,

BASSMASSA: TOD R. MASSA, SLU-IR <MASSATR@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU> wrote:

>>I was asked today if there is a way to run a help file minimized as part of

>>windows startup. I didn't know, but it appears that it is not possible. Are

>>there any compile-time options I could use that would permit this? Wrap the

>>help file in an EXE or BAT? Yuck.

>

>>Gary Benson-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-inc@tc.fluke.com_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

>

>I must have missed your question the first time, but this is really easy to do

>In the startup group in program manager add a new item.

>

>winhelp.exe [path]filename.hlp

>and check the "Run minimized" box.

>

>Click OK and you're off. Each time you start Windows this will load and place

>itself quietly on your screen.

>

>-Tod Massa

>massatr@sluvca.slu.edu

Hi!

if you had tested this, you would know that it doesn't work.  WinHelp

ignores the "Run Minimized" flag.  The solution I have used is:

Create a DLL (yuck) with the following function:

void CALLBACK EXPORT MinimizeHelp(ULONG helpwin)

{

        if(IsWindow(LOWORD(helpwin))) {

                ShowWindow(LOWORD(helpwin), SW_MINIMIZE);

        }

}

In your helpfile's HPJ [CONFIG]:

RR("mydll.dll","MinimizeHelp","U")

MinimizeHelp(hwndApp)

Of course you can only do this with your own helpfiles.

Minimizing an existing helpfile would have to be done by

wrapping this stuff in an EXE (yuck indeed).

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NonScroling regions

In article <1994Jun3.235504.24435@aristo.tau.ac.il>

           adi@libra.math.tau.ac.il "Choen Adi" writes:

> How can i make nonscroling region in a topic?

>

> Please post it here or mail to adi@libra.math.tau.ac.il

If you're using WfW, just highlight the paragraph you want to be the

non-scrolling region, go to Format/Paragraph and check the

"Keep lines together" box.

Chris

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In article <2sifkd$fe3@network.ucsd.edu> bruss@cs.ucsd.edu (Brian Russ) writes:

>so forth.  We're using Visual C++ and the debugger often gets lost --

>so, we'd like to revert to the old tried-and-true method of printf()

>style debugging messages.  The original author claimed that there

>really isn't any way to redirect standard output to another window --

The most easy thing with VC++ is to use the macro TRACE( "What?%#&!!!\n"),

compile with debug on. Use DBWIN.EXE ( Debugwin ) and TRACE.EXE ( MFC Trace

Options ) and redirect the output and all traced ( TRACE, ASSERT, VERIFY )

messaged are displayed in DBWIN. Remember to set output to window in DBWIN.EXE

and enable trace in TRACE.EXE.

Hope this helps, yours

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>Put the .HLP in an icon in your startup group and check the "show minimized"

>box.

Actually I gave the same reply yesterday and then found it was wrong.

Winhelp.exe without a file to open will startup as an Icon. This is because the

Window size of the help file is set in the compile.

The solution is to compile the help file and use the PositionWindow macro in

the [Config] section and set WindowState=2. This will still result in the

somewhat annoying flash of the help window, but it does work. Otherwise if it

is not *your* file, you will have to wrap it in an .exe or a .bat file.

-Tod Massa

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Thanks: Am I Blind....

Hi,

I'm very glad to know I'm neither blind nor crazy....

Thanks to all contributors who helped me solve the problem with

nesting brackets and quotation marks.

Greetings,    Uli

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>So I guess the new question is if my system is misconfigured to give me such

>different results from the person who posted the reply above? If my

>experience is what others see, too, my original qustion holds: is there a

>compile time option or some other workaround to make Windows helps start up

>minimized like "normal" apps do?

[Gary Benson]

Add this to [config]:

PositionWindow("main",0,0,640,480,SW_MINIMIZED) // ==4, maybe.  I'm not sure.

Check WHAT, windows.h, winapi.txt or whatever to find out the value you need.

I use it to start up maximized, so it should work.

HTH,

Yossi.

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I wrote to the group asking:

> >I was asked today if there is a way to run a help file minimized as part of

> >windows startup. I didn't know, but it appears that it is not possible. Are

> >there any compile-time options I could use that would permit this? Wrap the

> >help file in an EXE or BAT? Yuck.

>

> >Gary Benson-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-inc@tc.fluke.com_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

And someone answered:

> I must have missed your question the first time, but this is really easy

> to do.

> In the startup group in program manager add a new item.

>

> winhelp.exe [path]filename.hlp

> and check the "Run minimized" box.

>

> Click OK and you're off. Each time you start Windows this will load and place

> itself quietly on your screen.

Which is simply false, at least on my system. I run Windows 3.1 on a Gateway

2000 486/66, and compile using  HCP505. If I do what you'd expect to normally

work (as described in the reply above), the help system does not start up

minimized. Yes, it starts up; yes it loads itself, but in full size.

So I guess the new question is if my system is misconfigured to give me such

different results from the person who posted the reply above? If my

experience is what others see, too, my original qustion holds: is there a

compile time option or some other workaround to make Windows helps start up

minimized like "normal" apps do?

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tar@itcyyz.ipsa.reuter.com (Dan Tarnower) writes:

>In article <kitk.784.000D9878@mudshark.sunquest.com>,

>Kit Kauffmann <kitk@mudshark.sunquest.com> wrote:

>>In article<2sifkd$fe3@network.ucsd.edu>bruss@cs.ucsd.edu(Brian Russ)writes:

>>

>>

>>>        We are developing (actually, we have inherited someone else's

>>>code) a Windows application that basically handles recording and

>>>playback of events such as mouse clicks, button/menu selection, and

>>>so forth.  We're using Visual C++ and the debugger often gets lost --

>>>so, we'd like to revert to the old tried-and-true method of printf()

>>>style debugging messages.  The original author claimed that there

>>>really isn't any way to redirect standard output to another window --

>>>his method of debugging was to call MessageBox() for each print

>>>message he wanted displayed.  This seemed slow and clumsy to us.

>>>Isn't there a simple way to open a display-only window for redirection

>>>of printf()?  Note that we are Unix programmers, so it might be

>>>helpful to keep replies short and stupid :-)  Thanks for any help ...

>>

>>>                                        Brian Russ

>>

Just to mention it, Borland C++ 3.1 does what Brian asks for with no

code modifications necessary. Old style tty programs are automatically

compiled and linked so as to produce a MS Windows window that acts like

a terminal.  In addition, any BC++ Windows program can use tty-style

I/O (printf() etc.) after calling a function named "_InitEasyWin()".

Paul C. Sorenson

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In article <CqvuqL.2o1@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>In article <CquzvL.L3E@metrics.com>,

>BASSMASSA: TOD R. MASSA, SLU-IR <MASSATR@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU> wrote:

>>>I was asked today if there is a way to run a help file minimized as part of

>>>windows startup. I didn't know, but it appears that it is not possible. Are

>>>there any compile-time options I could use that would permit this? Wrap the

>>>help file in an EXE or BAT? Yuck.

>> ...this is really easy to do

>>In the startup group in program manager add a new item.

>>

>>winhelp.exe [path]filename.hlp

>>and check the "Run minimized" box.

>>

>>Click OK and you're off. Each time you start Windows this will load and place

>>itself quietly on your screen.

>if you had tested this, you would know that it doesn't work.  WinHelp

>ignores the "Run Minimized" flag.  The solution I have used is:

>

>Create a DLL (yuck) with the following function:

>

>void CALLBACK EXPORT MinimizeHelp(ULONG helpwin)

>{

>        if(IsWindow(LOWORD(helpwin))) {

>                ShowWindow(LOWORD(helpwin), SW_MINIMIZE);

>        }

>}

>

>In your helpfile's HPJ [CONFIG]:

>

>RR("mydll.dll","MinimizeHelp","U")

>MinimizeHelp(hwndApp)

>

>Of course you can only do this with your own helpfiles.

>Minimizing an existing helpfile would have to be done by

>wrapping this stuff in an EXE (yuck indeed).

>

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Thanks very much for the information. This once again  proves the wisdom of

my old tech instructor who always told us in the class that he wanted the

RIGHT answer, not a FAST answer!

This DLL is almost as yucky as anything I could've imagined, but at least it

makes it possible. Now, I'll have to test to see if this technique runs the

help minimized ONLY, or if I can toggle it using the "Run Minimized" button

of Program Manager. Either way doesn't matter much -- I asked as much out of

curiosity as from any real need. But as a practical matter, do you know what

technical reason there might be for helps not running minimized? Was it

perhaps a political decision?

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Hi, I am a novice in the world of WinHelp authoring.  My budget, Gone!!

I am trying to develop stand alone winhelp file for personal use.

I have 2 questions:

1.  How can I create irregular _HOTSPOT(S)_ ?

2.  How can I have both the main and the secondary window opened at initial

     launch of the help file?

Thank in advance.

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In article <mvang.4.00079224@msrad1.uth.tmc.edu>,

Meng C. Vang <mvang@msrad1.uth.tmc.edu> wrote:

>

>1.  How can I create irregular _HOTSPOT(S)_ ?

What are irregular hotspots?  Do you mean non-rectangular?

You can simulate "region"-hotspots (array of rectangles)

using lots of rectangles in the Hotspot Editor that all point to

the same context-string.

>2.  How can I have both the main and the secondary window opened at initial

>     launch of the help file?

I've never tried this, but it should work if you do a jump to

a secondary window in your [CONFIG] section:

[CONFIG]

JumpId("myhelp.hlp>win2", "topic")

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>

>This DLL is almost as yucky as anything I could've imagined, but at least it

>makes it possible. Now, I'll have to test to see if this technique runs the

>help minimized ONLY, or if I can toggle it using the "Run Minimized" button

>of Program Manager. Either way doesn't matter much -- I asked as much out of

>curiosity as from any real need. But as a practical matter, do you know what

>technical reason there might be for helps not running minimized? Was it

>perhaps a political decision?

>

This technique (my DLL function) will also ignore Program Manager's

instructions.  The reasons are given in the following posting

(which I reproduce in case you hadn't seen it):

>From MASSATR@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU Sun Jun  5 19:31:40 MET DST 1994

>

>>Put the .HLP in an icon in your startup group and check the "show minimized"

>>box.

>

>Actually I gave the same reply yesterday and then found it was wrong.

>Winhelp.exe without a file to open will startup as an Icon.This is because the

>Window size of the help file is set in the compile.

>The solution is to compile the help file and use the PositionWindow macro in

>the [Config] section and set WindowState=2. This will still result in the

>somewhat annoying flash of the help window, but it does work. Otherwise if it

>is not *your* file, you will have to wrap it in an .exe or a .bat file.

>

>-Tod Massa

>massatr@sluvca.slu.edu

I haven't tested this :-) , but I'm pretty sure using the PositionWindow

macro will work, and it's much less yucky than writing a separate DLL.

(I was writing one anyway, so including the little MinimizeHelp function

was no big deal at the time)

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WINHLP-L Digest - 3 Jun 1994 to 4 Jun 1994

In article <CqxMyA.408@metrics.com> Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL> writes:

>From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>

>Subject: Re: WINHLP-L Digest - 3 Jun 1994 to 4 Jun 1994

>Date: Sun, 5 Jun 1994 13:52:38 GMT

>[Gary Benson]

>Add this to [config]:

>PositionWindow("main",0,0,640,480,SW_MINIMIZED) // ==4, maybe.  I'm not sure.

>Check WHAT, windows.h, winapi.txt or whatever to find out the value you need.

>I use it to start up maximized, so it should work.

>HTH,

     BTW : How can I subscribe to this digest ?

===================================================================

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"Console"-type window for Windows App?

In article <2sifkd$fe3@network.ucsd.edu> bruss@cs.ucsd.edu (Brian Russ) writes:

>        We are developing (actually, we have inherited someone else's

>code) a Windows application that basically handles recording and

>playback of events such as mouse clicks, button/menu selection, and

>so forth.  We're using Visual C++ and the debugger often gets lost --

>so, we'd like to revert to the old tried-and-true method of printf()

>style debugging messages.  The original author claimed that there

>really isn't any way to redirect standard output to another window --

>his method of debugging was to call MessageBox() for each print

>message he wanted displayed.  This seemed slow and clumsy to us.

>Isn't there a simple way to open a display-only window for redirection

>of printf()?  Note that we are Unix programmers, so it might be

>helpful to keep replies short and stupid :-)  Thanks for any help ...

>                                        Brian Russ

>--

>Brian Russ

>CSE Department, UC San Diego

>bruss@beowulf.ucsd.edu

There is a a program called DBWin which comes with VC which can be the

receptacle of all debug output, normally via OutputDebugString.  This program

must be running (I have it in my Startup group) to receive (or re-direct) the

debug output stream.

Here is a printf which targets DBWin (or other similar window):

void dprintf( const char* pFormat, ... )

{

        char buf[256];

        wvsprintf( buf, pFormat, (&pFormat+1) );

        ::OutputDebugString( buf );

        ::OutputDebugString( "\r\n" );

}

If you prefer stream-style output, I published a stream class in the Dec. '93

issue of C Users Journal which can direct output to either OutputDebugString

or MessageBox.  You can obtain the latest edition of this class from:

mudshark.sunquest.com/ftp/pub/kitk/wstream.zip.

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Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

Archive-name: ms-windows/faqprg.how-to

Last-modified: 1994-03-29

Related-archives: ms-windows/faqprg.asc,ms-windows/faqprg.zip

Last-FAQ-Update: Mar 24 03:00

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains how you can

obtain a copy of the Microsoft Windows Programmer FAQ (Frequently Asked

Questions) list.  The Windows Programmer FAQ is an extensive compilation of

Windows software development facts, tips, techniques, and other useful

information.  The FAQ is about 5800 lines long (in ASCII format) or 140K (as

a ZIP archive of a Windows Help file).

The Windows NT FAQ, authored by Adam Hamilton, is currently only available

in ASCII format.

All updates to the Windows FAQ and Windows Programmer FAQs are posted to the

following two newsgroups:

comp.binaries.ms-windows	WinHelp format

comp.os.ms-windows.announce	ASCII text format

The updates are usually 2-3 months apart, depending on the amount of new

information and the maintainer's workload.

You can also FTP the FAQs from the following sites:

    ftp.nimh.nih.gov	156.40.186.8	/pub/win3/FAQ

    wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4	/usenet/comp.binaries.ms-windows/faqs

    ftp.metrics.com	198.133.164.1	/faq

The FAQs will have filenames in the format of FAQWINxx.ZIP (Windows),

FAQPRGxx.zip (Windows Programmer), and FAQWNTxx.zip where xx is the version

number.  Please do not abuse these sites; limit your FTP activity to time

outside business hours (8 PM EST through 9 AM EST, or 0100 GMT through 1400

GMT).

If you wish to retrieve the FAQs using Gopher, you can locate them at

gopher.nimh.nih.gov.

If the news postings have expired on your site, and you have no FTP access,

you can obtain it using the decwrl ftp mail server.  For instructions, send

a mail message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with a body containing simply:

       help

You will receive a full set of instructions by return mail.

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Archive-name: ms-windows/newsgrp.guide

Last-modified: 1994-05-29

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains the purpose

of the usenet newsgroups for Microsoft Windows.  Please follow these

guidelines when posting your articles, and make life easier for all of

us.

These are the current Windows newsgroups:

GENERAL:

    comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   Comparisons and arguments about Windows &

  Windows NT vs. other operating systems

    comp.os.ms-windows.announce   MODERATED.  Announcements and news about

  Windows applications, drivers, events etc.

    comp.os.ms-windows.setup      Questions and problems with setting up

  and configuring Windows.

    comp.os.ms-windows.video      Video display cards, drivers and monitors

  for use with Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.misc       All other Windows discussions except

  advocacy with other operating systems.

APPLICATIONS:

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm       Communications and fax applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial  Financial applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities  Utilities, desktops and accessories

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc  Word processing and desktop publishing

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc       Miscellaneous Windows & NT applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps            [Superceded by apps.misc]

NETWORKING:

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip  TCP/IP-based networking for

  Windows, includign NFS and apps

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows Windows' native networking: WFWG,

  NT, NTAS and LAN Manager

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc    All other networks, such as Netware,

  Banyan Vines and LANtastic

WINDOWS NT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup   Setting up and configuring Windows NT and

  Windows NT Advanced Server

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc    All other Windows NT-specific discussions

  except programming and advocacy

PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls   Using controls, custom controls,

     VBXs, OCXs and dialogs

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.drivers    Driver and  VxD development for

     Windows 3.1, NT and Chicago

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics   Graphics and GDI programming in

     Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory     Memory and process management,

     threads and IPC in Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia Development of multimedia and

     video applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks   Network-specific application

     development for Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole        Creating OLE, COM and DDE-based

     applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools      Windows development tools, class

     libraries and compilers

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32      Developing for the Win32 API

     (including NT and Win32s)

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp    Developing WinHelp and Multimedia

     Viewer files and applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc       All other Windows programming and

     development discussions

OTHER RELATED GROUPS:

    comp.lang.basic.visual	  Visual Basic programming issues for both

  Windows and MS-DOS

    comp.apps.spreadsheets        Spreadsheets and related applications,

  including Excel, Quattro and 1-2-3.

    comp.os.msdos.mail-news       Administering mail and news software

  on Windows and MS-DOS.

    comp.binaries.ms-windows	  MODERATED.  Shareware, freeware, drivers and

  other binary files.

    bit.listserv.win3-l           This newsgroup is a copy of the BITNET WIN3-L

  mailing list for all Windows discussions

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    comp.lang.visual   Visual programming languages, *not* Visual Basic or C++

    comp.lang.pascal   The language itself; not appropriate for Windows topics

    comp.lang.c	       The language itself; not appropriate for Windows topics

    comp.lang.c++      The language itself; not appropriate for Windows topics

    comp.windows.news  For the NeWS windowing system

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    Please try to post to the appropriate newsgroup, and try to avoid

    crossposting whenever possible. This makes it easier for everyone

    to find the information they are looking for without wading through

    irrelevant articles.

    Second, please do not get involved in arguments about Windows vs.

    OS/2 vs. Macintosh vs. NeXTSTEP *except* in the .advocacy group.

    Don't post any comparison or argument, and if someone else posts one

    -- don't post a followup! Ignore this flamebait, and help increase

    the signal-to-noise ratio of the newsgroups.

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    To subscribe to a Usenet newsgroup, you can use the "gnewsgroupname"

    command at the newsgroup level in rn, trn and strn.  To unsubscribe,

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    To subscribe to a LISTSERV mailing list, send a mail message to the

    LISTSERV at the mailing list address (ie LISTSERV@uicvm.bitnet for the

    WINHLP-L@uicvm.bitnet list) containing just the text "SUBSCRIBE listname"

    in the body.  To unsubscribe, send mail to that same LISTSERV with the

    body "UNSUBSCRIBE listname" or "SIGNOFF listname".

WINDOWS FAQS:

    The Windows FAQs are available by anonymous ftp from ftp.metrics.com and

    other sites; see the companion posting "How to get ..." posted simulta-

    neously with this one for further details.

MICROSOFT FTP SITE:

    Microsoft also maintains an ftp site (ftp.microsoft.com) with drivers,

    patches and utilities on it for all of Microsoft's operating systems,

    including Windows, Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT.

MORE INFORMATION:

    If you have questions about these guidelines, you can email to Tom

    Haapanen (maintainer of the FAQ, tomh@metrics.com) or Sean Graham

    (moderator of the .announce group, sgraham@shiloh.nimh.nih.gov).

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Minimized Startup of a Help File

In hoping to clear up the confusion:

It is correct that Winhelp won't start up in a minimized state and open

a helpfile at the same time.  As several has suggested, if it is your

own helpfile, you can use the PositionWindow() help macro to minimize

the window.  The state value should be 2 if you want the minized

Winhelp to become active, but use 6 or 7 (probably 7) if you don't

want it to become active.  If it is not your own helpfile, I think

you will need a programmatic solution -- let me know if you need

options.

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hyperlinks between hlp Files

Hi,

Anybody know how to make links between two hlp Files?

And: how to integrate one hlp file into another ?

thanks a lot

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tables in help files

Ok. I know this question has been asked before, but I'm gonna ask it again

since none of the solutions posted have worked for me so far.

I want to include a table generated in Word 2.0 in a topic file. I want borders

and shading and such in/around the table. I can get the table into the topic

file just fine; I just can't get any borders etc. by the help compiler. I tried

formatting all the paragraphs with borders but the help compiler just gave me

an error saying "table formatting too complex" and deleted all the borders from

the table that appeared in the help system. I copied the table to the clipboard

and tried copying the contents of the clipboard to MS Paintbrush or Powerpoint,

but couldn't get either one of them to paste my table into a file (big surprise

there). I can't save the contents of the clipboard as a bitmap or WMF. I'm out

of solutions. Is there something else/more I can do? I'm stumped. Please no

suggestions about buying a useful drawing program because I'm stuck with what

I've got. Any other suggestions are more than welcome.

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hyperlinks between hlp Files

> Anybody know how to make links between two hlp Files?

Use the Macro JumpId (abbreviated JI) like so in the [CONFIG]

section of your .hpj file:

JI("your.hlp","context_string")

the your.hlp is the .hlp file that contains the help topic you want

to jump to, and the context_string is just the context string of the

jump you're jumping to.

add an ! before the JI if you are creating a jump hotspot within a

help topic.

this is saying to one help file, "jump to this topic in this

particular help file".

> And: how to integrate one hlp file into another ?

if you're using RoboHelp, when you want to use another help project's

files so that you don't have to duplicate, click the Setup button,

then click Document. From there, browse for the files you want and

click Add. If you have to do it manually, in the [MAP] section type

something along the lines of this which is the command line for the

file you want to include:

C:\WINWORD\HRZN_US\SEC_WIND.RTF

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Am I blind or crazy?

In article <2sn40uINN1nmj@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> v9100055@athena.rrz.uni-koeln.de writes:

>This is the syntax according to cwh.hlp (for the [config] - section)

>     CreateButton("B1", "fussnoten", "JumpID("dipl.hlp", "fussnoten1")")

>and I tried also

>     CreateButton("B1", "fussnoten", "!JumpID("dipl.hlp", "fussnoten1")")

>What went wrong?????????

Well, I have a line that works in my online help file, but I use single

quotes inside the enbedded JumpID...

; I added this to add a button called Glossary to the window

CreateButton("glossary", "&Glossary", "JumpID(`encomp.hlp', `IDH_Glossary')")

This works for me.

deb

(djg@genrad.com)

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In article <2svnon$khq@news.acns.nwu.edu>,  <chou@n5145.notis.com> wrote:

>

>> Anybody know how to make links between two hlp Files?

>

>Use the Macro JumpId (abbreviated JI) like so in the [CONFIG]

>section of your .hpj file:

>

>JI("your.hlp","context_string")

>

>add an ! before the JI if you are creating a jump hotspot within a

>help topic.

>

In a hotspot, you can also use the syntax:

<[underlined]hotspot><[hidden]topic_id@helpfile>,

that is, after the destination id (context-string) add `@'

and the name of the other help file.

In RTF, it looks like this:

{\ul hotspot text}{\v topic@other.hlp}

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HelpAuthor problem

I ftp'ed and installed Microsoft's HelpAuthor (WHAT.ZIP).  I can

create .HLP files alright.  But I can't open an existing project

file (.HPJ) successfully.  It always tells me "File not found" (I

tried to open it with double-click, so it's got to be there!)

I end up having to create a new project file every time I want

to modify something.

Anybody is using HelpAuthor and have some idea?

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Cross-platform multimedia

Is anyone familiar with a multimedia authoring package that

can (directly or indirectly) produce interactive material

suitable both for Windows and for UNIX?  The mandate I'm

trying to answer is to produce a tutorial that is to

some degree interactive and animated.  Sound and embedded

video are not major considerations.

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What wrong with my VC++ f/NT

In article <u1376.770328844@sparc10.cs.uiuc.edu>,

hayek adam michael <u1376@sparc10.cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>I am using MS VC++ v1.1 32-bit edition and I am trying to write

>a help file for an application I wrote.  I read all the book and followed

>all the steps, but when I actually try to run hc31.exe that comes with

>VC++, I get a message from NT that says that HC31.EXE, and OS/2 program

>caused a general protection fault and will be terminated.

>In the documentation, it refers to a version

>3.10.504, but I have version 3.10.445.  Could this be my problem?

>Anyone know anything about how to get a new version to replace the one

>I have.  Thanks in advance.

>

>Adam Hayek

Hello,

I don't know about NT and how it handles OS/2 programs.  HC31.EXE

is a dual-mode executable DOS-OS/2, and I guess NT tries to run the

Os/2 part.  You might also try HCP.EXE, which is an extended-DOS

(protected mode) executable.

The problem might not be related to this at all.  HC doesn't often

cause a GPF, but I've seen it do so on a couple of occasions.

One way I can think of to make HC crash is to put an empty fontname

in the \fonttable (including a name consisting of only spaces), or

forget the trailing ;

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Erratic behavior of PopUp HotSpots. Any ideas why?

I'm currently writing a help file using DocToHelp, which work quite

well. However, there is an .SHG file referenced in the document to be

displayed in the help file.

There must be some witch linked to the file because some of the popup

hot spots work as expected, i.e. they display title plus explanatory

paragraphs and some others just show the title.

I tried moving the source paragraphs around, rewrote them, changed

the popup macro to context string driven popup using the hot spot

editor, looked into the intermedate RTF-File, but nothing gave me

a hint to what is going wrong.

Is this a known bug, or am I doing something wrong? Can someone

show me a workaround?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bernd

drohde@ciba.com

or

Bernhard.Rohde@chbs.mhs.ciba.com

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win /3 doesn't work anymore.

I am wondering why the command win /3 doesn't

wok anymore on my PC. On the contrary win /s works

very well...

Do you have any idea on the problem ?

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ROBOHELP 2.5

Has anyone got any information on ROBOHELP 2.5.

I've got ROBOHELP V2.01 and am wondering whether it is worth upgrading

or not?

Thanks for any information.

---Jim

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> There must be some witch linked to the file because some of the

>popup hot spots work as expected, i.e. they display title plus

>explanatory paragraphs and some others just show the title.

i don't know that much about doc2help but if you use a word processor

to write the help topics, there might be a 'keep with next paragraph'

formatting being used (at least if you use word 2 or 6). if you use a

style that indicates that titles (in word 2 or 6, it is Heading 1)

have a 'keep with next' to create the non-scrolling region in help

topics, then remove that format from the style.

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> Has anyone got any information on ROBOHELP 2.5.

> I've got ROBOHELP V2.01 and am wondering whether it is

>worth upgrading

> or not?

i am using robohelp 2.61 which is an upgrade to 2.5 (they sent it to

me becaues i was complaining about some bugs in 2.5). according to

gen (the creater of robohelp) whom i have emailed a few times, word 6

has all sorts of bugs and these bugs conflict with robohelp. so

apparently you can upgrade to 2.5 or 2.61 (i really don't know what

happened to 2.6) without any problems as long as you have word 2. if

you use word 6, then you have to do a lot of workarounds (no more

auto bulletting/numbering, all sorts of problems with the global

search/replace, etc)

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In article <1994Jun7.090944.8850@ciba-geigy.ch>,

Bernd Rohde <drohde@ciba-geigy.ch> wrote:

>I'm currently writing a help file using DocToHelp, which work quite

>well. However, there is an .SHG file referenced in the document to be

>displayed in the help file.

>

>There must be some witch linked to the file because some of the popup

>hot spots work as expected, i.e. they display title plus explanatory

>paragraphs and some others just show the title.

This is a problem with pop-up hotspots linked to topics that

contain a non-scrolling zone.

I came across it when developing my WordPerfect to Help conversion

tool "Help Perfect".  What I did to solve it was to (automatically)

create a context-string footnote (#\footnote) right AFTER the

non-scrolling zone, having the same name as the main topic context

string, with POP_ prepended.  For all pop-up hotspots, I generate

this POP_XXXX jump, instead of XXXX.

You can do the same thing by hand.  Create a unique \footnote right

after the non-scrolling-zone text (formatted as "keep with next").

Do *not* put a \page before or after it!  Then in your SHG, supply

the name of this context-string instead of the main context-string

(the one attached to the topic title, before the non-scrolling

zone).

Hope this helps,

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Hello,

I'm trying to decide if I should get Borland Visual C/C++ for 79.95 or

Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0 for 79.95. Could someone with experience tell

me which one I should get? I'm only in high school so I don't wanna waste

my hard earned money on the wrong one :) THanks!

mk

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Hi all,

does anybody known if there`s a tool (preferrably pd or shareware) to print

entire .hlp files, or certain chapters ?

   Martin

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wav and winhelp

1)

 Is there a way to embed a wav sound file into .hlp file?

2)

 I am using the sndPlaySound function to play a sound in my help file and when

i load it from outside my program (i'm writeing in VB) the sound is OK, but

when i load the help file from my program using the WinHelp function instead of the wav sound i hear a ding. what should i do?

Thanx

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"Console"-type window for Windows App?

.	We are developing (actually, we have inherited someone else's

. code) a Windows application that basically handles recording and

. playback of events such as mouse clicks, button/menu selection, and

. so forth.  We're using Visual C++ and the debugger often gets lost --

. so, we'd like to revert to the old tried-and-true method of printf()

. style debugging messages.  The original author claimed that there

. really isn't any way to redirect standard output to another window --

. his method of debugging was to call MessageBox() for each print

. message he wanted displayed.  This seemed slow and clumsy to us.

. Isn't there a simple way to open a display-only window for redirection

. of printf()?  Note that we are Unix programmers, so it might be

. helpful to keep replies short and stupid :-)  Thanks for any help ...

.

. 	Brian Russ

The TRACE functions provided by Visual C++ will work if you build a

DEBUG version of your app. You can then fire up the DebugWin app

(provided with VC), turn on tracing with the "MFC Trace Options" app

(select the first option), and see your TRACE statements appear.

TRACE works pretty much like printf. The beauty of it is that the

statements compile out automatically when you build a release version.

Cheng Tan

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In article <2t3nqp$k55@clarknet.clark.net>, times9@clark.net (Guess) writes:

|> Hello,

|>

|> I'm trying to decide if I should get Borland Visual C/C++ for 79.95 or

|> Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0 for 79.95. Could someone with experience tell

|> me which one I should get? I'm only in high school so I don't wanna waste

|> my hard earned money on the wrong one :) THanks!

|>

|> mk

|>

This group is concerned with the Windows Help engine, WINHELP.  However, I will

offer you my opinion.  Go with Visual Basic.  It is heavily supported and easier

to learn. Once you get the extra money, upgrade to 3.0.  Borland has the

appearance of going down the tubes.

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> does anybody known if there`s a tool (preferrably pd or shareware)

>to print entire .hlp files, or certain chapters ?

there is something that the Electronic Journal of Visual Basic

May/June 1993 Issue 3 offers. it's a small executable (i myself don't

have it, but someone where i used to work showed it to me and i

remeber playing with it for a while). there's a long macro line you

have to enter (and if you do chapters and not the whole .hlp system,

you have to insert it at every help topic) and it's really a kluge

thing:

you copy all of your help system, remove the footnotes and hidden

text and make it a different help topic. the executable and macro

line lets you jump to the help topic, copy it to the clipboard, jump

back to the original topic you were at, and then prints out the

clipboard.

the problems are that it increases the size of your help system

(depending on how much you want to be printed out) and you have to

eneter rudimentary formatting codes so the stuyff copied to the

clipboard prints out nicely.

if there is a different way, please let me know. printing out

chapters and whole .hlp systems is a concern for me as well, but the

way i just described is far too clumsy.

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hooper@wolf.cs.washington.edu (Shannon Hooper) wrote:

> I want borders  and shading and such in/around the

>table

Shannon,

The method you tried should work for small tables.  You save

the table from PaintBrush by selecting the table with the

rectangular cutting tool, and then choose Edit, Copy To and

save it to a file.  Reference this file in the .RTF file.

A better way, especially for larger tables, is to bring your

table into Excel (if you have it, then apply all the borders

and fill you want. Turn off your gridlines and Row and Column

Heads.  Holding down the Shift key choose Edit, Copy Picture,

select Picture and As Shown on Screen. Paste this into your

.DOC file (if you are using Doc-To-Help and Word to author your

help file). It will be treated as a .WMF file and will give

superior results than the .BMP version if scaled (also it will

be a lot smaller). If you want to maintain the table in Excel,

just Past Special it back in to the Word document with Links

turned on.  This way it will be updated in your Word document

if you edit it in Excel.

Paul Neshamkin

WexTech Systems Technical Support

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Hi,

you said you didn't want any comments about BUYING any drawing program,

so let me tell you how I just include complex tables by USING one.

I stopped trying and wasting time: instead of inserting tables as

text I just create the tables with my textprocessor and then, when

they are displayed the way I want them, I use a screen grabber program

to freeze the screen as a (16-color-)bmp-graphic. This bmp can be

pasted directly into shed or - if you want to edit - into any drawing

program.

I use Corels Capture utility, but there are dozens of similar programs

on the net.

If you set the background to the same color as the rest of the hlp-file,

there is no difference to be noticed.

Uli    v9100055@athena.rrz.uni-koeln.de

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Printing entire .hlp files

ecco@ipx2.rz.uni-mannheim.de (Martin Sckopke) wrote:

>Hi all,

>

>does anybody known if there`s a tool (preferrably pd or shareware) to print

>entire .hlp files, or certain chapters ?

>   Martin

>

See Ron Burk's article in the March, 1993 issue of Windows/DOS Developer's

Journal: "Automatic Help Topic Printing". This allows you to add a button

to a help file for printing. This won't work with an existing help file,

but it's possible to do with some minor modifications, I'm sure.

Pete

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MWHAG

Can anyone give me an e-mail address to retrieve the Microsoft Windows Help

 Authoring Guide?

TIA

Dave Reichelt

reichelt@acec.com

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MWHAG

In a previous message, David Reichelt said:

> Can anyone give me an e-mail address to retrieve the Microsoft Windows Help

>  Authoring Guide?

Sorry I can't help -- but I have been looking for the same thing...

Could you forward any direct replies or post a summary to the

group? Thanks a bunch!

Geof.

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I got a copy of WHATHLP.ZIP from

ftp.microsoft

/developer/MSDN/NEWUP/WHATHLP.ZIP

Dennis Carothers

dennisc@world.std.com

On Wed, 8 Jun 1994, Geoffrey William Peters wrote:

> In a previous message, David Reichelt said:

> > Can anyone give me an e-mail address to retrieve the Microsoft Windows Help

> >  Authoring Guide?

>

> Sorry I can't help -- but I have been looking for the same thing...

> Could you forward any direct replies or post a summary to the

> group? Thanks a bunch!

>

> Geof.

>

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ecco@ipx2.rz.uni-mannheim.de (Martin Sckopke) writes:

>does anybody known if there`s a tool (preferrably pd or shareware) to print

>entire .hlp files, or certain chapters ?

There are two ways:

1- get smtdoc12.zip, this copies the entire help file to a text file or

   to the printer. It does this by copying every page (topic) to the clipboard.

2- get HLPDC122.ZIP which converts the help file to a Winword file.

Both can be found at ftp.cica.indiana.edu or one of its mirrors, both

are shareware programs (hlpdc might even be freeware, I'm not sure)

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> >Hi all,

>does anybody known if there`s a tool (preferrably pd or shareware)to

>print entire .hlp files, or certain chapters ?

i posted an article earlier about printing .hlp files from within the

winhelp engine. however, as i read some follow-ups to the original

posting, i might've misunderstood your request; if you just want to

print out an entire .hlp file for yourself or include it in a help

file as a large topic, get hlp2doc which is freeware from

ftp.lrz-muenchen.de from pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows

this converts an entire .hlp file to a .doc file--the only drawback

is that it doesn't translate any referenced graphics and it sometimes

likes to make a lot of text that weren't hotspots green and

underlined. but it converts a .5MB .hlp file in about 25-30 seconds

and makes it handy for me to edit my entire help project.

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None

Could someone tell me what I have to do to recieve this list in

digest form.  I have not been able to figure it out.

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MWHAG

> Can anyone give me an e-mail address to retrieve the Microsoft Windows Help

>  Authoring Guide?

Try OAK.OAKLAND.EDU in /pub/msdos/windows3.

Enjoy

Vicky Evans

Director

Procter & Gamble Communication and Information Center

MIAMI UNIVERSITY, Oxford OH 45056        513-529-2811

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Borland or Microsoft...need help

In article <2t3nqp$k55@clarknet.clark.net>, times9@clark.net (Guess) writes:

>Hello,

>

>I'm trying to decide if I should get Borland Visual C/C++ for 79.95 or

>Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0 for 79.95. Could someone with experience tell

>me which one I should get? I'm only in high school so I don't wanna waste

>my hard earned money on the wrong one :) THanks!

>

>mk

Borland are doing special offers for students.  You can get BC++ 4.0

for 32.50 Uk pounds.  You might want to investigate this avenue

as well.

You don't get printed manuals, but the online manuals are very good indeed.

Rgds

Steve

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In article <1994Jun8.123441.4585@chemabs.uucp>, wfb24@cas.org (Bill Bartelt) writes:

>In article <2t3nqp$k55@clarknet.clark.net>, times9@clark.net (Guess) writes:

>|> Hello,

>|>

>|> I'm trying to decide if I should get Borland Visual C/C++ for 79.95 or

>|> Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0 for 79.95. Could someone with experience tell

>|> me which one I should get? I'm only in high school so I don't wanna waste

>|> my hard earned money on the wrong one :) THanks!

>|>

>|> mk

>|>

>

>This group is concerned with the Windows Help engine, WINHELP.  However, I will

>offer you my opinion.  Go with Visual Basic.  It is heavily supported and easier

>to learn. Once you get the extra money, upgrade to 3.0.  Borland has the

>appearance of going down the tubes.

What gives you that idea ?

Steve

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Doc-To-Help and other help programs

Hi,

In article <2sgv67$oqu@access3.digex.net>, riker@access.digex.net writes:

|> Greetings.  I have created on-line help in UNIX environments using

|> FrameMaker and FrameVIewer.  Now a client is asking me to create on-line

|> help in an MS Windows environment.  The goal is to take MS Word

|> documentation and turn it quickly into on-line materials.  The client has

|> a package called Doc-To-Help which they know almost nothing about, but

|> they want me to use.

|>

|> How easy is this software to learn and use?  Are there better (= easier)

|> on-line help packages for MS Windows help?

There is a large scale of shareware and freeware packages avaiable.

For Example:

CreateHelp (2.01)

extension to WinWord (2.0?)

contact: Nic Barnes @ CompuServe 100111,3452

HDK (Help Development Kit) - Sound & VIsion Edition

contact: ISoft D&M, P.O.Box 5517, Coralville, IA 52241, U.S.A

         Ron Loewy CIS: 100274,162

Help Edit (1.8)

contact: James Herron, 29 Duncryne Place, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow G64 2DP,

         Scotland, UK

         E-Mail: herron@comms.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk

some Microsoft packages (WinWord extensions)

RoboHelp (2.61?)

         Blue Sky Software (no address, sorry)

Doc-To-Help (1.5

extension to WinWord 2.0

contact: Wextech Systems Inc., 310 Madison Avenue, Suite 905, New York, NY 10017

         tel: (212)949-9595

|> All comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

We use Doc-To-Help! It's main pro is that you write only one doc-file. This file

is the basis for your written manual and also for your online-help-file. There is

a support for long documents and converting existing documents avaiable.

Our main problem with Doc-To-Help is the non-support of Wextech. There seems to

be no local support avaiable (here in Germany). Calling the hotline number in NY

we left some messages on there recorder but never got an answer. Also to our

faxes we got no answer. The only help was the german reseller.

The hlp-file is about 500kB long, compiled from about 15 doc-files.

If you have some special questions (features, error etc.) I'll ask our

"documentator". He really loves Doc-To-Help. ;-)

For RoboHelp 2.0 I still have a 13kB long feature description. If you are

interested just email me (heiko@mai.de).

Bye

  Heiko

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Heiko Schulz  	+49-(221)-956400-37

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Softwarezentrum Koeln	heiko@mai.de

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Windows & Modem

I am currently trying to install a modem into my computer. I have a comms

program to run it outside windows, which works fine. However, I cant't seem

to get any of the window versions of the programs to recognize the

modem.

I have played about with setup etc.

This problem is on a dell 486 computer, running windows 3.1, with dos 5.0

and 12mb of mem. I have installed the modem to com port 4.

Any help gladly recieved

Thanks

Steve

Please e-mail all responses to hihec@westminster.ac.uk

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Commercial software list request

A plea, folks, because my computer was stolen and I lost various useful

things...

Could some kind person please remind me how to get (or send me)...

* the comparitive review of commercial software

* the Larsen consulting list of software

* the address of the UK RoboHelp distributors

I'm sorry to cause this sort of clutter, but I've been asked to specify

some software to buy by tomorrow, so don't have much time...

Many thnks,

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I have 250 WP documents to convert to a help file.  The problem I'm

having is that the documents have graphics and columns in each document.

Converting to RTF strips these from the document.  With ForeHelp I've

been able to cut and paste everything.  However, this is tedious and

takes about 20 minutes per document.

Is there anything which would speed up this process?

What if the documents were in Microsoft Word?  Would that make a difference.

I've read some articles on Doc-To-Help.  Of all the Help creator programs

this looks like it might do it.  Any comments from those of you that have it?

Is there anothere program which I should look at?

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win /3 doesn't work anymore.

In article <2t1gsn$of0@news-rocq.inria.fr>

           camille@madonna.inria.fr "Camille Benachour" writes:

>        I am wondering why the command win /3 doesn't

>wok anymore on my PC. On the contrary win /s works

>very well...

>

>        Do you have any idea on the problem ?

What does this have to do with writing Windows Help files?

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Regarding screen capture utilities, I use one called Collage Complete.

They sell a version that runs on DOS and one on Windows.  I don't know what

plans they have for supporting NT but you can call them to find out.

Collage is made and sold by Inner Media, 60 Plain Road, Hollis NH 03049.

Their phone number is (603) 465-7195.  I'm happy with the program.

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In article <jae.28.001119DD@ucsd.edu>, jae@ucsd.edu writes:

> I'm getting a lot of GPF and also DLL errors in Resource WorkShop.  I was

> wondering if anyone else was getting these errors and what I could do to

> fix this problem.

>

>

> jae

> ucsd

Wow!  This question is pretty far off topic.

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Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

Chris, it has just occurred to me that these misdirected innocents

probably think that the "winhelp" in the group name means that they can ask

for "help" about "win" and possibly we should cut them a little slack.

Ed Guy.

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Help hierarchies

: Clicking on one of them expands a list of jumps as sub-items in an indented

: list beneath them.  I guess you could just do it as a jump to a different

: topic, in which the expansion is present.  However, in most help files I've

: seen, each jump in such a page is independently expandable.  This would very

: quickly add up to a large number of combinations, so I suspect it's not done

: this way.

Good question.

After seeing Microsoft's Technet CD, I wondered how they that trick. Since

I've started reading this newsgroup, I would guess that maybe Viewer lets

you do stuff like this.

I have done exactly what you are describing though.  In help file I did

for our department, I had three topics on the contents page that looked

like this:

Hardware

Software

Miscellaneous

Then if they clicked on HARDWARE, then they would get this:

Hardware

   |

   |______ Network

   |______ PC's

Software

Miscellaneous

You get the idea.

Yes, they were all seperate topics (they were also all seperate hyper-

graphics).  I don't know any easy way.

Please let me know if you find a trick.

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Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

robijn@Strw.LeidenUniv.NL "Frank Robijn" writes:

> I got HC505.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com:/SoftLib/MSLFILES. It seems to

> be a very inefficient program. Just to compile a help file with some

> 20 entries and two larger bitmaps (50K) with compression takes several

> minutes on a 486/66. That is rediculous.

It is just unbelievably slow.  I have a help file with 40 .shg files

and about 300 topics (mostly small popups on the images) and it takes

over 15 minutes to build on a 486/66 with 16M.  That's longer than it

takes VC++ to build the 30000-line 60-file project that the help file

describes!  Interestingly, compiling the help file under the NT 3.5

(Daytona) beta on the same machine takes only 9 minutes.  A full VC++

build is about 25% faster as well.

   -M-                                     msmith@discreet.demon.co.uk

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Visual Basic: Question

In article <1994Jul7.153222.1@jaguar.uofs.edu> jss6@jaguar.uofs.edu  writes:

>

>     Hi, I hope this is the right group to be posting this in...

No, it isn't. This is a newsgroup for discussing "WinHelp" - the Windows

on-line "Help" engine. It is NOT a group for requesting help with Windows

programming.

Chris

>

>     I am curently learning a programming language called "visual basic",

>and I have run into a small problem that I can seem to avoid.

>     When I use a text box I find that it's borders are black and

>unchangable.  This is a problem when I Place them next to a border of

>another box (the textbox border overlays the border of the other borders).

>     I was wondering if anyone out there knows how I can eithor adjust the

>borders of the text boxex to be transparent or specificaly colored, or know

>where I could find such boxes to instal into visual basic.

>

>     Any help you could give me as to this problem, or as to where to ask

>it would be greatly appreciated.  You can eithor repost here, or mail me

>at jss6@jaguar.uofs.edu.

>

>                                            Thanks for you time,

>

>                                                  --Jason S.

>

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Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

I would like to know if there is a shareware (or ?) program that will

help me create helpfiles. Anyone know of any?

Gary

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Full-text search

I've seen lots of discussion about full-text search, but nothing that

tells me where I can find FTUI.DLL and FTENG.DLL (the 16-bit versions).

Can someone point me in the right direction?  Also, are the

RegisterRoutine calls the same as for FTUI32 and FTENG32?

Thanks for any help,

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Full-text search

In article <CssEBA.KHA@unx.sas.com>,

Chris Hemedinger <sascrh@norman.unx.sas.com> wrote:

>

>I've seen lots of discussion about full-text search, but nothing that

>tells me where I can find FTUI.DLL and FTENG.DLL (the 16-bit versions).

>

>Can someone point me in the right direction?  Also, are the

>RegisterRoutine calls the same as for FTUI32 and FTENG32?

>

They (FTUI.DLL and FTENGINE.DLL) were used by V1 of the

Multimedia Viewer.  I've got an old ('91) Microsoft

Bookshelf CD here that should have 'em.  They were also

included with the Multimedia Developers Kit (MDK), along

with the FTSearch "compilers" FORAGE(P).EXE, W_SCAN.EXE

and INDEX.EXE.  I suppose you should ask Microsoft what

their policy is with regards to this stuff.

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Memory problem with SMC Ethernet.

Hello

I am trying to install SMC Elite16 Ethernet into a PC.

I am using smc_wd.com.

When I try to lead smc_wd.com driver into memory at 0x300, I got error

message saying that at 0x300, other application is loaded already.

Can I load that other application into some other address in memory?

Thank you

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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mkim@ncsa.uiuc.edu

NCSA

Student Consultant

217-244-0644

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Beta copies of Windows 4.0 -- Chicago

Hello!

Do you know who do I need to talk to get a copy of Beta version of Windows

4.0?

I am working at National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

I would like to tets Chicago's TCP/IP capabilities.

We are testing network using Cable system.

Thank you very much.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Kim, Myung Ho

mkim@ncsa.uiuc.edu

NCSA

Student Consultant

217-244-0644

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Beta copies of Windows 4.0 -- Chicago

In article <mkim-110794145709@mac20-196.ncsa.uiuc.edu> mkim@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kim, Myung Ho) writes:

>From: mkim@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kim, Myung Ho)

>Subject: Beta copies of Windows 4.0 -- Chicago

>Date: 11 Jul 1994 20:07:55 GMT

>Hello!

>Do you know who do I need to talk to get a copy of Beta version of Windows

>4.0?

>I am working at National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

>I would like to tets Chicago's TCP/IP capabilities.

>We are testing network using Cable system.

>Thank you very much.

     Although the BETA is currently under Non-disclosure Agreement, there are

documents available from ftp.microsoft.com. I don't remember the exact

directory name, but I know it's there. I ftp'd it but did not have time to

read it yet. It contains about 20 documents, one of them being specifically

for TCPIP........

     Happy hunting... :-)

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Anyone Using HDK by Virtual Media Tech

Is anyone out there using HDK by Virtual Media Tech ???? How does it

compare to RoboHelp and Doc-to-Help ????

Does it work well with MS Word v6.0 ????

Thanks in advance.

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Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

Try HELLLP!, it is shareware and easy to use.  Registration is $30 for disk

and manual or $20 for registration code only.

You can find on a fair number of sites including SimTel, or do an Archie

search for HELLLP since the file will be HELLLP23.zip for version 2.3, etc.

--

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 HHHHHH. HHHHHHH:    HHHHHHH: HHHHHH: HHHHHH:

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 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT

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STONE VIRUS INFO. NEEDED ASAP!

I am not sure if this is the appropriate newsgroup to post this

request to, but.... I need to find someone who has information

on the Stoned Virus - specifially the Empire Monkey B -- I am

wondering if Norton Anti-Virus can erradicate this from our hard

drive???  The virus has already eaten up some RAM space.  This

happened before I detected it.  Now I am wondering, even if I

get rid of the virus, can I ever get my hard drive space back, and

if so how?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!

Please email me privately at jasobel@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu, as I

am posting this to several BBs.

Also, if this is not the appropriate board to post to and someone

knows where I should post, please refer.

Thanks so much,

Viral in Wisconsin

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graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

> George Gottschalk <gottschg@mayfield.hp.com> wrote:

>>Greetings!

>>

>>I'm having a problem creating graphics.  I paste them into Word, get

>>them to look okay, but when I compile my application and view it using

>>winhelp the graphics come out way to small.  I was wondering if anyone

>>could suggest something.

>>

>>Thanks in advance.

>>

> I had exactly the same experience. But when I converted by gaphics to

> *.shg, they obeyed my resizing religiously, with no problems.  They then

> come out fine after compiling in WinHelp.

>

> Carl Cuneo

My graphics always turn out reasonably good if I open them in Paintbrush

and then save them with the same name as 16 color bitmaps using the

save as dialog.  I've created graphics in many image editors, converted

them to 16 color bitmaps in some others, wingif, for example.  But, they

turn out badly unless I open them in Paintbrush then save them.

-dennis turner

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How are MS Previews made?

I'm interested in developing some simple online tutorials similar in scope

to the previews that come with MicroSoft applications such as MS Money and

Powerpoint.

Are these created with the multimedia development kit, or some other MS

product.

Are there any third party products which provide similar capabilities.

Thanx in advance

Grant English

english@kea.lincoln.ac.nz

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Doc-To-Help & RoboHelp Contact Info?

Would someone email me contact information for Doc-To-Help & RoboHelp, please?

Please send to the address below, not above, as my company's mailer is truly

confused as to where I work, and usually will not let me mail a message in

which I have altered the header...  Damn fascist newsreader!

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tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il wrote:

>> George Gottschalk <gottschg@mayfield.hp.com> wrote:

>>>Greetings!

>>>

>>>I'm having a problem creating graphics.  I paste them into Word, get

>>>them to look okay, but when I compile my application and view it using

>>>winhelp the graphics come out way to small.  I was wondering if anyone

>>>could suggest something.

>>>

>>>Thanks in advance.

>>>

>> I had exactly the same experience. But when I converted by gaphics to

>> *.shg, they obeyed my resizing religiously, with no problems.  They then

>> come out fine after compiling in WinHelp.

>>

>> Carl Cuneo

>

>

>My graphics always turn out reasonably good if I open them in Paintbrush

>and then save them with the same name as 16 color bitmaps using the

>save as dialog.  I've created graphics in many image editors, converted

>them to 16 color bitmaps in some others, wingif, for example.  But, they

>turn out badly unless I open them in Paintbrush then save them.

>

>-dennis turner

  I would imagine George's problem was that he used them as 256 color

bitmaps which, of course, aren't supported by WinHelp for Windows 3.1.

Putting this in a SHED file or running it through the MRB compiler should

do the trick. The .SHG and .MRB file formats are virtually identical (see

my article in the February 1994 issue of Windows/DOS Developer's Journal).

To support 256 color bitmaps, you can a shareware program called SHOWBMP.

I don't know where it's available on the net, but it's available in

CompuServe's WINSDK forum. It's probably available on ftp.cica.indiana.edu

also. In addition, Doc-to-Help 1.6 supports 256 color bitmaps (as well as

quite a few other really cool features, if I do say so myself). As a

disclaimer, I wrote the 256 color bitmap support code for WexTech as well

as some of the other really cool features.

  You could also investigate doing your own 256 color bitmap support. I

would recommend reading the Windows help authoring guide, specifically

under the section of embedded windows. In addition, a new book out, "The

Developer's Guide to WINHELP.EXE" by Jim Mischel (Wiley Press) has a great

few chapters on writing .DLLs for WinHelp and embedded windows.

  Pete

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VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

Jason Hunter (jthunter@mit.edu) wrote:

: I have noticed a few bugs in the recent version of VB HelpWriter.

: 1.)  The first bug is the elusive one.  I don't know if this is really a bug

: or just my system being screwy but I never had these problems before I started

: using VB HelpWriter and I have elliminated everything else that I could think

: of.  It seems that VB HelpWriter is a resource hog.  It uses alot of systems

: resources and I think that it has a resources leak.  It seems to use up

I have been working on the resource issues, and expect to have a new EXE

posted sometime this week.  It *did* have a memory leak, which I think

I've plugged. Seems like the program's uses about %20 less resources now,

and does not leak anymore.

: 2.)  This bug is very easy to find.  It evolves the cut and copy

: functionality.  If you open the topics listing windows that gives the small

: dialog box that lets you browse through the topics that you have written and

: try to cut or copy from the macros line (I haven't tried it on any other edit

: control in the dialog) VB HelpWriter causes a GPF in the USER module and

: crashes the program.  After that the system becomes unstable and has

WOW. I'll look at that this evening. Expect this to be fixed in the new

version (1.7.0) later this week.

Thanks for the bug reports.

Sincerely,

Fred Bunn

President, Teletech Systems (Home of VB HelpWriter)

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VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

BRMcDaniel (brmcdaniel@aol.com) wrote:

: Yea.. I noticed that when I used it as well.  Just accidently double click

: on the NEW command.. It loads two blank projects.. and BOOOMMM   My system

Are you talking about the "NEW" command under the "File | New" menu?

I didn't know someone *could* double-click a menu!

I'll look at it tonight as well.

: crashes ... A look at the memory and resources shows hardly NO memory left

: and VERY few resources... (4megs real RAM and 8 meg swap file .. and after

: loading two blank projects.. I have about 500k left and that is with

: NOTHING else but progman running.  That averages to about 3 or 4 megs for

I understand your frustration. The new EXE I'll be posting later this

week should help this problem quite a bit.

: a  blank project file.)  Oh well..I've been using WHAT and Word 2 and have

: become quite comfortable with it... and it's nice to use WHAT/Word since

: you can modify the macro's anyway you like to fully customize the system.

: Oh and of course one of the best reasons for liking What is that if you

: have Word..it's FREE ;>

If you're a VB programmer, you could use VB HelpWriter to read your

source code and generate a set of starting topics and a VB module to call

the Winhelp APIs.  Then use WHAT for final editing and polishing.

I do need to get a copy of WHAT. It'ld be nice to make sure the tools

work cooperatively.

Thanks for the bug report.

Sincerely,

Fred Bunn

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Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

In article <2vruff$o6t@orange.digex.net>

           gduvall@orange.digex.net "Gary Duvall" writes:

>I would like to know if there is a shareware (or ?) program that will

>help me create helpfiles. Anyone know of any?

There's no shareware program, but the one-and-only program that you need

to create Help files is the Help Compiler, and that's freely available from

ftp.microsoft.com.

Chris

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Memory problem with SMC Ethernet.

In article <mkim-110794145330@mac20-196.ncsa.uiuc.edu>

           mkim@ncsa.uiuc.edu "Kim, Myung Ho" writes:

>Hello

>

>I am trying to install SMC Elite16 Ethernet into a PC.

>I am using smc_wd.com.

>When I try to lead smc_wd.com driver into memory at 0x300, I got error

>message saying that at 0x300, other application is loaded already.

>

>Can I load that other application into some other address in memory?

>

>Thank you

This is a newsgroup for discussing WinHelp - the Windows on-line Help

system. It is NOT a group for asking for general help with Windows

programming, or indeed, with anything else!

Chris

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Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

You can find the answer to that in the FAQ for the group.

If you don't know where that is, it is in:

quasar.sba.dal.ca

The txt file is located under /www/doc

The hlp file is located under /www/hlp

After all, that's what the FAQ is for...

Gary Duvall (gduvall@orange.digex.net) wrote:

: I would like to know if there is a shareware (or ?) program that will

: help me create helpfiles. Anyone know of any?

: 	Gary

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Virtual Functions

Hi,

Could anyone out there tell what "Virtual Functions" are

in the context of windows programming in MS-C++.

Terry.

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HELP PC GRAPHICS

  I am about to undertake a project to produce a simple GRAPHICS class

  under WINDOWS on a PC.

  I will be using C++ with which I am familiar, but I have no previous

  GRAPHICS experience, and have not used a PC or DOS before. Could anyone

  recommend a good text that will introduce the concepts involved especially

  regarding the graphics (the simpler the better).

  If not, could anyone suggest a suitable newsgroup to ask.

  Thanks

  Michael.McManus@uk.ac.newcastle (inexperienced programmer)

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Jagged edges in captured bitmaps

I don't use screen captures that much.  I tend to create my own graphics

with Corel Draw, or I scan them in with an Epson flatbed scanner, and then

resize.  When I do the latter, my scanned images come out in winhelp about

the size of a postage stamp, despite the fact that they are much larger.

Using this method, there seems to be a 10 to 1 ratio between the size of

images in external applications and in winhelp.  However, I have solved

this problem in two ways:

(1) Load the image into the hotspot editor and save as an *.shg file, with

or without buttons.

(2) Do same as one, but save as a straight *.bmp file.

Under both scenarios, you will solve one's postage stamp problem.

However, one can then not reload the *.bmp files in external applications

like CorelPaint or PaintBrush.  The bmp format is no longer recognized.

Carl

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Anyone Using HDK by Virtual Media Tech

In article <ssihbCssws2.GwD@netcom.com>, Tom Cable <ssihb@netcom.com> wrote:

>Is anyone out there using HDK by Virtual Media Tech ???? How does it

>compare to RoboHelp and Doc-to-Help ????

>

>Does it work well with MS Word v6.0 ????

>

>Thanks in advance.

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There are several incompatibilities between HDK and MS Word running

WinHelp (rtf and hpj files).

Carl

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RoboHelp Contact

Would someone email me contact information for RoboHelp, please?

reply-to above is correct.

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Need format of '.shg' files for current project...

To make a long story short, I need to be able to convert a windows '.shg'

file to another format (so that the same source can be used to produce a

help file on Windows and UN*X.  I basically have everything I need (no need

for .dll support (thank god, in UN*X that would be hell)) except for this

one piece, and there's no real way to get around the need.

Any pointers, tips and articles referred to me would be of great assistance.

...and greatly appreciated.

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How are MS Previews made?

Yes these were made with the MDK.

Jon

English, grant (english@kea.lincoln.ac.nz) wrote:

: I'm interested in developing some simple online tutorials similar in scope

: to the previews that come with MicroSoft applications such as MS Money and

: Powerpoint.

: Are these created with the multimedia development kit, or some other MS

: product.

: Are there any third party products which provide similar capabilities.

: Thanx in advance

: Grant English

: english@kea.lincoln.ac.nz

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NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

I've uploaded a shareware version of the Help Tool I use. It's called

Help Assistant. IMHO it is one of the better help tools available. (No

I did not write it)

There is a version for Word 2.0 (HA20.exe) and for Word 6.0 (HA3.0)

One of it's better features is the ability to play videos (avi files).

Registration is very cheap..... Where to find it?

1) quasar.sba.dal.ca under /www/zip (anonymous ftp)

2) http://quasar.sba.dal.ca:2000/ (under download central)

Any problems getting the file please let me know.

Cheers.

Tim Roberts

TJR@AC.DAL.CA

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Need format of '.shg' files for current project...

In article <301erb$lng@sparky.sterling.com>,

Chris Olson <chris@ITD.Sterling.COM> wrote:

>To make a long story short, I need to be able to convert a windows '.shg'

>file to another format (so that the same source can be used to produce a

>help file on Windows and UN*X.  I basically have everything I need (no need

>for .dll support (thank god, in UN*X that would be hell)) except for this

>one piece, and there's no real way to get around the need.

>

>Any pointers, tips and articles referred to me would be of great assistance.

>

The .shg and .mrb file formats were discussed by Pete Davis in

the February '94 isue of Windows/DOS Developer's Journal.

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Any news on MediaView? (MM Viewer 3.0?)

I don't have any word on its positioning or dates, but you can take a look

at the July edition of the MSDN Level I CD to ssee what is

possible: it was built using only the MediaView tools.

In article <1994Jul7.140841.187@relay.nswc.navy.mil> snshah@excelsior.nswc.navy.mil (S. N. Shah) writes:

>I was wondering if anyone has heard anything about Microsoft's new MediaView

>toolkit? It is a replacement for Help, MM Viewer, or both? Any news on delivery

>dates and pricing?

>

>Thanks.

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Winhelp and Visual Basic

We are calling help from a Visual Basic application.

We are using the right mouse button to invoke the Winhelp function

with the HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP parameter.

This shows the desired topic in a pop-up window as expected.

But if the user clicks on a jump or popup in that window, the Main help

window appears and then an "Windows Help Out of Memory" dialog box

appears.

The machine has at least 10 MB free, and when the Help File is invoked

regularly (at the Contents topic) everything is fine.

We have not found an answer in the HAG. Any ideas would be welcome..

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In article <s.griffin.99.001257C5@mcs.surrey.ac.uk>, s.griffin@mcs.surrey.ac.uk (Stephen Griffin) writes:

|>In article <Cs5wBn.I59@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

|>>From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)

|>>Subject: Re: Winhelp on Unix?

|>>Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 14:02:10 GMT

|>

|>>In article <2urso9$ihb@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>,

|>>Daniel Smith <smithda@cps.msu.edu> wrote:

|>

|>>>Does anyone know if there is a tool available to let me use my Windows

|>>>Help files on a Unix workstation?  I really like the MS Help system,

|>>>and it would be nice to have it available on Unix as well.

|>

|>>Bristol Technologies has a product (I forget the name).

|>>They used to provide a demo at their site (ftp.bristol.com?)

|>

|>It's called HyperHelp - the latest version I new of was 2.0 but that was some

|>time ago.  I had the demo once - it was pretty nice, very WINDOWS like in

|>OpenLook.

|>

|>I seem to remember, however, that it was very pricey - I don't remember how

|>much but we couldn't afford it!

I checked into this a while back--at least a year ago--and at that

time the help compiler was $2500 and the help viewer was another

$2500. And, it was only available for a few flavors of Unix. They

offered the source code for $15,000.

Stephen

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Winhelp and Visual Basic

In article <1994Jul14.002348.5328@sol.UVic.CA>,

Dave  Woods <dwoods@ophelia.UVic.CA> wrote:

>We are calling help from a Visual Basic application.

>

>We are using the right mouse button to invoke the Winhelp function

>with the HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP parameter.

>

>This shows the desired topic in a pop-up window as expected.

>

>But if the user clicks on a jump or popup in that window, the Main help

>window appears and then an "Windows Help Out of Memory" dialog box

>appears.

>

>The machine has at least 10 MB free, and when the Help File is invoked

>regularly (at the Contents topic) everything is fine.

>

>We have not found an answer in the HAG. Any ideas would be welcome..

>

Yup. I've seen that too.  The way I have things set up, though,

the normal thing is that nothing happens when you click on a

hotspot in a popup when the main Help window is not open.

Another bug is that the pop-up window does not return focus

when you dismiss it.  I'm afraid not much can be done about

it: they're bugs in WinHelp.

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Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

gduvall@orange.digex.net "Gary Duvall" writes:

> I would like to know if there is a shareware (or ?) program that will

> help me create helpfiles. Anyone know of any?

Check out Help Writer's Assistant, available on ftp sites.  I've just

finished my first real-world project (~350 topics, 300k) using it and

I'm very happy with the results.

   -M-                                     msmith@discreet.demon.co.uk

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Pen Controls

Help!

I have an MFC Application that, when run on a pen based system, automatically

uses the pen based controls, as advertised. These controls automatically

attempt to recognize the pen input, also as advertised, but what I would like

to do is capture the image before the recognizer is called.

How can I achieve this...

Thanks,

Dwight

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In article <304en9$jc4@status.gen.nz> icosa@iconz.co.nz (Ross Keatinge) writes:

>Does anyone know how to display single (ie ') or double (ie ") quote

>characters in a Winhelp file ?

>

>WinWord 6 writes " to the RTF as \ldblquote or \rdblquote which is correct

>as per the RTF spec but nothing appears in the compiled HLP file.

You can set W6 to generate vanilla " and ' characters (I think the

option is called "SmartQuote" - check the Help index).  However, this

doesn't help you with existing documents.  I made up a macro that

searches for the fancy quotes and replaces them with vanilla quotes,

which is very handy when converting documents.

John Panzer

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Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable document

Ok people, stick with me on this one.  It may get confusing.

I am changing a state government manual from printed format into WinHelp

format.  Simple, right?  Right.  (I use a Word template, namely Helllp!

template.)  I also have to figure out how to maintain the WinHelp format,

since the manual has periodic updates and additions.  Again, simple.  (Edit

the Word documents.)  Not only do I have to make the WinHelp file, I have to

make a printable document that can still be used offline.  Easy, right?

Wrong.  It is unacceptable to make the word processing department maintain two

separate documents that say the same thing.

So how do I do this?  I’ve tried HELP2DOC, but that makes a pretty ugly

manual, and would require a lot of reformatting to make a final printable

version.  It’s still a possibility, though.

I’ve thought about just keeping a normal Word document, buying Doc2Help,

and simply run it whenever there’s a change, but I think Doc2Help creates very

simplistic WinHelp files that do not facilitate all of the Help features

requested for the online manual.  This isn’t much  of a possibility.

The third idea is somewhat complex in creation, but may work.  Simply put,

it’s OLE.  Create a Word document that has the printable version of the manu

al.  Then create the general structure of the document (topic titles, pop-up

 stubs, etc... no text) in a WinHelp file using the Helllp! Word template.

Now.  Go back to the printable Word document and copy one of the paragraphs

onto the clipboard.  Switch to the Helllp! document and place the cursor under

the appropriate topic/pop-up stub.  "Paste Special" the clipboard information

as a Word 6.0 OLE LINK.  Do this for each paragraph that needs to go into the

Help manual.  This way, only the printable Word document needs to be updated

for both files to be updated, which holds the “one change only” rule.

(NOTE:  The Helllp! document can be the one to be changed and the printable

documents to hold the "Paste Special" links.)

This is the idea I’m somewhat excited about, but I have a couple questions:

Will memory be a problem?  There could be up to a couple

hundred OLE links.  Will this be a problem?

Does the Help compiler care if something is a true paragraph or an

OLE link?

The above is by far the most likable solution because of the ease up

maintenance once it is set up (which won’t be a pretty task).

There.  I’ve told you the situation, and my idea of how to resolve the

situation.  Now.  What am I missing?  "What’s wrong with this picture?", so to

speak.  I ask you to give me your thoughts.  Tear up the idea, give

constructive criticism, applaud the solution, offer a new possibility, give

your vote to another possibility ... I’m looking for all types of replies.

Thanks for any help you may give me.

Brian Samson

Strategic Technology Integrators

basamson@infinet.com

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=> Hi.. I've had a lot of success with Visual

=> Help.. The price is under $100 also.. There is

=> a shareware version around (i don't know where)

=> so you can see if you like before buying..

The price is $49.....

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Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printabl

Hi Brian:

You might consider keeping just the help file version making a copy and

running a WinWord macro to pull out the footnotes.  With HELLLP! docs, the

following should do it:

Sub MAIN

StartOfDocument

EditFind .Find = "^12", .WholeWord = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .Direction = 1,

.Format = 0

While EditFindFound()

        ExtendSelection

        EditFind .Find = "^13", .WholeWord = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .Direction

= 1, .Format = 0

        EditClear

        CharRight

        EditFind .Find = "^12", .WholeWord = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .Direction

= 1, .Format = 0

Wend

End Sub

This will leave you with a raw document with all of your text, fonts etc

and the topic titles in the Word style "Topic Title".  You could then edit

the style Topic Title in this second copy to suit your print layout.

I appreciate John's comments as well, but I wrote HELLLP! to avoid the

exercises he enjoys so much!

--

 HHHHHH. HHHHHHH.    HHHHHHH. HH. HH. HH. HH.

 HH:````  HH:`HH:    HH:````` HH: HH: HH: HH:

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 HH:``    HH: HH:    HH:  HH: HH:.HH:  ```HH:

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I now have a new career, showing people how to embarass themselves in front

of the largest number of people!  I included the wrong macro in my last

message.

It should be:

Sub MAIN

StartOfDocument

EditFind .Find = "^12", .WholeWord = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .Direction = 1,

.Format = 0

While EditFindFound()

        ExtendSelection

        EditFindChar .Font = "", .Points = "", .Bold = - 1, .Italic = - 1,

.Strikeout = - 1,         .Hidden = 1, .SmallCaps = - 1, .AllCaps = - 1,

.Underline = - 1, .Color = - 1,         .Position = "", .Spacing = ""

        EditFind .Find = "", .WholeWord = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .Direction =

1, .Format = 1

        EditClear

        CharRight

        EditFindClearFormatting

        EditFind .Find = "^12", .WholeWord = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .Direction

= 2, .Format = 0

Wend

End Sub

Hope this helps, both in creating a printable document, and showing why it

is is unwise to rush too fast into print (or cyberprint).

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 HHHHHH. HHHHHHH:    HHHHHHH: HHHHHH: HHHHHH:

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Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen

In article <1994Jul15.025517.26083@emr1.emr.ca>,

John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>

>	Finally, browse sequences can be added as required.  I keep it

>	very simple and just define one browse sequence starting at page

>	1 of the manual (the first topic) and going to the end of the

>	manual.  This type of browse sequence simulates turning pages

>	to read the manual forward or backward.

Very good!  I hate it when I start up a help file and the browse

buttons don't work; or when I jump somewhere, follow the browse

sequence for a few topics, and then find I'm in a dead end street!

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NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

In article <1994Jul15.185131.25924@ccc.amdahl.com>,

<das90@ccc.amdahl.com> writes:

> I had no problem getting ha30.exe, but after installing it, I get a

> message from Winword (6.0), "WordBasic Err=52/Bad filename or

>number" at startup.  This also occurs anytime I hit one of the

>choices on the HA menu that was added.

> This occured on two different systems, both of which have

>legal/complete

> W4W6.0 packages installed (honest!).

>

> Any clues?  Anyone?

i had the same problems. i will forward to you what the creator of HA

emailed to me:

Hi...

Your problem is that Help Assistant is looking for some project in a

directory that it cannot find.  This is a problem that I had with the

Shareware version of HA3.0 that I distributed originately.  I since

have developped a much improved version (3.1) that I will be able to

make available as Shareware soon.  In the mean time, here what you

can do to get going.

Open the file  helpass.ini  that should be located in the c:\windows

directory.  The first part should look like this:

[CONFIG]

root=d:\helpass\ha31\help

project=HELPASS

bmroot=d:\helpass\ha31\help

aviroot=c:\hasample

ProjectModified=0

the setting are probably different, but what you should do is to

change it for the following:

[CONFIG]

root=

project=

bmroot=c:\windows

aviroot=c:\windows

ProjectModified=0

Then run Help Assistant again.

You should now be in a position to create your own project and Help

Assistant should work properly.  You may encounter difficulties with

the compiler.  Sometimes this version had problems locating the

hcp.pif file.  If this is happening to you let me know.

I hope that will get you working so you can have a taste of my

product.  I am pretty shure that all the problems that you will

encounter with that Shareware version have been solved in version

3.1.

I it works, let me know what you think of it.

Roger.

*************************************

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* Roger St-Pierre                   *

* Internet: rstpierr@fox.nstn.ns.ca *

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Help hierarchies

In article <obrien-james.98.0018AA71@yale.edu>,

James A. O'Brien <obrien-james@yale.edu> wrote:

>Can anyone give me a brief generic description of how to implement a help

>hierarchy in a given topic window?  E.g. you start with several jumps visible.

>Clicking on one of them expands a list of jumps as sub-items in an indented

>list beneath them.  I guess you could just do it as a jump to a different

>topic, in which the expansion is present.  However, in most help files I've

>seen, each jump in such a page is independently expandable.  This would very

>quickly add up to a large number of combinations, so I suspect it's not done

>this way.

You're right.  The only way to do this by standard WinHelp means

is to have different topics, which will not be workable for a large

number of topics.  I guess the way to do it is in a separate DLL.

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NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

In article <306ui4$ros@news.acns.nwu.edu>, chou@n5145.notis.com says:

>In article <1994Jul15.185131.25924@ccc.amdahl.com>,

><das90@ccc.amdahl.com> writes:

>> I had no problem getting ha30.exe, but after installing it, I get a

>> message from Winword (6.0), "WordBasic Err=52/Bad filename or

>>number" at startup.  This also occurs anytime I hit one of the

>>[...]

>

>i had the same problems. i will forward to you what the creator of HA

>emailed to me:

Which I tried, to little avail:  I got further, as far as the project setup

dialog.  After that, repeated WordBasic Err=xx messages when I tried to do

anything on the HA menu.  I guess you get what you pay for .....

[continuation of original thread...]

>

>Hi...

>

>Your problem is that Help Assistant is looking for some project in a

>directory that it cannot find.  This is a problem that I had with the

>Shareware version of HA3.0 that I distributed originately.  I since

>have developped a much improved version (3.1) that I will be able to

>make available as Shareware soon.  In the mean time, here what you

>can do to get going.

>

>Open the file  helpass.ini  that should be located in the c:\windows

>directory.  The first part should look like this:

>

>[CONFIG]

>root=d:\helpass\ha31\help

>project=HELPASS

>bmroot=d:\helpass\ha31\help

>aviroot=c:\hasample

>ProjectModified=0

>

>the setting are probably different, but what you should do is to

>change it for the following:

>

>[CONFIG]

>root=

>project=

>bmroot=c:\windows

>aviroot=c:\windows

>ProjectModified=0

>

>Then run Help Assistant again.

>

>You should now be in a position to create your own project and Help

>Assistant should work properly.  You may encounter difficulties with

>the compiler.  Sometimes this version had problems locating the

>hcp.pif file.  If this is happening to you let me know.

>

>I hope that will get you working so you can have a taste of my

>product.  I am pretty shure that all the problems that you will

>encounter with that Shareware version have been solved in version

>3.1.

>

>I it works, let me know what you think of it.

>

>Roger.

>*************************************

>* TecKnow Logic, Halifax NS, Canada *

>* Roger St-Pierre                   *

>* Internet: rstpierr@fox.nstn.ns.ca *

>*************************************

>

>

>

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New VB HelpWriter release (FREE help tool)

    *********************************

    **********  NEWS FLASH **********

    VB HelpWriter Version 1.70 is here!

    (Available for downloading)

    Summary:

    VB HelpWriter "Lite" edition is a completely integrated

    helpfile development system for Visual Basic (or C++).

    Main features...

       . FREE - The "Lite" edition creates helpfiles up to

         20 topics (about twice that of NOTEPAD's help)

       . WYSIWYG editor included (no word processor needed)

       . Creates a starting helpfile from your VB code

       . Automatic GLOSSARY creation

       . Generates code for the WINHELP API functions

       . Edit multiple topics in several windows

       . Jumps are always "Live", no test mode needed

  Other:

     VB HelpWriter was selected to compete with RoboHelp and

     Doc-To-Help in Wintech Journal's 1994 Readers Choice awards.

     (Please cast a vote for us!)

     A "product to consider" in Visual Basic Programmer's

     Journal's Feb/March 1994 article on helpfiles. Specifically

     noted for it's "..nice features for integrating your VB

     program into the helpfile."

    ======================   New features  ======================

    * UNDO all edits

    * Uses less system resources (more free memory)

    * Supports windows metafile graphics

    * Supports (c), (r), International Currency, and math symbols

    * Saves editor settings between sessions.

    ==============================================================

    ======================== Bug Fixes ===========================

    * "Bitmap" and "Dictionary" dialogs don't lose data

    * Jump report now identifies the correct starting topic

    * Found and fixed various memory leaks

    * No longer GPFs when pasting into topic information dialog

    * Corrected declaration of SearchHelp() support routine

    ==============================================================

How to get VB Helpmaker:

+---------------------------------------------------------------+

| Compuserve: MSBASIC forum, Library 5, under VBHW.ZIP          |

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|              for a few days)                                  |

| Internet: "ftp.netcom.com  /ftp/pub/vb_helpwriter"            |

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Current users should download "vbhw170u.zip" (about 150K), to upgrade.

New users should download "vbhw170.zip". This contains the latest EXE,

support dlls, and example files. (about 1000K).

Happy computing!

Sincerely,

Fred Bunn

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SHED Editor Macros?

Hello Networld..  I have what I think is probably a naive and simple question,

but I'm at a loss.

What does SHED want when you choose the hotspot to call a macro (ass opposed

to a jump or pop-up)?  What I'm trying to do is call up other WinHelp files'

tables of contents from different hotspot... like a master table of contents

opening up a bunch of small books.

I tried just calling the context id and allowing the HCP compiler to compile

all the help files at the same time, but there's 2 problems with that:  (1)

the help file gets larger than would be ideal, and (2) I lose all of my window

settings from my individual help "chapters".  Apparently I have to define all

of the secondary windows in the main window that's being compiled, and there

are a lot of secondary window settings.

So how does one create a macro for SHED?  Is a macro the solution to call up

another help file's table of contents?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Brian Samson

basamson@infinet.com

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Virtual Functions

In article <Csuyx0.8wq@freenet.carleton.ca>

           ah694@FreeNet.Carleton.CA "Terrance Au" writes:

>

>

>Hi,

>

>Could anyone out there tell what "Virtual Functions" are

>in the context of windows programming in MS-C++.

You've asked in the wrong group. This group is for discussing "WinHelp" -

the Windows on-line help engine.

If you don't know what virtual functions are I'd STRONGLY suggest buying an

introductory book on C++ programming!

Chris

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Ross Keatinge (icosa@iconz.co.nz) wrote:

: Does anyone know how to display single (ie ') or double (ie ") quote

: characters in a Winhelp file ?

: WinWord 6 writes " to the RTF as \ldblquote or \rdblquote which is correct

: as per the RTF spec but nothing appears in the compiled HLP file.

I have just been through this learning curve in the past few days.

Essentially, you are required to switch OFF the Smart Quotes Automatic

conversion which you can find in Format AutoFormat menu (there may be

another place in the Edit menu that you also have to set it).

This problem also occurs for macros which contain these characters, such

as for file names, and it accepts the text and then posts the message

"UNKNOWN VARIABLE" of suchlike.

Roger Layton.

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Books on writing WinHlp files ?

Hi!

Can anyone out there point to one or two good books on writing help

files (or the one that includes some chapter(s) on that)?

Something 'better' than MS Win Reference, vol. 4 or MS Programming Tools...

I have BC4 and the online help on writing help files with MS Word. I would

like to get more info in some conventional format (a book :)

Thanks a lot!

robertino

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SHED Editor Macros?

The macro you are looking for to call up another help file by its contents

topic is !JumpContents(`yourfile.hlp')

remember to use the correct quotes.

If you are using HELLLP! v2.3 you can call another help file from a hotspot

text or graphic.  Just highlight the text or graphic, then click the

"screen" button on the HELLLP! button bar or select "Spawn external

process" on the Insert menu.  When asked the process, click "Winhelp

Macro", and you will be presented with a list of macros.  Select the one

you want, and you will receive assistance in filling in the parameters.

Incidentally you can get to this same dialog to insert a button, or as an

opening option.

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Does anyone know how to display single (ie ') or double (ie ") quote

characters in a Winhelp file ?

WinWord 6 writes " to the RTF as \ldblquote or \rdblquote which is correct

as per the RTF spec but nothing appears in the compiled HLP file.

Thanks

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Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen

In article <basamson.1.00314D97@infinet.com> basamson@infinet.com (Brian Samson) writes:

>Ok people, stick with me on this one.  It may get confusing.

>

>I am changing a state government manual from printed format into WinHelp

>format.  Simple, right?  Right.  (I use a Word template, namely Helllp!

>template.)  I also have to figure out how to maintain the WinHelp format,

>since the manual has periodic updates and additions.  Again, simple.  (Edit

>the Word documents.)  Not only do I have to make the WinHelp file, I have to

>make a printable document that can still be used offline.  Easy, right?

>Wrong.  It is unacceptable to make the word processing department maintain two

>separate documents that say the same thing.

>

>So how do I do this?  I’ve tried HELP2DOC, but that makes a pretty ugly

>manual, and would require a lot of reformatting to make a final printable

>version.  It’s still a possibility, though.

>

>I’ve thought about just keeping a normal Word document, buying Doc2Help,

>and simply run it whenever there’s a change, but I think Doc2Help creates very

>simplistic WinHelp files that do not facilitate all of the Help features

>requested for the online manual.  This isn’t much  of a possibility.

Well, I'm never short of opinions on this topic...

Personally, I've got no use for any of the applications that exist

to help you create .HLP files.  All I use is Word (2c) and HC.

It works fine, but then again, I'm used to doing things at the

fundamental levels, without having magic buttons to push to do

the work for me.

My Opinion

----------

Over the years, most of us have learned how to write a proper

manual or research paper, i.e. with a table of contents and

several chapters and Appendices.  Furthermore, most people use

legal notation and divide the sections into sub-sections.  For

example, it might look like:

1. Introduction

2. Installation

2.1 Files

2.2 Icons

2.3 De-Installation (is that a word?)

3. Getting Started

3.1 ...

3.2 ...

4. ...

Appendix A

Appendix B

...

Ok, so why should we abandon all of this knowledge when we write

help files?  If you read the guidelines for creating help files

for Windows applications, you get the idea that the correct way

is to write a whole bunch of unconnected topics and then thread

them together logically with browse sequences.  I disagree

completely with this methodology.  I like hypertext, but I get

lost quite often.  Furthermore, just because the topics are

connected by logical browse sequences, doesn't mean that the

literary content of the help topics flows easily across topic

boundaries, i.e. quite often, there is no flow, thus making it

easy to read.

My System

---------

So the approach that I have taken is to write a single document

which does double duty as the printed manual and the on-line .HLP.

It is structured as above and is very easy for me to write because

I *know* how to write such documents with my eyes closed (almost).

I don't deal with browse sequences or the concept of topics.  I

deal with chapters and sub-sections and Appendices.  However, I

create the sub-sections according to what is reasonable, but also

so that there is a section which corresponds to each <help> button

in my application.

When I am done, I cross-reference the document internally, i.e.

adding popup definitions and jumps.  I don't use very many

confusing context strings.  In fact, I just use the section

numbers.  For example the text might look like:

...blah, blah, blah (see Section 2.3.4z2.3.4) and blah...

 =============......

where ===== is double undescore for the jump text and ...... is

hidden text for the 'goto' part.  The context string assigned

to section 2.3.4 is "z2.3.4".  The "z" just makes it easy to

find.

Then I add in the context strings which hook into the application

(each topic can have several context strings).  For example,

if I have a button id:

#define HELP_CHOOSEFILE 123

then I use that context string for the corresponding section

in the manual.  So the topic footnotes will be:

#z2.3.4

#HELP_CHOOSEFILE

$ Choosing a File

Finally, browse sequences can be added as required.  I keep it

very simple and just define one browse sequence starting at page

1 of the manual (the first topic) and going to the end of the

manual.  This type of browse sequence simulates turning pages

to read the manual forward or backward.  This is important to me.

I know what I am writing and I write the entire manual in a

logical manner, taking the user on a journey through the program.

I decide the order in which topics and information etc will be

presented.  As an author, this is my job because I know how it all

works and I know how to present it in a logical sequence to the

reader.  When I use hypertext to randomly jump through a help file,

it is me who is deciding what to read next.  Who am I to know where

to start and what to read next in order to obtain a reasonable

understanding of how it all works?  The author should be the tour

guide and the teacher and usually the printed manual is written in

such a way to present the entire package of information in the

best way.  What I am saying is that the best browse sequence for

an on-line manual is the one which allows you to read the help

file as a printed manual.  There have been many requests for a

method of printing out the whole .hlp file.  Ok, so let's say WinHelp

allowed you to do that - you would probably spend 3 days shuffling

the pieces of paper (one topic per page!), trying to put those

random topics into some reasonable order so the box of paper could

be read like a manual.  My .hlp file is already in that order.

All of this is done using Word, i.e. single & double underscores,

footnotes etc.  It is quite simple and I feel no need to use

any of the commercial or shareware utilities.

Now the last thing that is required is to print out the printed

manual.  I haven't streamlined this yet, because some of my WOrd

macros are a bit awkward, but all I do is load the Word .DOC file

and strip out all of the formatting for creating the .HLP file:

- remove all footnotes

- remove all single & double underscores for popups and

  jumps

Then I go through it and remove some of the page breaks for short

topics so they will print on the same page (i.e. if 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

are all short, I remove the page breaks and they all print on the

same page.  The page breaks at the beginning of each chapter or

Appendix remain in place.  Finally, I print the manual and exit

without saving the file.  I don't save it, unless I know that the

manual won't change for a while.  When I do, I save it as .PRN

so I have:

MYAPP.DOC	(Word document with .HLP formatting)

MYAPP.PRN	(Word document ready to print as manual)

>The third idea is somewhat complex in creation, but may work.  Simply put,

>it’s OLE.  Create a Word document that has the printable version of the manu

>al.  Then create the general structure of the document (topic titles, pop-up

> stubs, etc... no text) in a WinHelp file using the Helllp! Word template.

>Now.  Go back to the printable Word document and copy one of the paragraphs

>onto the clipboard.  Switch to the Helllp! document and place the cursor under

>the appropriate topic/pop-up stub.  "Paste Special" the clipboard information

>as a Word 6.0 OLE LINK.  Do this for each paragraph that needs to go into the

>Help manual.  This way, only the printable Word document needs to be updated

>for both files to be updated, which holds the “one change only” rule.

>(NOTE:  The Helllp! document can be the one to be changed and the printable

>documents to hold the "Paste Special" links.)

Several people have suggested that you take the manual and make

it a single topic (i.e. the last topic in the .hlp file, so that

the .hlp file contains 2 copies of the document.  The first 200

topics are combined into a single topic 201 which is ready to print.

I've also thought about doing that, but never got a round tuit.

>This is the idea I’m somewhat excited about, but I have a couple questions:

>	Will memory be a problem?  There could be up to a couple

>	hundred OLE links.  Will this be a problem?

>	Does the Help compiler care if something is a true paragraph or an

>	OLE link?

Don't know OLE.

>The above is by far the most likable solution because of the ease up

>maintenance once it is set up (which won’t be a pretty task).

>

>There.  I’ve told you the situation, and my idea of how to resolve the

>situation.  Now.  What am I missing?  "What’s wrong with this picture?", so to

>speak.  I ask you to give me your thoughts.  Tear up the idea, give

>constructive criticism, applaud the solution, offer a new possibility, give

>your vote to another possibility ... I’m looking for all types of replies.

>

>Thanks for any help you may give me.

>

>Brian Samson

>Strategic Technology Integrators

>basamson@infinet.com

>

>basamson@infinet.com

>

>Wow!  I'm on Mosaic now!

The bottom line is that the best way to maintain a printed manual

and on-line .HLP file is to only have one document that can be

used for both.  This means it should be written as a manual first

and then formatted for on-line help.

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NEW: Help Assistant 3.1 - Plays AVI files

I've just placed an updated version of Help Assistant (v3.1) on:

quasar.sba.dal.ca under /www/zip (File name: ha31s.zip). If you have

Web Access then go to http://quasar.sba.dal.ca:2000/ under Download

Central.

This is an excellent package I encourage you to try out. (No, I am not

the author, just a satisfied user). Again, it has built in support for

playing avi files.

Cheers.

===================================

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Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

In article <48011@mindlink.bc.ca> Ed_Guy@mindlink.bc.ca "Ed Guy" writes:

>Chris, it has just occurred to me that these misdirected innocents

>probably think that the "winhelp" in the group name means that they can ask

>for "help" about "win" and possibly we should cut them a little slack.

>Ed Guy.

Yes, I think that's fairly obvious. I was attempting (and probably failing)

to suggest in my previous message where a better place to post the message

would be :-)

Chris

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Current help compiler version

I've got a major problem trying to write a help file which is moderately large

which I am trying to compile using HC31 (3.10.445). The compiler dies on me

halfway through with an error 5059 (not enough memory). This happens when I

compile from Windows (WFW 3.1) or from DOS (6.2).

The machine has 8MB RAM w/ 688Ko of free conventional memory.

The PIF file allows for the maximum available memory + at least 4MB of EMS and

4MB of XMS (I'm not really sure which one, if any, the compiler uses).

The help file itself is compiled from a 250K RTF file, all bitmaps larger that

an icon are inserted through a reference to a bmp file (i.e. not directly

included in the RTF).

Compression is turned off in the HPJ file.

Of course I'm totally new to Windows Help files, this thing isn't even

associated to a program, it's more of a stand-alone document with a couple

macros thrown in and it is due next week (would even had been ready if not for

this memory problem).

Anyone with a suggestion will earn my neverending gratitude. Post here (I'll

probably be reading this group every five minutes for the next few days) or

mail and I'll sum up.

Fred.

fa38@calvacom.fr (header adress is bogus)

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Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

A few people have emailed me asking about where to find HWA, so in case

anyone else is interested: it should be available on src.doc.ic.ac.uk in

packages/windows3/util or ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/pc/win3/util.

The files you need are:

  hwab40_1.zip    940530  Help Writer's Assistant for Windows 1/2 [509k]

  hwab40_2.zip    940530  Help Writer's Assistant for Windows 2/2 [429k]

This is not the same program as Help Assistant, which I haven't used.

HWA is still officially in beta release although I haven't found any

problems I couldn't work around.  I have no connection with the author

(Stefan Olson -- stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz) other than being a satisfied

customer etc etc.

   -M-                                     msmith@discreet.demon.co.uk

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Current help compiler version

THe current version is #505, which you will find in a few places as

HCP505.ZIP.

I know it's on Compuserve in GO WINSDK under that name and Archie can

probably give you an ftp site on the 'net.

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In article <fa38.1.00121829@calvacom.fr>,

Fred Albrecht <fa38@calvacom.fr> wrote:

>I've got a major problem trying to write a help file which is moderately large

>which I am trying to compile using HC31 (3.10.445). The compiler dies on me

>halfway through with an error 5059 (not enough memory). This happens when I

>compile from Windows (WFW 3.1) or from DOS (6.2).

Try HCP.EXE.  It's available from ftp.microsoft.com. (I believe

in a zipfile together with hc31.exe).

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I am looking for an experienced viewer programmer to help me on a CD project.

Please contact me by email if you are qualified.

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When I talked to Microsoft about this they indicated there is no

currently released product called MediaView.  Where did you hear about

it?

Jon

S. N. Shah (snshah@excelsior.nswc.navy.mil) wrote:

: I am looking for information about Microsoft's new MediaView library. If

: anyone has any release, purchasing, dealer, or other information, please

: let me know.

: Thanks.

: Shahid.

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I am looking for information about Microsoft's new MediaView library. If

anyone has any release, purchasing, dealer, or other information, please

let me know.

Thanks.

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Licence issues for embedded objects (EQN2.0)

I am writing a major application in WinHelp and am embedding Equation.2

and other objects.

However my clients are unlikely to have Equation.2 on their systems (unless

they have Word) and my instinct tells me that the Equation.2 servers are

proprietary and cannot be distributed.

I have tried to Cut and Paste, but then they become Word.Picture.6 objects

with exactly the same problem.

I want to maintain as much flexibility as possible, with the ability to

return to the source object structures for modifying my objects, yet

I also need to create a very cheap system without expensive runtime

royalties payable.

Any suggestions?

Roger Layton. Johannesburg.

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In article <1994Jul13.165349.25656@dal1> tjr@ac.dal.ca (TIM ROBERTS) writes:

>I've uploaded a shareware version of the Help Tool I use. It's called

>Help Assistant. IMHO it is one of the better help tools available. (No

>[...]

>Any problems getting the file please let me know.

>

I had no problem getting ha30.exe, but after installing it, I get a

message from Winword (6.0), "WordBasic Err=52/Bad filename or number"

at startup.  This also occurs anytime I hit one of the choices on the

HA menu that was added.

This occured on two different systems, both of which have legal/complete

W4W6.0 packages installed (honest!).

Any clues?  Anyone?

Thanks, danny@amdahl.com

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Books on writing WinHlp files ?

In article <309jke$1v7@nippur.irb.hr> roby@cromath.math.hr (Robertino Benis) writes:

>Can anyone out there point to one or two good books on writing help

>files (or the one that includes some chapter(s) on that)?

I've been using "Developing Online Help for Windows", by Scott Boggan, David

Farkas, and Joe Welinske, published by Sams Publishing, ISBN 0-672-30230-6.

Randy

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  Couple of Questions..

 (1) What is the difference between MS Visual C++

     Standard Edition & Professional Edition??

 (2)  The professional edition package is skinny. I guess it

     contains everything on the CD-ROM. But i need the entire set

    of hard-copy documentation too. what are my choices??

  Thanks for all the anwsers. Please reply by email.

nataraj/.

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Thanks for the replies.

I found that you can insert a plain ' or " by using Insert Symbol but I

will now check out the smart quotes option.

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As an old help and manual writer, I have to disagree that you can use

the same document for screen and page reading.

I've written manuals for several commercial products and help

for Central Point applications, and find that what works online

doesn't work on page and vice versa.  Of course, we do context-

sensitive help, and very little procedural help, and mostly

procedural manuals with less specific dialog box detail, which

makes a difference.

Online help is hard to use if it's just a manual that you need

to print to make sense of.

Of course, I'm not the government, and I maintain all my

documents myself, which means it comes out of _my_ hide, but

the result seems worth it.

Hanna Metzger

  Central Point Software (now Div of Symantec)

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> Your problem is that Help Assistant is looking for some project in a

> directory that it cannot find.  This is a problem that I had with the

> Shareware version of HA3.0 that I distributed originately.  I since

> have developped a much improved version (3.1) that I will be able to

> make available as Shareware soon.

>

The improved version of Help Assistant (version 3.1) is available via

ftp at quasar.sba.dal.ca under /www/zip (file name ha31s.zip) or via

WWW at http://quasar.sba.dal.ca:2000/ under "Download Central".

You will also find the FAQ for this group at this site under /www/hlp

(help version) and /www/doc (text version)

Any problems with the downloads please let me know.

============================================================

Tim Roberts

TJR@AC.DAL.CA

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In article <1994Jul19.074427.25820@dal1>, tjr@ac.dal.ca (TIM ROBERTS)

writes:

>>>The improved version of Help Assistant (version 3.1) is available via

ftp at quasar.sba.dal.ca under /www/zip (file name ha31s.zip) or via

WWW at http://quasar.sba.dal.ca:2000/ under "Download Central". <<<

Is there a version of Help Assistant for Word v2 ?  I downloaded it only

to find it's for Version 6 ;(.   Oh well.. I should probably upgrade to

word 6..but heck.. I'm still stuck on that old saying.. "if it ain't

broke, don't fix it".....

brmcdaniel@aol.com

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Help using DLL

Hi

I am trying to use multimedia TOOLBOOK functions to write an application

in borland c++ for recording audio files.

The toolbook has a DLL called tbkmm.dll. In toolbook one can create buttons

and use functions that record on keypresses of the buttons.

I would like to write a program that uses these functions.

Any suggestions on how to use the DLL libraries to write applications or anyway that it can be done.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Suri

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Books on writing WinHlp files ?

In article <309jke$1v7@nippur.irb.hr>,

Robertino Benis <roby@cromath.math.hr> wrote:

>

>Hi!

>

>Can anyone out there point to one or two good books on writing help

>files (or the one that includes some chapter(s) on that)?

>Something 'better' than MS Win Reference, vol. 4 or MS Programming Tools...

>I have BC4 and the online help on writing help files with MS Word. I would

>like to get more info in some conventional format (a book :)

>Thanks a lot!

>robertino

The only book I know of is the one some nice person on the WINHLP-L mail

group told me about:

Developing Online Help for Windows  (with diskette)  list: $39.95

by Scott Boggan, David Farkas, & Joe Welinske

Sams Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0-672-30230-6

I am preparing to do a winhlp project and find the book a wonderful

overview of all aspects of taking on such a project.

People who have actually created winhlp projects would be able to give

you a better idea of how useful the book is.

By the way, the section on the automated tools (doc-to-help, robohelp,

etc.) is WAY out of date--a topic that cannot be kept up to date in

hardcopy.

Also, the WINHLP-L mailgroup is much more active than this usenet group,

and thus another good resource, IMHO.

Good luck,

-- Peter       kasaty@ctsnet.cts.com

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Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen

Responding to msg by basamson@INFINET.COM (Brian Samson) on

>Ive thought about just keeping a normal Word document,

>buying Doc2Help,  and simply run it whenever theres a

>change, but I think Doc2Help creates  very simplistic

>WinHelp files that do not facilitate all of the Help

>features requested for the online manual.  This isnt

>much  of a possibility.

Brian,

I may be biased, I work for WexTech Systems, the makers of

Doc-To-Help, but I really don't think our product is limited in

the way you describe. I'm not sure what help features you

specifically need, but we are not just for simplistic help

projects. We fully support Windows Help functionality. We are

used for creating all sorts of help files form commercial

products to office procedures manuals. We are used in tens of

thousands of large corporations and government offices creating

truly huge help projects. The main strength of Doc-To-Help is

that you can maintain very different online help and hard-copy

manual documentation in the same source document. We facilitate

marking text graphics, whatever, specifically for Help or

Manual Only. We maintain separate templates for your

documentation and online help so that they can look very

different. Among other features, we automate the intelligent

transformation of Glossary Terms into popups and Index Entries

into keywords. Our new Hyperformance Tools and version 1.6 will

not only increase Doc-To-Help's flexibility and power, but will

add functionality to WINHELP including the Doc-To-Help

Navigator, an expandable, collapsible outine tree of the entire

help project. I hope you will consider evaluating our product.

You can order a information kit and demo from our sales

department at 212-949-9595.

Paul Neshamkin

WexTech Systems Technical Support

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How to Move Sequentially thru a .HLP file

Browsing thru MS-Win .HLP files:

if you set WIN.INI:

[Windows Help]

SeqTopicKeys=1

then SHIFT+CTRL  Home will take you to the First item in the help file

and  SHIFT+-> (right arrow) will take you to the next item (independent

of any BROWSE sequences).

I think I found this tip i MicroSoft's Tech docs (SomeWhere)

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Does any tool handle Keywords well?

The keyword-search facility in WinHelp is powerful, but gets

pretty cumbersome with big help files. You have to attach the

keywords to individual topics, but the user sees them in a

gigantic alphabetical list in which inconsistencies (in style,

capitalization, specificity, you name it...) are highly

visible.

What I need, and haven't yet seen in any tool, is a way to edit

the merged keyword list, as seen in WinHelp's Search dialog box,

directly. If the keyword "Nifty feature" points to three topics,

and the keyword "Nifty features" points to two others, I'd like

to correct the problem in one place. As it is, I have to compile

the help file, browse through the keyword list, write down the

inconsistencies, track them down in our 40 *.rtf files, and correct

them on the individual topics' K footnotes.

Is there a tool that simplifies this? (Not the K footnotes--I can

handle them. The problem is that the keyword list in Search collects

information that's scattered across all the topic files.)

Sorry to be so long. Any ideas or pointers?

===================================

Bruce Stephenson     bruce@spss.com

Any opinions above are my own.

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Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

i agree that forehelp is a nice product, and extremely versatile. i

just received a demo of it last week and found it to be easy to use.

it's less kludgey-seeming than robohelp, which i use, but i did find

that not being able to scroll through a bunch of topics within one

document (as you can using robohelp since it is based on ms word)

annoying.

what i did like was the fact that you don't have to reference bitmaps

so you can see what they look like.

and i also dig the dynamic hierarchy which is created everytime you

add jumps to a topic, etc. my boss once requested taht we all graph

our help systems becuase the application we were documentign was so

large and cumbersome. unfortunately, that mean graphing more than 150

topics and updating it was a pain (needless to say, i didn't update

my graphs). forehelp would've removed this bother, but i hear that

robohelp will be including that in their next release.

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Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

Miguel Carrasquer (mcv@inter.NL.net) wrote:

} - Topics can have more than one keyword (K-footnote).  Add a

} second footnote to every new topic and have it start, for instance, with

} "New: <topic name>".  In the Search box, all the new topics will

} be included at their alphabetical position, and under "New: *"

} (or: "Changed: *").

How about the keyword Update:<date>. All keyword together with Update:<date>

will be displayed if you search for it. And you have a chronological list.

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Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Prin

I'm quite flattered when people compare my product (HELLLP!) with products

costing ten to twenty times as much.  I don't even mind if the comparison

is unfavourable on some points, because those are things to go in the job

jar for product improvement.

For the curious who may not have heard of HELLLP!, here are its details:

      HHHH. HHHH.                                         HH.

       HH:`  HH:`                                         HH:

       HH:   HH:  HHHHHH. HH.     HH.     HH.     HHHHHH. HH:

       HHHHHHHH:  HH:```` HH:     HH:     HH:     HH:`HH: HH:

       HH:```HH:  HHHH.   HH:     HH:     HH:     HHHHHH: HH:

       HH:   HH:  HH:``   HH:     HH:     HH:     HH:````  ``

      HHHH: HHHH: HHHHHH. HHHHHH. HHHHHH. HHHHHH. HH:     HH.

       ````  ````  ``````  ``````  ``````  ``````  ``      ``

===================================================================

NEW VERSION (v 2.3) OF HELLLP!, THE WINHELP AUTHOR TOOL FOR WINWORD

===================================================================

Improved version adds features to assist the expert by taking away

the drudgery, without making the system complicated for the novice.

Features of HELLLP!

* <ASP> Shareware means it is not "Crippleware", no limits on number

   of help topics which the unregistered version will generate.

* User works entirely within Word (version 2.0 or version 6.0,

   English or non-English versions).  You never have to touch a

   context string, or an HPJ or RTF file (unless you want to).

* Can generate topics from Word Heading Styles, or user can identify

   them by pointing.

* Generates a table of contents automatically, for display in the

   main window, a secondary window or a PopUp with jumps from it

   already in place.

* User adds additional jumps and PopUps by highlighting the text or

   graphic to jump from and pointing to the topic to jump to.

* Generates search keywords automatically (user can edit) in lower,

   upper, or mixed case.

* Can generate browse sequences automatically.

* Generates and tracks context strings automatically (user can edit).

* Can set sizes of main and secondary windows independently, both on

   initial display and on topic change. Can determine windows for

   initial display - main, secondary or both.

* Set background colours for scrolling and non-scrolling text.

* Set hotspot colour for cultures where green is not suitable.

* Add sound effects by playing WAV files.

* Launch other processes from within Help File by clicking text or

   icons.

* Automatic multi-file project builds.

* Generation and mapping of topic numbers for HELPCONTEXTID and other

   context-sensitive needs.

* Incorporation of additional WinHelp macros by dialog box selection.

* Expert users can supply a file of [sections] to be merged into HPJ

   file on each build.

* Customised button bars for main window, secondary windows, PopUps

   or embedded in text.  Button-top  text in any language.  Buttons

   call or PopUp any topic, WinHelp macro or launch another process.

* Bullets that actually appear in the help file, including a special

   "hot push button" bullet for action lists.

* Customisable "copyright" line for WinHelp about box.

* Very comprehensive Help file (naturally!).

* Inexpensive - Registration is $30 US including disk and manual.

   $20 US for electronic key file only by Email.

* Available widely on Bulletin Boards, On-Line services, ASP Advantage

   and other CD-ROMs, Internet from SimTel sites.  Do a partial

   filename search for HELLLP since it could be stored as HELLLP.EXE

   or HELLLPnn.ZIP (where nn is the  version number).

--

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Books on writing WinHlp files ?

In article <30e8ef$e5b@xmission.xmission.com> jonm@xmission.com (JonM) writes:

>There is a wonderful new book out there:

>

>Developers Guide to WINHELP.EXE

>

>It is definitely worthwile.

>

Can you provide the information for the author and publihser?

Thanks.

-Terry Chung

 chung@cs.fsu.edu

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Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

In article <twisted.2.0036B3BA@agora.rdrop.com> twisted@agora.rdrop.com (Michael Heggen) writes:

>From: twisted@agora.rdrop.com (Michael Heggen)

>Subject: Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

>Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 12:00:16 PDT

>Summary: A quick mention of an excellent help authoring tool for Windows Help

>called ForeHelp

>Keywords: ForeHelp ForeFront WinHelp authoring review

>I have seen a fair bit of discussion in the past couple of weeks about various

>WinHelp authoring aids, but no one seems to have mentioned the tool I have

>been using, so I thought I would bring it up to you all.

Thanks for the review. We've been looking at several WinHelp authoring systems

here and suffered a similar frustration with other products because we're a

WordPerfect house, not Word. So far the stuff we've seen is interesting but

hasn't blown our socks off. We've ordered and eval copy of ForeHelp and now

I'm really looking forward to starting our test of it.

Michael McCoy

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mmccoy@crs.loc.gov

202-707-6539

"Be ashamed to die until you have won one victory for humanity."

--Horace Mann

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."--Camus

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Does any tool handle Keywords well?

Bruce, you may want to try out the Microsoft HULK tool that is available on

the MSDN Level I July CD. It is a .RTF parser that reads and analyzes help

files for consistency in many areas, including keywords. I don't know if that

tool will help you (I did not spend too much time with it), but it is worth

a look. I have not seen HULK anywhere except on the MSDN I July CD.

Shahid.

Bruce Stephenson (bruce@spss.com) wrote:

: The keyword-search facility in WinHelp is powerful, but gets

: pretty cumbersome with big help files. You have to attach the

: keywords to individual topics, but the user sees them in a

: gigantic alphabetical list in which inconsistencies (in style,

: capitalization, specificity, you name it...) are highly

: visible.

: What I need, and haven't yet seen in any tool, is a way to edit

: the merged keyword list, as seen in WinHelp's Search dialog box,

: directly. If the keyword "Nifty feature" points to three topics,

: and the keyword "Nifty features" points to two others, I'd like

: to correct the problem in one place. As it is, I have to compile

: the help file, browse through the keyword list, write down the

: inconsistencies, track them down in our 40 *.rtf files, and correct

: them on the individual topics' K footnotes.

: Is there a tool that simplifies this? (Not the K footnotes--I can

: handle them. The problem is that the keyword list in Search collects

: information that's scattered across all the topic files.)

: Sorry to be so long. Any ideas or pointers?

: ===================================

: Bruce Stephenson     bruce@spss.com

: Any opinions above are my own.

: ===================================

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MediaView is out - Can't find it!

Well, MediaView (the programmer's version of Viewer 2.0a) is out on the MSDN

Level II CD. It is only a beta version, not the shipping version. I wanted to

know if anyone can tell me how to get MediaView if we don't get MSDN Level II.

Some of us only need Level I. Anybody from Microsoft listening? An FTP site,

CompuServe forum, or other place where it can be found will be helpful.

Thanks. Shahid.

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Current help compiler version

Thanks a lot to everybody who replied here or by mail, I got my first mail

reply less than an hour after posting.

I got hcp.exe off MS's FTP site and my help file has resumed it's growth

without any problems. Apart from it's being able to handle large files, hcp

also seems to make a smaller .HLP even w/ out compression.

Should anyone have the same problem, the file's reference is

           <ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/hc505.exe>

Fred.

fa38@calvacom.fr

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Books on writing WinHlp files ?

There is a wonderful new book out there:

Developers Guide to WINHELP.EXE

It is definitely worthwile.

Robertino Benis (roby@cromath.math.hr) wrote:

: Hi!

: Can anyone out there point to one or two good books on writing help

: files (or the one that includes some chapter(s) on that)?

: Something 'better' than MS Win Reference, vol. 4 or MS Programming Tools...

: I have BC4 and the online help on writing help files with MS Word. I would

: like to get more info in some conventional format (a book :)

: Thanks a lot!

: robertino

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Current help compiler version

Fred Albrecht (fa38@calvacom.fr) wrote:

: I've got a major problem trying to write a help file which is moderately large

: which I am trying to compile using HC31 (3.10.445). The compiler dies on me

: halfway through with an error 5059 (not enough memory). This happens when I

: compile from Windows (WFW 3.1) or from DOS (6.2).

:The help file itself is compiled from a 250K RTF file, all bitmaps larger that

:an icon are inserted through a reference to a bmp file (i.e. not directly

: included in the RTF).

: Compression is turned off in the HPJ file.

: fa38@calvacom.fr (header adress is bogus)

HC31 has some *major* bitmap limitations.  If I recall its something

like 32K for *ALL* bitmaps.  If I don't recall properly, it is

definetly some quite small number usable with only very small bitmaps.

This is probably what is eating up all of your memory.

I haven't tried hcp.exe nor hcp505, I plan on ftping them like

pronto though because I'm having the same trouble as you.

Steve Hughes

hughes@acc.flint.umich.edu

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WinHelp for Windows Chicago (4.0) -- what's the scoop?

Hello,

I'd like to better understand the "Help" engine that will be used for

Windows 4.0 (aka 'Chicago').  Some questions:

1) Will WinHelp 3.1 documents be readable?

2) What features will WinHelp 4.0 have?  Will it be similar to Multimedia

   Viewer 2.0?  Will it be called something other than WinHelp?

3) Are there now "beta" tools out there to author WinHelp 4.0 files?

4) Share anything else you know.

I realize that Windows 4.0 is under beta test now, and there are these

so-called non-disclosure agreements.  However, I need this information to

plan ahead for future e-book releases from my company, OmniMedia.  So share

whatever you can.  I'd especially like to hear from Microsoft people on my

questions.

Thank you.

Jon Noring

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1312 Carlton Place  | Windows 3.1 Help files. Demo versions available via

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510-294-8153        | "Fanny Hill", "Devil's Dictionary", "Aesop's Fables"...

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>I did find two minor bugs in ForeHelp. When I called ForeFront tech support,

>they were helpful and knowledgable. One of the bugs had just been fixed, so

>they sent me a new version the same day. The other has not been fixed yet, but

>it is pretty minor (they assure me that it will be fixed soon, though). Every

>time I have called ForeFront for any reason, they have been friendly and

>helpful. Their tech support department even followed up to make sure eveything

>was fine!

I would only like to add that I too found a small bug in ForeHelp and called

their customer service line.  Even though I only had the evaluation copy and

have not yet order the full product they took my call in what must have been

the friendliest manner I have received from a software company in years.  They

were quick and knowledgeable about my problem and even had a fix for it that

only required I had a line to the program's ini file.  Now it seems to work

without flaw.  I am equally impressed with its features as I am with

ForeFront's service but I just wanted to commend their service one more time.

- Jason Hunter

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In article <2v5742$3gv@nuscc.nus.sg>,

Mr. Cheah Kean Hock <cceckh@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE> wrote:

>Miguel Carrasquer (mcv@inter.NL.net) wrote:

>} - Topics can have more than one keyword (K-footnote).  Add a

>} second footnote to every new topic and have it start, for instance, with

>} "New: <topic name>".  In the Search box, all the new topics will

>} be included at their alphabetical position, and under "New: *"

>} (or: "Changed: *").

>

>How about the keyword Update:<date>. All keyword together with Update:<date>

>will be displayed if you search for it. And you have a chronological list.

>

Sure, that's a good idea!  To have the list sorted correctly,

you should use yy-mm-dd format, right?

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Undocumented .HLP file format

In Sep/Oct 1993 Pete Davis wrote about the format of the

undocumented .HLP file format.  I downloaded the electronically

available files from CompuServ as mentioned in the ariticle.

However, I wish to know if any further information is available,

if so, where can I download it (preferably by ftp but CompuServ

is OK as well)?

Also, it might be appropriate to point to such updated info in

the next FAQ.

Thanx for any help in advance!

Gerald Cheong

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Fred Albrecht (fa38@calvacom.fr) wrote:

: which I am trying to compile using HC31 (3.10.445). The compiler dies on me

: halfway through with an error 5059 (not enough memory). This happens when I

: compile from Windows (WFW 3.1) or from DOS (6.2).

: an icon are inserted through a reference to a bmp file (i.e. not directly

: included in the RTF).

: Compression is turned off in the HPJ file.

If HCP.EXE still does not work, check the sizes of large topics.  Help Compiler reports out of memory if any topic exceeds 64K (to be more precise, if it compiles into more than 64k).  Also make sure that large bitmaps are referenced by

{bmx ...}  (where x is l, r or c) rather than {bmxwd ...} , the latter meaning to embed the bitmap into the topic rather than having it as an internal separate file.

Hope this helps...

Gerald Cheong

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shed grey/green

I am having two problems with shed.exe:

1) It changes my perfect greyscale bmp files into a mixture of greys and

greens;

2)  It reduces the resolution of my bmps compared to what they were in

Corel Paint.

Any suggestions for a fix?

thanks,

Carl

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Current help compiler version

hughes@acc.flint.umich.edu (Steven Hughes) writes:

>HC31 has some *major* bitmap limitations.  If I recall its something

>like 32K for *ALL* bitmaps.  If I don't recall properly, it is

>definetly some quite small number usable with only very small bitmaps.

>This is probably what is eating up all of your memory.

The limitation is per paragraph and doesn't have anything to do with

bitmaps, except that most people don't write nearly that much text

(thankfully!) and so only run into the limit with bitmaps that are

pasted directly into the text.  If you reference the bitmaps with the

{bmX bitmapname} syntax then you will evade the limit.  Your bitmaps

will also be easier to alter and duplicate bitmaps will take less space

in the final help file.

There's a KB article which lists the help compiler's limits.  I don't

recall the number offhand, but it is referenced in the FAQ for this

group.

Thanks,

Rob Caplan

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MediaView (MM Viewer 3.0)

Jon, I heard about it on CompuServe (the Microsoft Windows Multimedia Forum).

A Microsoft employee spoke about it -- I called Microsoft development sales

and they have heard about the impending release, but not for another couple

of months.

Shahid.

JonM (jonm@xmission.com) wrote:

: When I talked to Microsoft about this they indicated there is no

: currently released product called MediaView.  Where did you hear about

: it?

: Jon

: S. N. Shah (snshah@excelsior.nswc.navy.mil) wrote:

: : I am looking for information about Microsoft's new MediaView library. If

: : anyone has any release, purchasing, dealer, or other information, please

: : let me know.

: : Thanks.

: : Shahid.

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I have ForeHelp at home and Windows Help Magican at work. In Help

Magican, you can bring up a list of all currently defined keywords and

select from that list or enter a new keyword. In ForeHelp, the help

program is completely simulated with the test mode without the delay to

compile the help file, so you can check the list there. I just got

ForeHelp the other day and don't recall how the keywords are entered off

the top of my head.

Tandy

On  Tue, 19 Jul 1994 20:23:10 GMT  bruce@spss.com (Bruce Stephenson) writes

>> .... stuff deleted

>>

>> What I need, and haven't yet seen in any tool, is a way to edit

>> the merged keyword list, as seen in WinHelp's Search dialog box,

>> directly. If the keyword "Nifty feature" points to three topics,

>> and the keyword "Nifty features" points to two others, I'd like

>> to correct the problem in one place. As it is, I have to compile

>> the help file, browse through the keyword list, write down the

>> inconsistencies, track them down in our 40 *.rtf files, and correct

>> them on the individual topics' K footnotes.

>>

>> .... stuff deleted

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Bill Bledsoe (bledsobl@agedwards.com) wrote:

--stuff deleted--

: The bottom line:  Print is dead.  Let's face it, and start devising new

: and different methods of delivering information.

: Bill Bledsoe

: TECH WRITER

: AGE

: **********************************************************************

: *  bill's opinions are bill's opinions.  That's it!!!                *

: **********************************************************************

Your ideas are very futuristic and optimistic in terms of actually

happening.  I agree that it is much easier to read many things in a

hypertext format than in print.  But the problem is that much of the

world still hate to use computers.  In my job I notice quite a bit of

apprehension when it comes to having to use them.  So in that respect,

print will not be dead for a long time to come.  And I don't think a

whole lot of people would warm up to the notion of waking up on an early

Sunday morning with a cup of Folger's coffee, sitting on the porch, and

browsing news files on their laptop.  A newspaper may be less efficient,

but there's something warming and intuitively conforting about it.  Face

it, it's kind of a tradition.

Like I said before, I agree that many things are easier to read on

computer, but a paperless society may just be too utopian of an idea.

Also, places (like government) require many things to be in paper

format.  This is the reason I posted the original question of how to

maintain a hypertext and printable document from one source.

---

Brian Samson

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shed grey/green

: Any suggestions for a fix?

Sounds to me like your bitmaps are exceeding the 16 color limit.

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just to throw in my 2 cents to this strange string:

i am a tech writer and enjoy writing hypertext manuals. however, i do

not like to read them. jumping back and forth using hypertext is very

convenient and on-line help is slick, but they're both jarring to my

eyes. and although i use a very good monitor, my eyes still ache

after i've stared at it for several hours, which doesn't happen when

i read print. perhaps i'm biased since i was an english lit major,

but i enjoy lying down & reading a nice book by lake michigan without

having to worry about the angle of a laptop screen, whether its

passive or active matrix, or whether the battery is going to run out

when glanton is about to scalp another group of mexican indians and

swing babies against a rock (i'm reading blood meridian right now).

for me, and for many others, i don't think print is dead, but just

another medium, albeit fairly regressive technologically. who cares

if it is in the end anyway?

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Bill Bledsoe (bledsobl@agedwards.com) wrote:

: I think you all are missing the point on what should be more important

: here.  The printed manual is the equivalent of the newspaper:  A nice

: idea, but the time has come and gone.  Countless research numbers prove

: we have less time to access information and therefore as writers, we

: have less time to deliver it.  We don't have time to troll through a

: printed, passive-voice-ridden manual because the users can't find their

: answers

: fast enough.  We have delt extensively with this problem of attracting

: attention to printed documentation here and we've come to the conclusion

: that it is not practical to deliver critical information via print.  If you

: are sceptical at all of this opinion, please refer to your current circulation

: records for your local newspaper.  You will find readership dropping like

: a rock!  Meanwhile, over 75% of the American population owns a vcr and 96% of

: the American population has a TV.  And we watch the thing an average of over

: 5 hours per day as adults and 7 hours as kids.

: The bottom line:  Print is dead.  Let's face it, and start devising new

: and different methods of delivering information.

I've found that the people who can't be bothered to read manuals are the

same people who can't be bothered to use help files either. And before

you raise it, I quite agree that there are plenty bad help files out

there but I don't think the quality of the help is a major factor in

discouraging people to use it - they just can't be bothered and want

someone to tell them the answer. Maybe there is space for a product which

will do this, but the help file isn't it.

I can't give any statistics for the UK (except that I believe the number of

TVs is comparable and the number of VCRs lower but rising) but I don't

think the printed word is on the way out. Reading off the screen is not

pleasant for any extended period of time and multimedia solutions are

still in their infancy. Book shops still do quite well thankyou, both

"normal" books and technical references, and newspaper sales (admittedly

national, not local) are much higher than in the earlier parts of the

century.

I think this subject is worth discussing though, as it is an important one.

Gavin.

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Lotus AMI Pro??

In article <2uv8na$8p8@infmx.informix.com>,

Larry Rau (Migration Software) <lrau@migration.com> wrote:

>

>>It's honestly a heck of a lot easier to just buy a copy of Word.

>

>...I was afraid of that!

>

>........larry

Don't give up that easily.  There is a file on CICA called HELP30.EXE (or

similar) that contains macros and styles for writing help files in

Ami.  I have used them and they seem to work (mostly).

Marshall

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converting doc to .hlp?

I have heard of an application which converts a manual to a .hlp file. has

anyone experience with such a beast? how well does it work?

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Help using DLL

In article <30gtc6$6md@solaris.cc.vt.edu>

           medapati@birch.ee.vt.edu "Suri Medapati" writes:

>Hi

>

>I am trying to use multimedia TOOLBOOK functions to write an application

>in borland c++ for recording audio files.

>

>The toolbook has a DLL called tbkmm.dll. In toolbook one can create buttons

>and use functions that record on keypresses of the buttons.

>I would like to write a program that uses these functions.

>

>Any suggestions on how to use the DLL libraries to write applications or anyway

> that it can be done.

>

>Any help is greatly appreciated.

Wrong newsgroup. Try "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia". This

group is for discussing "WinHelp" - the Windows on-line Help system.

Chris

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In article <Ct8rnv.Ayq@madge1.demon.co.uk>

           gcheong@madge1.demon.co.uk "Gerald Cheong" writes:

>Could anyone please tell me where I can get WHAT2

>for Word for Windows 2.0 rather than Word 6.0?

The MSDN "Developer's Library" CD-ROM.

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Recompiling with bookmark and annotate

  We have been encountering the problem that winhelp essentially loses

any bookmarks or annotations written when we recompile a new version

of the project.

  Is there a way to maintain the link with the bookmarks and

annotations  from one compile to the next?  If not, is there another

similar tool which can do this?

  Any and all suggestions are appreciated.

Thank You

Rick Wirthlin

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ForeHelp demo in Australia?

        I'm in Australia, and I'm interested in getting the demo version

of ForeHelp. So far all I've seen is a phone number for the vendor. Can

someone please tell me their fax number. Alternatively, is the demo

version on an FTP site? Thasnks in advance.

                          Gareth.Bull@cc.monash.edu.au

                       Customer Services, Computer Centre

                       Monash University, Clayton Campus.

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shed grey/green

In article <30lui5$gb@mailer.fsu.edu>,

Peter S. Lakanen <lakanen@otto.cmr.fsu.edu> wrote:

>

>: Any suggestions for a fix?

>

>

>Sounds to me like your bitmaps are exceeding the 16 color limit.

>

>

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I am not sure exactly what you mean by "exceeding the 16 color limit."

They are all greyscale images, with 16 categories in the palette going

from white to black. In PaintBrush and CorelPaint, they are nice greyscale

bmps with good sharpness. When I bring them up in the Hotspot Editor, they

lose some of their resolution, the blacks appear to be breaking up (into

spotty greys), and a green tinge is added, especially around the whites.

I have to save them in Shed.exe in order to avoid the 'postage stamp'

effect that was discussed in this Newsgroup a few weeks ago.  So when they

emerge in my win help file, I get low resolution greyscale bmps with

spotty greys/blacks with an added green tinge added to the whites.  Looks

terrible.  What can I do to avoid this problem?  I tried avoiding

Shed.exe, but then my bmps appear in the WinHelp files as tiny icons,

despite they size in external programs, and attempts to resize.

thanks

Carl

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Determining current font in a Win application

We want to build a utility for Windows and it would be convenient if we

could determine the currently selected font of running Windows

applications - anyone got any ideas how to do this?

Thanks,

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WHAT2

In article <Ct8rnv.Ayq@madge1.demon.co.uk>, gcheong@madge1.demon.co.uk

(Gerald Cheong) writes:

>Could anyone please tell me where I can get WHAT2

>for Word for Windows 2.0 rather than Word 6.0?

>Thanx for any advice!

It's available for FTP from ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the directory

win3/programr

(I think that's the directory) filename is WHAT.ZIP (WinHelp Authoring

Tools)

and it's what you need for Word v2

brmcdaniel@aol.com

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converting doc to .hlp?

In article <TNT.94Jul21151606@netcom.com>, <tnt@netcom.com> writes:

> I have heard of an application which converts a manual to a .hlp

file. has

> anyone experience with such a beast? how well does it work?

robohelp does this very thing (of course it costs $400). in an

existing or new help project you select Import Documentation and tell

robohelp which file you want sucked in. it then automatically

corrects hanging indents, turns bitmaps into separate files, turns

certain headings (Heading 1 style, for instance) into separate help

topics and then saves it all as an .rtf file. you have to do this for

individual .docs. very easy to do and sort of fascinating to watch (i

 believe all the adjustments are word macros, or wordbasic, but i'm

not sure)

forehelp apparently does the same thing, though i haven't tried it

yet.

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converting doc to .hlp?

HELLLP! (available as HELLLP.EXE on Compuserve and as HELLLP23.ZIP in

SimTel, Hensa, Cica and Garbo collections in the net (do an Archie on

HELLLP)) will also do this. It's shareware, registration $20, $30 or $40

depending on location and options.  HELLLP! will allow you to choose the

heading style which will be presented as proposed topics. You get to

confirm or alter, with the option of editing the title and automatically

chosen keywords.

Of course you can also pick and edit your own topics, the pick-by-style is

just a shortcut.

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Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

I'm about to start writing a manual/help file that I know will be

translated into at least two languages.  To help keeping the

translations current, I would like to put them all in one file, so

that I can mark changes/need for retranslation as new text is added or

old text changed.

  This seems to be possible using the BuildTags (make a tag for each

language and mark each translation with the corresponding tag), but is

it actually practical?

  Does any of the authoring tools provide support for tracking that

translations are up to date?

  As new program versions are released, I would like the end user to

have an easy way to find out all changes in the manual/help files, so

that they can update their knowledge on the software without having to

read *everything* again.  Is there a good way to do this?

(If we find some good answers to the above, it might be a good idea to

add them to the FAQ).

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Help hierarchies

sascrh@norman.unx.sas.com (Chris Hemedinger) writes:

>In article <obrien-james.98.0018AA71@yale.edu>, obrien-james@yale.edu (James A. O'Brien) writes:

>|> Can anyone give me a brief generic description of how to implement a help

>|> hierarchy in a given topic window?  E.g. you start with several jumps visible.

>|> Clicking on one of them expands a list of jumps as sub-items in an indented

>|> list beneath them.  I guess you could just do it as a jump to a different

>|> topic, in which the expansion is present.  However, in most help files I've

>|> seen, each jump in such a page is independently expandable.  This would very

>|> quickly add up to a large number of combinations, so I suspect it's not done

>|> this way.

>It is done that way.  At least as near as I can figure.

Yep, I did it that way too.  It works fine.  Looks and feels

just like an outliner.  Now all we need to do is convince MS

to include native support for Word's outline view that can be

hotlinked.  It is quite a pain to ensure edits to topic lists

are changed across all expanded and collapsed views.

cheers,

George Mah

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In article <30m3e5$kou@news.acns.nwu.edu> chou@n5145.notis.com writes:

>

>just to throw in my 2 cents to this strange string:

>

>i am a tech writer and enjoy writing hypertext manuals. however, i do

>not like to read them. jumping back and forth using hypertext is very

>convenient and on-line help is slick, but they're both jarring to my

>eyes. and although i use a very good monitor, my eyes still ache

I agree that paper books are much easier on the eyes than

video screens, but far too many people are unimaginative and

use black text on a white background.  Try something like YELLOW

or CYAN on midnight dark blue and it might be less fatiguing.

>after i've stared at it for several hours, which doesn't happen when

>i read print. perhaps i'm biased since i was an english lit major,

>but i enjoy lying down & reading a nice book by lake michigan without

>having to worry about the angle of a laptop screen, whether its

>passive or active matrix, or whether the battery is going to run out

>when glanton is about to scalp another group of mexican indians and

>swing babies against a rock (i'm reading blood meridian right now).

!?!?!?  Sounds like it's a good time for the battery to go dead

Doesn't sound like a particularly nice book.

>for me, and for many others, i don't think print is dead, but just

>another medium, albeit fairly regressive technologically. who cares

>if it is in the end anyway?

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WinHlp-L Mailgroup. Where do I sign up?

TIM ROBERTS (tjr@ac.dal.ca) wrote:

: I would like to join the WinHlp-L mailgroup. Where do I send my

: request?

- To subscribe to the WINHLP-L list, send e-mail to:

LISTSERV@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA

- The contents of your e-mail should be simply:

SUB WINHLP-L

- To unsubscribe, send e-mail to the same address with the

contents:

SIGNOFF WINHLP-L

- To post a message to the WINHLP-L list, send e-mail to:

WINHLP-L@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA

This is actually in the WinHelp FAQ, which contains lots of other

useful info as well.

BTW, I suggest a FAQ reminder be posted more frequently so that

people get to read it before they post questions to the group.

Gerald Cheong

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Request for Criticism

I do agree with Gavin's point of view.  My personal opinion is that

manuals and on-line help are very different media, the former being

appropriate for learning stuff while the latter is more suitable for

locating information quickly while working in front of the computer.

I really do hate reading more than a page on the screen.

Gavin Greig (ggreig@mcs.dundee.ac.uk) wrote:

: I can't give any statistics for the UK (except that I believe the number of

: TVs is comparable and the number of VCRs lower but rising) but I don't

: think the printed word is on the way out. Reading off the screen is not

: pleasant for any extended period of time and multimedia solutions are

: still in their infancy. Book shops still do quite well thankyou, both

: "normal" books and technical references, and newspaper sales (admittedly

: national, not local) are much higher than in the earlier parts of the

: century.

: I think this subject is worth discussing though, as it is an important one.

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Hotspot Editor Resolution Problem

When I import my .bmp images into Win Help Files via the Hotspot Editor

(Shed.exe), my blacks break up into spotty greys, a green tinge hangs over

the image, and the resolution looks reduced.  These were originally 16

greyscale images.  They look fine in Paint Brush and Corel Paint.  To avoid

the postage stamp problem, I have no choice but to process them via

shed.exe.  Can anyone help me solve this problem.  I am obeying the 16

colour limit rule, so I realize these limitations.

Thanks

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Visual Help?

Someone just told me about Visual Help, which I'm hoping doesn't

need MSWord.  Is it on the net?  If I get a copy I'll try to post it

on a good ftpsite.  Can someone tell me about this program?

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Let's share .rtf and .rc files

I'm starting my help file by re-editing the helpex.* files in the

Borland 3.1 package.  This should work fine......I'm hoping that perhaps

people can post their .rtf and other files and we can use them as

templetes (since helpex is a little funky).  This seems to be the

best way to make help files, to just backspace and re-type your own

text.  Any comments?

   I would like to find some rtf and rc's that I could use for this

purpose.  Perhaps this is the best way to go for those who don't have

Word 6.....

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Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

Michael Heggen (twisted@agora.rdrop.com) wrote:

: I have seen a fair bit of discussion in the past couple of weeks about various

: WinHelp authoring aids, but no one seems to have mentioned the tool I have

: been using, so I thought I would bring it up to you all.

: ForeHelp provides a complete environment to take full advantage of the WinHelp

: engine. It is a WYSIWYG hypertext environment. So, you see the topics as they

: will actually appear, including jumps, popups, and hypergraphics. This, to me,

: is the biggest selling point.

: It includes full support for all WinHelp functions, including more advanced

: areas such as macros, and secondary windows. Creating context-sensitive help

: systems is a dream with this tool.

: You can import straight ASCII text or RTF files, as well as numerous graphics

: formats. If the RTF file already includes WinHelp codes, it honors those.

: You can also use its word processing capabilties to generate a help system

: completely from scratch. The word processor includes a spell checker and

: thesaurus, as well as paragraph styles to make formatting much easier. One of

: the most powerful features is the advanced Find and Replace function, which

: allows creation of macros, jumps, and popups automatically.

: As you work through your project, you can also test out your help file from

: within ForeHelp without creating an HLP file using the Test feature. This

: feature does not include support for more advanced help functions such as

: macros or secondary windows, but it is a big help in getting a quick look at

: the flow of things.

: Other useful features include: a built-in hypergraphic editor (just

: double-click on an image); a Backup command that will stuff your entire

: project, baggage and all, into one ForeHelp backup file for easy transfer or

: archival; a utility called Grapher that creates an hierarchal outline of all

: topics and their connections; and, a utility called Reporter that prints out

: reports of the properties of selected topics.

: Your ForeHelp project can be navigated in the same manner as WinHelp itself.

: You can use the jumps and popups you have defined to actually jump. You can

: move to the next or previous topic in a browse sequence. You can use Back,

: Contents, and History, just like WinHelp. Additionally, you can use the Goto

: list to jump directly to any topic, target, or alias in the project. And if

: all that isn't enough, you can use a utility called the Navigator to move

: through your project graphically.

: ForeHelp generates RTF files on demand and will check for common errors as

: it's building the RTF file. If it finds errors in the build stage, you can

: jump directly to them to fix them without having to figure out which topic is

: number 432. After the build, ForeHelp runs the RTF file through HCP.EXE, with

: the same capability to jump directly to error-affected topics.

: It does NOT require Word for Windows (thankfully), or anything else besides

: Windows and a Microsoft help compiler.

: I used it to create the context-sensitive help file for a client's Visual

: Basic custom control suite (MediaKnife/VBX by Media Architects, Portland,

: Oregon). I took the reference section of the manual (which was, unfortunately,

: done in Word for Windows 6.0) -- about 140 pages -- and imported it into

: ForeHelp. Unlike Word, ForeHelp was quick and responsive, even though it was

: dealing with several megabytes of data. The same data consistently brought my

: 486/66 to its knees with Word 6.0. The project went very smoothly.

: I did find two minor bugs in ForeHelp. When I called ForeFront tech support,

: they were helpful and knowledgable. One of the bugs had just been fixed, so

: they sent me a new version the same day. The other has not been fixed yet, but

: it is pretty minor (they assure me that it will be fixed soon, though). Every

: time I have called ForeFront for any reason, they have been friendly and

: helpful. Their tech support department even followed up to make sure eveything

: was fine!

: ForeHelp is available from ForeFront Software, Boulder, Colorado. It costs

: about $400. A fully-functional demo is also available for free. The demo can

: produce a working HLP file, but it will not support more than ten topics.

: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

: Michael Heggen              Twisted Systems

: mike@twisted.rain.com      Portland, Oregon

: "From twisted minds come twisted products."

     Can we get an address, net site, or ftpsite for the demo?

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Request for Criticism

Brian Samson (basamson@infinet.com) wrote:

: Bill Bledsoe (bledsobl@agedwards.com) wrote:

: --stuff deleted--

: : The bottom line:  Print is dead.  Let's face it, and start devising new

: : and different methods of delivering information.

: : Bill Bledsoe

: : TECH WRITER

: : AGE

: : **********************************************************************

: : *  bill's opinions are bill's opinions.  That's it!!!                *

: : **********************************************************************

: Your ideas are very futuristic and optimistic in terms of actually

: happening.  I agree that it is much easier to read many things in a

: hypertext format than in print.  But the problem is that much of the

: world still hate to use computers.  In my job I notice quite a bit of

: apprehension when it comes to having to use them.  So in that respect,

: print will not be dead for a long time to come.  And I don't think a

: whole lot of people would warm up to the notion of waking up on an early

: Sunday morning with a cup of Folger's coffee, sitting on the porch, and

: browsing news files on their laptop.  A newspaper may be less efficient,

: but there's something warming and intuitively conforting about it.  Face

: it, it's kind of a tradition.

: Like I said before, I agree that many things are easier to read on

: computer, but a paperless society may just be too utopian of an idea.

: Also, places (like government) require many things to be in paper

: format.  This is the reason I posted the original question of how to

: maintain a hypertext and printable document from one source.

: ---

: Brian Samson

: Strategic Technology Integrators, Inc.

: basamson@infinet.com

: or basamson@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu

     Print will be dead when the "laptop" is invented that has about

8 pages which are actually computer screens which can be flipped and

manipulated like a book.  Its coming, I realize >this< is very

futuristic, but I've thought about it for sometime and it will be

the thing that really kills print.  We have to make the computer

screen flexible......comments? awards? grants?    :)

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Visual Help?

Robert Pearson (telical@eskimo.com) wrote:

: Someone just told me about Visual Help, which I'm hoping doesn't

: need MSWord.  Is it on the net?  If I get a copy I'll try to post it

: on a good ftpsite.  Can someone tell me about this program?

You can find Visual Help on CICA or the many mirro sites. It is very good

for what it does.

The unregistered version allows creation of a five topic .hlp file which

is plenty to try it out. It does NOT require Word, although it does

generate an RTF file which can be brought into Word and edited there. As

one who had never written a .hlp file before trying Visual Help I found

it to be very easy to learn and use. I've since written a number of .hlp

files and all are on par with any written in the more sophisticated and

more expensive programs. Visual Help costs $49 US. That's a fraction of

the cost of RoboHelp or DoctoHelp. AND you need no copy of WORD. It's a

bargain. There are other such programs out there now. I've tried a couple

and they look pretty good. Visual Help was the only one around when I

started. Give CICA a look and you'll find them all in there. Good Luck!

StanO

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What is the address and phone no. of forefront software?

Thanks

Carl

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WHAT6.???

I found a .hlp file which had all kinds of information on the

Windows Help Authoring Tool, called WHAT6, which is purported to be

a Word 6 template for writing Windows Help.  It was a very interesting

little document, but made no mention as to where i could find such a beast.

Does anyone have any comments? I am writing a lot of documentation and

specifications, and I am constantly cross-referencing, So I think I want to

start using hypertext, and the Windows Help seems pretty standard, although

I have never written a .hlp file.

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VB And Help Topics.

Hello. I am have ing a problem understanding the helpContextID from

visual basic. I know with the way I have created help files, I want to go

to Topic0004. What are the declarations I need, and how do I go to this

topic. I can induce a search, and bring up the contents, but how do I go

to a topic. Also, any more undocumented tips and tricks should be made

into a help file for reference. Instead of just naming programs to write

help files, to actually putting tips and trick together.

By the way, no I couldn't find this in the FAQ..... (G)

=============================================================================

--Rick Ratayczak	|

--Disk And Desk Software Inc.	|

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--Milwaukee, WI 53207-1604	|

--Internet: RRAT@EXECPC.COM	|

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Let's share .rtf and .rc files

In article <CtF4vB.27C@eskimo.com> telical@eskimo.com (Robert Pearson) writes:

>I'm starting my help file by re-editing the helpex.* files in the

>Borland 3.1 package.  This should work fine......I'm hoping that perhaps

>people can post their .rtf and other files and we can use them as

>templetes (since helpex is a little funky).  This seems to be the

>best way to make help files, to just backspace and re-type your own

>text.  Any comments?

Yeah, I sure have!  You'll either go blind or insane trying

to create help files by manually editing/creating .rtf files!

RTF is a 'write-only' format!

Seriously, IMO best/simplest way to create help files is by using

MS Word.  You don't have MS Word?  Buy it - it's great.

If you must create .rtf files without using Word, then at least

get some of those shareware/commercial apps to help you build it.

>   I would like to find some rtf and rc's that I could use for this

>purpose.  Perhaps this is the best way to go for those who don't have

>Word 6.....

Sound pretty awkward to me.

You should find someone who has Word and sit down for 10 minutes

and see how easy it is to do help files.  All you need to know is

how to do double underscore, single underscore, hidden text and

footnotes.  I'm not kidding - it's dirt simple.

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MICROSOFT Help Authoring Tool: fix for WORD4Win 6.0 required.

MICROSOFT's Help Authoring Project software does not run with version

6.0 (nor 6.0a) of Word for Windows: "Undefined Dialog Field".

How to fix it?

Thank you.

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                                  | Code too soon and debug forever

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Robert Pearson (telical@eskimo.com) wrote:

: I'm starting my help file by re-editing the helpex.* files in the

: Borland 3.1 package.  This should work fine......I'm hoping that perhaps

: people can post their .rtf and other files and we can use them as

: templetes (since helpex is a little funky).  This seems to be the

: best way to make help files, to just backspace and re-type your own

: text.  Any comments?

:    I would like to find some rtf and rc's that I could use for this

: purpose.  Perhaps this is the best way to go for those who don't have

: Word 6.....

Buy Word 6, get Microsoft's (unsupported) WHAT (Windows Help

Athoring Template), and make your own from scratch.  It'll

work out better that way.  You don't have to delete pages and

pages of someone elses help file.

WHAT is on the MSDN CD (at least its on pre-release 2).

It is a set of macros that add menu items to Word for

creating help files.  I'm using it to create a help file

for a small Windows game.  It works ok.  It does have a few

bugs though that are a tad annoying.

I'm not sure what Microsoft's position is on distributing

the file.  If it is considered public domain, I can mail

you a copy.

Steven Hughes

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In article <30t4e5$gkr@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>,

Carl Cuneo <cuneo@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> wrote:

>

>What is the address and phone no. of forefront software?

>

>Thanks

>Carl

>

>

>--

>Carl Cuneo <cuneo@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>

Forefront                         (voice)  303-499-9181

5171 Eldorado Springs Drive         (fax)  303-494-5446

Boulder, CO   80303               (order)  1-800-357-8507

e-mail:  support@ff.com

Compuserve:  70631,24

limited support for the demo:  (303) 499-9181, ext. 7

<< judging by the number of ways of contacting them, they are a

   happenin', 90's company!  :-)   >>

-- Peter         kasaty@ctsnet.cts.com     (San Diego, Calif., USA)

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Determining current font in a Win application

In article <CtC39u.FBq@ucc.su.OZ.AU> phil@biox () writes:

>We want to build a utility for Windows and it would be convenient if we

>could determine the currently selected font of running Windows

>applications - anyone got any ideas how to do this?

You can retrieve the font used in statics/edit controls/listboxes etc.

using WM_GETFONT. You've got a problem when you want the font of a

non-control, the paint handler might do CreateFont/SelectObject whenever

it's called.

If you do get the handle, I recommend *not* to store it.

Since the app is thinking it's responsable for the resource usage,

it might decide to delete it whenever it suits.

So, when you get it, use it immediately and try finding it again

whenever you need it again.

If you must store it, call GetObject and CreateFontIndirect

to get a copy of the font.

>Thanks,

>Phil.

Why did you crosspost this to c.o.m-w.p.tools and c.o.m-w.p.winhelp ?

c.o.m-w.p.misc is just fine.

BTW: your reply address is incorrectly set (See topline).

Contact your sysadmin.

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Steven Hughes (hughes@acc.flint.umich.edu) wrote:

: Robert Pearson (telical@eskimo.com) wrote:

: : I'm starting my help file by re-editing the helpex.* files in the

: : Borland 3.1 package.  This should work fine......I'm hoping that perhaps

: : people can post their .rtf and other files and we can use them as

: : templetes (since helpex is a little funky).  This seems to be the

: : best way to make help files, to just backspace and re-type your own

: : text.  Any comments?

: :    I would like to find some rtf and rc's that I could use for this

: : purpose.  Perhaps this is the best way to go for those who don't have

: : Word 6.....

: Buy Word 6, get Microsoft's (unsupported) WHAT (Windows Help

: Athoring Template), and make your own from scratch.  It'll

: work out better that way.  You don't have to delete pages and

: pages of someone elses help file.

: WHAT is on the MSDN CD (at least its on pre-release 2).

: It is a set of macros that add menu items to Word for

: creating help files.  I'm using it to create a help file

: for a small Windows game.  It works ok.  It does have a few

: bugs though that are a tad annoying.

: I'm not sure what Microsoft's position is on distributing

: the file.  If it is considered public domain, I can mail

: you a copy.

: Steven Hughes

Thanks Steve, if you find out before I, please e-mail it to me, just

in case I get Word, or access to a friend's copy.

   Also, regarding this, I'm finding that if you copy the helpex.rtf,

or any rtf....that is, copy it from the edit menu, and paste it in MSWrite,

and then copy it to a new rtf editor screen, you can then just put in

page breaks and block the right sections......I tried to compile it

and I got another kind of error: it compiled ok without any error's

but there was no jump's, and only my contents topic would show,

any clues?

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Visual Help?

Galen Raben (galenr@gr.hp.com) wrote:

: Robert Pearson (telical@eskimo.com) wrote:

: : Someone just told me about Visual Help, which I'm hoping doesn't

: : need MSWord.  Is it on the net?  If I get a copy I'll try to post it

: : on a good ftpsite.  Can someone tell me about this program?

: No, Visual Help doesn't require MSWord, it has its own built-in editor.

: It does create .RTF files that you can use elsewhere though.

: A shareware demo "try-out" version that will let you create 5 topics

: is available on ftp.cica.indiana.edu as well as number of other sites.

: The registered version is costs about US $49, which is a bargain

: considering the many other programs selling for $150 and up that have

: less functionality. BTW, I have no connection with VH other than being

: a fairly happy customer...

: Visual Help is almost WYSIWYG - you drag the various components of your

: help system to a topic page and drop them where you want. You can use

: the built-in editor to enter the text for the topic or you can import

: them from elsewhere (I usually use the clipboard). You can also import

: bitmaps and place them on the topic page. The topic pages look very

: much like they do in the final help file (I've noted some differences

: in wrapping text around bitmaps but the end result is more pleasing in

: the actual help file than the page in Visual Help!). Links to other topics

: can be created from a "jump object", keywords, or from bitmaps.

: I do have a few complaints with VH, but overall I am very pleased with it!

: One of my complaints is that jump keywords are either global in scope or

: limited to a single topic. You can't do something in between without editing

: the .RTF file by hand (BTW Write works nicely for some quick surgery).

: Another gripe I have is that (as far as I know) VH can't rearrange the order

: of the browse sequence, you are stuck with the order in which you created

: the topics. (BTW if I'm all wet here and somebody knows how to change the

: browse sequence, I'd appreciate a hand, or at least some e-mail!!).

: Hope this helps...

: - Galen -

:  *        .  +       .    .   Galen Raben

:         .      .  *   .     Greeley, CO. USA

:   '.  -- )--     .        CompuServe: 73717,510

: .              '     Internet: galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com

:       *    .      +  Author, "PlanetWatch for Windows"

   Hi Galen,

            thanks for the words on VH.  I got it yesterday and have

spent about an hour with it, while multitasking my brain with another

help program and fooling around with my rtf editor.  Frankly, I didn't

find its lack of a program screen very intuitive.  I'll probably be

eating my words after figuring out how to use it, but I do have to

say that I'm not really a professional or educated programmer, and

that I'm really hoping to get this to work.  If I was to say that I

can't see the step between my ascii file with all my info, and the

contents topic file and its related topic sub-screens, could you point

me to a first stage?  Do I copy my, say, table of contents and drop

them to ...... ?  What object am I dropping my clipboards contents onto?

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ForeHelp demo in Australia?

bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au wrote:

:         I'm in Australia, and I'm interested in getting the demo version

: of ForeHelp. So far all I've seen is a phone number for the vendor. Can

: someone please tell me their fax number. Alternatively, is the demo

: version on an FTP site? Thasnks in advance.

:                           Gareth.Bull@cc.monash.edu.au

:                        Customer Services, Computer Centre

:                        Monash University, Clayton Campus.

  This seems to be the pressing question for a lot of us in this newsgroup.

Any ftpsite is what I want to know.  So far, Visual Help looks pretty good

for the money and limited resources it needs, I haven't seen anything

that much like it it, and now I'm about to check out helllp......the

most inexpensive and also doesn't demand a lot of resources (VB, Word, etc.).

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HELLLP?

Well, after trying to find this file I thought it might be a joke,

kinda like an exclamation.  It didn't come up by doing an archie

on helllp like the author suggested.  But when I did an archie on

the whole file name, helllp23.zip, it popped up:archie helllp23.zip

Host freebsd.cdrom.com

    Location: /.2/SimTel/msdos/windows3

           FILE -r--r--r--     363520  Jun 20 17:09  helllp23.zip

    Location: /.5/cica/winword

           FILE -r--r--r--     363520  Jun 19 23:11  helllp23.zip

    This sight has been constantly busy for a long, long time.  I'm

hoping that if it is on the other sites mentioned, somebody can tell

me where, cause I didn't find it......

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Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

Archive-name: ms-windows/faqprg.how-to

Last-modified: 1994-03-29

Related-archives: ms-windows/faqprg.asc,ms-windows/faqprg.zip

Last-FAQ-Update: Mar 24 03:00

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains how you can

obtain a copy of the Microsoft Windows Programmer FAQ (Frequently Asked

Questions) list.  The Windows Programmer FAQ is an extensive compilation of

Windows software development facts, tips, techniques, and other useful

information.  The FAQ is about 5800 lines long (in ASCII format) or 140K (as

a ZIP archive of a Windows Help file).

The Windows NT FAQ, authored by Adam Hamilton, is currently only available

in ASCII format.

All updates to the Windows FAQ and Windows Programmer FAQs are posted to the

following two newsgroups:

comp.binaries.ms-windows	WinHelp format

comp.os.ms-windows.announce	ASCII text format

The updates are usually 2-3 months apart, depending on the amount of new

information and the maintainer's workload.

You can also FTP the FAQs from the following sites:

    ftp.nimh.nih.gov	156.40.186.8	/pub/win3/FAQ

    wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4	/usenet/comp.binaries.ms-windows/faqs

    ftp.metrics.com	198.133.164.1	/faq

The FAQs will have filenames in the format of FAQWINxx.ZIP (Windows),

FAQPRGxx.zip (Windows Programmer), and FAQWNTxx.zip where xx is the version

number.  Please do not abuse these sites; limit your FTP activity to time

outside business hours (8 PM EST through 9 AM EST, or 0100 GMT through 1400

GMT).

If you wish to retrieve the FAQs using Gopher, you can locate them at

gopher.nimh.nih.gov.

If the news postings have expired on your site, and you have no FTP access,

you can obtain it using the decwrl ftp mail server.  For instructions, send

a mail message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with a body containing simply:

       help

You will receive a full set of instructions by return mail.

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HELLLP?

Robert Pearson (telical@eskimo.com) wrote:

:     This sight has been constantly busy for a long, long time.  I'm

: hoping that if it is on the other sites mentioned, somebody can tell

: me where, cause I didn't find it......

Try oak.oakland.edu under /pub/msdos/windows3/helllp23.zip

Oakland is very easy to get into, and Helllp23 is a very useful and very

easy-to-use Help authoring tool.  Good luck!

---

Brian Samson

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Winhelp FAQ

Is there any faq for this group?

Please, if you can, answer via email, since I'm not receiving all the articles

for any newsgroup due to server malfunctions. (I'm sure that the local

administrator will fix it soon -- Oh, really I don't think so :)

Thanks

Erich Reimberg N.

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256 Colours Under WinHelp?

Can anyone tell me where to find an ftp site and the file and subdirectory

where I can locate the utility for managing 256 colours in win help files?

 As everyone might know by now, WinHelp is limited to 16 colours.

Thanks

Carl

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HELLLP?

You can also get HELLLP! from Compuserve.  GO WINSDK and download

HELLLP.EXE (a self-extractor) from the WinHelp library section.

HELLLP23.ZIP is also in the GARBO collection and some BBS's.

The SimTel collection which you referred to is mirrored on many other

sites.

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 HHHH.    HH: HH:    HH: HHH. HH: HH: HHHHHH:

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 HHHHHH. HHHHHHH:    HHHHHHH: HHHHHH: HHHHHH:

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Object containers/reference embedding.

OK, lets say I want to embedd or call be reference an object

in a help file.

I can embedd a sound file, playing it when I double-click on the

word. I can embedd or call be reference a bitmap or metafile.

But what if I want to call an executable when I double click on

a word.

(What I want to be able to do is use the help file as a training

guide, playing movie files (with lotus' screencam), calling

up associated applications (like DOCs or TXTs), launching

applications, anything. In short, calling the WinExec function

for any Associated file.

Any ideas?

Chris Chubb -- cchubb@ida.org

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Word 2.0 Converts RTF, but ugly

I pulled the MS-VC++ startup .RTF file it created for my application.

Boy is it ugly.

The footnotes are not numbered and I can not make them so, it seems.

Word shows lots of strange text styles, but I don't see them used

anywhere, as everything looks like it is defined Normal.

In lieu of a current FAQ that I can find here, can anyone offer helpful

hints for a green help file creator? Please e-mail tips to me. Thanks.

Gripes: The footnotes are truly bizarre. "#" "#K$" etc.

        The jump text and hidden text aren't given a style, so should I

        define one to make it easier to add stuff?

        What does/does not get put into the .RTF file. Should I maintain

        both a .DOC and the current .RTF?

-Jeff

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Word 2.0 Converts RTF, but ugly

In article <313qo4$9ud@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, <jtk@prairienet.org>

writes:

> I pulled the MS-VC++ startup .RTF file it created for my

application.

> Boy is it ugly.

> The footnotes are not numbered and I can not make them so, it

seems.

> Word shows lots of strange text styles, but I don't see them used

> anywhere, as everything looks like it is defined Normal.

> In lieu of a current FAQ that I can find here, can anyone offer

helpful

> hints for a green help file creator? Please e-mail tips to me.

Thanks.

>

> Gripes: The footnotes are truly bizarre. "#" "#K$" etc.

>         The jump text and hidden text aren't given a style, so

should I

>         define one to make it easier to add stuff?

>         What does/does not get put into the .RTF file. Should I

maintain

>         both a .DOC and the current .RTF?

i assume you're trying to author a help system by your footnotes.

unfortunately for you, the footnotes are supposed to look like how

you describe them:

# is the context string for a topic

$ is the title footnote fora topic

K is the keyword footnote for a topic (so that you can serach for a

topic by key word--to do this, separate your individual words by a

semicolon)

* is your build tag footnote

+ is your browse footnote

i dont' know if they're supposed to go in a certain order--i'm sure

someone else can tell you that.

if i were you, i'd assign a footnote style. reading in courier, or

whatever your default is is a pain in the ass. give it a helvetica

font or someting and make it big. as for the other styles, you don't

need styles, but as most manual writers know, it is a hell of a lot

easier.

as ofr the .rtf v. .doc thing, i would write in .doc and save as both

 .doc and .rtf. this is only because i use robohelp and robohelp does

this automatically because there are some things that go in .rtf

files (random / marks, etc) that i have never dealt with.

c

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In article <CtJ2sv.DCs@eskimo.com> telical@eskimo.com (Robert Pearson) writes:

>bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au wrote:

>:         I'm in Australia, and I'm interested in getting the demo version

>: of ForeHelp. So far all I've seen is a phone number for the vendor. Can

>: someone please tell me their fax number. Alternatively, is the demo

>: version on an FTP site? Thasnks in advance.

>:                           Gareth.Bull@cc.monash.edu.au

>

>  This seems to be the pressing question for a lot of us in this newsgroup.

>Any ftpsite is what I want to know.  So far, Visual Help looks pretty good

I called ForeFront just now and here is what they told me:

1-800-357-8507 or

1-303-499-9181 (voice)

1-303-494-5446 (fax)

They do not have their demo available anywhere on

the Internet, but you can get it from CompuServe

or by calling/faxing them. On CompuServe, GO CIS:WINSDK

and look in the WinHelp forum. The filename is FOREDE.ZIP.

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ForeHelp demo in Australia?

There is a file called forehelp.zip on the ftp site:

   monu6.cc.monash.edu.au: /pub/win3/demo

This might just be the elusive ForeHelp demo!

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INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

Archive-name: ms-windows/newsgrp.guide

Last-modified: 1994-05-29

This is a regularly scheduled weekly posting, which explains the purpose

of the usenet newsgroups for Microsoft Windows.  Please follow these

guidelines when posting your articles, and make life easier for all of

us.

These are the current Windows newsgroups:

GENERAL:

    comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   Comparisons and arguments about Windows &

  Windows NT vs. other operating systems

    comp.os.ms-windows.announce   MODERATED.  Announcements and news about

  Windows applications, drivers, events etc.

    comp.os.ms-windows.setup      Questions and problems with setting up

  and configuring Windows.

    comp.os.ms-windows.video      Video display cards, drivers and monitors

  for use with Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.misc       All other Windows discussions except

  advocacy with other operating systems.

APPLICATIONS:

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm       Communications and fax applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial  Financial applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities  Utilities, desktops and accessories

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc  Word processing and desktop publishing

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc       Miscellaneous Windows & NT applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.apps            [Superceded by apps.misc]

NETWORKING:

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip  TCP/IP-based networking for

  Windows, includign NFS and apps

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows Windows' native networking: WFWG,

  NT, NTAS and LAN Manager

    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc    All other networks, such as Netware,

  Banyan Vines and LANtastic

WINDOWS NT:

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup   Setting up and configuring Windows NT and

  Windows NT Advanced Server

    comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc    All other Windows NT-specific discussions

  except programming and advocacy

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     VBXs, OCXs and dialogs

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     Windows 3.1, NT and Chicago

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics   Graphics and GDI programming in

     Windows

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     threads and IPC in Windows

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     video applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks   Network-specific application

     development for Windows

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole        Creating OLE, COM and DDE-based

     applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools      Windows development tools, class

     libraries and compilers

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32      Developing for the Win32 API

     (including NT and Win32s)

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     Viewer files and applications

    comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc       All other Windows programming and

     development discussions

OTHER RELATED GROUPS:

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  on Windows and MS-DOS.

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    comp.lang.pascal   The language itself; not appropriate for Windows topics

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    crossposting whenever possible. This makes it easier for everyone

    to find the information they are looking for without wading through

    irrelevant articles.

    Second, please do not get involved in arguments about Windows vs.

    OS/2 vs. Macintosh vs. NeXTSTEP *except* in the .advocacy group.

    Don't post any comparison or argument, and if someone else posts one

    -- don't post a followup! Ignore this flamebait, and help increase

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    command at the newsgroup level in rn, trn and strn.  To unsubscribe,

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    To subscribe to a LISTSERV mailing list, send a mail message to the

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    body "UNSUBSCRIBE listname" or "SIGNOFF listname".

WINDOWS FAQS:

    The Windows FAQs are available by anonymous ftp from ftp.metrics.com and

    other sites; see the companion posting "How to get ..." posted simulta-

    neously with this one for further details.

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    Microsoft also maintains an ftp site (ftp.microsoft.com) with drivers,

    patches and utilities on it for all of Microsoft's operating systems,

    including Windows, Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT.

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    If you have questions about these guidelines, you can email to Tom

    Haapanen (maintainer of the FAQ, tomh@metrics.com) or Sean Graham

    (moderator of the .announce group, sgraham@shiloh.nimh.nih.gov).

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Regarding the WinHelp FAQ

I FTPed the FAQ file a few days ago from

quasar.sba.dal.ca

text version:     /www/doc

.HLP version:     /www/hlp

Thanks to several of you for e-mailing me.

Roy

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Avi

Is it possible to run avi files within a win help file and if so how do you

do it?

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Object containers/reference embedding.

To call another application from inside your help file you need to use the

ExecProgram() macro, with the command line you would use from the RUN

command as the parameter, in quotes.

Support for this is built in with HELLLP!, available on many BBSs, CIS (GO

WINSDK) and in the SimTel collection.

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AVI Hotspot Editor?

AVI Hotspot Editor(AVIHED.EXE)

where can I find it?

Thanks in advance.

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In article <313nts$nhb@dmsoproto.ida.org>, cchubb@ida.org (Chris Chubb) says:

>(What I want to be able to do is use the help file as a training

>guide, playing movie files (with lotus' screencam), calling

>up associated applications (like DOCs or TXTs), launching

>applications, anything. In short, calling the WinExec function

>for any Associated file.

I'm brand-new at this, but I was wondering how the MS Word 6.0

Easter Egg Screen is implemented.  Perhaps it could provide insights.

Roy

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Intercepting messages to winhelp

I have what I sincerely hope to be a simple question.

I am wondering how easy/difficult it would be to intercept

messages destined for the windows help engine for possible

redirection.  It seems to me that some "spy"-like critter

could hang out checking messages.

Requirements:

1) Redirect messages headed for the help engine to another target.

2) Run without user knowledge or interference.

3) Run without significant performance degradation.

I would be very interested in any information you have to share.

Email would be the most efficient mechanism, though I will try to

keep up with the group.  If there is sufficient interest I will

summarize and post.

Thanks,

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Emory University

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Re: NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

Greetings!

Recently I have been evaluating several WinHelp Authoring Tools,

and I think I should give TecKnow Logic some notable credits

in developing an outstanding shareware -- The Help Assistant 3.1 (HA31)

Help Assistant invokes the HELPASS.DOT template that allows users to create

help file with WinWord 6.0.   I found it  very similar to the WHAT  (Win Help

Authoring Template) from Microsoft.

One strong point is the HA31 allows users to create a complete help project  in the

WinWord environment without having exit it as the WHAT does :

While WHAT has to use the separate WHPE (WinHelp Project Editor) to create

help project ( .hpj ) and invoke WinWord to edit topic files ( .rtf) and then return back

to WHPE to compile and execute the help file (.hlp) ;  the HA31 completely allows

users to define, setup, edit, compile and execute the entire help projects within the WinWord.

I've found HA31 is more easy to use than the WHAT with all the dialog boxes guiding

users through all necessary processes of creating a help project.

One thing that I hope TecKnow Logic  can enhance HA31 is the  Windows SetUp Option.

HA31 provides users a dialog box to input all the windows' attributes in numeric values.

It's surely more user-friendly if HA31 can give users an option to choose their desire colors

from the standard colors palette rather than wondering what combination R/G/B values they

should mix to get their correct colors.   I have found other  windows attribute inputs (Window

Name, Caption, Position, Options) are OKs.

The WHPE (come with WHAT) has this feature for allowing users choosing colors from standard

MS-Color Palette.

I would highly recommend  HA31 to everyone.

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I hope someone could help me with this FontDialog problem:

  I try to get the fontname/fontstyle/fontsize

  WHILE THE FONTDIALOG SILL IS ACTIVE.

The main problem is that the fontdialogs data member only

updates when the dialog is closing. And I have no pointer

to some of the actual ComboBox'es, and can't read them

directly. I have tryed something like:

  SendMessage((HWND)this, CBN_GETCBTEXT, ControlID, MAKELPARAM(0,buffer))

But it would not work!

I would be very thankfull if someone have som idea who would work!

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Anyone have time for a project?

Well, I know that this may sound weird but as much as I'm interested

in getting a .hlp file for my Paramind Brainstorming program, I'm

also busy with a lot of other things, including a mailing list for

ideas of computer-generated writing, getting a room called comp.ideation

to voting status, and other aspects of life.  So, I guess this could

be called "A Cry for Help."  Right now this great program is floating

around on aol, c-serve, and the net with a cheap, crumming Windows

Write file that boots up from the pull-down menu.

    I'm not going to make any promises because I don't want anyone going

into this expecting anything but professional exposure.  I haven't made

hardly anthing (about $700 in 2 years) in registrations, but I know with a

real help file it would be better.  So, if someone wants to download

Paramind.zip (at /pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/writing at sunsite.unc.edu

or

and OAK.Oakland.Edu (141.210.10.117): at Directory SimTel/msdos/windows3/

I'm doing this partly as a humanitarian/artistic gesture, and I expect

the same attitude from anyone who wants to build a help file.  A target

market for this program is research institutes.  The registered version

is much more powerful, and really a different beast.

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Ed_Guy@mindlink.bc.ca (Ed Guy) writes:

>To call another application from inside your help file you need to use the

>ExecProgram() macro, with the command line you would use from the RUN

>command as the parameter, in quotes.

>Support for this is built in with HELLLP!

  The macro does not have much to do with HELLLP!, it's a feature of

WINHELP itself. The formatting of a macro is as any other jump (ie a doubly

underlined keyword followed immediately by a hidden jump destination), but

the first character of the destination must be !  I.e. you should have

        click here to invoke notepad!ExecProgram("notepad")

        ============================^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  Ed, I also noticed you mention "support for non-green keywords". This is

also a standard feature.

  All this and more is described in WHAG/HAG. People, get that free book

from MS and stop asking FAQs (which aren't in the FAQ yet, true).

NB: This posting does not imply I don't like HELLLP! or something.

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Lotus AMI Pro??

Larry Rau (Migration Software) (larryr@slapshot.pa.dec.com) wrote:

> >It's honestly a heck of a lot easier to just buy a copy of Word.

> ...I was afraid of that!

> ........larry

 No need to be afraid. Just make a couple of macros and assign them to your

favourite key combinations. And use styles, that's what they are for. After

an hour of work, you will be pleased you didn't spend all your money on

Word just to get another window for editing footnotes... ;-)

  -Jonne

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Large Fonts messing up my Help

I've been working on these fairly large help files over the

course of the summer working as an intern and when I display them my

screen they look great.  However, when I tried displaying the same help

file on my co-workers screen (1280x XXX) everything in the file looked

bulky and ugly.  We narrowed it down to the fact that he had Large Fonts

turned on and when he turned them off the Help file was displayed

normally.

My question is:  How do I make my Help file look good on his

display WITHOUT making him use small fonts?

Thanks.

Darin Grant

dgrant@jarthur.claremont.edu

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In article <3161b7$dt5@cnn.MOTOWN.GE.COM>

           pbosch@motown.ge.com "Pete Bosch" writes:

>In short, is there a way I can have a normal font in a .hlp file, and also

>a symbol font in which to do the tau, alpha, theta, etc of my application's

>equations?

I use the Symbol font in the help file of my astronomy software and it

works just fine. I didn't do anything special - I just inserted the

characters I wanted from "Word for Windows 2" using the "Character Mapper"

accessory.

Chris

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Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

In article <30t4e5$gkr@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA> cuneo@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca (Carl Cuneo) writes:

>

>What is the address and phone no. of forefront software?

 ForeFront Incorporated

 5171 Eldorado Springs Boulevard

 Boulder, Colorado   80303

 (303)499-9181

>Thanks

>Carl

>

>

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Symbol font in a .hlp file

In article <775420461snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>,

Chris Marriott <chris@chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <3161b7$dt5@cnn.MOTOWN.GE.COM>

>           pbosch@motown.ge.com "Pete Bosch" writes:

>

>>In short, is there a way I can have a normal font in a .hlp file, and also

>>a symbol font in which to do the tau, alpha, theta, etc of my application's

>>equations?

>

>I use the Symbol font in the help file of my astronomy software and it

>works just fine. I didn't do anything special - I just inserted the

>characters I wanted from "Word for Windows 2" using the "Character Mapper"

>accessory.

>

That's correct.  Normally, you can't use a non-ANSI font in WinHelp,

but an exception is made for "Symbol".

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WinHelp w/ Media Viewer 2

Hi all,

     I'm a neophyte to multimedia viewer 2.  I am using MV2 to recompile

RTF files designed for WinHelp, but unable to get the BROWSE buttons to

function at all......

I even add

EnableButton("btn_next")

EnableButton("btn_previous")

Any help will be appreciated.

MCVang

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WinHelp w/ Media Viewer 2

In article <mvang.5.001500C8@msrad1.uth.tmc.edu>,

Meng Vang <mvang@msrad1.uth.tmc.edu> wrote:

>Hi all,

>     I'm a neophyte to multimedia viewer 2.  I am using MV2 to recompile

>RTF files designed for WinHelp, but unable to get the BROWSE buttons to

>function at all......

>

>I even add

>

>EnableButton("btn_next")

>EnableButton("btn_previous")

>

In Viewer 2, you should use

[config]

Std20Buttons()

instead of the BrowseButtons() macro.

Also!, the syntax for browse-sequnces has changed wrt WinHelp.

It's now:

+{\footnote sequence:number;group;group;...}

The docs are a bit hazy on what is optional and what is not.

I changed the WinHelp browse numbers I was using (something

like 000000...9999999), to :000000 ... :9999999, and that

works (for V2 and WinHelp too).

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Miguel Carrasquer         ____________________  ~~~

Amsterdam                [                  ||]~

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Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

ForeHelp is also available from Borland for a lot less than $400.  I bought

a copy and completed a fairly large help system in just a few days.  It is

GREAT!

--

Tony Noe (sspectra@teleport.com)

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ToolBook

Has anyone ever used "Toolbook" for help authoring??   I hear that it is

very good.

Thanks

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This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.

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ToolBook

In article Vanessa Kaye <vaness@macqbl.com.au> wrote:

>Has anyone ever used "Toolbook" for help authoring??   I hear that it is

>very good.

DON'T DO IT! I had to deal with Toolbook as my help authoring tool for

the LONGEST time and it is a MAJOR pain in the butt. Their support for

their product is minimal at best AND it has lots of problems when you get

into supporting the multitude of different machines your file may be

running under.

I highly suggest the Microsoft Multimedia Viewer Development Kit. It's

cheaper than Toolbook, easier than Toolbook, and much better than

Toolbook. It also has the support of the industry behind it. (Supposedly

Chicago will be using a somewhat similar version for it's standard help

engine).

Check it out,

Brian Orrell

Power Computing Company

Dallas, TX

borrell@netcom.com

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WHAT6.???

Martin Piazzola (piazzola@girtab.usc.edu) wrote:

} I found a .hlp file which had all kinds of information on the

} Windows Help Authoring Tool, called WHAT6, which is purported to be

} a Word 6 template for writing Windows Help.  It was a very interesting

} little document, but made no mention as to where i could find such a beast.

} Does anyone have any comments? I am writing a lot of documentation and

} specifications, and I am constantly cross-referencing, So I think I want to

} start using hypertext, and the Windows Help seems pretty standard, although

} I have never written a .hlp file.

The WHAT template is included in VB 3.0 pro edition (probably also normal

edition). I believe for WHAT6 you should try ftp to MS site.

What6 is for Winword 6.0 though.

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Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

In article <sspectra-280794210901@ip-ce.teleport.com> sspectra@teleport.com (Tony Noe) writes:

>ForeHelp is also available from Borland for a lot less than $400.  I bought

>a copy and completed a fairly large help system in just a few days.  It is

>GREAT!

Huh? Are you sure this is the same product, etc.? Please elaborate.

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Full Text Searchable Help

I seem to recall having heard that there is a way to turn out help files that

are full-text searchable instead of just keyword searchable. Can anyone give

any guidance on what's required to do this?

Michael McCoy

mmccoy@crs.loc.gov

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In article <mmccoy.88.000E82F3@crs.loc.gov>,

Michael McCoy <mmccoy@crs.loc.gov> wrote:

>I seem to recall having heard that there is a way to turn out help files that

>are full-text searchable instead of just keyword searchable. Can anyone give

>any guidance on what's required to do this?

>

You need the FTSearch compilers:

FORAGEP.EXE, W_SCAN.EXE and INDEX.EXE.

Can someone from Microsoft say what their policy about these

utilities is?

You also need to include some stuff in your HPJ's [CONFIG] section,

have the FTUI.DLL, FTENGINE.DLL and MVAPI.DLL.

Everything used to be in the MDK (Multimedia Development Kit),

now superseded by the Viewer2 Kit, which uses a different scheme.

However, most of the full-text stuff has reemerged in the Windows NT

SDK, available through MS Dev.Lib. Level II.

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Intercepting messages to winhelp

In article <Mike.Lowery.8.000A363D@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>, Mike.Lowery@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM (Mike Lowery) writes:

> In article <316b3i$s12@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> arasmith@mathcs.emory.edu (David Arasmith) writes:

>

> >I have what I sincerely hope to be a simple question.

>

> >I am wondering how easy/difficult it would be to intercept

> >messages destined for the windows help engine for possible

> >redirection.  It seems to me that some "spy"-like critter

> >could hang out checking messages.

>

> >Requirements:

> >1) Redirect messages headed for the help engine to another target.

> >2) Run without user knowledge or interference.

> >3) Run without significant performance degradation.

>

>

> Yes, please do share this.  I could use a capability like this, also.

>

> ----Mike

>

>

I am also looking for information about this so if amyone knows the answer,

please email me

Chris Koziol ( ckoziol@cs.strath.ac.uk )

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H.Writer's Assist. error

Hi helpers,

     I am running Help Writer's Assistant for Windows, lately it gives me

error messages when I save a new file:

- Windows title:  HWAFLT

  Content:        Character found with high bit set

  Button:         OK

AFTER pressing OK

- Windows title:  HWAFLT

  Content:        (0x5f3) ->changed to \'93

  Button:         OK

     May I ask what is wrong?

THANKS in advance

Patrick Ng

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Where is HCP.zip???

Well, I've looked for it for a while now using archie, and I know

that the microsoft bbs has this (do you know their addresss? microsoft.com?)

but I can't find it on the net. I'm looking for the hcp.exe compiler.

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Winhelp on Unix?

In article <2v2ltc$fju@news.mic.ucla.edu> stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf) writes:

>From: stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf)

>Subject: Re: Winhelp on Unix?

>Date: 2 Jul 1994 03:11:39 GMT

Has anyone suggested using winhelp.exe under WABI?  Or even SoftWindows?  Not

ideal, but cheap (WABI is free with Sun Solaris, winhelp.exe is

redistributable).

Paul.

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In article <2v2ltc$fju@news.mic.ucla.edu> stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf) writes:

>From: stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf)

>Subject: Re: Winhelp on Unix?

>Date: 2 Jul 1994 03:11:39 GMT

Has anyone suggested using WABI, or even SoftWindows, and the winhelp.exe.

Not the ideal solution, but can be cheap (WABI is free with Sun Solaris).

Paul.

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Create .hlp files using Multimedia Viewer?

I am interested to know if it's possible to use Multimedia Viewer to

create regular .hlp files? If so, how? Any restrictions?

Thanks in advance.

-Terry Chung

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Windows Help-Builders

In <2v7mn3$t6t@search01.news.aol.com> cmjohnson@aol.com (CMJohnson) writes:

>In article <2v5ec4$3bq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, djh10@po.CWRU.Edu (David

>J. Henning) writes:

>>I'm looking for recommendations on a Windows Help building utility.

>I have used Doc-To-Help (from WexTech Systems) extensively for two

>years, and I like it a lot.  The feature which separates it from a

>lot of other Help tools is that it also generates printed

>documentation.

I too have used Doc-To-Help.  The ability to generate both Windows

Help and a printed manual from the same source are what attracted us

to this product.

Doc-To-Help does do what it is advertised to do, and it does it fairly

well, but for _my_ needs I find it an awkward tool.

Doc-To-Help is a pile of WinWord macros (and a couple of DLLs).

Generating a Help file from the source document takes a _long_ time.

To compound the problem, WinWord can run out of memory when working on

a long document.

If you are taking manuals and converting them into Windows Help files,

Doc-To-Help is probably a good tool (as perhaps the name suggests :-).

If you are trying to generate fairly sophisticated on-line help for

your software, Doc-To-Help is probably not a good choice.

--

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Help hierarchies

Can anyone give me a brief generic description of how to implement a help

hierarchy in a given topic window?  E.g. you start with several jumps visible.

Clicking on one of them expands a list of jumps as sub-items in an indented

list beneath them.  I guess you could just do it as a jump to a different

topic, in which the expansion is present.  However, in most help files I've

seen, each jump in such a page is independently expandable.  This would very

quickly add up to a large number of combinations, so I suspect it's not done

this way.

E.g.

Before:

    Jump 1

    Jump 2

    Jump 3

After clicking on Jump 1:

    Jump  1

         subjump 1

         subjump 2

    Jump 2

    Jump 3

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jim.

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Create .hlp files using Multimedia Viewer?

In article <2v9rkc$hvb@mailer.fsu.edu>,

Terry Chung <chung@grep.cs.fsu.edu> wrote:

>I am interested to know if it's possible to use Multimedia Viewer to

>create regular .hlp files? If so, how? Any restrictions?

>

>Thanks in advance.

>

No.  Although the file format is practically identical (especially

for Viewer 1), WinHelp won't accept .MVB files.  What you can do,

is use the same set of RTF and HPJ files for compiling both

WinHelp and Viewer projects (Viewer 2 HPJ (MVP) files are slightly

different, but it's not hard to convert one to the other: I believe

there was a utility that converted HPJ to MVP, but I forget where

I saw it).

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WHAT6.???

In article <2v8ilk$ke6@nuscc.nus.sg> cceckh@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Cheah Kean Hock) writes:

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>From: cceckh@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Cheah Kean Hock)

>Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

>Subject: Re: WHAT6.???

>Date: 4 Jul 1994 08:53:08 GMT

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>Martin Piazzola (piazzola@girtab.usc.edu) wrote:

>} I found a .hlp file which had all kinds of information on the

>} Windows Help Authoring Tool, called WHAT6, which is purported to be

>} a Word 6 template for writing Windows Help.  It was a very interesting

>} little document, but made no mention as to where i could find such a beast.

>} Does anyone have any comments? I am writing a lot of documentation and

>} specifications, and I am constantly cross-referencing, So I think I want to

>} start using hypertext, and the Windows Help seems pretty standard, although

>} I have never written a .hlp file.

>The WHAT template is included in VB 3.0 pro edition (probably also normal

>edition). I believe for WHAT6 you should try ftp to MS site.

>What6 is for Winword 6.0 though.

The original WHAT template will not work with WinWord 6.0.  WHAT6 will.  WHAT6

is simply a WinWord template that helps automate the more tedious aspects of

creating Windows Help using WinWord 6.0 and the Help Compiler. For instance,

Insert Topic brings up a fill-in-the-blanks dialog box where you enter the

topic title, context string, search keywords, browse sequence, macros, and

comments.  Click OK and your topic-definition footnotes are created

automatically.  It's not what you might expect of a full-fledged "help

authoring tool" but I prefer it--it leaves me in total control of the document.

WHAT6 does have a few bugs, but if you understand the basics of how to create

Help, they're not too annoying.  (For instance, Insert Jump works properly

unless the text you select prior to invoking it contains more than one word,

and I have yet to successfully EDIT a previously created set of

topic-definition footnotes using the template dialog.  Those things are easy

enough to do manually, anyway.)

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Help not on top

Anyone here know of a way to do the following.

When a help window appears it keeps the help on top, even when another

window opens.  This is a problem when the help is partly obscuring the

newly opened window.

We need to have the help go just behind the newly opened window.  Any

ideas?

Jon

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Out of memory!

I'm building a help file that includes several small icons and two dialog

boxes.  I'm using the bmc RTF token to include the images in the help file.

 When I compile the file with the smaller of the two dialogs, it compiles

fine. When I compile with the larger one, I get a not enough memory error

message.  Needless to say, I cannot compile with both, which is what I want

to do.

The two dialogs are 23,670 and 37,190 bytes.  I have a call into MS and am

waiting for a call-back - 24-36 hours, I'm told.  So, I'm hoping someone

will be able to give me some help earlier.

By way of system information, I have 467K available in conventional memory

and have lots of extended memory available (12,924K under DOS).  Also, I've

tried to compile the file both within and outside Windows and get the

message in both cases.  And I'm using the 505 compiler, which, I'm told,

uses Extended memory.

Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.

Michael Cooperman

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WinHelp Archives

Is there an archive ftp site for the Windows Help newsgroup?  If not, is

there any site that may have information regarding such items as

mid-topic jumps and multiple windows?  I already have the Microsoft HAG

documentation, but feel it's rather cryptic in its explanations.

Thanks fot any help!

--

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Can anyone help me with mid topic jumps?  I'm using the "Helllp!" version

2.3 Word template, and really don't do any extra programming for the

files, but understand that I have to put a "#" footnote in the file for

mid-topic jumps.  Can anyone explain how to do this?

Thanks for any help!

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In article <2vc5m1$gds@rigel.infinet.com>, <basamson@infinet.com>

writes:

> Can anyone help me with mid topic jumps?  I'm using the "Helllp!"

version

> 2.3 Word template, and really don't do any extra programming for

the

> files, but understand that I have to put a "#" footnote in the file

for

> mid-topic jumps.  Can anyone explain how to do this?

>

> Thanks for any help!

mid-topic jumps are basically jumps WITHIN a help topic. for

isntance, many help systems have a glossary topic with letter 'keys'

(they're really just bitmaps) that when pressed will automatically

scroll down the help topic to the appropriate letter (if you press G,

all the glossary terms starting with G appear). meanwhile, if you

wanted to, you could also scroll through all of the letters using the

scroll bar without pressing the letter 'keys'. If you're using word

6.0, press f1 and then press the Index key. Word's Help index works

like this.

if you're using Word 2.0 or 6.0, to create a mid-topic jump, you

can create a regular jump and then just remove the page break before

the topic, the browse string foot note (+) and the title footnote

($); all you need is the context string footnote (#) and the keyword

search footnote (K) if you want. (RoboHelp offers a function that

automatically creates a mid-topic jump, but to me it's easier to do

it the way i described to you--that's the way i learned it)

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Only 2 Open windows at once?

Like I said in a previous post, I'm using "Helllp!" v2.3 Word help

file template, and I've noticed that when making multiple-windowed help

files, I can only have 2 windows open at the same time.  Is this a

limitation of the template, or is it internal to Windows Help?

Any help would be appreciated!

--

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MidTopic Jumps

Brian Samson (basamson@infinet.com) wrote:

: Can anyone help me with mid topic jumps?  I'm using the "Helllp!" version

: 2.3 Word template, and really don't do any extra programming for the

: files, but understand that I have to put a "#" footnote in the file for

: mid-topic jumps.  Can anyone explain how to do this?

menu item INSERT, FOOTNOTE gives you a dialog box.

choose Custom Footnote Mark and use a #

this should correspond to a context id which you will put in the

footnote area.  it is this context id which you will use

with a jump so that you will land in the middle of the topic

DO NOT PUT A PAGE BREAK BEFORE YOUR CUSTOM FOOTNOTE OR ELSE

A NEW TOPIC WILL BE CREATED.

if i remember correctly, you can have keywords and a title also

associated with a mid-topic jump area - just not a sequence number.

if this still doesn't make sense, e-mail me and I will share

with you a fairly complex implementation of a very boring chemical

document that i have created for my department.  this .hlp file has

everything: bitmaps, hypergraphics, non-scrolling regions, the little

alphabar that i ripped off from some microsoft help file, and lots

of mid-topic jumps.

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Only 2 Open windows at once?

In article <2vcami$ig1@rigel.infinet.com>, <basamson@infinet.com>

writes:

>Like I said in a previous post, I'm using "Helllp!" v2.3 Word help

> file template, and I've noticed that when making multiple-windowed

help

> files, I can only have 2 windows open at the same time.  Is this a

> limitation of the template, or is it internal to Windows Help?

>

> Any help would be appreciated!

the latter. you can have a main help window and a secondary help

window open.

by the way, anyone know how when you open a help file you can get a

secondary window to appear at the same time that the main help window

appears? i've noticed the person who did the HAG .hlp file achieved

this, but i don't know how he/she did it. any help would be

appreciated. asta.

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Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

In article <VINSCI.94Jul1122242@nic.funet.fi>,

Leonard Norrgard <vinsci@nic.funet.fi> wrote:

>I'm about to start writing a manual/help file that I know will be

>translated into at least two languages.  To help keeping the

>translations current, I would like to put them all in one file, so

>that I can mark changes/need for retranslation as new text is added or

>old text changed.

>  This seems to be possible using the BuildTags (make a tag for each

>language and mark each translation with the corresponding tag), but is

>it actually practical?

>  Does any of the authoring tools provide support for tracking that

>translations are up to date?

Not that I know of.

>  As new program versions are released, I would like the end user to

>have an easy way to find out all changes in the manual/help files, so

>that they can update their knowledge on the software without having to

>read *everything* again.  Is there a good way to do this?

You can do this in several ways.  Just off the top of my head:

- Add a chapter "What's new", consisting mainly of jumps to

the sections that are new.

- Distribute the helpfile with "annotations" you have added

yourself (for <name>.HLP, install <name>.ANN in the Windows directory).

- Borland's WinAPI helpfile adds a push-button to the top of the

topic with the legend "What's changed".  Click on it an a pop-up

window appears summarizing the changes.

- Topics can have more than one keyword (K-footnote).  Add a

second footnote to every new topic and have it start, for instance, with

"New: <topic name>".  In the Search box, all the new topics will

be included at their alphabetical position, and under "New: *"

(or: "Changed: *").

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Winhelp and using DLL's

Okay.. this is probably a pretty basic question for any of you

guru's, but I've just started programming and am still learning about

Winhelp... so here's the question..

How can I use the api command "MessageBox" as a macro.  I used

RegisterRoutine in the [Config] of the hpj file and then using Word 2

and then put the macro in the topic file in the format

 MessageBox(hwndContext,"insert text here","Caption bar text

here",0x0000)

Everything compiles fine, no errors... and the text I use as the

hotspot is indeed a hotspot but when I click on it.. nothing happens.

No error.. no nothing.

Like I said.. i'm a newbie >grin< and I'm sure I'm overlooking

something real simple, and would appreciate ANY help ya'll can give !

 THANKS !

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In article <2vcgml$5sh@search01.news.aol.com>, eaglemage@aol.com

(EagleMage) writes:

Don't you just love it when you post a question and figure out the

answer moments later????? ; >   I've got it working now..thanks

anyway..

turns out I had the wrong case letter 'u' in the RR ... oh well..  ;>

;>

eaglemage@aol.com

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In article <2vcojp$7m8@search01.news.aol.com> eaglemage@aol.com (EagleMage) writes:

>From: eaglemage@aol.com (EagleMage)

>Subject: Re: Winhelp and using DLL's

>Date: 5 Jul 1994 18:59:05 -0400

>In article <2vcgml$5sh@search01.news.aol.com>, eaglemage@aol.com

>(EagleMage) writes:

>Don't you just love it when you post a question and figure out the

>answer moments later????? ; >   I've got it working now..thanks

>anyway..

>turns out I had the wrong case letter 'u' in the RR ... oh well..  ;>

>;>

>eaglemage@aol.com

     Maybe sharing your answer with others would be great.....

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Graphical Help Builder

I'm looking for a help builder that will allow me to insert 256 colour

graphics into the help file. This might not be possible since I've read

that the Windows help engine allows for  16 colours only.

True?

Untrue?

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Graphical Help Builder

In article <1994Jul06.003730.1506554@magic-bbs.corp.apple.com> Mike_Glenn@magic-bbs.corp.apple.com writes:

>I'm looking for a help builder that will allow me to insert 256 colour

>graphics into the help file. This might not be possible since I've read

>that the Windows help engine allows for  16 colours only.

You could write a custom DLL to display the bitmaps and then include

the bitmaps as baggage within the HLP file, but that's a fair amount

of work...

One easy solution is to switch to the Microsoft multimedia publishing

toolkit. The multimedia viewer supports 256-color bitmaps and a lot of

other nice features such as full-text searches. The documentation and

tools are much better too. You can distribute the multimedia viewer

and its DLLs along with your application without any royalty.

The multimedia compiler basically accepts a superset of the RTF

and project control file statements known to HC.EXE so you will not

have to make any serious changes to your existing help file source

text.

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Table rules in help files

I know this one must have been covered before, but I'm quite new

to News. I want to put table rules in my help file, but HC31 seems

determined to stop me. I know it must be possible because I've seen

some in MicroSoft's help. I can't believe they break all the lines

manually and use tabs. Or do they have their own private help

compiler I ask myself.

Alfie.

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Only 2 Open windows at once?

In article <2vcfs9$erc@news.acns.nwu.edu>, chou@n5145.notis.com writes:

|>

|> by the way, anyone know how when you open a help file you can get a

|> secondary window to appear at the same time that the main help window

|> appears? i've noticed the person who did the HAG .hlp file achieved

|> this, but i don't know how he/she did it. any help would be

|> appreciated. asta.

In the CONFIG section of your HPJ, invoke a Jump macro (such as

JumpId) and funnel the topic into a secondary window.

For example:

  JumpId(`myfile.hlp>toc',`topic')

where toc is the ID for the secondary window you've defined.

Remember, if you want to include jumps in your secondary window that

affect the primary window, those jumps must specify '>main', to funnel

the topic into the main window.

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Producing WinHelp and HTML

I have just got funding to produce a document in both WinHelp and HTML

formats. Is there an editing/authoring system which will avoid having to

duplicate all the work? Commercial ain't a problem, I got money.

Ian

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Windows Help-Builders

You should try my company's help tool, "VB HelpWriter".

<on soapbox>

It has lot's of bells and whistles for VB programmers, and works very

well as a standalone tool as well.  If you're only building a short (<20

topics) helpfile, it's FREE. (No requirement to buy anything)

VB HelpWriter has in integrated WYSIWYG editor with *full* font

size/color and graphics import capability. It's MDI approach allows

multiple topics to be edited simultaneously.  It's easy to create jumps

and audio hotspots; just highlight some text and "drag" the highlighted

area to another open topic.  You really have to see this product in

action to appreciate it!

It is available for downloading from "ftp.netcom.com" at:

"ftp/pub/vb_helpwriter".

<off soapbox>

Good luck with your helpfiles!

Sincerely,

Fred Bunn

President, Teletech Systems

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Graphical Help Builder

Mike_Glenn@magic-bbs.corp.apple.com wrote:

: I'm looking for a help builder that will allow me to insert 256 colour

: graphics into the help file. This might not be possible since I've read

: that the Windows help engine allows for  16 colours only.

: True?

: Untrue?

Sadly, it's TRUE.

There are some public domain (==FREE) DLLs out there that will add this

functionality to Winhelp. Unfortunately, you'll have to distribute the

DLLs with the helpfile, and the bitmaps must be stored externally (at

least with the DLL I looked at).

Look in the win3 directory at ftp.cica.indiana.edu for these DLLs.

If you're just starting your helpfile development, also download a copy

of my company's helpfile authoring tool, "VB HelpWriter". It supports

add-in DLLs, and is available for download from "ftp.netcom.com" at

ftp/pub/vb_helpwriter.

The FREE version is limited to 20 topics. (About twice that of the

notepad.exe helpfile).

At any rate, have much success with your help development!

Seeya

Fred Bunn

President, Teletech System (Home of VB HelpWriter)

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Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

In article <48011@mindlink.bc.ca>, Ed Guy <Ed_Guy@mindlink.bc.ca> wrote:

>Chris, it has just occurred to me that these misdirected innocents

>probably think that the "winhelp" in the group name means that they can ask

>for "help" about "win" and possibly we should cut them a little slack.

>Ed Guy.

:)

My roomie (who is elsewhere for several months, btw) knows both

VC++ and VB and said that making BUTTONS and other fancy stuff for

Windows Help files was extremely easy in VB...

Please don't email me on this stuff, as I am not a VB programmer. :)

Karen.

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Lotus Amipro

Hi,

I use Lotus Amipro as a rule and not WORD.  However, I have just started writing .hlp

files and being forced to use WORD is not funny.  Furthermore,  however wonderful

these custom help generators are I can't afford them...

So,  If anybody has a set a Amipro macros, styles etc that would allow me to acheive

the same as WHAT31.DOT does on WORD I would be pleased if they could post them

in a reply.  Any other suggestions would also be welcome....

Rik.

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In article <2vdnk0$7hm@news.cerf.net>, duncan@nic.cerf.net (Ray Duncan) says:

>

>In article <1994Jul06.003730.1506554@magic-bbs.corp.apple.com> Mike_Glenn@magic-bbs.corp.apple.com writes:

>>I'm looking for a help builder that will allow me to insert 256 colour

>>graphics into the help file. This might not be possible since I've read

>>that the Windows help engine allows for  16 colours only.

>

>You could write a custom DLL to display the bitmaps and then include

>the bitmaps as baggage within the HLP file, but that's a fair amount

>of work...

>

>One easy solution is to switch to the Microsoft multimedia publishing

>toolkit. The multimedia viewer supports 256-color bitmaps and a lot of

>other nice features such as full-text searches. The documentation and

>tools are much better too. You can distribute the multimedia viewer

>and its DLLs along with your application without any royalty.

>The multimedia compiler basically accepts a superset of the RTF

>and project control file statements known to HC.EXE so you will not

>have to make any serious changes to your existing help file source

>text.

>

>

>

Interesting.....  Can anybody tell me where to obtain the multimedia HC to replace

my current HC31.EXE?

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MidTopic Jumps

Hi Brian:

There is a patch coming.  I got a note from you forwarded by one of your

colleagues.  I am adding a function "Insert Mid Topic Target", which will

allow a place in the middle of a topic to be treated just like a topic for

jump purposes etc.  It will be added to a later production version of

HELLLP!.

I emailed the patch to Mark.

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Only 2 Open windows at once?

The template Brian referred to (My product HELLLP!) will let you do this,

if you have version 2.3.  It lets you set up a secondary window (usually

with your table of contents in it), which opens at the same time as your

title screen.

You can get HELLLP! as HELLLP23.ZIP from any of the SimTel sites.

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Help not on top

In article <2vbu35$9ru@xmission.xmission.com>, JonM <jonm@xmission.com> wrote:

>Anyone here know of a way to do the following.

>

>When a help window appears it keeps the help on top, even when another

>window opens.  This is a problem when the help is partly obscuring the

>newly opened window.

>

>We need to have the help go just behind the newly opened window.  Any

>ideas?

>

That's probably because the help file was made with the "help on

top" attribute for the main window, or the Help macro "HelpOnTop()" has

been used.  If you want to know how to stop it from being on top,

from the user perspective, look under WinHelp's "HELP" menu,

"Always on top" item.  This may work, if the helpfile calls HelpOnTop(),

but won't work if the main window has the "on top" attribute.

If you have access to the help file's source code, you should look at the

.HPJ file, in the [WINDOWS] section:

changing

main=........... ,1

to

main=........... ,0

will turn off the "on top" state.  Recompile the help file.

Otherwise, there's probably a call to HelpOnTop() in the .HPJ file's

[CONFIG] section.  You can remove that and recompile.

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In article <CsICMr.9v8@oasis.icl.co.uk>,

Alfie Kirkpatrick <ak@oasis.icl.co.uk> wrote:

>I know this one must have been covered before, but I'm quite new

>to News. I want to put table rules in my help file, but HC31 seems

>determined to stop me. I know it must be possible because I've seen

>some in MicroSoft's help. I can't believe they break all the lines

>manually and use tabs. Or do they have their own private help

>compiler I ask myself.

>

>Alfie.

The Help Compiler won't do this.  What they've probably done

at Microsoft is paste an image of the table to the clipboard

(alt-PrtScrn), and include the BMP/SHG in the helpfile.

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>Anyone here know of a way to do the following.

>When a help window appears it keeps the help on top, even when another

>window opens.  This is a problem when the help is partly obscuring the

>newly opened window.

>We need to have the help go just behind the newly opened window.  Any

>ideas?

You could try turning off the Always On Top option in the Help

Menu pull down in the Help Program.

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>>>I'm looking for recommendations on a Windows Help building utility.

>

Hi..

  I've had a lot of success with Visual Help.. The price is under $100

also.. There is a shareware version around (i don't know where) so

you can see if you like before buying..

Dave.

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graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

Greetings!

I'm having a problem creating graphics.  I paste them into Word, get

them to look okay, but when I compile my application and view it using

winhelp the graphics come out way to small.  I was wondering if anyone

could suggest something.

Here's the gory details.

   1. Copy my graphics into clipboard

   2. Paste into MS-Word

   3. Resize to make it slightly bigger

   4. save my .DOC file

   5. save my .RTF file

   6. compile using hc31 from Borland 3.1

   7. view it using windows 3.1 winhelp

When I do this, my graphics come out 1 inch square, instead of

3 inches square (the cut size), or 4.3 inches square (the stretched size).

It all looks fine in Word.

Finally, my .RTF file has the following line with my graphics:

\par \pard {{\pict\metafile8\picw0\pich0\picwgoal4320\pichgoal4320\picscalex127\picscaley127

Thanks in advance.

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graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

In article <2vf450$2h5@hprcl192.mayfield.hp.com>,

<gottschg@mayfield.hp.com> writes:

> Greetings!

>

> I'm having a problem creating graphics.  I paste them into Word,

get

> them to look okay, but when I compile my application and view it

using

> winhelp the graphics come out way to small.  I was wondering if

anyone

> could suggest something.

instead of pasting the graphics directly into Word and compiling,

reference the graphic. for instance, if you graphic is named

biff.bmp, here's the reference statement:

you can also use the [image] statements

(these justify the bitmap left or right,respectively, i believe.)

in your .hpj file, in the [OPTIONS] section make sure you have the

following command line:

BMROOT=C:\BITMAP1,C:\BITMAP2

where bitmap1 and bitmap2 are separate directories. this tells your

help compiler that you have these bitmaps residing in these locations

and you want to pull out the file BIFF.BMP which resides in one of

these directories (this allows you to sort your bitmaps if they're

used for different applications, etc).

referenceing bitmaps not only saves space in your help files, but

someone about a month ago told me that each paragraph in a winhelp

help system can take up only 32K before you get 'out of file handle'

errors while compiling.

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Help hierarchies

In article <obrien-james.98.0018AA71@yale.edu>, obrien-james@yale.edu (James A. O'Brien) writes:

|> Can anyone give me a brief generic description of how to implement a help

|> hierarchy in a given topic window?  E.g. you start with several jumps visible.

|> Clicking on one of them expands a list of jumps as sub-items in an indented

|> list beneath them.  I guess you could just do it as a jump to a different

|> topic, in which the expansion is present.  However, in most help files I've

|> seen, each jump in such a page is independently expandable.  This would very

|> quickly add up to a large number of combinations, so I suspect it's not done

|> this way.

It is done that way.  At least as near as I can figure.

Using the help files provided with Microsoft's Windows NT as an

example, I implemented a help file with this expand/collapse capability.

Granted, I only had 5 supertopics, meaning I needed to create 7 help

screens (one collapsed, one completely expanded, and one for each

expanded topic)--so this was very feasible.

Note that this means you have to create mid-context (no page break)

topics that also function as jumps (to return to the collapsed screen

when clicked).  My resulting help file behaves EXACTLY the way the NT

help files do.

In fact, using the HLP2DOC utility on NTs PROGMAN.HLP file indicates

that is exactly the way Microsoft did it.  (Where was that utility

6 months ago? :)

I have also seen a design where a POPUP containing subtopics appears

when you click on a supertopic.  You choose the topic you want from the

popup, and that jumps to the appropriate place.  Same idea, but easier

to maintain.

Chris Hemedinger                         SAS Institute, Doc Development

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HyperHelp 4 released (Announcement)

(FYI-->

HH lets you have the same help files (MIF/RTF/SGML) on

Windows and Motif)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Jean Blackwell

Bristol Technology

(203) 438-6969

email: info@bristol.com

WWW: http://www.bristol.com

BRISTOL TECHNOLOGY HYPERHELP 4 RELEASED

- HyperHelp 4 Enhances FrameMaker Support, and Adds Dynamic Text

Retrieval and User Reporting -

Ridgefield, Conn., June 20, 1994 - Bristol Technology Inc.

(Bristol) today announced HyperHelp 4, a major new release of the

company's on-line UNIX help product.  HyperHelp 4 combines support

for every major documentation tool with a flexible programming

interface to produce the most advanced and full featured on-line help

tool in the UNIX marketplace.  HyperHelp 4 has added additional

support for the advanced formatting capabilities of FrameMaker and

Interleaf.  Support of these powerful documentation tools, along with

new searching and printing capabilities, allows an even wider use of

HyperHelp as a complete on-line documentation delivery system.

HyperHelp 4 maintains cross-platform compatibility with

Microsoft's WinHelp by adding support for Dynamic Link Libraries

(DLL).  DLLs enable developers to extend the functionality of

HyperHelp by adding data on the fly and linking in additional graphics

formats, and other multimedia formats.

"HyperHelp 4 reinforces HyperHelp as the industry standard for

on-line UNIX help," said Keith Blackwell, president of Bristol

Technology Inc.  "HyperHelp 4 pushes beyond simple on-line help with

its improved ability to support such a wide variety of authoring

tools, while maintaining all the hyper-linking, printing, searching,

and viewing functionality of WinHelp."

Key Enhancements

----------------

*	Improved FrameMaker Support - HyperHelp now supports many new

FrameMaker features in MIF files, such as mid-topic jumps, conditional

text, variables, vector graphics, cross references, auto-generated

hyperlinks from the table of contents or index, buildtags, first/last

page links, and much improved WYSIWYG.  These enhancements allow

writers to utilize advanced FrameMaker features in their on-line help

files.

*	User Extendible with DLLs - This enhancement allows users to

extend HyperHelp by adding their own DLLs, or shared libraries.  For

example, users can include uncompiled external data in a HyperHelp

topic at runtime, include new display formats in embedded Windows, or

register DLL functions as HyperHelp macros.  Developers benefit by

being able to extend their on-line help implementation by including

additional text, data, graphics, and other multimedia formats

dynamically with the HyperHelp Viewer.

*	User Reporting - This enhancement allows developers to log and

time-stamp all HyperHelp Viewer activity.  Developers can use the

Viewer activity information to determine where their end-users are

having the most difficulty with the application or the help files.

*	Improved Printing - This enhancement allows users to print a

single topic, multiple topics, or even an entire help file.  End-users

benefit by being able to graphically choose and print a combination of

help topics, or easily select and print the on-line help documentation

in its entirety.

*	Improved Find and Sort - This enhancement is an improvement to

HyperHelp's full text search functionality.  End-users benefit by

being able to quickly search for any word in a specific topic or

throughout the help document, then sort the result by the order of the

topic, by the number of occurrences, or alphabetically .

*	Additional Product Updates - The following substantially

improve the usability and functionality of HyperHelp:  (1) improved

table support, (2) Interleaf RTF support, (3) new audio macro, (4)

Word 6.0 RTF support, and (5) improved Microsoft Help compatibility.

 	HyperHelp offers developers the most cost-effective method for

including on-line context-sensitive help functionality within their

applications.  The price for HyperHelp 4 remains $5,000 USD.  No

royalties are charged for including the HyperHelp Viewer with an

application.  HyperHelp 4 is available on Sun SPARC Solaris 1 and

Solaris 2, HP700 HP-UX 9, IBM RS/6000 AIX, SGI IRIX, DEC Alpha OSF/1,

and Intel SCO, SVR4.2, and Solaris 2.

HyperHelp Bridge Updated

------------------------

HyperHelp Bridge allows writers who author in FrameMaker or

SGML editors to quickly and easily produce help files that are used

with the Microsoft Windows Help facility.  HyperHelp Bridge translates

HyperHelp help files compiled from MIF and SGML sources into RTF files

that are used as input for Microsoft WinHelp.  Writers benefit by

being able to keep just one FrameMaker or SGML documentation source

base for use with both HyperHelp on UNIX and Microsoft WinHelp on

Windows or Windows NT.  HyperHelp Bridge maintains all on-line help

attributes, including hyperlinks, pop-up definitions, browse

sequences, bitmaps, and macros.

Company Information

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Bristol Technology Inc. was founded in 1990 with the vision of

developing the Wind/U technology, which allows Microsoft Windows

software developers quick and cost-effective access to the UNIX

System-based market.  Bristol is a leading developer of graphical user

interface development tools, such as HyperHelp, the on-line help

standard, and Xprinter for UNIX System-based products.  Bristol is

headquartered in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

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HyperHelp, HyperHelp Bridge, Xprinter, and Wind/U are trademarks of

Bristol Technology Inc.  All other products mentioned herein are

trademarks of their respective owners.

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chou@n5145.notis.com wrote:

: In article <2vf450$2h5@hprcl192.mayfield.hp.com>,

: <gottschg@mayfield.hp.com> writes:

: > I'm having a problem creating graphics.  I paste them into Word, get

: > them to look okay, but when I compile my application and view it using

: > winhelp the graphics come out way to small.  I was wondering if anyone

: > could suggest something.

:

: instead of pasting the graphics directly into Word and compiling,

: reference the graphic.

Yes.  I've used bitmaps successfully in the past.  My problem

here is that the application I'm using does not have a bitmap

export capability, so I am using cut-n-paste to transfer it in

metafile format.

Also, I've found that pasting into Paint causes me to lose too much

resolution.  You can't read the words that I've pasted from the

original application.

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: >In article <2v5ec4$3bq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, djh10@po.CWRU.Edu (David

: >J. Henning) writes:

: >>I'm looking for recommendations on a Windows Help building utility.

Let me second the mention herein of Visual Help. It is a limited product

for those used to RoboHelp or Doc-To-Help and others. But for quick,

easy, CHEAP...er, inexpensive .hlp file creation it is very good. $49 the

current price. Let me add that I have no connection with the company

whatsoever. I have found prompt replies here on the Internet to a couple

of questions to the company's tech support. Prompt and precise, I must

say. So, for what it's worth, my reccomendation(response to your

question) is Visual Help.

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+-------------------------------------------------------+

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WHAT6.???

Cheah Kean Hock (cceckh@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE) wrote:

: The WHAT template is included in VB 3.0 pro edition (probably also normal

: edition). I believe for WHAT6 you should try ftp to MS site.

: What6 is for Winword 6.0 though.

Could you please indicate the name of the file and the location in the

ftp site?  I could not find it from ftp.microsoft.com,  or did you refer

to another site by 'MS site'?

Thanx!

Gerald Cheong

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Suggestions are welcome on problem of running out of memory compiling .HLP

file in  a dos box. All bitmaps referenced. Anyone use hcp.exe (protected

mode) or know how to get it?

thanx

_____________________________________________________________________

Con Zymaris  <conz@cyber.com.au>

Cybersource Pty. Ltd.  Windows/Unix integration and TCP/IP network management

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Windows Help-Builders

Hey guys,

If you're currently using Visual Help, you *owe* it to yourself to take a

look at VB HelpWriter.  It's like changing from a monochrome to *color*

monitor!

The major difference is in the editors. VB HelpWriter's editor is a TRUE

WYSIWYG editor, just like WORD or AMI PRO.  It's an MDI program, so you

can edit more than one topic at once.  To create jumps,  just highlight

text and drag from one topic to the other.

VH is a solid program, used by many. I'm glad VH has a lot of happy

customers, but I'm sure we have a superior editing environment.  VB

programmers will be especially happy with VB HelpWriter, since it will

*automatically* create a starting set of help topics for you by

reading your source code.  (How much easier could we make it?)

VB HelpWriter also generates custom VB code to access the WINHELP API.

Just add this module to your application to get instant, working WINHELP

API registration/deregistration!

<This is *definitely* a biased opinion, since I wrote VB HelpWriter!>

Since both programs are available for download, you may as well have a

look at them both. Again, VB HelpWriter isn't on cica yet, so you'll have

to get it from "ftp.netcom.com at /ftp/pub/vb_helpwriter".

Feel free to drop me a note if you have any questions!

Sincerely,

Fred Bunn

President, Teletech Systems (Home of VB HelpWriter)

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Graphical Help Builder

Microsoft's multimedia viewer can be purchased for $459 from the

Programmer's Shop at (800)421-8006. Ask for item #M122082.

BTW, I'm not an employee *or* representative for the Programmer's Shop.

(I just like 'em)

Cheers,

Fred

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Con Zymaris (conz@highett.mel.dbce.csiro.au) wrote:

: Suggestions are welcome on problem of running out of memory compiling .HLP

: file in  a dos box. All bitmaps referenced. Anyone use hcp.exe (protected

: mode) or know how to get it?

: thanx

 You might try Microsoft's ftp site: "ftp.microsoft.com".

I believe it can be found there somewhere. On compuserve, it is in the

WINSDK forum under HCP505.ZIP.  The filename might be the same in the

Microsoft ftp site.

Cheers,

Fred

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Help graphics and a MAC

I have written a help file that contains graphics.  When I use

the Excel help program on a MAC to open the help file I have problems with

the graphics.  Some of the bitmaps look like half the pixels are missing.

Some won't display at all.  Does any one know the rules for displaying

graphics on a MAC.

Also does anyone know a good font to use.  The MAC doesn't

seem to have any of the standard windows fonts.

I want to thank everyone that helped me with my last problem.

You can't get scroll bars in a pop up window because one mouse click

returns to the main window.  Also the macro I am using formats a

jump window as "keep together", this prevents scroll bars from appearing.

After removing the formatting I now get scroll bars when my graphics are

too large for window.

Robert Futscher rfutscher@pbs.org

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In article <2v5ec4$3bq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, djh10@po.CWRU.Edu (David

J. Henning) writes:

>I'm looking for recommendations on a Windows Help building utility.

I'm very happy with "VB Aha!!!" (VB Automatic Help Author).  Easy and

quick to use, and excellent support for registered users.  Find on CICA

in ../util/vbaha124.zip.

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Groups and such...Help!

Does anyone know how, in a DLL or other user-defined function, one can obtain

all of the names of groups that are contained in a HLP or MVB file? I need a

function like this:

void GetGroupNames(GroupList GroupNames);

This function, when called, will fill GroupNames (an array of strings) with

names of all groups contained in a particular HLP file.

Any help or pointers are appreciated.

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Any news on MediaView? (MM Viewer 3.0?)

I was wondering if anyone has heard anything about Microsoft's new MediaView

toolkit? It is a replacement for Help, MM Viewer, or both? Any news on delivery

dates and pricing?

Thanks.

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Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

In article <conz.24.0067AEB8@highett.mel.dbce.csiro.au>,

> Suggestions are welcome on problem of running out of memory

compiling .HLP

> file in  a dos box. All bitmaps referenced. Anyone use hcp.exe

(protected

> mode) or know how to get it?

i use hcp.exe and haven't had an 'out of memory' or 'out of file

handles' error in months. i got my version with robohelp, but maybe

there's a version at ftp.microsoft.com or ftp.cica.indiana.edu.

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Automatically minimizing and restoring a help window

i have a question:

My boss just bought Lotus ScreenCam for me to play with to see if it

will make a good on-line tutorial. Though it is cheap and i like the

fact that you can turn a movie you make into your own executable (so

that you don't have to worry about licensing or making calls out to

mplayer.exe), it is mindboggling simplistic--no editing features, you

can't adjust the size of the movie (it takes up the whole screen),

etc.

however, these annoying and thoughtless things can be made less

painful if the help system that launches the movie can be minimized

when the movie is launched (so that it doesn't get in the way) and

then restored to its origainal size once the movie is over.

any clues. mind you, i have no idea about how to create .dlls or any

programming beyond exploiting some of winhelp's features. but even if

the ideas are extraordinarily complex, maybe i can bpass them onto a

programmer. any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Help for OS/s

does anyone have any ideas about how to author help files for OS/2?

We are starting to port windows/mac versions of our products and our

sister companyu's products to OS/2. Any help would be appreciated.

thanks. yo ucan even email me if you want to.

chou

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Visual Basic: Question

     Hi, I hope this is the right group to be posting this in...

     I am curently learning a programming language called "visual basic",

and I have run into a small problem that I can seem to avoid.

     When I use a text box I find that it's borders are black and

unchangable.  This is a problem when I Place them next to a border of

another box (the textbox border overlays the border of the other borders).

     I was wondering if anyone out there knows how I can eithor adjust the

borders of the text boxex to be transparent or specificaly colored, or know

where I could find such boxes to instal into visual basic.

     Any help you could give me as to this problem, or as to where to ask

it would be greatly appreciated.  You can eithor repost here, or mail me

at jss6@jaguar.uofs.edu.

                                            Thanks for you time,

                                                  --Jason S.

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MS SITE???

Thanks in Advance

Lines: 7

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--drag-and-drop--?

please help to implement the 'drag and drop' option for text (not

files)for windows. i know that the same type of options were introduce

by new MS products. i'm using BC++ 3.1.

please send responses to ia23+@andrew.cmu.edu, ''cause it's too much

activity on the bboard, and i don't want to miss anything.

thanks in advance.

p.s. one of the responses i got from the first posting was to check out

"undocumented windows" by Shulman, but where can i get it?

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I'm trying to convert a .hlp file into a flat ascii file.

Is this possible?

Does anyone know how to do it?

How would one go about it?

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>

>Yes, I use HCP.exe all the time. It works great. I create very large

Help files (>1MB). and have no problem on a 386 PS2 with 4 megs of

ram.

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Chinese Word for Windows and Help Compiler

Has anyone succeeded in using Chinese Word for Windows 5 with Windows

Help Compiler?

If so, please let me know which version of the help compiler you are

using.

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Winhelp on Unix?

In article <Cs5wBn.I59@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)

>Subject: Re: Winhelp on Unix?

>Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 14:02:10 GMT

>In article <2urso9$ihb@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>,

>Daniel Smith <smithda@cps.msu.edu> wrote:

>>Does anyone know if there is a tool available to let me use my Windows

>>Help files on a Unix workstation?  I really like the MS Help system,

>>and it would be nice to have it available on Unix as well.

>Bristol Technologies has a product (I forget the name).

>They used to provide a demo at their site (ftp.bristol.com?)

It's called HyperHelp - the latest version I new of was 2.0 but that was some

time ago.  I had the demo once - it was pretty nice, very WINDOWS like in

OpenLook.

I seem to remember, however, that it was very pricey - I don't remember how

much but we couldn't afford it!

Steve.

====================================================

Stephen Griffin       E-Mail: s.griffin@surrey.ac.uk

Artificial Intelligence Group

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University of Surrey     Tel:    (0483) 259633

GUILDFORD  GU2 5XH       Int:    +44 483 259633

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Help Magician

I have just started writing help files as a source of on-line help for several

databases I support at work.  However,  company software purchasing

requirements make buying WORD difficult.

I have heard of several help builders and would be anxious to obtain any

demo versions for evaluation purposes.  I am particularily interested in

Help Magician.

Anyone know where I can find such an item?

Cheers

Richard.

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In article <CsLCI4.KF0@peacock.twinc.com>, kchomic@tcinc.com (Ken

Chomic-TCI/AIT Sybase) writes:

: I'm trying to convert a .hlp file into a flat ascii file.

: Is this possible?

: Does anyone know how to do it?

: How would one go about it?

Sure it's possible ;>  You can do it the hard way.. or the not so hard way

;>

First.. hard way... manually go to each topic and use COPY.  Copy it to

clipboard then paste in a editor.

Second..not so hard way.. get SMTDOC12.ZIP (SmartDoc) which will basically

just do the same thing, but automated.  Warning.. it's slow ;(  And 3/5

file I tried it on, it failed.. stopped after 2nd topic on one and 3rd

topic other two.  I don't know if it was a problem with the help file or

the program... or my computer.... ;>

brmcdaniel@aol.com

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In article <2vje2b$ra5@search01.news.aol.com>, <brmcdaniel@aol.com>

writes:

> In article <CsLCI4.KF0@peacock.twinc.com>, kchomic@tcinc.com (Ken

> Chomic-TCI/AIT Sybase) writes:

>

> : I'm trying to convert a .hlp file into a flat ascii file.

> : Is this possible?

> : Does anyone know how to do it?

> : How would one go about it?

>

> Sure it's possible

>get SMTDOC12.ZIP (SmartDoc)

or you can get hlp2doc from ftp.lrz-muenchen.de. in the

pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows (or something like that) directory.

it's freeware and has a few bugs. namely:

it converts your .hlp files into .doc files, and sometimes if you run

word 6.0, word will crash.

it doesn't convert big .hlp files that (and i'm assuming here) use

external .dlls to call commands (i.e., word 6.0 help system).

the windows interface that comes with it doesn't work, so you ahve to

go into DOS (no big deal, i guess).

it doesn't convert bitmaps. it leaves a big dot in their place.

other than these four things, hlp2doc works fine. if you want to turn

it into a .txt file, i'm pretty sure word will let you.

btw, where do you get smtdoc12.zip, and does it have cures for any of

the bugs i mentioned above?

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In article <conz.24.0067AEB8@highett.mel.dbce.csiro.au>,

Con Zymaris <conz@highett.mel.dbce.csiro.au> wrote:

>Suggestions are welcome on problem of running out of memory compiling .HLP

>file in  a dos box. All bitmaps referenced. Anyone use hcp.exe (protected

>mode) or know how to get it?

I got HC505.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com:/SoftLib/MSLFILES. It seems to

be a very inefficient program. Just to compile a help file with some

20 entries and two larger bitmaps (50K) with compression takes several

minutes on a 486/66. That is rediculous. HCP also needs a lot of

memory - 1M extended/expanded is not enough. I have to swicth to DOS and

make the full 8M available to get things running. But alas, the result

is as I want it.

Frank

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MS SITE???

MS SITE = ftp.microsoft.com

If that is what you mean....

- Jason.

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VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

I have noticed a few bugs in the recent version of VB HelpWriter.

1.)  The first bug is the elusive one.  I don't know if this is really a bug

or just my system being screwy but I never had these problems before I started

using VB HelpWriter and I have elliminated everything else that I could think

of.  It seems that VB HelpWriter is a resource hog.  It uses alot of systems

resources and I think that it has a resources leak.  It seems to use up

resources and not give them back.  After a while of using the program I run

out of resources and have to reboot windows.  I am not sure which aspect of

the program exhibits the leak as I am new to VB HelpWriter and have been

basically trying out everything.

2.)  This bug is very easy to find.  It evolves the cut and copy

functionality.  If you open the topics listing windows that gives the small

dialog box that lets you browse through the topics that you have written and

try to cut or copy from the macros line (I haven't tried it on any other edit

control in the dialog) VB HelpWriter causes a GPF in the USER module and

crashes the program.  After that the system becomes unstable and has

tendencies to crash the desktop or any other of a number of things.

If anyone else has had these same problems or knows a work around I would

appreciate any help.

- Jason Hunter

DCNS MIT

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Location of HC505

I understand that the Windows Help compilier HC505.zip is available

from ft.Microsoft.com.  I have searched all over the site and did not

find it.  Could someone please direct me to the proper location.

Thanks                Jack.Godfrey@wcb.gov.ns.ca

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Location of HC505

The file is actually called VBHC505.EXE and is a self-extrating archive.

This is for Visual Basic, but it usage is general. Try HC505.EXE also.

Roger Layton.     roger@apollo.is.co.za

Jack Godfrey (jgodfrey@fox.nstn.ns.ca) wrote:

: I understand that the Windows Help compilier HC505.zip is available

: from ft.Microsoft.com.  I have searched all over the site and did not

: find it.  Could someone please direct me to the proper location.

: Thanks                Jack.Godfrey@wcb.gov.ns.ca

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Help Magician

I sent for the Help Magician demo just a

few weeks ago. You can get it from:

Software Interphase, Inc.

82 Cucumber Hill Road

Foster, RI 02825-1212

Linda Schoenhoff

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--drag-and-drop--?

>please help to implement the 'drag and drop' option for text (not

>files)for windows. i know that the same type of options were introduce

>by new MS products. i'm using BC++ 3.1.

>please send responses to ia23+@andrew.cmu.edu, ''cause it's too much

>activity on the bboard, and i don't want to miss anything.

>thanks in advance.

>p.s. one of the responses i got from the first posting was to check out

>"undocumented windows" by Shulman, but where can i get it?

Such a beast (a subclassed edit box, in fact) is fully described in

the following issues of the Windows/Dos journal : nov/oct/dec 1992.

The code is available on ftp.uu.net in the directory /published/windowdos.

David

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Help hierarchies

On the subject of help hierarchies.....

this should rather be called OUTLINE HELP, since it allows expansion and

contraction of help topics in situ.

VB provides and outline control in its Professional Edition which I have

considered fur this purpose - Word also support outlining, by the feature is

not extensible to WInHelp.....

interesting, I had noticed this feature before, even with the VB KnowledgeBase

and had never thought to ask how,.....

perhaps put on the wishlist for the next release of the HC....

Roger Layton.

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Convert .hlp file to text file?

In article <2vjkpk$mun@news.acns.nwu.edu>, chou@n5145.notis.com writes:

> Sure it's possible

>get SMTDOC12.ZIP (SmartDoc)

::or you can get hlp2doc from ftp.lrz-muenchen.de. in the

::pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows (or something like that) directory.

::it's freeware and has a few bugs. namely:

::it converts your .hlp files into .doc files, and sometimes if you run

::word 6.0, word will crash.

I got a copy of this too.. works great  _if_ you have WORD.  It won't

convert directly to a plain Text file. ;(  But it DOES maintain _much_ of

the formatting making it look a lot more like the actualy help file than a

utility that converts to plain text.

::it doesn't convert big .hlp files that (and i'm assuming here) use

::external .dlls to call commands (i.e., word 6.0 help system).

Hmm.. how big you talking about? I've succefully converted files as big as

6 megs with hlp2doc.   Some Help files are unusually complicated and loop

around topics over and over and hlp2doc seems to have trouble with those.

::the windows interface that comes with it doesn't work, so you ahve to

::go into DOS (no big deal, i guess).

The windows interface works perfectly for me... Make sure that hlp2doc is

in a directory in your path.

::it doesn't convert bitmaps. it leaves a big dot in their place.

hopefully the author will add this feature in a future addition!

::where do you get smtdoc12.zip, and does it have cures for any of

::the bugs i mentioned above?

smtdoc12.zip is available for FTP from ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the

directory win3/util

It is quite slow compared to hlp2doc.  It also does NOT convert bitmaps

(expected since it converts hlp files only by using Winhelp's built in

COPY command).  It is a windows program and the interface is based in

windows. I never thouroghly tested smtdoc (didn't have the patience to

wait for it to convert a 6meg+ file) so I don't know if it handles

complicated help files or long ones... although if it does support large

files, be prepared for a long wait, as even short files take a while ;(

Hope that helps !!!!!!!!

brmcdaniel@aol.com

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In article <jthunter.4.0011EF63@mit.edu>, jthunter@mit.edu (Jason Hunter)

writes:

::I have noticed a few bugs in the recent version of VB HelpWriter.

::It seems that VB HelpWriter is a resource hog.  It uses alot of systems

::resources and I think that it has a resources leak.  It seems to use up

::resources and not give them back.

Yea.. I noticed that when I used it as well.  Just accidently double click

on the NEW command.. It loads two blank projects.. and BOOOMMM   My system

crashes ... A look at the memory and resources shows hardly NO memory left

and VERY few resources... (4megs real RAM and 8 meg swap file .. and after

loading two blank projects.. I have about 500k left and that is with

NOTHING else but progman running.  That averages to about 3 or 4 megs for

a  blank project file.)  Oh well..I've been using WHAT and Word 2 and have

become quite comfortable with it... and it's nice to use WHAT/Word since

you can modify the macro's anyway you like to fully customize the system.

Oh and of course one of the best reasons for liking What is that if you

have Word..it's FREE ;>

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Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

In article <2vjod7$25m@highway.LeidenUniv.nl>, robijn@Strw.LeidenUniv.NL

(Frank Robijn) writes:

>>>I got HC505.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com:/SoftLib/MSLFILES. It seems to

be a very inefficient program. Just to compile a help file with some

20 entries and two larger bitmaps (50K) with compression takes several

minutes on a 486/66. That is rediculous. HCP also needs a lot of

memory - 1M extended/expanded is not enough. I have to swicth to DOS and

make the full 8M available to get things running. But alas, the result

is as I want it.<<<<

Heh.. I've got only 4megs and I run it from windows in a dos box and don't

have any problems other than it being slow.. like you mentioned..but hey..

it works ! ;>

And I've compiled some rather large Help files.  You might check you PIF

file and make sure you are telling Windows to give it the memory it needs.

 No matter how much RAM you have, if the pif file limits HCP to 1024 (the

default??) then things will prob grind to a halt.

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PROBLEMS WITH BITMAP SCREEN RESOLUTION

I have been doing screen captures of windows and pulldown menus for

inclusion in Windows Help files. I'm using RoboHelp 2.02 and its Screen

Capture Utility to capture and save the screen bitmaps (filename.bmp). I embed

them in Microsoft Word Help files using [image]. I then compile

the .RTF files with HCP and the graphics display in the resulting on-line help.

The problem is that the resulting bitmaps display differently on different

PC's/Monitors/Graphic cards.

If I capture, say, a pulldown menu on a system running at 1024x768 (17"

monitor), and include it in a help file that displays on the same system,

the menu is about 20% larger than the original display. If I capture at

640x480 and display at 1024x768, the result is near original size. If I

insert a bitmap directly into the file with Insert/Picture, the result in the

help display is smaller than original (quite nice, in fact). But for other

reasons I don't want to do the direct inclusion.

The problem is that the results have ragged edges on some monitors.

On my main working monitor (Dell Ultra Scan 17" driven by #9GXE graphic

card) All versions have jagged edges EXCEPT the direct inclusion. Doesn't

matter if I run at 1024x768, 800x600, or 640x480. Two similar systems

here work the same way.

On my home system (Impression 14" monitor, Orchid Fahrenheit graphic card)

all versions look just fine EXCEPT the direct inclusion, at

1024x768, 800x600, or 640x480. Some other systems at work (XXXX Monitor,

XXXX Graphics card) work the same way.

Anybody have any clues about how to approach or resolve this?

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Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

In article <>, Con Zymaris <conz@highett.mel.dbce.csiro.au> wrote:

>Suggestions are welcome on problem of running out of memory compiling .HLP

>file in  a dos box. All bitmaps referenced. Anyone use hcp.exe (protected

>mode) or know how to get it?

>thanx

You wouldn't happen to be trying to edit the .RTF files with Word For

Windows 6.0, while compiling the help file in a conveniently waiting

DOS box, would you?

I experienced symptoms similar to yours with this setup...When I finally

chased them down, it turned out that WfW 6.0 had changed things in my

autoexec.bat and config.sys files, adding the SHARE program to the

system.  SHARE provides file locks.  In the default configuration of

WfW 6.0 and SHARE,  **all** of the file locks are used up by WfW,

leaving none for people who want to read a file currently in use by WfW.

I found a solution and a work-around.  The work-around is to close the

file from within WfW before you try to compile the help file.  The

solution is to increase the available number of file locks, done by

changing the command line which invokes SHARE.  Check your manual, or

you can figure it out by looking at your setup files.

BTW, I find this to be one of the most intolerable of the abuses which

must be suffered in order to use WfW 6.0.  I tried taking out SHARE

altogether (which fixes the HCP problem), but WfW refuses to run if it

doesn't find SHARE.  There is a program out there which spoofs SHARE,

but it makes the system slightly unstable...

Good luck,

Dave

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>In article <2vjod7$25m@highway.LeidenUniv.nl>, robijn@Strw.LeidenUniv.NL

>(Frank Robijn) writes:

>

>>>>I got HC505.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com:/SoftLib/MSLFILES. It seems to

>be a very inefficient program. Just to compile a help file with some

>20 entries and two larger bitmaps (50K) with compression takes several

>minutes on a 486/66. That is rediculous. [sic]...

In the case of help files that contain bitmaps, turning on compression

can increase compilation times by 20-30X in my experience. For example

I have one rather simple on-line help file which is built from

about 500K of RTF source and 42 16-color bitmaps totalling around

5.7 MB. With compression turned off this stuff compiles into a 1.2 MB

HLP file in about 45 seconds. With compression set at MEDIUM, it

compiles into a 925 KB HLP file in about 20 minutes. So I leave

compression turned off during development and just enable it when

I build the final version for distribution. The size difference

yielded by medium compression isn't worth the extra time during

the development cycle.

With regard to your problems under Windows... using HCP under

Windows is definitely the way to go in my experience. At least

then you have the option of doing something else during those

LONG compilations with compression. I haven't noticed any

significant performance hit running HCP under Windows vs. on DOS.

Another thing you might want to check is that the background and

priority settings on the DOS command window are set to something

reasonable. If the background checkbox is not turned on, your

HLP compilation just goes into suspended animation when you click

away from the DOS command window.

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Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

In article <48011@mindlink.bc.ca> Ed_Guy@mindlink.bc.ca (Ed Guy) writes:

>Chris, it has just occurred to me that these misdirected innocents

>probably think that the "winhelp" in the group name means that they can ask

>for "help" about "win" and possibly we should cut them a little slack.

>Ed Guy.

Since FAQ Number 1 for this  group is "WHich is better  C++ or Visual

Basic?", maybe we should consider renaming it. How about

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.HCP31.EXE

   -----or ------->          .compiled-help-systems

   -----or ------->          .hypertext

Just a thought.

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Where to find HC505.zip - Again.

HC505.EXE can be found on ftp.microsoft.com in the directory

/Softlib/MSLFILES/.  The self extracting zip contains hc31.exe version

3.10.505 and hcp.exe version 3.10.505.  The 505 version was released to

increase the number of bitmap files to twice what it was before, increase the

maximum size of a topic to something like 64K, and to allow the compiler to

compile the new version of RTF that was released with Word 6.0.

- Jason.

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graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

In article <2vf450$2h5@hprcl192.mayfield.hp.com>,

George Gottschalk <gottschg@mayfield.hp.com> wrote:

>Greetings!

>

>I'm having a problem creating graphics.  I paste them into Word, get

>them to look okay, but when I compile my application and view it using

>winhelp the graphics come out way to small.  I was wondering if anyone

>could suggest something.

>

>Thanks in advance.

>

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>

I had exactly the same experience. But when I converted by gaphics to

*.shg, they obeyed my resizing religiously, with no problems.  They then

come out fine after compiling in WinHelp.

Carl Cuneo

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Chinese Word for Windows and Help Compiler

In article <CsLE6u.H1J@dcs.ed.ac.uk> jch@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Jen Cheng) writes:

>Has anyone succeeded in using Chinese Word for Windows 5 with Windows

>Help Compiler?

>

>If so, please let me know which version of the help compiler you are

>using.

I have the same problem trying to compile .hlp from .rtf exported from WinWord 5.0...

Wonder how Microsoft did their Chinese versions of the help files...

JCW, NTU

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I am currently using Shed.exe as a hotspot editor in conjunction with the

Win Help Editor. Problem is that it is limited to 16 colours, and I get

spotty blacks, and  green tinge bmps.  Can someone tell me where I can get

an editor for use with WinHelp that will allow me to use 256 colours?  Is

there an ftp site (directory and filename?).

Thanks

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Hypertext Help-like Documents

I'm hoping to do a master's project in

computer science - a simple hypertext system with

small bitmap pictures, embedded links in the text..

etc I want to use Visual C++ if possible, but

could use something else. It has to be in using

Windows.

I've never used VC++ but know X-Windows and Motif

and C++. The main problems that I see are:

1. How can I edit a file and underline the key

phrases (the links) in the file to create the link?

I'd like to be able to highlight them with a mouse

and then say press an 'F' key to tell the computer

that it's a link. Can I do this using the VC++

widget toolkit at all, or would I have to write the

editor from scratch.

2. How can I include a small bitmap within the hyper-

file during reading? I mean, how can get the PC to

draw it in as part of the document reader window.

Could I use a standard text window widget and calculate

where in the window to draw my bitmap picture and

then blank and re-draw it whenever the text window

get a scroll event?

-------------------------------------------------------

I anyone can give me some answers or info on this stuff

or if they can put me right on any misguided ideas I have

about VC++ and it's features/capabilities, then please

let me asap. I appreciate any help offered very much.

Thanks,

Peter Carter.

Internet:

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Looking for structure of Winhelp

Hi,

I am looking for the structure of Winhelp files, but I'm having trouble

rouding up any info. Does anyone know of any documentation of the Winhelp

file structure?

My aim is to be able to search the files, but without creating indexes as

I find they can be much bigger than the actual files. A number of

efficient search algorithms exist, but I still need the format of help...

Thanks for any info.

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Windows Worry

chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

>In article <CuDpEI.MrI@nsa.bt.co.uk> tom@vishnu.nsa.bt.co.uk "Tom McKee" writes:

>>I am a programmer & I suffer from sore eyes, sore head & nausea when I use

>> windows.  I use a glare guard on my screen & I take regular breaks but I am

Have you tried Macintosh programming?  ;-)

Seriously, there are many things that can be cone to make computer-use

more comfortable.  It could be a simple as changing the way you are

sitting, or the position of your monitor.  Seek a doctor or someone

similar that specializes is "workplace ergonomics".  They may be able

to offer, in your case apparenlty, very valuble services.

Matt

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WinHelp DeCompiler???

Hello everyone,

I'm new at this help file stuff...

Is there a way to decompile an existing windows help

file?  I am looking for a tool that would take a

help file and convert it to an rtf.

I have Borland C++ 4.02.  Is there an app buried somewhere

deep in the CD-ROM that I have missed?

Please post replies, but if possible please e-mail because

my news reader is _unstable_!

Thanks in advance,

Aud Brown

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Keyword search jumpst

dwoods@butterfly.UVic.CA (Dave  Woods) wrote:

>How is it possible to make a topic reached via a keyword search appear in

>a secondary window, while leaving the current main window intact?

>

>I tried Focus() as a topic entry macro, but that occurs after the jump,

>not before.

>

 Wow, I've never thought about that. It's impossible as far as I know, but

Jim Mischel (author of The Developer's Guide to WINHELP.EXE) is working on

an improved version of the keyword search program that came with his book.

That would be a good idea for something to add. I'll pass it along to him.

  Pete

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Help authoring tools FAQ etc.

MIS9310@umbcadmn.bitnet (Michael A. Vealey) wrote:

>I'm posting this for my wife. She works for an "Internet Access Challenged"

>company.

 That's a good one. I'll have to remember that.

>She is using RoboHelp and not really satisified.

>

>Is there a FAQ or survey that I can access for other products that generate

>Windows Help files. She's a Technical Writer and would like to find a product

>that doesn't require a programming degree to use.

>

  There was a recent review in PC Magazine, I believe, that had several

help authoring tools. The FAQ for this newsgroup lists some, but many of

the descriptions are written by the people that sell the products, so you

can't expect them to be unbiased.

  Doc-To-Help and RoboHelp are probably the two biggest sellers, and both

are good products. Obviously she's not happy with RoboHelp. If you could

give some idea of the features she likes and doesn't like, maybe I could

give you a better idea of what to look for.

  Pete

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abrown@ttpvcm0013.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Audley Brown) wrote:

>Hello everyone,

>

>I'm new at this help file stuff...

>

>Is there a way to decompile an existing windows help

>file?  I am looking for a tool that would take a

>help file and convert it to an rtf.

  There's a shareware product called HLP2DOC. That will convert a help

file into a .DOC file. There's also a program called MultiDoc (commercial)

that will also allow you to decompile a help file back into RTF. I'm

writing a HLP2RTF program myself to be distributed with my book

"Undocumented Windows File Formats".

>

>I have Borland C++ 4.02.  Is there an app buried somewhere

>deep in the CD-ROM that I have missed?

  No.

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Help authoring tools FAQ etc.

pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) wrote:

MIS9310@umbcadmn.bitnet (Michael A. Vealey) wrote:

>I'm posting this for my wife. She works for an "Internet Access Challenged"

>company.

 That's a good one. I'll have to remember that.

>She is using RoboHelp and not really satisified.

>

>Is there a FAQ or survey that I can access for other products that generate

>Windows Help files. She's a Technical Writer and would like to find a product

>that doesn't require a programming degree to use.

>

  There was a recent review in PC Magazine, I believe, that had several

help authoring tools. The FAQ for this newsgroup lists some, but many of

the descriptions are written by the people that sell the products, so you

can't expect them to be unbiased.

  Doc-To-Help and RoboHelp are probably the two biggest sellers, and both

are good products. Obviously she's not happy with RoboHelp. If you could

give some idea of the features she likes and doesn't like, maybe I could

give you a better idea of what to look for.

  Pete

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===========================

hoop's post:

Pete may have referred to the review called "Help Yourself!" in the

July 94 issue of Windows magazine by Paul E. Schindler Jr.

I, too, am new to the help world, and decided, based on the review

and some other input, to buy Doc2Help.  Other posts in this group

recently have illuminated d2h's limitations, but it had two

advantages for me:  self-contained help compiler, and parallel

development of manual (hard copy) and help file.  I'm finding it a

useful package.  Good tutorial.  Rich set of features.  Accessible

for the beginner, but evidently enough pow! for the long haul.

Currently shipping version 1.5, which requires Word for Windows 2.0,

and won't work with 6.0.  The company will send a free upgrade to

version 1.6 for 6.0 if you send in your registration.  They told me

they's have 1.6 out in a couple of months.  1.5 works fine for now.

If you can find a back issue of the magazine, the article gives a

lot of fine information.  Public thanx to Paul Schindler.

(I have no relation to WexTech -- vendor of d2h -- other than

customer.)

good thoughts,

hoop

(a hoop of very little brain)

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In article <32dhv6$cbo@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>, pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter

J. Davis) writes:

>Well, it wouldn't be simple, I mean, you'd have to write the SHED editor,

but >that's not really too complex.

Hi Pete. As you probably know from lurking over on Compuserve, that Dr.

Rudi Bumm has a neat .dll called Showbmp.dll which allows 256 bitmaps. He

keeps adding new tricks and it now supports .gif and .pcx as well as

.bmp's. I am a registered user of his .dll and last week he sent me an

update (v 1.27) which has a 256 color bitmap hotspot editor! It's not the

bona fide .shg format, but it works extremely well on .gif as well as

other formats. Since the .bmp format is such a hog on filesize, having the

lower overhead formats supported is a real help. I am going to ask Rudi

(who is from Munich, Germany) if he will give me permission to distribute

his shareware version of Showbmp to the ftp.cica. site so that folks who

do not have access to Cserve can access it. BTW, Pete, thanks for those

Dr. Dobb's articles. Great stuff.

John Daigle, Winning Solutions, Austin, Texas.

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Hi!

I am developing an application for MS-Windows using Borland C++(3.1)

OWL. I need help on how to have custom made buttons, ie. having your own Bitmap

on the button. I will be thankfull if you could mail any suggestions that

you may have.

Poola

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HELP : Borland(C++3.1)->Windows->OWL

In article <32lloo$b2@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> amarnath@ksu.ksu.edu (Amarnath Rama Poola) writes:

>

>Hi!

>	I am developing an application for MS-Windows using Borland C++(3.1)

>OWL. I need help on how to have custom made buttons, ie. having your own Bitmap

>on the button. I will be thankfull if you could mail any suggestions that

>you may have.

>	Poola

>

>e-mail

>amarnath@matt.ksu.ksu.edu

>amarnath@ksuvm.ksu.edu

I guess if you think the .winhelp group is for general 'help'

questions, you must think that the other .programmer.* groups

are for exchanging recipes and chatting about the weather?

The appropriate group in which to ask this question is:

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls

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Help-files with full text search ?

At the end of this post I have appended the README.TXT file from the

MS Win NT Development Kit that talks about adding full-text search.

The utilities are provided with the NT development kit.  I have had

limited success applying these tools to help files used with WINHELP

(as opposed to NT's WINHLP32).  These are not complete instructions

(nor do they seem to be totally correct), but perhaps

they'll send you in the right direction.

To use the utilities provided with the NT DK, you need Win NT.  16-bit versions

of these utilities are provided with the MM Viewer 1.0 DK (I'm told).  Good luck

finding them.

One note:  NT makes use of FTENG32.DLL and FTUI32.DLL.  For 16-bit Windows and

Win32s, you need FTENG.DLL and FTUI.DLL.  Both platforms require MAPI.DLL

(I think).

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================================= README.TXT ======================================

Building a Help Index

This file contains complete details on how to build a help index which

spans either a single, or multiple help files.  This functionality allows a user

to search for any word in a help file.

***NOTE: The Full Text Search functionality is specific to Windows NT. If

you intend to ship your application on other platforms, such as Windows 3.1,

then you should not install the .IND file.  The .HLP files will still work, but

the Find button will not be registered.

1.  Copy the complete HLPINDEX directory to your local hard drive.

2.  Copy NMAKE.EXE from your \MSTOOLS\BIN directory into the HLPINDEX directory.

3.  Edit the BAG.INI file to correspond to your help project.  The sample file

    looks like this:

[bag.ini]

groupcount=2

group1=hlpfile1

group2=hlpfile2

[hlpfile1]

Indexfile=hlpfile1.ind

Title=Sample Help File 1

[hlpfile2]

Indexfile=hlpfile1.ind

Title=Sample Help File 2

    This BAG.INI will create an index file, hlpfile1.ind which contains the

    full text search index for the two help files HLPFILE1.HLP and HLPFILE2.HLP.

    Following are the descriptions of each element of the BAG.INI:

groupcount -	The number of helpfiles to cross index.  Must be less

than 15.

group[1-15] -	The name of each individual help file.

[hlpfile1] -	Each individual group needs a separate configuration

section, identified by the helpfile name.

Indexfile -	The name of the resulting .IND file.  This must be the

same for all groups.

Title - 	The full name of the help file.  This appears in the

Found dialog alongside each hit.

4.  Copy the BAG.INI into your development directory (wherever you build the

    help file)

5.  Add the following lines to your .HPJ files (found in GENERIC.HPJ):

[Baggage]

bag.ini

[config]

RegisterRoutine("ftui","InitRoutines","SU")

InitRoutines(qchPath,1)

RegisterRoutine("ftui","SwitchToTopicsFound","U")

AddAccelerator(0x46, 2, "SwitchToTopicsFound(hwndApp)")

RegisterRoutine("ftui","ExecFullTextSearch","USSS")

CreateButton("ftSearch","F&ind","ExecFullTextSearch(hwndApp,qchPath,`',`')")

    This will tell the help compiler to build in the hooks for the index file,

    and to provide the Find button in each help file.

6.  Rebuild all of your help files.

7.  Copy all of the help files into the HLPINDEX directory.

8.  Copy all of the GENERIC files to the same name as your index file.  For

    example if your index file was FOO.IND, then you would copy GENERIC.* to

    FOO.*.

NOTE: The GENERIC.STP file contains a list of words which will not be

      indexed.  You can add your own words to this list.

9.  Run the HLPINDEX batch file as follows:

HLPINDEX FOO -	  Creates FOO.IND for one HLP file.

HLPINDEX /m FOO - Creates FOO.IND to cross-index multiple HLP files.

10. You can now simply put all of the .HLP files and the .IND file in the same

    directory.  Start winhlp32 foo.hlp and hit the Find button for Full-Text

    Search.

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256 Colours

johnmovie@aol.com (JohnMovie) wrote:

>In article <32dhv6$cbo@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>, pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter

>J. Davis) writes:

>>Well, it wouldn't be simple, I mean, you'd have to write the SHED editor,

>but >that's not really too complex.

>

>Hi Pete. As you probably know from lurking over on Compuserve, that Dr.

>Rudi Bumm has a neat .dll called Showbmp.dll which allows 256 bitmaps. He

>keeps adding new tricks and it now supports .gif and .pcx as well as

>.bmp's. I am a registered user of his .dll and last week he sent me an

>update (v 1.27) which has a 256 color bitmap hotspot editor! It's not the

>bona fide .shg format, but it works extremely well on .gif as well as

>other formats. Since the .bmp format is such a hog on filesize, having the

[deleted]

  John,

   I have seen showbmp. I took a look at it before I started working on

the 256 color bitmap support for WinHelp. Although we're not yet

supporting 256 color shed files, the 256 color bitmaps can be activated as

a hot-spot, much as you can do with a regular bitmap.

  I haven't seen the version of Showbmp that you described, but it sounds

impressive. It's a nice program.

  Pete

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--> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

Hello,

For WinHelp 3.1, I'd like to be able to modify the standard menu and menu

items.  At the minimum, I'd like to be able to disable the 'Print Topic' item

(under the File menu) and the 'Copy' item (under the Edit menu), especially

for particular topics.  At the maximum, I'd like to totally redo the menu

section and be able to enable/disable from topic to topic.

All my attempts have failed implying that the standard menus and menu items

are unchangeable (I've used "Developing Online Help for Windows" as my

reference guide).  Are there any simple ways to do what I'd like to do?

Thanks.

Jon Noring

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--> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

In article <noringCuJsq8.H64@netcom.com>, Jon Noring <noring@netcom.com> wrote:

>Hello,

>

>For WinHelp 3.1, I'd like to be able to modify the standard menu and menu

>items.  At the minimum, I'd like to be able to disable the 'Print Topic' item

>(under the File menu) and the 'Copy' item (under the Edit menu), especially

>for particular topics.  At the maximum, I'd like to totally redo the menu

>section and be able to enable/disable from topic to topic.

>

>All my attempts have failed implying that the standard menus and menu items

>are unchangeable (I've used "Developing Online Help for Windows" as my

>reference guide).  Are there any simple ways to do what I'd like to do?

>

>Thanks.

>

>Jon Noring

>OmniMedia

>

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>1312 Carlton Place  | Windows 3.1 Help files. Demo versions available via

>Livermore, CA 94550 | anonymous ftp from ftp.netcom.com /pub/OmniMedia/books.

>510-294-8153        | "Fanny Hill", "Devil's Dictionary", "Aesop's Fables"...

Pete Davis implemented a macro on CIS to do just that, you need to register

the winsdk routines from the "USER" DLL part of windows : GetSubMenu,

GetMenu, getActiveWindow and enableMenuItem in the [config] part of

your hpj file, and later concat a string of these routines.

Unfortunatly - My CIS program crashed and my messages database from there

is in a state of garbage, so until I'll re-construct it, (And upgrade to

something better than dosCIM 2.0) - I can not give you the exact reference.

If you can not figure it out from the Windows SDK manuals, drop me a line and

I'll take care of finding the article for you.

Ron Loewy, Author of HLPDK, HLPDK/PA and PASTERP.

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WinHelp DeCompiler???

There is utility called HELP2DOC which takes a HLP file and turns it into a

Word for Windows 2.0 file.  Not sure of the site, but the last file name I

saw was HLPDC137.ZIP  an Archie on HLPDC will probably find it for you.

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WinHelp DeCompiler???

In article <51510@mindlink.bc.ca>, Ed_Guy@mindlink.bc.ca (Ed Guy) writes:

>There is utility called HELP2DOC which takes a HLP file and turns it into

a

>Word for Windows 2.0 file.  Not sure of the site, but the last file name

I

>saw was HLPDC137.ZIP  an Archie on HLPDC will probably find it for you.

You can find this file at the location below

filename - hlpdc137.zip

ftp.lrz-muenchen.de  /pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows

This is the site the author of Help2Doc list for the latest version of the

program.

Overall the product is very handy, all though it's still not able to hand

a few situations (namely bitmaps) and overly large and complicated help

files seem to cause it to choke (or at least it did on occasion for me).

But I've only had problems with VERY few files and they were each over

7meg help files.

Regretfully, while this is handy to make a DOC file, you would have to do

a LOT of work on it to make it into a Help compiler acceptable RTF file

because the help related footnotes aren't carried over.  You get just a

straight Word DOC file.

brmcdaniel@aol.com

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Good Help Authoring Software ?

choang@tdkt.mn.org (Carl Hoang) writes:

: Hello,

:

: We're searching for a Help authoring software now for our application.  I've

: heard of many tools but very confused.  Is there a FAQ that I can get

: through Email FTP?  What's your favorite tool?  Thanks.

: 	Carl Hoang	choang@tdkt.mn.org

I use ForeHelp by ForeFront, Incorporated. (From an offer from

Borland).

It is a WYSIWYG help editor, which will do all you need without

having you use all the strike though, hidden text, footnotes and more.

You can jump while editing, see a working preview and launch the

help compiler without any problems.

I'm very happy with it.

Greetings,

Jelle Paul

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Program to display 256 color pictures -- which?

In article <1994Aug9.121436.8349@let.rug.nl>,

Bert Plat <plat@let.rug.nl> wrote:

>'lo,

>

>I am busy creating a hypertext that describes people in an

>organisation. I have digitized (.jpg) photographs of them,

>and I would like to be able to use these too. I know winhelp

>can't display 256 colour bitmaps, and I also know that there's

>a .DLL out there that remedies this, but I want something else:

>I want a program which I can fire up using macros, which simply

>displays the picture in another window. It shouldn't be able to do

>anything else, just display the picture specified. Does such a

>program exist? And, will I be able to close that window from within

>winhelp, or should the user do that him/herself? Or is there a

>better solution altogether?

>

>best,

>

>

>--

> .

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>                                          . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

There is a simple  solution. Just put your graphics in the secondary

window, but make sure their size is compatible with the size of the

scondary window you set up; otherwise you will have to either scroll, or

maximize your secondary window, which sort of defeats its purpose.  You

use the winhelp editor to set up your secondary window in the *.hpj file.

Carl

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Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top

In article <1994Aug12.192305.13203@nuchat.sccsi.com>, smi@sccsi.com wrote :

> I believe the Viewer 2.0 can access WIN API calls to handle this, then

> use the hwndApp and register the API in a RegisterRoutine command. However, I

> have been unable to get this to work.  Can anyone help?

You'd have to call ShowWindow and pass sw_topmost flage to this function.

Look your API doc for more info.

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--> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) wrote:

>In article <noringCuJsq8.H64@netcom.com>, Jon Noring <noring@netcom.com> wrote:

>>Hello,

>>

>>For WinHelp 3.1, I'd like to be able to modify the standard menu and menu

>>items.  At the minimum, I'd like to be able to disable the 'Print Topic' item

>>(under the File menu) and the 'Copy' item (under the Edit menu), especially

>>for particular topics.  At the maximum, I'd like to totally redo the menu

>>section and be able to enable/disable from topic to topic.

>>

[delted]

>>

>>Jon Noring

>>OmniMedia

>>

[deleted]

>

>Pete Davis implemented a macro on CIS to do just that, you need to register

>the winsdk routines from the "USER" DLL part of windows : GetSubMenu,

>GetMenu, getActiveWindow and enableMenuItem in the [config] part of

>your hpj file, and later concat a string of these routines.

>

[deleted]

  Oops, some how I missed the original post (I always notice when my name

is in a post :-) , but this is for Jon. Jon, it's a fairly simple

operation: Here's how you do it.

In the [CONFIG] section of the .HPJ.

RegisterRoutine("USER", "EnableMenuItem", "uuu")

RegisterRoutine("USER", "GetSubMenu", "u=uu")

RegisterRoutine("USER", "GetMenu", "u=u")

RegisterRoutine("USER", "GetActiveWindow", "u=")

EnableMenuItem(GetSubMenu(GetMenu(GetActiveWindow()), 0), 2, 1027)

This will grey and disable the Print Topic menu item. The 0 tells you

which sub-menu (File) and the 2 tells you which item from the File menu.

The 1027 is the attribute you want to set the menu item as.

  Pete Davis

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Looking for structure of Winhelp

martinb@CAM.ORG (Martin Bechard) wrote:

>Hi,

>I am looking for the structure of Winhelp files, but I'm having trouble

>rouding up any info. Does anyone know of any documentation of the Winhelp

>file structure?

>

>My aim is to be able to search the files, but without creating indexes as

>I find they can be much bigger than the actual files. A number of

>efficient search algorithms exist, but I still need the format of help...

>

>Thanks for any info.

Martin, I documented the .HLP file format in Dr. Dobb's Journal. See the

FAQ as this is covered in there. You'll find that most search algorithms

won't be efficient with WinHelp and once you read up on the format, you'll

know why.

  I'll have a book coming out early next year (Like January or so),

"Undocumented Windows File Formats" that will cover the .HLP file format

in much more detail than I did in the two articles for Dr. Dobb's.

  Pete Davis

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Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

In article <sspectra-010894112152@ip-ca.teleport.com>, sspectra@teleport.com (Tony Noe) says:

>I am looking at the manual at this instant.  It says ForeHelp 1.0 by

>ForeFront, Inc.  Looks like Borland is distributing it.  I ordered it from

>Borland.  They shipped it within two days.

I called boreland yesterday.  They are indeed offerring ForeHelp for $69.

I may order it myself just to get a clear picture of how it stands in

relation to the competing tools.

Roy

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WinHelp DeCompiler???

Ed_Guy@mindlink.bc.ca (Ed Guy) wrote:

>There is utility called HELP2DOC which takes a HLP file and turns it into a

>Word for Windows 2.0 file.  Not sure of the site, but the last file name I

>saw was HLPDC137.ZIP  an Archie on HLPDC will probably find it for you.

HLP2DOC should be listed in the FAQ as to where to get it. It's at a site

called ftp.muenchen.de, I believe, but the directory eludes me at the

moment. Like I said, it's in the FAQ (don't have it handy right now).

  Pete Davis

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Dithering colors

I want to display a graphic on a window with a light

yellow background (255,255,128). The window itself appears

as a solid color. When I place the graphic with a

background having the exact same attributes (255,255,128),

the background to my graphic is dithered.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get around this?

Many thanks for any help you can give me.

Gail Issen

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WinHelp DeCompiler???

There's a very nice program called HLP2DOC, and it freeware. Here's

a description by the author, Wolfgang Beyer, from his HLP2DOC.TXT file:

"HLP2DOC is a DOS utility to convert a Windows 3.x Help File to a Word for

Windows 2.0 Document File including formatting information. There is also

a windows front end program H2DSTART for easy handling."

The last I checked, current version of this application was available

via anonymous FTP from ftp.lrz-muenchen.de in:

   /pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows/hlpdc137.zip

(The last three characters of the file name reflect the current version

number - in this case 1.37. Be sure to specify "binary" before using ftp

to copy the file.)

- Chuck Murray

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Need tools for converting c++ source code to WP or RTF ?

Hello All,

Does anybody know some good MSDOS/Windows programs, that can convert

c++ source code files (*.HPP and *.CPP) to technical documentation like

format in either WordPerfect or in Rich Text Format (RTF/Windows Help) ?

Any replies should be emailed to msu@nov.cri.dk.

I thanks in advance for all replies.

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Keyword search >> 2ndary windows

In article <1994Aug13.034449.14810@sol.UVic.CA>, dwoods@butterfly.UVic.CA (Dave  Woods) writes:

|> Another question: Using Robohelp on a Dell 486DX2/66, I go to define my

|> secondary or main window attributes and the machine goes to sleep. At home

|> on a different machine it takes several seconds to reach the window editor,

|> but it works. I have not been able to duplicate this problem on a non-Dell

|> machine. Robohelp support said not to worry as machine is making an API call.

|> This "call"  must take longer than 40 minutes, though, because that's all

|> I've ever waited. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

This happens to me too (running on an IBM PS/2 mod 90).  This

long-distance "API call" usually takes about a minute to complete on my

setup.

Glad to know it's not just me.

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Creating On-Line Books

Does anyone know how to create online books. I am thinking of something

along the lines of the Microsoft Visual C++ Online Books. Is there a utility

out there that I can use?

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Creating On-Line Books

In article <jager.1.2E50C615@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> jager@odie.ee.wits.ac.za writes:

>Path: xmission!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!psgrain!quagga.ru.ac.za!caesar.wits.ac.za!seal8.ee.wits.ac.za!jager

>From: jager@odie.ee.wits.ac.za

>Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

>Subject: Creating On-Line Books

>Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 13:58:45 GMT

>Organization: Wits Electrical Engineering (Novell Users).

>Lines: 3

>Message-ID: <jager.1.2E50C615@odie.ee.wits.ac.za>

>NNTP-Posting-Host: seal8.ee.wits.ac.za

>Does anyone know how to create online books. I am thinking of something

>along the lines of the Microsoft Visual C++ Online Books. Is there a utility

>out there that I can use?

The absolute best product for producing electronic/online books is Folio

VIEWS 3.1   If you haven't heard of the product you should look into it.  Of

course I am a bit biased :)  If you would like some more information just

send email to me and I'll have it sent to you.

--Paul Pearson

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printf and scanf in OWL environment

In article <32gqtd$2n1@agate.berkeley.edu>

           rothman@asgard.CS.Berkeley.EDU "Jeffrey Rothman" writes:

>I've been trying for a week to get input from the keyboard and print results

>out to the screen in the Borland C++ environment, without success.  I imagine

>there must be a way to grab keyboard characters and do simple printf type stuff

>(I've tried cout too), but I can't seem to find any examples that do that.  I

>am interested in writing software that requires a console (something like a

>terminal program), but I have no way of getting text.  Anybody have ideas how

>to do this?  I've read all the books I have with no success...

I'm afraid that you're asking on the wrong group. This group is for

discussion of the Windows on-line Help engine "WinHelp" - it is NOT a group

for obtaining general "help" with Windows programming questions. There is

a weekly FAQ posted which lists the purpose of the Windows programming

newsgroup hierarchy "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.*".

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I made a enumeration under Word 6.0 and compiled it with hc31. But

it won't make the right thing:

Under Word 6.0 it looks like that:

"

     1. first line.......................................

        ..............

     2. second line.....................................

        .......................

     3. and so on...

"

After Compilation it looks like that(using WinHelp *.Hlp):

"

     1.       first line.......................................

        ............... (<-first line always correct)

2.       second line....................................

...................

3.       and so on...

"

Ugly, isn't it? Anybody who knows something about it?

Thanks, Jan.

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I've got a problem using WfW to create a Windows-Helpfile.

I've made a table in WfW which I want to appear in the Helpfile.

The problem is that the borders of the cells do not show in Winhelp, the

rest of the table comes through allright.

While compiling the RTF-file HC gives the error message 'Table formatting

to complex'.

If somebody has a solution for this problem I would be very grateful.

Thanks,

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Help Authoring Testimonials?

Roy Beatty (beattyr@pop.ds.dupont.com) wrote:

: Is Visual Help intended only for Visual Basic applications?

No it is not. It can easily link to VB projects but that's not what I've

been using it for. There are several other programs now available that

tout that feature as one of their main selling points. Can't remember

them all, sorry to say. Geez, since I started with VH there seems to have

been an explosion of such programs. Check out cica.

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Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

Hi!

First off, I know I'm going to get flames for this.

Oh well....  I go against the grain sometimes.

What I want to do is create a DLL which can be called

through a button I install in help.  When the button is

clicked, it will bring up the color palette that is

standard with windows.  The user can then select a color

to be their new jump color.  Easy enough?

I'm familiar enough with the CreateButton and basic DLLs.

I've got the DLL already set up, but I don't know what C

calls to make inside of it.  I've got Mischel's book and

loads of docs, but they don't go far enough.  Are there

any existing sites which house DLLs specifically for help?

I'm a human factors consultant and basically, I'm looking

around into things to make help user-configurable and

easier to use.  So any suggestions would be welcomed.

Why don't more people sue Microsoft for all of their

undocumented functions????  I really love their stuff,

but someone needs to cut them down a little.  Mischel

seemed to describe just as many undocumented calls as

documented calls.  Grrr.

Ken Schneider @ Strategic Technology Resources

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In article <32s3id$i64@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> schneide@tortie.me.uiuc.edu (Ken Schneider) writes:

>Hi!

>

>First off, I know I'm going to get flames for this.

>Oh well....  I go against the grain sometimes.

>

>What I want to do is create a DLL which can be called

>through a button I install in help.  When the button is

>clicked, it will bring up the color palette that is

>standard with windows.  The user can then select a color

>to be their new jump color.  Easy enough?

>

>I'm familiar enough with the CreateButton and basic DLLs.

>I've got the DLL already set up, but I don't know what C

>calls to make inside of it.  I've got Mischel's book and

>loads of docs, but they don't go far enough.  Are there

>any existing sites which house DLLs specifically for help?

DLLs for help?  Well, presumably you have some sort

of compiler or you wouldn't be able to create DLLs.

So if you look in your on-line help, you should

be able to find it.  When I search for 'color', I

see a topic called 'Color Dialog Box' and that leads

me to the ChooseColor() function which reside in COMMDLG.DLL

That's what you want and it's not hard to find.

>I'm a human factors consultant and basically, I'm looking

>around into things to make help user-configurable and

>easier to use.  So any suggestions would be welcomed.

>

>Why don't more people sue Microsoft for all of their

>undocumented functions????  I really love their stuff,

>but someone needs to cut them down a little.  Mischel

>seemed to describe just as many undocumented calls as

>documented calls.  Grrr.

This stuff is well documented.  All compilers should

have sufficient on-line help to use these functions.

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How to print helpfiles ?

[ Article crossposted from comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools ]

[ Author was Hp. Roth ]

[ Posted on Tue, 16 Aug 1994 11:29:17 GMT ]

In Windows help one can print just the current topic.

Is there some means to print a whole Windows helpfile including the table

of contents, that can be viewed with the Books Online contents reader?

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WinHelp DeCompiler???

In <32lc7p$djg@flclcnsa.clc.gmeds.com> abrown@ttpvcm0013.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Audley Brown) writes:

>Hello everyone,

>I'm new at this help file stuff...

>Is there a way to decompile an existing windows help

>file?  I am looking for a tool that would take a

>help file and convert it to an rtf.

There is not such tool with your Borland CD.  I would

however recommend you look for HLP2DOC which is available

via ftp and allows you to output your help file to a

WinWord 2.0 DOC file.

...Stefan

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schneide@tortie.me.uiuc.edu (Ken Schneider) wrote:

>What I want to do is create a DLL which can be called

>through a button I install in help.  When the button is

>clicked, it will bring up the color palette that is

>standard with windows.  The user can then select a color

>to be their new jump color.  Easy enough?

>

>I'm familiar enough with the CreateButton and basic DLLs.

>I've got the DLL already set up, but I don't know what C

>calls to make inside of it.  I've got Mischel's book and

>loads of docs, but they don't go far enough.  Are there

>any existing sites which house DLLs specifically for help?

  Well, to get the color, you can use the ChooseColor() API call from

COMMDLG.DLL. This will give the user a dialog box with all the color stuff

for them to choose from. That part is pretty simple. Then you just need to

update the [WinHelp] section of WIN.INI (see Jim's book for a description

of the commands). That should be all there is to it.

>I'm a human factors consultant and basically, I'm looking

>around into things to make help user-configurable and

>easier to use.  So any suggestions would be welcomed.

>

>Why don't more people sue Microsoft for all of their

>undocumented functions????  I really love their stuff,

>but someone needs to cut them down a little.  Mischel

>seemed to describe just as many undocumented calls as

>documented calls.  Grrr.

  You can't really sue MS for undocumented calls. They're not legally

required to document anything. What they are required to do, however, is

perform some sort of fair business practice. They've been caught on that a

few times. The thing is, even MS doesn't use the undocumented WinHelp

macros, or at least I haven't seen any signs of it.

  Pete Davis

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Removing the CTRL+INS Accelerator

For the last couple of days, Pete Davis has given me valuable advice about how

to alter (deactivate and activate) the default menu items in WinHelp files.

I am very thankful for his help.

I also asked him how to deactivate/activate the CTRL+INS accelerator which by

default does a CopyTopic().  Of course, I tried the RemoveAccelerator macro,

but with no luck.  For example, I tried RemoveAccelerator(0x2D, 2), and many

other combinations.  It seems like the RemoveAccelerator will not override the

WinHelp default for the CTRL+INS accelerator.  Pete believes, and he may be

right, that a DLL would be required to do this.  So my question of you WinHelp

wizards -- Can the CTRL+INS accelerator assigned to CopyTopic() be deactivated

from within the *.hpj file without need for an external DLL?

With my apologies to Pete who probably is right, but I am desperate.  :^)

Jon Noring

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In article <noringCuoo0s.Jyp@netcom.com>, Jon Noring <noring@netcom.com> wrote:

>For the last couple of days, Pete Davis has given me valuable advice about how

>to alter (deactivate and activate) the default menu items in WinHelp files.

>I am very thankful for his help.

>

>I also asked him how to deactivate/activate the CTRL+INS accelerator which by

>default does a CopyTopic().  Of course, I tried the RemoveAccelerator macro,

>but with no luck.  For example, I tried RemoveAccelerator(0x2D, 2), and many

>other combinations.  It seems like the RemoveAccelerator will not override the

>WinHelp default for the CTRL+INS accelerator.  Pete believes, and he may be

>right, that a DLL would be required to do this.  So my question of you WinHelp

>wizards -- Can the CTRL+INS accelerator assigned to CopyTopic() be deactivated

>from within the *.hpj file without need for an external DLL?

>

>With my apologies to Pete who probably is right, but I am desperate.  :^)

This is a stupid idea, but it might work, did you try to add a new

accelerator using the same key combination, and see if it will overwrite

the old one ?

Try the new accelrator that will do nothing interesting like open the

annotation dialog ...

Ron Loewy, Author of HLPDK, HLPDK/PA and PASTERP.

>

>Jon Noring

>OmniMedia

>

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non-scrolling region error

I ran afoul of the non-scrolling region error #4792 and fixed it using

the Keep Next To check-off in Word as described by a previous poster. I

selected my entire doc, disabled Keep Next To, and enabled it for topics

that required more than one screen.

The WHATHLP.ZIP file on the Microsoft ftp site contains the

BLDERROR.HLP file that lists, diagnoses, and suggests fixes for the

compiler error codes. Apparently it was not included in WHAT.

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In <MIS9310.57.001083FF@umbcadmn.bitnet> MIS9310@umbcadmn.bitnet (Michael A. Vealey) writes:

>I'm posting this for my wife. She works for an "Internet Access Challenged"

>company.

>She is using RoboHelp and not really satisified.

HWA (Help Writer's Assistant for Windows) make help authoring very easy and

you sure don't need to be a programmer to be able to make great help files!

References are available on request.

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Hypertext Help-like Documents

Mr P.D. Carter (hs0u3018@liverpool.ac.uk) wrote:

: I'm hoping to do a master's project in

: computer science - a simple hypertext system with

: small bitmap pictures, embedded links in the text..

: etc I want to use Visual C++ if possible, but

: could use something else. It has to be in using

: Windows.

Sounds to me like you just want to write a .hlp file. Don't need Visual

C++ or anything like that. Check out the thread on this group slugged

'Help Author Testimonials' or some such. It talks to several of the

shareware authoring programs floating around out there. With one of those

you could do what you describe in very little time. VC++ or Toolbook or

Visual Basic COULD be used to accomplish this. But that seems WAY

overkill if all you want is to display text and graphics with hyper links.

Hope that helps.

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I have been a Windows C/C++ programmer for about 1 year now, but I have

no experience with WINHELP.  I have MS Visual C++ 1.5, and I know it has

some sample source code dealing with help, but it doesn't go into great

detail about how to construct the .hlp file.  I would like to know a

little more about what is needed to make this file.  Can I use MS Word

6.0? or some other Word processor?  Thanks for any help.

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In article rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>In article Jon Noring <noring@netcom.com> wrote:

>>I also asked ... how to deactivate/activate the CTRL+INS accelerator which by

>>default does a CopyTopic().  Of course, I tried the RemoveAccelerator macro,

>>but with no luck.  For example, I tried RemoveAccelerator(0x2D, 2), and many

>>other combinations.  It seems like the RemoveAccelerator will not override the

>>WinHelp default for the CTRL+INS accelerator.  Pete believes, and he may be

>>right, that a DLL would be required to do this.  So my question of you WinHelp

>>wizards -- Can the CTRL+INS accelerator assigned to CopyTopic() be deactivated

>>from within the *.hpj file without need for an external DLL?

>This is a stupid idea, but it might work, did you try to add a new

>accelerator using the same key combination, and see if it will overwrite

>the old one ?

>

>Try the new accelrator that will do nothing interesting like open the

>annotation dialog ...

Yes, I did try that as well, that is, 'AddAccelerator(0x2D, 2, "macro")' (and

other combinations) but it did not overwrite the default CTRL+INS.

Sigh.

Jon Noring

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Is it possible when using the CB or CBB macros -

which look like:

CreateButton("BTN_NAME","&ButtonTitle","macro")

to have the "macro" string execute more than one macro? The HAG says it is,

at least in the case of CBB. But when I try this, the help compiler truncates

the string at the first semicolon (used to separate the macros) and returns

a syntax error saying there is no end quote, because of course it has been

removed.

This is not a problem with macro length or the quotation syntax rules etc.

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In <CuKJGA.Koo@cs.vu.nl> jalten@cs.vu.nl (Alten JP) writes:

>choang@tdkt.mn.org (Carl Hoang) writes:

>: Hello,

>:

>: We're searching for a Help authoring software now for our application.  I've

>: heard of many tools but very confused.  Is there a FAQ that I can get

>: through Email FTP?  What's your favorite tool?  Thanks.

>: 	Carl Hoang	choang@tdkt.mn.org

>I use ForeHelp by ForeFront, Incorporated. (From an offer from

>Borland).

>It is a WYSIWYG help editor, which will do all you need without

>having you use all the strike though, hidden text, footnotes and more.

I didn't see the orginal message but I can understand why you are confused.

If you want the FAQ I can email it to you.

I would recommend HWA (Help Writer's Assistant for Windows) which my

company, Olson Software produces.  Like ForeHelp is provides a

WYSIWYG help editor, but unlike ForeHelp, HWA provides Drag and

Drop creation of links, automatic browse sequencing and generally

makes your help authoring easier!

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farellc@io.org (C. Farell) writes:

>Sorry if this is a bothersome question, but how does one get the Multimedia

>Viewer 2.0?

You can order it from the Programmer's Shop (they have an 800 #, you can

call 800 information) for about $495.  Or, you can buy Steve Pruitt's new

book on it, for about $45, which comes with a CD with the complete MMV

toolkit (except the compiler is crippled, won't compile a file with more

than about 20 topics).

Rumor is that most of the differences between Winhelp and MMV will be

added to Winhelp in Windows 4.0, in which case you'd just need the new

Windows 4.0 SDK, in one form or another...

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As I've not seen a message concerning where I can find the FAQ for this

group, I  thought I'd ask..  ;>  Also in addition to the location, does

anyone know the last time it was updated? THANKS !

Bill McDaniel

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In article <1994Aug1.230436.446@emr1.emr.ca>, jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

|> In article <31jtaf$4kt@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> toddc@cs.pdx.edu (todd a carlson) writes:

|> >"Any suggestions how to create a Windows Help File that can only be

|> >The following is posted for an associate, but please respond to me:

|> >

|> >accessed a fixed number of times before it inactivates or deletes itself?"

|> >If there's a term for limited-life software I don't know what it is

|> >but that might be a catchy title that would get some interest.

|> >

|> >Also, "How do you make an Asymetrix Toolbook 3.0 application cease to function

|> >after it has been run a fixed number of times?"

|> >

|> >Thanks,

|> >

|> >-Todd

> 	Don't know.  Perhaps a more reasonable approach is to trust

|> 	the users to register the product or delete it after a 30-day trial.

|> 	The shareware industry is based on this philosophy.  If it's a

|> 	good product for a reasonable price, most people may register.

|> --

|> John A. Grant	jagrant@emr1.emr.ca

I doubt this will work. A little bit crippled feature or registration

incentives, whatsoever you call it, is a more reasonable approach, as

long as it won't prevent the user from evaluating your product.

It is technically quite difficult to enforce a limited life on your

program, because you can't make sure that the last 100 times or in the

last 100 days your program was run by the same person.

--

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Create/Change button macros

In article <1994Aug18.024907.15943@sol.uvic.ca>,

Dave  Woods <dwoods@butterfly.UVic.CA> wrote:

>Is it possible when using the CB or CBB macros -

>

>which look like:

>

>CreateButton("BTN_NAME","&ButtonTitle","macro")

>

>to have the "macro" string execute more than one macro? The HAG says it is,

>at least in the case of CBB. But when I try this, the help compiler truncates

>the string at the first semicolon (used to separate the macros) and returns

>a syntax error saying there is no end quote, because of course it has been

>removed.

>

>This is not a problem with macro length or the quotation syntax rules etc.

>

>Ideas?

Yes, use a colon and not a semi-colon to separate them.

If you are interested in some fancy macro development, we have a new

package called PASTERP Control for WinHelp that allows you to use macros

in Pascal-like procedures that are embedded in the baggage file of your

WinHelp document.

for more information, please contact me, and I'll be happy to answer

questions, or send more info.

Ron Loewy, Author of HLPDK, HLPDK/PA and PASTERP.

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WinHelp DeCompiler???

I have now acquired and used HLP2DOC to decompile WinHelp files

into WinWord format.  It is very easy to use and retains almost

all formatting, even tables!!

Thanks for all the responses to my post!!!

Audley Brown

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In article <32vi28$gbg@panix2.panix.com>, Ron Loewy <rloewy@panix.com> wrote:

>In article <1994Aug18.024907.15943@sol.uvic.ca>,

>Dave  Woods <dwoods@butterfly.UVic.CA> wrote:

>>Is it possible when using the CB or CBB macros -

>>

>>which look like:

>>

>>CreateButton("BTN_NAME","&ButtonTitle","macro")

>>

>>to have the "macro" string execute more than one macro? The HAG says it is,

>>at least in the case of CBB. But when I try this, the help compiler truncates

>>the string at the first semicolon (used to separate the macros) and returns

>>a syntax error saying there is no end quote, because of course it has been

>>removed.

>>

>>This is not a problem with macro length or the quotation syntax rules etc.

>>

>>Ideas?

>

>Yes, use a colon and not a semi-colon to separate them.

>

If I may expand on this a little:

in the [CONFIG] section of your .HPJ:

separate macros with colons.

in your hotspots/entry macros (inside an .RTF file):

separate macros with semicolons.

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Wizards and Cue Cards

Are the tools for creating the sorts of Wizards and Cue Cards that come with the

latest versions of Excel and WinWord available for use outside of Microsoft? Are

they in the Windows SDK, for example?

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Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

Robert Wagenaar Leiden, The Netherlands asks ...

>The problem is that the borders of the cells do not show in Winhelp, the

>rest of the table comes through allright.

>

>While compiling the RTF-file HC gives the error message 'Table formatting

>to complex'.

>

>If somebody has a solution for this problem I would be very grateful.

>

--------------------------------------------------------------

Select the contents of the cell (not the cell itself). You

can then apply any border you want to the selected

paragraph(s).

regards,

Gail Issen

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In article <CuMnHp.3r5@unx.sas.com>, <sascrh@norman.unx.sas.com>

> |> Another question: Using Robohelp on a Dell 486DX2/66, I go to

define my

> |> secondary or main window attributes and the machine goes to

sleep. At home

> |> on a different machine it takes several seconds to reach the

window editor,

> |> but it works. I have not been able to duplicate this problem on

a non-Dell

> |> machine. Robohelp support said not to worry as machine is making

an API call.

> |> This "call"  must take longer than 40 minutes, though, because

that's all

> |> I've ever waited. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

>

this happens on my 486/33 micron. but it takes maybe about 10 seconds

(which is still annoying because everything stays in this state of

'about to change dialog boxes' state.) this prompted me to figure out

just one uniform size for all of my main help and one size for my

secondary help and then just copy and paste those lines to my other

help systems' .hpj files. it is EXTREMELY aggravating.

oh, i heard on winhlp-l that there is an upgrade to robohelp coming

out????? true?

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What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

I have also found that the provided files do not work with WinWord 6.0.

I do get a lot of errors from Basic. Could it be that the German version

of WinWord is incompatible to existing macros? I had the experience

with other dot files (HTML) too. Frustrating!

- Thomas

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WinHelp DeCompiler???

Audley Brown (abrown@ttpvcm0013.NoSubdomain.NoDomain) wrote:

: I have now acquired and used HLP2DOC to decompile WinHelp files

: into WinWord format.  It is very easy to use and retains almost

: all formatting, even tables!!

: Thanks for all the responses to my post!!!

You are very lucky! All I saw when trying to ftp hlp2doc

from ftp.lrz-muenchen.de was:

total 9

-rw-------   1 Beyer    Public         43 Aug 18 08:33 hlp2doc.txt

-rw-r--r--   1 Beyer    Public       7812 Jun  8 09:31 w4wform.zip

226 Transfer complete.

And these files were protected against copying!-(

- Thomas

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Button macro to launch Word 6

Hi,

I am trying to launch a Word 6 document from a button defined in the

project file. But I am experiencing two different problems.

First I cannot launch a Word 6 session unless there is already a Word 6

session running. This occurs whether a document is specifed in the

command line or not. The error message is 'Unable to run the specified

file'.

If I do manage to launch Word 6 and specify a path, Word says that it

cannot find the file. I have tried various combinations of slashes (\'s).

The syntax that I am using is:

CB("btn_concepts","Co&ncepts","EP(`winword.exe "h:\\help\\test.doc"',0)")

The same syntax works fine if I replace winword.exe with notepad.exe.

Any ideas?

Brendan Young.

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muhr@cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Muhr) writes:

>Audley Brown (abrown@ttpvcm0013.NoSubdomain.NoDomain) wrote:

>: I have now acquired and used HLP2DOC to decompile WinHelp files

>: into WinWord format.  It is very easy to use and retains almost

>: all formatting, even tables!!

>

>: Thanks for all the responses to my post!!!

>

>You are very lucky! All I saw when trying to ftp hlp2doc

>from ftp.lrz-muenchen.de was:

>total 9

>-rw-------   1 Beyer    Public         43 Aug 18 08:33 hlp2doc.txt

>-rw-r--r--   1 Beyer    Public       7812 Jun  8 09:31 w4wform.zip

>226 Transfer complete.

>And these files were protected against copying!-(

Not anymore... and this are the 43 bytes inside hlp2doc.txt:

Sorry, hlp2doc is not freeware anymore ...

...

+--- MfG: --- Heiko Jacobs --- Z! ----------------+  'b___            %%%%%%

| Inst. f. Photogrammetrie u. Fernerkundung, Uni  |\  (___L______--/|/   %%%%

| Karlsruhe, D-76128, Tel:0721/608-3676 Fax:694568| \ __/  +--+| |-\|(>  @)%%

| EMAIL:     jacobs@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de |  |_|ooo+--+|_|   /_    %%

| WWW: http://www-ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de/  | /  `-------'      L_;  %%

| http://cousin.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/cousin/ (couleurstudent. infos) L___/

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Help-files with full text search ?

The following is an article on including Full-Text Search in

Windows Help files.  It will be included in Pete Davis' FAQ list

for this group.

====================================================================

Q: Can I add full-text search capabilities to my Windows Help file?

A: Yes.  The problem is finding the tools to do it with.

The full-text search engine of the Multimedia Viewer 1.0 is completely

compatible with WinHelp.  To create an index file from your help file,

you'll need:

FORAGE.EXE

(FORAGEP.EXE)

W_SCAN.EXE

INDEX.EXE

(GETMLT.EXE)

The run-time support is in the following DLLs:

FTUI.DLL

FTENGINE.DLL

MVAPI.DLL

These were all available in the MDK (Multimedia Developer's Kit), now

superseded by the Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit (Viewer 2.0).

Viewer 2 also supports full-text searching, but the indexing is handled

by the integrated Viewer compiler: no separate .IND file is created.

The runtime DLLs are also different (MVFS2.DLL, MVFSTUI2.DLL, MVAPI2.DLL).

The Indexing programs (FORAGE, W_SACN and INDEX) are now available in the

Windows NT SDK (MSTOOLS\HLPINDEX directory), as included in the MS Developer's

Library Level II CD sets.  They are identical to the original Viewer 1 tools.

However, WinNT does *not* include the required 16-bit run-time DLLs, but comes

instead with new 32-bit versions (FTUI32.DLL, FTENG32.DLL, MVAPI32.DLL).

Copies of the old DLLs should be found with any Multimedia Viewer 1.0

product (like my 1991 MS Boookshelf for Windows).

Q: Suppose I have laid my hands upon the EXEs and DLLs required.  What

must I do next?

A: Say you have a Windows Help project called MYPRJ.  First you must tell

WinHelp where to find the full-text search routines.  In MYPRJ.HPJ, add

these lines to the [CONFIG] section:

[CONFIG]

; initialize DLLs

RR("ftengine", "LoadFTEngine", "U")

LoadFTEngine(0)

RR("ftui", "InitRoutines", "SU")

InitRoutines(qchPath, 1)

; declare the main routines

RR("ftui", ExecFullTextSearch", "USSS")

RR("ftui", "SwitchToTopicsFound", "U")

; provide ways to use them: suit to your own taste

AddAccelerator(0x46,2,"SwitchToTopicsFound(hwndApp)")

CreateButton("btn_fts","FullText","ExecFullTextSearch(hwndApp,qchPath,`',`')")

Add the following line to the [BAGGAGE] section

[BAGGAGE]

bag.ini

Save MYPRJ.HPJ.

"Bag.ini" is a simple text file, that tells the full-text search engine the

name of the index file, and whether several different help-files share one

single index.  The simple case is one .HLP file, one .IND file.  BAG.INI

should look like this:

[bag.ini]

groupcount=1

group1=MYPRJ

[MYPRJ]

Title=My Project

Indexfile=MYPRJ.IND

If you have two helpfiles that share an index:

[bag.ini]

groupcount=2

group1=MYPRJ1

group2=MYPRJ2

[MYPRJ1]

Title=My Project I

Indexfile=MYPRJ.IND

[MYPRJ2]

Title=My Project II

Indexfile=MYPRJ.IND

All the Indexfile= lines should be the same.  You can have up to 15 groups.

The same bag.ini file should be included in the baggage of all the help files.

Next you'll need a field-description file.  It comes with the Viewer 1

and NT Helpindex tools (as GENERIC.FLD).  If you don't have it, it's

a simple textfile containing the following text:

topic [inline, search, stop]

filename [catalog, string]

address [catalog, fixed(4)]

length [catalog, fixed(4)]

topicTitle [catalog, trunc(32)]

topicNSR [inline, search, stop]

Finally there's the stop-words file.  This is a text file containing words

that need not be indexed, each on a separate line.  Viewer 1 and NT come

with GENERIC.STP, which contains a list of English words:

a

an

and

the

...

If your text is in a different language, you should provide your own .STP

file.  Viewer 2 comes with ready-made French and German .STP files.

Since we're talking internationalization, one drawback of the Viewer 1

FTUI.DLL (solved in Viewer 2) is that the Full-Text Search dialog box

is English only.  Borland's Resource Workshop barfed on the dialog resource

in the DLL (Did MS do this on purpose?).

OK, all is set now to create the full-text index.  Viewer1 and the NT SDK

come with ready-to-run batchfiles, that in turn invoke a makefile that

creates the actual index.  In order the explain what's going on,  we'll

ignore the compexities of the makefile provided by MS.

For the simple case of one helpfile with one indexfile, you can create

(or generate) a batchfile, to invoke the Help Compiler and the Indexing

programs:

@ECHO OFF

hcp MYPRJ

echo.

forage /w MYPRJ.HLP

w_scan MYPRJ.ANS,,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,,MYPRJ.LST;

index MYPRJ,,MYPRJ,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,MYPRJ.MAP;

rem produced by FORAGE

del MYPRJ.ANS

rem produced by W_SCAN

del MYPRJ.CFG

del MYPRJ.LST

del MYPRJ.OCA

del MYPRJ.WRS

del MYPRJ.ZON

del MYPRJ.ZOS

rem produced by INDEX

del MYPRJ.MAP

rem think that covers all the garbage generated

If you have several helpfiles for which you want to create a single index,

first create the .HLP files (using HC or HCP), then make the index with

a batchfile like this:

getmlt bag.ini;

forage /m bag.ini BAG.MLT

w_scan MYPRJ.ANS,,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,BAG.MLT,MYPRJ.LST;

index MYPRJ,,MYPRJ,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,MYPRJ.MAP;

rem clean up the directory

GETMLT.EXE is a very clever program that reads a BAG.INI file and produces

the following output (given the bag.ini file above):

My Project I

MYPRJ1.HLP

My Project II

MYPRJ2.HLP

It needs two arguments (name of bag.ini and name of output .MLT file),

but will only accept one (hey! let's make it interactive!).  If I didn't

have a program to generate all of this FTSearch stuff automatically, I'd

even prefer to make the .MLT file by hand!

That's it.  You should now have a file MYPRJ.IND to go with your

help file(s).  When you distribute the help file(s), just make sure that

you include the .IND file, *and* the FTUI, FTENGINE and MVAPI DLLs.

=========================================================================

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Button macro to launch Word 6

In article <1994Aug18.205929.7742@zed.com>,

Brendan Young <brendany@ruby.zed.com> wrote:

>Hi,

>

>I am trying to launch a Word 6 document from a button defined in the

>project file. But I am experiencing two different problems.

>

>First I cannot launch a Word 6 session unless there is already a Word 6

>session running. This occurs whether a document is specifed in the

>command line or not. The error message is 'Unable to run the specified

>file'.

>

>If I do manage to launch Word 6 and specify a path, Word says that it

>cannot find the file. I have tried various combinations of slashes (\'s).

>

>The syntax that I am using is:

>

>CB("btn_concepts","Co&ncepts","EP(`winword.exe "h:\\help\\test.doc"',0)")

>

>The same syntax works fine if I replace winword.exe with notepad.exe.

>

Despite the fact that notepad works, have you tried getting rid of

the double quotes around the file name?  I don't think they are

necessary.  It's supposed to be a command line, like you would type

in the ProgMan RUN dialog box:

winword h:/help/test.doc

(you see I'm also using forward slashes, which you probably have tried

already, but which I'm suggesting anyway as Plan B).

If *.doc is associated with WinWord, you could just use the document

filename (plan C).

Maybe notepad is so smart that it ignores quotes in the filename

argument (so that you can edit files with spaces in the name?).

I doubt it, actually, since I *know* that notepad is stupid enough

not to recognize filenames without an extension (I've seen the text

"Cannot find the MAKEFILE.TXT file.  Do you want to create a new file?

[YES]  [NO]", more often than I care to remember).

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Help Authoring Tool

Is there any Help Authoring tool(shareware/commerical) to build the windows

help file from

well-commented C/C++ sourefiles?

Any pointer?

Thanks in advance

K. Muthu Kumar,

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Holborn, LONDON - WC1R 4RT, UNITED KINGDOM

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Is there any Help Authoring tool(shareware/commerical) to build the windows

help file from

well-commented C/C++ sourefiles?

Any pointer?

Thanks in advance

K. Muthu Kumar,

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Inter File HELP Jump and PopUp

I need help for writing Jump and PopUp for diferent HELP files.

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Hello,

I am trying to edit existing .RTF files using Winword 6.0, but I find that

HC3.1 blows up when compiling these files, throwing me out of the DOS box and

telling me to reboot my machine.  Is there something I need to do to WinWord

to make it compatible with Word 2.0 and/or the Help compiler?  Is there a new

help compiler that I should use with WinWord 6.0 RTF files?

Any help would be appreciated!!

Thanks,

Tom Maynard (maynard@marcam.com)

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Visual WinHelp Designer/Tool?

Does a visual WYSIWYG help creation tool exist?  I'ld like something that is

does not require an editor.

Thx

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newgroup comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp is a unmoderated newsgroup which passed

its vote for creation by 341:82 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on

5 April 1994.

For your newsgroups file:

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp	WinHelp/Multimedia Viewer development.

The charter, culled from the call for votes:

  Discussions about windows help file creation, techniques and tools.

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Windows Multimedia Viewer 2.0

In article <32rlmq$d40@ionews.io.org> farellc@io.org "C. Farell" writes:

>Sorry if this is a bothersome question, but how does one get the Multimedia

>Viewer 2.0?

The Viewer SDK is on the MSDN Level II disk set.

Chris

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Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

In article <32r7h4$lfe@nic.wi.leidenuniv.nl> se9402@artemis.wi.leidenuniv.nl (R.Wagenaar) writes:

>I've got a problem using WfW to create a Windows-Helpfile.

>I've made a table in WfW which I want to appear in the Helpfile.

>

>The problem is that the borders of the cells do not show in Winhelp, the

>rest of the table comes through allright.

>

>Robert Wagenaar

>Leiden, The Netherlands

Okay, since I haven't seen anyone else comment on this, I'll take a

stab.

I know of two solutions, depending on what your table looks like.

1. You can put a border around a paragraph (not around a table).  So,

you can put a border around whatever is within a cell.  You may have

to use soft returns if you have words that wrap.  The compiler will

put a border around each section that has a hard return (paragraph

marker).

This works good if you only have one cell in your table.  More than

one looks funky IMHO. I use this when I have a black and white screen

print and I want to set it off with a border.

2. You can make the table a graphic and reference it in the

appropriate topic.

I use this sparingly to keep my file size to the minimum.

Now, there may be another solution but, I haven't found it as of yet.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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maynard@marcam.com (Tom Maynard) wrote:

>Hello,

>

>I am trying to edit existing .RTF files using Winword 6.0, but I find that

>HC3.1 blows up when compiling these files, throwing me out of the DOS box and

>telling me to reboot my machine.  Is there something I need to do to WinWord

>to make it compatible with Word 2.0 and/or the Help compiler?  Is there a new

>help compiler that I should use with WinWord 6.0 RTF files?

Tom,

   You need to use the new version of the help compiler, HC505. You can

get HC505.ZIP. You can get it from ftp.microsoft.com in the

/SoftLib/MSLFiles directory.

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N e e d   H e l p . . .

Guys / Gals:

Hello, my name is Philip. I am a fresh university

graduate from BC Canada. I am gonna take a (ms-windows)

computer programming job in Washington USA.

Since I am new to the industry and have been living in

Canada all the time, I do not have an idea about what

the salary paid for a computer programmer in the west

coast of States should be.

I appreciate if someone who is in/knows the industry

could give me a rough idea of what it should be

(maybe a small range is OK) so that I could know if

I was getting a reasonable pay.

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enumeration under Word 6.0

mutter@hephaest.cip.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Jan-Friedrich Mutter) writes:

>I made a enumeration under Word 6.0 and compiled it with hc31. But

>it won't make the right thing:

The repost below addresses the problem. I haven't tried it myself.

REPOST:

Date: 2 Aug 94 03:57:35 GMT

#From: caplan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Rob Caplan)

Subject: Re: Bullet lists in help files

aj085@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Neil Polowin) writes:

>Good morning - I'm having a problem with the help files I've built, and I

>though someone here might have an answer for me. I use MS Word v6 to

>prepare my RTF files, and so I've been using the Word bulleting feature to

>make lists. Unfortunately, when the RTF files are compiled into help files

>using the Microsoft help compiler, the lists (with the bullets) get their

>formatting screwed up. Is there any way to fix this problem?

Neil,

You can work around this problem by putting an explicit tab stop at the

same position at which you have your hanging indent.  This tab stop

should be set explicitely for the paragraph, not as a style format.  If

you have more than one consecutive paragraph with a hanging indent you

will also need to make sure that each paragraph has different tabs set

than the previous paragraph (I usually alternate one tab at 20" and one

at 20.25".  This keeps them out of the way of my actual text).

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In article <3332lg$mkj@hobbes.cc.uga.edu> phillip@uhs1.uhs.uga.edu writes:

>Does anyone know of a shareware product that assists in building Windows help systems.  Something like Help Magic Pro would be nice.  I want to avoid using the HC31 method and would rather not spend $200.  If there is such a product, please list the FTP

You can not avoid having to use the Microsoft Help Compiler.

Other than the various version differences, there is only

one help compiler on the planet and it is proprietary to

Microsoft.  Regardless of which tool you use, the end result

is that an .RTF file must be created and compiled with HC.

So what's wrong with using Word to create the .RTF and then

compiling it?  It's the simplest method, IMO.  I use it for

help files ranging up to 200 topics and I don't think it's

difficult at all.

I can't for the life of me figure out why so many people seem

to think you need something special to create help files.

More to the point, so many folks seem ready and willing to

spend up to a few hundred dollars on these fancy tools.

Is someone out there spreading disinformation?

Yes, I'm sure the many applications out there are powerful

and clever and super fancy.  But really, you can do the

same thing in Word, for all but the truly exotic requirements.

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   context string, or an HPJ or RTF file (unless you want to).

* Can generate topics from Word Heading Styles, or user can identify

   them by pointing.

* Generates a table of contents automatically, for display in the

   main window, a secondary window or a PopUp with jumps from it

   already in place.

* User adds additional jumps and PopUps by highlighting the text or

   graphic to jump from and pointing to the topic to jump to.

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   initial display and on topic change. Can determine windows for

   initial display - main, secondary or both.

* Set background colours for scrolling and non-scrolling text.

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* Launch other processes from within Help File by clicking text or

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   file on each build.

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   or embedded in text.  Button-top  text in any language.  Buttons

   call or PopUp any topic, WinHelp macro or launch another process.

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   "hot push button" bullet for action lists.

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In article <32r7h4$lfe@nic.wi.leidenuniv.nl>

           se9402@artemis.wi.leidenuniv.nl "R.Wagenaar" writes:

>I've got a problem using WfW to create a Windows-Helpfile.

>I've made a table in WfW which I want to appear in the Helpfile.

>

>The problem is that the borders of the cells do not show in Winhelp, the

>rest of the table comes through allright.

>

>While compiling the RTF-file HC gives the error message 'Table formatting

>to complex'.

>

>If somebody has a solution for this problem I would be very grateful.

There is a problem which everyone who writes help files VERY quickly

encounters! As far as I know, there is no terribly good answer. One

thing which does work is the paragraph border feature.

Chris

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I should think ForeHelp which is marketed by Borland might do the trick

if you're using Borland C++ v.4.0.  The guide describes using ForeHelp

with C++.  I know nothing about programming so can't say how this relates

to other versions of C++.  It's on special offer at 49.95UKP from Borland

UK.

While I'm here is it true a help file is limited to 512 topics?  I found

the help compiler wouldn't run under OS/2 for Windows.  Is there a way

around this?

Dave @ the caravan

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Dithering colors

In article <32o4ck$s53@uuneo.neosoft.com> gail@wst.com  writes:

>I want to display a graphic on a window with a light

>yellow background (255,255,128). The window itself appears

>as a solid color. When I place the graphic with a

>background having the exact same attributes (255,255,128),

>the background to my graphic is dithered.

>

>Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get around this?

I'm afraid that you're asking on the wrong group. This group is for

discussion of the Windows on-line Help engine "WinHelp" - it is NOT a group

for obtaining general "help" with Windows programming questions. There is

a weekly FAQ posted which lists the purpose of the Windows programming

newsgroup hierarchy "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.*". The correct newsgroup

for your question is "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics".

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Hi, Netter,

Is there anybody can tell me the difference between WinHelp and MM

Viewer? Is that possible to put AVI hot spot in help? Any comment will be

highly appreciated.

Have a nice weekend.

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I'm starting on my first helpfile and was wondering what is the best

tool to use

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shenwei@netcom.com (Shenwei B. Lee) writes:

>Hi, Netter,

>Is there anybody can tell me the difference between WinHelp and MM

>Viewer? Is that possible to put AVI hot spot in help? Any comment will be

>highly appreciated.

MM Viewer is an enhanced version of Winhelp.  Besides multimedia

additions (sound, movies, ...), MMV adds full text searching, and

unlimited size (e.g., can make CD-ROM sized files).  MMV is for the most

part backwards-compatible with Winhelp; I've taken a winhelp project, and

compiled it with MMV (all I had to change was the project file).  Just

by re-compiling with MMV, that added full-text retrieval to the winhelp file.

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Help-files with full text search ?

Miguel Carrasquer (mcv@inter.NL.net) wrote:

: The following is an article on including Full-Text Search in

: Windows Help files.  It will be included in Pete Davis' FAQ list

: for this group.

: ====================================================================

: Q: Can I add full-text search capabilities to my Windows Help file?

: A: Yes.  The problem is finding the tools to do it with.

: The full-text search engine of the Multimedia Viewer 1.0 is completely

: compatible with WinHelp.  To create an index file from your help file,

: you'll need:

: These were all available in the MDK (Multimedia Developer's Kit), now

: superseded by the Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit (Viewer 2.0).

Can you please elaborate on the MDK? Where can it be found? How much?

Will it produce files readable on existing systems?(with proper drivers,

etc) Will it import/read existing .hlp files? What are some of the

differences between the files MDK produces and .hlp files?

Thanks.

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What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

In article <330mqh$gs3@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>

           muhr@cs.tu-berlin.de "Thomas Muhr" writes:

>I have also found that the provided files do not work with WinWord 6.0.

>I do get a lot of errors from Basic. Could it be that the German version

>of WinWord is incompatible to existing macros? I had the experience

>with other dot files (HTML) too. Frustrating!

WHAT only works with English versions of Word. The problem is that the

macros call "Word" function using their English names, and the German

version of Word obviously uses German names for these same functions!

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In article <CutsH5.8oJ@cix.compulink.co.uk>, "David Greenhalgh" wrote:

>

>

> While I'm here is it true a help file is limited to 512 topics?  I found

> the help compiler wouldn't run under OS/2 for Windows.  Is there a way

> around this?

>

> Dave @ the caravan

The help file is not limited to 512 topics, using our tools (HLPDK/PA) I am

constantly compiling 10,000 and more topics per help file with no problems

(Well, you do need 10MB to hold these babies after they are compiled, and it

takes a couple of hours, but - you have the greatest resources just a couple

of clicks away ..).

About your 2nd question - I'll be surprized, I do not have os/2 for win, but

under regualr os/2 2.1 there is no problem.

Ron Loewy, Author of HLPDK, HLPDK/PA and PASTERP.

P.S. - Anyone that wants to see what a 10MB help file looks like, is welcome

to download the WinHelp version of Ralf Brown's interrupt list that I

uploaded to SimTel as intw42a.zip, intw42b.zip and intw42c.zip.

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In article <1994Aug20.022105.18613@emr1.emr.ca>, John Grant wrote:

>

> In article <3332lg$mkj@hobbes.cc.uga.edu> phillip@uhs1.uhs.uga.edu writes:

> >Does anyone know of a shareware product that assists in building Windows

help systems.  Something like Help Magic Pro would be nice.  I want to avoid

using the HC31 method and would rather not spend $200.  If there is such a

product, please list the FTP site.

>

> 	You can not avoid having to use the Microsoft Help Compiler.

> 	Other than the various version differences, there is only

> 	one help compiler on the planet and it is proprietary to

> 	Microsoft.  Regardless of which tool you use, the end result

> 	is that an .RTF file must be created and compiled with HC.

True.

>

> 	So what's wrong with using Word to create the .RTF and then

> 	compiling it?  It's the simplest method, IMO.  I use it for

> 	help files ranging up to 200 topics and I don't think it's

> 	difficult at all.

It just takes too much time, and is a pain to debug and maintain compared to

tools that have support for help authoring.

I would agree with you that for an occasional job here and there WinWord is

fine, but for anything that is more than that, you should (IMHBBO) (In My

Honest But Biased Opinion) invest in a good help authoring tool that will cut

the time it takes you to create, debug and maintain your help projects.

>

> 	I can't for the life of me figure out why so many people seem

> 	to think you need something special to create help files.

> 	More to the point, so many folks seem ready and willing to

> 	spend up to a few hundred dollars on these fancy tools.

> 	Is someone out there spreading disinformation?

I have talked with professional technical authors that moved from WinWord to

a help authoring tool (Several of them, some of them not the tool the company

I work for distributes), and all have told me that the time it takes them to

bring their projects to an end, was cut by 20% to 80%.

>

> 	Yes, I'm sure the many applications out there are powerful

> 	and clever and super fancy.  But really, you can do the

> 	same thing in Word, for all but the truly exotic requirements.

Sure, but why stop there ?, why not go all the way to plain old good RTF ?

You can do everything you need with edlin and the windows help compiler. If

your time is important to you, AND (a big AND), you need to create help

projects professionaly, the ROI of a good help authoring tool is very short.

I for one, would reccomend even the occesional help author to look at some of

the shareware tools that are avialble, but might not be as expensive as a

full commercial package, and see if it is worth the $40 - $80 these tools

usually cost.

> --

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> Airborne Geophysics

> Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

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jacobs@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de (Heiko Jacobs) writes:

>muhr@cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Muhr) writes:

>>And these files were protected against copying!-(

>Not anymore... and this are the 43 bytes inside hlp2doc.txt:

>Sorry, hlp2doc is not freeware anymore ...

>

I just tested hlp2doc version 136, I ftp'd some weeks before.

After nearly three lines of dots, the PC hangs...

Anyone knows another free decompiler ???

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In article <kclarkeCuvG5B.Ivy@netcom.com>, kclarke@netcom.com (kclarke) says:

>

>shenwei@netcom.com (Shenwei B. Lee) writes:

>

>>Hi, Netter,

>

>>Is there anybody can tell me the difference between WinHelp and MM

>>Viewer? Is that possible to put AVI hot spot in help? Any comment will be

>>highly appreciated.

>

>MM Viewer is an enhanced version of Winhelp.  Besides multimedia

>additions (sound, movies, ...), MMV adds full text searching, and

>unlimited size (e.g., can make CD-ROM sized files).  MMV is for the most

>part backwards-compatible with Winhelp; I've taken a winhelp project, and

>compiled it with MMV (all I had to change was the project file).  Just

>by re-compiling with MMV, that added full-text retrieval to the winhelp file.

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Where does one obtain the Multimedia Viewer?

      Phil Jones

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Visual WinHelp Designer/Tool?

In <1994Aug19.155000.20836@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Michael Vogt" <vogt@cs.indiana.edu>

writes:

>

>

>Does a visual WYSIWYG help creation tool exist?  I'ld like something that is

>does not require an editor.

>Thx

>-Mike vogt@cs.indiana.edu

>

There's ForeHelp. The brochure calls it "the unique authoring system for Windows where

you work in an actual hypertext environment that looks just like the final help

project." You can get a demo from ForeFront, fax 303/494-5446, phone 303/499-9181

in Boulder. That's all I know about it. I haven't used it.

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           pearl@PowerPCHost "K. Muthu Kumar" writes:

>Is there any Help Authoring tool(shareware/commerical) to build the windows

>help file from

>well-commented C/C++ sourefiles?

There is a newsgroup devoted to the topic of Windows help file authoring.

"comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp".

Chris

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In article <OrnPuCWnbnDsgKol06a@panix.com> rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>In article <1994Aug20.022105.18613@emr1.emr.ca>, John Grant wrote:

>>

>> In article <3332lg$mkj@hobbes.cc.uga.edu> phillip@uhs1.uhs.uga.edu writes:

>> >Does anyone know of a shareware product that assists in building Windows

[...my good recommendations for using Word deleted...]

[...Ron's good reasons why not to use Word deleted...]

>> 	Yes, I'm sure the many applications out there are powerful

>> 	and clever and super fancy.  But really, you can do the

>> 	same thing in Word, for all but the truly exotic requirements.

>

>Sure, but why stop there ?, why not go all the way to plain old good RTF ?

>You can do everything you need with edlin and the windows help compiler. If

[...]

Ron, Ron, Ron.  Up until this ludicrous statement, your point of

view was both rational and reasonable.  However, taking my point

of view and extrapolating it down to 'edlin' is the kind of

response I would expect from someone who is cornered and

desperate, which you aren't.  Unless of course, you were very,

very hurt by my comments.

I don't think many people would suggest that RTF files be written

with a text editor and certainly not with edlin.  I certainly

didn't.

If someone suggested that assembly language be used for a particular

purpose, would you also ridicule that person by suggesting:

"why stop there, why not go all the way and write the entire

Windows application in microcode and flip all of the gates and

voltages yourself"?

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In article <1994Aug21.233829.17012@emr1.emr.ca>,

John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>In article <CuwBn9.16F@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>>In article <5VGFoq2PTgB@fuerst.jena.thur.de>,

>>Rainer Schleevoigt <rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de> wrote:

>>>Hi,

>>>I want call WINHELP.EXE <helpfilename>.hlp <name of keyword or chapter)

>>>Is it possible?

>>

>>Sure, use WinHelp(hwnd, helpfilename,HELP_PARTIALKEY,(DWORD)keyword), or

>>WinHelp(hwnd, helpfilename, HELP_JUMPID,(DWORD)context_string).

>>

>>(You may need to define HELP_JUMPID as 0x0103, I don't think it's

>>in windows.h.  HELP_POPUPID is 0x0104.  I'm assuming string pointers

>>are 32 bits.)

>	Hey, that's great!  I was looking for the same functionality.

>	<windows.h> doesn't have either HELP_JUMPID or HELP_POPUPID, although

>	I can see the gap in the sequence where they 'belong' in <windows.h>.

>

>	Where did you find these?  It looks like they deliberately left

>	them out of <windows.h>  Does anyone know if they are safe to

>	use for future versions?

I found these in the Multimedia Viewer 1.0 include files.

I have no idea why HELP_JUMPID was not included in <windows.h>

(There *is* a little problem with HELP_POPUPID in that it won't

return focus after the popup-window has been dismissed).

Maybe it was to encourage the use of mapping id's, or whatever

they're called (I never use them).

As  to the future, I really don't know.  I like using HELP_JUMPID

as a shortcut for officially recommended:

WinHelp(hwnd, helpfile, HELP_FORCEFILE, NULL);

WinHelp(hwnd, helpfile, HELP_COMMAND, (DWORD)

"JumpId(qchPath,`context_string')");

but I can always change it back if the need arises.

[follow-ups to c.o.m.p.winhelp]

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In article <1994Aug22.000658.19232@emr1.emr.ca>,

John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>In article <OrnPuCWnbnDsgKol06a@panix.com> rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>>In article <1994Aug20.022105.18613@emr1.emr.ca>, John Grant wrote:

>>>

>>> In article <3332lg$mkj@hobbes.cc.uga.edu> phillip@uhs1.uhs.uga.edu writes:

>>> >Does anyone know of a shareware product that assists in building Windows

>

>	[...my good recommendations for using Word deleted...]

>

>	[...Ron's good reasons why not to use Word deleted...]

>

>

>

>	Ron, Ron, Ron.  Up until this ludicrous statement, your point of

>	view was both rational and reasonable.  However, taking my point

>	of view and extrapolating it down to 'edlin' is the kind of

>	response I would expect from someone who is cornered and

>	desperate, which you aren't.  Unless of course, you were very,

>	very hurt by my comments.

I'm sorry, this was not supposed to offend, it was my (awkward at times)

sense of humor ..

>

>	I don't think many people would suggest that RTF files be written

>	with a text editor and certainly not with edlin.  I certainly

>	didn't.

Actually, for anyone that is interested in WinHelp, Jim Mischel's book

"Developer's Guide to Winhelp.EXE" makes a good case of why you do need to

know about RTF. Once again, I'm sorry about the edlin part - I guess I

should have added the smiley :-)

 >

>	If someone suggested that assembly language be used for a particular

>	purpose, would you also ridicule that person by suggesting:

>	"why stop there, why not go all the way and write the entire

>	Windows application in microcode and flip all of the gates and

>	voltages yourself"?

Honestly, in 1984 I had done something close to that programming a robot

motherboard, it was a lot of fun, I'll never touch this kind of stuff in

my life, if I can avoid it, but I guess that it teaches you that hard

work is not so bad.

>--

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>Airborne Geophysics

>Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

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Botton to print all the topic in help file

     I like to create a help file with a button.  When the user press the

button, the macro will scroll all the pages and print the complete document

out.  Has anyone try it?   Any pointer on those help macroes that would

make this possible?

Thanks

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daag@cix.compulink.co.uk ("David Greenhalgh") wrote:

>While I'm here is it true a help file is limited to 512 topics?  I found

>the help compiler wouldn't run under OS/2 for Windows.  Is there a way

>around this?

  Dave,

   Your first question is answered in the FAQ. WinHelp supports up to

about 32,000 topics per RTF source and approximately 42,000,000 topics per

help file. Roughly 82,000 times as many as you thought. I haven't found

anyone who has reached this limit yet. If I do, my first question will be,

"What sort of media are you storing this thing on."

   As for your second question, now, it won't run under OS/2 for Windows,

or it will, but it has to run in a DOS box, not under windows.

  Pete

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How do I print an entire WinHelp file?

G'day,

I am looking for a tool that will allow me to print a winhelp (.HLP) file

without having to go through every panel and do a "Print Topic".  Pls let me

know if you know of such a tool.

Thanks,

Jeff.

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In <3332lg$mkj@hobbes.cc.uga.edu> phillip@uhs1.uhs.uga.edu writes:

>Does anyone know of a shareware product that assists in building Windows help systems.

>Something like Help Magic Pro would be nice.  I want to avoid using the HC31 method

>and would rather not spend $200.  If there is such a product, please list the FTP site.

As far as I know there is no product on the market which avoids using HC31.  I've never

heard of Help Magic Pro, so I can't compare it with anything.

However, HWA (Help Writer's Assistant for Windows) provides a WYSIWYG editor for

editing of your topics and a topic tree for topic organisation.  You can create

links simply by dragging and dropping topics from the topic tree!

...Stefan

P.S: The price is *much* lower than $200. ($55US in fact)

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In <1994Aug20.022105.18613@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

John,

>	I can't for the life of me figure out why so many people seem

>	to think you need something special to create help files.

>	More to the point, so many folks seem ready and willing to

>	spend up to a few hundred dollars on these fancy tools.

>	Is someone out there spreading disinformation?

There is a lot to learn when developing help files.  I for one, wish

that I had a tool such as HWA available when I was developing my first

help file.  Sure, I learnt to do it the hard way - but I would rather

let a tool do the confusing work and let me concentrate on my data.

>	Yes, I'm sure the many applications out there are powerful

>	and clever and super fancy.  But really, you can do the

>	same thing in Word, for all but the truly exotic requirements.

You don't have real WYSIWYG in Word - that is what you get in HWA.  In

HWA you also get the ability to manage your topics with great ease (through

the topic tree).

Cheers,

Stefan

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programmer.tools

>From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)

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>Subject: Re: Help Authoring Tool

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>In article <Cus1ts.A8p@btcase.bt.co.uk>

>           pearl@PowerPCHost "K. Muthu Kumar" writes:

>

>>Is there any Help Authoring tool(shareware/commerical) to build the

windows

>>help file from

>>well-commented C/C++ sourefiles?

>

>There is a newsgroup devoted to the topic of Windows help file authoring.

>"comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp".

>

>Chris

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What is this forum then?

K. Muthu Kumar,

British Telecom Plc, PP.304, Lion House, 72-5 Red Lion Street,

Holborn, LONDON - WC1R 4RT, UNITED KINGDOM

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User manual *and* online help

I'm new to this whole thing and would like to know if there

is a product and/or technique that would help a developer to

produce online help *and* the user documentation, such that

the user documentation looked nice and the online help looked

*and* acted nice. What I'd like to do is have the text data

for both of these things come from the same place, for obvious

reasons.

This appears what MS did with VC++ help on classes and Volume

I. Is that true, or do they just resemble each other?

Thanks.

--Dean

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In <CutsH5.8oJ@cix.compulink.co.uk> daag@cix.compulink.co.uk ("David Greenhalgh") writes:

>While I'm here is it true a help file is limited to 512 topics?  I found

>the help compiler wouldn't run under OS/2 for Windows.  Is there a way

>around this?

From the FAQ (re: limits of WinHelp):

Topics per RTF source: ~32,000

So therefore I suggest you download HC505.EXE from ftp.cica.indiana.edu which

is an updated WinHelp compiler and will use extended memory, hopefully ensuring

the problem you have doesn't happen.

...Stefan

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WinWord 6.0 and RTF files

In article <maynard.26.000AFB32@marcam.com>

           maynard@marcam.com "Tom Maynard" writes:

>Hello,

>

>I am trying to edit existing .RTF files using Winword 6.0, but I find that

>HC3.1 blows up when compiling these files, throwing me out of the DOS box and

>telling me to reboot my machine.  Is there something I need to do to WinWord

>to make it compatible with Word 2.0 and/or the Help compiler?  Is there a new

>help compiler that I should use with WinWord 6.0 RTF files?

You need v505 of the help compiler to work with Word 6. If you currently

have an earlier version, you can get the current one from ftp.microsoft.com.

Chris

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In article <CutsH5.8oJ@cix.compulink.co.uk>

           daag@cix.compulink.co.uk "David Greenhalgh" writes:

>While I'm here is it true a help file is limited to 512 topics?  I found

>the help compiler wouldn't run under OS/2 for Windows.  Is there a way

>around this?

No, you can have many thousands of topics in a Help file. The standard

Windows 3.1 API help file has a heck of a lot more than 512 topics!

Chris

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In article <CuxyIA.9BI@newsserver.pixel.kodak.com>,

Dean Hoover <hoover@ssd.kodak.com> wrote:

>I'm new to this whole thing and would like to know if there

>is a product and/or technique that would help a developer to

>produce online help *and* the user documentation, such that

>the user documentation looked nice and the online help looked

>*and* acted nice. What I'd like to do is have the text data

>for both of these things come from the same place, for obvious

>reasons.

>

>This appears what MS did with VC++ help on classes and Volume

>I. Is that true, or do they just resemble each other?

>

>Thanks.

>

>--Dean

>

>

There are several products that can help you achieve that goal.

In the Word 4 Win based category, Doc-2-Help is supposed to be a good

candidate for dual media development.

(But I'm sure that the other tools are good as well).

In the non-word based category, I'm sure only about our own tool -

HLPDK/PA that can reate documents and databases from one source to

several targets, of which word processor documents for hard copy and

WinHelp target are 2. I would assume that other tools might have the dual

media capability, but I have no experiance with them.

Hope this is of some help.

Ron Loewy, Author of HLPDK, HLPDK/PA and PASTERP.

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In article 001C6A21@agora.rdrop.com, twisted@agora.rdrop.com (Michael Heggen) writes:

"+"In article <sspectra-280794210901@ip-ce.teleport.com> sspectra@teleport.com (Tony Noe) writes:

"+"

"+">ForeHelp is also available from Borland for a lot less than $400.  I bought

"+">a copy and completed a fairly large help system in just a few days.  It is

"+">GREAT!

"+"

"+"Huh? Are you sure this is the same product, etc.? Please elaborate.

"+"

I heard that Borland had a bunch of copies of ForeHelp that they had bought to make

available to their customers.  They WERE selling them for something like $69/copy.

I assume they had a limited quantity--not sure if any are still available

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Violation, WORD6,RTFMod,HCP!!

I lost my mind & installed Word 6 in the middle of a project. It was

nearly done, just some spell checking and cleaning up to do.

 I'm using RTFMod to convert qoutes & bullets and remove offensive

new RTF flags. I get a system integrety violation every time a file

edited under Word6 hits HCP. Several of my source files are still in

Word2 format, those too have been run through RTFMod. I tried saveing

the Word6 docs in Word2 format, but of course the RTF file gets saved

from the memory model of the document (which is, of course, in Word 6

format.)

 I'm hoping that someone has encountered this problem & knows what to

do to clear it. Could it have anything to do with the format of graph-

ics pasted into the doc? Some strangness resulting from the conversion

from Word2 to Word6 ?    HELP!

C-u

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Chris Marriott (chris@chrism.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: In article <32r7h4$lfe@nic.wi.leidenuniv.nl>

:            se9402@artemis.wi.leidenuniv.nl "R.Wagenaar" writes:

: >I've got a problem using WfW to create a Windows-Helpfile.

: >I've made a table in WfW which I want to appear in the Helpfile.

: >

: >The problem is that the borders of the cells do not show in Winhelp, the

: >rest of the table comes through allright.

: >

: >While compiling the RTF-file HC gives the error message 'Table formatting

: >to complex'.

: >

: >If somebody has a solution for this problem I would be very grateful.

: There is a problem which everyone who writes help files VERY quickly

: encounters! As far as I know, there is no terribly good answer. One

: thing which does work is the paragraph border feature.

: Chris

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The only way that I have been able to remedy it is to create the table (with

all of it formatting) in Excel, select the table, while holding down the

shift key, click on Copy from the menu bar.  Excel pops up a window that

presents several optiosn for copying pictures.  Copy the picture to your

clipboard.  Return to Word (or whatever you are using), and click on Paste.

Voila, your table is in the Help proto-document.

Compile and test.

This has worked for me.  Good Luck

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Hi,

I am trying to find a way to compare two versions of an RTF file to

ascertain the differences between them.

This is necessary for translation. For example, if an RTF corresponding

to version 1 of some software is translated and then changes in the

software are made along with the relevant help text how can I easily

view the changes so that only these are addressed for translation of

version 2.

The files are stored on UNIX network drives so the 'diff' command works

but it is not very user friendly.

Any help would be appreciated,

Brendan.

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>Where does one obtain the Multimedia Viewer?

>      Phil Jones

You want the Microsoft Multimedia Viewer Toolkit available from third party

vendors.  I'm not sure whether or not you can get the pieces you need to just

compile, free of charge (e.g. from ftp.microsoft.com).  The package, which

includes the compiler and various management and development tools, costs

around US$250 (I'm not sure of the exact price because I bought mine in

Canadian dollars).

Kevin Hood

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hoover@ssd.kodak.com wrote:

>I'm new to this whole thing and would like to know if there

>is a product and/or technique that would help a developer to

>produce online help *and* the user documentation, such that

>the user documentation looked nice and the online help looked

>*and* acted nice. What I'd like to do is have the text data

>for both of these things come from the same place, for obvious

>reasons.

>

Dean,

  It seems to me that Doc-To-Help would fit the bill for what you want.

You can check the FAQ for a discussion of the different products, but

Doc-To-Help's strength is maintaining the printed and online documentation

from a single source.

  BTW, I'm a contractor and do a lot of work for WexTech Systems, Inc.

They are the makers of Doc-To-Help. Just a disclaimer.

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Hi

at the time I make a help-file about TCP/IP-access with SLIP and other

things with telecommunication.

I have seen by "dir10.hlp" (DesctopInternetrReference) that is possible to

implement more buttons like <content> ... <previous> in top of area.

How is it possible.

Any ideas?

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In article <5VKGe9dPTgB@fuerst.jena.thur.de>,

Rainer Schleevoigt <rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de> wrote:

>Hi

>

>at the time I make a help-file about TCP/IP-access with SLIP and other

>things with telecommunication.

>I have seen by "dir10.hlp" (DesctopInternetrReference) that is possible to

>implement more buttons like <content> ... <previous> in top of area.

>How is it possible.

>Any ideas?

>

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>## CrossPoint v3.02 ##

Look for the CreateButton() macro reference. Put the CreateButton() macro

calls in the [config] part of your HPJ file.

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Visual WinHelp Designer/Tool?

On 21 Aug 1994 Fjaytay@ix.netcom.com (John Taylor)writes:

>>In <1994Aug19.155000.20836@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Michael Vogt" <vogt@cs.indiana.edu>

>>writes:

>>>>

>>

>>Does a visual WYSIWYG help creation tool exist?  I'ld like something that is

>>does not require an editor.

>>Thx

>>-Mike vogt@cs.indiana.edu

>>

>There's ForeHelp. The brochure calls it "the unique authoring system for Windows where

>you work in an actual hypertext environment that looks just like the final help

>project." You can get a demo from ForeFront, fax 303/494-5446, phone 303/499-9181

>in Boulder. That's all I know about it. I haven't used it.

I have. And I love it.  It is currently available from Borland for US$69.95

(regular price is $400).  A demo version (limited to 10 topics) can be

FTP-ed from winftp.cica.indiana.edu /pub/pc/win3/demo forehelp.zip (1.4

meg).  It is truly WYSIWYG.  There is a WinHelp emulator built in so you

don't have to compile until you are ready to ship!  I bought one, and

everyone I gave the demo to has bought one too!

Derek MacEwen

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In <33ao3r$n66@panix2.panix.com> rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>In the non-word based category, I'm sure only about our own tool -

>HLPDK/PA that can create documents and databases from one source to

>several targets, of which word processor documents for hard copy and

>WinHelp target are 2.

I'd be very interested in more information.

Ron, is the database you mention one of the targets or the source?

How different in structure and format can the word processor docs and winhelp

files be -- that is, how much freedom is there to optimize the different

targets for different media?

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mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>>>Sure, use WinHelp(hwnd, helpfilename,HELP_PARTIALKEY,(DWORD)keyword), or

>>>WinHelp(hwnd, helpfilename, HELP_JUMPID,(DWORD)context_string).

>>	Where did you find these?  It looks like they deliberately left

>>	them out of <windows.h>  Does anyone know if they are safe to

>>	use for future versions?

>I found these in the Multimedia Viewer 1.0 include files.

This info (and much more) is also available in Windows Help Authoring Guide

(WHAG=Word document and/or HAG=winhelp file) from Microsoft.

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MMViewer development tools

I want to move some of my work from WinHelp to MMViewer. Where can

I get these tools? How much are they, if not available PD? I don't

have a CD ROM player at the moment, and probebly would not find MSDN

a good investment for the limited work I do. Is there a seperate

MM development kit? What does it cost.

 Thanks for any tips you can offer.

C-u

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In article <V1RWuAuOBh107h@olson.acme.gen.nz> stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

>In <1994Aug20.022105.18613@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>John,

>

>>	I can't for the life of me figure out why so many people seem

>>	to think you need something special to create help files.

>>	More to the point, so many folks seem ready and willing to

>>	spend up to a few hundred dollars on these fancy tools.

>>	Is someone out there spreading disinformation?

>

>There is a lot to learn when developing help files.  I for one, wish

>that I had a tool such as HWA available when I was developing my first

>help file.  Sure, I learnt to do it the hard way - but I would rather

>let a tool do the confusing work and let me concentrate on my data.

[...yet another commercial for a help tool deleted...]

Ok, so far Stefan and Ron have spoken up defending their products.

These are legitimate, but clearly biased viewpoints.  I'm sure

there will be more posts from other authors who will tell me how

*their* product differs from all of the others and why *their*

product is clearly the product of choice.

Ok, fine, but what about the rest of you?  Are most people

using 'special' tools or are most people using plain ol' Word?

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What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

Chris Marriott correctly noted that:

>WHAT only works with English versions of Word. The problem is that the

>macros call "Word" function using their English names, and the German

>version of Word obviously uses German names for these same functions!

However other tools WILL work with the German versions of Word (and a few

other languages too).  My product HELLLP! is set up to capture whatever the

current language translates some known blocks into, and then uses those

words.

The Biggy is SET, which translates into BESTIMMEN in German and various

other words in various other languages.  The other trouble you will find is

with dimensions expressed in Li (lines) etc.  Pt seems to work in most

languages since it is the abbreviation for Point in French and for Punkt in

German (but not, I find to my chagrin in Danish, which uses Pkt - oh well,

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In article <1994Aug22.180416.21713@zed.com>, Brendan Young wrote:

[...]

> I am trying to find a way to compare two versions of an RTF file to

> ascertain the differences between them.

Good news is at hand! Winword (at least versions 2 & 6) has

a "Compare Versions" command (in the Tools menu), which will

produce a report of the differences between the two versions

you have it look at. Added text is single-underlined, deleted

text is formatted with striketrhrough (if my memory serves me

right). If you're not using WinWord I'm not sure which

commands or tools to use, but let's hope your word processor

at least has a similar feature.

All the best,

Peter

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User manual *and* online help

hoover@ssd.kodak.com wrote:

>is there a product and/or technique that would help a developer to

>produce online help *and* the user documentation

  Many posters on this group think that such a combination cannot fully

exploit the features of WINHELP and so dislike it. However, if your goal is

simply to produce modest user documentation, the approach is viable.

  Once you decide to go for it, you should decide in what form the master

source will be. Generally, WINHELP is *not* suitable for this because there

is no clear way to represent hypertext as linear text (printed manual),

unless the hypertext conforms to a well-defined hierarchical structure. I

don't know of WYSIWIG help editors that allow you to produce a decent

printed output.

  If you can afford to author in Latex (a standard formatting system for

the academic community), there is some free software that can produce

postscript, RTF and HTML (the format of the WorldWideWeb) from the same

source. See http://cs.oberlin.edu/software/tex2rtf.html, or ftp from

~hardy/hardy/stable at the same host.

  Your other (and I would say, natural) choice is Word.  Before buying

Doc2Help (a commercial product), you may want to check out some

shareware. Please bear in mind that these are Word add-on macros

(basically, they insert the gory page breaks, footnotes and hidden texts),

and they have separate versions for Word 2.0c and Word 6.0. Also, you need

version 3.10.505 of HC. (The macro language and RTF in Word 6 are not

downward compatible).

DrHelp 5.0 for Word 2.0c:  file drhelpe5.zip from cica

Drhelp 6.0beta for Word 6: get from roger.hadgraft@eng.monash.edu.au

  $30. I actually used this for the documentation of a Software Engineering

course project (only 60 topics, mind you). Although I had some problems, it

did the job. You double-underline a word to designate it as a jump, it

searches the Headings of your document to resolve the reference. If the

reference is ambiguous (matches more than one heading), an auxiliary popup

of jump destinations is built automatically.

HypTrk 4.0 for Word 2.0c: file hyptrk40.zip from cica

HypTrk 5.0 for Word 6: ask the author (please somebody, email address?)

  $20. In addition to DrHelp's functionality, features a dynamic table of

contents in an auxiliary window showing where the user are in the document

("tracking the main window"). If I hadn't already gotten DrHelp, I would

have registered for HypTrk. Give it a try!

  The two products below are Word builtins and *may* provide features for

both printed and online documentation; I haven't tried them.

Helllp! 2.3 for Word 2.0c and 6.0: helllp23.zip, author Ed Guy $20. ASP

  desc1500.txt says: "Use Windows Help as a means of accessing your

corporate manuals and other documents.  Make Help files from your existing

DOC files."

Help Assistant 3.1: ha31s.zip, author Roger St-Pierre $20

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In article <1994Aug23.055442.4477@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>

>	Ok, fine, but what about the rest of you?  Are most people

>	using 'special' tools or are most people using plain ol' Word?

I'm not using anything right now, but when I write my help files, I'm going

to use a tool. I find that getting as close to the final form as possible

is helpful to me when I compose, so a tool that provides these special

features is useful for me.

Johanna Draper

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In article <33ba0i$1fj@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>,

John Taylor <jaytay@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>In <33ao3r$n66@panix2.panix.com> rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>

>>In the non-word based category, I'm sure only about our own tool -

>>HLPDK/PA that can create documents and databases from one source to

>>several targets, of which word processor documents for hard copy and

>>WinHelp target are 2.

>

>I'd be very interested in more information.

I'll send it to you by mail.

>

>Ron, is the database you mention one of the targets or the source?

>

The database is the "document", however - we supply a native dos reader

that is based on a paradox database we create from the source.

>How different in structure and format can the word processor docs and winhelp

>files be -- that is, how much freedom is there to optimize the different

>targets for different media?

The HLPDK language is parsed by a compiler, we support conditional

defines, so you can do something like :

.topic whatever

.. some more attributes

 ... some stuff optimized for windows

... some more common stuff ...

Ron Loewy, Author of HLPDK, HLPDK/PA and PASTERP

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In article <1994Aug23.055442.4477@emr1.emr.ca>,

John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>In article <V1RWuAuOBh107h@olson.acme.gen.nz> stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

>>In <1994Aug20.022105.18613@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>>John,

>>

>	[...yet another commercial for a help tool deleted...]

>

>	Ok, so far Stefan and Ron have spoken up defending their products.

>	These are legitimate, but clearly biased viewpoints.  I'm sure

>	there will be more posts from other authors who will tell me how

>	*their* product differs from all of the others and why *their*

>	product is clearly the product of choice.

Excuse me John, if you will take a look at my post, you will see that I

did not try to tell you why our product is better, nor did I mention it,

except my .sig that includes the "passive" information. I just told you

why I think that a help authoring tool is something that people need, and they

are not mislead by tools vendors.

>

>	Ok, fine, but what about the rest of you?  Are most people

>	using 'special' tools or are most people using plain ol' Word?

>--

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>Airborne Geophysics

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WinHelp DeCompiler???

In article <1994Aug21.131709.1327@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannove> jacobs@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:

>jacobs@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de (Heiko Jacobs) writes:

>>muhr@cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Muhr) writes:

>>>And these files were protected against copying!-(

>>Not anymore... and this are the 43 bytes inside hlp2doc.txt:

>>Sorry, hlp2doc is not freeware anymore ...

>>

>I just tested hlp2doc version 136, I ftp'd some weeks before.

>After nearly three lines of dots, the PC hangs...

>

>Anyone knows another free decompiler ???

Did you ftp the file in binary or ASCII? I had the same problem

until I realized that I had retrieved the file in ASCII. Try

using bget instead of get. The file should then work perfectly.

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Hi folks!

I am attempting to use the LSeekHF function that is mentioned in the Help

Authors Guide to identify a topic by its offset in the file.  I have the

offset that is returned in lParam1 on a DW_ENDJUMP message (via the

LDLLHandler routine)  does anybody know what the parameter wOrigin is and how

to get a value for it?  ANd does anybody know what is at the offset that

LSeekHF sets you to? Is it the Topic text, the context id, or the context

string (or some other thing that I can't imagine)?

Thanks for your help!

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Help Authoring Tool

Chris Marriott (chris@chrism.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: In article <Cus1ts.A8p@btcase.bt.co.uk>

:            pearl@PowerPCHost "K. Muthu Kumar" writes:

: >Is there any Help Authoring tool(shareware/commerical) to build the windows

: >help file from

: >well-commented C/C++ sourefiles?

: There is a newsgroup devoted to the topic of Windows help file authoring.

: "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp".

I just tried to subscribe to "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp"

and tin gave me a "NO MATCH" message.  I was careful to spell it exactly as

above.  Is there somethiong else I need to do?  Does my provider need

to subscribe for me? (the group dosen't appear in .newsrc either).

I am using MS Word and some macros I got from Compu$erve to create

windows help files.  I am especially interested in a help file

de-compiler so that I can add site specific help to commercial

help files.  Does anyone know of one?

Thanks

Walt Scrivens

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Non-wrapping text in WinHelp

Hi,

Is there any way to create a line of text in WinHelp that will not wrap

when the window size is reduced?

Thanks,

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VBX Needed: Convert an RTF to MSWord?

Hi,

I have an application that I want to be able to

export text from in MSWord format. I understand I can

export in RTF, so maybe there is a Winhelp utility that

converts from RTF to MSWord that I could use?

Thanks

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LSeekHF function

In article <maynard.28.000A82CD@marcam.com>,

Tom Maynard <maynard@marcam.com> wrote:

>Hi folks!

>

>I am attempting to use the LSeekHF function that is mentioned in the Help

>Authors Guide to identify a topic by its offset in the file.  I have the

>offset that is returned in lParam1 on a DW_ENDJUMP message (via the

>LDLLHandler routine)  does anybody know what the parameter wOrigin is and how

>to get a value for it?  ANd does anybody know what is at the offset that

>LSeekHF sets you to? Is it the Topic text, the context id, or the context

>string (or some other thing that I can't imagine)?

>

>Thanks for your help!

>

>Tom Maynard (maynard@marcam.com)

I think that the offset returned by DW_ENDJUMP is into the topic text file.

Pete Davis's DDJ articles should provide the information about it.

LSeekHf does something "differnet" - it allows you to access the

baggage files. Since the topic's text is a "special" baggage, you

can use LSeekHf to get to the same place. However, unless you are

into de-compressing the text and doing something with it - it seems as

if the data provided by DW_EndJump is not that useful.

There was an interesting thread about this subject on CIS, and it

seems that the TopicNo that you get from DW_EndJump message can

provide you the title of the topics (in the |KBTree file if I remember

it ..).

Hope this is some kind of help.

If you find some more interesting stuff, please let us know ..

Ron.

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Topic limit

Thanks Ron for slowing my heart rate.  I read somewhere there was the 512

topic limit but could find nothing in MicroSoft documents.    I was using

the OS/2 Performance Beta which could have been the problem.  ForeHelp I

have say is very good.

Mister Marriot may know his stars though not his newsgroups.

Dave @ the caravan; still waters are bottled.

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[Q] Beginner's Question

In article <94233.0953193PMGJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>

           3PMGJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA "<3PMGJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>

" writes:

>Where does one obtain the Multimedia Viewer?

>      Phil Jones

The MM Viewer SDK is on the Level II MSDN disks. I believe that it's

also available as a separate product.

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LSeekHF function

In article <33dev6$79k@panix2.panix.com> rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>From: rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy)

>Subject: Re: LSeekHF function

>Date: 23 Aug 1994 14:25:42 -0400

>In article <maynard.28.000A82CD@marcam.com>,

>Tom Maynard <maynard@marcam.com> wrote:

>>Hi folks!

>>

>>I am attempting to use the LSeekHF function that is mentioned in the Help

>>Authors Guide to identify a topic by its offset in the file.  I have the

>>offset that is returned in lParam1 on a DW_ENDJUMP message (via the

>>LDLLHandler routine)  does anybody know what the parameter wOrigin is and how

>>to get a value for it?  ANd does anybody know what is at the offset that

>>LSeekHF sets you to? Is it the Topic text, the context id, or the context

>>string (or some other thing that I can't imagine)?

>>

>>Thanks for your help!

>>

>>Tom Maynard (maynard@marcam.com)

>I think that the offset returned by DW_ENDJUMP is into the topic text file.

>Pete Davis's DDJ articles should provide the information about it.

>LSeekHf does something "differnet" - it allows you to access the

>baggage files. Since the topic's text is a "special" baggage, you

>can use LSeekHf to get to the same place. However, unless you are

>into de-compressing the text and doing something with it - it seems as

>if the data provided by DW_EndJump is not that useful.

>There was an interesting thread about this subject on CIS, and it

>seems that the TopicNo that you get from DW_EndJump message can

>provide you the title of the topics (in the |KBTree file if I remember

>it ..).

>Hope this is some kind of help.

>If you find some more interesting stuff, please let us know ..

>Ron.

Thanks for your response.  I have looked at the Dr. Dobb's articles and have

had some difficulty (read: can't do it) correlating the hex offsets that the

dos utilities give me with the topicno from DW_ENDJUMP.  Maybe I'm missing

something fundamental, but it appears the the offsets are derived in different

ways and are therefore of no help.

I was hoping that I could create a log

file of the topic titles users most frequently access and determine weak areas

in our application ui from that.

Any ideas?

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Helpfile Template or project Maker

In <335slq$99f@Venus.mcs.com> bbeatty@MCS.COM (Brian Beatty) writes:

>I'm starting on my first helpfile and was wondering what is the best

>tool to use

There are lots of tools.  Take a look on ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  I

would recommend you look at HWA (Help Writer's Assistant for Windows)

which is a truely visual way to write help files.

However, I suggest you read some of the threads in this group and

get a feel for what the tools can do for you.  I'm sure you'll find

HWA will suit your needs!

...Stefan

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In article <maynard.29.000F8237@marcam.com>,

Tom Maynard <maynard@marcam.com> wrote:

>In article <33dev6$79k@panix2.panix.com> rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>>From: rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy)

>>Subject: Re: LSeekHF function

>>Date: 23 Aug 1994 14:25:42 -0400

>

>>In article <maynard.28.000A82CD@marcam.com>,

>>Tom Maynard <maynard@marcam.com> wrote:

>>>Hi folks!

>>>

>

>>I think that the offset returned by DW_ENDJUMP is into the topic text file.

>>Pete Davis's DDJ articles should provide the information about it.

>

>>LSeekHf does something "differnet" - it allows you to access the

>>baggage files. Since the topic's text is a "special" baggage, you

>>can use LSeekHf to get to the same place. However, unless you are

>>into de-compressing the text and doing something with it - it seems as

>>if the data provided by DW_EndJump is not that useful.

>

>>There was an interesting thread about this subject on CIS, and it

>>seems that the TopicNo that you get from DW_EndJump message can

>>provide you the title of the topics (in the |KBTree file if I remember

>>it ..).

>

>>Hope this is some kind of help.

>

>>If you find some more interesting stuff, please let us know ..

>

>>Ron.

>

>Thanks for your response.  I have looked at the Dr. Dobb's articles and have

>had some difficulty (read: can't do it) correlating the hex offsets that the

>dos utilities give me with the topicno from DW_ENDJUMP.  Maybe I'm missing

>something fundamental, but it appears the the offsets are derived in different

>ways and are therefore of no help.

>

>I was hoping that I could create a log

>file of the topic titles users most frequently access and determine weak areas

>in our application ui from that.

>

>Any ideas?

>

>-Tom           internet: maynard@marcam.com

Yes, it is simpler than you think, but will only work with your help files.

In the beggining of each topic call a action macro (! footnote) to your

DLL with the name of the topic. Your DLL will track these calls (It is a

special routine you created in your DLL), and you will be able to log

them at the end of the help file usage (DW_TERM).

Hope this helps.

Once again - let us know how it's going ..

Ron Loewy, Author of HLPDK, HLPDK/PA and PASTERP.

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In article <31mia9$ip7@nwfocus.wa.com>,

Stan Orchard <stano@coho.halcyon.com> wrote:

>Mr P.D. Carter (hs0u3018@liverpool.ac.uk) wrote:

>: I'm hoping to do a master's project in

>: computer science - a simple hypertext system with

>: small bitmap pictures, embedded links in the text..

>: etc I want to use Visual C++ if possible, but

>: could use something else. It has to be in using

>: Windows.

>

>Sounds to me like you just want to write a .hlp file. Don't need Visual

Or maybe Mr. Carter want to write a version of winhelp.exe, in which case

Visual C++ would be a nice tool to have.

\/\/eiqi Gao

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In <33b8fs$2vq@africa.lm.com> pdixon@telerama.lm.com (Pete Dixon) writes:

>Could somebody please direct me where i might find Help Writters Assistant?

Look on ftp.cica.indiana.edu for the files mentioned in my sig.  Please

note than an updated version (which fixes a couple of bugs and adds

a few new features) will be available towards the end of the week.

If you have access to Compuserve you can download this latest version from

the WINSDK forum, Section 16[WinHelp/Tools] as HWAB51.ZIP.

We look forward to your comments on HWA!

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In <5VKGe9dPTgB@fuerst.jena.thur.de> rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de (Rainer Schleevoigt) writes:

>Hi

>at the time I make a help-file about TCP/IP-access with SLIP and other

>things with telecommunication.

>I have seen by "dir10.hlp" (DesctopInternetrReference) that is possible to

>implement more buttons like <content> ... <previous> in top of area.

>How is it possible.

>Any ideas?

Use the CreateButton macro in your HPJ file... ([config] section)

This is what I use in the HWA help file to create a glossary button

which brings up the glossary in a secondary window:

CreateButton("btn_glossary", "&Glossary", "JumpId(`HWAWIN.HLP>wnd_glos', `glossary_title')")

...Stefan

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In article <Ctzy1L.CMM@discus.technion.ac.il>,

Golan Yaniv  <s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il> wrote:

>Hi,

>

>Is there any way to create a line of text in WinHelp that will not wrap

>when the window size is reduced?

>

Sure, the text should have the attribute \keep in RTF.  If you're

authoring in Word, that's something like "keep lines together" in

the paragraph attributes.

Don't confuse this with the \keepn attribute ("keep paragraph with

next"), which creates a "non-scrolling zone" in WinHelp.

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Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

I downloaded something called QDhelp a while ago (quick and dirty help!)

but haven't tested it out yet. I haven't yet got around to developing

my help files.

Has anyone used this - or even heard of it?

Also it's slightly off the topic of help files, but has anyone heard

of any shareware resource workshops (that can produce .RC files for

menus and dialogs) ?

Bill Rayer

lingo@dialix.oz.au

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ForeHelp with ATI Mach32 video?

I've tried running the ForeHelp v1.0 demo on a DX4 with ATI

Mach32 video, under W4Wg 3.11.  The demo runs fine if I use

the standard VGA drivers (and on my own PC with Tseng

4000 card), but using the Mach32 drivers the PC hangs when

I try to scroll the editing-window.

Has anyone else experienced this?  I want to recommend we

purchase this product, but obviously I'd like to be a bit

more confident it'll run okay.

__

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In <1994Aug23.055442.4477@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>	[...yet another commercial for a help tool deleted...]

>	Ok, so far Stefan and Ron have spoken up defending their products.

I don't think either Ron or myself defended our products.  In my case I

simply wrote about the product that I know best.  It was really a general

overview of why I believe that help tools are useful.  I believe that

many help authors, like myself, found it very hard to get to grips with

all the complicated WinHelp footnotes and so on...

>	These are legitimate, but clearly biased viewpoints.  I'm sure

>	there will be more posts from other authors who will tell me how

>	*their* product differs from all of the others and why *their*

>	product is clearly the product of choice.

There are a lot of things that can not be done with Word by itself

and it is great to see there are now lots of tools out there which suit

different users.  I did not go out to push HWA - I happen to know what

HWA can do that you can't do in Word.  There are other tools for which

the same ideas apply.

...Stefan

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In article <1994Aug23.055442.4477@emr1.emr.ca>, jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John

Grant) writes:

>Ok, fine, but what about the rest of you?  Are most people

>using 'special' tools or are most people using plain ol' Word?

Unfortunately I'm still Using WORD 2 and the WHAT templates, but I've had

the pleasure of using the Forehelp demo and IMO using ForeHelp is MUCH

MUCH MUCH easier than using just WORD and a few macros.  In fact..just out

of curiousity on a day when I was bored.. I created a help file (small one

about 8 topics)  using both the ForeHelp demo and then the same file as

closely as possible using WORD.  I spent about 20 minutes creating the

topics and cutting and pasting from my source doc to the topics in

Forehelp and had it cmpiled and running inside of 25 minutes.  Using WORD

and doing the same thing took over 40 minutes.  That was just 8 topics...

and it took nearly twice as long in WORD. I'm not saying ForeHelp is the

best..it's just what I had available at the time.. and at least in my case

was much easier than WORD.. there may in fact be even easier and faster

development tools.

I did like ForeHelps Word-like interface since it cut down on how long it

took me to get up and running with the demo.  NOW, If I just had $400.00

lying around .. sigh.. Oh well...

Anyway...  all this is simply to say that a Winhelp development tool can

be a real help in creating Help files.. but just as in EVERYTHING in

life.. We must choose what WE like best.  We all have our own little

quirks and some products simply hit our buttons better than other

products. ;> ;>

Oh well.. that's my opinion... btw..if anyone wants to donate $400.00 for

my opinion (so I could buy Forehelp), I'll be glad to accept ;> ;> hehe..

Bill McDaniel

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jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) wrote:

>In article <V1RWuAuOBh107h@olson.acme.gen.nz> stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

>>In <1994Aug20.022105.18613@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

[deleted]

>

>	Ok, so far Stefan and Ron have spoken up defending their products.

>	These are legitimate, but clearly biased viewpoints.  I'm sure

>	there will be more posts from other authors who will tell me how

>	*their* product differs from all of the others and why *their*

>	product is clearly the product of choice.

>

>	Ok, fine, but what about the rest of you?  Are most people

>	using 'special' tools or are most people using plain ol' Word?

John,

   I am a contractor and do most of my work for WexTech, and though I do use

their product, Doc-To-Help, when I want to single-source a manual and help

file, honestly, I do most of my help files like you, by hand. Of course, I

do a lot of things the hard way. I'm a command-line kinda guy. There are

all these visual debugging tools for Windows, but I ended up writing my

own that are command-line oriented. I just like to work with things on a

low-level. I think the applications out there really do make help

authoring much easier and available to more people. I don't think writing

a help file from Word is that simple a process. It gets very tedious and

complex with big projects. Tools that keep track of your links and such

take a lot of tedium out of the project.

  Pete

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maynard@marcam.com (Tom Maynard) wrote:

>Hi folks!

>

>I am attempting to use the LSeekHF function that is mentioned in the Help

>Authors Guide to identify a topic by its offset in the file.  I have the

>offset that is returned in lParam1 on a DW_ENDJUMP message (via the

>LDLLHandler routine)  does anybody know what the parameter wOrigin is and how

>to get a value for it?  ANd does anybody know what is at the offset that

>LSeekHF sets you to? Is it the Topic text, the context id, or the context

>string (or some other thing that I can't imagine)?

>

>Thanks for your help!

>

>Tom Maynard (maynard@marcam.com)

Tom,

  The offset returned by the DW_ENDJUMP is, more or less, useless to you.

It is, I believe, either an "extended" or  "character" offset (see my

articles Dr. Dobb's Journal, Sept. & Oct. 1993) to the topic within the

internal |TOPIC file. You can't really do anything with this unless you

have your own code to interpret the |TOPIC file. The topic 'text' is all

encoded within the |TOPIC file and may also be compressed with phrase

compression and/or an LZ77 compression algorithm (Zeck compression is the

implementation).

   Sorry, this is probably kinda cryptic, but if you read my article, it

would probably make a little more sense. There's too much involved to

explain it in detail here, but the articles should give you the background

you need to understand. I may cover this (the offset in DW_ENDJUMP) in my

upcoming book, "Undocumented Windows File Formats".

  Pete Davis

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lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Bill Rayer) wrote:

>

>I downloaded something called QDhelp a while ago (quick and dirty help!)

>but haven't tested it out yet. I haven't yet got around to developing

>my help files.

>

>Has anyone used this - or even heard of it?

>

>Also it's slightly off the topic of help files, but has anyone heard

>of any shareware resource workshops (that can produce .RC files for

>menus and dialogs) ?

>

>Bill Rayer

>

Bill,

   QDHelp is the first package I ever used for building help files. It was

okay, I suppose, but I went to Word soon afterwards. (We didn't have Word

at the time, so QDHelp was the only thing I had for creating .RTF files).

I found Word to be better simply because of the word processing

capabilities. For writing and editing the text, Word was better than my

editor that I used for creating the QDHelp source files.

  Pete

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VBX Needed: Convert an RTF to MSWord?

geoffc (GeoffC@respub.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: Hi,

: I have an application that I want to be able to

: export text from in MSWord format. I understand I can

: export in RTF, so maybe there is a Winhelp utility that

: converts from RTF to MSWord that I could use?

Rich Text Format IS Microsoft's format. Word will import it directly.

When you do a File--Open, look at the File Type list at the bootm of

the dialog. Rich Text Format is there. If your docdoes not get tran-

slated completely, it is because the RTF export on your output app

may not support all of the features of RTF.

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quote char

I know this has been asked before, but I'm going to ask again. I'm using

Word 6.0a and my helpfiles are missing the quote character. I thought the

solution was to turn off the "smart quotes". I did and they still aren't

showing. Do I need to do something else? Is the font I'm using affecting

it (Helvetica)?

Thanks in advance

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In article <TJ8WuAgDBh107h@olson.acme.gen.nz>,

Stefan Olson <stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz> wrote:

>In <1994Aug23.055442.4477@emr1.emr.ca>

>    jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>>	[...yet another commercial for a help tool deleted...]

>

>

[deletia]

>I don't think either Ron or myself defended our products.  In my case I

>...Stefan

[deletia]

I have a very new interest in serious help writing, and have learned

a lot lurking this group.  I do not object to authors of available

shareware mentioning their products on the group.  I wouldn't even

mind brief reviews by the authors.  That would spawn replies from

those of differing opinions and experience, and all who come here to

learn will benefit.  The authors would even benefit, since they'd

have real time heat-of-battle responses to the product.

I hope that those who have learned all about help will remain

patient with those of us who do need to hear the elements.  I save

huge amounts of time on the learning curve from ideas presented

patiently to newbies on this group.

Thanx to all.

good thoughts,

hoop

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In <Ctzy1L.CMM@discus.technion.ac.il> s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il (Golan Yaniv ) writes:

>

>Hi,

>

>Is there any way to create a line of text in WinHelp that will not wrap

>when the window size is reduced?

>

>Thanks,

>

>Yaniv Golan  | s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il

>

Another way to do this is to create a table in Winword. For better or worse,

text in table columns does not wrap, but gets truncated in the help window.

..if that's what you want...

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quote char

In article <Cv1oDF.7t@agora.rdrop.com> sperry@agora.rdrop.com (Steve Perry) writes:

>From: sperry@agora.rdrop.com (Steve Perry)

>Subject: quote char

>Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 15:00:50 GMT

>I know this has been asked before, but I'm going to ask again. I'm using

>Word 6.0a and my helpfiles are missing the quote character. I thought the

>solution was to turn off the "smart quotes". I did and they still aren't

>showing. Do I need to do something else? Is the font I'm using affecting

>it (Helvetica)?

>Thanks in advance

Are you getting errors in compiling your RTF file or do you expect to see a

"real" quote in your help file and you're not?  If you're getting compile

errors,  I've found that Word 6.0 saves a quote (smart or not) as \rquote

\lquote.  The current version of the help compiler ignores this and then

reports an error when it can't find a quote and expects to.  (This came from

the MSDN CD.)  If you manually edit (using Edit or NotePad) your RTF file and

change \rquote to ", Word will not change it back and it should compile OK.

Hope this helps.

Randy Bratton

Instructional Technology Division

USAF Academy

INTERNET: BrattonRM%CWI@cwmail.usafa.af.mil

(* Include std disclaimer - the above are my opinions ONLY *)

{$I DISCLAIM.INC}

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Full text search

The subject came up a while back concerning full text search.  I would

really like to add this capabilty to my Help files, but it would seem that

this is impossible without the utilty programs.  Can anyone point me to a

place on the net where I might find them or Email copies of them, assuming

this is legal of course.

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I've looked at a couple of shareware programs, and for me using

Word 2.0 with a couple of simple macros ended up being the easiest

solution, but then I'm not creating really complex HLP files.  I found

that the hardest part of Winhelp was understanding the basic concepts, the

seemingly alien idea of using footnotes with bizarre charaters, and the

really really BAD Microsoft Help Compiler Guide.  Using Word isn't really so

bad once you understand what you are aiming at.

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Out of Memory errors

What settings do people use in their .PIF file for runing the Help

compiler from within Windows 3.11 for WorkGroups? I'm using a 486,

16M RAM, and have a little under 400K of conventional memory free

when starting the compiler.

I originally got a lot of "Out of Memory" errors at the very end of

compilation, but these went away after a couple of days of playing around

with the .PIF file. :-/  Today, they're back with a vengeance, and I

can't solve the problem.

Any ideas? I'm not a PC guru (hey, I just write Help files...), so it

could be something simple, or else you're going to need more information

to help me. I've run MemMaker ad nauseum...

Thanks,

Barry.

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John Grant asks:

>	Ok, fine, but what about the rest of you?  Are most people

>	using 'special' tools or are most people using plain ol' Word?

>--

>John A. Grant	jagrant@emr1.emr.ca

>Airborne Geophysics

>Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

>

I've been writing Windows help for nearly 3 years and have used

various Words, even Mac Word! to create files that I then compiled.

I like using Word. I especially like Winword 6. If you make the file with Word

it's easier to find the problems. You don't have to wonder what

some intermediate program has done, and you aren't confined to its

capabilities.

I haven't even tried the various help assistants because I like doing it

myself in MY way. Probably this, like much else, is a question of personal

style.

Hanna Metzger	hannam@ix.netcom.com

Working for Central Point Software, now a division of Symantec

But I do think it's a question of personal style.

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Can someone kindly point me to a tool that will decompile a

help file into its corresponding text (or preferrably

Winword) file?  I've seen references to these tools

but never needed one -- until now!

Thanks so much.

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> John Grant asks:

>

> >	Ok, fine, but what about the rest of you?  Are most people

> >	using 'special' tools or are most people using plain ol'

Word?

my company uses robohelp. it's kind of kludgey since word upgraded to

6.0, but that will hopefully be fixed soon and i have developed

several dumb workarounds. the support at robohelp has been very good,

and i can't really imagine creating a help system without something

to help you at certain times, ie, taking out context strings that you

aren't using anymore, automatically updating context number files,

and doing global rtf saves instead of going into each damned file and

saving it as an rtf. granted, much of robohelp i do without since

i've started writing these beasts (instead of using the robohelp dll

to run the compiling program, i use robohc.bat in the file manager

which does the same thing but uses less memory). but then, that's

another beauty about the product because it gives me a lot of manual

control over it, while users who don't want to stray from the

robohelp macros don't have to.

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In article <X4940824115130@fubar>, <mikehi@ibeam.intel.com> writes:

>

> Can someone kindly point me to a tool that will decompile a

> help file into its corresponding text (or preferrably

> Winword) file?  I've seen references to these tools

> but never needed one -- until now!

>

> Thanks so much.

>

> Mike Hinchman

>

hlpdoc122.zip is in ftp.cica.indiana.edu (or something like that. you

can gopher to cica/pc anonymous users). it's in, i believe, the

pc/win3/progrmr/word path (spelling may vary). it decompiles a help

system into a word 2.0 file. watch out since it sometimes crashes

word (that has been my expereinece, at least). it also doesn't suck

in bitmaps from a help system, but that's a small price to pay for a

printable version of a help system.

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mikehi@ibeam.intel.com (Mike Hinchman) wrote:

>Can someone kindly point me to a tool that will decompile a

>help file into its corresponding text (or preferrably

>Winword) file?  I've seen references to these tools

>but never needed one -- until now!

>

>Thanks so much.

>

>Mike Hinchman

>

Mike,

  There's HLP2DOC which is available from ftp.lrz-muenchen.de in the:

/pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows directory. HLP2DOC converts .HLP files into

.DOC files (big surprise, huh?). It doesn't handle bitmaps, though (I

don't think).

  There's also a commercial package called MultiDoc, though I don't recall

who makes it or even if it's still available. As I recall, it converts

.HLP files back into .RTF files.

  Pete

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I am using Microsoft's Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)  to develop my product's

help system.  But I am having problems with the compiler, it is saying that it

doesn't have enough memory to build the help files.  This happened when I

added some bitmaps into my project.  Is there a workaround to this problem

or do I need more memory?  Any help greatly appreciated.

Kurt

kurtv@quack.kfu.com

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N e e d   H e l p . . .

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In article <glLVUWG@quack.kfu.com> kurtv@quack.kfu.com (Kurt Vogel) writes:

>From: kurtv@quack.kfu.com (Kurt Vogel)

>Subject: Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

>Date: 24 Aug 1994 20:45:49 UTC

>I am using Microsoft's Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)  to develop my product's

>help system.  But I am having problems with the compiler, it is saying that it

>doesn't have enough memory to build the help files.  This happened when I

>added some bitmaps into my project.  Is there a workaround to this problem

>or do I need more memory?  Any help greatly appreciated.

>Kurt

>kurtv@quack.kfu.com

There should be a file called HCP.EXE which is the protected mode Windows 3.1

Help Compiler.  It can handle larger files.  If you don't have it, you can get

a copy from ftp.microsoft.com.

Hope this helps.

Randy Bratton

Instructional Technology Division

USAF Academy

INTERNET: BrattonRM%CWI@cwmail.usafa.af.mil

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> 	Ý...yet another commercial for a help tool deleted...¨

>

> 	Ok, so far Stefan and Ron have spoken up defending their products.

> 	These are legitimate, but clearly biased viewpoints.  I'm sure

> 	there will be more posts from other authors who will tell me how

> 	*their* product differs from all of the others and why *their*

> 	product is clearly the product of choice.

>

> 	Ok, fine, but what about the rest of you?  Are most people

> 	using 'special' tools or are most people using plain ol' Word?

> --

> John A. Grant	jagrant@emr1.emr.ca

I use Help Writer's Assistant and it's well worth the few bucks.  It's

*so* much faster than having Word fired up, because it's so much less

a resource hog.  Because I don't have Word running, I can run Quickfinder,

Clipboard Extender, SideKick for Windows, Norton Editor at the same time,

and not go to sleep when I switched or scroll.

Besides this reason,, there are so many bells and whistles to speed

things up, that I get my work done faster and better and have more

fun.  This is almost certainly true for other utilities as well.

-Dennis Turner

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On  Thu, 18 Aug 1994 20:59:29 GMT  brendany@ruby.zed.com (Brendan Young) writes

>> Hi,

>>

>> I am trying to launch a Word 6 document from a button defined in the

>> project file. But I am experiencing two different problems.

>>

>> First I cannot launch a Word 6 session unless there is already a Word 6

>> session running. This occurs whether a document is specifed in the

>> command line or not. The error message is 'Unable to run the specified

>> file'.

>>

>> If I do manage to launch Word 6 and specify a path, Word says that it

>> cannot find the file. I have tried various combinations of slashes (\'s).

>>

You probably need a complete path to winword or to have winword in the

path statement, neither of which most people would find acceptable. If

this is truly the problem, then you might fetch the path for the doc

extension from the extensions section of the win.ini file. I suspect that

notepad worked because it is in the windows directory.

Tandy Penn

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Dallas, Tx.

tpenn@dseg.ti.com

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Greetings,

Could anybody please tell me where I may find the FAQ??

Rich Boehme

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Hi

Thanks for the info. I don't have word at the moment, I'm still

using wordstar under DOS (don't tell anyone!). Wordstar has printer

export filters so I was hoping to print chapters of a manual

directly to a file that could be processed by QDhelp. The end

result is hopefully to have an examples chapter and error messages

chapter in a .HLP file.

Anyway these delights are in the future as I haven't finished

the manual yet!

Bill Rayer

lingo@dialix.oz.au

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Hi-

Anybody out there know of a simple help spy that runs under Windows NT?

By 'help spy' I mean an app that looks for and displays winhelp calls coming

from other apps on the desktop.  I've used Ron Burk's help spy under windows,

but it doesn't appear to work under nt.

Thanks!

Paul

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kurtv@quack.kfu.com (Kurt Vogel) wrote:

>I am using Microsoft's Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)  to develop my product's

>help system.  But I am having problems with the compiler, it is saying that it

>doesn't have enough memory to build the help files.  This happened when I

>added some bitmaps into my project.  Is there a workaround to this problem

>or do I need more memory?  Any help greatly appreciated.

>

>Kurt

>kurtv@quack.kfu.com

>

Kurt, the most likely problem is that you're "pasting" bitmaps that are

32k or larger. If that's the case, instead of pasting them with the

"Insert Picture" from Word, use one of the following commands:

or

  This will insert the bitmaps by reference (change bitmap.bmp to the

bitmap's filename). You then need to add the bitmaps to the [BITMAP]

section of the help project file.

  {bml inserts a left-justified bitmap. {bmr inserts a right justified

bitmap, and {bmc inserts the bitmap in the current location.

  If this is not the problem, you need to get the extended memory version

of the compiler, HCP.EXE. This is available from ftp.microsoft.com in the

/Softlib/MSLFiles directory, I believe.

  Pete Davis

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Q about the FAQ

boehmerp@ttown.apci.com (Richard P. Boehme) wrote:

>

>Greetings,

>

>	Could anybody please tell me where I may find the FAQ??

>

>Rich Boehme

>

Rich,

   If you'll hold on a few more hours, I'll post the latest version of the

FAQ later today or early tomorrow. (probably today.) I have a few changes

and additions to make.

   Pete Davis

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paul@acacia.eye.com (Paul B. Booth) wrote:

>Hi-

>

>Anybody out there know of a simple help spy that runs under Windows NT?

>

>By 'help spy' I mean an app that looks for and displays winhelp calls coming

>from other apps on the desktop.  I've used Ron Burk's help spy under windows,

>but it doesn't appear to work under nt.

>

>Thanks!

>Paul

Paul,

   I believe that Ron's application, HelpSpy, could be ported over to

Windows NT without too much trouble. I haven't done it, but since he

supplies source code to it, you should be able to do it fairly easily. As

far as I know, the hooks he use should be portable to NT.

  Pete

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Is there any way to incorporate full-text searches (such as exists in

products like Folio Views) into Windows help files?

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Robohelp:Word Basic Err=133

Hello,

I am getting an error with Robohelp and am wondering whether anyone

out there has had the same experience.  I am running  Version 2.61

on Windows 3.1.

The Error:

WORDBASIC Err=133

Wrong number or type of arguments for DLL call

I got this error right after installing Robohelp for the first time.

I reinstalled the product after unsuccesfully trying other work-arounds.

If anyone else has got this error and fixed it I'd appreciate any info.

If this is the wrong newsgroup for this type of question, apologies in

advance.

--

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Here's the latest version of the FAQ:

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          maintained by Pete Davis (pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu)

               cheesy "BIG-ASCII" type by Pete Davis

                        Last Update: 8/25/94

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DISCLAIMER: This FAQ is information. Information is a tool. Like a saw,

if you cut off your arm with it, it ain't my fault. Many of the product

descriptions are provided from users or authors. I can not vouch for their

accuracy. I have neither the money, time, nor incentive to check all of these

products. I will always accept comments regarding products and modify this

FAQ when appropriate.

{ Parts of disclaimer adapted from unknown author. If it's you, let me know

and I'll give you credit. }

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CONTENTS

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[1] Introduction

    [1-1] What is WinHelp?

    [1-2] What is Viewer?

    [1-3] What's this document all about?

    [1-4] What if this FAQ needs more information?

[2] How to Learn to Build WinHelp Files

    [2-1] Software and Online Documentation

    [2-2] Books

    [2-3] Magazines

[3] WinHelp Authoring Tools

    [3-1] Shareware/Freeware

    [3-2] Commercial

[4] Other Non-Authoring Tools

    [4-1] Shareware/Freeware

    [4-2] Commercial

[5] Sources for Undocumented WinHelp Features

    [5-1] Magazine Articles

[6] Question and Answer

[6-1-1] Hardcoding Colors

    [6-1-2] Using the Full-Text Search Engines in WinHelp

[7] Misc.

    [7-1] Online Sources of WinHelp Help

        [7-1-1] Newsgroups

        [7-1-2] Listserv Lists

    [7-2] Online Sources of WinHelp Related Software

        [7-2-1] Authoring Tools

        [7-2-2] Authoring Guides and Info

        [7-2-3] Non-Authoring Software

    [7-3] Differences Between HC.EXE, HC30.EXE, HC31.EXE, and HCP.EXE

    [7-4] WinHelp limits

[8] Thanks

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[1] - Introduction

    This FAQ is for the comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup.

Notice the WinHelp at the end of that. This newsgroup is not for general

programming questions, but for questions regarding WinHelp. In particular,

it's for questions on development of WinHelp .HLP files and DLLs and macros

to be used with WinHelp.

[1-1] - What is WinHelp?

    If you've ever hit the help menu item in a Windows program, you've seen

WinHelp. WinHelp is the program that provides the hypertext help system

for Windows programs. WinHelp is actually a very complex and extendable help

system. It allows programmers to add their own functionality through the

use of macros and .DLLs.

[1-2] - What is Viewer?

    Viewer is the short name for Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer. It too is

covered by this newsgroup and FAQ. Viewer can be thought of as an extended

version of WinHelp. Its entire foundation of code is based on WinHelp and

the two are very similiar in many ways. In fact, Multimedia Viewer files

(.MVB files) are essentially the same format as WinHelp (.HLP) files.

    There are a lot of places in this document where I will use the name

WinHelp, but in all cases (except where pointed out), it applies to both

WinHelp and Viewer.

[1-3] - What's this document all about?

    This document is written as a supplement to the

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup. It is meant to help answer

some of the more common questions about WinHelp. It also supposed to

provide people with sources of information about authoring and extending

WinHelp .HLP files.

[1-4] - What if this FAQ needs more information?

    Think this FAQ is deficient in one or more areas? Let me know. Tell me

what you'd like to see. My product list is very incomplete. I don't have time

to track down all products, so if you have one, let me know. I'll gladly add

your product to the list. If you're a user of a product that's not listed,

let me know about it.

    I'll try to monitor the newsgroup for common questions to add to the

Question and Answer section. If you have questions that you think should

be included, let me know.

    Send all comments, suggestions, etc to pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu or

on Compuserve, 71644,3570.

[2] - How to learn to build WinHelp files

    It is far beyond the scope of this FAQ to teach people how to build

WinHelp .HLP files. However, there is a bit of documentation out there

on creating them.

[2-1] - Software and Online documentation

what.zip, hag.zip, and whag.zip

    These three files go together. what.zip has WinHelp Authoring Templates

for WinHelp. hag.zip and whag.zip are the WinHelp authoring guides. whag.zip

contains the Word for Windows .DOC version and hag.zip contains a .HLP file.

These are put together by Microsoft (I believe) and are freely available from

ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the /pub/win3/programr directory.

MSDN-CD

    The Microsoft Developer's Network CD, besides having the Windows Help

Authoring Guide, also has a great knowledge base with information about

WinHelp and creating WinHelp files. For the WHAG, look under Unsupported

Tools.

[2-2] - Books

Developing Online Help

    Published by SAMS, written by Scott Boggan, David Farkas, and Joe Welinske.

ISBN: 0-672-30230-6. This book, besides explaining how to generate WinHelp

files, also goes into great detail about how to make your help files look

good. This book is good for beginners and intermediate help writers. It does

not cover advanced features such as writing DLLs for WinHelp.

The Developer's Guide to WinHelp.EXE

Published by Wiley, written by Jim Mischel. ISBN:0-471-30326-7 (with disk)

ISBN:0-471-30325-9 (without disk). This book covers everything from how to

create help files from scratch to a description of commercial authoring tools,

to undocumented macros. The second half of the book is devoted to programming

for WinHelp. This book is a must for the intermediate to advanced help author

and an absolute necessity for WinHelp DLL programmers.

[2-3] - Magazines

Windows/DOS Developer's Journal

    I mention W/DDJ, a general Windows and DOS programming magazine, simply

because there is lots of WinHelp coverage in W/DDJ. Ron Burk, the editor

of W/DDJ is a real WinHelp fanatic. He's also working on a book tentatively

titled, 'WinHelp for Programmers and Technical Writers'. When the book is

published, I'll add it to the list here.

PC Magazine

The following articles by Ray Duncan were in PC Magazine and are a good

tutorial on building Windows help files.

Ray Duncan, "Constructing Your Own Windows Help Files", PC Magazine, April 27,

1993

   Ray gives an overview of WinHelp .HLP files and talks abou the basics of

the help project file.

Ray Duncan, "Building the Basic Structure of a Windows Help File", PC Magazine,

May 11, 1993

    Ray describes the very basics of generating a simple help file.

Ray Duncan, "Integrating a Windows Help File into an Application, PC Magazine,

May 25, 1993

    Ray shows how to implement code in your Windows programs to use Windows

help files.

Ray Duncan, "Four Techniques to Enhance Your Windows Help Files", PC Magazine,

June 11, 1993

Ray Duncan, "Implementing Macros In Your Help Files", PC Magazine, June 29,

1993

    Ray gives an overview of the macros available in WinHelp 3.1.

Ray Duncan, "Extending WinHelp with Custom DLLs", PC Magazine, September 14,

1993

[3] - Tools Available for Creating Windows Help Files. (Authoring Software)

    Okay, this list is pathetically short. I don't have time to go research

all of these products. Please, if you are a user or an author, send product

descriptions to me: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu.

[3-1] - Shareware/Freeware

> VB AHA!!!

Availability:

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    ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/util/vbaha124.zip.

Description:

    VB AHA!!! is an inexpensive and easy to use utility for writing Windows

help files. You won't need any expensive wordprocessors or have to use any

cryptic commands. With simple mouse clicks and Drag n Drop ease you will be

able to construct your help files quickly.

    If you use Visual Basic then VB AHA!!! will handle all of the

HelpContextID values for you and even recompile your programs with the new

values. No more hassles of having to insert the values by hand! If you program

in C/C++ or Pascal then VB AHA!!! will create a header file containing all of

the definitions that you will need for context sensitive help in your programs.

> HLPDK - The Help development Kit.

Availability:

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    ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/programr as :

    hdk115a.zip, hdk115b.zip, hdk115l.zip

    HLPDK is a Hypertext and Hypermedia generation system, that supports

multiple targets from one source. With HLPDK's Help Compiler, one help

source can be translated to Windows WinHelp and Multimedia Viewer, DOS

(THELP, QuickHelp, Turbo-Vision Help, POPHelp, Native Engines),

DESQview/X, OS/2 IPF, World Wide Web HTML, Ascii and Word Processor

documents. HLPDK allows you to *Write Once, Help Many*.

Features :

Topics, PopUps, Links, Keywords, Text Formats, Navigational and

Structural facilities, Target Code insertion, Multiple module files,

Automatic Pascal/C/C++ reference generation, Exception handling,

Multiple file target databases, Graphics, Sound, Groups, Application

Launch, Automatic exports creation, user defined link templates and

more.

    HLPDK Contains 4 Native Help Readers (Engines) for the Dos and DPMI

target, and 4 Help Compilers hosted on Dos, DPMI, Windows and OS/2.

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> DWHAT.ZIP

Availability:

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Description:

        DWHAT is a version of WHAT.ZIP for Word for Windows 6.0. It

includes a handy Toolbar with the most used Help-Creation functions. It

also can link to the on-line help in HAG.ZIP (see previous section). The

package is Freeware. A major upgrade is due to be released within the

next month(s) (when I get the time), with new features like fancy dialogs

for inserting and editing graphic links.

> Help Writer's Assistant for Windows                      Price: $85NZ ($55US)

Availability:

    Olson Software

    4 Anaru Place

    Palmerston North

    New Zealand

    Phone: +64 6 359 1408

    Fax: +64 6 355 2775

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Compuserve:

    WinSDK Forum - Section 16 [WinHelp/Tools] hwab51.zip

Email:

    Internet: stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz

    Compuserve: 100352,1315

Description:

HWA (Help Writer's Assistant) is a visual help authoring package with

features normally only seen in expensive products - at a price you can

afford!

HWA is a WYSIWYG help development environment.  The results of your work

are displayed in a visual editor where all formatting is seen.  The visual

editor is designed specifically for the task of developing help files.  HWA

works the way you do, not forcing you to change the way you work.

HWA provides topic management tools which make it possible to easily see

the structure and links of your help file at a glance.

HWA helps to make Windows help authoring visual and exciting!

>Help File Author Tool for WinWord 2.0 & 6.0

Availability:

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Description:

    HELLLP! v2.2 <ASP> - Multi-File build and HelpContextID property [MAP]

generation.  User friendly.  Automatically sets up top level table of

contents with Hypertext jumps to your topics.  You add additional jumps

and popups by highlighting the place you want to jump from and pointing

to the place you want to jump to.  Can add SOUND EFFECTS, SECONDARY

windows with buttons, launch other programs for MULTIMEDIA.

Changes: Now works with both US & non-English versions of Word 6 & 2.

> DR Help

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

   ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/winword/drhelpe5.zip.

Description:

  DR Help is a set of Word for Windows macros for creating WinHelp

files from Word documents.  It uses Word's standard heading styles to

automatically create links between sections using the section titles

and optionally also generating keyword links from the titles.

  DR Help makes it easy to keep a single source document, maintained

with a familiar and powerful word processor, and then generate printed

documentation, WinHelp and potentially also ASCII and/or PostScript

(using Word's and Windows' built-in capabailities).  The Windows FAQ and

Windows Programmer FAQ are created using DR Help.

{ Editor's Note: The WinHelp version of this FAQ was originally created

using Visual Help but is updated using Word for Windows.                }

[3-2] - Commercial

> Doc-To-Help - WexTech Systems, Inc.                Price: $295.00 (U.S)

                                                            $375.00 (Intl)

Availability:

    WexTech Systems, Inc.

    310 Madison Ave.

    Suite 905

    New York, NY 10017

    FAX:   (212) 949-4007

    Phone: (212) 949-9595

Description:

    Doc-To-Help is perfect for people who want their help files to accurately

reflect what's in the printed documentation. Doc-To-Help allows you to create

your WinHelp file and your printed documentation in the same Word for Windows

document.

> The Windows Help Magician - Software Interphase, Inc.   Price: $149.00

Availability:

    Software Interphase, Inc.

    82 Cucumber Hill Rd.

    Suite 207A

    Foster, RI 02825

    FAX:   (401) 397-6814

    Phone: (800) 542-2742

Description:

    Windows Help Magician is one of the few products to allow you to easily

create WinHelp .HLP files without Word for Windows. It provides its own

editor and WYSIWYG environment. Imports documents from Word.

> Help Perfect - Niceware                         Price: $495.00

Availability:

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    Oosterstraat 33

    3581 ML  UTRECHT

    FAX:   ++31 30 517 555

    Phone: ++31 30 520 018

    CIS:   100041,2760

    e-mail: niceware@let.ruu.nl

Description:

    Help Perfect converts WordPerfect documents to WinHelp/

Multimedia Viewer.  Does not rely on WordPerfect for RTF conversion.

Use any WordPerfect style, attribute or mark for setting topics and

hotspots.  Automatic conversion of foot/endnotes, header/footers,

index words, lists and autorefs.  Extension DLL provides graphics,

multimedia, advanced searching, window color manipulation, menu links,

etc.

>SOS Help! for Windows v2.01 - QBS Software        Price: 195 pounds sterling

Availability:

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          10 Barley Mow Passage

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          London W4 4PH, UK

          Fax +44 81 994 3441

          Tel +44 81 994 4842

          BBS +44 81 747 1979

 Anonymous FTP (demo version: limited to 10 topics)

         ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/uploads/soshp201.zip

Description:

    WYSIWYG Help design system for Windows creates all files required by

the help compiler. RTF editors, such as Word for Windows, are redundant.

    Add jumps, popups and Windows Help macros quickly and easily using

the Topic editor.

    Full support for styles and sylesheets: design a house style for use

in any Help project.

    Application Programming Interface - create context sensitive help

from within an application with one function call.

> RoboHELP 2.6

Availability:

RoboHELP 2.6 is available NOW at a suggested retail price of $499.  For

more information, please contact Blue Sky Software Sales Department at 1-

800-677-4WIN, tel: 619-459-6365 or

fax: 619-459-6366

Description:

RoboHELP 2.6, the award-winning Help Authoring Tool for Windows and Windows

NT automates the task of creating on-line Help for Windows-based

applications.  Supports both Word 6.0 and Word 2.0.  Lets you easily create

features such as jumps, popups, topics, secondary windows, multiple hotspot

graphics and more.  Includes VBX and special custom controls.  Version 2.6

of RoboHELP, turns both Microsoft Word 6.0 and Word 2.0 for Windows into

hypertext authoring tools capable of producing Windows Help files as easily

as text documents.  RoboHELP 2.6 guides users step by step through the

creation of their Windows Help systems.  The whole process is automated and

allows users to rapidly create elegant and professional Help systems.

RoboHELP has won numerous awards.  In 1994, RoboHELP received the Win 100

1994 Award from Windows Magazine and the Productivity Award from Software

Development Magazine.

[4] Other Non-Authoring Tools

    This section is devoted to tools that aren't really authoring tools for

WinHelp files, but may be useful to WinHelp authors and/or users. As with

the other product list, this is real incomplete, so send me descriptions of

products you've used or authored.

[4-1] Shareware/Freeware

> NewsDB - Usenet News and unstructured text to HLPDK conversion Tool.

Availability :

Anonymous FTP - Oak.OAKLAND.EDU : /pub/SimTel/msdos : newsdb10.zip

Description:

    News Hypertext Database generator - The tool that allows you to enjoy

"Other People's Wizdom" - Create sophisticated hypertext databases

from Usenet News articles. A companion to HLPDK, allows you to store

the news articles that are of value to you, with smart news groups

directories, automatic keywords generation for fast search, user

defined groups, automatic article association from articles textual

information to user groups, Author directories and references,

article references to other (previous) and from other (later) articles

and more. Database can be compiled to all the targets supported by

HLPDK, including Windows, OS/2, DOS (several targets), DESQview/X and

documents. Can even handle non Usenet text articles, with user groups

links as well.

    If you have large sets of ascii articles, you would like to create a

hypertext heirarchy, using user defined associations, NewsDB may be

the fastest way to create the hypertext database.

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> WinHelp -> HLPDK Conversion Tool

Availability :

Anonymous FTP - garbo.uwasa.fi : /pc/programming/wh2hdk10.zip

Description:

    WinHelp -> HLPDK Conversion Tool. With WH2HDK you can port your

Windows Help Databases to other platforms such as OS/2, World Wide

Web, DOS, DESQview/X and more. Use WH2HDK (with HLPDK) to save the

additional investment required for multiple target development !

    Now you can create your Help Databases in your favorite winHelp

authoring tool, and still benefit from HLPDK cross-platform portability,

and enhanced navigation and code generation tools.

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> RC2HDK -> RC Help Template Generator

Availability :

Anonymous FTP - ftp.cica.indiana.edu : /pub/pc/win3/programr/rc2hdk30.zip

Description:

    Generate Help Templates for Windows Programs from RC resource

description files. User's interaction with your application is done

through the resources described in the RC file. With this tool, Your

RC files are parsed, and a help template for your project is created.

All you need to do is feel in your application options specific help,

compile, and go!

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> HLP2DOC

Availability:

Anonymous FTP - ftp.lrz-muenchen.de :

                /pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows/hlpdc132.zip

Description:

HLP2DOC is a utility to convert WinHelp .HLP files and Multimedia Viewer

.MVB files into Word for Windows 2.0 .DOC files. HLP2DOC is still in the early

stages, but the author is continuing to work on it and improve it rapidly.

HLP2DOC does not yet do a full translation. Bitmaps aren't converted as of the

latest version (1.32). Despite the few drawbacks, it does a very good job

and will make it possible for people to print entire help files by converting

them to .DOC files. HLP2DOC is freeware.

[4-2] Commercial

> HyperHelp

Availability :

    Bristol Technology

    (203) 438-6969

    Internet: info@bristol.com)

Description:

    Hyperhelp is a WinHelp compiler and viewer for Unix. You simply recompile

your rtfs, bmps, and hpjs and you get a Unix versions of your help file.

Hyperhelp supports MIF and SGML and has a bridge that lets you use these on

the Windows WinHelp too.

[5] Sources for undocumented WinHelp features.

    WinHelp is one of Windows least documented features. As most Windows

programmers are aware these days, many aspects of Windows do go undocumented

by Microsoft, but for the rest of Windows, this tends to be less vital

functionality. With WinHelp, many of the important aspects are kept

undocumented. Whether this is the result of laziness or intentions, is

unclear.

    Luckily, a few people have taken a lot of time to discover these

undocumented features and made them available in one way or another. In

particular, Ron Burk (editor of Windows/DOS Developer's Journal) has

spent a lot of time working with WinHelp and he is arguably the most

knowledgeable WinHelp expert outside of Microsoft (and maybe including

Microsoft).

    Below are a list of articles and other sources of undocumented WinHelp

features listed in alphabetical order by author.

[5-1] Magazine articles

Ron Burk, "Automatic Help Topic Extraction", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

February 1993

    In this article Ron writes a .DLL that allows you to insert an "extract"

button in your help file that will extract a WinHelp topic to a file. He also

discusses the fact that WinHelp executes some macros asynchronously.

Ron Burk, "Automatic Help Topic Printing", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

March 1993

    In this article Ron writes a .DLL to allow you to print all topics in

a WinHelp .HLP file.

Ron Burk, "Spying on WinHelp," Dr. Dobb's Journal, June 1993

    In this article, Ron discusses the WM_WinHelp message used by the

WinHelp() API call. The article describes some uses of this message and

the parameters associated with it.

Ron Burk, "Controlling WinHelp's Always-on-Top State", Windows/DOS Developer's

Journal, November 1993

    Ron shows how to control the Always-on-Top State of WinHelp from your

applications.

Pete Davis, "Documenting Documentation," Dr. Dobb's Journal, September 1993

and October 1993

    In this two part article, a detailed, though not quite complete,

description of the WinHelp file format is provided. It discusses WinHelp's

internal file system and the structures of the internal files in a

.HLP file.

Pete Davis, ".mrb and .shg File Formats", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

February 1994

    This article contains a fairly complete description of the .mrb

(multi-resolution bitmap) and .shg (segmented hyper-graphic) file formats.

These files are used by WinHelp to display bitmaps. The file formats are

almost identical between the two files, though their purposes are quite

different.

Jim Mischel, "Undocumented WinHelp Macros", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

January 1994

    Jim describes a lot of undocumented WinHelp macros such as ExtAbleItem(),

ExtInsertItem(), ExtInsertMenu(), ResetMenu(), JumpHash(), and PopupHash().

[6] Question & Answer:

[6-1] WinHelp Q & A

Q: How can I view my WinHelp files on the Apple Macintosh? Unix?

A: You can use QuickHelp from Altura Software (see product info)

QuickHelp will convert your .RTF files, .BMPs, etc and converts them

into a format that is compatible with their QuickHelp interpreter.

You can also use the Macintosh version of WinHelp that comes with Excel

to view already made .HLP files.

Q: How do I insert symbols (such as the copyright symbol) in my WinHelp

files?

A: There are three ways. The first way works with Word 6.0 only, I believe:

1> select Insert Symbol

   choose Normal Text, not Symbol font.

   Select the copyright symbol

2> Hold down the Alt key and type: 0169

3> insert the code {\'A9} in the .rtf file or your Word document.

Q: Why won't my Word 6.0 .rtf files compile with hc31?

A: Microsoft changed RTF slightly with the release of Word 6.0 which made

it incompatible with the old help compiler. You need to get Release 505

(HC505.ZIP) of the compiler. See section [7-2-1] for availability.

Q: Why can't I set the background color with the \cb help rtf statement?

A: Simple: It doesn't work. The \cb statement was never implemented by

Microsoft. Ooops.

Q: When I sub-class the WinHelp window, my DLL breaks when the help file is

executed from the WinHelp() API function.

A: WinHelp uses the class name MS_WINDOC for the main window when run

as a standalone program however, when WinHelp is executed from the WinHelp()

API function, the class name is MS_WINHELP.

Q: I get out of memory errors when running the help compiler. Why?

A: There are several reasons this could be happening:

   1> You can't paste bitmaps larger than 32k into a topic. The solution is

      to include them by reference using the \bml, \bmc, and \bmr commands.

   2> You really are running out of memory. If you're using HC31 or HC30, try

      using HCP.

   [see other limitations in section 7-4]

Q: I get an out of file handles error when running the help compiler.

A: Try increasing the number of file handles in your config.sys file to

FILES=40 or higher.

[6-1-1] Hardcoding Colors

Q: Should I hard-code the colour of the text of my help system?

A: A certain amount of colour can help the user find important information.

Therefore, judicious use of colour in a help system may be beneficial.

The key words here, though, are "judicious" and "may".

Researchers into user interfaces seem to agree that overuse of colour is

significantly worse than under-use: too much colour distracts the user from

the message of the text, making it more difficult for them to understand

what they are reading. (For those who have some experience in publishing:

it's very similar to too many fonts on a page).

But there are other points, some of which are specific to PCs and the

Windows WinHelp environment, that also argue against the use of coloured

text (or even hard-coded black!).

1. The user can set their own colour scheme using Control Panel. This allows

   the user to choose the background colour that most suits them. Hence, a

   help writer should NEVER assume that the background that their help text

   will be displayed on is white. It may, for example, be blue.  If the help

   system contains blue text, it will be impossible to read on a blue

   background! And the "standard" black text is almost impossible to read on

   a dark blue background.

2. The user can set the colour of the text of jumps and popups. If they set

   their jump colour to, say, green, and you have green text in your help

   system, they WILL click on the non-jump green text. Frequently, they will

   click repeatedly, wondering why a new topic hasn't appeared. I have

   watched people do this several times (and I have done it myself).

3. You could overcome problem 1 by hard coding the colour of the background

   as well. Most people who take this approach hard-code a white background.

   But a user who has changed the colour of their background from the white

   default has probably done so for a good (to them) reason. Will they

   appreciate you forcing them to use a colour they felt was not appropriate

   for them? Will you be encouraging them to use your help system? Or will

   you be encouraging them to look elsewhere, perhaps to a competing product

   which allows them to do things their way?

4. Monitors can differ markedly in their display of colours. Hence you have

   no way of knowing how the colour scheme you carefully selected to look

   good on your monitor will look on the monitors of users. Two recent

   examples from my own experience may help explain this.

   I frequently use two computers, each of which uses the same graphics card

   and the same driver. The monitors are different brands. Both monitors are

   good quality, reasonably expensive monitors. But a colour scheme which

   looks good on one, looks atrocious on the other. The differences in the

   individual colours are not obvious; it is only combinations that show up

   the differences.

   I recently wrote a program which displayed a graph (among other things).

   Several colours were needed for the graph, and one of the graph

   components I defaulted to red (though the colours were user-selectable).

   I ran this program on four different computers, all with different

   monitors. The default colour scheme looked attractive (though not

   identical) on all monitors. I delivered the initial version of the

   software. The person paying for the software did not like my choice of

   red for the default for this graph component. When I saw the program

   running on their computer, I realised why. On the monitor they were

   using (yes, a cheap one), red was a horrible, washed out, sickly looking

   thing. The other colours were also different, but the red now clashed

   terribly with them all.

5. Don't forget that some users will probably be colour-blind.

6. Different colours imply different things to different cultures, so if

   you want your help system to be read by people from more than one

   country, carefully consider any colour choices you make.

And finally, you may wish to read the section on colour in help systems in

Chapter 4 of the Help Author's Guide, under "Formatting and Style" (Search

on "Color" in the newer version of this file).

[6-1-2] Using the Full-Text Search Engines in WinHelp

Q: Can I add full-text search capabilities to my Windows Help file?

A: Yes.  The problem is finding the tools to do it with.

The full-text search engine of the Multimedia Viewer 1.0 is completely

compatible with WinHelp.  To create an index file from your help file,

you'll need:

FORAGE.EXE

(FORAGEP.EXE)

W_SCAN.EXE

INDEX.EXE

(GETMLT.EXE)

The run-time support is in the following DLLs:

FTUI.DLL

FTENGINE.DLL

MVAPI.DLL

These were all available in the MDK (Multimedia Developer's Kit), now

superseded by the Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit (Viewer 2.0).

Viewer 2 also supports full-text searching, but the indexing is handled

by the integrated Viewer compiler: no separate .IND file is created.

The runtime DLLs are also different (MVFS2.DLL, MVFSTUI2.DLL, MVAPI2.DLL).

The Indexing programs (FORAGE, W_SCAN and INDEX) are now available in the

Windows NT SDK (MSTOOLS\HLPINDEX directory), as included in the MS Developer's

Library Level II CD sets.  They are identical to the original Viewer 1 tools.

However, WinNT does *not* include the required 16-bit run-time DLLs, but comes

instead with new 32-bit versions (FTUI32.DLL, FTENG32.DLL, MVAPI32.DLL).

The 16 bit DLLs are available from ftp.microsoft.com in some of the

KnowledgeBase helpfiles (e.g. Softlib/MSLFILES/WFWG.EXE).  They should

also be found with any Multimedia Viewer 1.0 product (like my 1991 MS

Boookshelf for Windows).

Q: Suppose I have laid my hands upon the EXEs and DLLs required.  What

must I do next?

A: Say you have a Windows Help project called MYPRJ.  First you must tell

WinHelp where to find the full-text search routines.  In MYPRJ.HPJ, add

these lines to the [CONFIG] section:

[CONFIG]

; initialize DLLs

RR("ftengine", "LoadFTEngine", "U")

LoadFTEngine(0)

RR("ftui", "InitRoutines", "SU")

InitRoutines(qchPath, 1)

; declare the main routines

RR("ftui", ExecFullTextSearch", "USSS")

RR("ftui", "SwitchToTopicsFound", "U")

; provide ways to use them: suit to your own taste

AddAccelerator(0x46,2,"SwitchToTopicsFound(hwndApp)")

CreateButton("btn_fts","FullText","ExecFullTextSearch(hwndApp,qchPath,`',`')")

Add the following line to the [BAGGAGE] section

[BAGGAGE]

bag.ini

{ Editor's Note: "bag.ini" must be all lower case. Baggage files are case

sensitive. Not making it all lower case will produce errors.             }

Save MYPRJ.HPJ.

"bag.ini" is a simple text file, that tells the full-text search engine the

name of the index file, and whether several different help-files share one

single index.  The simple case is one .HLP file, one .IND file.  bag.ini

should look like this:

[bag.ini]

groupcount=1

group1=MYPRJ

[MYPRJ]

Title=My Project

Indexfile=MYPRJ.IND

If you have two helpfiles that share an index:

[bag.ini]

groupcount=2

group1=MYPRJ1

group2=MYPRJ2

[MYPRJ1]

Title=My Project I

Indexfile=MYPRJ.IND

[MYPRJ2]

Title=My Project II

Indexfile=MYPRJ.IND

All the Indexfile= lines should be the same.  You can have up to 15 groups.

The same bag.ini file should be included in the baggage of all the help files.

Next you'll need a field-description file.  It comes with the Viewer 1

and NT Helpindex tools (as GENERIC.FLD).  If you don't have it, it's

a simple textfile containing the following text:

topic [inline, search, stop]

filename [catalog, string]

address [catalog, fixed(4)]

length [catalog, fixed(4)]

topicTitle [catalog, trunc(32)]

topicNSR [inline, search, stop]

Finally there's the stop-words file.  This is a text file containing words

that need not be indexed, each on a separate line.  Viewer 1 and NT come

with GENERIC.STP, which contains a list of English words:

a

an

and

the

...

If your text is in a different language, you should provide your own .STP

file.  Viewer 2 comes with ready-made French and German .STP files.

Since we're talking internationalization, one drawback of the Viewer 1

FTUI.DLL (solved in Viewer 2) is that the Full-Text Search dialog box

is English only.  Borland's Resource Workshop barfed on the dialog resource

in the DLL (Did MS do this on purpose?).

OK, all is set now to create the full-text index.  Viewer1 and the NT SDK

come with ready-to-run batchfiles, that in turn invoke a makefile that

creates the actual index.  In order the explain what's going on,  we'll

ignore the compexities of the makefile provided by MS.

For the simple case of one helpfile with one indexfile, you can create

(or generate) a batchfile, to invoke the Help Compiler and the Indexing

programs:

@ECHO OFF

hcp MYPRJ

echo.

forage /w MYPRJ.HLP

w_scan MYPRJ.ANS,,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,,MYPRJ.LST;

index MYPRJ,,MYPRJ,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,MYPRJ.MAP;

rem produced by FORAGE

del MYPRJ.ANS

rem produced by W_SCAN

del MYPRJ.CFG

del MYPRJ.LST

del MYPRJ.OCA

del MYPRJ.WRS

del MYPRJ.ZON

del MYPRJ.ZOS

rem produced by INDEX

del MYPRJ.MAP

rem think that covers all the garbage generated

If you have several helpfiles for which you want to create a single index,

first create the .HLP files (using HC or HCP), then make the index with

a batchfile like this:

getmlt bag.ini;

forage /m bag.ini BAG.MLT

w_scan MYPRJ.ANS,,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,BAG.MLT,MYPRJ.LST;

index MYPRJ,,MYPRJ,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,MYPRJ.MAP;

rem clean up the directory

GETMLT.EXE is a very clever program that reads a bag.ini file and produces

the following output (given the bag.ini file above):

My Project I

MYPRJ1.HLP

My Project II

MYPRJ2.HLP

It needs two arguments (name of bag.ini and name of output .MLT file),

but will only accept one (hey! let's make it interactive!).  If I didn't

have a program to generate all of this FTSearch stuff automatically, I'd

even prefer to make the .MLT file by hand!

That's it.  You should now have a file MYPRJ.IND to go with your

help file(s).  When you distribute the help file(s), just make sure that

you include the .IND file, *and* the FTUI, FTENGINE and MVAPI DLLs.

[6-2] Viewer Q & A

[editor's note: This section is for questions and answers that are specific

 to Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer. The Q & A section for WinHelp applies

 to WinHelp and Viewer. This section does not apply to WinHelp at all.]

[7] Miscellaneous

[Ed. Note: Everyone thought I was serious about the spelling of Misc.

 I guess it wasn't very funny, but I was joking. I do own a dictionary.]

    This is just a sort of free form, general information about whatever

comes to my mind that I can't pigeon-hole in some other section because it's

not appropriate, or it's too small for its own section.

[7-1] Online Sources of WinHelp Help

[7-1-1] Newsgroups

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup

    This FAQ is for the comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup,

so you probably already know about it. Just making sure.

[7-1-2] Listserv Lists

WINHLP-L listserv list

    Listservs are a system set-up on BITNET, an IBM mainframe network. They

are very similiar to usenet newsgroups and can be subscribed to over the

internet. The main difference is that all messages are sent as e-mail. After

subscribing, you will be sent a message confirming your subscription and

instructions on how to unsubscribe. For other listserv commands, send

e-mail to the listserv with the contents of your message being:

HELP

- To subscribe to the WINHLP-L list, send e-mail to:

LISTSERV@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA

- The contents of your e-mail should be simply:

SUB WINHLP-L

- To unsubscribe, send e-mail to the same address with the contents:

SIGNOFF WINHLP-L

- To post a message to the WINHLP-L list, send e-mail to:

WINHLP-L@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA

- The subject and contents of the e-mail are sent to all subscribers.

[7-2] Online Sources of WinHelp Related Software

    This section lists various files related to WinHelp and where they

can be obtained. In all cases, the files are available via anonymous

FTP from the sites and directories listed. I can't guarantee the accuracy

of this list as sites go up and down and move files around. Please

notify me of any changes or additions I should make.

    Some of the files are shown elsewhere in this document. In this area

I'll try to provide alternate sites.

[7-2-1] Authoring Tools

HC505.ZIP - Version 5.05 of the help compiler

ftp.microsoft.com           /Softlib/MSLFILES

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/misc

WHAT.ZIP - Windows Help Authoring Templates

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

HLPDK40.ZIP - Help System Deveopment Kit for Windows

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/util

HELPED19.ZIP - Help Edit V1.9 Windows Help File Generator

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/util

VH.ZIP - Visual Help - A Windows 3.1 Help File Creating program

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/util

[7-2-2] Authoring Guides and Info

WHAG.ZIP - Windows Help Authoring Guide

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

HAG.ZIP - Help Authoring Guide

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

WFWHLP.ZIP - Info on constructing Windows Help Files

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

[7-2-3] Non-Authoring Software

[7-4]

    This section describes limits of WinHelp, not necessarily the

compilers, however. Some of these limits are not shared by the 32-bit

version of WinHelp, though I don't have specifics yet. I will investigate.

    This information is adapted from Microsoft's knowledge base article

Q85676

Paragraph: ~32,000 bytes - Includes any pasted bitmaps

Topic title string: 127 characters

Topics per RTF source: ~32,000

Topics per help file: ~42,000,000

Help file size: 2 gigabytes

By-reference bitmaps per help file: 32,767

Topic footnote (# chars): 1023 characters

Keywords per help file: Limited by file size

Keyword length: 255 characters

Topics per keyword: 32,767 ( Large #'s will effect performance )

Browse sequence length: Limited by # of topics

Bookmarks per help file: Limited by file size

Annotations per topic: 1

Annotations per help file: 32,767

History List Length: 40 topics

Macro Length: 512 characters

Main windows per topic: 1

Secondary Windows per topic: 5

Items in [MAP] section: 4096

[8] Thanks

    I'd like to thank the following people for assistance in this FAQ. If

I've missed your name, it's due to my incompetence and not my lack of

appreciation. Please let me know if I missed you.

Roger Burton - Some corrections.

Anne Foxworthy - Questions for the Q&A section. She supplied some of the more

important ones that I missed. She also supplied the text for the question

about hardcoding colors in [6-1-1]. E-mail to:anne@greebo.apana.org.au

Ron Levi - Provided WINHLP-L Listserv information

Derek MacEwen - Suggested talking about Viewer

Duncan Murdoch - Provided information on how to distribute the FAQ

Arthur Muller - Coming up with the original WinHelp version of the FAQ

Richard Prince - Came up with the idea for section [7-2]

Brenden Young - Updates to section [7-4]

Miguel Carrasquer - Section [6-1-2]

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Whats the best UNcrippled help writer for windows?

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aj085@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Neil Polowin) wrote:

>

>Is there any way to incorporate full-text searches (such as exists in

>products like Folio Views) into Windows help files?

>

>

Neil,

  This is covered in the latest release of the FAQ (see section 6-1-2). I

just posted it, so you should be able to read it.

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  Can someone let me know where I'm supposed to be sending this FAQ? I

have a WinHelp version and a text version. I've posted the text version

and I've sent a copy of the WinHelp version to Tim Roberts who will post

it on his server. I believe he'll also post how to get it.

  How do I get it on the rtfm server?

  Pete Davis

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In article <1994Aug23.055442.4477@emr1.emr.ca>

           jagrant@emr1.emr.ca "John Grant" writes:

>        Ok, so far Stefan and Ron have spoken up defending their products.

>        These are legitimate, but clearly biased viewpoints.  I'm sure

>        there will be more posts from other authors who will tell me how

>        *their* product differs from all of the others and why *their*

>        product is clearly the product of choice.

>

>        Ok, fine, but what about the rest of you?  Are most people

>        using 'special' tools or are most people using plain ol' Word?

Don't know about other people, but I use Word myself.

Chris

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The AfxMessageBox allows one to specify a Help ID in the call so that

an F1 keypress starts up WinHelp with that ID. Great.

So, how do I go about arbitrarily creating the ID in a way not to conflict

with others? What is the suggested range of values? Just use appstudio to

create something called "IDH_ ..." and not worry about what value is gets?

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Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

In article <33eegb$juu$1@perth.dialix.oz.au> lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Bill Rayer) writes:

>

>I downloaded something called QDhelp a while ago (quick and dirty help!)

>but haven't tested it out yet. I haven't yet got around to developing

>my help files.

>

>Has anyone used this - or even heard of it?

>

>Also it's slightly off the topic of help files, but has anyone heard

>of any shareware resource workshops (that can produce .RC files for

>menus and dialogs) ?

>

>Bill Rayer

>

>lingo@dialix.oz.au

>

I got this off a shareware CD-rom fairly recently, and though I'm still testing

it out, I like it alot. It doesn't have any bells and whistles like a few

other programs I'm also looking at, but it does have the major advantage that

it does not need Word.  I found it easy to use, and that the organization

of it was pretty straight-forward, making easy to follow text files in any

text editor. It has a few templates you can follow to get you started.

You run your text file through QDhelp, and it outputs a RTF file that you

can compile. I have used it sucessfully with HC31, I haven't tried it with

later versions of HC.

I believe that registration is about $20, and I may end up using it as a

first run tool, and use the resulting RTF file in one of the ones that has

all the bells and whistles I'd like to put in my final project.

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In article John Grant sayeth:

>Ok, fine, but what about the rest of you?  Are most people

>using 'special' tools or are most people using plain ol' Word?

I just use plain ole' WFW 6.0 for developing my e-books.  I have, however,

written a fairly elaborate WordBasic macro, embedded into a special

template, to do the hard work of inserting the topic footnotes as well as the

jump/popups.  I've gotten fairly good at it that I don't think a specialized

package will save me much time -- after all, each project I do ends up being

custom anyway, and I haven't found a tool that would be easy to adapt for

what I'm doing.  But then I'm not doing what most people use the WinHelp

utility for.  :-)

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jtk@prairienet.org (Jeffrey T. Kouzmanoff) wrote:

>

>The AfxMessageBox allows one to specify a Help ID in the call so that

>an F1 keypress starts up WinHelp with that ID. Great.

>

>So, how do I go about arbitrarily creating the ID in a way not to conflict

>with others? What is the suggested range of values? Just use appstudio to

>create something called "IDH_ ..." and not worry about what value is gets?

>Thanks.

  Jeff, wrong newsgroup! This is for WinHelp and Viewer.

  To everyone else: I don't know what we can do about people mis-posting

on this newsgroup. I suppose to cut down on traffic, it might just be best to

ignore them. Can we get a consensus on this? I mean, every time it

happens, someone say: Wrong newsgroup. More traffic, blah blah blah. Shall

we just ignore them in the future?

  Pete

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In <Cv1JDA.Aur@news.tcd.ie> bmccnnll@tcd.ie (Barry McConnell) writes:

>What settings do people use in their .PIF file for runing the Help

>compiler from within Windows 3.11 for WorkGroups? I'm using a 486,

>16M RAM, and have a little under 400K of conventional memory free

>when starting the compiler.

>I originally got a lot of "Out of Memory" errors at the very end of

>compilation, but these went away after a couple of days of playing around

>with the .PIF file. :-/  Today, they're back with a vengeance, and I

>can't solve the problem.

I suggest downloading HC505.EXE from ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  Included

in this file is HCP.EXE which uses all your extended memory to

compile in - this means that you should now be able to compile without

memory errors.

...Stefan

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Multiple Embedded Windows in a Help File... HELP!

Good People,

Has anybody tried to use multiple embedded window DLLs in a

single help file?  When I try this, the first one to be accessed

works fine, but the next puts up a cryptic "unable to display

picture" message.

It's not memory problems... must be an operator error I'm sure,

but I know not where.

BTW: I think that these embedded window DLLs have a tremendous

capability of enhancing help files.  The one I've written is an

interactive, graphical demo that a user "plays with" using the

mouse.

Ideas/jibes/laughter at my ignorance please?

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Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

In <glLVUWG@quack.kfu.com> kurtv@quack.kfu.com (Kurt Vogel) writes:

>I am using Microsoft's Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)  to develop my product's

>help system.  But I am having problems with the compiler, it is saying that it

>doesn't have enough memory to build the help files.  This happened when I

>added some bitmaps into my project.  Is there a workaround to this problem

>or do I need more memory?  Any help greatly appreciated.

I suggest downloading HC505.EXE from ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  Included

in this file is HCP.EXE which uses all your extended memory to

compile in - this means that you should now be able to compile without

memory errors.

...Stefan

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Multi platform help

Does ANYONE know about multiplatform help? Basically Windows and Unix? At the

outside including even text based. I NEED hypertext ability.

Mike Zemina

WilTel

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In article <33j162$4p7@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>,

Peter J. Davis <pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> wrote:

>jtk@prairienet.org (Jeffrey T. Kouzmanoff) wrote:

>

[deletia]

>  Jeff, wrong newsgroup! This is for WinHelp and Viewer.

>

>  To everyone else: I don't know what we can do about people mis-posting

>on this newsgroup. I suppose to cut down on traffic, it might just be best to

>ignore them. Can we get a consensus on this? I mean, every time it

>happens, someone say: Wrong newsgroup. More traffic, blah blah blah. Shall

>we just ignore them in the future?

>

>  Pete

I have not posted to this group with questions better sent to

other groups.  If I had, I would have appreciated the polite

messages I've seen sent during the couple of weeks I've lurked.  I'd

feel, well, _ignored_ if members of the group ignored my posts.  I

don't think we have an inordinate waste of net resources going on.

And I love the bringing-newbies-along aspects of many technical

newsgroups, including this one.  Just one opinion.

good thoughts,

hoop

(a hoop of very little brain)

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Hi Pete:

HELLLP! is now at version 2.3a, I'll Email you the blurb.

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In article <33i978$t1b@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>  If this is not the problem, you need to get the extended memory version

>of the compiler, HCP.EXE. This is available from ftp.microsoft.com in the

>/Softlib/MSLFiles directory, I believe.

HCP.exe isn't there, but Stephan's message says it's inside HC505.exe, which

I do see there.

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In article <33j6se$oag@gateway.wiltel.com>,

Mike Zemina <mike_zemina@wiltel.com> wrote:

>Does ANYONE know about multiplatform help? Basically Windows and Unix? At the

>outside including even text based. I NEED hypertext ability.

>

>Mike Zemina

>WilTel

You can check our HLPDK/PA tool that does several targets from one source,

winhelp and HTML that can serve as a unix target via lynx or mosaic are

two of these targets. (We also support dos, DESQview/X, MM Viewer, OS/2

text and word processor documents.

For more information please contact me.

You can also look for Bristol's HyperHelp product that is a WinHelp

compatible product for unix (But just under X) - the price, is very high,

however.

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FAQ Update - Now Available

The lasest version of the FAQ is now available. You can get it via

anonymous FTP at quasar.sba.dal.ca

Location of files:

WinHelp Format: /www/hlp/whfaq.hlp

Text Format:    /www/doc/winhelp.faq

You can also obtain the files via the WEB. The address is:

http://quasar.sba.dal.ca:2000

The files are located under download central.

Should you have any problems getting these files e-mail me directly

at TJR@AC.DAL.CA

Cheers.

===================================

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Are you running HC31.EXE or HCP.EXE?  You want HCP.EXE since it uses

extended memory.  Once I switched to that I have never had memory problems

and I've only got 8 megs Ram.  I got my copy from Compuserve, but someone

earlier posted:

 >download HC505.EXE from ftp.cica.indiana.edu

So you will probably find it there.  Hope that helps!

Robin

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Hi netters,

I am new to the Microsoft window world. I am building an Window

application using Powerbuilder. However, I can`t find a help compiler from

Powerbuilder. Is there a help compiler comes with the Microsoft window 3.XX ?

How do you compile your help files?

thanks in advance...

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Golan Yaniv (s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il) wrote:

: Hi,

: Is there any way to create a line of text in WinHelp that will not wrap

: when the window size is reduced?

make a bitmap of the text?

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In article <777379306snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk writes:

>In article <32o4ck$s53@uuneo.neosoft.com> gail@wst.com  writes:

>

>>I want to display a graphic on a window with a light

>>yellow background (255,255,128). The window itself appears

>>as a solid color. When I place the graphic with a

>>background having the exact same attributes (255,255,128),

>>the background to my graphic is dithered.

>>

>>Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get around this?

>

>I'm afraid that you're asking on the wrong group. This group is for

>discussion of the Windows on-line Help engine "WinHelp" - it is NOT a group

>for obtaining general "help" with Windows programming questions. There is

>a weekly FAQ posted which lists the purpose of the Windows programming

>newsgroup hierarchy "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.*". The correct newsgroup

>for your question is "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics".

>

I checked the newsgroup you suggested, and it does not seem to be

the right one for what I need. I am creating a help file for a

windows application using Word for Windows and RoboHelp. I am

also trying to include some graphics in my help file. Specifically,

I have created a secondary window for certain topics. This window

is light yellow (255,255,128) and I need to have the same background

color for my graphics. The colors I am using appear to be the same

until the Winhelp compiler does its magic.

If this is not the correct newsgroup for my needs, does anyone

know which one is.

Many thanks for any guidance you can give me.

Gail Issen

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>In article <33gdbs$484@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> Peter J. Davis writes:

>mikehi@ibeam.intel.com (Mike Hinchman) wrote:

>>Can someone kindly point me to a tool that will decompile a

>>help file into its corresponding text (or preferrably

.. deleted

>Mike,

>  There's HLP2DOC which is available from ftp.lrz-muenchen.de in the:

>/pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows directory. HLP2DOC converts .HLP files into

>..DOC files (big surprise, huh?). It doesn't handle bitmaps, though (I

>don't think).

.. deleted

Bad news guys, that directory now has a hlp2doc.txt file, the contents of which

are

"Sorry, hlp2doc is not freeware anymore ...".  Bit of an annoyance, I thought,

the text file is dated only a couple of hours before I went in to try to

retrieve HLP2DOC.  Such is life with freeware, I guess.

Peter - any other suggestions?

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Manipulating the History List

Hi,

Is it possible to manipulate the 'history list' in my .hlp-file?

My aim is: Jumping trough my help-file by macros without updating my

history-list. I've tried 'JumpId' and 'GotoMark'.

Another question: does the 'Back-Button' use this history-list?

thanks, Jan.

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tie@leis.bellcore.com (Tie Ju Chen) wrote:

>Hi netters,

>

>	I am new to the Microsoft window world. I am building an Window

>application using Powerbuilder. However, I can`t find a help compiler from

>Powerbuilder. Is there a help compiler comes with the Microsoft window 3.XX ?

>How do you compile your help files?

>

>	thanks in advance...

>

 First of all, I'd suggest reading the FAQ. The help compiler is shipped

with several of the SDKs, the MSDN CDs, and several commercial help

authoring systems (Doc-to-Help and RoboHelp I know distribute the compiler).

  Pete Davis

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afraser@hookup.net (Andrew Fraser) wrote:

>In article <33i978$t1b@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>>  If this is not the problem, you need to get the extended memory version

>>of the compiler, HCP.EXE. This is available from ftp.microsoft.com in the

>>/Softlib/MSLFiles directory, I believe.

>HCP.exe isn't there, but Stephan's message says it's inside HC505.exe, which

>I do see there.

>-Andy

>

>

  Thanks Andy. I've updated the FAQ.

  Pete

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what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

Why is Word 6.0 for Windows be able to do so much things that I'm not

able to do????

I give you some examples:

-create buttons in secondary window

-append the topics to the history, even the topics are in a secondary window

-jump from keyword search to a secondary window

according to '(w)hag' it is impossible to implement these features. But

according to the .hlp from WinWord there must be a solution.

If you know something about, please give me some help(hlp).

Thanks, Jan (mutter@informatik.uni-muenchen.de).

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Help System Utility

BRMcDaniel (brmcdaniel@aol.com) wrote:

: I did like ForeHelps Word-like interface since it cut down on how long it

: took me to get up and running with the demo.  NOW, If I just had $400.00

: lying around .. sigh.. Oh well...

Bill,

If you liked FOREHELP, you should test my company's product "VB HelpWriter".

It is very similar to FOREHELP (real WYSIWYG!) and is on sale this month

for $69.

The "Lite" edition will create helpfiles up to 20 topics, and is FREE.

(No requirement to buy anything... ever)

It can be ftpd from "ftp.netcom.com /pub/vb_helpwriter", and should soon

be available on cica.indiana.edu.

The filename is VBHW18.ZIP.

Seeya,

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Jonathan.Lunn@Canada.NCR.COM wrote:

>

>Bad news guys, that directory now has a hlp2doc.txt file, the contents of which

>are

>"Sorry, hlp2doc is not freeware anymore ...".  Bit of an annoyance, I thought,

>the text file is dated only a couple of hours before I went in to try to

>retrieve HLP2DOC.  Such is life with freeware, I guess.

>

>Peter - any other suggestions?

>

  Geez, I was afraid that was coming sooner or later. I guess I'll have to

change the FAQ.

  As for other products, I don't know of any. If you don't mind waiting a

few months, you can use the HLP2RTF program that will be in my book. The

program's not even close to done yet, so it would be a while before I

could give you a beta copy anyway.

  Sorry.

  Pete

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Need Full-text Search Files

noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) wrote:

>Hello,

>

>After reading the FAQ, which showed how to incorporate full-text searching

>into WinHelp files, I'd like to try that!  Unfortunately, I don't have access

>to the MSMV1.0 files that were mentioned (I've got MSMV2, but that doesn't

>help me much).  Does anybody have those files?  If so, I can ftp them or you

>can ftp them to my anonymous ftp directory.

>

>The files mentioned in the FAQ and which come from MSMV1 are:

[deleted]

>Much thanks!

>

>Jon Noring

>OmniMedia

Jon,

   If you don't have the Windows NT SDK, you could check

ftp.microsoft.com. I believe the files are available there, but I don't

know the filenames and I don't know which directory they're in, but I

think I recall someone mentioning them being there a while back.

  Pete

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Public Apology

  I'd like to make a public apology to Jeff Kouzman. I was complaining

about a post of his as being inappropriate. Stupidly, I didn't read the

message all the way through and it turns out that it was actually

appropriate for this newsgroup. Sorry Jeff.

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Hello all,

I'm relatively new to creating Window help files (and consequently to this

group so don't flame me if it's been discussed before) and I was wondering

how hard it is, if possible at all, to create a jump from my help file to

a topic in another help file.  Being able to do this would greatly

simplify my life as I wouldn't have to duplicate information that is

already available in other sources.

Assuming it's do-able, would the user be able to get back to the original

help file?

thanx,

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Hello,

After reading the FAQ, which showed how to incorporate full-text searching

into WinHelp files, I'd like to try that!  Unfortunately, I don't have access

to the MSMV1.0 files that were mentioned (I've got MSMV2, but that doesn't

help me much).  Does anybody have those files?  If so, I can ftp them or you

can ftp them to my anonymous ftp directory.

The files mentioned in the FAQ and which come from MSMV1 are:

FORAGE.EXE (or FORAGEP.EXE)

W_SCAN.EXE

INDEX.EXE (and/or GETMLT.EXE ?)

FTUI.DLL

FTENGINE.DLL

MVAPI.DLL

Much thanks!

Jon Noring

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Help System Utility

In article <33f8s9$o9k@search01.news.aol.com>, brmcdaniel@aol.com (BRMcDaniel) writes:

(snip)

>

> I did like ForeHelps Word-like interface since it cut down on how long it

> took me to get up and running with the demo.  NOW, If I just had $400.00

> lying around .. sigh.. Oh well...

>

> Anyway...  all this is simply to say that a Winhelp development tool can

> be a real help in creating Help files.. but just as in EVERYTHING in

> life.. We must choose what WE like best.  We all have our own little

> quirks and some products simply hit our buttons better than other

> products. ;> ;>

>

> Oh well.. that's my opinion... btw..if anyone wants to donate $400.00 for

> my opinion (so I could buy Forehelp), I'll be glad to accept ;> ;> hehe..

>

> Bill McDaniel

If you have $55, $345 less than the $400 for Forehelp, you can buy

Help Writer's Assistant for Windows and get an equally good utility,

if not better.  It has many neat goodies, such as the following:

If I type a space in the context id text box, hwa automatically

replaces the space with an underscore.  Neat.

-dennis turner

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Using Database

Does anyone know of a WinHelp authoring tool with a database back-end?  Would

like to be able to enter tracking info for help topics without using

spreadsheets.

Thanks,

Ray Sayre

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Converting GML to RTF

I am looking for suggestions/products/tools..etc to convert GML (Generalized

Markup Language) for documents on an IBM 3090 to RTF or any format that can be

loaded into WORD 6.0 or ROBOHELP or FOREHELP.  I am hoping to use these manuals

 as a starting point for producing our WINDOW's Help Files.

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Has anyone experience in porting winhelp files(300k RTF with

extensive use of hotspots, SHGs and hotspots in tables) to the OS/2

INF format ?

Our main application is written in Starview. With Starview comes a

tool called ToIPF.exe which more or less 'converts' RTF 1.0 (WinWord2)

sources to IPF format. Unfortunately it doesn't support hotspots in

tables and the multi-segement hotspot format SHG which is created by the

WHAT-Hotspot editor.

Are there better tools, maybe even complete Help Authoring Toolkits ???

Are there Editors to edit IPF-Files similar like RTF-Files in Windows ?

Erich

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Multi platform help

In <33j6se$oag@gateway.wiltel.com> mike_zemina@wiltel.com (Mike Zemina) writes:

>Does ANYONE know about multiplatform help? Basically Windows and Unix? At the

>outside including even text based. I NEED hypertext ability.

From the FAQ:

> HyperHelp

Availability :

    Bristol Technology

    (203) 438-6969

    Internet: info@bristol.com)

Description:

    Hyperhelp is a WinHelp compiler and viewer for Unix. You simply recompile

your rtfs, bmps, and hpjs and you get a Unix versions of your help file.

Hyperhelp supports MIF and SGML and has a bridge that lets you use these on

the Windows WinHelp too.

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MFC AfxMessageBoxes

In <33ijhu$2pb@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> jtk@prairienet.org (Jeffrey T. Kouzmanoff) writes:

>The AfxMessageBox allows one to specify a Help ID in the call so that

>an F1 keypress starts up WinHelp with that ID. Great.

>So, how do I go about arbitrarily creating the ID in a way not to conflict

>with others? What is the suggested range of values? Just use appstudio to

>create something called "IDH_ ..." and not worry about what value is gets?

This is a really great feature of MFC.

What I do is put every message in the string table (also good for

internationalisation) as IDP_....  All strings in the string

table are IDS_...

In my help file (using HWA of course) I simply set the context string

to be HIDP_....

Then using the makehelp.bat file created by AppWizard it runs makehm

which creates the mapping files required for context senstive help

files.

Then I have context sensitive help!

If you need any further information please let me know...

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In article <33kkus$jn9@edvvie2.edvg.co.at>,

boehm@edvvie.edvg.co.at <boehm@edvvie.edvg.co.at> wrote:

>Has anyone experience in porting winhelp files(300k RTF with

>extensive use of hotspots, SHGs and hotspots in tables) to the OS/2

>INF format ?

>Our main application is written in Starview. With Starview comes a

>tool called ToIPF.exe which more or less 'converts' RTF 1.0 (WinWord2)

>sources to IPF format. Unfortunately it doesn't support hotspots in

>tables and the multi-segement hotspot format SHG which is created by the

>WHAT-Hotspot editor.

There are no such tools to my knowledge.

>Are there better tools, maybe even complete Help Authoring Toolkits ???

Out HLPDK/PA tool can create multiple databases in several targets from

one source - OS/2 IPF and WinHelp included. You must, however - do the

creation of the database in HLPDK from the beggining. We have a

conversion tool from your HPJ + RTF to HLPDK, but it will not take you

all the way, just some of it.

>Are there Editors to edit IPF-Files similar like RTF-Files in Windows ?

>

HLPDK/PA comes with a very fast multi-window hypertext sensitive editor.

It does not edit RTF or IPF, it edits HDF - HLPDK's native language

which is not platform dependent. The HLPDK compiler can later translate

this code to IPF, RTF or a dozen other formats .

If you would like more information, please contact me and I'll be happy

to mail you more stuff.

>Erich >

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In article <124055518.40933585@luminare.luminare.uucp.netcom.com>,

Ray Sayre,LumiPod <Ray_Sayre,LumiPod@luminare.uucp.netcom.com> wrote:

>Does anyone know of a WinHelp authoring tool with a database back-end?  Would

>like to be able to enter tracking info for help topics without using

>spreadsheets.

>

>Thanks,

>Ray Sayre

Do you mean during the authoring process or during the run-time process ?

During the authoring process - Out HLPDK/PA tool has a database back-end,

bur so do most of the other commercial tools, and some of the shareware.

I know for sure that RoboHelp has some sort of a database back-end, and

so does ForeHelp. I know that our HLPDK compiler can create cross

reference reports of links usage in topics - so you have a lot of

"tracking" control over topics. I'm not sure about other tools.

During run-time, you can track WinHelp contexts using a custom DLL, or -

using our new PASTERP Control for WinHelp product - which allows you trap

and monitor WinHelp events, and respond to them programatically. Other

than this tool I'm not aware of any other WinHelp extension that does

this without requiring the user to write a DLL.

Hope this is of some help.

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Good morning - I'm having a problem with the help files I've built, and I

though someone here might have an answer for me. I use MS Word v6 to

prepare my RTF files, and so I've been using the Word bulleting feature to

make lists. Unfortunately, when the RTF files are compiled into help files

using the Microsoft help compiler, the lists (with the bullets) get their

formatting screwed up. Is there any way to fix this problem?

Thanks,

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In article <Cu0u7E.ArL@freenet.carleton.ca>,

Christopher King <ae613@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:

>

>I'm relatively new to creating Window help files (and consequently to this

>group so don't flame me if it's been discussed before) and I was wondering

>how hard it is, if possible at all, to create a jump from my help file to

>a topic in another help file.  Being able to do this would greatly

>simplify my life as I wouldn't have to duplicate information that is

>already available in other sources.

It's possible.  You can make a hotspot to a topic in another file

like this (using RTF notation):

{\uldb xxxx}{\v context_string@helpfile}

^           ^

[dbl_underl][hidden]

You must know the name of the topic's context-string in the other

file, which is difficult for helpfiles you didn't write yourself

(like ProgMan.hlp or some such).  In that case, you might use a

jump using a topic keyword (as found in the Search... dialog box):

{\uldb xxxx}{\v !JumpKeyword("helpfile","keyword")}

>

>Assuming it's do-able, would the user be able to get back to the original

>help file?

>

Yes, by using WinHelp's "Back" button.

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David L. Heiserman (sweethvn@infinet.com) wrote:

: Can someone point me to an HDF syntax and command summary? or maybe a FAQ?

: Thanks a lot.

Hey, I found it myself.  Had it all along.

This Help Definition File (HDF) is the starting point for Microsoft's

help compilers. I found a very extensive HDF guide it in a terrific HDK

downloaded from Garbo: HDK115A.ZIP, HDK115B.ZIP, and HDK115L.ZIP.

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In article <33m98v$8p1@rigel.infinet.com>,

David L. Heiserman <sweethvn@infinet.com> wrote:

>David L. Heiserman (sweethvn@infinet.com) wrote:

>: Can someone point me to an HDF syntax and command summary? or maybe a FAQ?

>

>: Thanks a lot.

>

>Hey, I found it myself.  Had it all along.

>

>This Help Definition File (HDF) is the starting point for Microsoft's

>help compilers. I found a very extensive HDF guide it in a terrific HDK

>downloaded from Garbo: HDK115A.ZIP, HDK115B.ZIP, and HDK115L.ZIP.

>

I would like to thank for your kind words. But HyperAct Inc. has not been

approached - to my knowledge - by Microsoft, and the HLPDK product

is not a Microsoft product. However, the new commercial version of

HLPDK/PA includes the Microsoft help compilers, thanks to Microsofts

generousity in allowing it to include it.

(BTW - HDF is HLPDK's platform independent hypertext definition format).

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Does WPWin work to author help files?

I am on the verge of buying a word processor, and the choice

is between the latest versions of Word for Windows and WordPerfect

for Windows.  I'll mostly be using it for word processing, but

the ability to author Windows Help texts IS a consideration.

Microsoft's documentation has dire warnings that only MS Word

can be counted on to generate RTF correctly.

* Does anyone routinely use WPWin to author Help files?

  Has anyone tried it?  Are there any known problems?

  Limitations?  (Advantages?)

* Does anyone have any other thoughts (not necessarily

  related to authoring help files) about these two

  word processors?

I appreciate your help.  I'll have to make my decision

and buy something before Aug. 31, since BOTH products have

sales that run out on that date.  I'll probably actually

buy a day or two before that.

Thanks to all muchly very,

 Dan K

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Creating On-Line Books

Paul Pearson <ppearson@folio.com> writes:

>The absolute best product for producing electronic/online books is Folio

>VIEWS 3.1   If you haven't heard of the product you should look into it.  Of

>course I am a bit biased :)  If you would like some more information just

>send email to me and I'll have it sent to you.

I am interested, too.  Could you send me a copy.  Thanks.

Rod

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In article <konigsba.777952840@cambridge> konigsba@cambridge (Dan Konigsbach) writes:

>I am on the verge of buying a word processor, and the choice

>is between the latest versions of Word for Windows and WordPerfect

>for Windows.  I'll mostly be using it for word processing, but

>the ability to author Windows Help texts IS a consideration.

>

>Microsoft's documentation has dire warnings that only MS Word

>can be counted on to generate RTF correctly.

>

>* Does anyone routinely use WPWin to author Help files?

>  Has anyone tried it?  Are there any known problems?

>  Limitations?  (Advantages?)

>

>* Does anyone have any other thoughts (not necessarily

>  related to authoring help files) about these two

>  word processors?

>

>I appreciate your help.  I'll have to make my decision

>and buy something before Aug. 31, since BOTH products have

>sales that run out on that date.  I'll probably actually

>buy a day or two before that.

>

>Thanks to all muchly very,

>

> Dan K

The key attributes to creating an .RTF file using a wp app are:

(a) single underscore for popup topics

(b) double underscore for jump topics

(c) hidden text for the actual 'goto' label

(d) footnotes with the following characters:

# context string (the label for the 'goto')

$ title

K keywords

+ browse sequence

If your wp can insert these attributes AND 'save as' RTF, then

you're all set.  After that you just compile with HC.

In Word, all of these attributes are very easy and are not

obtrusive when seen in the application.

However, I believe that the WP equivalent to 'hidden text'

is 'commented text', which appears as a big ugly grey blob

(last time I looked anyway), the idea being that it is for

use as a template for filling in a blank form.

I think single underscore should be the same on both systems.

I don't know if or how WP does a double underscore.

I seem to recall some awkwardness doing non-numeric footnotes

in WP.

I haven't used WP for a long, long time, so perhaps a WP user

can fill in the gaps in my knowledge with respect to how

the above attributes are inserted.

I was in the same boat as you, I need a wp app for wp, but I

also wanted to make help files.  I abandoned WP (which has been

and may still be a bit of a crock) and switched to Word and

never looked back.  It's great as a wp and it's dirt simple to

use to create help files.  Since you're going to buy a wp app

anyway for wp, I would recommend Word for both purposes.  Then

you can try it out for help files.  If you find it easy, you're

all set and if you find it awkward, then there's dozens of shareware

apps out there to help you build your help files.  Their authors

never seem to pass up the opportunity to flog their products here,

so keep reading the group and there will be many other suggestions

I'm sure.

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Dan Konigsbach <konigsba@cambridge> wrote:

>Microsoft's documentation has dire warnings that only MS Word

>can be counted on to generate RTF correctly.

I've only done a couple of small help files, so maybe it gets harder for

large ones, but I found it quite reasonable to just use a plain text

editor and type in the RTF myself.  Are there problems with this approach

for larger projects?

--Tim Smith

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Re use of WP WIN vs MS Word:

I've tried WordPerfect, and found that the RTF conversion has problems with

creation of the footnotes and other fancy features needed by the Help

Compiler.  There is a shareware product called "HelpPerfect" (check the

FAQ) which claims to convert WP to .HLP, but I haven't tried it.  The method

I use is to create the documents in WP without popups, bitmaps and jumps,

save in RTF format, import into ForeHelp, and add the fancy stuff then.

ForeHelp will save each WP page as a separate topic with a generated name.

You then have to rename each topic.

Word is by far the better tool for Help File creation, as a number of

shareware and commercial products work directly with it to simplify Help

File creation.

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In article <33ncen$mur@bud.peinet.pe.ca>,

Derek MacEwen <dmacewen@bud.peinet.pe.ca> wrote:

>Re use of WP WIN vs MS Word:

>

>I've tried WordPerfect, and found that the RTF conversion has problems with

>creation of the footnotes and other fancy features needed by the Help

>Compiler.  There is a shareware product called "HelpPerfect" (check the

>FAQ)

Small correction here (as is also noted in the FAQ): Help Perfect

is not shareware.  Sorry.

>which claims to convert WP to .HLP, but I haven't tried it.  The method

>I use is to create the documents in WP without popups, bitmaps and jumps,

>save in RTF format, import into ForeHelp, and add the fancy stuff then.

>ForeHelp will save each WP page as a separate topic with a generated name.

>You then have to rename each topic.

>

>Word is by far the better tool for Help File creation, as a number of

>shareware and commercial products work directly with it to simplify Help

>File creation.

True.  Help Perfect is a wonderful product (I programmed it, so

I might be prejudiced) that circumvents all the problems WP has with

its RTF conversion (footnotes, pictures, etc.), but our target is mainly

would-be WinHelp authors that have an existing base of WordPerfect documents,

or that must use Word Perfect for some other reason.

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faq posting

  I tried to post the faq for this newsgroup on news.answers, but I ran

into some problems and it won't post it. I know it's a moderated

newsgroup, but we have no address for the moderator. Could someone else

post this for me or send me the e-mail address of the new.answers

moderator?

  Thanks.

  Pete

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ForeHelp with ATI Mach32 video?

In article <777718228lance.lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz> lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz (Lance Andrewes) writes:

>I've tried running the ForeHelp v1.0 demo on a DX4 with ATI

>Mach32 video, under W4Wg 3.11.  The demo runs fine if I use

>the standard VGA drivers (and on my own PC with Tseng

>4000 card), but using the Mach32 drivers the PC hangs when

>I try to scroll the editing-window.

>

>Has anyone else experienced this?  I want to recommend we

>purchase this product, but obviously I'd like to be a bit

>more confident it'll run okay.

There was an early bug associated with the ATI Mach 32 drivers. Get Version

1.04 of the demo and you should be fine.

When I was having this problem, ForeFront told me that a workaround is to

turn off text features. You won't get the paragraph markers or dotted lines

around hotspots, but it should fix up the problem you're having.

> _______  Email: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz

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In article <CtxJMx.JKo@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, tongk@cornea.su.edu.au (Kent Tong) writes:

>

>> 	Don't know.  Perhaps a more reasonable approach is to trust

> |> 	the users to register the product or delete it after a 30-day trial.

> |> 	The shareware industry is based on this philosophy.  If it's a

> |> 	good product for a reasonable price, most people may register.

> |> --

> |> John A. Grant	jagrant@emr1.emr.ca

>

> I doubt this will work. A little bit crippled feature or registration

> incentives, whatsoever you call it, is a more reasonable approach, as

> long as it won't prevent the user from evaluating your product.

>

> It is technically quite difficult to enforce a limited life on your

> program, because you can't make sure that the last 100 times or in the

> last 100 days your program was run by the same person.

>

> --

Well, then, can something like the following be done?    Some but not

all of the help file be made accessible by a macro accessing an

ini file through visual  basic.  If a  visual basic program launches

the  help file, can a macro call back that visual basic program  with

a  command line parameter that will, say, disallow a second help file? Or

not allow all or part of the help file to display?

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Really Weird Problem with Smart Quotes/Special characters

[Following is e-mail I sent to Roger Hadgraft, who posted on July 28 a file

describing how to alter the RTF file to implement left/right single/double

quotes as well as bullets and en/emdashes into WinHelp files.  I'm posting

this here since I plan to issue on Septemeber 1 our first SoftLocked offering

and this problem needs to be addressed *immediately*.]

Hi Roger,

I recently downloaded your post concerning how to put left/right quotes (single

and double) into WinHelp files, along with bullets and en/emdashes.

I've implemented this on my system, and the WinHelp files I produce look great!

No problems whatsoever -- all these special characters show up.  However,

another person has had problems viewing the same winHelp file on their system.

In *some* topics, the special quotes/characters (such as the TM symbol) appear

as a vertical bar "|" or some other odd character, while in other topics

everything is reproduced correctly, that is, the special characters appear as

they should.

I've checked my process to modify the RTF files (each topic has a different

RTF file), and I use the same WordBasic macro everytime for each RTF file.

BTW, the gentlemen having the problems has the truetype fonts I specify in the

WinHelp installed properly (Arial, Symbol).

Any help?  I'm planning to publish my first e-book using SoftLock technology,

and I'd hate to see a certain unknown number of people (>0) not being able to

reproduce these characters properly in some of the topics.

Thanks.

Jon Noring

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Need Full-text Search Files

In article pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) wrote:

>>After reading the FAQ, which showed how to incorporate full-text searching

>>into WinHelp files, I'd like to try that!  Unfortunately, I don't have access

>>to the MSMV1.0 files that were mentioned (I've got MSMV2, but that doesn't

>>help me much).  Does anybody have those files?  If so, I can ftp them or you

>>can ftp them to my anonymous ftp directory.

>If you don't have the Windows NT SDK, you could check

>ftp.microsoft.com. I believe the files are available there, but I don't

>know the filenames and I don't know which directory they're in, but I

>think I recall someone mentioning them being there a while back.

Well, at ftp.microsoft.com I found the *.dll files (ftui.dll, ftengine.dll,

mvapi.dll).  All I need to find now are forage.exe (or foragep.exe),

w_scan.exe and index.exe (and/or getmlt.exe).

Any help?

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In <Cv59q5.9wF@walter.bellcore.com> tie@leis.bellcore.com (Tie Ju Chen) writes:

>Hi netters,

>	I am new to the Microsoft window world. I am building an Window

>application using Powerbuilder. However, I can`t find a help compiler from

>Powerbuilder. Is there a help compiler comes with the Microsoft window 3.XX ?

>How do you compile your help files?

As Pete has mentioned it is shipped through various Microsoft programs

and commercial applications.  However, it is also shipped with

HWA and Hyper Act's HLPDK/PA (I'm not sure about HLPDK itself)

(Ron correct me if I am wrong here).

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In <33l047$8p9@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> mutter@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Jan-Friedrich Mutter) writes:

>Why is Word 6.0 for Windows be able to do so much things that I'm not

>able to do????

>I give you some examples:

>-create buttons in secondary window

>-append the topics to the history, even the topics are in a secondary window

>-jump from keyword search to a secondary window

I know Microsoft are using a DLL to create buttons in secondary windows.  I'm

not sure how they are doing the other two items, again I suspect it is through

DLLs.

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In article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:

>In article pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>>noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) wrote:

>>>After reading the FAQ, which showed how to incorporate full-text searching

>>>into WinHelp files, I'd like to try that!  Unfortunately, I don't have access

>>>to the MSMV1.0 files that were mentioned (I've got MSMV2, but that doesn't

>>>help me much).  Does anybody have those files?  If so, I can ftp them or you

>>>can ftp them to my anonymous ftp directory.

>>If you don't have the Windows NT SDK, you could check

>>ftp.microsoft.com. I believe the files are available there, but I don't

>>know the filenames and I don't know which directory they're in, but I

>>think I recall someone mentioning them being there a while back.

>Well, at ftp.microsoft.com I found the *.dll files (ftui.dll, ftengine.dll,

>mvapi.dll).  All I need to find now are forage.exe (or foragep.exe),

>w_scan.exe and index.exe (and/or getmlt.exe).

I'd like to add that I also should get the file generic.stp and generic.fld.

So, that leaves the following files I still need:

forage.exe

w_scan.exe

index.exe

generic.stp

generic.fld

These files are apparently found in the Multimedia Developer's Kit (MDK),

Viewer 1, and the Windows NT SDK

Once I get these and test out the procedure, I plan to make them available

via e-mail request.

Jon Noring

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noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) wrote:

>In article pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>>noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) wrote:

>

>>>After reading the FAQ, which showed how to incorporate full-text searching

>>>into WinHelp files, I'd like to try that!  Unfortunately, I don't have access

>>>to the MSMV1.0 files that were mentioned (I've got MSMV2, but that doesn't

>>>help me much).  Does anybody have those files?  If so, I can ftp them or you

>>>can ftp them to my anonymous ftp directory.

>

>>If you don't have the Windows NT SDK, you could check

>>ftp.microsoft.com. I believe the files are available there, but I don't

>>know the filenames and I don't know which directory they're in, but I

>>think I recall someone mentioning them being there a while back.

>

>Well, at ftp.microsoft.com I found the *.dll files (ftui.dll, ftengine.dll,

>mvapi.dll).  All I need to find now are forage.exe (or foragep.exe),

>w_scan.exe and index.exe (and/or getmlt.exe).

>

>Any help?

>

>Jon Noring

>OmniMedia

Jon,

  It's funny how things come in pairs. This same conversation is taking

place on the WINSDK forum of compuserve. People are asking how to add the

full-text search. Anyway, here's the story with the tools. They are

available on the Windows NT SDK. They are also included in the now

unavailable MDK (Multimedia Development Kit) which has been superceded by

a new product (the new viewer has built-in support for full-text

searching).

  Steve Pruitt, one of the MS people on the WINSDK forum is looking into

whether or not they're going to be able to make the tools (FORAGE and

such) available publicly. When I hear back from Steve I'll post something

here. If MS refuses to do it, I simply see this as one more tool to add to

my book. We plan on covering the .IND file format as well as .MVB, so

we'll just write our own compilers for it. I doubt it's going to be all

that complex.

  Pete

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In article <LBIYuABDBh107h@olson.acme.gen.nz>,

Stefan Olson <stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz> wrote:

>In <Cv59q5.9wF@walter.bellcore.com> tie@leis.bellcore.com (Tie Ju Chen) writes:

>>Hi netters,

>

>>	I am new to the Microsoft window world. I am building an Window

>>application using Powerbuilder. However, I can`t find a help compiler from

>>Powerbuilder. Is there a help compiler comes with the Microsoft window 3.XX ?

>>How do you compile your help files?

>

>As Pete has mentioned it is shipped through various Microsoft programs

>and commercial applications.  However, it is also shipped with

>HWA and Hyper Act's HLPDK/PA (I'm not sure about HLPDK itself)

>(Ron correct me if I am wrong here).

>

>...Stefan

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I was asking questions, being referred to the FAQ, wondering where that

could be.  Suddenly it appears.  Many thanks to Pete for the trouble.

By the way ForeHelp is available from Borland UK for 49.95 + tax so you

should be able to buy it in the U.S. for less.  You're meant to be a user

of C++ to get this special offer but Borland here have been lax about

that.  It's worth the money.

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Whoever reads this, please download and view my WinHelp test file (88K in size)

which has the problem described below.  You can retrieve it via anonymous ftp

from:

ftp.netcom.com  /pub/noring/incoming/test.hlp    (Note: this directory cannot

                                                  be listed, but the file is

                                                  there -- be sure to type

                                                 'binary' before downloading.)

I can also e-mail it to you uuencoded if you prefer.

After viewing, let me know whether or not the special characters/quotes came

out o.k. in all of the included topics.  Look especially hard at the title

page, dedication, and the other "front" topics.  Chapter 4 contains some

bullets towards the bottom, and the included chapters (1-5 only, chapters

6-34 have been totally removed, but not the jumps to them) contain numerous

single/double quotes (right and left).

Please destroy your copy when you finish viewing it.  The finished copy

(with Chapters 1-20 readable and 21-34 locked) will be freely distributed,

so the finished copy will give you more to read than this test version.

*********************************************************************

Here's the rehash (somewhat edited) of an earlier post explaining the actual

problem.  It's really weird:

noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:

>[Following is e-mail I sent to Roger Hadgraft, who posted on July 28 info on

>how to alter the RTF source files used in producing a WinHelp file to

>implement left/right single/double quotes as well as bullets and en/emdashes

>into WinHelp files.  I'm posting this here since I plan to issue on

>Septemeber 1 our first SoftLocked offering and this problem needs to be

>addressed *immediately*.]

>Hi Roger,

>I recently downloaded your post concerning how to put left/right quotes (single

>and double) into WinHelp files, along with bullets and en/emdashes.

>I've implemented this on my system, and the WinHelp files I produce look great!

>No problems whatsoever -- all these special characters show up.  However,

>another person has had problems viewing the same winHelp file on their system.

>In *some* topics, the special quotes and other special characters (such as the

>TM symbol) appear as a vertical bar "|" or some other odd character, while in

>other topics **of the same WinHelp file** everything is reproduced correctly

>(?!), that is, the special characters appear as they should.

>I've checked my process to modify the RTF files (each topic has a different

>RTF file), and I use the same WordBasic macro everytime for each RTF file.

>BTW, the person having the problems has the truetype fonts I specify for

>the WinHelp file installed properly (Arial, Symbol).

>Any help?  I'm planning to publish my first e-book using SoftLock technology,

>and I'd hate to see a certain unknown number of people (>0) not being able to

>reproduce these characters properly in some of the topics.

>Thanks.

>Jon Noring

>OmniMedia

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In article <Pine.3.89.9408251106.A12666-0100000@math30.math.umbc.edu>

           chendi@math.umbc.edu "Chendi Zhang Guest" writes:

>Whats the best UNcrippled help writer for windows?

I'm not sure that I understand your question. The whole point of

shareware is that you should be able to *evaluate* it. Shareware isn't

free! As long as the shareware version of a product lets you use it

sufficiently to decide whether or not it suits your purposes, what's

the problem?

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Help - Multiplatform

Andy Longton (alongton@clark.net) wrote:

: I want to create help files for multiple platforms; Windows & NT, OS/2,

: Macintosh, and WWW.

: Are there any tools (or sets of tools) that will allow me to cover all of

: these?  (In a pinch, WWW HTML could be dropped since I could figure that

: out on my own.)

Hmmm. Well, I *believe* I read in a MSJ or somewhere official that

Windows 3.1 help files can be viewed on a Mac. Since OS/2 has all the

code to Win 3.1, help files should work there too. Also, 3.1 HLP files

can be run on NT. If you did the docs in MS WORD or another such program,

you could write a macro that would convert the RTF formatting to HTML

formatting...

just an idea..

jeff

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In article <Cv92w4.2xA@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,

BaDge <baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU> wrote:

>Can anyone give me a pointer on how to modify the screen font used in the

>help files I am compiling?  Sorry if this is an elementary question.

If you're using Word, it should generate a \fonttbl somewhere at

the beginning of your RTF file.  If you're using "raw" RTF, you

should do it yourself.  You can just change the entries in the

fonttable by hand to get the screen font you like (MS Sans Serif looks

real good).  For instance:

\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss MS Sans Serif;\f1\froman MS Serif; [...] }

...

\f0\fs20 This will be in 10pt MS Sans Serif...

>Is there any way to have hilited text in a .hlp file?

Not that I know.  The full-text seach engine is able to

highlight text, but I haven't been able to find out how they

do it yet.  You could of course use a "highlighted" font.

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help files I am compiling?  Sorry if this is an elementary question.

Is there any way to have hilited text in a .hlp file?

BaDge

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In article <Cv1oDF.7t@agora.rdrop.com>

           sperry@agora.rdrop.com "Steve Perry" writes:

>I know this has been asked before, but I'm going to ask again. I'm using

>Word 6.0a and my helpfiles are missing the quote character. I thought the

>solution was to turn off the "smart quotes". I did and they still aren't

>showing. Do I need to do something else? Is the font I'm using affecting

>it (Helvetica)?

Turning off "smart quotes" *is* the answer. Might the problem be that you

only turned them off after creating your document, so it still actually

contains them?

Chris

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           konigsba@cambridge "Dan Konigsbach" writes:

>I am on the verge of buying a word processor, and the choice

>is between the latest versions of Word for Windows and WordPerfect

>for Windows.  I'll mostly be using it for word processing, but

>the ability to author Windows Help texts IS a consideration.

>

>Microsoft's documentation has dire warnings that only MS Word

>can be counted on to generate RTF correctly.

>

>* Does anyone routinely use WPWin to author Help files?

>  Has anyone tried it?  Are there any known problems?

>  Limitations?  (Advantages?)

Theoretically, you can use WPWin to create Help files. The problem is

that Help files require footnotes in a very specific format, and trying

to create that format with WPWin is very, very difficult. Also, the

display of "hidden text" (another vital component of Help files) makes

the document almost unreadable (the text gets displayed in a separate

paragraph). I would strongly suggest going for Word.

>* Does anyone have any other thoughts (not necessarily

>  related to authoring help files) about these two

>  word processors?

I am forced to use WPWin at work (it's the corporate standard). I use

Word at home. Personally, I regard Word as a *far* better word processor

in almost every way. The one and only thing that WP is better for is

writing equations - Word's equation editor is pretty dire.

Chris

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In <124055518.40933585@luminare.luminare.uucp.netcom.com> Ray_Sayre,LumiPod@luminare.uucp.netcom.com (Ray Sayre,LumiPod) writes:

>Does anyone know of a WinHelp authoring tool with a database back-end?  Would

>like to be able to enter tracking info for help topics without using

>spreadsheets.

I'm not sure what tracking info you enter, but HWA (see my sig for file details)

allows easy listing and editing of all keywords,comments,multichar keywords and

build tags - which means the end to using spreadsheets for these things...

...Stefan

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In article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:

>Whoever reads this, please download and view my WinHelp test file (88K in size)

>which has the problem described below.  You can retrieve it via anonymous ftp

>from:

>

>ftp.netcom.com  /pub/noring/incoming/test.hlp    (Note: this directory cannot

>                                                  be listed, but the file is

>                                                  there -- be sure to type

>                                                 'binary' before downloading.)

>

>I can also e-mail it to you uuencoded if you prefer... [rest deleted]

Argh!  I forgot to set the permissions properly, which I just did.  So if

you've already tried to download it and failed, then try again.  It should

be downloadable this time.

Much thanks.

Jon Noring

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In <33n8di$nc7@news.u.washington.edu> tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:

>I've only done a couple of small help files, so maybe it gets harder for

>large ones, but I found it quite reasonable to just use a plain text

>editor and type in the RTF myself.  Are there problems with this approach

>for larger projects?

When you get up to creating large projects it can be very difficult to track

links and ensure that everything you have entered is correct.  Tools such

as HWA and ForeHelp (and RoboHelp to a limited extent) make this task much

easier - they can show you links and list all keywords and comments (HWA only)

to allow easier managment of topics.

HWA in particular (since that is what I know about) allows drag and drop

creation of links - try doing that using a plain text editor.  It also allows

automatic browse numbering - again try doing that using a plain text editor.

There are many features that make it worthwhile using help authoring tools,

and in particular WYSIWYG help authoring tools such as HWA and ForeHelp.

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I've got an application where I do a lot of jumping around from

one help file to another.  I would like to specify the size of the

starting file, so that it always has a fixed size.  However, once

I resize it and jump around to several other files, I would like to

come back to the starting file without winhelp restoring it to the

original size.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.

Any time you want an assurance of UNCRIPPLED shareware, look for the ASP

logo or the <ASP> identity in the write up.

(I know you're a member, Chris. So am I).

That means that my product HELLLP! is uncrippled and therefore has no topic

number limit.  It does however have identification in the unregistered

version which says it is just that, and the WinHelp about box in files it

produces say that in the copyright line.

This means that you can fully evaluate it in your actual conditions before

you pay, but if you publish the result before you pay it lets the world

know and that isn't great for persuading those evaluating your product that

they should pay you!!

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mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>In article <Cv92w4.2xA@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,

>BaDge <baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU> wrote:

>>Can anyone give me a pointer on how to modify the screen font used in the

>>help files I am compiling?  Sorry if this is an elementary question.

>\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss MS Sans Serif;\f1\froman MS Serif; [...] }

Miguel, maybe the person is asking just a simple question.

BaBge, just change in Word the font to whatever you want.

>>Is there any way to have hilited text in a .hlp file?

What do you mean "hilited"? You can set any color you like for a text in

Word, but beware for aesthetical reasons.

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ToolBook

Brian Orrell (borrell@netcom.com) wrote:

: In article Vanessa Kaye <vaness@macqbl.com.au> wrote:

: >Has anyone ever used "Toolbook" for help authoring??   I hear that it is

: >very good.

: DON'T DO IT! I had to deal with Toolbook as my help authoring tool for

: the LONGEST time and it is a MAJOR pain in the butt. Their support for

: their product is minimal at best AND it has lots of problems when you get

: into supporting the multitude of different machines your file may be

: running under.

: I highly suggest the Microsoft Multimedia Viewer Development Kit. It's

: cheaper than Toolbook, easier than Toolbook, and much better than

: Toolbook. It also has the support of the industry behind it. (Supposedly

: Chicago will be using a somewhat similar version for it's standard help

: engine).

Also, MS MViewer is faster, and you can do most everything in your

favorite Word Processor (assuming your fav. word processor is MS Word.. ;)

jeff

: Check it out,

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In article <33ktb6$k63@uuneo.neosoft.com> gail@wst.com  writes:

>I checked the newsgroup you suggested, and it does not seem to be

>the right one for what I need. I am creating a help file for a

>windows application using Word for Windows and RoboHelp. I am

>also trying to include some graphics in my help file. Specifically,

>I have created a secondary window for certain topics. This window

>is light yellow (255,255,128) and I need to have the same background

>color for my graphics. The colors I am using appear to be the same

>until the Winhelp compiler does its magic.

>

>If this is not the correct newsgroup for my needs, does anyone

>know which one is.

My sincere apologies! We get so many people asking general "Windows Help"

questions here in the ".winhelp" group that I assumed that your message

(which doesn't actually mention Help files) was another of them. This

is indeed the correct newsgroup to ask in.

If I understand your question correctly, you have a bitmap which looks

"correct" in Word, but whose colours are changing when incorporated into

a "Help" file. Is that correct? This is probably palette-related. Are you

using a 256-colour bitmap? Anyone else know if 256-colour bitmaps can be

correctly used in Help files?

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In article <33rkfc$ikk@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca>,

Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca> wrote:

>mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>

>>In article <Cv92w4.2xA@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,

>>BaDge <baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU> wrote:

>>>Can anyone give me a pointer on how to modify the screen font used in the

>>>help files I am compiling?  Sorry if this is an elementary question.

>

>>\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss MS Sans Serif;\f1\froman MS Serif; [...] }

>

>Miguel, maybe the person is asking just a simple question.

>BaBge, just change in Word the font to whatever you want.

Of course, I forgot to mention that... I haven't used Word in a while:

does it allow you to use (non-True Type) screen fonts?  I know

Write and WordPerfect don't.

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In article <778106560snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>,

Chris Marriott <chris@chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <33ktb6$k63@uuneo.neosoft.com> gail@wst.com  writes:

>

>If I understand your question correctly, you have a bitmap which looks

>"correct" in Word, but whose colours are changing when incorporated into

>a "Help" file. Is that correct? This is probably palette-related. Are you

>using a 256-colour bitmap? Anyone else know if 256-colour bitmaps can be

>correctly used in Help files?

>

>Chris

You need an embedded window that can handle 256 color bitmaps to have

that - there is a free DLL somewhere on cica, with the name ewdll10.zip

or something close to it, that implements such an embedded window.

Happy hunting.

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>

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In article <TyRYuAAIBh108h@aescon.com>, Art Smoot <aesmoot@aescon.com> wrote:

>I've got an application where I do a lot of jumping around from

>one help file to another.  I would like to specify the size of the

>starting file, so that it always has a fixed size.  However, once

>I resize it and jump around to several other files, I would like to

>come back to the starting file without winhelp restoring it to the

>original size.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

>

>	Art

>

>

>

Yup - the first time you open this topic, use the SetMarker and

PositionWindow markers in a IsMark block, otherwise do nothing.

Using the standard WinHelp macro it will look like

(All of these are action ! footnotes )

IfThen(Not(IsMark('BeenHere')),SetMark(`BeenHere');PositionWindow(x,y,w,h,

state,`windowName'))

(I might have a typo there - so check me out ..).

If you were to use our PASTERP Control for WinHelp product, it would have

looked like :

if (not macIsMark('BeenHere')) then

macSetMark('BeenHere');

macPositionWindow(x, y, w, h, state, 'windowName');

endif

Hope this is of some help.

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I just received my periodic DDJ deck of ad cards.  Usually there nothing

of interest in there, but this time I noticed a product called

Help-to-All by DABIWA Ltd.  They said "call our 800 number for a free

demo," but their number is already disconnected!

Anyway, that in itself should tell me it's not worth pursuing, but their

card said that you could maintain help files in Xbase or Paradox, and

that sounded interesting to me (I'd take a free demo, anyway).

Anybody else hear of this company and know what happened to them?

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Multi platform help

In <Cv8HFt.M0H@bristol.com> mike_zemina@wiltel.com (Mike Zemina) writes:

>Does ANYONE know about multiplatform help? Basically Windows and Unix? At the

>outside including even text based. I NEED hypertext ability.

Our HyperHelp product provides the Windows help viewer on X platforms.

Contact info@bristol.com for more details.

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sascrh@norman.unx.sas.com (Chris Hemedinger) wrote:

>

>I just received my periodic DDJ deck of ad cards.  Usually there nothing

>of interest in there, but this time I noticed a product called

>Help-to-All by DABIWA Ltd.  They said "call our 800 number for a free

>demo," but their number is already disconnected!

>

>Anyway, that in itself should tell me it's not worth pursuing, but their

>card said that you could maintain help files in Xbase or Paradox, and

>that sounded interesting to me (I'd take a free demo, anyway).

>

>Anybody else hear of this company and know what happened to them?

>

Chris,

  I pulled that card myself. I was going to call about it. Too bad the

number is disconnected. I wanted to find out the name of the guy who wrote

it because I seem to recall the company name. I think I may have helped

the guy out when he was writing that part of the product. I don't

remember, though. I'd like to see the product. If you find out anything

about it, let me know.

Pete

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Hidden text problems

I am using RoboHelp and HCP.EXE. Quite often I find that when my

files are compiled, some of the hidden text becomes unhidden.

Quite obviously, this destroys some of my jumps.

Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Gail Issen

gail@wst.com

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Data Acquisition project !help!

Hi, I'm working on creating a data acquisition program for a race car

team. I'm fairly new to programming C/C++/ms-windows. I'm using Borland visual

turbo C++ 3.1.

The software that I'm writing needs to:

(1) Communicate with a stand alone data aquisition board i.e download

setup info. / upload data stored.

(2) Analyze the data i.e. filtering and mathmatical manipulation.

    Integration, derivative, trig. functions, matrix manipulation,

    FFT, etc.

(3) Display the data i.e. line plots, x y graphs, polar plots etc.

(4) Archive data in a compressed form.

(4) Export the data in Excel format, Matlab format, ascii etc.

If anyone know's of any libraries, DLL's, text, or books that could

help me in this project I would greatly appreciate the info. Please E-Mail me.

Thanks

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In article <33sv26$k3v@uuneo.neosoft.com>,  <Gail@wst.com> wrote:

>I am using RoboHelp and HCP.EXE. Quite often I find that when my

>files are compiled, some of the hidden text becomes unhidden.

>Quite obviously, this destroys some of my jumps.

>

>Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions?

>

>Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

>

>Gail Issen

>gail@wst.com

If you are using winword 6 try to turn fast save to off.

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Help Assistent: ha31s

Hi,

I've installed the Help Assistent(downloaded at: quasar.sba.dal.ca www/zip/ha31s.zip) to Word 6.0 for Windows (perhaps I've made something wrong

(I'm sure, I did)). But the feature "create" causes a an error-message and also the compiling-option seems to be incorrect.

Is there anyone, who can fix the problem?

Thanx, Jan.

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In article <33ktb6$k63@uuneo.neosoft.com> gail@wst.com writes:

>

>I want to display a graphic on a window with a light

>yellow background (255,255,128). The window itself appears

>as a solid color. When I place the graphic with a

>background having the exact same attributes (255,255,128),

>the background to my graphic is dithered.

>

>Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get around this?

I have actually done the same thing, in fact, using the same color.  I

have had no problems.  Of course I haven't checked to see if it looks

any different on a different VGA display.  Could it have anything to

do with the type of graphic?  Mine are little bitmaps saved as 16

color bitmap.  I seem to remember that certain drawing packages were

causing problems with graphics but I can't remember which.  I have been

using Paintbrush.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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In article <33a9ah$n8u@ttown.apci.com> boehmerp@ttown.apci.com (Richard P. Boehme) writes:

>

>Chris Marriott (chris@chrism.demon.co.uk) wrote:

>: In article <32r7h4$lfe@nic.wi.leidenuniv.nl>

>:            se9402@artemis.wi.leidenuniv.nl "R.Wagenaar" writes:

>

>: >I've got a problem using WfW to create a Windows-Helpfile.

>: >I've made a table in WfW which I want to appear in the Helpfile.

>: >

>: >The problem is that the borders of the cells do not show in Winhelp, the

>: >rest of the table comes through allright.

>: >

>: >While compiling the RTF-file HC gives the error message 'Table formatting

>: >to complex'.

>: >

>: >If somebody has a solution for this problem I would be very grateful.

>

>: Chris

>: --

>

>The only way that I have been able to remedy it is to create the table (with

>all of it formatting) in Excel, select the table, while holding down the

>shift key, click on Copy from the menu bar.  Excel pops up a window that

>presents several optiosn for copying pictures.  Copy the picture to your

>clipboard.  Return to Word (or whatever you are using), and click on Paste.

>

>Voila, your table is in the Help proto-document.

>

>Compile and test.

>

>This has worked for me.  Good Luck

>

>Richard P Boehme

I think if I were doing this I would save the picture as a graphic and

reference it in the document.  Helps keep the size of your file down.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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In article <778106560snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk writes:

>In article <33ktb6$k63@uuneo.neosoft.com> gail@wst.com  writes:

.... I am creating a help file for a

>>windows application using Word for Windows and RoboHelp. I am

>>also trying to include some graphics in my help file. Specifically,

>>I have created a secondary window for certain topics. This window

>>is light yellow (255,255,128) and I need to have the same background

>>color for my graphics. The colors I am using appear to be the same

>>until the Winhelp compiler does its magic.

>>

>

>If I understand your question correctly, you have a bitmap which looks

>"correct" in Word, but whose colours are changing when incorporated into

>a "Help" file. Is that correct? This is probably palette-related. Are you

>using a 256-colour bitmap? Anyone else know if 256-colour bitmaps can be

>correctly used in Help files?

>

Good question ... my video card is set to 256 colors, and I created the

bitmap in paintbrush. When you look at the light yellow in my graphic

using paintbrush, the pixels are alternately colored bright

yellow and white in a checkerboard pattern.

Gail

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Getting absolute physical address of pointer

I'm not a windows programmer, which will no doubt be very clear from

this question.  I'm trying to write a device driver that interfaces to

a third part product.

I'm using Watcom C.

Here is my problem:

My code is passed a 'far long *' which points to a 128K buffer.  I need

to write the true full 32-bit address of this buffer to a register on the

I/O card I'm talking to.

How can I get the 32-bit value of this pointer.  I do not know

how the pointer is allocated since it is retured from a library

routine, to which I don't have source code.

Is there a simple answer to this problem?

Any reply via email to blak@world.std.com would be gratefully received.

Thanks.

Ben Katz

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mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>>BaBge, just change in Word the font to whatever you want.

>Of course, I forgot to mention that... I haven't used Word in a while:

>does it allow you to use (non-True Type) screen fonts?

Yes, although the font name does not show up in the font name box, so you

have to type it yourself. After that the "style copy" paintbrush comes handy.

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In article <33nnm1$mg1@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>

           pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu "Peter J. Davis" writes:

>  I tried to post the faq for this newsgroup on news.answers, but I ran

>into some problems and it won't post it. I know it's a moderated

>newsgroup, but we have no address for the moderator. Could someone else

>post this for me or send me the e-mail address of the new.answers

>moderator?

>

>  Thanks.

>

>  Pete

A general tip - please excuse me if you already know this! To find the

mail address of the moderator for any moderated group, get *any* message

from that group and look at the "Approved:" line in the message header.

That will contain the address of the moderator.

Chris

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In <Cv92w4.2xA@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>Can anyone give me a pointer on how to modify the screen font used in the

>help files I am compiling?  Sorry if this is an elementary question.

You choose the font in the help authoring tool or in Microsoft Word

(either by using the toolbar or through the Format|Font menu command).

>Is there any way to have hilited text in a .hlp file?

Not that I know of...

...Stefan

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DOSHelp??elp

OK.  I KNOW this group is for WINHelp.  However, one of the programmers in

our shop is blind, and is able to read (using a speech board) DOS apps only.

I'm wondering if a program exists to read .HLP files using a DOS app.  It

wouldn't have to be fancy.  Graphics are not needed, and sizable windows

aren't a requirement either.  I know Pete Davis has published the file

format.  Perhaps he, or someone else has put together a DOS program to

access WinHelp files in DOS.  If so, please let me know!

Thanks

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In article <X4940824115130@fubar> mikehi@ibeam.intel.com (Mike Hinchman) writes:

>Can someone kindly point me to a tool that will decompile a

>help file into its corresponding text (or preferrably

>Winword) file?  I've seen references to these tools

>but never needed one -- until now!

>

>Thanks so much.

>

>Mike Hinchman

My assumption is that you would like to do what all of us want to do

and reuse parts of existing help files: after all it makes no sense

to have hundreds of developers reword help topics for File Save or

Edit Paste ...

But what about copyrights? Is this kind of "borrowing" authorized.

It appears that it should.  For example, if Microsoft made common

dialogs available, it would make sense to have common help topics

for the common dialogs.

This may well be the intent but I have not seen anything authorizing

these borrowings in the MS license.  Did I overlook something? Or

do you have to request specific permission?

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dmacewen@bud.peinet.pe.ca (Derek MacEwen) wrote:

>OK.  I KNOW this group is for WINHelp.  However, one of the programmers in

>our shop is blind, and is able to read (using a speech board) DOS apps only.

>I'm wondering if a program exists to read .HLP files using a DOS app.  It

>wouldn't have to be fancy.  Graphics are not needed, and sizable windows

>aren't a requirement either.  I know Pete Davis has published the file

>format.  Perhaps he, or someone else has put together a DOS program to

>access WinHelp files in DOS.  If so, please let me know!

>

>Thanks

>

>Derek MacEwen

Derek,

   The program HELPDUMP.EXE (and source) is available from ftp.mv.com in

the pub/ddj directory. Get the Oct. 93 issue. The HELPDUMP program will

dump the text from the internal |TOPIC file. If you want it to do anything

beyond that, you'll have to modify the code, but that should be enough to

get started with.

  Pete

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In article <31tn1i$bin@maze.dpo.uab.edu>,

Vincent Cirel <VCirel@cellbio.bhs.uab.edu> wrote:

>[..] use MS Viewer 2.0 (completely compatible with WinHelp)

This is not entirely correct.  Viewer 2.0 is not entirely

compatible with WinHelp.  The format of the project-files is

different, WinHelp will not play .MVB 2.0 files, the interface

is different (WinHelp()/VwrCommand()).

There are enough similarities to make the switch from WinHelp to

Viewer 2.0 relatively painless, though.

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Problem with HCP.EXE

When I use HCP to compile my help project, I got an error saying

run-time error R6915

-DOSX16 : unhandled exception

If I run the HCP from DOS in Windows, I got an error saying that

the integrety of the system is corrupted.

The HCP.EXE is the lastest version which I downloaded from Microsoft

download service.  I'm using Word 6.0 with 6.0a upgrade.  So what do

I miss?

Thanks in advance for any help.

ycheng@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu

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Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.

In <778062453snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

>In article <Pine.3.89.9408251106.A12666-0100000@math30.math.umbc.edu>

>           chendi@math.umbc.edu "Chendi Zhang Guest" writes:

>>Whats the best UNcrippled help writer for windows?

>I'm not sure that I understand your question. The whole point of

>shareware is that you should be able to *evaluate* it. Shareware isn't

>free! As long as the shareware version of a product lets you use it

>sufficiently to decide whether or not it suits your purposes, what's

>the problem?

The key word is "sufficient".

I've been trying out some of the shareware help authoring tools.  If

the unregistered version is crippled, chances are I can't get far

enough to want to pay for the software.

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> John Grant asks:

>

> Ok, fine, but what about the rest of you?  Are most people

> using 'special' tools or are most people using plain ol' Word?

Hi All,

I am a newbie having just discovered this group in my crazed 3 day long search

for a reasonble method to write help files.

I have a program written in Access that I have to write help for. It will be

a runtime version which means *no help* at all. So.... my help file is going

to be fairly large 100-500k probably. The Access MDB is over two megs with an

empty data set, so you can see that the program is complex (it is an auto-shop

management solution).

I got the Help manual with the Access ADT and just about lost it. That manual

was *not* written to be understood! Then I started prowling the usual sites

and found VBAHA124.ZIP at CICA. It was awsome (I thought). It works really

well, but it is intended for use with VB and can not be used with Access. I

talked to the author and he liked the concept of an Access tool but did not

know of one.

I found WHAT, WHAG, and HAG somewhere as well, but they are written for Word 2

and I am using 6. Are any of the tools being talked about here good for me?

Is there a WHAT for Word 6? Is the universe really imploding?

Hoping for an answer to these pressing problems.....

Thanks very much in advance!

Gary Starkweather

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Dithering colors

You cannot use 256 colour graphics directly in a help file, the WinHelp

compiler cannot handle it.  You have to use a DLL to control an embedded

window to do it.  There are several available, Dr Bumm from Germany has

what sounds like a very sophisticated shareware one called SHOWBMP.  There

is also a freeware one called EWDLL which I have tried.  I got my copy from

Compuserve, but and Archie search will probably turn up an ftp site.

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Just to say that I found the FAQ - *will* read it first thing after I prop my

lids up in the AM.

BTW: I read the Intro, disclaimer, and TOC, but did not find a reference to a

HTML site or to a HLP file to download. It would be cool to have the FAQ in

one of the two (or both for that matter).

I am involved in working on two other FAQ's and I will suggest that we do just

that. Assuming, of course that we ever finish revising them.... hee!

Thanks Again,

Gary Starkweather

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Thanks -- really!

Now that I am settling down knee-deep in MM and help authoring tools, I

can take a moment to thank all of you who have been so helpful.  I have

been given the job of taking a 25-year company built around the conventional

print medium into the electronic media in less than six months. (This

plus my regular responsibilities.)

Anyway, I apologize for any confusion I might have caused anyone on this

board last. I am looking at so many evaluation products and so much software

that I have occasionally lost track of who is doing what!

Thanks again, ladies and gents. You have made a difficult assignment a

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In <33tag7$sug@uuneo.neosoft.com> Gail@wst.com writes:

>Good question ... my video card is set to 256 colors, and I created the

>bitmap in paintbrush. When you look at the light yellow in my graphic

>using paintbrush, the pixels are alternately colored bright

>yellow and white in a checkerboard pattern.

WinHelp 3.1 does not support 256 color bitmaps.  They will be supported

in WinHelp 4.0 - but that is a while away.  In the short term I would

suggest using an embedded window.  There is a freeware product around

which displays 256 color bitmaps in an embedded window.  The filename

I have is ewdll011.zip.  However, there may be an updated version since

this version is quite old.  Check it out, it is only the tip of the iceberg

in terms of what can be done with embedded windows!

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==== HELP : MSAVI VERSION ERRORS ====

Hi,

Here's the problem I get when trying to load .AVI files:

MCAVI needs an updated MSVIDEO.DLL. Upgrade or reinstall your drivers.

I've tried everything to fix this. My current VFW version is 1.11a which I

think is the latest? (I couldnt find any newer ones). I've reinstalled the

video disk, changed .ini files, even replaced the MCAVI with an older version

but still I get this rubbish.

Is there some way to fix this? I do not want to reinstall 80Mb of software :((

Later

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yung-rang cheng (ycheng@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:

: When I use HCP to compile my help project, I got an error saying

: 	run-time error R6915

: 	-DOSX16 : unhandled exception

: If I run the HCP from DOS in Windows, I got an error saying that

: the integrety of the system is corrupted.

: The HCP.EXE is the lastest version which I downloaded from Microsoft

: download service.  I'm using Word 6.0 with 6.0a upgrade.  So what do

: I miss?

There seems to be a problem with UPDATED templates & documents. I was

unable to compile the RTF output of documents UPDATED from word2 to

word6. I was in a hurry, and so re-installed Word2 to finish my work.

I suggest that you re-create your basic development template under

word6, create a new doc & INSERT the old one as RTF (!!!) or paste

it in. This is a lot of work, but it beats doing it over again com-

pletely. When you create the new doc, be sure and set the 'update

paragraph styles' option in the File: Templates dialog. If doing this

does not do the trick, you may have to do a Edit: Paste special... and

paste in just Plain text, then reformat everything.

 I found a lot of strange header stuff in a converted doc that was not

present in a doc created new.

Also be sure you are using RTFMod, a little utility that strips out

a couple of new RTF features and substitutes real quote, em-dash, and

bullet characters for the symbols that Word saves by default. RTFMOD.EXE

can be found at the Microsoft Archive (see the FAQ.)

Hope this helps!

Tom.

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Here's a puzzle that needs solving:

When I compile rtf files that have been prepared using Microsoft's help

templates, there's a horizontal line across the width of the windows

separating the topic title from the main text. However, if I prepare the

rtf files using the Helllp template, that line isn't there anymore. The

question is this: how do I achieve that line using Helllp?

Thanks,

Neil

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I need my text to wrap

I need my text to wrap, and its not wrapping.  Here is my code

for my .hpj file:

[OPTIONS]

ROOT=c:\borlandc\examples\WIN30

COPYRIGHT=Disk And Desk Inc.

CONTENTS=Topic0001

TITLE=ParaMind Help

COMPRESS=true

ERRORLOG=HELPEDIT.ERR

[CONFIG]

BROWSEBUTTONS()

[FILES]

C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\MAIN.rtf

C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP2.rtf C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP3.rtf

C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP4-5.rtf

C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP6-7.rtf

C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP8.rtf C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP9.rtf

C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP10.rtf C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\DEF.rtf

C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\DEF2.rtf

[BITMAPS]

[MAP]

; Context Context Context

; String Number Title

Topic0001 0x0001 ;Contents

Topic0002 0x0002 ;Chapter 1

Topic0003 0x0003 ;Chapter 2

Topic0004 0x0004 ;Chapter 3

Topic0005 0x0005 ;Chapter 4

Topic0006 0x0006 ;Chapter 5

Topic0007 0x0007 ;Chapter 6

Topic0008 0x0008 ;Chapter 7

Topic0009 0x0009 ;Chapter 8

Topic0010 0x0010 ;Chapter 9

Topic0011 0x0011 ;Chapter 10

[WINDOWS]

main="Windows Help", ( 37,55,886,930),0,(255, 255,255),

(128,128,128), 1

HlpWnd02="Second Windows help", ( 511,0,

511,1000),0,(255,255,255), (128,128,128), 0

HlpWnd03="Third Windows help",(255,511,511,511),0,(255,255, 255),

(128,128, 128), 0

      ;

Well, the formatting came out a little different here, but imagine

its formatted correctly.  Incidently, this file was done by

 Rick Ratayczak, I can't take credit for it.  It works fine, but

it just doesn't text-wrap.

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what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

In article <33l047$8p9@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>,

mutter@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Jan-Friedrich Mutter) says:

>

>Why is Word 6.0 for Windows be able to do so much things that I'm not

>able to do????

If I'm not mistaken, the Windows 6.0 help system is a Viewer app. Viewer

2.0 is essentially a multimedia extension to the standard help system and

it has the extended features described in your post.

Vincent F. Cirel

Information Systems Specialist

Dir. of Multimedia & Learning Technologies

Univ. of Ala. @ B'ham

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aj085@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Neil Polowin) wrote:

>

>Here's a puzzle that needs solving:

>

>When I compile rtf files that have been prepared using Microsoft's help

>templates, there's a horizontal line across the width of the windows

>separating the topic title from the main text. However, if I prepare the

>rtf files using the Helllp template, that line isn't there anymore. The

>question is this: how do I achieve that line using Helllp?

>

>Thanks,

>Neil

Neil,

  I believe the 'line' you're referring to is the seperator between the

scrolling region and non-scrolling region. If the title above the

horizontal line does not scroll when the rest of the topic scrolls, that's

what it is.

  I haven't used Helllp, but my guess is that you'd want to look for

Non-Scrolling Region support. From Word, you can go into paragraph

formatting and select 'Keep With Next'. You basically hilight from the

beginning of the topic to the end of the area you want as the

Non-Scrolling region. This must begin at the very beginning of the topic

or you will get a warning from the compiler and you won't get your

non-scrolling region. The warning will say something about a non-scrolling

region appearing after a scrolling region.

  Pete Davis

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gstark@cruzio.com wrote:

>

>Just to say that I found the FAQ - *will* read it first thing after I prop my

>lids up in the AM.

>

>

>BTW: I read the Intro, disclaimer, and TOC, but did not find a reference to a

>HTML site or to a HLP file to download. It would be cool to have the FAQ in

>one of the two (or both for that matter).

>

>I am involved in working on two other FAQ's and I will suggest that we do just

>that. Assuming, of course that we ever finish revising them.... hee!

>

>Thanks Again,

>

>Gary Starkweather

Gary,

  The faq is available in .HLP format. See the last message posted by Tim

Roberts. It was followed shortly after my posting of the FAQ. That has the

address. I will add that to the next release of the FAQ.

  Pete

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Chris Marriott (chris@chrism.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: In article <33ktb6$k63@uuneo.neosoft.com> gail@wst.com  writes:

: >I checked the newsgroup you suggested, and it does not seem to be

: >the right one for what I need. I am creating a help file for a

: >windows application using Word for Windows and RoboHelp. I am

: >also trying to include some graphics in my help file. Specifically,

: >I have created a secondary window for certain topics. This window

: >is light yellow (255,255,128) and I need to have the same background

: >color for my graphics. The colors I am using appear to be the same

: >until the Winhelp compiler does its magic.

I did this once. The problem I had was the edge of the graphic & the

page would not match up. There would be a little checker-board pattern

where the alternate dots on graphic & page did not interleave properly.

 I also recall one instance, using a light shade of purple, where the

graphic background was white, where the help reader filled in purple

around the graphic. That was very nice, but it did not work for every

picture so I ended up doing what you have done.

 Perhaps the picture that shows dithering is being "filled in" in this

way by the help reader? Try switching the graphic back to a blank

background & see what happens vis the page color attribute.

This thread sure has gone off on a tangent ;-)

Tom.

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Derek MacEwen (dmacewen@bud.peinet.pe.ca) wrote:

: OK.  I KNOW this group is for WINHelp.  However, one of the programmers in

: our shop is blind, and is able to read (using a speech board) DOS apps only.

: I'm wondering if a program exists to read .HLP files using a DOS app.  It

: wouldn't have to be fancy.  Graphics are not needed, and sizable windows

: aren't a requirement either.  I know Pete Davis has published the file

: format.  Perhaps he, or someone else has put together a DOS program to

: access WinHelp files in DOS.  If so, please let me know!

DOS 6.x has it's own help reader system. You should be able to develop a

seperate DOS-Based help file with little difficulty. I suggest you contact

Microsoft developer support and explain your problem. They are VERY interested

in Enabling technology & have quite a package of Windows extensions for

special access. I'm sure they will be happy to supply you with the tools

for developing DOS based help files for a blind person, perhaps even at

no cost (as has happened to me in the past.)

Good luck & give them a call. They really are very helpful!

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In article <CvCy4G.GII@freenet.carleton.ca>, aj085@FreeNet.Carleton.CA

(Neil Polowin) writes:

When I compile rtf files that have been prepared using Microsoft's help

templates, there's a horizontal line across the width of the windows

separating the topic title from the main text. However, if I prepare the

rtf files using the Helllp template, that line isn't there anymore. The

question is this: how do I achieve that line using Helllp?

---end of quote---

The area at the top of the winhelp screen (just above the line) is called

a NON-SCROLLING Region.  It allows your topics to be scrolled down with

the topic title remaining visible.  Don't you still use WORD with Helllp?

If so you can still create this non-scrolling region by hilighting the

topic title and from the menu selecting FORMAT|PARAGRAPH and then check

the "Keep with Next" box. (Word 2.. don't know about 6).  When compiled

the Keep with Next attribute will create the Non-scrolling region.  Hope

this helps !

Bill McDaniel

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Out of Memory errors solved!

Thanks to the people who suggest I ftp v505 of the compiler, and use

the HCP.EXE version (this is mentioned in the FAQ). I no longer get

those dreaded Out of Memory errors, and things are hunky-dory again. :-)

In the .PIF file, I have "required" set to 0, and "maximum" set to -1.

Barry.

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I'm using Doc2Help and trying to make hot spots in some graphics to link to

other topics. The manual for D2H gives instructions on using shed.exe to

create these hot spots, but I can't get it to work. When I finally run the

.hlp file, instead of the graphic, I get a box that says "unable to display

picture". Any help would be appreciated. Please mail me at the address

below.

Thanks in advance.

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  I have been playing around with the FAQ, and I've come to believe that

the descriptions of some of the products are lacking. This is mostly my

own fault because I didn't really give much room for descriptions. Some of

these products have a lot of features that just couldn't be explained in

the short space I provided. To remedy this, I'm going to allow

significantly larger descriptions. I've decided that a 40-50 line limit is

more appropriate. That's 40-50 lines of 80-chars wide. This will still be

pretty short but because it would interfere with reading the text version

to have longer ones, I'm going to keep it at this maximum.

  So, if you have a product and you'd like to provide a larger

description, send it to me.

  Pete

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In article <eliot_jablonka-300894155045@129.83.46.2>,

Eliot Jablonka <eliot_jablonka@iegate.mitre.org> wrote:

>I'm using Doc2Help and trying to make hot spots in some graphics to link to

>other topics. The manual for D2H gives instructions on using shed.exe to

>create these hot spots, but I can't get it to work. When I finally run the

>.hlp file, instead of the graphic, I get a box that says "unable to display

>picture".

Are you including a reference to the .SHG graphic, as in:

Is your .shg based on a .wmf or a 16-color (or less) .bmp?

Does the help compiler give any warnings (e.g. that it cannot

find the graphic)?

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In article <Cu2vnA.ILL@eskimo.com>, Robert Pearson <telical@eskimo.com> wrote:

>I need my text to wrap, and its not wrapping.  Here is my code

>for my .hpj file:

>	[FILES]

>	C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\MAIN.rtf

>C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP2.rtf C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP3.rtf

>C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP4-5.rtf

>C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP6-7.rtf

>C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP8.rtf C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP9.rtf

>C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP10.rtf C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\DEF.rtf

>C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\DEF2.rtf

If the text is not wrapping, there must be something wrong with the

.rtf files.  Are these Borland example files, or your own?

If an .rtf file has the \keep statement somewhere, this will cause

all subsequent text not to wrap until a \pard statement is encountered.

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In article <eliot_jablonka-300894155045@129.83.46.2>,

(forwards sent on holiday)

> I'm using Doc2Help and trying to make hot spots in some graphics to link to

> other topics. The manual for D2H gives instructions on using shed.exe to

> create these hot spots, but I can't get it to work. When I finally run the

> ..hlp file, instead of the graphic, I get a box that says "unable to display

> picture". Any help would be appreciated. Please mail me at the address

> below.

>

> Thanks in advance.

>

> eliot_jablonka@iegate.mitre.org

Could the graphics files be too large (above 64k) or based on 256 or more

colors?

dave

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Help font

On 08-30-94  08:38

stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

(BaDge) writes:

>Can anyone give me a pointer on how to modify the screen font used in the

>help files I am compiling?  Sorry if this is an elementary question.

 St> You choose the font in the help authoring tool or in Microsoft Word

 St> (either by using the toolbar or through the Format|Font menu command).

     First of all, thanks to all who responsed to my question!!

     I had the answer I was seeking in the first response, that is, to look

in the .RTF file.

     Since then, I've been playing with Whiznotes, the HC31.EXE compiler,

SYNTAX, QDHELP, and a few others and finally wound up with HELPEDIT.  I

found the latter did most of what I needed, and am on my way.  :)

     Do I have Word for Windows?  Nope, I'm doing it the hard way, hehe.

     However, I understand that HELLLP is a great add-in if you are so

lucky as to have WFW.

     (Gee what a nice NG!)

BaDge

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Does anyone know how they create the "collapsing effects". For instance,

in the Knowledge Base for VB (I assume others too), they have several

lines and when you click on any of them, they expand out. If they click

on it again, it collapses. How's it done?

Thanks

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In <33vo83$cap@dns1.NMSU.Edu> tokind@acca.nmsu.edu (Tokind) writes:

>yung-rang cheng (ycheng@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:

>: When I use HCP to compile my help project, I got an error saying

>: 	run-time error R6915

>: 	-DOSX16 : unhandled exception

>: If I run the HCP from DOS in Windows, I got an error saying that

>: the integrety of the system is corrupted.

>: The HCP.EXE is the lastest version which I downloaded from Microsoft

>: download service.  I'm using Word 6.0 with 6.0a upgrade.  So what do

>: I miss?

>There seems to be a problem with UPDATED templates & documents. I was

>unable to compile the RTF output of documents UPDATED from word2 to

>word6. I was in a hurry, and so re-installed Word2 to finish my work.

>I suggest that you re-create your basic development template under

>word6, create a new doc & INSERT the old one as RTF (!!!) or paste

>it in. This is a lot of work, but it beats doing it over again com-

>pletely. When you create the new doc, be sure and set the 'update

>paragraph styles' option in the File: Templates dialog. If doing this

>does not do the trick, you may have to do a Edit: Paste special... and

>paste in just Plain text, then reformat everything.

> I found a lot of strange header stuff in a converted doc that was not

>present in a doc created new.

I created the document with RoboHelp which uses Word 6.0.  My document

contains four images, none of them is larger than 60K.  The compilation is

fine if I took off one image and left with only three images.  All images

are in the document via references.

>Also be sure you are using RTFMod, a little utility that strips out

>a couple of new RTF features and substitutes real quote, em-dash, and

>bullet characters for the symbols that Word saves by default. RTFMOD.EXE

>can be found at the Microsoft Archive (see the FAQ.)

>Hope this helps!

>Tom.

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Conundrum Corner

In article <CvCy4G.GII@freenet.carleton.ca>, aj085@FreeNet.Carleton.CA

(Neil Polowin) writes:

>

> Msg-ID: <CvCy4G.GII@freenet.carleton.ca>

> Posted: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 17:05:03 GMT

>

> Org.  : The National Capital FreeNet

>

>

> Here's a puzzle that needs solving:

>

> When I compile rtf files that have been prepared using Microsoft's help

> templates, there's a horizontal line across the width of the windows

> separating the topic title from the main text. However, if I prepare the

> rtf files using the Helllp template, that line isn't there anymore. The

> question is this: how do I achieve that line using Helllp?

>

> Thanks,

> Neil

>

The solution is to set the non-scrolling region ON, in HELLLP! the default

is scrolling titles.  On the Format menu, select Change Topic Title Style

and check the box for Non-Scrolling Title.  Now the "line" you referred to

will reappear, and the title will not scroll.  You can even set the

background colour differently for the title region and the rest of the

window if you wish.

All of the detailed instructions are in the HELLLP!.HLP file.

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OK Pete, here's mine:

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NEW VERSION (v 2.3) OF HELLLP!, THE WINHELP AUTHOR TOOL FOR WINWORD

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Improved version adds features to assist the expert by taking away

the drudgery, without making the system complicated for the novice.

Features of HELLLP!

* <ASP> Shareware means it is not "Crippleware", no limits on number

   of help topics which the unregistered version will generate.

* User works entirely within Word (version 2.0 or version 6.0,

   English or non-English versions).  You never have to touch a

   context string, or an HPJ or RTF file (unless you want to).

* Can generate topics from Word Heading Styles, or user can identify

   them by pointing.

* Generates a table of contents automatically, for display in the

   main window, a secondary window or a PopUp with jumps from it

   already in place.

* User adds additional jumps and PopUps by highlighting the text or

   graphic to jump from and pointing to the topic to jump to.

* Generates search keywords automatically (user can edit) in lower,

   upper, or mixed case.

* Can generate browse sequences automatically.

* Generates and tracks context strings automatically (user can edit).

* Can set sizes of main and secondary windows independently, both on

   initial display and on topic change. Can determine windows for

   initial display - main, secondary or both.

* Set background colours for scrolling and non-scrolling text.

* Set hotspot colour for cultures where green is not suitable.

* Add sound effects by playing WAV files.

* Launch other processes from within Help File by clicking text or

   icons.

* Automatic multi-file project builds.

* Generation and mapping of topic numbers for HELPCONTEXTID and other

   context-sensitive needs.

* Incorporation of additional WinHelp macros by dialog box selection.

* Expert users can supply a file of [sections] to be merged into HPJ

   file on each build.

* Customised button bars for main window, secondary windows, PopUps

   or embedded in text.  Button-top  text in any language.  Buttons

   call or PopUp any topic, WinHelp macro or launch another process.

* Bullets that actually appear in the help file, including a special

   "hot push button" bullet for action lists.

* Customisable "copyright" line for WinHelp about box.

* Very comprehensive Help file (naturally!).

* Inexpensive - Registration is $30 US including disk and manual.

   $20 US for electronic key file only by Email.

* Available widely on Bulletin Boards, On-Line services, ASP Advantage

   and other CD-ROMs, Internet from SimTel sites.  Do a partial

   filename search for HELLLP since it could be stored as HELLLP.EXE or

   HELLLPnn.ZIP (where nn is the  version number).

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aj085@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Neil Polowin) writes:

>When I compile rtf files that have been prepared using Microsoft's help

>templates, there's a horizontal line across the width of the windows

>separating the topic title from the main text. However, if I prepare the

>rtf files using the Helllp template, that line isn't there anymore. The

>question is this: how do I achieve that line using Helllp?

That line separates non-scrollable text from scrollable text (note that the

scrollbar does not extend the full height of the window. Obviously HELLLP

isn't setting the "non-scrollable" attribute on the topic title. In Word,

this is the "keep with next" paragraph attribute. BTW, you better don't use

this in topics that will be invoked as popups.

This is still not an answer but...

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sperry@agora.rdrop.com (Steve Perry) writes:

>several

>lines and when you click on any of them, they expand out. If they click

>on it again, it collapses. How's it done?

  Most probably they have several topics with the different states of the

list prerecorded (to check this, see if you can obtain all possible

states). Clearly it's a pain to use such a technique.

  There is a shareware program that shows a collapsible table of contents in

an auxiliary window (similar to HAG). This is being done with a DLL. In order

to use it, you have to compile the Word file with an add-on macro template,

because it inlines some winhelp macros to notify the DLL of jump events. Then

the DLL updates the TOC window thus "tracking" your position in the help. The

file is hyptrk40.zip from cica. This is for Word 2; there is a Word 6

version, but for some reason it's not uploaded. Ask the author directly for

it.

  I have only ran HYPTRK on its own help file (never created a file of my

own), but I was very impressed. I highly recommend it.

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ycheng@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (yung-rang cheng) writes:

>>yung-rang cheng (ycheng@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:

>>: When I use HCP to compile my help project, I got an error saying

>>: 	run-time error R6915

>>: 	-DOSX16 : unhandled exception

>In <33vo83$cap@dns1.NMSU.Edu> tokind@acca.nmsu.edu (Tokind) writes:

>>There seems to be a problem with UPDATED templates & documents...

>I created the document with RoboHelp which uses Word 6.0.

Yeah, it doesn't seem a RTF format error, it seems a memory problem (at least

I interpret DOSX16 as something like DOS Extender).

>My document contains four images, none of them is larger than 60K.

The limitation is 32 K per paragraph of text. And since the

graphics are dumped in the RTF as ascii hexdump...

>The compilation is fine if I took off one image and left with only three

>images.

This is clearly a memory problem.

>All images are in the document via references.

If you mean, you've linked the pictures in Word (or embedded them or any of

the other fancy OLE stuff), that's not enough. Word dumps them in the RTF

online (I'm not certain on this). The surest thing is to use {bmX ...} in the

file (X=c,l,r). (BTW, if you have the same picture in more than one topic,

use {bmXwd } instead.)

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HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

Hi,

In a in the help of program I've seen in the main screen a big bitmap and

if I klick with my cursor on parts of the bitmap a popup with help text is

open.

Does anyone know the way to realise this?

Thanx!

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Help Authoring Testimonials?

In <ged.776078693@snakemail.hut.fi> Camillo.Sars@hut.fi (Camillo S{rs) writes:

>stano@coho.halcyon.com (Stan Orchard) writes:

>>Can't speak to Forehelp. But I am a devout user of Visual Help.

>The big disadvantage is that documentation projects cannot be handled

>using it.  Doc-To-Help is a very good tool for documentation, as it

>allows you to create both a printed manual and a help file from the

>same Word document.  This saves huge amounts of work, as the tedious

>job of keeping two separate projects up to date is unnecessary.  Just

>editing the Word document does it all for you.

Having used Doc-To-Help, I think you should beware of a few problems:

In Doc-To-Help the file you edit is the manual.  Print it out (through

Word) and you have your manual.  To see what the Help file will look

like you must invoke a fairly complicated transformation that

generates an .RTF file and then runs the help compiler.

As your manual/help file grows, this transformation will take HOURS!

Especially as Word will run out of (local heap?) memory one or more

times in the middle of the transformation, and you will have to

restart Word, and resume the transformation.  You can't start it up,

go home, and expect it to be done in the morning...

Once you have had a chance to look at the generated Help file, you

will probably find places where the formatting (which looks fine in

the manual) came out poorly.  After making corrections, it will be

_hours_ before you will know what the new Help file will look like.

The default Help file generated using the standard Doc-To-Help

templates is good, but not great.  If your document is primarily a

manual, which (by-the-way) also comes in the form of a Help file, this

is probably good enough.  If, on the other hand, you want the best

possible on-line help, and (by-the-way) also provide a printed manual,

then the default Help file is not nearly good enough.

On reflection I think that the approach embodied in Doc-To-Help is

exactly backwards for documenting software.  You would like to update

the on-line help to reflect any changes to the very latest release of

your software.  The printed manual does not need to be updated as

frequently.  Generating and testing changes to the Help file should be

quick.  You could tolerate more work for the (less frequent) process

of updating the printed manual.

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HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

In article <5VtL6bsPTgB@fuerst.jena.thur.de>,

Rainer Schleevoigt <rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de> wrote:

>

>In a in the help of program I've seen in the main screen a big bitmap and

>if I klick with my cursor on parts of the bitmap a popup with help text is

>open.

>Does anyone know the way to realise this?

Yes, use the HotspotEditor (SHED.EXE) that usually comes with your

help-compiler (and development environment).  This program allows

you to interactively assign hotspots to parts of a picture.

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Source for Boggan/Farkas/Welinske Book?

Hi-

Anybody out there know what's up with the "Developing Online Help for Windows"

book written by Scott Boggan, et. al?  I've been trying unsuccessfully to order

a copy.  The word from the publisher (Houghton-Mifflin/SAMS publishing) is that

they are no longer publishing it.  They suggested contacting the authors

directly.  What's the story here?

Regards,

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Hi,

lately, I got a sharewareprogram for making .hlp-Files. Unluckily, the

essential Winhelp-Compiler <wc31.exe> is not encluded. I've been told this

file is still somewhere in the US on a "ftp-server". I tried to find it,

but i failed. Does anybody know where I can find it or wehere i can get it

from?

I would be very grateful if you could help me.

Thanks in advance,

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Collapsing Effects?

> Does anyone know how they create the "collapsing effects". For

> instance,

> in the Knowledge Base for VB (I assume others too), they have

> several

> lines and when you click on any of them, they expand out. If they

> click

> on it again, it collapses. How's it done?

> Thanks

>

The only way I can imagine to do this is to use a JumpTo another topic

that contains the expanded index.

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In article <5VuUS5R5LuB@cmueller.toppoint.de> Christoph@cmueller.toppoint.de (Christoph Mueller) writes:

>lately, I got a sharewareprogram for making .hlp-Files. Unluckily, the

>essential Winhelp-Compiler <wc31.exe> is not encluded. I've been told this

>file is still somewhere in the US on a "ftp-server". I tried to find it,

>but i failed. Does anybody know where I can find it or wehere i can get it

>from?

The file is hc31.exe, or hcp.exe (hcp handles larger files, and is protected

mode).  Get hc505.exe from ftp.microsoft.com, under the SoftLib directory.

It'll blow up into hcp.exe and a .txt file.

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Christoph@cmueller.toppoint.de (Christoph Mueller) wrote:

>Hi,

>

>lately, I got a sharewareprogram for making .hlp-Files. Unluckily, the

>essential Winhelp-Compiler <wc31.exe> is not encluded. I've been told this

>file is still somewhere in the US on a "ftp-server". I tried to find it,

>but i failed. Does anybody know where I can find it or wehere i can get it

>from?

>

>I would be very grateful if you could help me.

>

>Thanks in advance,

>                   Christoph Mueller.

>

Christoph,

  To obtain the help compiler, you need to purchase an SDK or a help

authoring package that includes the help compiler. The help compiler is

available on an ftp site, but it's only meant to be distributed to people

who already have a licensed version. Microsoft has made a big point of

this on the WINSDK forum on CompuServe.

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Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

In article <1994Aug29.173154.19780@sei.cmu.edu>

           ichbiah@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu "Jean Ichbiah" writes:

>My assumption is that you would like to do what all of us want to do

>and reuse parts of existing help files: after all it makes no sense

>to have hundreds of developers reword help topics for File Save or

>Edit Paste ...

>

>But what about copyrights? Is this kind of "borrowing" authorized.

>It appears that it should.  For example, if Microsoft made common

>dialogs available, it would make sense to have common help topics

>for the common dialogs.

>

>This may well be the intent but I have not seen anything authorizing

>these borrowings in the MS license.  Did I overlook something? Or

>do you have to request specific permission?

One of the good things about Microsoft's "Visual C++" compiler is the

fact that when you generate an application with "AppWizard" it writes

some RTF files for you. One of these files "AFXCORE.RTF" contains quite

nice explanations of standard Windows features such as the "System",

"Window", "File", "Help" menus, as well as how to use the scroll bar,

toolbar, title bar, etc. This saves lots of time when writing help files

for an application. I see no reason why this file couldn't be used by anybody.

Chris

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Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

In article <3419ui$jg4@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca (Vladimir Alexiev) writes:

> ichbiah@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Jean Ichbiah) writes:

>> My assumption is that you would like to do what all of us want to do

>> and reuse parts of existing help files: after all it makes no sense

>> to have hundreds of developers reword help topics for File Save or

>> Edit Paste ...

>> if Microsoft made common

>> dialogs available, it would make sense to have common help topics

>> for the common dialogs.

> In my opinion it is better to simply include a referenec from your file to

> this common information. This way, when the common info is updated, you don't

> have to touch your file. This is the way it's being done on the Web: eg even

> the help for mosaic and Lynx does not come with the program, but is stored at

> ncsa/ukans and is hyperreferenced.

> Of course, to do this you need to be able to somehow identify the topic you

> want. But in many cases no decompiler is needed for this.

> Vladimir Alexiev

Please correct me if I am wrong: you propose to invoke the help topic from

another application that uses the common dialogs and usual menus. So for

example for File Save as, call winhelp with the application help  file

and the corresponding topic.

This sounds quite good provided you are sure that such application

always exists on all systems.  Not easy to find one: Write does not use

the common dialogs in all cases and can you be sure that it will be

on systems that do not use it.

What would be a better reference file?

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Help Authoring Testimonials?

In article <Cu49sB.55o@tc.fluke.COM> inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes:

>In article <31jfu7$1st@cs.ubc.ca> coatta@cs.ubc.ca (Louise Coatta) writes:

>>I am writing and maintaining several large help files with Word.  I

>>would like to simplify this process with a help authoring tool.  I'm

>>looking for a system that can easily import my existing rtf files, is

>>both powerful and intuitive (naturally), and supports all help 3.1

>>features.

>>

>>I had started investigating RoboHelp and Doc to Help, then checked

>>this news group and discovered ForeHelp.

>>

>>What are the strengths and weaknesses of these help authoring tools?

>>What do you recommend?

>>

>>Thanks.

>I have used RoboHelp and ForeHelp. In my mind, RoboHelp's biggest positive

SNIP

>With ForeHelp, you edit in a live hypertext environment, and there is a test

>mode that gives you an exact replica of what the compiled version will look

>like. In addition, the hypergraphics editor is built-in, so you don't have

>to leave your editinig session if you want to add, delete or modify a

>hotspot as  you do with RoboHelp. It;s biggest negative, to me, is that it

>has no keyboard macro capablilty. It also doesn't (yet) accept Word

>templates, and so any styles you create can't be esaily transported to

>another help file. Some very nice features are the "Navigator" and the

Actually, if you import an RTF file that has paragraph styles already in it,

ForeHelp will import those styles.

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Where is HCP.zip???

telical@eskimo.com (Robert Pearson) wrote:

>Well, I've looked for it for a while now using archie, and I know

>that the microsoft bbs has this (do you know their addresss? microsoft.com?)

>but I can't find it on the net. I'm looking for the hcp.exe compiler.

>

  It's ftp.microsoft.com. I think it's in the /SoftLib/mslfiles directory,

but I could be wrong. You may need to look around a bit.

  Pete

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I saw somewhere once that there where templates available for using word

to make windows help files. Anyone know the name of the files (for

archie) or where I can get these.

TIF

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Is there a utility out there to help me writing help-files (.rtf) with my

text-processor WPwin5.2? Maybe as a macro-package?

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AVI Hotspot Editor?

Lim Hyon Chang. (somnus@amadeus.yonsei.ac.kr) wrote:

: AVI Hotspot Editor(AVIHED.EXE)

: where can I find it?

: Thanks in advance.

You can find it for example from Microsoft Developers Network 8 CD-ROM.

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Expiration of Help files??

todd a carlson (toddc@cs.pdx.edu) wrote:

: "Any suggestions how to create a Windows Help File that can only be

: The following is posted for an associate, but please respond to me:

: accessed a fixed number of times before it inactivates or deletes itself?"

: If there's a term for limited-life software I don't know what it is

: but that might be a catchy title that would get some interest.

  If you're using Windows 3.1 Help, you can define a macro to run at

the beginning of a Help File or a topic.  This macro can be a

reference to a DLL, so you could simply (and I use that word a bit

reluctantly...) write a DLL function to check and increment a counter

in a file somewhere, and close the file if the counter is too high.

Then you can register that function as a WinHelp macro, and have it

called on startup...Haven't tried it, but it's probably worth looking into.

If you're interested in encrypting the number of times it has been run so

the user can't simply change it, I have a DLL library (which I've already

mentioned once today in another post...Seems I'm tooting my own horn today,

but anyways...) called SWTOOLS.DLL that has functions to do simple

encryption, as well as automatic datestamping, so a program will only run

for a specified number of days.  If you're interested, it's available in the

CICA archive as SWTOOLS.DLL, or from me directly via anonymous FTP as:

     umcc.umich.edu:pub/users/ottscay/archive/swtools.zip

  Read the help file for more info, or mail me; the documentation kinda

sucks right now, so you may have to mail...

-----Scott.

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Using JumpID with a secondary window

  I'd like to use the JumpID macro to change the topic displayed in

a secondary window.  Anybody know how?

  I've tried using FocusWindow() to get the focus to the secondary window, and

JumpID() to change it, but it changed the topic in the primary window.

I also tried JumpID("myfile.hlp","MyTopic>Win2"), with just as little luck.

  Thanks in advance,

-----Scott.

PS - Couldn't find the FAQ for this group, either here or on comp.answers.

Has one been written?

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HULK: Any way I can get it??

Is there ANY way that I can get HULK (Microsoft's new unsupported Help

Authoring tool) without having to get the MSDN CD??  Is it

shareware/freeware, like a lot of MS's unsupported tools?  If so, is it

on FTP?  I would LOVE to take a look at this Help programming

environment, but since I don't have a CD ROM, am I out of luck?

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

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Improved version adds features to assist the expert by taking away

the drudgery, without making the system complicated for the novice.

Features of HELLLP!

* <ASP> Shareware means it is not "Crippleware", no limits on number

   of help topics which the unregistered version will generate.

* User works entirely within Word (version 2.0 or version 6.0,

   English or non-English versions).  You never have to touch a

   context string, or an HPJ or RTF file (unless you want to).

* Can generate topics from Word Heading Styles, or user can identify

   them by pointing.

* Generates a table of contents automatically, for display in the

   main window, a secondary window or a PopUp with jumps from it

   already in place.

* User adds additional jumps and PopUps by highlighting the text or

   graphic to jump from and pointing to the topic to jump to.

* Generates search keywords automatically (user can edit) in lower,

   upper, or mixed case.

* Can generate browse sequences automatically.

* Generates and tracks context strings automatically (user can edit).

* Can set sizes of main and secondary windows independently, both on

   initial display and on topic change. Can determine windows for

   initial display - main, secondary or both.

* Set background colours for scrolling and non-scrolling text.

* Set hotspot colour for cultures where green is not suitable.

* Add sound effects by playing WAV files.

* Launch other processes from within Help File by clicking text or

   icons.

* Automatic multi-file project builds.

* Generation and mapping of topic numbers for HELPCONTEXTID and other

   context-sensitive needs.

* Incorporation of additional WinHelp macros by dialog box selection.

* Expert users can supply a file of [sections] to be merged into HPJ

   file on each build.

* Customised button bars for main window, secondary windows, PopUps

   or embedded in text.  Button-top  text in any language.  Buttons

   call or PopUp any topic, WinHelp macro or launch another process.

* Bullets that actually appear in the help file, including a special

   "hot push button" bullet for action lists.

* Customisable "copyright" line for WinHelp about box.

* Very comprehensive Help file (naturally!).

* Inexpensive - Registration is $30 US including disk and manual.

   $20 US for electronic key file only by Email.

* Available widely on Bulletin Boards, On-Line services, ASP Advantage

   and other CD-ROMs, Internet from SimTel sites.  Do a partial

   filename search for HELLLP since it could be stored as HELLLP.EXE

   or HELLLPnn.ZIP (where nn is the  version number).

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I need my text to wrap

Miguel Carrasquer (mcv@inter.NL.net) wrote:

: In article <Cu2vnA.ILL@eskimo.com>, Robert Pearson <telical@eskimo.com> wrote:

: >I need my text to wrap, and its not wrapping.  Here is my code

: >for my .hpj file:

: >	[FILES]

: >	C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\MAIN.rtf

: >C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP2.rtf C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP3.rtf

: >C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP4-5.rtf

: >C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP6-7.rtf

: >C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP8.rtf C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP9.rtf

: >C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP10.rtf C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\DEF.rtf

: >C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\DEF2.rtf

: If the text is not wrapping, there must be something wrong with the

: .rtf files.  Are these Borland example files, or your own?

: If an .rtf file has the \keep statement somewhere, this will cause

: all subsequent text not to wrap until a \pard statement is encountered.

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   Miguel,

          you know, I was thinking that.  I think maybe I should go into

the .rtf files and highlight them and make sure they are all set for

justification.  That would probably work, I think I'll try it.  If you

know that it won't, do you have another suggestion?

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Expiration of Help files??

In article <CtxJMx.JKo@ucc.su.OZ.AU> tongk@cornea.su.edu.au (Kent Tong) writes:

>In article <1994Aug1.230436.446@emr1.emr.ca>, jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>|> In article <31jtaf$4kt@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> toddc@cs.pdx.edu (todd a carlson) writes:

>|> >"Any suggestions how to create a Windows Help File that can only be

>|> >accessed a fixed number of times before it inactivates or deletes itself?"

>|> >If there's a term for limited-life software I don't know what it is

>|> >but that might be a catchy title that would get some interest.

>|> >

>|> >Also, "How do you make an Asymetrix Toolbook 3.0 application cease to function

>|> >after it has been run a fixed number of times?"

>|> >

>|> >Thanks,

>|> >

>|> >-Todd

>

>> 	Don't know.  Perhaps a more reasonable approach is to trust

>|> 	the users to register the product or delete it after a 30-day trial.

>|> 	The shareware industry is based on this philosophy.  If it's a

>|> 	good product for a reasonable price, most people may register.

>|> --

>|> John A. Grant	jagrant@emr1.emr.ca

>

>I doubt this will work. A little bit crippled feature or registration

>incentives, whatsoever you call it, is a more reasonable approach, as

>long as it won't prevent the user from evaluating your product.

>

>It is technically quite difficult to enforce a limited life on your

>program, because you can't make sure that the last 100 times or in the

>last 100 days your program was run by the same person.

>

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One thing I have seen done is to place a date in an INI file. On startup,

the application compares current system date to the one in the file. If it's

later, then nogo. You could presumably imbed this in a needed DLL, to make

it unreadable by those clever enough to check the INI file for dates. Or you

could encode the date in some way, call it AUTH_CODE or some such. You could

easily think of a dozen ways to "hide" the date, but keep it perfectly

readable for yourself, for example, you could subtract the month from 100,

and put the last number of the year as a prefix; August 94 becomes 492.

Flush it out with "junk" and you can see 4-593-00-92 (or 45930092) is the

same as 492. Next month, the number would be 45930091. The junk digits can

be meaningful, for example a version number, product code, or serial number,

or they could be pure trash so that 45930092 is exactly the same as

48427192. This kind of encoding is to devise. You could implement this by a

macro that runs each time the application starts.

The objection that it is difficult to enforce a limited operational period

because you don't know if the file is being accessed by the same person is a

non-problem in my opinion. The person posing the question doesn't really care

if one or a dozen people use the thing, so long as no one can use it past a

certain date. This is completely do-able.

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|> Actually, if you import an RTF file that has paragraph styles already in it,

|> ForeHelp will import those styles.

True, sort of.  At least, from what I've found.

I'm working on a project where we're trying to translate documents from

an existing markup format into RTF.  When we try to implement our own

styles, ForeHelp does not respect them.

Why not?  I suppose it's because the stylesheet stuff is not actually

supported by the Help Compiler.  We found that you cannot format an

element by assigning it a style (in RTF)--you must also include the

actual formatting codes as well.  So, the only use the stylesheet has is

it lets you label paragraphs as certain elements (but it's not the

style that does the formatting).

Note that you can set up paragraph styles in ForeHelp and use them for

formatting.  I suspect that ForeHelp uses the stylesheet to keep track

of where these style elements are, then updates the formatting at each

occurrence when you update the style.

Anybody know any different?

Chris Hemedinger                         SAS Institute, Doc Development

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  And yet I recognize my mouth says things that aren't so wise."

               -Crash Test Dummies

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Bullet lists in help files

In article <CtuzBI.Fwr@freenet.carleton.ca>,

I use MS Word v6 to

> prepare my RTF files, and so I've been using the Word bulleting

feature to

> make lists. Unfortunately, when the RTF files are compiled into

help files

> using the Microsoft help compiler, the lists (with the bullets) get

their

> formatting screwed up. Is there any way to fix this problem?

>

this is a problem with word 6.0. there is a way to get rid of the

formatting problems while using the bullet tool that was posted a

couple months ago, but i forget how to do it. what i have done is to

make a bitmap of a typical bullet and insert it into my lists as a

reference, i.e., [image].

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design .hlp with WPwin5.2?

In article <322853$o3g@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>, Emil Obermayr wrote:

> Is there a utility out there to help me writing help-files (.rtf) with my

> text-processor WPwin5.2? Maybe as a macro-package?

I now understand why you asked the question, Emil. WPwin 5.2

does contain a rtf conversion filter, but it appears to be

a little lacking in ability. Here's what I did:

To get a little background, I used wpwin52 to open an .RTF file

which is part of a project I completed a little while back.

A normal help file with clusters of "jump terms" will look

decidedly strange in wpwin52. All I did was browse the file,

attempt to look at the footnotes (which are pretty crucial

to making a working .hlp file), resave the file and start a

test compile. Apparently, wpwin52 had managed to insert

characters before the title and screw up a browse sequence

number in the first topicin the first topic. (Please note

that I did *not* edit the file at all!)

I understand perfectly why you are reluctant to switch

word processors, but if you do not want to go all the way

to Microsoft, you would probably be better of trying one of

the shareware systems around. HWAWIN (Help Writer's Assistant

for Windows) is a complete RTF editing and help file construction

system which springs to mind. It's shareware and should be

available at an ftp site or bulletin board near you.

Hope this helps,

Peter

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Hello,

We're searching for a Help authoring software now for our application.  I've

heard of many tools but very confused.  Is there a FAQ that I can get

through Email FTP?  What's your favorite tool?  Thanks.

Carl Hoang	choang@tdkt.mn.org

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Program to display 256 color pictures -- which?

'lo,

I am busy creating a hypertext that describes people in an

organisation. I have digitized (.jpg) photographs of them,

and I would like to be able to use these too. I know winhelp

can't display 256 colour bitmaps, and I also know that there's

a .DLL out there that remedies this, but I want something else:

I want a program which I can fire up using macros, which simply

displays the picture in another window. It shouldn't be able to do

anything else, just display the picture specified. Does such a

program exist? And, will I be able to close that window from within

winhelp, or should the user do that him/herself? Or is there a

better solution altogether?

best,

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EDIT files in windows HELP

Hi, I just need some advice on editing text files in my windows program.

I am writing a C program in windows and want a simple but effective way

of allowing anyone using my program to open a file, edit that file and then

save the changes. Is there a pre-defined C function that will allow for the

file interaction, ie: scrollbars, saving changes etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated (Important for honours project.)

You can Email me at ward_kd@swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au

Thanks

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Program to display 256 color pictures -- which?

In article <1994Aug9.121436.8349@let.rug.nl>,

Bert Plat <plat@let.rug.nl> wrote:

>'lo,

>

>I am busy creating a hypertext that describes people in an

>organisation. I have digitized (.jpg) photographs of them,

>and I would like to be able to use these too. I know winhelp

>can't display 256 colour bitmaps, and I also know that there's

>a .DLL out there that remedies this, but I want something else:

>I want a program which I can fire up using macros, which simply

>displays the picture in another window. It shouldn't be able to do

>anything else, just display the picture specified. Does such a

>program exist? And, will I be able to close that window from within

>winhelp, or should the user do that him/herself? Or is there a

>better solution altogether?

>

You can use the "ExecProgram()" macro to execute any external

program, including a JPEG viewer.  This leaves closing the program

up to the user.  Doing that from WinHelp is possible, but would

need some thinking/work (when should the external window close down?,

etc.)

Groeten,

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In article <321esh$92f@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>, msosteri@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (M. Sosteric) says:

>I saw somewhere once that there where templates available for using word

>to make windows help files. Anyone know the name of the files (for

>archie) or where I can get these.

You could use the templates from WHAT60, which is available from the

MSDN CD under the unsupported section. The Win Help Authoring Tool, has

working for me for quite a long time, its easy to use and best of all

its free.

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HULK: Any way I can get it??

In article <325msn$6e5@rigel.infinet.com> basamson@infinet.com (Brian Samson) writes:

>From: basamson@infinet.com (Brian Samson)

>Subject: HULK: Any way I can get it??

>Date: 8 Aug 1994 16:35:35 GMT

>Is there ANY way that I can get HULK (Microsoft's new unsupported Help

>Authoring tool) without having to get the MSDN CD??  Is it

>shareware/freeware, like a lot of MS's unsupported tools?  If so, is it

>on FTP?  I would LOVE to take a look at this Help programming

>environment, but since I don't have a CD ROM, am I out of luck?

>Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

     You might wanna take a look on ftp.microsoft.com. I used it from the MSDN

CDROM and I was not very impressed by it. It basically launches the programs

for you and has a nice nistbox of the files used to create the .HLP file. It

will launch the help compiler, yeah.... It will launch its own editor for the

.HPJ file and result files from the compiler, yeah... Not very impressive.....

I simply prefer to keep with my WinWord and compiling using a little .PIF

file. That works just fine for me.......

===================================================================

Jean-Francois Messier                            Windows developper

sysop of SuperByte 486 (819) 775-3471 v32/v42 (bis too!)

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EDIT files in windows HELP

In article <3279b5$7o8@swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au> ward_kd@ee.uwa.oz.au (KIM D WARD) writes:

>Hi, I just need some advice on editing text files in my windows program.

>I am writing a C program in windows and want a simple but effective way

>of allowing anyone using my program to open a file, edit that file and then

>save the changes. Is there a pre-defined C function that will allow for the

>file interaction, ie: scrollbars, saving changes etc.

>

>Any help would be greatly appreciated (Important for honours project.)

>

>You can Email me at ward_kd@swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au

>

>Thanks

>	Kim

>

>

You do of course, realize that this group is not for 'help'

about Windows programming, but rather it is for creating

WINHELP .HLP files?  If you thought that this group was for

general help, what did you think the other c.o.m.programmer.*

groups were for!?  Cake recipes?

Use WinExec() to start up Notepad.exe.  Either that or

use an "edit" control in a dialog box.  It sounds like you

need to get a book on writing Windows programs and learn

some of the basics.  I recommend "Programming Windows 3.1"

by Charles Petzold.

--

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Airborne Geophysics

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How to install Visual Help or Help Pre Compiler

I downloaded Visual Help from an ftp site yesterday along with another

help compiler (HLPPCP.ZIP) "Help Pre Compiler".  Visual Help is giving

a problem with some .DLL that it is looking for.  I don't remember the

name.  Well I tried the HLPPCP, which only installs from a floppy drive,

and it installed 7% (threed.vbx) only and came up with an error saying

"Help Pre Compiler is not installed properly, Install it later properly.

Well I did not do anything other than selecting O.K. on the directory

it specified.

If anyone had seen either of these two problems when installing these

packages, I would appreciate the help in telling me how to overcome

the problem.

Please mail me at dikran@gandalf.rutgers.edu

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Winhelp Environment Variable?

I have a vague memory of having heard of an environment variable which would

contain the path down which Winhelp should look for help files (rather than

just sticking it into your path statement). Could anyone tell me what it's

called? I've tried WINHLP, WINHELP and HELPDIR to see if they work and

looked up everything I could think of to find this information but no luck.

Thanks,

Gavin.

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New Version of VB HelpWriter!!

    *********************************

    **********  NEWS FLASH **********

    VB HelpWriter Version 1.80 is here!

 (Available for downloading:ftp.netcom.com /ftp/pub/vb_helpwriter)

    Summary:

    VB HelpWriter "Lite" edition is a completely integrated

    helpfile development system for Visual Basic.

    ======================   New features  ======================

    * !!!Drag 'n Drop browse sequence creation!!!

    * Improved "save before exit" handling

    * Improved memory management

    * Ability to add user macros to help project file

    * Main window colors always settable (even without fixed size

    *       window position)

    * Ruler not showing below icon bar (1024x768 mode)

    * Improved helpfile setup and topic information dialogs

    ==============================================================

    VB HelpWriter's features...

       . FREE - The "Lite" edition creates helpfiles up to

         20 topics (about twice that of NOTEPAD's help)

       . WYSIWYG editor included (no word processor needed)

       . Creates a starting helpfile from your VB code

       . Automatic GLOSSARY

       . Generates code to call WINHELP API functions

       . Edit multiple topics in several windows

       . Jumps are always "Live", no test mode needed

       . NO editing of Project files

       . NO cryptic footnote commands

       . NO knowledge of Windows Help needed

  Industry

         VB HelpWriter was selected to compete with RoboHelp and

         Doc-To-Help in Wintech Journal's 1994 Readers Choice awards.

         (Please cast a vote for us!)

     A "product to consider" in Visual Basic Programmer's

     Journal's Feb/March 1994 article on helpfiles. Specifically

     noted for it's "..nice features for integrating your VB

     program into the helpfile."

How to get VB Helpmaker:

+---------------------------------------------------------------+

| Compuserve: MSBASIC forum, Library 5, under VBHW.ZIP          |

|             (Uploaded on 7/15/94, so it may not be available  |

|              for a few days)                                  |

| Internet: "ftp.netcom.com  /ftp/pub/vb_helpwriter"            |

+---------------------------------------------------------------+

Current users should download "VBh18u.zip" (about 150K), to upgrade.

New users should download "vbhw18.zip". This contains the latest EXE,

support dlls, and example files. (about 1000K).

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Help Authoring Testimonials?

Louise Coatta (coatta@cs.ubc.ca) wrote:

: I am writing and maintaining several large help files with Word.  I

: would like to simplify this process with a help authoring tool.  I'm

: looking for a system that can easily import my existing rtf files, is

: both powerful and intuitive (naturally), and supports all help 3.1

: features.

Seems to me you've already found the 2 most powerful tools that utilize

Word. RoboHelp and DocToHelp come highly reccomended.

Can't speak to Forehelp. But I am a devout user of Visual Help.

Simple yet powerful .hlp file builder that requires no word processor.

But it generates an .rtf file that can be brought into Word and edited,

saved as, etc. What makes Visual Help attractive to me(and others) is its

simplicity and low cost($49 US sharware). Certainly worth a look.

Downloadable from CICA, etc.

(no, I am NOT affiliated with this company...although with all the

testimonials I keep giving it's about time I wrote and at least ASKED

about a commision, eh? ;) )

--

+-------------------------------------------------------+

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Help Authoring Testimonials?

In article <31jfu7$1st@cs.ubc.ca> coatta@cs.ubc.ca (Louise Coatta) writes:

>I am writing and maintaining several large help files with Word.  I

>would like to simplify this process with a help authoring tool.  I'm

>looking for a system that can easily import my existing rtf files, is

>both powerful and intuitive (naturally), and supports all help 3.1

>features.

>

>I had started investigating RoboHelp and Doc to Help, then checked

>this news group and discovered ForeHelp.

>

>What are the strengths and weaknesses of these help authoring tools?

>What do you recommend?

>

>Thanks.

I have used RoboHelp and ForeHelp. In my mind, RoboHelp's biggest positive

feature is that it runs directly within Word for Windows, so you have access

to everything that W4W provides. A lot of the features in fact, are simply

duded-up Word macros. You can create your own macros, edit them, attach them

to to the toolbar and so on, just as you can with any other document.

It's biggest negative, at least to me, is that you are looking at RTF codes

all the time and to see how things are woirking you have to do full compile.

With ForeHelp, you edit in a live hypertext environment, and there is a test

mode that gives you an exact replica of what the compiled version will look

like. In addition, the hypergraphics editor is built-in, so you don't have

to leave your editinig session if you want to add, delete or modify a

hotspot as  you do with RoboHelp. It;s biggest negative, to me, is that it

has no keyboard macro capablilty. It also doesn't (yet) accept Word

templates, and so any styles you create can't be esaily transported to

another help file. Some very nice features are the "Navigator" and the

"Grapher" that let you visualize a help system in  ways that have not been

available in other products.

I have been looking at shareware products, too, and some of these are very

good. Help Writer's Assistant for Windows has three separate editing

windows, one on top for a non-scrolling region, one below for the body of

the topic, and one on the left for a topic list that lets you dynamically

re-arrange the topics' order and hierarchy. This is a very sexy feature.

HWA/w comes with an excellent tutorial, too.

Another shareware product called HyperTrack/HyperDoc is similar, but is a

little more confusing to get the hang of.

I guess if I was just starting to look for an authoring tool, I'd feel

obligated to take a look at HELLP!, if for no other reason than that I've

seen its name so often.

--

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Q: Licensing fonts for multimedia applications

I was impressed by the legibility of the fonts used in Microsoft's

Encarta (Lucida Sans bitmap fonts) and started to look for suitable fonts

to be used in my Multimedia Viewer titles which should be reproduced

several hundred times.

Playing around a bit with several fonts, I believe that the best choice is

to use hand tuned bitmap fonts, then well designed TrueType fonts and at last

public domain TrueType fonts.

So I am now looking for fonts, which I can place on each disk together

with my title.

In addition, I need to be able (in the sense of rights) to modify

the fonts (e.g. building super/subscript versions, adding accents).

I tried to contact some of the German representatives of font developing

companies, but they didn't have any licensing models for font distribution

on multimedia titles or similar applications.

By the way, they all sell TrueType or PostScript-Type-1 fonts, but I havn't

seen anyone selling bitmap fonts - so any addresses are welcome.

If you have any experiences on licensing fonts for redistribution,

it would be great if you give me some hints.

Thanks,

Klaus Malorny

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I need my text to wrap

Robert Pearson (telical@eskimo.com) wrote:

: Miguel Carrasquer (mcv@inter.NL.net) wrote:

: : In article <Cu2vnA.ILL@eskimo.com>, Robert Pearson <telical@eskimo.com> wrote:

: : >I need my text to wrap, and its not wrapping.  Here is my code

: : >for my .hpj file:

: : >	[FILES]

: : >	C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\MAIN.rtf

: : >C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP2.rtf C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP3.rtf

: : >C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP4-5.rtf

: : >C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP6-7.rtf

: : >C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP8.rtf C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP9.rtf

: : >C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\CHAP10.rtf C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\DEF.rtf

: : >C:\BORLANDC\EXAMPLES\WIN30\DEF2.rtf

: : If the text is not wrapping, there must be something wrong with the

: : .rtf files.  Are these Borland example files, or your own?

: : If an .rtf file has the \keep statement somewhere, this will cause

: : all subsequent text not to wrap until a \pard statement is encountered.

: : --

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:

:    Miguel,

:           you know, I was thinking that.  I think maybe I should go into

: the .rtf files and highlight them and make sure they are all set for

: justification.  That would probably work, I think I'll try it.  If you

: know that it won't, do you have another suggestion?

I did just that.  A very strange thing happened.  All of them worked

fine except the first page, "main.rtf."  It contains chapter 1 and

also the contents screen.  When I don't format it the .hlp compiles,

when I do format it, it doesn't.  The author combined the contents

page with the first chapter (the help merely makes the manual into

a help file).....I tried to seperate them but it doesn't seem to want

to compiler either.

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Winhelp Environment Variable?

In article <1994Aug10.110225.6553@zippy.dct.ac.uk>,

Gavin Greig <ggreig@mcs.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

>I have a vague memory of having heard of an environment variable which would

>contain the path down which Winhelp should look for help files (rather than

>just sticking it into your path statement). Could anyone tell me what it's

>called? I've tried WINHLP, WINHELP and HELPDIR to see if they work and

>looked up everything I could think of to find this information but no luck.

>

It's not an environment variable.  WinHelp looks for help files in the

following places:

- WinHelp's current directory

- The calling application's current directory

- the Windows directory

- the System directory

- the directory where WINHELP.EXE resides

- the DOS PATH directory list

- the paths/files mentioned in WINHELP.INI:

[FILES]

helpfile=drv:\dir\dir,message to display

e.g.:

WINXX.HLP=e:\help,Insert the WINXX CD-ROM in drive E:

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Help - Multiplatform

In article <31suga$339@nwfocus.wa.com>,

Jeffrey Shneidman <jeffsh@coho.halcyon.com> wrote:

>Andy Longton (alongton@clark.net) wrote:

>: I want to create help files for multiple platforms; Windows & NT, OS/2,

>: Macintosh, and WWW.

>

>: Are there any tools (or sets of tools) that will allow me to cover all of

>: these?  (In a pinch, WWW HTML could be dropped since I could figure that

>: out on my own.)

>

>Hmmm. Well, I *believe* I read in a MSJ or somewhere official that

>Windows 3.1 help files can be viewed on a Mac. Since OS/2 has all the

>code to Win 3.1, help files should work there too. Also, 3.1 HLP files

>can be run on NT. If you did the docs in MS WORD or another such program,

>you could write a macro that would convert the RTF formatting to HTML

>formatting...

>

>just an idea..

>

>jeff

>

>: Thanks!

>--

An alternative is to look at our HLPDK product that can create multiple

targets from one source. We support the creation of NATIVE help databases

from one source to all the targets you mention above, except the mac.

You will be able to find an evaluation copy of HLPDK on garbo.uwasa.fi in

the /pc/programming directory as hdk115*.zip (* = a, b, l).

This is an "old" version, because we intend to start distribution of a

new commercial version (Professional Author) this month.

I suggest that you download HLPDK, look at some of the demos, and

realize what can be done with the product, on top of that, you will

know that the new version will offer a very fast hypertext sensitive

editor that makes multi-platform authoring faster than ever before.

If you have any other question, please contact me.

Ron Loewy, Author of HLPDK, HLPDK/PA and PASTERP.

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Help Authoring Testimonials?

>In article <31jfu7$1st@cs.ubc.ca> coatta@cs.ubc.ca (Louise Coatta) writes:

>>I am writing and maintaining several large help files with Word.  I

>>would like to simplify this process with a help authoring tool.  I'm

>>looking for a system that can easily import my existing rtf files, is

>>both powerful and intuitive (naturally), and supports all help 3.1

>>features.

>>

>>I had started investigating RoboHelp and Doc to Help, then checked

>>this news group and discovered ForeHelp.

>>

>>What are the strengths and weaknesses of these help authoring tools?

>>What do you recommend?

Check out a product called The Windows Help Magician by Software Interphase,

Inc., (401) 397-2340. Its strengths are that it does not require Word for

Windows, it takes care of the minutae of coding for you (although it

still helps to be familiar with what Help can and can't do), and includes

testing/prototyping tools such as simulating the help system and compiling a

single topic (big timesavers). The interface is well designed and executed.

Their tech support is responsive and knowledgeable. I found the manual to

be a little sketchy, but it does include a good (IMHO) tutorial.

There are proponents of "hand coding" WinHelp, but if well-implemented, an

automated authoring tool can help with details like handling macros,

printing out lists of context IDs, combining multiple RTF files into a

single HLP, etc. and allow the author to concentrate on communicating with

the end user.

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Hypertext Beta Sites Wanted

We are looking for beta site testers for our Livelink Hypertext

Generator.  If you create a lot of Windows Help files and you are

interested in trying out a new, fast and powerful hypertext tool,

please contact us by August 18th with your:

1. Name

2. E-Mail address

3. Telephone number

4. Fax Number

Our E-Mail address is: livelink@datasrv.co.il

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Need to convert Amipro docs into a help file

Greetings,

I'm working on a Windows-based project which needs on-line help. We'd like

to be able to use existing Amipro documents to create the help files with.

Does anyone out there have any suggestions for a utility which will help

do this?

Thanks,

Wayne Scott

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How to create large titles with Multimedia Viewer 2.0?

Hi - I am a new user of the Multimedia Viewer (V2.0).  I have a large number

of short bits of text that I wanted to place into a title.  There are a total

of 21 files (hence 21 Topic Groups) with about 750 topics all together

comprising 1.4 Mb of text.  I have a machine with 16Mb RAM and during a

compile I get an out of memory error while processing about the 10-th file.

Now Microsoft somehow creates a 300Mb .MBV file for their Developer Network

CD-ROM so there must be a way of creating VERY LARGE titles.  Does anyone know

how to avoid the out of memory error?  I have a 20Mb permanent swap file for

Windows but the compiler does not appear to use it.  The Appendix-D

information on the memory error only says to close down all other applications

(which I have done and seems to have little or no effect).

Note, I only have text, and each topic has a title, context-ID and

browse-sequence footnote, nothing more.

Kevin

PS - does someone know of a Multimedia Viewer newsgroup or

Listserv?

kevin@biomed.queensu.ca

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256 Colours

Carl Cuneo (cuneo@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca) wrote:

> I am currently using Shed.exe as a hotspot editor in conjunction with the

> Win Help Editor. Problem is that it is limited to 16 colours, and I get

> spotty blacks, and  green tinge bmps.  Can someone tell me where I can get

> an editor for use with WinHelp that will allow me to use 256 colours?  Is

> there an ftp site (directory and filename?).

  Someone just recently told me about something to do this. I think it's on

ftp.cica.indiana.edu as /pub/pc/win3/programr/ewdll11.zip. I'm not sure

it's exactly what you're looking for (I haven't taken a look at it yet),

but it's worth checking out.

--

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Windows Worry

I am a programmer & I suffer from sore eyes, sore head & nausea when I use windows.  I use a glare guard on my screen & I take regular breaks but I am still affected even if I use windows for a short period of time.

Does anyone else have this problem or can anyone suggest a solution ?

I'd be most grateful since I am concerned I may have to give up my job.

--

Tom Mckee

Inverness

Scotland

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256 Colours

VCirel@cellbio.bhs.uab.edu wrote:

>cuneo@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca (Carl Cuneo) says:

>>

>>I am currently using Shed.exe as a hotspot editor in conjunction with

>the

>>Win Help Editor. Problem is that it is limited to 16 colours, and I get

>>spotty blacks, and  green tinge bmps.

>

>You are SOL with 256 color bitmaps in Win Help period. It only supports

>16 color bitmaps. Your alternatives are to use MS Viewer 2.0 (completely

>compatible with WinHelp) or write your own function that displays the BMP

>in its own window, put it into a DLL and register the DLL with WinHelp to

>call the function. If Viewer doesn't sound like you're cup of tea, drop

>me a line on e-mail, there is a guy here at a local company that wrote a

>whole set of DLL's to do this and more with WinHelp and Viewer.

>

 Actually, as far as I know, there aren't any DLLs to handle 256 color

.SHG images. However, I do know that there is a company working on a

256-color shed editor and a support DLL for WinHelp. It shouldn't be too

difficult to write the support. If you read my article on the .SHG file

format in the February '94 issue of Windows/DOS Developer's Journal, you

could easily write an editor and support DLL for SHED. Well, it wouldn't

be simple, I mean, you'd have to write the SHED editor, but that's not

really too complex.

  As for handling 256 color shed images, that might be a little bit

trickier since there is no 'standard' for it yet. I know MS has a 256

color shed editor to release with the next Beta for Chicago, but until

that's released, I wouldn't really know how to store the 256 color shed data.

  Pete

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Multiple Embedded Windows in a Help File... HELP!

VCirel@cellbio.bhs.uab.edu wrote:

>

>>Has anybody tried to use multiple embedded window DLLs in a

>>single help file?  When I try this, the first one to be accessed

>>works fine, but the next puts up a cryptic "unable to display

>>picture" message.

>

>Does you second window have a 256 color bitmap in it. WinHelp will

>display only 16 color bitmaps.

>

>VC

  I have written a DLL to display 256 color bitmaps in embedded windows.

Mine does handle multiple embedded windows in the same topic. The problem

occurs when more than 1 256-color bitmap is being displayed at the same

time on 256 color display adapter. If the total number of colors between

all the images exceeds 256 colors, then some or all of the images will

suffer color loss.

  It seems to me that your DLL is probably having problems with having two

concurrent WNDPROCs for your embedded window. Are you using

global variables to keep information that you use? Remember, you need

seperate instances of all the data for each instance of the embedded

window class.

  Pete

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How to create large titles with Multimedia Viewer 2.0?

In article <kevin.14.000B9D02@biomed.queensu.ca>,

Kevin Hood <kevin@biomed.queensu.ca> wrote:

>

>Hi - I am a new user of the Multimedia Viewer (V2.0).  I have a large number

>of short bits of text that I wanted to place into a title.  There are a total

>of 21 files (hence 21 Topic Groups) with about 750 topics all together

>comprising 1.4 Mb of text.  I have a machine with 16Mb RAM and during a

>compile I get an out of memory error while processing about the 10-th file.

>Now Microsoft somehow creates a 300Mb .MBV file for their Developer Network

>CD-ROM so there must be a way of creating VERY LARGE titles. Does anyone know

>how to avoid the out of memory error?  I have a 20Mb permanent swap file for

>Windows but the compiler does not appear to use it.

Can't be.  An application (like the MVCompiler) has no control over

virtual memory.  Check the 386-Enh settings in Control Panel.

Another problem might be disk space in your TMP directory: huge

temporary files are created during the compilation process.

If by any chance your TMP dir is a RAM disk, that could be the

cause.  If TMP is on the hard disk you would expect another kind

of error (disk full), but I believe I've seen "out of memory" once

or twice in those cases.

>

>PS - does someone know of a Multimedia Viewer newsgroup or

>Listserv?

>

This *is* the Viewer (as well as WinHelp) newsgroup.

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Hello folks:

I have been in touch with the folks at ForeFront. They do not have full

internet access as yet, so they have asked me to post their demo version of

ForeHelp 1.04 at an FTP site somewhere.

Well, I am open to suggestions as to a home for it. Ideally, the site should

have other WinHelp stuff on it and be mirrored by at least one other site.

Please e-mail responses. When everything is all set, I will post the location,

etc. to this group (comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp).

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In article <CuDpEI.MrI@nsa.bt.co.uk> tom@vishnu.nsa.bt.co.uk (Tom McKee) writes:

>

>I am a programmer & I suffer from sore eyes, sore head & nausea when I use windows.  I use a glare guard on my screen & I take regular breaks but I am still affected even if I use windows for a short period of time.

>

>Does anyone else have this problem or can anyone suggest a solution ?

>I'd be most grateful since I am concerned I may have to give up my job.

>

>--

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>Scotland

>mckee_t@nsagw.nsa.bt.co.uk            In the end, there can only be ONE

What colours are you using?  Personally, I find a white/light

coloured background to be very tiring and it tends to 'vibrate'

when I get tired.  Try switching to a light coloured text

(yellow, cyan, white) on a dark background (midnight dark blue).

Here I go again with my crusade against normality and

complacency... :)

Since the beginning of time (almost) all terminals and PCs have

had dark backgrounds with light text colours.  For example,

Green/Amber/Black TTY terminals and white on black text when you

turn on your PC.

Ok, so then along comes Microsoft with this wonderful GUI

system and provides a method for each user to customize

the colours.  Hey, they even provide a dozen or so sample

colour schemes that you can use as starting points.  Great,

you can pick your favourite.  But, wait, take another look!

Almost every one of them has black text on a white background

(except hotdog stand, lcd and plasma).

This is really absurd - overnight Microsoft has switched the

standard from white text on black to black text on white.  Worse

yet, millions of people go along with it, either because they

don't know it can be changed, or they think that's the way it

has to be.

So cast off your chains, go to the control panel and change

your colours.  I recommend yellow or cyan on midnight dark blue.

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New Version of VB HelpWriter!!

My apologies to everyone!!!!

The original uploads had a problem, and the protections weren't set

correctly.

The files have been re-uploaded and the problem fixed.

They should be available for download on "ftp.netcom.com

/ftp/pub/vb_helpwriter" now.

Thanks,

Fred Bunn

President, Teletech Systems

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jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>In article <CuDpEI.MrI@nsa.bt.co.uk> tom@vishnu.nsa.bt.co.uk (Tom McKee) writes:

>>

>>I am a programmer & I suffer from sore eyes, sore head & nausea when I use windows.  I use a glare guard on my screen & I take regular breaks but I am still affected even if I use windows for a short period of time.

>>

>>Does anyone else have this problem or can anyone suggest a solution ?

>>I'd be most grateful since I am concerned I may have to give up my job.

Go see a medical doctor. Maybe you need glasses or new glasses, maybe

your posture is wrong (too tense) etc etc.

>	What colours are you using?  Personally, I find a white/light

>	coloured background to be very tiring and it tends to 'vibrate'

>	when I get tired.  Try switching to a light coloured text

>	(yellow, cyan, white) on a dark background (midnight dark blue).

>	Here I go again with my crusade against normality and

>	complacency... :)

<snip snip>

John, you're right. Using a white background seems more realistic,

i.e., it looks like white paper, but the difference with white paper

is that it *reflects* light, while our tubes *emit* light.

In other words, this is like looking into a lamp constantly.

On the other hand: a good monitor is probably the best solution.

-Leo-

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USING GLOBALALLOC()

I am using Object Windows to write a program that outputs graphics in

response to messages received from a client program.

I am doing this by first executing the graphics application using

WinExec() then sending messages using SendMessage().

I want to send a char* as part of the message to pass some text to the

application but can't figure out how to. The SendMessage() help says use

GlobbalAlloc() to allocate some shared memory and put the data there - I

have created the memory but how do I place the data in it ? (also, where

do you use the HANDLE returned in the return vlaue ?)

The help goes on to say that allocation of memory is only required if

lParam contains a pointer but doesn't lParam need to be a DWORD/long int ?

As you can tell I am new to this and would apprciate some assistance.

Cheers.

Mike.

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USING GLOBALALLOC()

I am using Object Windows to write a program that outputs graphics in

response to messages received from a client program.

I am doing this by first executing the graphics application using

WinExec() then sending messages using SendMessage().

I want to send a char* as part of the message to pass some text to the

application but can't figure out how to. The SendMessage() help says use

GlobbalAlloc() to allocate some shared memory and put the data there - I

have created the memory but how do I place the data in it ? (also, where

do you use the HANDLE returned in the return vlaue ?)

The help goes on to say that allocation of memory is only required if

lParam contains a pointer but doesn't lParam need to be a DWORD/long int ?

As you can tell I am new to this and would appreciate some assistance.

Cheers.

Mike.

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aj085@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Neil Polowin) writes:

>Good morning - I'm having a problem with the help files I've built, and I

>though someone here might have an answer for me. I use MS Word v6 to

>prepare my RTF files, and so I've been using the Word bulleting feature to

>make lists. Unfortunately, when the RTF files are compiled into help files

>using the Microsoft help compiler, the lists (with the bullets) get their

>formatting screwed up. Is there any way to fix this problem?

Neil,

You can work around this problem by putting an explicit tab stop at the

same position at which you have your hanging indent.  This tab stop

should be set explicitely for the paragraph, not as a style format.  If

you have more than one consecutive paragraph with a hanging indent you

will also need to make sure that each paragraph has different tabs set

than the previous paragraph (I usually alternate one tab at 20" and one

at 20.25".  This keeps them out of the way of my actual text).

-Rob

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In article <CuDpEI.MrI@nsa.bt.co.uk>, tom@vishnu.nsa.bt.co.uk (Tom McKee) writes:

>

>I am a programmer & I suffer from sore eyes, sore head & nausea when

>I use windows.  I use a glare guard on my screen & I take regular breaks

>but I am still affected even if I use windows for a short period of time.

It is a little bit of topic, but of course it is a help for windows :-)

Lots of video-drivers for windows don't use the optimal refresh rate

(minimum should be 70Hz) or, worse, use interleave mode. It's difficult to

determine the refresh rate without electronic knowledge. But interleave

mode let single horizontal lines flicker more than the solid blocks.

 My hints:

- Don`t use interleave for long working sessions.

- Try to get shure of 70Hz refresh rate or more.

  (have a look at video-card-driver-manual or the read.me-file)

- Don't use to much colors on your screen at the same time. It's a

  psychological effect that lots of colors let you become tired faster. Thats

  the reason why in professional styled rooms most things are painted in

  nearly the same one or two colors.

- Try to wear glasses while working at the screen. The screen can reflect

  solid particles flying in the air by it's electromagnetic fields and

  accellarate them into your eyes...

- After switching in your computer wipe the screen until the ionic layer in

  front of it is gone. Repeat it during your working session when

  necessary. That field can dry your skin...

- Keep a minimum distance from the sreen of round about a length of your

  arm. That is because your eyes can separate the single color pixels of

  the screen mask. It will irritate you, even when don't really see them.

  Of course this doesn't matter at b/w-screens.

Some of these points can be avoided by using a good monitor with a good

video card. If you want to invest in it, have a special look at the features

relating on the hints above. That is

- a high refresh rate at your needed resolution

- actual windows drivers for it, of course!

- anti-glare-screen

- low electromagnetic field strength

 Bye,

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In article <32fk0l$ron@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>, i0080101@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Emil Obermayr) writes:

>In article <CuDpEI.MrI@nsa.bt.co.uk>, tom@vishnu.nsa.bt.co.uk (Tom McKee) writes:

>>

>>I am a programmer & I suffer from sore eyes, sore head & nausea when

>>I use windows.  I use a glare guard on my screen & I take regular breaks

>>but I am still affected even if I use windows for a short period of time.

[snip]

>- Try to wear glasses while working at the screen. The screen can reflect

>  solid particles flying in the air by it's electromagnetic fields and

>  accellarate them into your eyes...

Get a pair of "computer glasses". Your ordinary glasses are designed for

longer distances than to your monitor. If you ask a good optician (or

whatever those are called in english that make glasses:-) he will know

what strength you should have to concentrate on a screen whithout

tension.

In some places your employer will even pay part of the new glasses.

Why don't you post a note when you're back in business, and tell us how

you managed!

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Writing DLLs for WinHelp

We use HDK to produce our Windows help. This has two DLLs, one

for a contents window showing the structure of the help (a bit

like a File Manager tree, but with books instead of folders).

The other is an animation DLL enabling you to stick animations

into your help file.

Does anyone know how to go about writing a DLL for this sort

of thing. I know the functions in the DLL act as WinHelp macros.

How, for example, if the DLL macro is associated with a graphic,

can you get the device context for that region.

Thanks, Alfie.

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Keyword search jumpst

How is it possible to make a topic reached via a keyword search appear in

a secondary window, while leaving the current main window intact?

I tried Focus() as a topic entry macro, but that occurs after the jump,

not before.

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USING GLOBALALLOC()

>I am using Object Windows to write a program that outputs graphics in

>response to messages received from a client program.

>I am doing this by first executing the graphics application using

>WinExec() then sending messages using SendMessage().

>I want to send a char* as part of the message to pass some text to the

>application but can't figure out how to. The SendMessage() help says use

>GlobbalAlloc() to allocate some shared memory and put the data there - I

>have created the memory but how do I place the data in it ? (also, where

>do you use the HANDLE returned in the return vlaue ?)

 Using the "old" way, you should have do :

 hMyString = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_SHARE, myStringSize);

 myStringPtr = (char *) GlobalLock(hMyString);

 ... lstrcpy(myStringPtr, "Some string to pass");

 GlobalUnlock(hMyString);

 SendMessage(hWndOtherApp, UM_HEREISMYDATA, (WPARAM) hMyString, 0L);

 ....

 ....

 The other application should have then to global lock the received

 handle to access the string.

 However, I urge you to NOT use these statements. FORGET THEM. Instead,

 compile your program using the large memory model and use the

 standard malloc/free-new/delete functions. To have a complete

 explanation on this topic , have a look at the following technical note

 available on ftp.microsoft.com (see the index). "Allocating memory the old

 fashionable way ...".

 Once you have allocated your memory, you can send the pointer to

 another application using SendMessage(hWndOtherApp, UM_HEREISMYDATA

 /*Some user defined message*/, 0, (LONG) myStringPtr);

 Be aware that this technique doesn't work with Win32 and will not

 work with the future Windows release (Chicago).

>The help goes on to say that allocation of memory is only required if

>lParam contains a pointer but doesn't lParam need to be a DWORD/long int ?

>As you can tell I am new to this and would apprciate some assistance.

>Cheers.

>Mike.

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In article <1994Aug12.155240.27226@sol.UVic.CA>,

Dave  Woods <dwoods@butterfly.UVic.CA> wrote:

>How is it possible to make a topic reached via a keyword search appear in

>a secondary window, while leaving the current main window intact?

>

>I tried Focus() as a topic entry macro, but that occurs after the jump,

>not before.

>

Can't be done (except by implementing your own Search() dialog).

Since the topic seemingly can only be reached by a keyword search

(no use using an entry macro otherwise), you might try the following.

I expect that it will be too ugly to watch, but it does the job:

Make an entry macro:

"!JumpId(`thisfile.hlp>win2', `thistopic');Back()"

(substituting the name of your helpfile, the name of your secondary

window, and the context-string of your topic).

Ugly innit?

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In article <CuDpEI.MrI@nsa.bt.co.uk>, Tom McKee wrote:

>

> I am a programmer & I suffer from sore eyes, sore head & nausea when

> I use windows.  I use a glare guard on my screen & I take regular

> breaks but I am still affected even if I use windows for a short

> period of time.

Sounds like either

a)	You simply spend too much time in front of the monitor, or

b)	your graphics card/monitor combination is poorly set up

or not able to handle graphics display properly.

as for b), it is fairly well known and documented that

screen refresh rates of less than 50hz will cause visible

flicker, which in turn causes the symptoms you describe in

a fairly large segment of the population.

You shouldn't need to look for alternative employment, just

check that the equipment you are using is actually up to

the tasks you perform.

One last thing: if somebody tries to sell you a monitor which

offers a wonderful refresh rate when "interlaced",

JUST SAY "NO"!

Interlacing (redrawing every other line of the screen on each

refresh) effectively halves your real refresh rate. It could

be that an interlaced video mode is the real problem here.

Good luck!

All the best,

Peter

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EDIT files in windows HELP

KIM D WARD (ward_kd@ee.uwa.oz.au) wrote:

: Hi, I just need some advice on editing text files in my windows program.

: I am writing a C program in windows and want a simple but effective way

: of allowing anyone using my program to open a file, edit that file and then

: save the changes. Is there a pre-defined C function that will allow for the

: file interaction, ie: scrollbars, saving changes etc.

: Any help would be greatly appreciated (Important for honours project.)

: You can Email me at ward_kd@swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au

: Thanks

: 	Kim

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In article <plugge.776679434@cs.rulimburg.nl> plugge@cs.rulimburg.nl (Leo Plugge) writes:

>jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>

>>In article <CuDpEI.MrI@nsa.bt.co.uk> tom@vishnu.nsa.bt.co.uk (Tom McKee) writes:

>>>

>>>I am a programmer & I suffer from sore eyes, sore head & nausea when I use windows.  I use a glare guard on my screen & I take regular breaks but I am still affected even if I use windows for a short period of time.

>>>

>>>Does anyone else have this problem or can anyone suggest a solution ?

>>>I'd be most grateful since I am concerned I may have to give up my job.

>

>Go see a medical doctor. Maybe you need glasses or new glasses, maybe

>your posture is wrong (too tense) etc etc.

>

>>	What colours are you using?  Personally, I find a white/light

>>	coloured background to be very tiring and it tends to 'vibrate'

>>	when I get tired.  Try switching to a light coloured text

>>	(yellow, cyan, white) on a dark background (midnight dark blue).

>

>>	Here I go again with my crusade against normality and

>>	complacency... :)

><snip snip>

>

>John, you're right. Using a white background seems more realistic,

>i.e., it looks like white paper, but the difference with white paper

>is that it *reflects* light, while our tubes *emit* light.

>In other words, this is like looking into a lamp constantly.

>On the other hand: a good monitor is probably the best solution.

Also, check that your power supply is stable.  Your monitor

may be flickering without you really noticing it - maybe

just enough to fatigue you.

What about fluorescent lights?  They can cause eyestrain too.

Try turning them off in the daytime if you have enough window

light (I do) and perhaps use softer incandescent lighting

otherwise.

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John A. Grant	jagrant@emr1.emr.ca

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Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top

I believe the Viewer 2.0 can access WIN API calls to handle this, then

use the hwndApp and register the API in a RegisterRoutine command. However, I

have been unable to get this to work.  Can anyone help?

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Help-files with full text search ?

Hello,

There a was couple of posts on this subject and I have since been looking

to this group about 2 h intervall but have not seen any solution !

I believe the original posters question was: Is there any possibility

to change/convert existing help files to a full-text searchable help.

This would be a great thing. Some of the MS KnowledgeBase help files has

this feature, so the search engine is available (free along with the

kb-help from ftp.microsoft.com). Is it difficult to create the *.ind file

that is needed for the full-text search ?

Please, does anybody know ?

Timo

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Help authoring tools FAQ etc.

I'm posting this for my wife. She works for an "Internet Access Challenged"

company.

She is using RoboHelp and not really satisified.

Is there a FAQ or survey that I can access for other products that generate

Windows Help files. She's a Technical Writer and would like to find a product

that doesn't require a programming degree to use.

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Windows Worry

In article <CuDpEI.MrI@nsa.bt.co.uk> tom@vishnu.nsa.bt.co.uk "Tom McKee" writes:

>

>I am a programmer & I suffer from sore eyes, sore head & nausea when I use

> windows.  I use a glare guard on my screen & I take regular breaks but I am

> still affected even if I use windows for a short period of time.

>

>Does anyone else have this problem or can anyone suggest a solution ?

>I'd be most grateful since I am concerned I may have to give up my job.

This newsgroup is for discussion of "WinHelp" - the Windows on-line

Help engine. It is NOT for discussion of medical problems :-) I suggest

that you pay a visit to your local G.P!

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In article <31p94u$q7e@nwfocus.wa.com>,

Stan Orchard <stano@chinook.halcyon.com> wrote:

>

>: These were all available in the MDK (Multimedia Developer's Kit), now

>: superseded by the Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit (Viewer 2.0).

>

>Can you please elaborate on the MDK? Where can it be found? How much?

>Will it produce files readable on existing systems?(with proper drivers,

>etc) Will it import/read existing .hlp files? What are some of the

>differences between the files MDK produces and .hlp files?

>

As far as I know, MS doesn't sell the MDK anymore.  Although there is some

other stuff included, the MDK is basically Multimedia Viewer 1.0.

Viewer1 is *exactly* the same as WinHelp, except all the names are

different:

.HPJ => .MVP, .HLP => .MVB, HC(P).EXE => MVC(P).EXE

WINHELP.EXE => VIEWER.EXE

Viewer can play .HLP files, and WinHelp can play most .MVB files.

If you compile Viewer projects with HCP, there are no diffs at all.

Note that this is *not* the case with Viewer 2, which does have a

slightly different file format, project file syntax, etc.

What distinguishes Viewer1 from Help are the DLLs that came with

it: full-text search, multimedia, 256-color bitmaps, etc.  And that

you had to pay for it (!)  But all the Viewer 1 DLLs can be used by

WinHelp too...

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MMViewer development tools

In article <31pcno$1e3@dns1.NMSU.Edu>, Tokind <tokind@acca.nmsu.edu> wrote:

>I want to move some of my work from WinHelp to MMViewer. Where can

>I get these tools? How much are they, if not available PD? I don't

>have a CD ROM player at the moment, and probebly would not find MSDN

>a good investment for the limited work I do. Is there a seperate

>MM development kit? What does it cost.

>

Well, you're out of luck.  AFAIK, MMViewer2 is only available on CD.

I'm not sure now how much the MMViewer Publishing Toolkit (1 CD) costs

I seem to remember $400...

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printf and scanf in OWL environment

I've been trying for a week to get input from the keyboard and print results

out to the screen in the Borland C++ environment, without success.  I imagine

there must be a way to grab keyboard characters and do simple printf type stuff

(I've tried cout too), but I can't seem to find any examples that do that.  I

am interested in writing software that requires a console (something like a

terminal program), but I have no way of getting text.  Anybody have ideas how

to do this?  I've read all the books I have with no success...

Thanks,

Jeff Rothman (rothman@cs.berkeley.edu)

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Writing DLLs for WinHelp

In article <CuFBJM.Kt0@oasis.icl.co.uk>,

Alfie Kirkpatrick <ak@oasis.icl.co.uk> wrote:

>We use HDK to produce our Windows help. This has two DLLs, one

>for a contents window showing the structure of the help (a bit

>like a File Manager tree, but with books instead of folders).

>The other is an animation DLL enabling you to stick animations

>into your help file.

>

>Does anyone know how to go about writing a DLL for this sort

>of thing. I know the functions in the DLL act as WinHelp macros.

>How, for example, if the DLL macro is associated with a graphic,

>can you get the device context for that region.

>

>Thanks, Alfie.

>--

>

The answers to your questions are answered in the WHAG, HAG, MM Viewer

Reference Manual and Jim Miscel's "The Developer's Guide to WINHELP.EXE".

The latest is the best book of the ones mentioned above.

Good luck.

Ron.

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Keyword search >> 2ndary windows

Thanks to Miguel for the answer on keyword jumps to topics in

2ndary windows. I'd thought of trying it but like he says, it is ugly.

It is doable, I suppose, via programming and registering a DLL, etc.

Microsoft would appear to have done this for Word 6, which has keyword

jumps to secondary windows. Has anyone done anything like this?

Another question: Using Robohelp on a Dell 486DX2/66, I go to define my

secondary or main window attributes and the machine goes to sleep. At home

on a different machine it takes several seconds to reach the window editor,

but it works. I have not been able to duplicate this problem on a non-Dell

machine. Robohelp support said not to worry as machine is making an API call.

This "call"  must take longer than 40 minutes, though, because that's all

I've ever waited. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Also: as for comparisons of Help packages, Robohelp is pretty good, and

when we bought it it was probably the best around. But now it is grossly

overpriced and uncompetitive. With user encouragement, the shareware help

builders will soon provide an equal product. Robohelp needs a decent

"graphical overview" feature. Robohelp of course works in symbiosis with

Word 6. (A large chunk of Robohelp is a fancy Word template). Some may view

this as a limitation, but really, Word is the natural environment for

producing Help  and its macro and toolbar capabilites mean that Help

development in Word is the best option. At least this has been the case

in my limited experience.

Since few people here post queries about Robohelp I would be happy to answer

any specific questions about it.

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Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top

In article <1994Aug12.192305.13203@nuchat.sccsi.com> smi@sccsi.com writes:

>I believe the Viewer 2.0 can access WIN API calls to handle this, then

>use the hwndApp and register the API in a RegisterRoutine command. However, I

>have been unable to get this to work.  Can anyone help?

There is an API to bring a window to the top, but I don't believe there's one

to make it stay on top.  I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure you'd have to

write a DLL of some sort to make this work.

CW

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Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top

In article <fnkytwn.2.0015167E@halcyon.com> fnkytwn@halcyon.com (CW) writes:

>Path: news.halcyon.com!bellevue-ip62.halcyon.com!fnkytwn

>From: fnkytwn@halcyon.com (CW)

>Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia

>Subject: Re: Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top

>Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 21:05:07

>Organization: FunkyTown Creations

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>Keywords: Viewer

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>In article <1994Aug12.192305.13203@nuchat.sccsi.com> smi@sccsi.com writes:

>>I believe the Viewer 2.0 can access WIN API calls to handle this, then

>>use the hwndApp and register the API in a RegisterRoutine command. However, I

>>have been unable to get this to work.  Can anyone help?

>There is an API to bring a window to the top, but I don't believe there's one

>to make it stay on top.  I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure you'd have to

>write a DLL of some sort to make this work.

>CW

Pc Mag's btnGo utility has a runtime setable "always on top" feature. You

might try checking the source code to see how to do it. DL source via ziffnet

via compuserve. I missed the original post so I hope this is germane.

-------------------

Kevin Hintergardt

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Getting Started in Visual Help

I'm starting to use Visual Help, and I'm finding it a little unintuative,

and the documentation a little stingey.  It is inexpensive and I've

heard some good things in here.  One question is that my version supports

only 3 topics, I've heard other mention their's supported five.  Not a

big deal, because if I can get it to work, I plan on registering.

   My version comes up with just a menu bar on the screen, nothing else

except a little movable button toolset on the side.  I'm assuming that

I name my project files and such and then I'm given more room to work

with.  Re-writing samples is always an easy way to go, but I don't think

they've made that possible.  Am I correct about this?  I get an error

message about "no error file found."

    Can anyone give me any more directions?

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From: chrisk@revcan.ca (Chris King)

Subject: Re: Collapsing effects???

Organization: Revenue Canada, Customs, Excise and Taxation

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 19:18:38 GMT

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In article <CvDMC1.9MI@agora.rdrop.com>,

Steve Perry <sperry@agora.rdrop.com> wrote:

>Does anyone know how they create the "collapsing effects". For instance,

>in the Knowledge Base for VB (I assume others too), they have several

>lines and when you click on any of them, they expand out. If they click

>on it again, it collapses. How's it done?

>Thanks

I was wondering about this too.  You could 'fake it' to some extent, I suppose,

by jumping between the condensed and expanded displays (i.e. one topic for the

condensed and clicking it jumps to another topic, everything the same except

that the sub-topics are displayed, and vice versa).

Seems to me that this technique could end up creating a rather large number

of additional topics.  What's a better way?

regards,

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Hotspots not hot--help!

I have double underlined text followed immediately by a valid context

string in hidden text.  When I compile the help, some of these

hotspots won't heat up.  They're not underlined and they won't jump to

the any topic.  They appear in lists of related topics at the

end of several topics.

I am using RoboHELP and WinWord 2.0c.  The RTF files look fine to me.

The hotspots that don't work look the same as the ones that =do= work.

Is there something I'm overlooking?  Has anyone encountered and

overcome this problem?

Thanks!

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Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

You suggest in reply to my saying that Chicago help doesn't allow undocumented

stuff....

>I disagree. I think the floating menus and most of the undocumented

>macros will be carried over to Chicago. Chicago's WinHelp is still based

>on the same help engine. The engine has been ported to a GUI environment,

>but the base code is still there. They have added a lot of optimizations

>and it should be roughly twice as fast as HCP505, but those were just

>optimizations and not engine re-writes.

>

>  It would be extra work to take out the undocumented macros and I think

>that would be an incredibly low priority, since I doubt there's any real

>incentive to take them out. Remember, WinHelp is maintained by a single,

>very busy, person. They've got specific goals for WinHelp 4.0 and he's too

>busy working on those to worry about removing macros.

>

>  Just my opinion, but Chicago's WinHelp does use the same basic engine.

I reply:

I work at a Symantec site where we are beta testing Chicago and it is part of

my job to figure out how we're going to use the new help compiler and engine. I

found that my neat-o floating menus and other undocumented features didn't

work, and produced wild error messages!  Though the help system isn't complete

by any means, I think probably the undocumented stuff will not be permitted because

Chicago help now has 'official' substitutes for floating menus, and those nifty

buttons in secondary windows, etc.

I'm sure other readers of this group also beta test Chicago. What has your

experience been?

-- Hanna Metzger

>

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Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

Hi,

I have seen the pre-beta of Chicago. Some of the help lools like it does

now and some looks different. There is a different TOC - looks like the

search window does now.

The July MSDN has a new look also - well I was amazed at how familiar it

looks very much like Bookreader from Digital. So, is this new interface

done with the Viewer - I heard talk of a new generation of the viewer.

Anyone know any more about it?

Ruth-Ellen Flanagan

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Translating help files into multiple languages...

In article <rpbbuA7ABh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>

           stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz "Stefan Olson" writes:

>In <778715767snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)

> writes:

>>I guess that this is one situation in which using Word directly really

>>is an advantage!

>

>I don't think that using Word makes any difference.  The situation you

>described could be very easily achieved by either HWA or ForeHelp (the

>two products the person was looking at).  In the case of both HWA

>and ForeHelp it would be even easier for the translator to work.  All

>they need is a copy of the program and they they don't have to worry

>about "strange footnotes and hidden text" - they can change everything

>visually!

The problem I can see with this is that the typical translator will

NOT be familiar with "Help" files, nor the tools used to create them.

He will, however, know how to use Word, or some other word processor!

Chris

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Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

hannam@ix.netcom.com (Hanna Metzger) wrote:

[my original post deleted]

>I reply:

>

>I work at a Symantec site where we are beta testing Chicago and it is part of

>my job to figure out how we're going to use the new help compiler and engine. I

>found that my neat-o floating menus and other undocumented features didn't

>work, and produced wild error messages!  Though the help system isn't complete

>by any means, I think probably the undocumented stuff will not be permitted because

>Chicago help now has 'official' substitutes for floating menus, and those nifty

>buttons in secondary windows, etc.

>

>I'm sure other readers of this group also beta test Chicago. What has your

>experience been?

>

>-- Hanna Metzger

>

Hanna,

  Further inspection has revealed that mnu_floating has indeed been

removed from Chicago's help, though the FloatingMenu() macro is still

intact. In fact, mnu_file, mnu_edit, mnu_bookmark, and mnu_help have all

been removed. This investigation turned up some interesting new stuff, too,

though.

  It appears that there are some new window classes (not a big surprise),

and also a new variable that will be VERY useful: lTopicNo. I would assume

it returns a topic number for the current topic. This is long overdue.

  As for undocumented features, it appears that ALL of the undocumented

macros are still intact. In fact, it appears there are three new macros:

InitMPrint, MPrintHash, MPrintId, and EndMPrint.

  So, I stand corrected and correct, in a sense. You are right,

mnu_floating was removed (as well as the other menus I listed), however

ALL of the undocumented macros are still there. In fact no macros were

removed. So, we're both right, to some extent.

Pete

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Hanna,

  I'm curious, if you're a beta site for 'Chicago', aren't you under NDA

not to talk about it?

Pete

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In <1994Sep8.070742.15653@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>	I call WINHELP.EXE an 'engine' and it's always looked like a

>	pretty good GUI environment to me!

>

>	Do you mean the *compiler* is a GUI?  That would be nice.

>[...]

>

>--

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>Airborne Geophysics

>Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

>

Golly, I'm afraid that just saying that undocumented stuff doesn't seem to

work in Chicago help is a violation of beta test agreements,

so I'll back off of this one.

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In <1994Sep7.094121.27182@ac.dal.ca> tjr@ac.dal.ca (TIM ROBERTS) writes:

>In article <34bhtt$gh8@xmission.xmission.com>, jonm@xmission.com (JonM) writes:

>> The name of the book is "The Developers Guide to WinHelp.Exe"

>>

>> This is one of the best books on this topic I have read.  There is a lot

>> of information on many aspects of help development.  [............]

>Jon, can you provide us with the ISBN number. I would like have my

>local bookstore order in this book for me.

Jim Mischel, "The Developer's Guide to WINHELP.EXE", $49.95US (with disk - I would

recommend you get it with a disk) ISBN 0-471-30326-7

...Stefan

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need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

In article <34n3cq$l77@panix2.panix.com> rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>I think that you can look into writing a DLL that will provide a function

>that will receive helpfile name and topic name, the function will search

>in an ini file for the helpfile name, and use the FAPI callback function

>to call the correct filename,

>

>An example in your code might be :

>

>RTF

>

>{\uldb press here}{\v !MyFunc("common","myTopic")}

>

>In the ini file you will have

>

>[MYHelpFiles]

>common=d:\path\common.hlp

>data1=d:\path\data1\data.hlp

>...

>

>and the rest is history ... :-)

Ok, that's a good idea, i.e. use a middleman to do the search

or lookup for me.  I'll consider that as a possibility.

[...commercial deleted...]

Thanks ron.

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need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

In article <CvtCFy.Izw@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>In article <1994Sep8.073141.8781@emr1.emr.ca>,

>John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>>I'm working on a project with 22 directories of data files:

>>

[...problem finding .hlp file...]

>

>The search order WinHelp uses is:

>

>1) directory of current help file

>2) current directory of current task

>3) WINDOWS dir

>4) SYSTEM dir

>5) home directory of WINHELP.EXE

>6) PATH directories

>7) entries in WINHELP.INI

Ok, looks like the most useful one is #7  To tell you the

truth, it had completely slipped my mind.

>[FILES]

>common.hlp=D:\WORK

>

>or whatever the full pathname is.

Ah!  It's as simple as that.  Great, that's what I'll do.

Thanks.

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Help help

I am creating on-line help for my app, using the help compiler

supplied with MSVC++ 1.5 (pro edition). Everything is going fine;

it`s a bit tedious editing rtf with Word, but the resulting help

file works OK - hot-spots, links etc - except that whenever I

resize or move the Help window - unless I have `Always on top`

active - my app regains the focus and help disappears behind

my app window. Is there anything I can do in my app to stop this?

(Reluctantly, could I request email replies? I`m working away

from home and only get to read this group at weekends)

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In article <34nkkc$i3@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>,

Peter J. Davis <pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> wrote:

>  It appears that there are some new window classes (not a big surprise),

>and also a new variable that will be VERY useful: lTopicNo. I would assume

>it returns a topic number for the current topic. This is long overdue.

>

Actually, lTopicNo has been in there all along.  It's even

documented (in the WHAG and Viewer1 docs, along with qchPath,

hwndContext, hwndApp and some others).  I've used it myself a

couple of times in a macro/DLL.

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In article <1994Sep8.223215.25895@emr1.emr.ca>,

John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>In article <CvtCFy.Izw@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>>In article <1994Sep8.073141.8781@emr1.emr.ca>,

>>John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>>>I'm working on a project with 22 directories of data files:

>>>

>	[...problem finding .hlp file...]

>

>>

>

>>[FILES]

>>common.hlp=D:\WORK

>>

>>or whatever the full pathname is.

>	Ah!  It's as simple as that.  Great, that's what I'll do.

>	Thanks.

>

>--

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The only problem you might have with that approach is that your

common.hlp might conflict with another from another product. Try to make

your help file names very unique and you will be on safe ground, or use

the custom DLL approach to be sure no one gets in your way .

Ron.

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How can I get 'Search' window directly?

I have a help file "myhelp.hlp".

Using the program manager's Run... menu, I can get contents of myhelp.hlp by

typing 'winhelp myhelp.hlp' and I can see sub-title window by typing

'winhelp -n ### myhelp.hlp' where ### is a context id.

But I don't know how to get the 'Search' window directly.

Most of all applications have 'Help' menu and the 'Help' menu includes some

submenus such as 'Contents...' , 'Search...' , etc.

I want to make just 'Search...' menu item, but I don't know how!

I'll appreciate some kindness... Thanks.

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RTF Editors

Rich Paul (linguist@m-net.arbornet.org) wrote:

: What PD/Shareware/Commercial programs are there out there that will edit .RTF

: files?  BC4.0 kicks some out from AppExpert, but I can't do anything with 'em

: but compile 'em.

I assume you mean besides the obvious MS Word & Lotus Ami Pro...

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Chicago Help compatability

The goal of Chicago help is to run all existing help files whether or

not you have used undocumented features. If a feature is undocumented,

we reserve the right to remove it, but we would only do that if the

performance/functionality gained sufficiently offsets the lack of

backwards compatibility. Those of you who are beta sites should be

reporting loss of functionality as a bug, not claiming that we removed

the functionality.

Ralph Walden

Development lead, Chicago Help

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New Electronic Hypertext Book Published by OmniMedia

OmniMedia just released a new electronic book, "Fire and Fur:  The Last

Sorcerer Dragon" in WinHelp format.  You can download the book from

ftp.netcom.com  /pub/OmniMedia/books/firefur.zip   (it is 554K in size)

It incorporates several interesting features not found in many WinHelp files.

If you like to see the full announcement, locate it in misc.writing.

Jon Noring

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Multilayered list problem

I am using MS Word 6.0 to create .rtf files for a help file.

I am using Words Multilevel Numbered List option to create

an outline-like section.  I was amazed to see that the numberings

were actually ported into the .rtf file and thus included

within the .hlp.  However, there is one big problem...Format.

The indents are all screwed up in the .hlp file but are fine in

Word.  Here is what I did...

Word File:

<header stuff>

1)  First Item

2)  Second Item

    *  First subitem

    *  Second subitem

    *  Third subitem

3)  Third Item

4)  Fourth Item

    *   Another subitem

    *   Still another subitem

        Third level "static text"     <-unindented on purpose

                           {blank line of same level}

5)  Fifth Item

6)  Sixth Item

7)  Seventh Item

What comes out in the .hlp file is this:

<header stuff>

1)  First Item

    2)  Second Item

    *  First subitem

*  Second subitem

*  Third subitem

3)  Third Item

    4)  Fourth Item

    *  Another subitem

       *  Still another subitem

          Third level "static text"

                           {the blank line}

5)  Fifth Item

6)  Sixth Item

7)  Seventh Item

I am writing the document in Word as a printed manual then I

plan to use this file as a basis for creating my .rtfs.  This

way the manual will be consistant with the help and I don't

have to do acres of retyping.

Any ideas?????

Thanks in advance

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SoftLock (was Re: New Electronic Hypertext Book Published by OmniMedia

In article omnimdia@netcom.com (OmniMedia) writes:

>OmniMedia just released a new electronic book, "Fire and Fur:  The Last

>Sorcerer Dragon" in WinHelp format.  You can download the book from

>

>ftp.netcom.com  /pub/OmniMedia/books/firefur.zip   (it is 554K in size)

>

>It incorporates several interesting features not found in many WinHelp files.

>

>If you like to see the full announcement, locate it in misc.writing.

Oops, I forgot to add that one new exciting feature is the premier of SoftLock

for WinHelp.

SoftLock technology "read-locks" any selected portion of the WinHelp file.  To

read this locked portion, the user must enter a password which is unique to

the user's computer.  SoftLock provides a convenient, automated 24-hour toll-

free 800 number to take credit card orders and issue passwords (the user also

provides a coded number unique to his/her computer -- obviously, the password

is non-transferable).

I look forward to others comments on SoftLock and the other features I've

incorporated into this WinHelp file.

Jon Noring

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Subject: Windows boot-up graphic change

Newsgroups: netcom.programmers

Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)

Summary:

Keywords:

I heard somewhere that you can replace the windows logo on start up with

a different graphic.

Is it true???

E-MAil me direcly if you know.  Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

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RTF Editors

What PD/Shareware/Commercial programs are there out there that will edit .RTF

files?  BC4.0 kicks some out from AppExpert, but I can't do anything with 'em

but compile 'em.

Thanx!

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Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

>>> In my opinion it is better to simply include a referenec from your

file to

>>> this common information.

>>This sounds quite good provided you are sure that such application

>>always exists on all systems.

>>What would be a better reference file?

>Maybe the file manager or the program manager or even winhelp itself?

Except that after using windows for one month, I deleted Those WinHelp

files.  I mean... if you NEVER open them.. why let them sit there and

waist _very_ precious hard drive space.  ;>

I think You'd acheive better portability by just going ahead and typing in

the few topics that might or might not be common to many Win apps.  Might

be a "little" more work, but I think it's justified. But that's just my

opinion for whatever it's worth <grin>

Bill McDaniel

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Translating help files into multiple languages...

In <779020957snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

>In article <rpbbuA7ABh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>

>           stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz "Stefan Olson" writes:

>>I don't think that using Word makes any difference.  The situation you

>>described could be very easily achieved by either HWA or ForeHelp (the

>>two products the person was looking at).

>The problem I can see with this is that the typical translator will

>NOT be familiar with "Help" files, nor the tools used to create them.

>He will, however, know how to use Word, or some other word processor!

The point is that HWA and ForeHelp are some other word processors!

HWA employs an interface that is very similar to Word (tabbed dialogs

etc...) and like ForeHelp provides editing in the same manner as in

Word.  No learning about help files is required! The only difference

is that hidden text is not seen (and in HWA anyway it will query the

user if they try and remove a jump, so the translator is less likely

to remove jumps) and that they don't have to see footnotes and get

confused by other WinHelp obscurities.

If you have any other ideas about why Word or some other word processor

(which is basically what HWA are ForeHelp are) would be better, please

let me know - it is very interesting to hear other people's ideas and

comments.

...Stefan

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Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

In <34nlft$2ni@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>

>Hanna,

>  I'm curious, if you're a beta site for 'Chicago', aren't you under NDA

>not to talk about it?

>

>Pete

>

>--

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>

Yeah, and I feel like a big jerk for saying anything about it. (I hope

it's not worse than that.)

 My disappointment was as extreme as anybody's that these neat things seemed

to be suddenly gone just when they would meet user expectations.

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Does anybody know of a shareware help compiler for Windows, that is both

reliable and easy to use?

(need not neccessarily be shareware, but should be low priced)

Regards,

Bjørn T. Bakken

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How can I get 'Search' window directly?

In article <cwlee.2.2E6FE8ED@spider.info.samsung.co.kr>,

Lee Chun-Woo <cwlee@spider.info.samsung.co.kr> wrote:

>I have a help file "myhelp.hlp".

>Using the program manager's Run... menu, I can get contents of myhelp.hlp by

>typing 'winhelp myhelp.hlp' and I can see sub-title window by typing

>'winhelp -n ### myhelp.hlp' where ### is a context id.

>

>But I don't know how to get the 'Search' window directly.

>Most of all applications have 'Help' menu and the 'Help' menu includes some

>submenus such as 'Contents...' , 'Search...' , etc.

>I want to make just 'Search...' menu item, but I don't know how!

>

Can't be done with WinExec.  You need

WinHelp(hwnd, "myhelp.hlp", HELP_PARTIALKEY, NULL);

This will start the Search dilaog box.

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can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

Can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

In the docs It says stuff only about winword 1.11 and 2.0, can you still

use the templates with word 6.0... I am jsut starting to write help files

and saw the what.zip file the tmeplates I am talking about are in this file.

any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

In article <34nbi8$j4t@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>

           hannam@ix.netcom.com "Hanna Metzger" writes:

>I work at a Symantec site where we are beta testing Chicago and it is part of

>my job to figure out how we're going to use the new help compiler and engine. I

>found that my neat-o floating menus and other undocumented features didn't

>work, and produced wild error messages!  Though the help system isn't complete

>by any means, I think probably the undocumented stuff will not be permitted

> because

>Chicago help now has 'official' substitutes for floating menus, and those nifty

>buttons in secondary windows, etc.

>

>I'm sure other readers of this group also beta test Chicago. What has your

>experience been?

I strongly urge you to read your Chicago non-disclosure agreement before

asking for experiences to be posted in a public forum such as this. You

are breaking the terms of the NDA by stating that you HAVE Chicago!

Chris

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can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

James Bryan (jamesbryan@delphi.com) wrote:

: Can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

: In the docs It says stuff only about winword 1.11 and 2.0, can you still

: use the templates with word 6.0... I am jsut starting to write help files

: and saw the what.zip file the tmeplates I am talking about are in this file.

: any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

: --

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:         Brentwood, TN USA

I use them in Word 6.0 on my system w/o any *major* problems.

Def.   major problems:  an unfortunate situation in which a nifty

             utility is either unable or unwilling to cooperate

             with your current hardware/software setup due to

             the lack of foresight on the part of the original

             developers of said nifty utility.

I *have* found a couple of annoying bugs in WHAT, though.

Not incapacitating... just annoying.

What's really wierd is that I tried to install it on a PC at work

to show someone how it worked and it crashed.  <read: major problem>

It said something about being a Word 1.0 document and none of the

menu items appeared.

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How can I get 'Search' window directly?

In article <cwlee.2.2E6FE8ED@spider.info.samsung.co.kr>

           cwlee@spider.info.samsung.co.kr "Lee Chun-Woo" writes:

>I have a help file "myhelp.hlp".

>Using the program manager's Run... menu, I can get contents of myhelp.hlp by

>typing 'winhelp myhelp.hlp' and I can see sub-title window by typing

>'winhelp -n ### myhelp.hlp' where ### is a context id.

>

>But I don't know how to get the 'Search' window directly.

>Most of all applications have 'Help' menu and the 'Help' menu includes some

>submenus such as 'Contents...' , 'Search...' , etc.

>I want to make just 'Search...' menu item, but I don't know how!

Take a look at the "WinHelp" API. Just call it with the "HELP_PARTIALKEY"

command.

Chris

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Chicago Help compatability

In article <Cvw2Jy.M7H@metrics.com> Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> writes:

>The goal of Chicago help is to run all existing help files whether or

>not you have used undocumented features. If a feature is undocumented,

>we reserve the right to remove it, but we would only do that if the

>performance/functionality gained sufficiently offsets the lack of

>backwards compatibility. Those of you who are beta sites should be

>reporting loss of functionality as a bug, not claiming that we removed

>the functionality.

>Ralph Walden

>Development lead, Chicago Help

Please excuse me if I've missed something here. But can you please elaborate

on Chicago help? Is the current version of Viewer the next generation help

creator? While "The goal of Chicago help is to run all existing help files"

will continuing to create these files be woefully out of step with the rest of

the Windows world? Can you give a few hints as to which direction I should be

starting to go? I realize the entire world won't switch to Windows 95 in a

month's time. Not everyone will have hardware capable of running

video/audio/animation simultaneously. That would seem to me to mean that

traditional .hlp files may still have their place. I just want a few more

indications of where this whole thing might be headed.

If I have missed discussions in this area please direct me to the proper faq

or whatever. If this is an area that is still under wraps(I am not a chicago

beta tester) please say so. Any information you'd care to share I'm sure would

be appreciated by everyone here. Thanks much!

StanO

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can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

In article <Z04xPMF.jamesbryan@delphi.com> James Bryan <jamesbryan@delphi.com> writes:

>From: James Bryan <jamesbryan@delphi.com>

>Subject: can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

>Date: Fri, 9 Sep 94 21:18:21 -0500

>Can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

>In the docs It says stuff only about winword 1.11 and 2.0, can you still

>use the templates with word 6.0... I am jsut starting to write help files

>and saw the what.zip file the tmeplates I am talking about are in this file.

>any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

>--

>James Bryan (JamesBryan@Delphi.com)

>        Brentwood, TN USA

    Well, I'll give you what is my opinion about all off that.

    First of all, lemme tell you that I learned in the hard way, ie in the

little Tools book that came with the SDK of Windows 3.1, having only WinWord

2.0C available at that time. Having those limitations, this book was talking

about havin a small spreadsheet in Excel about each topic, its title,

keywords, etc....... to maintain a "picture" of the help tree. This was more

as an organization tool more than an writer tool. But it gave me a much better

sense of structuring my work.

    I looked at several tools, but found most of them useless. I can't speak

about a new tool I'm testing for people in Jerusalem, but so far this is what

I found. I still prefer to start with a blank document, a little toolbar that

will gently insert the footnote codes of that page so I just have to fill in

the blanks. I also maintain a second little document which contains already

pre-formatted the pieces of text to insert for a jump, pop-up, etc hypertext

elements.

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hc31.exe error?

While using whpe.exe (Editor) i will try to compile my help project only

to recieve a error message "This program has violated the integrity of

the system, please shut down all systems and exit windows"  I can not

figure out the reason behind this.  But if i compile the same help file

using hc.exe no problems.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

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In article <1994Sep9.112455.1771@debet> inf_btb@debet.nhh.no (Mac-My-Day) writes:

>From: inf_btb@debet.nhh.no (Mac-My-Day)

>Subject: REQUEST: Shareware help compiler?

>Date: 9 Sep 94 11:24:55 MET

>Does anybody know of a shareware help compiler for Windows, that is both

>reliable and easy to use?

>(need not neccessarily be shareware, but should be low priced)

>Regards,

>Bjørn T. Bakken

   You should consider looking on the site :

   ftp.microsoft.com

   for a file named HC505.ZIP or .EXE. It contains the latest version of the

help compiler, right from Microsoft.

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In <779111248snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

>In article <34nbi8$j4t@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>

>           hannam@ix.netcom.com "Hanna Metzger" writes:

>>I work at a Symantec site where we are beta testing Chicago and it is part of

>>my job to figure out how we're going to use the new help compiler and engine. I

>I strongly urge you to read your Chicago non-disclosure agreement before

>asking for experiences to be posted in a public forum such as this. You

>are breaking the terms of the NDA by stating that you HAVE Chicago!

I've read the NDA and it prohibits you from disclosing details of

the product but not the fact that you have it. Maybe NDA's are

different in the UK.

PS: I wasn't the original poster.

Bill Rayer

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Help problems from Hell

Hello

I've been experimenting with RTF files and have got some

help files to work OK. I've found 1 or 2 nasty problems

and it anyone can help I'd be very happy.

(1) How can you put monospaced DOS text in a help file?

The RTF file has \rtf1\pc to set the OEM character set,

and the font table has \f1\fnil fixedsys ...

I've used the \'XX notation to put the hex constants

in the RTF file but it still uses the Windows character

set not the OEM set. Is this a known bug?

I tried terminal as the monospaced font name as well as

fixedsys but it still didn't work.

(2) Non-informative error messages (grrr...)

How about this for a useful error message:-

  Error in file at offset 0xHHHHH

(hhhhh is a hexadecimal byte count).

This happens if I compile a large (420k) RTF file.

The offset is at the end of the file, and in some cases

a few bytes BEYOND the end of the file.

I've checked the text file to make sure there are no

nasty control characters near the end and it's OK.

Also I did a test to see if I had some strange formatting

codes at the end of the file. I took out the guts of the

file (leaving only the last topic untouched) and it worked.

Thus it seems the error message only appears if the

RTF file is large.

Is there a known problem with HC31 in that it can't

handle more than a certain size?

Any suggestions from anyone would be welcome.

Thanks guys. (meant in a genderless way)

Bill Rayer

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In article <34ufe9$52f$1@perth.dialix.oz.au>,

Bill Rayer <lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:

>Hello

>

>I've been experimenting with RTF files and have got some

>help files to work OK. I've found 1 or 2 nasty problems

>and it anyone can help I'd be very happy.

>

>(1) How can you put monospaced DOS text in a help file?

>The RTF file has \rtf1\pc to set the OEM character set,

>and the font table has \f1\fnil fixedsys ...

>I've used the \'XX notation to put the hex constants

>in the RTF file but it still uses the Windows character

>set not the OEM set. Is this a known bug?

It's a known "feature".  Help won't accept fonts that are

not WinANSI charset (except "Symbol").  What you must do is

take the Terminal font, load it in Borland's Resource Workshop

(I suppose the MSC/VC resource editor can do this too) and

change the "charset" byte: save under a different name, and you

can fool WinHelp into thinking that the font *is* ANSI.

>I tried terminal as the monospaced font name as well as

>fixedsys but it still didn't work.

"Fixedsys" is an ANSI font.  You need "Terminal"

(VGAOEM.FON).

>(2) Non-informative error messages (grrr...)

>How about this for a useful error message:-

>  Error in file at offset 0xHHHHH

>(hhhhh is a hexadecimal byte count).

>This happens if I compile a large (420k) RTF file.

>The offset is at the end of the file, and in some cases

>a few bytes BEYOND the end of the file.

There's most likely a brace mismatch in your RTF.

The help compiler only notices at EOF, so it reports

the error at that offset.  The actual error can be

anywhere in your 420k file :-(

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In->Out->In = Lock

My Windows freezes after the 'Intro' screen if I exit windows then try to

re-enter

I am running MS-Win3.1 with Novel Dos 7, on a Plentium pci66 has anyone

come across a similar problem, (and found any solutions)

I have re-installed windows a couple of times and manually edited the

system.ini & win.ini files but each time the same problem occurs.

i've run out of idea's

any help gratefully recieve

Regards

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lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Bill Rayer) writes:

>I've been experimenting with RTF files and have got some

>help files to work OK. I've found 1 or 2 nasty problems

>and it anyone can help I'd be very happy.

  If I understand correctly, you are editing RTF files by hand. This is

unreasonable. RTF is meant to be a "write only" format. If you don't have

Word, still there are inexpensive shareware programs capable of generating

correct help-RTF.

>(2) Non-informative error messages (grrr...)

>How about this for a useful error message:-

>  Error in file at offset 0xHHHHH

>(hhhhh is a hexadecimal byte count).

>This happens if I compile a large (420k) RTF file.

>The offset is at the end of the file, and in some cases

>a few bytes BEYOND the end of the file.

...

> I took out the guts of the

>file (leaving only the last topic untouched) and it worked.

>Thus it seems the error message only appears if the

>RTF file is large.

  Most probably you've made a RTF syntax error, like an unclosed group or

something. The compiler detects it at the eof. It's not a problem of file

size.

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In article <779282579snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

>I've heard that "Chicago" will be officially called "Windows 95". Can you

>confirm that this is true?

News conference held here in Redmond Country last week confirms what you ask.

Indeed it is Windows 95. I am a news reporter at a Seattle radio/tv station. I

always get a thrill talking to Microsoft pr guys n' gals. They're the BEST! It

doesn't matter WHAT you ask them they have answers already lined up and that's

it.

So...out with Chicago...in with Windows 95.

StanO

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Invoking help from VBW - how to open at dif. ID?

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to call the help file for my app

using the "click" event on one of my command button controls? I'm aware

hitting the F1 key will call the designated help file *and* contextID.

What I'm trying to do is call the help file after a "Help" button has been clicked

on one of my Visual Basic/Win forms. Currently, I'm using the Shell() function

and executing the help file that way. But I can only get it to open the first page

of the help file. I'd like to be able to open to a specified contextID within the helpfile

based on where the user is in the application.

Any thoughts? Is there a parameter to enter when executing winhelp that will point

to a specific HelpContextID?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

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In article <779282738snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

>In article <1994Sep9.112455.1771@debet> inf_btb@debet.nhh.no "Mac-My-Day"

>writes:

>>Does anybody know of a shareware help compiler for Windows, that is both

>>reliable and easy to use?

>>(need not neccessarily be shareware, but should be low priced)

>There is no shareware Help compiler. There is only one Help compiler, and

>you can get it totally free from "ftp.microsoft.com". Look for a file

>called "hc505.zip" or something similar.

>The help compiler works with ASCII text files using "Rich Text Format"

>or RTF. There are a vast array of tools, free, shareware and commercial, for

>creating RTF files, but only the one actual *compiler*.

There are however shareware authoring tools for writing the RTF "source file"

that goes into the help compiler.  "HELLLP" is one such, it's a template file

for Word with all the controls, toolbar buttons, etc to create topics and

jumps.  I like it.  Also "Visual Help" which I haven't used much.  Both

available in the MSWORD forum on Compuserve; possible on the net but I don't

know where.

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In article <stano.52.000DC45D@halcyon.com> stano@halcyon.com (Stan Orchard) writes:

>In article <779282579snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

>>I've heard that "Chicago" will be officially called "Windows 95". Can you

>>confirm that this is true?

>

Id be suprised if that'st the case. Up to this time Microsoft's been

consistent about naming it Windows.

The new version of SQL Server will be "SQL Server 95", so I suppose

you might be right ...

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Paul Mitchell (pmitchell@assistg.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: In article <CvBoM5.MtK@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>

:            ycheng@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "yung-rang cheng" writes:

: >

: > When I use HCP to compile my help project, I got an error saying

: >         run-time error R6915

: >         -DOSX16 : unhandled exception

: >

: Morphic resonance?  I got exactly the same message for the first time

: today.  Does anyone know what causes it and is there a get-around?  I'm

: usinh HCP 5.05

Me too. It ONLY happens with Word6 output & it does not matter whether it

converted from Word2 (despite my suggestion earlier.) I'll be on the horn

to Microsoft today. I'll let you know what turns up. BTW, I can still

compile Word2 RTF output without a hitch. This problem seems to be specific

to Word6 RTF files.

Tom.

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In <3509sl$oq9@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca (Vladimir Alexiev) writes:

>lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Bill Rayer) writes:

>>I've been experimenting with RTF files and have got some

>>help files to work OK. I've found 1 or 2 nasty problems

>>and it anyone can help I'd be very happy.

>  If I understand correctly, you are editing RTF files by hand. This is

>unreasonable. RTF is meant to be a "write only" format. If you don't have

>Word, still there are inexpensive shareware programs capable of generating

>correct help-RTF.

Fair enough. Unfortunately I'm WRITING such a program. The problem is I

have a 500 page manual in Wordstar format (of all things). The manual is

fine, but I need a help file produced from about 200 pages of the manual

and I want the same source document. And I'm not about to go and

buy word and spend weeks figuring it out and reformatting everything,

just to reprint a perfectly OK manual.

>>(2) Non-informative error messages (grrr...)

>>How about this for a useful error message:-

>>  Error in file at offset 0xHHHHH

>>(hhhhh is a hexadecimal byte count).

>>This happens if I compile a large (420k) RTF file.

>>The offset is at the end of the file, and in some cases

>>a few bytes BEYOND the end of the file.

>...

>> I took out the guts of the

>>file (leaving only the last topic untouched) and it worked.

>>Thus it seems the error message only appears if the

>>RTF file is large.

>  Most probably you've made a RTF syntax error, like an unclosed group or

>something. The compiler detects it at the eof. It's not a problem of file

>size.

You're right (as pointed out by the other follow-up). It was an

extra closing brace that confused HC31. The error message was not

very helpful, as it occured nowhere near the error nor described

what was wrong!

I've got the conversion program working well now after fixing the

problem.

I have another question (if anyone's still reading!)

How do I put superscripts and subscripts in the RTF file?

I tried faking a subscript by dropping the point size, but it

doesn't look too good and I can't do this for superscripts.

Any ideas?

BTW if anyone wants a copy of this program when I'm done they're

welcome. It's called TXT2RTF and converts ordinary boring text

files into wonderful HLP files. I've even automated the browse

sequences, the HPJ files and the keywords. So you don't have to

worry about these.

Thanks everyone

Bill Rayer

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Ralph Walden, Please Post!!!!!

I chose not to e-mail you directly because I wanted everyone to

see my request and hopefully you will post a response that everyone

will see.

Jon Noring (noring@netcom.com) wrote:

: In article stano@halcyon.com (Stan Orchard) writes:

: >In article Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> writes:

: >>The goal of Chicago help is to run all existing help files whether or

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: >Please excuse me if I've missed something here. But can you please elaborate

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: 1) Will there still be a two-tier system of hypertext tools when Win4 comes

:    out?  What I mean by that is at present we have two:  WinHelp 3.1 and

:    Viewer 2.0.

: 2) Whether one or two tools, will the Chicago Help tool have full text

:    searching and support 256 color bitmaps?  What other features will it

:    have that WinHelp 3.1 doesn't have (I refer to the "base model" of WinHelp

:    3.1 without added or custom DLL's.)

: Any information that you can share with us on the future Chicago Help would

Ralph,

Thank you for posting to this group.  I hope no one has been stupid

enough to assault you with e-mail.

Please tell us as much as you can so we can be prepared.

Please do not e-mail me directly.  Please post - even if it's to say

you can't say anything else.

Thank you for making yourself visible to us.

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noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) wrote:

[stan and ralph's posts removed]

>

>I second this.  As a developer of electronic books using the Windows 3.1 Help

>engine (and not Viewer 2 for reasons I won't get into here), I also need to

>plan for the future.  Some questions:

>

>1) Will there still be a two-tier system of hypertext tools when Win4 comes

>   out?  What I mean by that is at present we have two:  WinHelp 3.1 and

>   Viewer 2.0.

>

>2) Whether one or two tools, will the Chicago Help tool have full text

>   searching and support 256 color bitmaps?  What other features will it

>   have that WinHelp 3.1 doesn't have (I refer to the "base model" of WinHelp

>   3.1 without added or custom DLL's.)

>

>

>Any information that you can share with us on the future Chicago Help would

>be *much* appreciated.  There are a lot of WinHelp developers on this

>newsgroup who don't have access to the Chicago Beta and tools, and we are

>itching to know for planning purposes.  And many of us do not (by obvious

>choice) have access to Compu$erve (the Internet is the future, not CIS!),

>where I guess much of the discussion on this subject takes place.

>

>Jon Noring

>OmniMedia

>(p.s., I hope that the Microsoft WinHelp people decide to spend as much time

>in this newsgroup as they do on CIS.)

>

Jon,

  There will be quite a bit of extended functonality, from what I've

heard. Based on rumors I've heard, from people that know (I'm not on the

beta and not under NDA, but there are things I can't talk about for other

reasons), there will be 256 color support.

I've heard a rumor (and gotten the impression from people at MS) that

Full-Text search will be incorporated. I say this because I was given the

OK by Steve Pruitt at MS to upload the tools for the full-text search index

creation on the WINSDK forum of CompuServe. In a subsequent discussion with

Steve's boss, however, I was told to hold off because MS is working on and

going to release other full-text search tools. My interpretation is that he

means chicago is going to support it.

  There are lots of new macros, though I don't know what any of them do

yet. I've found about 19 or 20 of them, though. Unfortunately (and

fortunately) I'm probably going to get on the beta. The good news is I'll

get documentation on all this stuff. The bad news is I won't be able to

talk about it anymore.

  Pete

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chris@chrism.demon.co.uk wrote:

[original post deleted]

>

>There is no shareware Help compiler. There is only one Help compiler, and

>you can get it totally free from "ftp.microsoft.com". Look for a file

>called "hc505.zip" or something similar.

>

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Chris,

  This compiler is not meant to be distributed free. I think we've been

through this before, but this is meant for people who have already gotten

the compiler through legitimate sources, i.e. an SDK, MSDN level II, etc.

  The posts of the compiler on CIS and ftp.microsoft.com are meant to

provide easy updates for people who already have the older versions of the

compiler.

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Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> wrote:

>The goal of Chicago help is to run all existing help files whether or

>not you have used undocumented features. If a feature is undocumented,

>we reserve the right to remove it, but we would only do that if the

>performance/functionality gained sufficiently offsets the lack of

>backwards compatibility. Those of you who are beta sites should be

>reporting loss of functionality as a bug, not claiming that we removed

>the functionality.

>

>Ralph Walden

>Development lead, Chicago Help

Ralph,

  You stopped lurking in the shadows!!!! Good to see you here. As an

elaboration on what you've said, beyond just undocumented features, my

understanding is that you guys are even supporting 16-bit DLLs with the

32-bit version of WinHelp. In fact, I've got a DLL that's being tested by

some people at MS. Are you guys just thunking down to these 16-bit DLLs to

support them?

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HelpGen Windows Help File Generator Released

Rimrock Software announces the release of the HelpGen Windows Help File

Generator, Version 1.20. HelpGen is a help authoring tool that can help create

attractive Windows help files for your programs without using an expensive

word processor. Many programmers do not include help files with their programs

because they don't understand how to create them, and are not anxious to

learn.  HelpGen takes the hassle out of help file creation.

HelpGen uses an easy-to-learn macro language to take the pain out of creating

your help files. The macro language, combined with RTF commands, provides full

RTF language support without the complicated RTF syntax. (The RTF language is

used by the help compiler to build the help file.) HelpGen will also create

help projectfiles for you.

HelpGen makes it easy to create and test help files. It supports the help file

build process in the same manner as a compiler's integrated development

environment (IDE) does. Each step of the process is a menu item and is on the

program's toolbar.

A complete manual, examples (including the help file for HelpGen) and

uncrippled program are included in the shareware evaluation version.  The

manual documents all the macros and some of the RTF commands that can be used

in your help files. It also contains a tutorial on creating help files.

HelpGen requires an ASCII text editor and help compiler.

HelpGen is shareware - $30 U.S. registration.  Registration benefits include a

printed manual, technical support and program with branding/shareware

references removed.

Look for HelpGen on SimTel mirror sites (uploaded to oak.oakland.edu).

Rimrock Software is amember of the Association of Shareware Professionals

(ASP) and of Shareware Trade Association and Resources (STAR).

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In <Cvyost.Ltx@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>In article <34ufe9$52f$1@perth.dialix.oz.au>,

>Bill Rayer <lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:

>>Hello

>>

>>I've been experimenting with RTF files and have got some

>>help files to work OK. I've found 1 or 2 nasty problems

>>and it anyone can help I'd be very happy.

>>

>>(1) How can you put monospaced DOS text in a help file?

>>The RTF file has \rtf1\pc to set the OEM character set,

>>and the font table has \f1\fnil fixedsys ...

>>I've used the \'XX notation to put the hex constants

>>in the RTF file but it still uses the Windows character

>>set not the OEM set. Is this a known bug?

>It's a known "feature".  Help won't accept fonts that are

>not WinANSI charset (except "Symbol").  What you must do is

>take the Terminal font, load it in Borland's Resource Workshop

>(I suppose the MSC/VC resource editor can do this too) and

>change the "charset" byte: save under a different name, and you

>can fool WinHelp into thinking that the font *is* ANSI.

>>I tried terminal as the monospaced font name as well as

>>fixedsys but it still didn't work.

>"Fixedsys" is an ANSI font.  You need "Terminal"

>(VGAOEM.FON).

I'll try this. With the font names, how do you know which

names are in each file, ie how do you know "Terminal" is

in VGAOEM.FON and not FOOBAR.FON?

Also, is there a list of all these names in WIN.INI or something?

Thanks for the suggestions. You were right about the braces.

Bill Rayer

lingo@dialix.oz.au

>>This happens if I compile a large (420k) RTF file.

>>The offset is at the end of the file, and in some cases

>>a few bytes BEYOND the end of the file.

>There's most likely a brace mismatch in your RTF.

>The help compiler only notices at EOF, so it reports

>the error at that offset.  The actual error can be

>anywhere in your 420k file :-(

I found it! It was offset 122578 (decimal) approx. (:-)

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In article <35141f$5nq$1@perth.dialix.oz.au>,

Bill Rayer <lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:

>

>I'll try this. With the font names, how do you know which

>names are in each file, ie how do you know "Terminal" is

>in VGAOEM.FON and not FOOBAR.FON?

>

>Also, is there a list of all these names in WIN.INI or something?

In Borland Resource Workshop, you load VGAOEM.FON, then open

the "FONT" resource with ID 30.  Now choose the "Font" menu,

"Header" item.  Change the "Face name" edit-box from "Terminal"

to whatever you like, and change the "Char set" from 255 (OEM) to

0 (ANSI).

Now save the .FON as whatever you want (FOOBAR.FON will do nicely),

start up Control Panel and install the font.  That will take care

of putting the appropriate entry in WIN.INI.  Of course, if the

help file is to be displayed on another machine, "FOOBAR.FON" will

have to be installed there too, which is a little more work.  You'll

need a little C program to install the font (AddFontResource...) and

call that when installing the help file, or put it in a DLL and call

the function from the [CONFIG] section of your HPJ (but that means

you'll have to install the DLL with the HLP).  Maybe the best solution

for .FON's is RR'ing "AddFontResource" and calling that directly.

Installing a TT font is a bit more complex, though.

Your question about sub- and superscript:  you'll need separate

subscript and superscript fonts.  The MSDN CD-ROM does this: it

installs a font called ARIALS.TTF (.FOT), which is a superscript

Arial.  I know that in FontMonger (a TT/ATM font creation/manipulation

program), creating a sub/super version of an existing font can be

done with a single command.   If you have the fonts, you can simply

substitute a superscript or subscript code with an RTF font change

(\f<x>).  Same problem as above: sub/super fonts will have to be

installed on any system where the help file is to be played.

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WINHELP: Creating a jump = Find area

Hi, ...

I'm trying to write a help file witj a "jump zone" who

does not jump to another topic, but has the same effect

than the button " Find" under the menu.

Does anybody know how to do that ?

thanks...

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Print margins within winhelp

The help file I'm creating is a kind of small database. The end users

may want to print frequently the topics. Everything is fine except the

fact that the margins aren't so beautiful... I should like to change the

print margins, but without changing the automatic screen margins.

Does anybody know how to do that ?

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Slow avivideo loading in Viewer

By inserting an embedded avivideo controller window into a Viewer topic

it is possible to add a little bit of salt into untasty presentations.

My video is, however, slowing down the browse sequence of the relevant

topic. It seems that there is a lot of loading going on when the topic is

reached. Much more than what is tolerable.

Without actually knowing what is going on, I guess that a number of

program modules and driver stuff is being loaded in addition to the

bitmap of the first frame (or maybe the whole movie?).

What kind of schemes have you worked out to get along with sluggish

videos?

Thanking in advance for clever advices

Philip

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need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

In article <34og61$juq@panix2.panix.com> rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>In article <1994Sep8.223215.25895@emr1.emr.ca>,

>John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>>In article <CvtCFy.Izw@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>>>In article <1994Sep8.073141.8781@emr1.emr.ca>,

>>>John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>>>>I'm working on a project with 22 directories of data files:

>>>>

>>	[...problem finding .hlp file...]

>>

>>>

>>

>>>[FILES]

>>>common.hlp=D:\WORK

>>>

>>>or whatever the full pathname is.

>>	Ah!  It's as simple as that.  Great, that's what I'll do.

>>	Thanks.

>>

>>--

>>John A. Grant	jagrant@emr1.emr.ca

>

>

>The only problem you might have with that approach is that your

>common.hlp might conflict with another from another product. Try to make

>your help file names very unique and you will be on safe ground, or use

No problem, the actual name is 'cordgeo.hlp (Cordilleran Geology).

common.hlp was just an example.

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REQUEST: Shareware help compiler

Thanks for the plug, Andy.

HELLLP! is available on the 'net as HELLLP23.ZIP from several sites.

An Archie search will find it.

For sure its on OAK.Oakland.Edu in SimTel/msdos/windows3/

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JumpId() doesn't work (sometimes)

I'm having some difficulty in starting up WinHelp with a macro:

(note I would never hardcode pathnames like this - the code is for

illustration purposes only):

If the .HLP file is in c:\, this works:

WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\xyz.hlp",HELP_FORCEFILE,0);

WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\xyz.hlp",HELP_COMMAND,

(DWORD)"JumpId(`c:\\xyz.hlp',`P11')");

But if I put the .HLP file in c:\test & change the code, it does NOT work:

WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\test\\xyz.hlp",HELP_FORCEFILE,0);

WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\test\\xyz.hlp",HELP_COMMAND,

(DWORD)"JumpId(`c:\\test\\xyz.hlp',`P11')");

But it works if the \TEST\ subdirectory reference is removed from

the JumpId() macro (if I copy the file back to the root):

WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\test\\xyz.hlp",HELP_FORCEFILE,0);

WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\test\\xyz.hlp",HELP_COMMAND,

(DWORD)"JumpId(`c:\\xyz.hlp',`P11')");

So it looks like a full pathname is illegal for JumpId().  However, it

worked fine when I used "c:\\xyz.hlp" in JumpId(), and that looks like a

full pathname to me.

Since WinHelp already points to the file, the JumpId() macro probably

doesn't need the filename, so I left it blank:

WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\test\\xyz.hlp",HELP_FORCEFILE,0);

WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\test\\xyz.hlp",HELP_COMMAND,

 (DWORD)"JumpId(`',`P11')");

and it worked just fine.

I guess this last method is the best one, i.e. just leave the pathname out

of the JumpId() macro, so it uses the 'current file'.

I guess my question is "why won't JumpId() accept a full pathname"?

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Collapsing effects? (with HyperTrack 4.1)

Vladimir Alexiev (vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca) wrote:

: sperry@agora.rdrop.com (Steve Perry) writes:

: >several

: >lines and when you click on any of them, they expand out. If they click

: >on it again, it collapses. How's it done?

:   Most probably they have several topics with the different states of the

: list prerecorded (to check this, see if you can obtain all possible

: states). Clearly it's a pain to use such a technique.

:   There is a shareware program that shows a collapsible table of contents in

: an auxiliary window (similar to HAG). This is being done with a DLL. In order

: to use it, you have to compile the Word file with an add-on macro template,

: because it inlines some winhelp macros to notify the DLL of jump events. Then

: the DLL updates the TOC window thus "tracking" your position in the help. The

: file is hyptrk40.zip from cica. This is for Word 2; there is a Word 6

: version, but for some reason it's not uploaded. Ask the author directly for

: it.

:   I have only ran HYPTRK on its own help file (never created a file of my

: own), but I was very impressed. I highly recommend it.

: --

Thanks Vladimir for recommending the HyperTrack application (I call it the

WinHelp extender, since it dramatically extends the functionality of WinHelp)

I have just uploaded the Word 6 version of HyperTrack (ie. Release 4.1 with

the file name hyptrk41.zip) to CICA under the uploads directory.  I think

it should be moved to the win3/misc directory soon......

There's also a copy in the SimTel sites (under the /hypertxt sub-directory)

The complete unprotected document template is available upon registration

(only US$30) and full C++ source code for US$70.

Happy Help Authoring,

Kenneth Liew

ken@fujitsu.my

tel: +603-7933888/6322417

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Call for Proposals - InterChange Tech Writing Conference

Call For Proposals:  7th Annual InterChange Technical Writing Conference

1995

Andover, Massachusetts

InterChange is looking for interested persons to submit proposals for

presentations.  Proposals are accepted by topic and quality of

information, but new formats, topics, and speakers are encouraged.

Sales-oriented material, however, is not appropriate.  Possible session

formats include lectures, discussions, workshops, or round tables.  Each

session will be 75 minutes long, including a 15 minute question and answer

period. Proposals are due by November 1, 1994.  You may submit them via

hard mail or e-mail; no late applications will be accepted.

The Seventh Annual InterChange Technical Writing Conference will be held

Tuesday and Wednesday, April 4 and 5, 1995 at the Ramada Rolling Green

Hotel in Andover, Massachusetts.

InterChange is co-sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Lowell and

the Northern New England and Boston chapters of the Society for Technical

Communication.  The conference provides technical communicators the

opportunity to develop and share new ideas within the technical writing

industry and also serves as a forum where communication professionals can

demonstrate practical applications of technical communication theory.

About InterChange

InterChange is an annual two-day spring conference co-sponsored by the

University of Massachusetts Lowell and the Boston and Northern New England

chapters of the Society for Technical Communication. The goals of the

conference are to

o	provide technical writers, scientific writers, managers, editors,

graphic artists, educators, and consultants with a forum for expressing

ideas and learning new theories and techniques, and

o	build a bridge between technical communication theory and industry

practice.

The registration fee for participants is $285 for two days or $175 for one

day. Presenters and students are eligible for reduced rates for conference

attendance: $145 for two days or $75 for one day. Lunch is included.

Conference Call for Proposals

Experienced professionals are invited to submit proposals for conference

sessions. Proposals are accepted on the basis of topic and quality of

information. New and relevant research is welcomed. Sales-oriented

material is not suitable. We actively encourage sessions on advanced

topics, especially innovative technology. Conference sessions can be in a

lecture, discussion, or workshop format. All sessions are 75 minutes long,

which allows 60 minutes for your presentation and 15 minutes for

questions.

Conference Topics

The conference groups topics in the following categories:

o	Communication Techniques

o	Education and Training

o	Marketing Research and Writing

o	New Technologies

o	Professional Development

o	Scientific and Medical Writing

Dear Colleague:

We invite you to submit your proposal for a session at our 7th Annual

InterChange Technical Writing Conference to be held April 4 and 5, 1995 at

the Ramada Rolling Green in Andover, MA.

We received a great deal of feedback regarding the conference site at the

Rolling Green in Andover. Our choice of a convenient and professional

setting was positively reflected in the appraisal forms.

We also received a great deal of input regarding the need for additional

information in the registration brochure. Potential attendees trying to

justify their attendance need specific information about the sessions they

plan to attend and how the sessions relate to their job responsibilities.

As a result, we need to gather additional information about the proposed

sessions. Please read the Requirements for Submitting Proposals carefully.

We cannot consider incomplete or late proposals.

We invite you to submit your proposal for another outstanding conference.

Your proposals are what made us successful, and we encourage you to

continue the tradition of excellence that surrounds InterChange.

Sincerely,

Conference Director: John Hurtado (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

Planning Committee Chair: John Garison (Ziff-Davis Interactive)

Requirements for submitting proposals

Proposals must be postmarked by November 1, 1994. Incomplete or late

proposals cannot be considered. All sessions are for 75 minutes, of which

15 minutes should be devoted to questions and answers.

1.	Include the following in your submission:

Basics: Name, mailing address, work phone, home phone, Email

address, job title, company (institution or organization)

Title of session: a descriptive title that clearly defines your

session

Audiovisual requirements

Description of audience: one sentence, suitable for publishing in

the program

Abstract: about 75 words suitable for publishing in the

registration brochure

Summary: about 300 words describing the organization and content

of your session, used by the Planning Committee to evaluate your proposal

Biographical statement: about 75 words presenting your expertise

as it relates to the session you propose, suitable for publishing in the

program

Resume

2.	Send all of the above to:

John Hurtado

Continuing Education

University of Massachusetts Lowell

One University Avenue

Lowell, MA 01854

OR:

Email address: hurtadojo@woods.uml.edu

Upon acceptance you may submit a paper (maximum four pages) describing

your session for publication in the conference proceedings. For assistance

developing your proposal or for questions, please feel free to contact

John Hurtado at 508-934-2467.

You may also contact John Garison (jgarison@zdi.ziff.com) with any

questions.

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Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

Chicago Help does not use the viewer engine, but we have incoporated

many of Viewer's features. That includes support for multiple secondary

windows, 256 and 24-bit graphics, Multimedia commands (AVI, WAV, etc.),

and full-text search. The list of enhancements is a long one, but some

of the highlights (my opinion) are: ability to combine help files at

runtime (combined keyword index), jumps resolved at runtime (depends on

what help files are installed), navigation bar in secondary windows

(customizable), a new Windows 32-bit Help Compiler and project editor,

character set information for fonts (so you can have your OEM fonts),

better compression, etc.

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Help problems from Hell

Bill Rayer (lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:

: Hello

: I've been experimenting with RTF files and have got some

: help files to work OK. I've found 1 or 2 nasty problems

: and it anyone can help I'd be very happy.

: (1) How can you put monospaced DOS text in a help file?

: The RTF file has \rtf1\pc to set the OEM character set,

: and the font table has \f1\fnil fixedsys ...

: I've used the \'XX notation to put the hex constants

: in the RTF file but it still uses the Windows character

: set not the OEM set. Is this a known bug?

: I tried terminal as the monospaced font name as well as

: fixedsys but it still didn't work.

[deleted stuff]

I use Courier font with no problem, which is monospaced.  This seems

veryquestion, and since even I know the answer, I can only assume I

misunderstood your question!

--

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Books on Winhelp

Hi Everyone:

I am new to winhelp.  Can anyone give me a list of books on

how to write a winhelp file?  Also, a list of shareware that will

help a newuser to write winhelp file would be helpful as well.

You can email me at hou@unixg.ubc.ca.

Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

Rick

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On-Line Books?? Authoring???

Anyone know of a utilitity to help in On-Line Books authoring.

I like the browser that comes with the Developer's Network,

and think that would make a great structure for internal

project documentation (sorry Adobe Acrobat); however,

I can't seem to even find the format, let alone a tool,

(go Gates go!).

BTW: I got RoboHelp and it does a great job of sitting on

top of Word and generating help files.  A bit brutal and slow

here and there but basically a fine package.  Easily worth

the $495 or whatever we paid for it.

Thanks in advance,

-- Bill Barrett

-- Autologic Inc.

barrett@cerf.net   (someday our MIS manager will get

    off his a.. and get us direct!)

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Sub- and Superscript fonts (AGAIN)

To the WINHLP-L mailing list Ian Gibson <igibson@SCIBORG.UWATERLOO.CA> wrote:

>One of the well-known limitations of Viewer (and WinHelp) relates to the

>problem of displaying sub- and superscript chars.   At various times the

>three of us have asked questions about this problem to WINHLP-L.

Another individual (whose name I don't recall, sorry) posted a means to

include the characters that the Help engine *supposedly* cannot display:

left and right quotes (single/double), bullets, en/em-dashes, etc.  The

fix was to edit the RTF file to change the strings attached to these

characters.  Voile', it works!  (see my latest WinHelp e-book, ftp.netcom.com

/pub/OmniMedia/books/firefur.zip).

So, I'm wondering if sub/super-scripts can be dealt with similarly?  If so,

this would be the easiest way to do it since all one has to do is a simple

edit of the RTF file before shoving it into the Help compiler.

Jon Noring

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looking for wc31.exe!

  Pete, I agree with much of what you've said but MS' position (as you

present it) on this issue is so contrary to public interest that it makes me

sad. Do you buy any of the justifications of FSF and free software as stated

by Richard Stallman? If so, you would agree with me. MS have established a

de-facto monopoly on conveying online info in Windows. Don't the anti-trust

laws apply here? All this smells much like Apple's UI law suits against MS

itself.

  A good program needs to have help. MS have made help an OS-provided

functionality for which they deserve an applause. WINHELP have become so much

standard that there's almost no alternative for a Windows program. Winhelp is

not about a little compiler, winhelp is about information. Everybody should

be able to author winhelp easily, because it has become the standard means of

conveying online info in Windows. HC should be available like the file

manager, like NOTEPAD, like WINHELP itself.

>At least I've leveled the playing field a bit by

>providing documentation of the file format, but if I figured it out,

  The sad thing is that you *had to* figure it out. (I imagine it was very

hard, like disassembling a program by hand.) I guess it was interesting for

you; and you've made some business from it, but I think manual disassembly is

a waste of human resources. At least you, and everybody that will benefit

from your work, should be happy that MS haven't forbidden the reengineering

of their .HLP format :)

Whatever MS' stated position, I admire them for what they do in practice:

they have made publicly available the HC, SHED, the WHAG (but only after

somebody compiled HAG by *manually snatching* screens from WINSDK forum), the

WHAT (for whatever it's worth).

--

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Anybody seen ForHelp?

Howdy, I am looking for an easy to use tool that generates help files for my

Access 2.0 app. Has anyone seen Borland's tool? I hear that they are selling

it for $60-$70. I have been told that it is neat, but that isn't a real

recommendation, just an uninformed opinion. I think it is called ForHelp or

4Help, and Borland just accquired it in the last couple of months, but I may

be wrong.

Gary Starkweather

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** WANTED to buy:  PCOpenClient and NetLib for PC Windows **

I am looking to buy a new or used PC OpenClient and NetLib

for a PC running Windows 3.1.

These two programs/drivers are needed for the PC which is connected

to a Sun running Sybase 4.x over an Ethernet TCP/IP network.

I need them to perform a short-term evaluation of PC - Sun/Sybase network

performance. These cost something like $150 - $200 from Sybase.

Please contact me if can sell me these two pgms.

Thanks.

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Viewer: hierarchical folders/topics in contents

I was under the impression when I got the Multimedia Viewer Development

Kit (2.0) that there was an easy way to create contents listings similar

to the one on the Microsoft Developers Network CD. That is, one in which

the topics are represented as a series of folders within folders.

The initial contents screen would simply show the "Main" topics as

folders. By double-clicking on these Main topics, subtopics would follow

below them.

I realize that there is a "work around" for this under WinHelp or the

Viewer by simply making a million different "subscreens". When a user

clicks on a folder a subscreen is called that looks similar to the first

but has the selected topic expanded. This is not only time-consuming to

create a large majority of screens but also not the same way it is

implemented on the MS Developers Network CD and others that I have seen.

Does anyone know of a way to create these types of contents screens under

Viewer 2.0? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

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On-Line Books?? Authoring???

In article <35591l$f0f@nic.cerf.net> barrett@nic.cerf.net (Bill Barrett)

writes:>From: barrett@nic.cerf.net (Bill Barrett)

>Subject: On-Line Books?? Authoring???

>Date: 13 Sep 1994 15:28:05 -0700

>Anyone know of a utilitity to help in On-Line Books authoring.

>I like the browser that comes with the Developer's Network,

>and think that would make a great structure for internal

>project documentation (sorry Adobe Acrobat); however,

>I can't seem to even find the format, let alone a tool,

>(go Gates go!).

>BTW: I got RoboHelp and it does a great job of sitting on

>top of Word and generating help files.  A bit brutal and slow

>here and there but basically a fine package.  Easily worth

>the $495 or whatever we paid for it.

Bill (and any others who are interested),

Let me voice a few of my biased views...

The absolute best way to produce electronic reference information (i.e. Help

files, refrerence materials, manuals, e-texts, etc.) is using Folio VIEWS 3.1.

 If you are not familiar with the product, just ask and I can have information

sent to you.  Let me just list a few of the advantages of Folio VIEWS vs.

Winhelp, Acrobat, et. al.

  - Full text indexing and searching.

  - Powerful, customizable query interface.

  - Cross platform (same file can be used on DOS, Win, Mac)

  - User can personalize and annotate.

  - Import and export of most popular word processor formats.

  - Easy integration as a Help system.

  - Shadow file (overlay) capability allow custom annotations without changing

master file.

  - Multi-user viewing and editing.

  - Many many many more features...

For more information send a request to:

  ppearson@folio.com

       -- or --

  salesdeptj@folio.com

--Paul Pearson

  ppearson@folio.com

  "Please Wait... Brain booting from floppy."

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Multimedia Viewer Search Engine replacement

The responses of our customers to the search capabilities of the

Multimedia Viewer showed us the need to replace the search engine.

One main disadvantage is the limitation to use a wildcard at the end

of a word only. This may be not a problem in the English language,

but in the German language several words can be combined to a new

word. For example, the German word for "operating system" is

"Betriebsystem", which is a combination of the words "Betrieb" and

"System". There is no way to find "Betriebsystem" when "System"

is specified!

Another major disadvantange is, that the search result list is not sorted,

neither by the topic titles, nor by the order of the topics in the

RTF files nor in any recognizable way.

So my questions are:

  1. Did anyone try to replace/improve the search engine?

  2. Does the next version of the multimedia viewer have an improved

     search engine, and if, in which way?

  3. Can anyone explane me how to create Highlights (I noticed that

     there are undocumented functions HighlightCreate and

     HighlightAddRef, but I don't know the parameters they need)

  4. In the context of question #3: How are the characters and words

     of the topics numbered (the so called "topic address")?

Thanks for any information in advance

Klaus

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Help problems from Hell

In <Cw11pv.BHE@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>In article <35141f$5nq$1@perth.dialix.oz.au>,

>Bill Rayer <lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:

>>

>>I'll try this. With the font names, how do you know which

>>names are in each file, ie how do you know "Terminal" is

>>in VGAOEM.FON and not FOOBAR.FON?

>>

>>Also, is there a list of all these names in WIN.INI or something?

>In Borland Resource Workshop, you load VGAOEM.FON, then open

>the "FONT" resource with ID 30.  Now choose the "Font" menu,

>"Header" item.  Change the "Face name" edit-box from "Terminal"

>to whatever you like, and change the "Char set" from 255 (OEM) to

>0 (ANSI).

So far so good. I've got FOOBAR.FON which is now pretending to be

the ANSI character set. I even changed the face name to FOOBAR.

>start up Control Panel and install the font.  That will take care

>of putting the appropriate entry in WIN.INI.

Problems here. Although the control panel lets you add fonts it

can't find foobar.fon. This isn't a missing file or me saving the file

in the wrong directory. The list of fonts is based on the .FON files

but is not the actual file names. I'm using win 3.1, I looked in

my win 3.0 book and Windows 3.0 control panel lets you add fonts

based on the file name, but win 3.1 adds them based on the internal

font name. It appears the internal font name is not "FOOBAR" even

though I changed it in Borland R.W.

I've since looked in the SDK books (I've got the C SDK and BPW here)

and I think the font files save the font name internally in a place

where the Resource workshop can't touch it. I used TD to look at the

bytes of the .FON file and the original font name is still there

(Terminal (US)) as well as the new name. The control panel is somehow

able to access the internal name, which it uses as the font

descriptions.

Then I tried modifying WIN.INI directly. If I add the new font

with a line like "TERMINAL (OEM)=FOOBAR.FON" and restart windows

then the FOOBAR font is loaded, even though you can't see it

in Control Panel. The help file is able to load the font and

display the OEM character set so it worked in the end.

However this is getting to the level of a hack and although I'm

glad it worked it doesn't seem reliable enough for a commercial

product. To do this reliably I would have to find and change the

internal font name. Also the font file has a Bitstream(1984) and

a Microsoft copyright notice in it so I don't think I can

redistribute it.

>Of course, if the

>help file is to be displayed on another machine, "FOOBAR.FON" will

>have to be installed there too, which is a little more work.  You'll

>need a little C program to install the font (AddFontResource...) and

>call that when installing the help file, or put it in a DLL and call

>the function from the [CONFIG] section of your HPJ (but that means

>you'll have to install the DLL with the HLP).

Hmm. This is getting complicated! I wanted the HLP file to be

standalone, so it can be copied off a floppy and work directly

without any installation procedures.

>Your question about sub- and superscript:  you'll need separate

>subscript and superscript fonts.  The MSDN CD-ROM does this: it

>installs a font called ARIALS.TTF (.FOT), which is a superscript

>Arial.

Again it looks as if I'm going to need to distribute font files

with the help file, which is more complex technically and has the

copyright problems I mentioned. Perhaps though the installation

program could modify the user's existing font file and copy it

to a new font file. Then I'm modifying something the user

already owns, instead of redistributing Microsoft and Bitstream's

font file.

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Many thanks Miguel for your advice. I would never have figured out

the ANSI/OEM byte, or the winhelp "feature" that makes it ignore

the OEM charset without your ideas. Thanks mate!

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In <354nt9$hmq@mill2.millcomm.com> robin@mill2.millcomm.com (Robin) writes:

>Bill Rayer (lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:

>: Hello

>: I've been experimenting with RTF files and have got some

>: help files to work OK. I've found 1 or 2 nasty problems

>: and it anyone can help I'd be very happy.

>: (1) How can you put monospaced DOS text in a help file?

>[deleted stuff]

>I use Courier font with no problem, which is monospaced.  This seems

>veryquestion, and since even I know the answer, I can only assume I

>misunderstood your question!

Hi there

Courier is nice, but the point of the terminal font was that it

let you use the IBM extended character set (smiley faces, boxes and

squiggley things). I wanted to do this because I'm converting an

existing large manual into a help file, and the manual has some

of the box characters for simple diagrams. Also I can't change the

manual because it gets printed out.

    MANUAL -----> help file (.HLP)

           \

            ----> printer

Same source document, 2 destinations. I don't want 2 versions because

there's 500 odd pages.

Anyway as Miguel has pointed out in this thread it is possible

to use the extended char set but it involves arcane hackery!

I hope this explains what I'm trying to do (and why!)

Bill Rayer

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Looking for IMPLIB-like utility

Hello!

I'm looking for a tool that can generate something to use in the

IMPORTS-Section of a *.def-File from a DLL.

The Borland IMPLIB-Utility produces a *.lib-File, but I have to

recompile my EXE each time I make a tiny change in the DLL.

If anyone knows of such a Tool or can provide Know-How in writing

one I would be very happy if he coul drop me a mail.

Thanx,

Ted

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In article <3513p6$57b$1@perth.dialix.oz.au> lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Bill Rayer) writes:

>In <3509sl$oq9@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca (Vladimir Alexiev) writes:

>

>>lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Bill Rayer) writes:

>How do I put superscripts and subscripts in the RTF file?

>I tried faking a subscript by dropping the point size, but it

>doesn't look too good and I can't do this for superscripts.

>Any ideas?

>

Bitmaps.  If there is a better way, I don't know it.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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FILTER TO ELIMINATE MS-WORD FIGURES

  I need to create a help file from a MS-WORD document with images and I don't

want the images in my help file. How can this be done? Exists any filter for

this?

  Thanks

J. C. Cuesta

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Source for Boggan/Farkas/Welinske Book?

This was a welcome article.

I've been chasing a couple days for a copy of the book all around Europe

without finding a copy.

One of the authors blamed me for ignorance as to differences between

help compiler and Viewer. He referred to their book as to further

detail. So I made an effort to learn my lesson but with poor results.

Now, Dear Farkas, Boggan and Welinske tell us where we will be able to

find our copies of this authoritative work on WinHelp.

Thanks for any online help

Philip

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I'm also interested in changing the startup-logo.

It would be very nice, if you can e-mail me, too.

C-YA

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Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

Ralph Walden (ralphw@microsoft.com) wrote:

: Chicago Help does not use the viewer engine, but we have incoporated

Thanx Ralph!

How soon will we see the development tools for this new engine?

I have DevNet2 - will I see it by the first of the year?

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Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

In article <Cw3H5q.1Jo@metrics.com>, Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> writes:

|> Chicago Help does not use the viewer engine, but we have incoporated

|> many of Viewer's features. That includes support for multiple secondary

We are writing 3.1 help files, and anticipate writing Windows 95 (come on, use the right name, you work there after all :-)). We were considering moving to viewer since it's a better engine than 3.1 for complex stuff. Does what you say mean that we should

Steve Read

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In article <Cw3H5q.1Jo@metrics.com> Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> writes:

>Chicago Help does not use the viewer engine, but  we have incoporated

>many  of Viewer's features. That includes support for multiple secondary

>windows, 256 and 24-bit graphics, Multimedia commands (AVI, WAV, etc.),

>and full-text search. The list of enhancements is a long one, but some

>of the highlights (my opinion) are: ability to combine help files at

>runtime (combined keyword index), jumps resolved at runtime (depends on

 >what help files are installed), navigation bar in secondary windows

>(customizable), a new Windows 32-bit Help Compiler and project editor,

>character set information for fonts (so you can have your OEM fonts), >better

compression, etc.

Ralph..thanks VERY much for your input on this humble newsgroup. I'm sure

everyone else feels the same. It is MOST valuable.  But, a few more questions

if you don't mind...

1) If not Viewer, what 'engine' will be used?

2) What will be the development system of choice? Will Windows 95 support .hlp

files created as they are now, in Viewer, and  anything else?

3) I read elsewhere on the Net that Mr. Gates has been speaking openly of

Internet functionality built into Windows 95. Given the SKYROCKETING growth of

interest in WWW will html be supported? Given my new found love of that

language I hope so.

Thanks again. Hope you can find the time to post here more often. Hey, it

would be MARVELous, no?  ;)

StanO

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Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

Can anyone describe in more detail these undocumented features?

Thanks,

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WINHELP: Creating a jump = Find area

In <3529gd$ifd@ici-paris.ensta.fr> mativat@ensta.fr (Fabrice Mativat) writes:

>I'm trying to write a help file witj a "jump zone" who

>does not jump to another topic, but has the same effect

>than the button " Find" under the menu.

It is very easy.  Create a macro hotspot (your help authoring tool

should make this easy, otherwise add a ! at the start of the hidden

text) and use the Search() macro (if your tool doesn't do macros

then simply enter !Search() as your hidden text for the jump).

...Stefan

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HELP! Revision Marks Sidebar: How to change it?

This may be too low level a question but here it goes:  In Microsoft

Word for Windows 6, how do you change the revision marks sidebar (the

thin line in the right hand margin that indicates a change in that

paragraph) from a thin line to another character like and asterisk or an X?

I believe that line is not a character per se, but a graphic and is

therefore not controllable using Word Basic command language.  Is this

true?  Isn't there any way around this?

I work in a television production company (Warner Bros.) and I REALLY

need a solution to this problem PRONTO.

Thanks in advance,

Don Lipper

dlipper@netcom.com

(Please followup or email your solution to me and I will post the result.)

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Viewer: hierarchical folders/topics in contents

Brian,

  Doc-To-Help has a really nice navigator that works much like the folder

listing thing the MSDN has. It's also really easy to set-up and modify the

organization of the folders.

  It's an absolutely sweet piece of programming. I will admit, I do work

for WexTech quite often, so I am slightly biased, but I really think the

navigator is excellent.

Pete Davis

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Stan,

  I think I can answer some of these for you:

stano@halcyon.com (Stan Orchard) wrote:

>1) If not Viewer, what 'engine' will be used?

  It's based on the WinHelp engine. It has simply been extended to support

features that Viewer happens to support. The code for the two (viewer and

WinHelp), as I undestand it, has been seperated and is supported by two

different groups.

>2) What will be the development system of choice? Will Windows 95 support .hlp

>files created as they are now, in Viewer, and  anything else?

  As I said before, Viewer is a seperate product. WinHelp will support all

existing help files, though. (3.1 and 4.0 or 95 or whatever the hell

they're going to call it).

>3) I read elsewhere on the Net that Mr. Gates has been speaking openly of

>Internet functionality built into Windows 95. Given the SKYROCKETING growth of

>interest in WWW will html be supported? Given my new found love of that

>language I hope so.

>

  I seriously doubt it. Ralph can say for sure, but I'm almost positive

they're just going to stick with rtf as the source.

Pete Davis

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Books on Winhelp

hou@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca (Haiying Ou) wrote:

>Hi Everyone:

>

>	I am new to winhelp.  Can anyone give me a list of books on

>how to write a winhelp file?  Also, a list of shareware that will

>help a newuser to write winhelp file would be helpful as well.

>

Rick,

Check the FAQ. Go back about 3 weeks in the newsgroup and it should be

there.

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Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

In article <33kkus$jn9@edvvie2.edvg.co.at>, boehm@edvvie.edvg.c wrote:

> Has anyone experience in porting winhelp files(300k RTF with

> extensive use of hotspots, SHGs and hotspots in tables) to the OS/2

> INF format ?

I remember hearing a rumour that Micrografx' Mirrors os2/windows

portability package contained something along those lines.

Never actually used the thing, though. Try getting through to

somebody sufficiently technical in Mgx.

Cheers,

Peter

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JumpId() doesn't work (sometimes)

In article <1994Sep13.074122.12708@emr1.emr.ca>,

John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>I'm having some difficulty in starting up WinHelp with a macro:

>(note I would never hardcode pathnames like this - the code is for

>illustration purposes only):

>

>If the .HLP file is in c:\, this works:

>	WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\xyz.hlp",HELP_FORCEFILE,0);

>	WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\xyz.hlp",HELP_COMMAND,

>	(DWORD)"JumpId(`c:\\xyz.hlp',`P11')");

>

>But if I put the .HLP file in c:\test & change the code, it does NOT work:

>	WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\test\\xyz.hlp",HELP_FORCEFILE,0);

>	WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\test\\xyz.hlp",HELP_COMMAND,

>	(DWORD)"JumpId(`c:\\test\\xyz.hlp',`P11')");

>

>Since WinHelp already points to the file, the JumpId() macro probably

>doesn't need the filename, so I left it blank:

>	WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\test\\xyz.hlp",HELP_FORCEFILE,0);

>	WinHelp(NULL,"c:\\test\\xyz.hlp",HELP_COMMAND,

>	 (DWORD)"JumpId(`',`P11')");

>and it worked just fine.

>

>I guess this last method is the best one, i.e. just leave the pathname out

>of the JumpId() macro, so it uses the 'current file'.

The `current file' is called qchPath.

You can try if JumpID(qchPath, `P11') works.  No real need if

leaving the filename empty also works, but I somehow have a

feeling that it might not always work...

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In article <35662s$hc6$1@perth.dialix.oz.au>,

Bill Rayer <lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:

>In <Cw11pv.BHE@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>

>>In Borland Resource Workshop, you load VGAOEM.FON, then open

>>the "FONT" resource with ID 30.  Now choose the "Font" menu,

>>"Header" item.  Change the "Face name" edit-box from "Terminal"

>>to whatever you like, and change the "Char set" from 255 (OEM) to

>>0 (ANSI).

>

>So far so good. I've got FOOBAR.FON which is now pretending to be

>the ANSI character set. I even changed the face name to FOOBAR.

>

>>start up Control Panel and install the font.  That will take care

>>of putting the appropriate entry in WIN.INI.

>

>Problems here. Although the control panel lets you add fonts it

>can't find foobar.fon. This isn't a missing file or me saving the file

>in the wrong directory. The list of fonts is based on the .FON files

>but is not the actual file names. I'm using win 3.1, I looked in

>my win 3.0 book and Windows 3.0 control panel lets you add fonts

>based on the file name, but win 3.1 adds them based on the internal

>font name. It appears the internal font name is not "FOOBAR" even

>though I changed it in Borland R.W.

>

>I've since looked in the SDK books (I've got the C SDK and BPW here)

>and I think the font files save the font name internally in a place

>where the Resource workshop can't touch it. I used TD to look at the

>bytes of the .FON file and the original font name is still there

>(Terminal (US)) as well as the new name. The control panel is somehow

>able to access the internal name, which it uses as the font

>descriptions.

Yes, this is how I've *actually* done it.  I just thought that

it could maybe work using Workshop only.  The name is also stored

as the "module description string", as:

<len>FONTRES 100,96,96 : Terminal (US) (Set #6)

That's the string ControlPanel uses (VGA fonts have their name after

the colon-space, TrueType .FOT's don't put a space after the colon).

 You can use a binary editor or a small C-program (the .EXE format is

well-documented in the SDK) to search for the "non-resident names table",

whose first entry is the module description string.  It's easiest to

change it to something that is the same length.

>Again it looks as if I'm going to need to distribute font files

>with the help file, which is more complex technically and has the

>copyright problems I mentioned. Perhaps though the installation

>program could modify the user's existing font file and copy it

>to a new font file. Then I'm modifying something the user

>already owns, instead of redistributing Microsoft and Bitstream's

>font file.

Yes, that's an idea.  If you study the docs on the NE .EXE file format

and the resource files therein, it can be done.  I wouldn't say it's

trivial, though.

>Thanks mate!

You're welcome.. (how do you say that in Australian ?:-)

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Anybody seen ForHelp?

In article <Cw3FyB.HC8@cruzio.com> gstark@cruzio.com writes:

>Howdy, I am looking for an easy to use tool that generates help files for my

>Access 2.0 app. Has anyone seen Borland's tool? I hear that they are selling

>it for $60-$70. I have been told that it is neat, but that isn't a real

>recommendation, just an uninformed opinion. I think it is called ForHelp or

>4Help, and Borland just accquired it in the last couple of months, but I may

>be wrong.

>

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It's called "ForeHelp". I got it from Borland for $112 Cdn, which is

probably around $70 US.  It is true what-you-see-is-what-you-get help file

creation.  There is even a test mode which emulates WinHelp perfectly, so

you only have to use the much slower WinHelp compiler when you are ready to

ship.  I believe that Borland bought a number of licenses to resell it (it

came on one of their diskettes, and they printed the manual), but that

ForeFront Inc. still own and sell the product. Regular list is around $400.

At $70, it's a steal!  Borland are selling it to allow C++ and dBase Windows

users to write help, but they don't seem to care if you own their products

when you call.

ForeHelp is standalone. You don't need MS-Word, but can import RTF docs

written in Word or other authoring languages.

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MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

Is there such a file viewer run on X-WINDOW??

Y F

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mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 10:50:52 GMT

>There's most likely a brace mismatch in your RTF.

>The help compiler only notices at EOF, so it reports

>the error at that offset.  The actual error can be

>anywhere in your 420k file :-(

Time to write an pre-compile parser.  :)

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Rene Kuenzel ANL A426 PR4 (kuenzel@caesar.erlm.siemens.de) wrote:

: I'm also interested in changing the startup-logo.

: It would be very nice, if you can e-mail me, too.

save your graphic in .rle format - make sure that it is smaller

than 32k (I think that's the limit.

copy it to your windows directory.  rename vgalogo.rle (I think -

just look you'll see the old one).

run setup FROM THE DOS PROMPT (not windows setup icon because that

doesn't re-compile win.exe with the new bitmap)

don't change anything in setup just go thru the motions.

that's it.

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Looking for IMPLIB-like utility

Bernhard Froehlich (bfroehli@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE) wrote:

: Hello!

: I'm looking for a tool that can generate something to use in the

: IMPORTS-Section of a *.def-File from a DLL.

: The Borland IMPLIB-Utility produces a *.lib-File, but I have to

: recompile my EXE each time I make a tiny change in the DLL.

: If anyone knows of such a Tool or can provide Know-How in writing

: one I would be very happy if he coul drop me a mail.

Borland gives you another utility: impdef.exe. It makes a .def file

from a .dll, including the Library name and all the (mangled)  import/

export names. This  might help.

Also, what I do is make the .DLL (just link, no implib) if I  know

my export section has not  changed. Occasionaly I run implib, see if

the resulting .lib is any different from the original .lib, if not,

restore the original .lib, since the other programs will still work

without recompiling.

I hope it sounds reasonable, if not, mail me for some

specific answers.

Good Luck,

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lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Bill Rayer) writes:

[several lines deleted]

>So far so good. I've got FOOBAR.FON which is now pretending to be

>the ANSI character set. I even changed the face name to FOOBAR.

>Problems here. Although the control panel lets you add fonts it

>can't find foobar.fon. This isn't a missing file or me saving the file

>in the wrong directory. The list of fonts is based on the .FON files

>but is not the actual file names. I'm using win 3.1, I looked in

>my win 3.0 book and Windows 3.0 control panel lets you add fonts

>based on the file name, but win 3.1 adds them based on the internal

>font name. It appears the internal font name is not "FOOBAR" even

>though I changed it in Borland R.W.

>I've since looked in the SDK books (I've got the C SDK and BPW here)

>and I think the font files save the font name internally in a place

>where the Resource workshop can't touch it. I used TD to look at the

>bytes of the .FON file and the original font name is still there

>(Terminal (US)) as well as the new name. The control panel is somehow

>able to access the internal name, which it uses as the font

>descriptions.

You are right. The fact is that the resource compiler (rc) creates an

additional resource called FONTDIR. It consists of the headers of all

fonts in the font file. Perhaps your resource editor doesn't update

this resource. To create a new font, perform the following steps:

Save all the fonts in the font file as .fnt, create a

.rc file like

  1  font foo1.fnt

  2  font foo2.fnt

  ...

Next, you have to create a dummy executable. I used an assembler with

a .asm file just containing the statement 'END'. [I haven't tried it yet,

but perhaps you can also just compile an empty .c file to get an object file].

Then you have to make a .def file with the following statements:

LIBARY FOOFONT

DESCRIPTION 'FONTRES 100,96,96 : Foofont'

The second and third value of the DESCRIPTION line is the resolution the

font is designed for (in dpi).  The first value is the aspect ratio times 100

(I think this information is used by the control panel when you install

new fonts). The module name (as specified with LIBRARY) should be unique,

since windows cannot load multiple modules with the same name.

Link the object file using the .def file and you get the .exe.

Compile with rc using the .exe and the .rc file.

rename the .exe file to .fon.

Now you should be able to install the font ;-)

The whole stuff was described in some Windows SDK 2.x (!) documents.

I don't know currently, whether newer documents still contain

information about it.

>Bill Rayer

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Peter S. Lakanen asks:

How soon will we see the development tools for this new engine?

 have DevNet2 - will I see it by the first of the year?

>> Sorry folks, I can't answer questions about specific dates.

Steve Read asks:

We are writing 3.1 help files, and anticipate writing Windows 95 (come

on, use the right name, you work there after all :-)). We were

considering moving to viewer since it's a better engine than 3.1 for

complex stuff. Does what you say mean that we should reconsider this step?

>> Depends on what type of complexity you are needing. We still don't

support panes, so if that's a requirement, then your still stuck with

Viewer or MediaView. Otherwise, yes, you should reconsider. (The

official name is Windows 95 WinHelp, but the codename is still Chicago

Help saving me 6 characters to type).

StanO asks:

1) If not Viewer, what 'engine' will be used?

>> WinHelp -- there is no separate engine.

2) What will be the development system of choice? Will Windows 95 support .hlp

files created as they are now, in Viewer, and  anything else?

>> Chicago WinHelp will not read viewer 2.0 files. It will read 3.0,

3.1, and the new 4.0 help file formats.

3) I read elsewhere on the Net that Mr. Gates has been speaking openly of

Internet functionality built into Windows 95. Given the SKYROCKETING growth of

interest in WWW will html be supported? Given my new found love of that

language I hope so.

>> The new compiler still only supports RTF.

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(Free) New VB HelpWriter (1.8.5)

Hi, everyone...

We've been listening to your requests!

The new version of VB HelpWriter is now available via ftp at

"ftp.netcom.com" in the "pub/vb_helpwriter" directory.

We've added a lot of features you've requested, including

   * Spellchecking (PRO version only)

   * Much better handling of HUGE helpfiles

     (it monitors GDI resources and makes sure you never run too low)

   * Startup topic is the 1st topic displayed after loading

   * Smaller topic information dialog

   * Alphabetized topic selection bar

   * Improved Program Options dialog

   * Capability to set the "Glossary" topic title

   * Option to disable the "16 color" video driver warning

   * Search/Replace no longer gets stuck when "cancel" selected

As always, the "Lite" version (available via ftp) is FREE.

The "Lite" version generates helpfiles up to twenty topics long,

which may be distributed without any royalty or purchase

requirements.

(The "Lite" edition is FREEWARE, not Shareware)

Current customers can use the new files to update to the latest version.

Thanks for your support!

Sincerely

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Slow avivideo loading in Viewer

pdonner@cc.Helsinki.FI (C Philip Donner) wrote:

>By inserting an embedded avivideo controller window into a Viewer topic

>it is possible to add a little bit of salt into untasty presentations.

>

>My video is, however, slowing down the browse sequence of the relevant

>topic. It seems that there is a lot of loading going on when the topic is

>reached. Much more than what is tolerable.

>

>Without actually knowing what is going on, I guess that a number of

>program modules and driver stuff is being loaded in addition to the

>bitmap of the first frame (or maybe the whole movie?).

>

>What kind of schemes have you worked out to get along with sluggish

>videos?

>

>Thanking in advance for clever advices

>

>Philip

Philip,

  Unfortunately there's no simple fix for this. The fix needs to be

applied to WinHelp (or Viewer, in this case: Same engine, basically).

What's happening is that the window is being created and destroyed and

created again when you get to the topic. Why? You're asking the wrong guy.

Ask the guy who wrote the engine. It's a real mess and if you have a

non-scrolling region, it gets worse because it shows the scrolling region

and the embedded window, then kills the embedded windoww, kills the

scrolling region, then creates the non-scrolling region then it re-creates

the scrolling region and then it recreates the embedded window.

  This all needs to be changed, but the only hope is that they fix it in

the next version of windows.

  Now, you're working with AVI files, which is much worse than just doing

something like a bitmap. The AVIPLAY.DLL loads the AVI file, then has to

unload it, then load it again each time the secondary window gets set.

There's extra time involved because WinHelp and Viewer need to know how

big the embedded window is, so you need to read some of the AVI header to

know how big the display window needs to be.

  There's no real way to avoid this because when the embedded window gets

created and destroyed more than once is not reliable enough to avoid. Only

the WinHelp creators/maintainers can fix this problem.

  Hope that's a descriptive enough answer for you.

  Pete

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On-Line Books?? Authoring???

In <35591l$f0f@nic.cerf.net> barrett@nic.cerf.net (Bill Barrett) writes:

>Anyone know of a utilitity to help in On-Line Books authoring.

There are quite a lot of them :-)

>I like the browser that comes with the Developer's Network,

>and think that would make a great structure for internal

>project documentation (sorry Adobe Acrobat); however,

>I can't seem to even find the format, let alone a tool,

>(go Gates go!).

HWA includes a topic tree which works like the browser in

the Developer's Network and makes it very easy to see the

overall structure of the help file!

...Stefan

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Mysterious Green - > Black Change

> When I first installed windows, the WINHELP green highlighting was just

> fine, but then it turned black on white no matter which application I am

> using.  The change seems to be triggered by something in a .INI file

> somewhere,  but I am unable to pinpoint it.

>

> Has anyone had this problem before and/or know how to fix it?

>

I had the same thing happen when I updated the video drivers for

my StealthPro video card. This was an acknowledged bug in the drivers

from Diamond; Keyword text was not highlighted (colored).

Changing back to my original drivers put things back to normal.

Dave.

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Hi,

I am planning a medium to large help project and I would

appreciate any words of wisdom about the pitfalls of planning

large projects.

What should I avoid doing? What should I make sure I do early on?

What do you wish you knew before you started?

Thanks in advance,

J. K. Genser

Sr. Technical Writer, New York City

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Print margins within winhelp

In article <3529lp$ifd@ici-paris.ensta.fr> mativat@ensta.fr (Fabrice Mativat) writes:

#

# The help file I'm creating is a kind of small database. The end users

# may want to print frequently the topics. Everything is fine except the

# fact that the margins aren't so beautiful... I should like to change the

# print margins, but without changing the automatic screen margins.

# Does anybody know how to do that ?

Far as I know, you are stuck with the settings of the print margins.

In fact, I believe that I saw a note (or whatever you call those damn

things) at Microsoft's FTP site (ftp.microsoft.com) regarding this

very issue.

Hold on a minute....yup, here's the reference.

Q93918 INF:  Help Topic Margins Always 1 Inch When Printed

Ftp to ftp.microsoft.com and hunt that particular Knowledge Base

thingy down and it will probably tell you (after about 60 lines of

copyright and CYA) that the margins are fixed.

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Mysterious Green - > Black Change

Hello,

 I have been programming on a relatively new Dell 90 Mhz Pentiums machine

with both Windows 3.1 and OS/2 2.1 installed and a GXE64 PCI graphics card.

When I first installed windows, the WINHELP green highlighting was just

fine, but then it turned black on white no matter which application I am

using.  The change seems to be triggered by something in a .INI file

somewhere,  but I am unable to pinpoint it.

Has anyone had this problem before and/or know how to fix it?

Thanks in advance,

  Mark Butler.

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Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

I have another request for Ralph. I'd like to see not only 256 and

24 bit support, but a jpeg viewer.  That'd be a real plus, a serious

plus.  Also, I'd like to see built in hook's to Visual Basic, so I

won't have to buy Ron's PASTERP.dll  :-)

-dennis

In article <359k03$mpf@mailer.fsu.edu>, lakanen@otto.cmr.fsu.edu (Peter S. Lakanen) writes:

> Ralph Walden (ralphw@microsoft.com) wrote:

> : Chicago Help does not use the viewer engine, but we have incoporated

>

> Thanx Ralph!

>

> How soon will we see the development tools for this new engine?

> I have DevNet2 - will I see it by the first of the year?

>

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MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

cen5yf@gps.leeds.ac.uk  writes:

> Is there such a file viewer run on X-WINDOW??

>

>

> Y F

I am not 100% sure whether there is a X viewer for MS Windows help

file.Most probably not.

 But I would like to make a comment. I think the MS Win help and help files

should be and will be replaced by MOSAIC (either X Mosaic or Mosaic for MS Windows)

and the correponding html files.  The reasons are simply.

1. Mosaic is free.

2. html files are very simple and easy to write and they are ascii files

3. No compiler needed.

4. almost all the things which can be accomplished by winhelp can be accomplished

   by mosaic and html files although hot spot is not implemented in mosaic.

5. plus mosaic can do much much more than winhelp especially because the

   whole world is increasingly networked to internet.

These are my weekend thoughts. Just find it interesting.

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Mysterious Green - > Black Change

In article <35e763$46k@u.cc.utah.edu> mdb0980@u.cc.utah.edu (Mark Butler) writes:

>Hello,

>

> I have been programming on a relatively new Dell 90 Mhz Pentiums machine

>with both Windows 3.1 and OS/2 2.1 installed and a GXE64 PCI graphics card.

>

>When I first installed windows, the WINHELP green highlighting was just

>fine, but then it turned black on white no matter which application I am

>using.  The change seems to be triggered by something in a .INI file

>somewhere,  but I am unable to pinpoint it.

>

>Has anyone had this problem before and/or know how to fix it?

>

>Thanks in advance,

>

>  Mark Butler.

>

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>

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In your WIN.INI file:

[Windows Help]

TextColor=255 0 0

HelpColor=0 255 0

TColor=255 0 255

IfJumpColor=255 255 0

IfPopupColor=255 255 0

JumpColor=255 255 0

PopupColor=255 255 0

MacroColor=255 255 0

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In article <Cw92En.Gtt@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> pz7q@darwin.clas.Virginia.EDU (Ping  Zhong) writes:

>cen5yf@gps.leeds.ac.uk  writes:

>> Is there such a file viewer run on X-WINDOW??

>I am not 100% sure whether there is a X viewer for MS Windows help

>file.Most probably not.

> But I would like to make a comment. I think the MS Win help and help files

>should be and will be replaced by MOSAIC (either X Mosaic or Mosaic for MS

>Windows)

>and the correponding html files.  The reasons are simply.

>1. Mosaic is free.

>2. html files are very simple and easy to write and they are ascii files

>3. No compiler needed.

>4. almost all the things which can be accomplished by winhelp can be

>accomplished

>   by mosaic and html files although hot spot is not implemented in mosaic.

>5. plus mosaic can do much much more than winhelp especially because the

>   whole world is increasingly networked to internet.

I find myself gravitating more and more toward html for those very reasons.

Any more I write my .hlp files in MS Word, cut and paste into my .hlp

authoring program AND into my html authoring program. Thus I have three

versions of the same document. Seems like we may always need a printed

version, but the hypertext version...which is the better of the two formats?

As mentioned in the previous post, html gives you MUCh broader reach with

those links, it's WAY easy to construct, moves across the Internet with ease,

links awesome sources of data.

I posted on here earlier asking the WinHelp author himself if html will be

supported in the next generation of Windows Help. He never answered. Someone

else did(sorry, can't remember who that was right now) and said html would not

be supported in Windows 95's version of WinHelp. If that's true it's too bad.

Can you imagine the incredible POWER of such a product? An engine that will

support traditional rtf and html? Blows my mind to think about it.

Sad to think it's just a fantasy at this point.

That's MY weekend fantasy.

StanO

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rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

In <stano.62.000EEBB2@halcyon.com> stano@halcyon.com (Stan Orchard) writes:

>In article <Cw92En.Gtt@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> pz7q@darwin.clas.Virginia.EDU (Ping  Zhong) writes:

>>cen5yf@gps.leeds.ac.uk  writes:

>>> Is there such a file viewer run on X-WINDOW??

>I find myself gravitating more and more toward html for those very reasons.

>Any more I write my .hlp files in MS Word, cut and paste into my .hlp

>authoring program AND into my html authoring program. Thus I have three

>versions of the same document.

This is exactly the same problem I had. I have a 500 page manual and

wanted to put ~200 pages into a help file. I really don't want 2

versions because the manual may change and it seemed really inefficient

to duplicate all that work.

In the end I worked out a 3 stage system that allows 1 source:-

(1) print the manual to a text file, using the word processor

(2) Convert the text file to a RTF file with all the topics

    (I had to write a small program TXT2RTF to do this)

(3) Use the Windows help compiler to convert manual.rtf --> manual.hlp.

This is a bit clunky, but it works. Maybe the ideal is to use Word

for the manual and get some of the macros that convert the manual

into the topic format for the help files. However I hate learning

new word processors - I'd rather learn a new computer language!

Maybe you should write something to convert RTF --> HTML?

BTW what IS HTML (high tension meta language? :-)

Bill Rayer

lingo@dialix.oz.au

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Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

ichbiah@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Jean Ichbiah) writes:

>> In my opinion it is better to simply include a referenec from your file to

>> this common information.

>This sounds quite good provided you are sure that such application

>always exists on all systems.

>What would be a better reference file?

Maybe the file manager or the program manager or even winhelp itself?

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Help and documentation

paulb@tintin.csl.sni.be (Paul Busse) writes:

>I'm looking for a tool that has following properties :

>- generates a .HLP file

>- generates documentation from the same file

  You can use Word to write your documentation and an add-on (Doc2Help,

DrHelp, HypTrk, possibly others) to add all the page breaks, footnotes and

hidden texts needed by HC.

>- generates a ASCII file that is human readable.

What's wrong with the printed documentation? Anyway, you can generate ASCII

by simply exporting "Text with line breaks" from Word. You may want to apply

a special template with fixed-width fonts and page witdh=80chars for this.

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Help problems from Hell

In <Cw78yB.JIM@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>In article <35662s$hc6$1@perth.dialix.oz.au>,

>Bill Rayer <lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:

>>In <Cw11pv.BHE@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>>

>>Thanks mate!

>You're welcome.. (how do you say that in Australian ?:-)

No worries!

Bill Rayer

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Printing .hlp files...

Is there any simple way to print or copy the entire contents of a .hlp file?

I am sick and tired or going topic by topic....

Stephen

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[Q] How to do "title bar"?

Not for a window, but rather for a topic within a help file.

For example, some help files seem to have a non-scrolling title

section just below WinHelp's menu-bar for each topic.

How is this done?  Is there some macro I haven't found?

Also, I've set titles for my topics in the help text file, but

this does not trigger the "title bar" I mentioned.  I guess

the "title" text entered in the text file is just used to name

the topics in the search dialog.

Thanks for any pointers,

Matt

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Books on Winhelp

> Check the FAQ. Go back about 3 weeks in the newsgroup and it should be

> there.

>

> Pete Davis

You can also find Pete's FAQ in Winhelp format at

SITE:      quasar.sba.dal.ca

DIRECTORY: /www/hlp

FILENAME:  whfaq.hlp

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In article <35gtmt$jka$1@perth.dialix.oz.au> lingo@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Bill Rayer) writes:

>Maybe you should write something to convert RTF --> HTML?

>BTW what IS HTML (high tension meta language? :-)

HyperText Markup Language is similar to rtf and is used to write documents for

presentation on the WWW. There are some programs out there for converting

rtf-->html but I havn't spent the time to try them.

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In <stano.62.000EEBB2@halcyon.com> stano@halcyon.com (Stan Orchard) writes:

>I find myself gravitating more and more toward html for those very reasons.

>Any more I write my .hlp files in MS Word, cut and paste into my .hlp

>authoring program AND into my html authoring program.

I, too, am interested in using html files. What html authoring tool are you using?

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[Q] How to do "title bar"?

In article <marnoldCwBJHE.DFs@netcom.com> marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold) writes:

>Not for a window, but rather for a topic within a help file.

>

>For example, some help files seem to have a non-scrolling title

>section just below WinHelp's menu-bar for each topic.

>

>How is this done?  Is there some macro I haven't found?

If you're using Word, format the paragraph with "keep with next".

>Also, I've set titles for my topics in the help text file, but

>this does not trigger the "title bar" I mentioned.  I guess

>the "title" text entered in the text file is just used to name

>the topics in the search dialog.

Yes, that's correct - only in the search dialog.

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[Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

Anyone know of one?  Or *any* shareware help authoring utilities?

I would like to get started playing around with creating help files,

but don't want to buy Microsoft Word to do it.

Thanks,

Matt

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[Q] How to do "title bar"?

In <marnoldCwBJHE.DFs@netcom.com> marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold) writes:

>Not for a window, but rather for a topic within a help file.

>For example, some help files seem to have a non-scrolling title

>section just below WinHelp's menu-bar for each topic.

The non-scrolling region is created by setting one or more paragraphs

with the \keepn keyword.  To do this in word select the paragraphs and

use the Keep with Next property.

To do this with HWA you can simply enter text into the Non-Scrolling

region, as it is simply another editor.  If you want the title of the

topic copied to the Non Scrolling region you can use the Duplicate Title

in Non-Scrolling region option.  Thereafter, when you change the topic

title HWA will change the title text in the Non-Scrolling region for

you!  (unlike word where you have to change the topic property

(i.e: footnote) and then the text in the topic).

...Stefan

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** Q:  Can a Hitachi CD ROM drive #CDR-1503S work with Windows? **

I have a CD ROM drive made by Hitachi which was made in 1987.

It is the Hitachi model # CDR-1503S.  The drive has not been used

since about 1988 (on an IBM AT).

I am trying to find out if this drive will work OK on a 486DX66

class machine (16Mb RAM, 350Mb disk, Windows 3.1, DOS 6.0).  I the

original Hitachi High Sierra driver for the drive but have not

tried installing on the Windows 3.1 machine - figuring it will

probably not run or worse, may mess up other things given how old

the driver is.

I have the interface card (AT bus) and cable for the drive. I have tried

calling Hitachi in Los Angeles but have not heard back from them yet

on the following Q's.  I called Microsoft and they said that ISO-9600

compatibility means the drive *should* work OK under Windows.

I am trying to find out:

a. what is needed in terms of software and/or driver(s) in order for

the drive to operate under Windows (assuming the 1988 AT driver which

I have will not operate properly).

b. where the software and/or driver(s) that are needed can be purchased

c. will the drive with this SW/drive(s) work OK under Windows NT

The objective here is to be able to use this drive for installing/

reading Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5 which only comes on CD ROM.

Thanks very much in advance for any help or pointers on this.

======================================================================

Hitachi driver installer documentation (circa 1988) says that running

the installer will:

Copy HITACHI.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE to C:\DOS

Update C:\CONFIG.SYS to include:

   lastdrive=L

   files=20

   device=C:\DOS\HITACHI.SYS /D:MSCD0001 /N:1 /P:300

Update C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to include:

   C:\DOS\MSCDEX /D:MSCD0001 /L:L

======================================================================

The current CONFIG.SYS file on the Windows 486 machine is:

DEVICE=C:\DOS60\HIMEM.SYS

DEVICE=C:\DOS60\EMM386.EXE NOEMS HIGHSCAN X=DA00-DAFF

BUFFERS=30,0

FILES=40

DOS=UMB

LASTDRIVE=E

FCBS=4,0

DOS=HIGH

REM DEVICEHIGH /L:2,12208 =C:\EVRXDR\TRANSCRB.SYS /T:3

REM DEVICEHIGH /L:2,3920 =C:\EVRXDR\EVRXSCAN.SYS /Z

REM DEVICEHIGH /L:1,19168 =C:\MOUSE\MSCMOUSE.SYS

DEVICEHIGH /L:1,12048 =C:\DOS60\SETVER.EXE

REM DEVICEHIGH /L:1,16848 =C:\PROAUDIO\MVSOUND.SYS D:3 Q:11 S:1,220,1,5 M:1,330,

2 J:0

======================================================================

The current AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the Windows 486 machine is:

SET CPBACKUP=C:\CPBACKUP\DATA

ECHO OFF

LH /L:0;1,16400;2,43920 /S C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE 8192 4096

PATH = C:\CPBACKUP;C:\PM4;C:\EXCEL;C:\WINWORD;C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS60;C:\UTILITY;C:\

XTGOLD;C:\PROAUDIO

set path=%PATH%;C:\MOUSE

set mouse=C:\MOUSE

LH /L:1,40272 C:\MOUSE\mouse

SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

LH /L:1,6400 DOSKEY

C:\VIPER\CHKPATH C:\VIPER

IF ERRORLEVEL 3 PATH C:\VIPER;%PATH%

SET VIPERPATH=C:\VIPER

ECHO call C:\QL2FAX\FASTFAX /f /rec

ECHO LH /L:1,33344 C:\VIPER\VPRBIOS

PROMPT $D $_$P$G

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green highlighting disappearing

> When I first installed windows, the WINHELP green highlighting was just

> fine, but then it turned black on white no matter which application I am

> using.  The change seems to be triggered by something in a .INI file

> somewhere,  but I am unable to pinpoint it.

There was a bug in WinHelp 3.1 that turned green underlining to black

if you used a display driver with greater than 256-color resolution.

Naturally, this has been fixed in Windows 95...

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Printing .hlp files...

In article <cacclin.779879338@vanbc>, cacclin@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stephen

Cacclin) writes:

>Is there any simple way to print or copy the entire contents of a .hlp

file?

>I am sick and tired or going topic by topic....

There is a utility called hlp2doc available around the net.  It converts

.hlp files into WinWord version 2 .doc files.  From there you can print or

whatever else you want to do provided you have a Word Processor that will

read Word 2 .doc files.  The latest (and last freeware version; a

commercial company has bought it and is taking over development) version

is hlpdoc137.zip.  You might try an archie search for that filename.

Bill McDaniel

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[Q] How to do "title bar"?

In article <marnoldCwBJHE.DFs@netcom.com>, marnold@netcom.com (Matt

Arnold) writes:

>Not for a window, but rather for a topic within a help file.

>

>For example, some help files seem to have a non-scrolling title

>section just below WinHelp's menu-bar for each topic.

>

>How is this done?  Is there some macro I haven't found?

To acheive a NSR (Non-Scrolling Region) in your topics depends on what

help authoring tool you are using.  If you are using WORD, then hilight

the text you wanted included in the NSR and then select FORMAT|PARAGRAPH

and click on the box titled KEEP WITH NEXT (that's the menu path for word

2, not sure of it for word 6).  Note that the when you hilight the text

you wish to include, that text MUST be in the first paragraph of you topic

or the help compiler will generate an error.  Hope this helps.

Bill McDaniel

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[Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

In article <marnoldCwCC1u.1EE@netcom.com>, marnold@netcom.com (Matt

Arnold) writes:

>I would like to get started playing around with creating help files,

>but don't want to buy Microsoft Word to do it.

I _highly_ recommend Help Writer's Assistant for Windows (HWA).  No MS

Word needed or any RTF editor. Simply use the intergrated visual editor.

Check it out, you won't be disappointed.  You can find HWA on CICA under

the filenames HWAB50_1.ZIP and HWAB50_2.ZIP

Good luck

Bill McDaniel

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rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

In article <35hneq$h5m@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> brucec@ix.netcom.com (Bruce Covell) writes:

>I, too, am interested in using html files. What html authoring tool are you

>using?

HTMLed version 1.0

by Peter B. Crenshaw

inett@nbnet.nb.ca

Hope this helps.

And HEY...if anyone has any BETTER authoring programs PLEASE post them here,

ya hear?

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howto make a .HLP

In <dennis.54.0011130B@warner.com> dennis@warner.com (Dennis G German) writes:

>How do I make a file with the  .HLP extenstion that can be processed by HELP

This is quite a complicated issue.  There are books written about the subject,

so you will really need to do some reading...

The first thing you need to do is create a .RTF file which the help compiler

takes to create a .HLP file.  To create a .RTF file you need either a word

processor like Word for Windows which reads and writes RTF, or a tool such

as HWA which has a built in visual editor to provide WYSIWYG help development.

When your RTF file has been created you can compile it after creating a

project file with your help compiler!

To get a copy of the help compiler you need to purchase a licence, such as

comes with a development tool such as Visual C++ or a help authoring tool

such as HWA, RoboHelp, Doc-To-Help, HLPDK/PA etc...

...Stefan

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REQUEST: Shareware help compiler?

In <1994Sep9.112455.1771@debet> inf_btb@debet.nhh.no (Mac-My-Day) writes:

>Does anybody know of a shareware help compiler for Windows, that is both

>reliable and easy to use?

>(need not neccessarily be shareware, but should be low priced)

There are several shareware help authoring tools.  Look on ftp.cica.indiana.edu

or at the FAQ for this group for some tools.  In order to get the help

compiler you will need to purchase either a development tool (such as

Visual C++) which comes with the compiler, or a help authoring tool

which comes with the compiler (such as HWA, HLPDK/PA, RoboHelp, Doc-To-Help,

just to name a few).

Take a look at the tools on cica and use the one you like best!

Stefan

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RTF Editors

In <linguist.325.2E702CC5@m-net.arbornet.org> linguist@m-net.arbornet.org (Rich Paul) writes:

>What PD/Shareware/Commercial programs are there out there that will edit .RTF

>files?  BC4.0 kicks some out from AppExpert, but I can't do anything with 'em

>but compile 'em.

There are a few tools on ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  Take a look there and see what

you can find.  You should find a tool you like using.

...Stefan

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Ralph Walden, me too! (was Re: Chicago Help compatability)

In article stano@halcyon.com (Stan Orchard) writes:

>In article Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> writes:

>>The goal of Chicago help is to run all existing help files whether or

>>not you have used undocumented features. If a feature is undocumented,

>>we reserve the right to remove it, but we would only do that if the

>>performance/functionality gained sufficiently offsets the lack of

>>backwards compatibility. Those of you who are beta sites should be

>>reporting loss of functionality as a bug, not claiming that we removed

>>the functionality.

>Please excuse me if I've missed something here. But can you please elaborate

>on Chicago help? Is the current version of Viewer the next generation help

>creator? While "The goal of Chicago help is to run all existing help files"

>will continuing to create these files be woefully out of step with the rest of

>the Windows world? Can you give a few hints as to which direction I should be

>starting to go? I realize the entire world won't switch to Windows 95 in a

>month's time. Not everyone will have hardware capable of running

>video/audio/animation simultaneously. That would seem to me to mean that

>traditional .hlp files may still have their place. I just want a few more

>indications of where this whole thing might be headed.

>

>If I have missed discussions in this area please direct me to the proper faq

>or whatever. If this is an area that is still under wraps(I am not a chicago

>beta tester) please say so. Any information you'd care to share I'm sure would

>be appreciated by everyone here. Thanks much!

I second this.  As a developer of electronic books using the Windows 3.1 Help

engine (and not Viewer 2 for reasons I won't get into here), I also need to

plan for the future.  Some questions:

1) Will there still be a two-tier system of hypertext tools when Win4 comes

   out?  What I mean by that is at present we have two:  WinHelp 3.1 and

   Viewer 2.0.

2) Whether one or two tools, will the Chicago Help tool have full text

   searching and support 256 color bitmaps?  What other features will it

   have that WinHelp 3.1 doesn't have (I refer to the "base model" of WinHelp

   3.1 without added or custom DLL's.)

Any information that you can share with us on the future Chicago Help would

be *much* appreciated.  There are a lot of WinHelp developers on this

newsgroup who don't have access to the Chicago Beta and tools, and we are

itching to know for planning purposes.  And many of us do not (by obvious

choice) have access to Compu$erve (the Internet is the future, not CIS!),

where I guess much of the discussion on this subject takes place.

Jon Noring

OmniMedia

(p.s., I hope that the Microsoft WinHelp people decide to spend as much time

in this newsgroup as they do on CIS.)

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Microsoft announces SGML support

I thought folks would be interested in this, given all the people who

would like WinHelp to have HTML in its future.

Remember that the Microsoft rep. who (sometimes) appears here maintains

that the compiler is still RTF-only in Windows 95.

However, an SGML tool like this might let you generate your RTF

and HTML from one source.

(I wonder how useful this will be, given that SGML is a

content-based format and Word users traditionally compose a document

using format-based elements.  To really take advantage of SGML, this

product will have introduce new authoring methods.  IMHO.)

> MICROSOFT INTRODUCES FIRST SGML AUTHORING TOOL FOR MICROSOFT WORD; NEW

> ADD-ON TOOL MAKES CREATING SGML EASY

>

>   REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT)

> today announced Microsoft(R) SGML Author for Word, an easy-to-use add-on tool

> for Microsoft Word 6.0 for the Windows(TM) operating system for creating

> Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).  SGML Author hides the

> complexities

> of SGML, allowing users to create SGML quickly without extensive training or

> knowledge.  Users no longer have to spend hours manually tagging documents --

> SGML Author does it for them automatically.

>

>   SGML is an international standard that describes the relationship between a

> document's content and its structure.  SGML allows document- based information

> to be shared and reused across applications and hardware platforms in an open

> vendor-neutral format.  It defines a methodology for "marking" the

> contents of a

> document such as the title, the author, a graphic, the date, or even specific

> categories of data, essentially turning the document into a database.

>

>   SGML is used by organizations such as governments, airlines and

> pharmaceutical

> companies, among others, that are looking for ways to reuse and publish

> document-based information electronically.  Because it is an open data

> specification, SGML enables companies to publish information through media such

> as CD-ROM, electronic viewers and paper. In the airline industry, manufacturers

> are investigating distributing their aircraft service bulletins electronically

> to be read with intelligent document viewing systems.  For example, if a

> maintenance person needs a guide for adjusting a plane's landing gear,

> a viewing

> tool could assemble all the necessary information automatically.

>

>   "Many companies are looking for easy-to-use, cost-effective applications like

> SGML Author," said Peter Pathe, general manager of the Word business unit at

> Microsoft.  "SGML Author extends the power and ease of use of Word to the

> emerging demand for online documents and electronic publishing."

>

>   SGML Author Makes It Easier to Create SGML

>

>   According to InterConsult Inc., a Massachusetts-based research firm, the most

> common request among companies is to make SGML easier to use. SGML Author

> simplifies the SGML creation process by allowing users to work entirely within

> Word's graphical word-processing environment. Users of SGML Author never see

> SGML "tags" in Word and are therefore shielded from the complexities of SGML so

> they can focus entirely on creating documents.  Because users of SGML

> Author for

> Word are already working within a familiar word-processing environment,

> creating

> SGML can be quicker, easier and more cost-effective.  Because SGML Author

> requires no programming, it also facilitates SGML creation by administrators.

> Using intuitive point-and-click management tools, administrators can configure

> SGML Author, to make their solutions operational quickly.

>

>   SGML Author Leverages Users' Investment in Word

>

>   With SGML Author, companies can leverage their investments in Word by adding

> SGML functionality without having to purchase a separate, dedicated SGML

> application.  Because users of SGML Author are already familiar with Word, they

> can become productive quickly with minimal incremental training or knowledge of

> SGML.

>

>   As organizations increasingly distribute and manage information

> electronically, they are looking to build publishing solutions based on

> off-the-shelf applications.  "SGML Author for Word solidifies the position of

> Word as a robust authoring tool that can be used as a component in demanding

> publishing applications," said Mark Walter, senior editor at Seybold

> Publications, Inc.

>

>   SGML Author and Third-Party Tools Deliver Complete SGML Solutions

>

>   SGML Author is a single component of any SGML solution that usually includes

> applications from many vendors.  Microsoft's strategy is to work actively with

> third-party vendors to offer companies a complete, end-to-end SGML solution.  A

> number of third-party vendors have created products and services that leverage

> their areas of expertise to specifically augment SGML Author.

>

>   "Microsoft's SGML Author provides a significant boost for the SGML industry,"

> said Bill Zoellick, president of Avalanche Development Company.  "SGML Author

> for Word does an excellent job of complementing many existing third-party SGML

> tools."  Microsoft is working with several companies supporting SGML Author,

> including Avalanche, Electronic Book Technologies, Interleaf, Inc., MicroStar

> Software and SoftQuad Inc.

>

>   System Requirements

>

>   Microsoft SGML Author for Word requires a PC with an 80386 or higher

> microprocessor, Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows or later, the MS-DOS(R)

> operating

> system version 3.0 or later, 4 MB of memory minimum (6 MB recommended), 3 MB of

> hard disk space, and a Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device.  Also

> required is one of the following: Microsoft Windows version 3.1 or later,

> Microsoft Windows(TM) for Workgroups version 3.1 or higher, or Microsoft

> Windows(TM) for Pen Computing.

>

>   Pricing and Availability

>

>   Microsoft SGML Author for Word will be available for approximately $595.  It

> is expected to begin shipping by the end of the fourth quarter of 1994.

>

>   Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in

> software

> for personal computers.  The company offers a wide range of products and

> services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission

> of making

> it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of

> personal computing every day.

>

>   Microsoft and MS-DOS are registered trademarks and Windows is a trademark of

> Microsoft Corporation.

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Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

In article <778354847snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> Chris Marriott  says:

>>My assumption is that you would like to do what all of us want to do

>>and reuse parts of existing help files: after all it makes no sense

>>to have hundreds of developers reword help topics for File Save or

>>Edit Paste ...

>One of the good things about Microsoft's "Visual C++" compiler is the

>fact that when you generate an application with "AppWizard" it writes

>some RTF files for you. One of these files "AFXCORE.RTF" contains quite

>nice explanations of standard Windows features such as the "System",

>"Window", "File", "Help" menus, as well as how to use the scroll bar,

>toolbar, title bar, etc.

This seems to be the best suggestion sofar.

 So you use AFXCORE.RTF, as

allowed by the Microsoft license and in this way you  can refer to the common

help without infringing anyone's copyright.

Beyond the copyright issue, this form of reuse

avoids the risk of mistakes inherent in any copy.  Furthermore

it helps  create a uniform help for users.

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>For example, some help files seem to have a non-scrolling title

>section just below WinHelp's menu-bar for each topic.

>How is this done?  Is there some macro I haven't found?

The non-scrolling section is done by the \keepn rtf code.  In Word terms,

that's the "keep this paragraph with the next paragraph" setting.

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Translating help files into multiple languages...

In article <0xdcuAgEBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>

           stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz "Stefan Olson" writes:

>The point is that HWA and ForeHelp are some other word processors!

>HWA employs an interface that is very similar to Word (tabbed dialogs

>etc...) and like ForeHelp provides editing in the same manner as in

>Word.  No learning about help files is required! The only difference

>is that hidden text is not seen (and in HWA anyway it will query the

>user if they try and remove a jump, so the translator is less likely

>to remove jumps) and that they don't have to see footnotes and get

>confused by other WinHelp obscurities.

>

>If you have any other ideas about why Word or some other word processor

>(which is basically what HWA are ForeHelp are) would be better, please

>let me know - it is very interesting to hear other people's ideas and

>comments.

Stefan,

I'm sure that HWA is a great tool for developing Help files. Personally,

I've only so far developed relatively modest-sized help files, and I've

found Word adequate for my needs. I also have the benefit of being a

reasonably experienced Windows programmer, which I'm sure many of your

customers aren't. If I were to develop a complex complex Help system I'd

probably go for a tool such as yours.

I certainly meant no offense to your doubtless excellent product! All I was

trying to say is that *I* had Word, and my *translator* had Word too, so

we were able to directly exchange files, without the need for him to get

any additional tools. This was convenient, especially since we had a deadline

for a magazine publication date and time was extremely tight!

Chris

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Chicago Help compatability

In article <Cvw2Jy.M7H@metrics.com> ralphw@microsoft.com "Ralph Walden" writes:

>The goal of Chicago help is to run all existing help files whether or

>not you have used undocumented features. If a feature is undocumented,

>we reserve the right to remove it, but we would only do that if the

>performance/functionality gained sufficiently offsets the lack of

>backwards compatibility. Those of you who are beta sites should be

>reporting loss of functionality as a bug, not claiming that we removed

>the functionality.

Ralph,

I've heard that "Chicago" will be officially called "Windows 95". Can you

confirm that this is true?

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REQUEST: Shareware help compiler?

In article <1994Sep9.112455.1771@debet> inf_btb@debet.nhh.no "Mac-My-Day" writes:

>Does anybody know of a shareware help compiler for Windows, that is both

>reliable and easy to use?

>(need not neccessarily be shareware, but should be low priced)

There is no shareware Help compiler. There is only one Help compiler, and

you can get it totally free from "ftp.microsoft.com". Look for a file

called "hc505.zip" or something similar.

The help compiler works with ASCII text files using "Rich Text Format"

or RTF. There are a vast array of tools, free, shareware and commercial, for

creating RTF files, but only the one actual *compiler*.

Hope this clarifies the situation.

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Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

In article <1994Sep17.134356.7@vms.huji.ac.il>,

 <tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il> wrote:

>I have another request for Ralph. I'd like to see not only 256 and

>24 bit support, but a jpeg viewer.  That'd be a real plus, a serious

>plus.  Also, I'd like to see built in hook's to Visual Basic, so I

>won't have to buy Ron's PASTERP.dll  :-)

>

Hi Dennis,

Unless VB will be part of the OS, I doubt you will see a VB specific hook

in winhelp.

Also - you're no fun man, Mr. Gates is not the only one that has to pay

the rent :-)

Ron.

>-dennis

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[Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

In <marnoldCwCC1u.1EE@netcom.com> marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold) writes:

>Anyone know of one?  Or *any* shareware help authoring utilities?

>I would like to get started playing around with creating help files,

>but don't want to buy Microsoft Word to do it.

There are quite a few...  Check out ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  Choose the

tool that you like best!

...Stefan

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Shrinking bitmaps

In article <3484mo$21c@search01.news.aol.com> jpg3@aol.com (JPG3) writes:

>From: jpg3@aol.com (JPG3)

>Subject: Shrinking bitmaps

>Date: 2 Sep 1994 17:16:08 -0400

>I have a bunch of bitmaps (screen captures of software dialog boxes

>mostly) that are too big at 100% to fit neatly into a help file.

[deleted]

>Any suggestions?

Hmmm... I had a similar problem a while back. I ended up "dissecting" the

bitmap and pulling out the relevant goodies (ie. the menu bar, Tool bar, etc),

labelled them, rearranged them into a much smaller screen area, then stored

the result as a segmented hypergraphic. Looks a treat! The users seem happy

with the results.

The trick seems to be getting rid of pieces of the bitmap that make little or

no contribution to the help topic being described.

Cheers!

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rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

In article <35gtmt$jka$1@perth.dialix.oz.au>, Bill Rayer wrote:

>

> In <stano.62.000EEBB2@halcyon.com> stano@halcyon.com (Stan Orchard)

writes:

>

> >In article <Cw92En.Gtt@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>

pz7q@darwin.clas.Virginia.EDU (Ping  Zhong) writes:

>

> >>cen5yf@gps.leeds.ac.uk  writes:

> >>> Is there such a file viewer run on X-WINDOW??

>

> >I find myself gravitating more and more toward html for those very

reasons.

> >Any more I write my .hlp files in MS Word, cut and paste into my .hlp

> >authoring program AND into my html authoring program. Thus I have three

> >versions of the same document.

>

> This is exactly the same problem I had. I have a 500 page manual and

> wanted to put ~200 pages into a help file. I really don't want 2

> versions because the manual may change and it seemed really inefficient

> to duplicate all that work.

>

> In the end I worked out a 3 stage system that allows 1 source:-

> (1) print the manual to a text file, using the word processor

> (2) Convert the text file to a RTF file with all the topics

>     (I had to write a small program TXT2RTF to do this)

> (3) Use the Windows help compiler to convert manual.rtf --> manual.hlp.

>

> This is a bit clunky, but it works. Maybe the ideal is to use Word

> for the manual and get some of the macros that convert the manual

> into the topic format for the help files. However I hate learning

> new word processors - I'd rather learn a new computer language!

>

> Maybe you should write something to convert RTF --> HTML?

> BTW what IS HTML (high tension meta language? :-)

>

> Bill Rayer

>

> lingo@dialix.oz.au

>

Maybe you should investigate our HLPDK/PA product, it will allow you to

created HTML, WinHelp printed documentation and several other formats

(DESQview/X, OS/2 IPF, Dos) from one source. Our moto is "Write Once, Help

Many".

If you would like some more specific documentation about HLPDK/PA, please

contact me and I'll be happy to provide this information.

Ron.

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rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

In <stano.67.00111F17@halcyon.com> stano@halcyon.com (Stan Orchard) writes:

>

>In article <35hneq$h5m@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> brucec@ix.netcom.com (Bruce Covell) writes:

>

>>I, too, am interested in using html files. What html authoring tool are you

>>using?

>

>HTMLed version 1.0

>by Peter B. Crenshaw

>inett@nbnet.nb.ca

>

>Hope this helps.

>

>And HEY...if anyone has any BETTER authoring programs PLEASE post them here,

>ya hear?

>

>StanO

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Thanks! I'll take a look.

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tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il wrote:

>I have another request for Ralph. I'd like to see not only 256 and

>24 bit support, but a jpeg viewer.  That'd be a real plus, a serious

>plus.  Also, I'd like to see built in hook's to Visual Basic, so I

>won't have to buy Ron's PASTERP.dll  :-)

>

>-dennis

>

Dennis,

   I can almost guarantee that this won't happen. I'm sure GIF would come

before JPEG because GIFs are much more standardized and have larger

audience, but I doubt either one will be supported. If I remember

correctly, however, I think SHOWBMP.DLL does support .JPG files now, but

don't quote me.

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Extracting Baggage form a Help File

Hi,

I want to ship a text version of a help file as baggage with the

help file. My plan is to provide a Print button which is bound to

a macro which will extract the file from the baggage and print it.

I know that some sort of custom DLL will have to be written, and

that the are probably standard DLLs used to extract the file but

I don't know where to start and I definitely don't know what is

involved in printing the file once it is extracted.

Any help, hints or DLLs would be greatly appreciated.

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[Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold) wrote:

>Anyone know of one?  Or *any* shareware help authoring utilities?

>

>I would like to get started playing around with creating help files,

>but don't want to buy Microsoft Word to do it.

>

>Thanks,

>Matt

Matt, check the FAQ. Look back a couple of messages (about 15 or so) to

find availability. I keep forgetting the ftp site. I need to write this down.

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printing MS-Windows Help files

I am sure this is a common request. Can someone point me to a utility

which will print MS-Windows help files without my having to print them

page at a time from within  Windows?

Also, how does it handle the little pop-up (hypertext) boxes?

Where is a utility to do this or point me to the FAQ. Please respond

via e-mail.

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Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

I have a help project that I need to edit and recompile.

I open the RTF file into Word 6.0a, make a slight textual

change, and save the file. When I try to compile the

file, hc31 crashes my computer. No error file is written.

I can successfully compile the unaltered RTF! In I repeat

the above process without making any change, i.e., merely

opening and saving the RTF, and the my computer crashes

as above.

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Various questions

Jon Noring asks:

1) Will there still be a two-tier system of hypertext tools when Win4 comes

   out?  What I mean by that is at present we have two:  WinHelp 3.1 and

   Viewer 2.0.

>> MediaView if you need a completely customizable UI, WinHelp for most

everything else. There will be some overlap with Viewer 2 and Chicago's

WinHelp -- Viewer 2 still has a few features that don't exist in

WinHelp, most notably support for panes.

2) Whether one or two tools, will the Chicago Help tool have full text

   searching and support 256 color bitmaps?  What other features will it

   have that WinHelp 3.1 doesn't have (I refer to the "base model" of WinHelp

   3.1 without added or custom DLL's.)

>> Yes, it will have full-text search and support 256 (and 24-bit)

graphics. A previous posting by me lists some of the other highlights.

Chris Marriott asks:

I've heard that "Chicago" will be officially called "Windows 95". Can you

confirm that this is true?

>> It's true.

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MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

In <1994Sep16.150059.5928@leeds.ac.uk> cen5yf@gps.leeds.ac.uk (Fan.Y.) writes:

>Is there such a file viewer run on X-WINDOW??

This is quite a complicated issue.  As far as I know there is no product

that will *view* WinHelp .HLP files on X-Windows.  However, there is a

product called HyperHelp from Bristol Technology.  With their product you

can recompile the help file under unix and display it!  This is quite

expensive from what I have heard

It may also be worth looking at HLPDK/PA from HyperAct which allows

compiling on different platforms, one of which I believe is Unix.

Email me if you need contact information.

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Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

In article <35l3b4$kgg@panix.com>, fredg@panix.com (Fred Galli) wrote:

> I have a help project that I need to edit and recompile.

> I open the RTF file into Word 6.0a, make a slight textual

> change, and save the file. When I try to compile the

> file, hc31 crashes my computer. No error file is written.

This is a well known 'feature' of WinWord 6: its rtfs will

make all revisions of the help compiler older than v. 3.1.504

(I think) choke. If you have purchased one of the several

products that contains a licenced copy of the help compiler,

you should have no problems getting the latest revision

from your local MS representative or MS bulletin boards or

FTP sites.

Good luck!

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Planning On-Line Help in Windows

In article <35fa1i$l7r$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> J. K. Genser <74443.2067@CompuServe.COM> writes:

>Hi,

>

>I am planning a medium to large help project and I would

>appreciate any words of wisdom about the pitfalls of planning

>large projects.

>

>What should I avoid doing? What should I make sure I do early on?

>What do you wish you knew before you started?

The answers to these questions depend on the ultimate goal of the help

system. Provide more details, please.

For example, if you are doing context-sensitive help for a commercial

software product, I'd recommend:

    *Speak early and often with your programmer. Plan the context string and

     context id scheme before doing any writing.

If you are converting a database to an online access capability, there would

be other recommendations, and still others if you are publishing an online

version of a manual or work of fiction, and yet other things to think about

if it is just a collection of personal information, recipes and so on.

Even something as basic as choice of authoring tool will be influenced by

what you are actually trying to accomplish.

>Thanks in advance,

>J. K. Genser

>Sr. Technical Writer, New York City

>

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Boxes and shading

I get the feeling that a number of folks are entering the field

of .hlp file creation 'cold'.  That is, they have some

programming experience, but are learning RTF commands on the

fly. Well, that's how I am doing it.  Thus I know a little but

am having trouble with a couple of rough spots. I DID find that

my "Developers Guide..." has come in to Barnes and Noble,

so.... until then, a question for you kind souls.

I am trying to get a box with a single line around it, but with

thick shadowing.  I can do the single box with single shadow

with the '/box/brdrsh', but when I add a '/box/brdrsh/brdrth',

I get a thick box and that is it. What am I missing - perhaps a

/pard or some curley brackets??

-regards

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FOLIO VIEWS (Was: On-Line Books?? Authoring???)

In article <ppearson.11.000BE920@folio.com> ppearson@folio.com (Paul Pearson) writes:

>In article <35591l$f0f@nic.cerf.net> barrett@nic.cerf.net (Bill Barrett)

>writes:>From: barrett@nic.cerf.net (Bill Barrett)

>>Subject: On-Line Books?? Authoring???

>>Date: 13 Sep 1994 15:28:05 -0700

>

>

>>Anyone know of a utilitity to help in On-Line Books authoring.

>Let me voice a few of my biased views...

>

>The absolute best way to produce electronic reference information (i.e. Help

>files, refrerence materials, manuals, e-texts, etc.) is using Folio VIEWS 3.1.

> If you are not familiar with the product, just ask and I can have information

>sent to you.

Well, I *am* familiar with Folio Views, and I can confirm this. Folio Views

is a terrific product for generating hypertexts. You can create a hypertext

document (called an InfoBase - information database) directly from a Word or

WordPerfect document and it automatically sets up a hypertext contents based

on the headings.

>  - Full text indexing and searching.

This is incredible. The "create" utility does a full-text index that is just

too smooth. When you start a query, and you type the letter "t", you

*immediately* see how many words begin with that letter, and the first one

is highlighted on a list containging ervery string in the document. Type

"h", and the number instantly decreases, and the highlight moves.

>  - Powerful, customizable query interface.

No lie. Powerful, as in "find every occurrence of the word "Powerful" within

the same paragraph as the word "customizable" and within 7 words of each

other unless the term "query interface" does not also appear in the record".

>  - Cross platform (same file can be used on DOS, Win, Mac)

>  - User can personalize and annotate.

Yes, and in several different ways -- different colored highlighters, notes,

bookmarks, links, popups, browse sequences, even macros!

>  - Import and export of most popular word processor formats.

>  - Easy integration as a Help system.

I haven't run across this feature. Can you briefly describe how it works?

>  - Shadow file (overlay) capability allow custom annotations without

>    changing master file.

>  - Multi-user viewing and editing.

You can even give various types of permissions to different types of users.

For example, some users you want to be able to just view the text, others

you may want to allow to annotate, but not edit the words, others you can

set up to even generate their own shadow files. Very, very flexible.

>  - Many many many more features...

One I really like is that the Infobase can be distributed on a network.

Users do not have to run the entire Views application, but install a more

compact Workstation version that lets them do everything except create new

Infobases, which is just fine most of the time. If a user wants to create an

Infobase, they'd author it in Word or WordPerfect (typically) and forward

the DOC file to the Infobase publisher. That person would run "create" and

then inform users that the new Infobase is available. Most users would

set up the Infobase directory as a network drive.

>For more information send a request to:

>  ppearson@folio.com

>       -- or --

>  salesdeptj@folio.com

>

>--Paul Pearson

>  ppearson@folio.com

Folio has turned a possible negative into an interesting marketing idea. For

distributing Infobases, a reader program is required, but they have more

than one such program, and you negotiate terms based on numbers of copies,

number of titles per year, numbers of users, types of users! They have cut

the possibilites so many different ways that it should be fairly easy for a

marketing person to position a product with a great deal of precision.

Thanks, Paul for your posting. As I told you in my email response to this

posting, I am surprised that this fine product is not more widely known. I

fully expect it to become the premier hypertext delivery system. Of course,

WinHelp is freely distributable, so it will probably always be around, but

the features of Views puts it way beyond the rather austere capabilities of

WinHelp.

I am not affiliated with Folio in any way except as a very satisfied, very

impressed customer.

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Printing .hlp files...

In article <cacclin.779879338@vanbc> cacclin@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stephen Cacclin) writes:

>Is there any simple way to print or copy the entire contents of a .hlp file?

>I am sick and tired or going topic by topic....

>

>Stephen

Under the FILE menu, select PRINT TOPIC... when the dialog box with the list

of topics appears, click on SELECT ALL, then OK.

Oh, you don't have ForeHelp? Why not?

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Help and documentation

In article <3444t8$464@mydear.csl.sni.be>, Paul Busse wrote:

[snip]

> I'm looking for a tool that has following properties :

[...]

> The last point needs a little explanation, I presume :

> our documentation has to be translated. Translators can be

[...]

> But the effect of 90% of the rest of RTF is chinese to them.

> (Except for chinese translators, of course :-). So the information in

> the text that is allowed should be restricted.

> The translator should not need to search for the text as is the case

> in rtf-files generated by ROBOHELP and related tools.

Let me get this straight: This sounds like you have been

editing your rtf files with some sort of editor which is

a bit naive of the rtf format. Is that so?

If it is, switch to Microsoft Word for Windows (aka Winword)

or some other modern word processor which is able to import

and edit rtf files properly. The 'need to search for the text'

should then disappear immediately.

Most of the translators I have worked with have been able to

edit the rtfs for major help systems flawlessly (that is,

preserving all formatting and navigation information) after a

15-minute introduction to the basics of the help source structure

as seen through Winword. Such a 15-minute lecture, or a couple of

hours browsing the relevant parts of the Windows programming

documentation, is *absolutely necessary* for anyone doing anything

at all to rtfs.

By the way, which languages are you interested in translating

to/from? I could probably give you a hand with the Nordics!

All the best,

Peter

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Color Limitations

I'm trying to use a 256 color BMP file in a windows help file. It compiles

correctly, but won't show the colors properly. What is the limit on the

number of colors that the compiler can handle.

Thanks in advance,

Wayne Scott

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Jumps in Popups

Hi. We are working on the design for our help file for our app

(rather the tech docs person is). One of the things we are considering

doing is context sensitive help. What we were thinging about was

using the HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP to display the context sensitive

help. This works fine. However, the context sensitve help topics

have jumps in them. If we invoke the help with HELP_CONTEXT, then

everything works fine. Howver, with the HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP, the jumps

do not appear to work (what appears to happen is that when you click

on the jump it just dismisses the popup).

Are we doing something wrong, or is this construct just not allowed ???

Thanks in advance.

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Various questions

In article <CwEv7t.95z@metrics.com> Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> writes:

>Jon Noring asks:

>1) Will there still be a two-tier system of hypertext tools when Win4 comes

>   out?  What I mean by that is at present we have two:  WinHelp 3.1 and

>   Viewer 2.0.

>>> MediaView if you need a completely customizable UI, WinHelp for most

>everything else. There will be some overlap with Viewer 2 and Chicago's

>WinHelp -- Viewer 2 still has a few features that don't exist in

>WinHelp, most notably support for panes.

First, let me say how MUCH I(and for certain everyone else in this group)

appreciates your time, Ralph. Second, please accept my apology for being so

dense. BUT....

Please explain MediaView(or anyone else if I've completely missed the boat

here). And are you saying if I get the Viewer 2SDK(or whatever it's called

these days. Maybe just DevNet CD?) and I develope all future .hlp(or whatever

they're to be called) files in this format I'll be compatible with Windows 95?

Again, I apologize for my apparent lack of having a clue. I am simply a humble

developer of WinHelp and html documents. Frankly, a writer by trade trying to

expand my areas of publication. Sure, I can and have written .hlp files for

various apps. But as a humble communicator with the spoken and written word I

REALLY enjoy writing to these other media that allow for links to other areas,

media, info, etc. I, for one, see TREMENDOUS opportunity in this realm for

today's writers and tomorrow's as well. Young, old...it doesn't matter. Anyone

with even a passing grasp of Hypercard or WinHelp or html who can write

anything can see the potential.

Thanks again, Ralph. It's great to see your posts. But anyone who reads this:

please carry on this thread or rename it. This concept of normal, routine, day

to day communication in a multi-level environment(hypertext for lack of better

term) intrigues the heck out of me. I'd love to hear other

ideas/thoughts/opinions.

StanO

>2) Whether one or two tools, will the Chicago Help tool have full text

>   searching and support 256 color bitmaps?  What other features will it

>   have that WinHelp 3.1 doesn't have (I refer to the "base model" of WinHelp

>   3.1 without added or custom DLL's.)

>>> Yes, it will have full-text search and support 256 (and 24-bit)

>graphics. A previous posting by me lists some of the other highlights.

>Chris Marriott asks:

>I've heard that "Chicago" will be officially called "Windows 95". Can you

>confirm that this is true?

>>> It's true.

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MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

In <1994Sep16.150059.5928@leeds.ac.uk> cen5yf@gps.leeds.ac.uk (Fan.Y.) writes:

>Is there such a file viewer run on X-WINDOW??

You might want to post the question in 'comp.windows.misc'.  There's a PIGUI

(Platform-Independent GUI) FAQ posted there.  Or try 'comp.windows.x'.

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Microsoft announces SGML support

In article <CwDMIL.D59@unx.sas.com>

sascrh@norman.unx.sas.com (Chris Hemedinger) writes:

> I thought folks would be interested in this, given all the people who

> would like WinHelp to have HTML in its future.

Actually, I'd say it's probably easier to go from HTML to RTF.  (Or better

still, from a more general DTD to either HTML or RTF, as needed.)

> Remember that the Microsoft rep. who (sometimes) appears here maintains

> that the compiler is still RTF-only in Windows 95.

> However, an SGML tool like this might let you generate your RTF

> and HTML from one source.

Yes and no, since your source will still have a lot of winhelp-specific

formatting.

> (I wonder how useful this will be, given that SGML is a

> content-based format and Word users traditionally compose a document

> using format-based elements.  To really take advantage of SGML, this

> product will have introduce new authoring methods.  IMHO.)

The idea behind Author for Word is that you use specific styles in creating

your document, and map these styles to SGML elements.  So for example you

define a style for your chapter titles, use that style consistently, and

then any text in that style will be mapped to the SGML element you've chosen

for your chapter titles.

For another example, you could map given Word styles to given HTML elements,

and use Word in this way to generate HTML.  Though you're better off using a

real HTML editor [ like SoftQuad HoTMetaL Pro(tm) :-) ] to do this.

This is the theory.  I'm not sure how well it would work in practice.

        --Rick.

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MediaView and Chicago's WinHelp

Stan Orchard asks:

Please explain MediaView(or anyone else if I've completely missed the boat

here). And are you saying if I get the Viewer 2SDK(or whatever it's called

these days. Maybe just DevNet CD?) and I develope all future .hlp(or whatever

they're to be called) files in this format I'll be compatible with Windows 95?

>> I was afraid someone was going to ask. MediaView is handled by a

different department over here. While I have looked at their code and

their spec for incorporating functionality into Chicago's WinHelp, I

have not paid any attention to how they are distributed. I'm also not

at liberty to discuss how and when we will be distibuting the new help

compiler and updated documentation. I can assure you it will either be

at or before Chicago ships, but that's all I can say about

distribution. It's my expectation that WinHelp will solve the vast

majority of help writer's needs, and MediaView will continue to be used

for some very specialized needs. But of course, as the WinHelp lead, I

do have a certain bias...

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Wayne Scott (waynes@hppcih50.dtc.hp.com) wrote:

: I'm trying to use a 256 color BMP file in a windows help file. It compiles

: correctly, but won't show the colors properly. What is the limit on the

: number of colors that the compiler can handle.

Sixteen!

Tom

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rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

stano@halcyon.com (Stan Orchard) writes:

>And HEY...if anyone has any BETTER authoring programs PLEASE post them here,

I would very much like to find a program that, given winhelp .rtf source,

spits out html files that work approximately the same.

I know from the faq that there's HELPDK, that has you input data in a unique

format and then produces all kinds of output, but that's more than I want

to get into right now.  Is there an RTF to HTML converter out there?

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rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

In article <stano.67.00111F17@halcyon.com> stano@halcyon.com (Stan Orchard) writes:

>From: stano@halcyon.com (Stan Orchard)

>Subject: Re: rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

>Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 17:07:10

>In article <35hneq$h5m@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> brucec@ix.netcom.com (Bruce Covell) writes:

>>I, too, am interested in using html files. What html authoring tool are you

>>using?

>HTMLed version 1.0

>by Peter B. Crenshaw

                      ^^^^^^^

                      Crawshaw

>inett@nbnet.nb.ca

The SHAREWARE version of HTMLed (for Windows) is now in version 1.1, and is

soon to be followed by version 1.2 as well as a Professional version (check

here and the www groups for an announcement soon). The shareware version is

available via anonymous ftp from:

    pringle.mta.ca/pub/HTMLed

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Internet Software Technologies/I-Net Training & Consulting Ltd

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Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

In article <35l3b4$kgg@panix.com>, fredg@panix.com (Fred Galli) says:

>

>I have a help project that I need to edit and recompile.

>I open the RTF file into Word 6.0a, make a slight textual

>change, and save the file. When I try to compile the

>file, hc31 crashes my computer. No error file is written.

There is a newer version of the hc on the MSDN CD. The Version is

3.10.505. I'm using the compiler under Windows NT and it works.

Anton

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Getting Started in Visual Help

In article <CvF6Kp.Dpy@eskimo.com>, telical@eskimo.com (Robert Pearson) writes:

|> I'm starting to use Visual Help, and I'm finding it a little unintuative,

|> and the documentation a little stingey.  It is inexpensive and I've

|> heard some good things in here.  One question is that my version supports

|> only 3 topics, I've heard other mention their's supported five.  Not a

|> big deal, because if I can get it to work, I plan on registering.

You need to register to get more.  And if you do register, get version 2.1,

it's got a couple extras that are really nice:  The A-Z scrollbar for Index/

Glossary topics, and the ability to define more than one style for each

object type (paragraph style 1, 2, ...5).

|>    My version comes up with just a menu bar on the screen, nothing else

|> except a little movable button toolset on the side.  I'm assuming that

|> I name my project files and such and then I'm given more room to work

|> with.  Re-writing samples is always an easy way to go, but I don't think

|> they've made that possible.  Am I correct about this?  I get an error

|> message about "no error file found."

|>     Can anyone give me any more directions?

|>

Visual Help is designed to look like Visual Basic.  To start, choose

File\New Topic

from the menu.  This brings up a blank sheet (topic) for you to put stuff on.

One topic == one "page" in help.

Drag objects from the toolbar, and type in text where appropriate.

Save the file.

Choose

Options\Environment

from the menu.  Make sure that the compiler points to your version of the

Help Compiler (mine's in c:\vb\hc\hc31.exe).

Type

F4

This will build, compile, and run your little program.

Version 2.1 comes with a Word for Windows 2.0 document you can print out.  ~100

pages.

Good luck.

Dawn-Marie Oliver

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MediaView and Chicago's WinHelp

In article <CwGpq6.LJ3@metrics.com>, Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> writes:

|> Stan Orchard asks:

|>

|> Please explain MediaView(or anyone else if I've completely missed the boat

|> here). And are you saying if I get the Viewer 2SDK(or whatever it's called

|> these days. Maybe just DevNet CD?) and I develope all future .hlp(or whatever

|> they're to be called) files in this format I'll be compatible with Windows 95?

|>

Here's my understanding of the product-hierarchy:

WinHelp - you know what that is!

  AVAILABILITY:  See the FAQ!

MS Viewer 2 - is WinHelp-like, the main differences right now being

  256-color graphic support, full-text search, and support for multiple

  panes.  Viewer 2 requires a set of development tools (SDK); Viewer 2

  files can only be viewed with a (royalty-free) Viewer.

  According to Ralph Walden, the gap between WinHelp and MS Viewer 2

  will close somewhat for Chicago; support for multiple panes will

  be the big difference.

  AVAILABILITY:  The Development Kit is available from Microsoft.

MediaView - a set of library functions and API that provide a programmer

  with all of the functions of MS Viewer 2.  This lets you design

  your own interface without having to reinvent all of the Viewer

  and WinHelp features.  I believe it was this type of tool that MS

  used to create titles such as Encarta, etc.

  AVAILABILITY:  Currently supplied as beta on MSDN Level 2 CD.

This is just my understanding as a WinHelp developer and a subscriber to

the MSDN Level 2 CD.  I have never developed with Viewer or MediaView.

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Planning On-Line Help in Windows

An effective help system stems from a great amount of planning.  In fact, i

believe that planning is the most important step in creating a help project.

There is a book (listed in the FAQ), that has a great deal of information on

planning a help project from start to completion.  The book includes step-by-

step planning, development guidelines, budget and scheduling guidelines, etc..

The book is called "Developing Online Help for Windows" and is by Scott

Boggan, David Farkas and Joe Welinske.  The publisher is Sams,, and the cost

is a mere $39.95US (quite a bargain for such a wealth of information).

Hope this helps, I know it has helped me a great deal!

Cathy Pacza

Technical Writer

Sybase Canada Inc.

>Hi,

>

>I am planning a medium to large help project and I would

>appreciate any words of wisdom about the pitfalls of planning

>large projects.

>

>What should I avoid doing? What should I make sure I do early on?

>What do you wish you knew before you started?

>

>Thanks in advance,

>J. K. Genser

>Sr. Technical Writer, New York City

>

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Doc To Help's Watermark 'feature'

Hi,

I am trying to use Doc To Help's watermark feature to put a

watermark on only the contents topic of a help file.

According to the manual, this is possible by specifying the

appropriate bitmap in the conversion rules dialog. However,

if I do this, no watermark appears.

If I specify the watermark in the help windows dialog, then

the watermark displays for every topic (I JUST WANT THE CONTENTS

TOPIC).

I have tried every permutation of choices in these two dialogs.

Even if someone who has succeeded in displaying the watermark

for the contents topic only could give me the syntax of the

RegisterRoutine macros in the project file, that would be

very useful.

Currently WexTech's answering machine says that the backlog

is 24 hrs and they will call you back if you leave your number.

I question whether it might be worth their while hiring more

people since their long distance bills must be astronomical!

I am very frustrated!

Thanks in advance,

Brendan.

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In <CwHApu.AGu@unx.sas.com> sascrh@norman.unx.sas.com (Chris Hemedinger) writes:

>MS Viewer 2 - is WinHelp-like, the main differences right now being

>  256-color graphic support, full-text search, and support for multiple

>  panes.  Viewer 2 requires a set of development tools (SDK); Viewer 2

>  files can only be viewed with a (royalty-free) Viewer.

>  According to Ralph Walden, the gap between WinHelp and MS Viewer 2

>  will close somewhat for Chicago; support for multiple panes will

>  be the big difference.

From what has been said on Compuserve it seems that Chicago 4.1 (Windows

'95.1?) will include multiple panes.  I don't know when the delivery

date is however...

...Stefan

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PIF HELP.

    At some point .PIF files were associated to one dos application.

I discovered the error.  I can not get the PIF files to execute properly.

Could you email some advice.

I'm not sure if there was an assocation for .pif's.

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UNIX Help Authoring Tools

I'm looking for online help development/authoring tools for the Solaris

platform. Are there any Windows tools that I can use to develop online

help for a Motif interface.

Please post to this newsgroup or email: vincent_crivello@manual3.com

Thanks

Vince Crivello

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Manual 3, Inc.

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To Ron Loewy re: HLPDK/PA

Could you send me information on HLPDK/PA?

I only have access to the WinHelp news group; if you post info there to my

attention I'll get it.

Thanks,

Ray Sayre

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MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) wrote:

>In <1994Sep16.150059.5928@leeds.ac.uk> cen5yf@gps.leeds.ac.uk (Fan.Y.) writes:

>>Is there such a file viewer run on X-WINDOW??

>

>This is quite a complicated issue.  As far as I know there is no product

>that will *view* WinHelp .HLP files on X-Windows.  However, there is a

>product called HyperHelp from Bristol Technology.  With their product you

>can recompile the help file under unix and display it!  This is quite

>expensive from what I have heard

[deleted]

>...Stefan

>

Does anyone know what ever became of WABI (It was basically Windows for

Unix)?

  I know they were working on a .HLP viewer for it, but I don't know what

ever happened with WABI.

Pete Davis

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WHAT6.EXE , WHPE, and HCPARSE.DLL

Current contract location uses WHPE.  I just downloaded the newest WHAT6.EXE

from ftp.microsoft.com

In WHAT6.EXE is the latest version of WHPE.  When I try to run WHPE,

it tells me that I don't have a compatible version of HCPARSE.DLL

Where do I get this DLL?

WHAT6.DOT documentation says you can use WHPE with it.  Is this true?

And how do you make it work?

Thanks,

Gary

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Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

I'm wondering what experience folks have with the size of help files. Is there

any absolute limit on the size? Is there a practical limit that governs when

to break stuff up into separate files and establish interfile links?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Michael McCoy

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> and I've sent a copy of the WinHelp version to Tim Roberts who will post

> it on his server. I believe he'll also post how to get it.

>

Thought, I had done this... but here goes.

The FAQ in both formats can be obtained via anonymous ftp at:

quasar.sba.dal.ca

The text version is in the /www/doc directory. Filename: Winhelp.faq

The  HLP version is in the /www/hlp directory. Filename: WHFAQ.HLP

Any problems E-mail me directly at TJR@AC.DAL.CA

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Why is windows crashing because it can't read my hd???

Hey guys,

   I'm having a rather serious problem when I run windows and hopefully someone will recognize the cause.

   Hardware:  486dx w/ 4 M RAM and 245 M hd w/ 40 M still free.

  Initially, windows loads up fine with whatever app. I have specified to  start up with.  Then, when I do anything that will access the hard drive, the problems begin.  Here is the sequence of events.

1.  First the task that the hard drive is being accessed for is completed.

2.  The hard drive then is accessed for another 7-10 seconds

3.  A window comes up that says there is problem reading from drive c w/

    choices to either try again or cancel.

4a. If I try again I get the same message about 4-5 times and then I get a dos

    screen that says the system has become unstable...

4b. If I cancel then the error window dissappears until the next time the hard

    drive is accessed where it comes up immediatly.

5.  Hence at this point I can not access the hard drive at all and eventually

    get the screen that says the system has become unstable and I can press

    CNT-ALT-DEL to reboot.

6a. If I do this warm reboot, I get a message that says. "HDD Contrller Failure

    Press F1 to resume"

7.  After pressing F1, the computer acts as if there is no hard drive.

6b. If I do a cold reboot however, the computer acts normally, until I return

    to windows.

Some interesting details:

   My system works perfectly in DOS.

   The hd is uncompressed.  I am not running stacker or doublespace.

   If I boot up windows with program manager and then run the dos prompt first thing, I get to dos but, true to the above form, when I try to do anything involving the hd, such as 'dir', I get the 7-10 second hd access followed by the dos error message 'e

   If I boot up windows with winfile, I get the proper screen when I boot up.  Then, following the pattern above, when I try to move into some folders, the hard drive goes through its 7-10 seconds of mystery access time and then I get the error window.  I

   All of this just started to happen suddenly one day, the system actually used to work just fine.  Here are the things that I have tried:

    -Reinstalled windows 2 different times thinking of maybe a bad HD sector.

    -Ran the latest version of f-prot from a clean boot looking for viruses.

     Found nothing.

    -Ran defrag, no help.

    -Tryed changing numerous windows .ini files but to not avail.  (changed

     them all back, of course)

Obviously the problem seems to be the hd controller, BUT, why does the computer work fine in DOS.  And if the problem is with windows only, why when I do a warm reboot do I get the HDD controller failure message?

PLEASE, somebody help me!  I don't want to take my computer to a repair shop and get it back with everything on my HD erased!

Thanks much,

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In article <mmccoy.159.000B9A44@crs.loc.gov>, Michael McCoy wrote:

>

> I'm wondering what experience folks have with the size of help

files. Is there

> any absolute limit on the size? Is there a practical limit that

governs when

> to break stuff up into separate files and establish interfile links?

>

> Any thoughts appreciated.

>

>

> Michael McCoy

> mmccoy@crs.loc.gov

> 202-707-6539

I have HLP files of up to 30MB, and compile a 10 - 15 MB HLP file on a

regular basis - I would assume that this is a reasonable size for most

projects. (The size might be bigger .. but I do not know). I think I

once saw a KnowledgeBase article about these limits, but can't

remember where ..

Hope this is of some help

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Multilayered list problem

I am using MS Word 6.0 to create .rtf files for a help file.

I am using Words Multilevel Numbered List option to create

an outline-like section.  I was amazed to see that the numberings

were actually ported into the .rtf file and thus included

within the .hlp.  However, there is one big problem...Format.

The indents are all screwed up in the .hlp file but are fine in

Word.  Here is what I did...

Word File:

<header stuff>

1)  First Item

2)  Second Item

    *  First subitem

    *  Second subitem

    *  Third subitem

3)  Third Item

4)  Fourth Item

    *   Another subitem

    *   Still another subitem

        Third level "static text"     <-unindented on purpose

                           {blank line of same level}

5)  Fifth Item

6)  Sixth Item

7)  Seventh Item

What comes out in the .hlp file is this:

<header stuff>

1)  First Item

    2)  Second Item

    *  First subitem

*  Second subitem

*  Third subitem

3)  Third Item

    4)  Fourth Item

    *  Another subitem

       *  Still another subitem

          Third level "static text"

                           {the blank line}

5)  Fifth Item

6)  Sixth Item

7)  Seventh Item

I am writing the document in Word as a printed manual then I

plan to use this file as a basis for creating my .rtfs.  This

way the manual will be consistant with the help and I don't

have to do acres of retyping.

Any ideas?????

Thanks in advance

Is there any hope?????

Has no one tried this?????

Help, please, I'm desparate!!!!!!   :-)

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Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

In <mmccoy.159.000B9A44@crs.loc.gov> mmccoy@crs.loc.gov (Michael McCoy) writes:

>I'm wondering what experience folks have with the size of help files. Is there

>any absolute limit on the size? Is there a practical limit that governs when

>to break stuff up into separate files and establish interfile links?

It is really up to you and the tool that you are using.  If the tool makes it

easy to have large files then I would tend to lump most of it in one big file

(unless I was working on it with multiple users) as that seems to be the easiest

to work with.

Anyway - here are the real limits (from the FAQ):

Paragraph: ~32,000 bytes - Includes any pasted bitmaps

Topic title string: 127 characters

Topics per RTF source: ~32,000

Topics per help file: ~42,000,000

Help file size: 2 gigabytes

By-reference bitmaps per help file: 32,767

Topic footnote (# chars): 1023 characters

Keywords per help file: Limited by file size

Keyword length: 255 characters

Topics per keyword: 32,767 ( Large #'s will effect performance )

Browse sequence length: Limited by # of topics

Bookmarks per help file: Limited by file size

Annotations per topic: 1

Annotations per help file: 32,767

History List Length: 40 topics

Macro Length: 512 characters

Main windows per topic: 1

Secondary Windows per topic: 5

Items in [MAP] section: 4096

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can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

In article <Z04xPMF.jamesbryan@delphi.com> James Bryan <jamesbryan@delphi.com> writes:

>From: James Bryan <jamesbryan@delphi.com>

>Subject: can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

>Date: Fri, 9 Sep 94 21:18:21 -0500

There is an updated version written by David Gardiner. Get the file

DWHAT20.ZIP. You'll need als o the Microsoft templates.

Andre Rosendaal

>Can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

>In the docs It says stuff only about winword 1.11 and 2.0, can you still

>use the templates with word 6.0... I am jsut starting to write help files

>and saw the what.zip file the tmeplates I am talking about are in this file.

>any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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HelpBreeze - has anyone tried it

I received a flyer today for HelpBreeze.  Currently, I am using RoboHelp and ForeHelp for developing my on-line help systems.

Thanks,  Stephen Gilson

Cognex Corp.

gislon@cognex.com

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Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

In article <35l3b4$kgg@panix.com> fredg@panix.com "Fred Galli" writes:

>I have a help project that I need to edit and recompile.

>I open the RTF file into Word 6.0a, make a slight textual

>change, and save the file. When I try to compile the

>file, hc31 crashes my computer. No error file is written.

>

>I can successfully compile the unaltered RTF! In I repeat

>the above process without making any change, i.e., merely

>opening and saving the RTF, and the my computer crashes

>as above.

You're probably using an old version of the Help Compiler. You

need v505, available from ftp.microsoft.com.

Chris

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           waynes@hppcih50.dtc.hp.com "Wayne Scott" writes:

>I'm trying to use a 256 color BMP file in a windows help file. It compiles

>correctly, but won't show the colors properly. What is the limit on the

>number of colors that the compiler can handle.

You can't use 256-colour bitmaps in a Help file, only 16-bit.

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To Ron Loewy re: HLPDK/PA

In article <2558001151.73787364@luminare.luminare.uucp.netcom.com>,

Ray Sayre,LumiPod wrote:

>

> Could you send me information on HLPDK/PA?

>

> I only have access to the WinHelp news group; if you post info there

to my

> attention I'll get it.

>

> Thanks,

> Ray Sayre

Can I send you some info via e-mail ? I would not like to provide

extensive commercial information via the newgroup, If you can not get

the information via e-mail, please provide me with your snail-mail

info, and I will send you the info.

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UNIX Help Authoring Tools

In article <manual3CwIBLH.754@netcom.com>, Manual 3 International

wrote:

>

> I'm looking for online help development/authoring tools for the

Solaris

> platform. Are there any Windows tools that I can use to develop

online

> help for a Motif interface.

>

> Please post to this newsgroup or email: vincent_crivello@manual3.com

>

> Thanks

> Vince Crivello

> Manager, Customer Relations

> Manual 3, Inc.

If HTML via Mosaic is good for you, our HLPDK/PA tool can do that.

Also try to look for Bristol Technologies HyperHelp.

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looking for wc31.exe!

In <5VuUS5R5LuB@cmueller.toppoint.de> Christoph@cmueller.toppoint.de (Christoph Mueller) writes:

>lately, I got a sharewareprogram for making .hlp-Files. Unluckily, the

>essential Winhelp-Compiler <wc31.exe> is not encluded. I've been told this

>file is still somewhere in the US on a "ftp-server". I tried to find it,

>but i failed. Does anybody know where I can find it or wehere i can get it

>from?

In order to be able to use the help compiler you must own a licence for it.

Licences to use the help compiler come with most development tools (Visual

C++, VB Prof etc...).  The only other way you can legally aquire a copy of

the help compiler is to purchase a help authoring tool which includes a help

compiler licence.  The products I know of off the top of my head are:

RoboHelp (Blue Sky Software), HWA (our product), HLPDK/PA (HyperAct Inc.),

DOC-to-HELP(Wextech).

There is a list being built up on Compuserve of tools which include the help

compiler and I would hope Pete will include it in the FAQ when it is completed.

BTW: The program you are looking for is HC31.EXE not WC31.EXE.  I would suggest

you get HCP.EXE - which allows you to use all your system's memory to compile

in.

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The Future of Help

Hi,

I would like to initiate a discussion on the way Help will evolve in the future.

With the growing number a Windows applications we are developing for our clients

we can see some major problems coming our way. These problems can be divided in a few areas:

1) Developing and MAINTAINING the interface between applications and helpsystems.

2) Managing text-resources, shared text, shared (segmented) hypergraphics), etc over a large number of helpfiles.

3) The user-interface of help, both appearance and navigation. Should users be able to alter content, hyperlinks, keywords for topic, etc, etc.

May be there are more distinct areas in which related problems will arise. If you know one please let us all know.

I know that everybody could use an inventarisation of the problems in the areas I mentioned. Please join in and may be we can all work on the solution.

How do large companys like MS control there helpfile projects? Are they holding something back?

Our first thoughts on the subject is that it has a lot in common with database administration, data dictionary like problems.

Hope this will be a long and hot discussion,

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Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

I got a product-catalogue filled with windows-programs

yesterday. There it was a program called Blue Sky

RoboHELP 2.0 whitch was some kind of visual help-maker

and a program called RoboHelp 2.6 whitch was a Word for

Windows macro to make developing Help-files easier.

I thought it was only one program that was called RoboHelp.

Could someone please clarify this?

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Question:  Why does my help file display differently under NT,

and what can I do about it?

I use hc31.exe to create a "normal" help file, and it works great

under Windows 3.1.

BUT, under NT it uses Times fonts rather than Times New Roman, and

maybe even at a different size.  Things look much uglier, and small

superscripts don't even work at all (everything presumably

explainable by the fact that Times is not a TrueType font).  What

gives?

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Context Sensitive Help - Help?

I've created a small help file with 10 topics. The context ID for each

is 1 to 10 respectively. I'm now trying to add context sensitive help

to my application. When I call the help using:

Temp% = WinHelp(hWnd,HelpFile,Help_Context,CLng(SUMOPT(Index).HelpContextID))

All I get is "Help Topic does not exist". I cannot seem to get the two

to talk to each other. What am I'm doing wrong?

I've checked the manuals, the FAQ and VBTIPS & TRICKS, with no

success. I've been at this for many hours with no success. I suspect

it's a trivial thing I am missing.

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Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

In article <35r931$mpo@fenris.dhhalden.no> stigj@sofus.hiof.no (Stig Jørgensen) writes:

>From: stigj@sofus.hiof.no (Stig Jørgensen)

>Subject: Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

>Date: 22 Sep 1994 06:43:45 GMT

>I got a product-catalogue filled with windows-programs

>yesterday. There it was a program called Blue Sky

>RoboHELP 2.0 whitch was some kind of visual help-maker

>and a program called RoboHelp 2.6 whitch was a Word for

>Windows macro to make developing Help-files easier.

>I thought it was only one program that was called RoboHelp.

>Could someone please clarify this?

>Stig Jorgensen

RH 2.6 is the upgrade for MS word 6.0.

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Help and documentation

In <3444t8$464@mydear.csl.sni.be> paulb@tintin.csl.sni.be (Paul Busse) writes:

>Hi,

>I'm looking for a tool that has following properties :

>- generates a .HLP file

>- generates documentation from the same file

>- generates a ASCII file that is human readable.

>The last point needs a little explanation, I presume :

>our documentation has to be translated. Translators can be

>explained that "\b" means "bold on" "\b0" means "bold off".

>But the effect of 90% of the rest of RTF is chinese to them.

>(Except for chinese translators, of course :-). So the information in

>the text that is allowed should be restricted.

>The translator should not need to search for the text as is the case

>in rtf-files generated by ROBOHELP and related tools.

>Ideas, anybody ?

I have some ideas !

You are searching nirvana !

I believe the only way to do this today and in the future.

1. Write your manual.

    This is documentation.

    Any word-processor translates this into an ascii file if you want that.

2. Transfer the user manual to hyper-text.

     With robohelp and any other help-authoring tool this is very easy.

I have found that this is the only way if you want quality in botrh domains

( hypertext and document ).

 Thor

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Color Limitations

In article <780168978snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>, Chris Marriott wrote:

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> In article <35nvah$gv6@news.dtc.hp.com>

>            waynes@hppcih50.dtc.hp.com "Wayne Scott" writes:

>

> >I'm trying to use a 256 color BMP file in a windows help file. It

compiles

> >correctly, but won't show the colors properly. What is the limit on

the

> >number of colors that the compiler can handle.

>

> You can't use 256-colour bitmaps in a Help file, only 16-bit.

>

> Chris

Actually you can - you just need to use a dll that registers an

embedded window that supports 256 colors. There is a free one

somewhere on the net called ewdll10.zip. You can also find some

commercial ones.

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Help and documentation

In article <HfsguAFHBh107h@tordivel.no>, Thor Vollset <thor@tordivel.no> wrote:

>In <3444t8$464@mydear.csl.sni.be> paulb@tintin.csl.sni.be (Paul Busse) writes:

>>Hi,

>

>>I'm looking for a tool that has following properties :

>

>>- generates a .HLP file

>>- generates documentation from the same file

>>- generates a ASCII file that is human readable.

>

>>The last point needs a little explanation, I presume :

>>our documentation has to be translated. Translators can be

>>explained that "\b" means "bold on" "\b0" means "bold off".

>>But the effect of 90% of the rest of RTF is chinese to them.

>>(Except for chinese translators, of course :-). So the information in

>>the text that is allowed should be restricted.

>>The translator should not need to search for the text as is the case

>>in rtf-files generated by ROBOHELP and related tools.

>

>>Ideas, anybody ?

You can also try our HLPDK/PA tool - you can create printed docs (Via a

word processor that accepts RTF), ascii files, winhelp and other formats

(OS/2, MM Viewer, Dos etc) all from the same source.

If you need more information , I'll be happy to provide it.

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Where is the FAQ

I'm kinda new at this, so please be patient.  I've seen a number of

references to the FAQ, but can't seem to find it.  Where is it posted?

I've looked in this conference and in comp.answers and didn't see it.

Is it archived at some ftp site?  If so, what might it be named?

Would it be in SimTel or CICA or ...?

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In article <bvsoest.8.0013B2A9@knoware.nl>, bvsoest@knoware.nl (Berno van Soest) writes:

|> Hi,

|> I would like to initiate a discussion on the way Help will evolve

|> in the future.

I believe the future of help is in SGML (Standard Generalized Markup

Language).  SGML lets you structure your documents based on content

rather than format (a la RTF).  It also lets you add an intelligence to

your documents so they can behave differently on different media

(paper, Windows, OS/2, Unix).

Right now, there are already some tools available to implement this.

Electronic Book Technology's DynaText provides an SGML-aware viewer

that allows easy user customization, annotations, and even dynamic

updates!  Microsoft's support for SGML (via Word) is also a step in that

direction, but there is still a long way to go.  Bristol

Technology's HyperBridge is a bridge between help and SGML.

I think to achieve its full potential as a help system, SGML needs to

be an integral part of each operating system.

DISCLAIMER: I say all of this without knowing very much about SGML other

than some basic principles.  I will be learning lots more very soon

though, and do believe it is the wave of the documentation future.

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Collapsing effects???

In <CvDMC1.9MI@agora.rdrop.com> sperry@agora.rdrop.com (Steve Perry) writes:

>Does anyone know how they create the "collapsing effects". For instance,

>in the Knowledge Base for VB (I assume others too), they have several

>lines and when you click on any of them, they expand out. If they click

>on it again, it collapses. How's it done?

It is all an illusion.  Each part of the tree is a different topic and they will

be using a bitmap button (hyperlink) to open and close the tree by going to

differnt topics.

...Stefan

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bitmaps in TDialog

Hello, can anyone tell me how to show a bitmap in a dialog window

in BC++ 3.1. I have a TDialog class and want to show a bitmap.

thanks in advance

Thomas

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Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

mmccoy@crs.loc.gov (Michael McCoy) wrote:

>I'm wondering what experience folks have with the size of help files. Is there

>any absolute limit on the size? Is there a practical limit that governs when

>to break stuff up into separate files and establish interfile links?

>

>Any thoughts appreciated.

>

>

>Michael McCoy

>mmccoy@crs.loc.gov

>202-707-6539

Michael,

   The limits for help file sizes are listed in the FAQ. The limits are

pretty high, and I doubt many people run into them. Help file sizes are

limited to 2 GB. There's a limit of 32,000 topics per .RTF file and

42,000,000 topics per help file.

   Like I said, I doubt many people run into these limits. Of course, it

would probably take about a month to compile a help file that approached

them. You'd probably want to break up your help file long before that just

so you can update it in sections without having to wait weeks for the

compile to complete.

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In article <ZJsguAXCBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>, stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

|> In <mmccoy.159.000B9A44@crs.loc.gov> mmccoy@

|>

|> Topics per keyword: 32,767 ( Large #'s will effect performance )

Hmm. I wonder why I get an error at 400? I'm compiling with hcp.exe and running

NT on a 24MB machine, if that makes any difference. This is causing me a few

problems and I'd like to sort it out. Any thoughts?

Steve Read

Oracle UK

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Multilayered list problem

gz076t@clc.gmeds.com (Steven Hughes) wrote:

>I am using MS Word 6.0 to create .rtf files for a help file.

>I am using Words Multilevel Numbered List option to create

>an outline-like section.  I was amazed to see that the numberings

>were actually ported into the .rtf file and thus included

>within the .hlp.  However, there is one big problem...Format.

>The indents are all screwed up in the .hlp file but are fine in

>Word.  Here is what I did...

[deleted]

>I am writing the document in Word as a printed manual then I

>plan to use this file as a basis for creating my .rtfs.  This

>way the manual will be consistant with the help and I don't

>have to do acres of retyping.

  Sounds like you need something like Doc-To-Help which lets you maintain

your printed document and help file from the same document. I am

associated with WexTech (makers of Doc-To-Help). I work as an independent

contractor and do projects for them from time to time.

  Their product, however, is specifically designed to handle this and does

it quite well, if I do say so myself. For more information and

availability, see the FAQ.

  Pete Davis

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MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

In <CwJEBx.CIA@bristol.com> stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

>In <1994Sep16.150059.5928@leeds.ac.uk> cen5yf@gps.leeds.ac.uk (Fan.Y.) writes:

>>Is there such a file viewer run on X-WINDOW??

>[...]

>product called HyperHelp from Bristol Technology.  With their product you

>can recompile the help file under unix and display it!  This is quite

>[...]

>Email me if you need contact information.

You can get more information about HyperHelp or other Bristol products

by sending email to info@bristol.com.

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Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

> Dennis,

>

>    I can almost guarantee that this won't happen. I'm sure GIF would come

> before JPEG because GIFs are much more standardized and have larger

> audience, but I doubt either one will be supported. If I remember

> correctly, however, I think SHOWBMP.DLL does support .JPG files now, but

> don't quote me.

>

>   Pete

>

I've never heard of showbmp.dll.  Who produces it?  Where can I

look at it or find out more about it?

-dennis

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Printing Windows help (.hlp) files

Anyone know where I can get a utility (preferably free) to print out

MS-Windows .hlp files? I have a bunch of class notes and would like not

to have to interactively print each topic.

Is this in the FAQ? Where is the FAQ? Any pointers would be helpful.

Please e-mail to jeffcop@i88.isc.com.

Thanx,

Jeff Copeland

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Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

I have been attempting to create a button that would jump to the contents of

another .HLP file, displaying that file in a secondary window.

The button macro is:

               JI(`Wndwtips.Hlp>tips',`IDH_CONTENTS')

The following error appears when I run the button:

               Bad Window Class, ignored

The button macro works if I do not attempt displaying in a secondary window.

According to text in "Developing Online Help for Windows" (page 270), I should

be able to display in a secondary window topics from another .HLP file.

Is this information incorrect, or am I missing some trick?

Bev Freed

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Dallas, TX

e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous?

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The Future of Help (long)

>In article <bvsoest.8.0013B2A9@knoware.nl>,

>bvsoest@knoware.nl (Berno van Soest) writes:

>I believe the future of help is in SGML (Standard

>Generalized Markup Language).

I agree one hundred per cent. We do a lot of "SGML to Windows

Help" work in Digitome for various clients and can confirm that

Microsoft use SGML extensively to manage their Windows Help

and Multimedia Viewer projects.

>Right now, there are already some tools available to

>implement this.

At the moment at the SGML editing end of things there are :-

Author/Editor - Softquad Inc.

Intellitag - Wordperfect/Novell

SGML Author for Word v6. - Microsoft R.S.N.

InContext - Xsoft

(Probably a lot more I do not know about.)

As for turning SGML into Windows help etc. this typically

involves

some programming. This can be done in C,Awk etc. and also with

a

number of SGML specific languages :-

OmniMark - Exoterica Inc. (Microsoft use this one).

Balise - B/Laise

(Sorry, I cannot remember the names of the others!)

SGML provides a platform independent, self maintaining,

comprehensive

solution to storing knowledge as text. Once textual knowledge

is captured

in SGML the sky is pretty much the limit.

Taking the Windows Help case specifically you can get the

following

completly automatically once the software is set up:-

Page formatting (fonts etc.)

browse sequences (+ Footnotes)

titles ($ footnotes)

context strings (# footnotes)

dynamic tables of contents (knowledge trees)

Timelines (if your data has a chronological element to it)

non-scrolling regions ('keep with next' paragraphs)

automatic hypertext markup resolution

multiple document browse sequence orderings from single source

set

keyword index generation

...

Basically the whole shooting gallery.

There are lots of other benefits but they would take too long

to list!

The crux of the case for SGML, we feel, can be seen in this

diagram :-

          /\

          |

      T   |        /

      I   |      /

      M   |    /

      E   |  /

          |/

          ------------------>

            Volume of Text to be converted to .hlp

I.e. as the amount of text in a Winhelp project goes up, so too

does

the amount of time required to complete it. In the worst case

this

increase can be exponential. With some automation, the curve

flattens

a bit.

Ideally what we want and what SGML approximates better than

anything

I've come across is this :-

          /\

          |

      T   |

      I   |

      M   |------------------

      E   |

          |

          ------------------>

            Text database Size

I.e. the timescales required to produce hlp files should be

independent

of the size of the help files.

Invariably, we find that the most time consuming process in the

generation

of a hlp file once the software is configured is hc31.exe

itself. Nothing

we can do about that at the moment unfortunately. Please

Microsoft,

docuement the file format!! :-)

Sorry for rambling on a bit...

Kind regards,

Sean Mc Grath

Technical Director

Digitome Ltd.

Electronic Publishing

Irish Permenant House,Pearse St.,Ballina,Co. Mayo, Ireland

Tel : + 353 96 72092 Fax : + 353 96 72093

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Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

In article <35p1en$3pm@fougere.munich.ixos.de>

           Anton.Schegg@ixos.de "Anton Schegg" writes:

>In article <35l3b4$kgg@panix.com>, fredg@panix.com (Fred Galli) says:

>>

>>I have a help project that I need to edit and recompile.

>>I open the RTF file into Word 6.0a, make a slight textual

>>change, and save the file. When I try to compile the

>>file, hc31 crashes my computer. No error file is written.

>

>There is a newer version of the hc on the MSDN CD. The Version is

>3.10.505. I'm using the compiler under Windows NT and it works.

This is also the version supplied as standard with Visual C++ 1.5.

Chris

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HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

In <5VtL6bsPTgB@fuerst.jena.thur.de> rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de (Rainer Schleevoigt) writes:

>In a in the help of program I've seen in the main screen a big bitmap and

>if I klick with my cursor on parts of the bitmap a popup with help text is

>open.

They are called Segmented Hotspot Grapics (.SHG) and are created using SHED.EXE.

SHED.EXE is available in most cases with a licence for the help compiler (see

my recent post on this).  Once you have SHED.EXE all you need to do is choose the

areas of the bitmap you want to make hotspots, enter the context string of the

pop-up topic and away you go!  It's really quite easy...

Cheers,

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Change buttons names

Hi! I'm developing a help project in spanish. Is there any way to change

the name of the contents, search and back buttons? I would like to have

them written in Spanish.

Thanks in advance!

Jorge.

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Greetings

Could someone send me an example of how to define a browse sequence? I can't get

mine to work...

I'm using Word 6.0 to create my hlp files

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topics per keyword limitation

Steve Read asked:

Hmm. I wonder why I get an error at 400? I'm compiling with hcp.exe and running

NT on a 24MB machine, if that makes any difference. This is causing me a few

problems and I'd like to sort it out. Any thoughts?

>> WinHelp 3.1 limits the number of topics it will display to 400. As

of this morning when I read this question, I raised the limit in

WinHelp 4.0 to 32,766. Glad you raised you this question!

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Peter J. Davis (pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu) wrote:

: gz076t@clc.gmeds.com (Steven Hughes) wrote:

:   Sounds like you need something like Doc-To-Help which lets you maintain

: your printed document and help file from the same document. I am

: associated with WexTech (makers of Doc-To-Help). I work as an independent

: contractor and do projects for them from time to time.

:   Their product, however, is specifically designed to handle this and does

: it quite well, if I do say so myself. For more information and

: availability, see the FAQ.

:   Pete Davis

Well... I don't think I could convince my boss to get it for us, but

I might get it for my own use...

I *could* just number the thing manually, but then whenever I

added even one item..... I'd have to renumber everything

after it. (Tedious at best)

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Gary M. Dietz (garyd@netcom.com) wrote:

: Current contract location uses WHPE.  I just downloaded the newest WHAT6.EXE

: from ftp.microsoft.com

Cool... Thanks for the info...

I'll grab it as soon as I post this...

: In WHAT6.EXE is the latest version of WHPE.  When I try to run WHPE,

: it tells me that I don't have a compatible version of HCPARSE.DLL

it says you don't have a *COMPATIBLE* version of HCPARSE???

I assume that you do, in fact, have some version of it currently??

: Where do I get this DLL?

I'll look around ftp.microsoft.com for you while I'm there...

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Planning On-Line Help in Windows

Gary,

Thanks for the suggestions. You are right about speaking with

the programmers often. Unfortunately, the programmers where I am

seem bothered by having to work with the tech. writers. Any

suggestions for a smooth working relationship?

You asked about specifics, we are aiming for context-sensitive

help for 40 screens. The screens are all interconnected with

shared fields and many-to-many relationships, which makes it

difficult to tell the user where they can go from where they are.

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks,

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In article <Cwn11C.I9L@metrics.com> Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> writes:

>Steve Read asked:

>Hmm. I wonder why I get an error at 400? I'm compiling with hcp.exe and

running>NT on a 24MB machine, if that makes any difference. This is causing me

a few>problems and I'd like to sort it out. Any thoughts?

>>> WinHelp 3.1 limits the number of topics it will display to 400. As

>of this morning when I read this question, I raised the limit in

>WinHelp 4.0 to 32,766. Glad you raised you this question!

Dear Ralph...

Any chance WinHelp 4.0 will be available before Windows 95 hits the street? I

am not a subscriber to the DevNet CD's...would it show up in there per chance?

StanO

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I have a Diamond Stealth Video Card For Sale. It is Brand New.

It is Vesa Local Bus and I dont Have it on my motherboard.

It was a gift and I cant Use it. Its about 250.00 new. I will

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Registration cards, drivers and documentation all in the original box.

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In article <35v9a7$1k3@newsbf01.news.aol.com> varguis@aol.com (Varguis) writes:

>Hi! I'm developing a help project in spanish. Is there any way to change

>the name of the contents, search and back buttons? I would like to have

>them written in Spanish.

>

>Thanks in advance!

>

>Jorge.

The obvious way is to run a Spanish version of Windows.  I develop Help

Files in both English and French.  When I compile a French help file, I put

in custom buttons using French button names.  I do not change the system-

defined buttons.  They appear in French on French Windows and English

 in English Windows.  .

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In article Message-ID: <stano.88.0008A1DD@halcyon.com> Stan asks:

Any chance WinHelp 4.0 will be available before Windows 95 hits the street? I

am not a subscriber to the DevNet CD's...would it show up in there per chance?

>> Nope.

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looking for wc31.exe!

pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>Christoph@cmueller.toppoint.de (Christoph Mueller) wrote:

>>lately, I got a sharewareprogram for making .hlp-Files. Unluckily, the

>>essential Winhelp-Compiler <wc31.exe> is not encluded.

Christoph, the name of the help compiler is HC not WC. And, you better get

HC505.ZIP (the latest version) if you're going to use Word 6.

  This question is a FAQ. You should read the FAQ list. Actually, your

previous question was also a FAQ since it is described in WHAG and HAG which

should be read by every help author. The FAQL says where to get them from (or

don't you have archie?)

  (Pete, maybe include in the FAQL "All the info in WHAG is considered

FAQ. Please read it"?)

>  To obtain the help compiler, you need to purchase an SDK or a help

>authoring package that includes the help compiler. The help compiler is

>available on an ftp site, but it's only meant to be distributed to people

>who already have a licensed version. Microsoft has made a big point of

>this on the WINSDK forum on CompuServe.

  Pete, this sounds ridiculous for the following reasons:

 - MS provide no help authoring package (I guess WHAT should not be

considered one).

 - If WHAT is free, how possibly HC could be not free?

 - If they wanted to limit the distribution of HC, why did they put it on an

ftp site?

 - If HC is a real product, how come it'not supported?

 - I'm sure nobody of the authors of shareware help tools have a license for

HC. Does this mean they are selling only "partially useful" software?

 - By adopting RTF as input to HC and the very proprietary .HLP format as

output (it *is* proprietary if you had to write a book about it, right? ;-)

for such a universal tool as WINHELP, MS have morally committed themselves to

provide HC free.

I'm not a lwayer but I bet you MS are not going to sue me if I openly declare

I've fetched HC.

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Comparing versions of RTF files

brendany@ruby.zed.com (Brendan Young) says:

>Hi,

>

>I am trying to find a way to compare two versions of an RTF file to

>ascertain the differences between them.

>

MKS supply a nice thing called VisualDiff. You can get it free when

you buy RCS from MKS, or you might be able to buy it separately.

email inquiry@mks.com

Andrew.

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Context Sensitive Help - Help?

TIM ROBERTS (tjr@ac.dal.ca) wrote:

: I've created a small help file with 10 topics. The context ID for each

: is 1 to 10 respectively. I'm now trying to add context sensitive help

: to my application. When I call the help using:

: Temp% = WinHelp(hWnd,HelpFile,Help_Context,CLng(SUMOPT(Index).HelpContextID))

: All I get is "Help Topic does not exist". I cannot seem to get the two

: to talk to each other. What am I'm doing wrong?

Do you have a [MAP] section in your .hpj file??

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In article <35ut1t$gt0@dcsun4.us.oracle.com>, Steve Read wrote:

>

> In article <ZJsguAXCBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>,

stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

> |> In <mmccoy.159.000B9A44@crs.loc.gov> mmccoy@

> |>

> |> Topics per keyword: 32,767 ( Large #'s will effect performance )

>

> Hmm. I wonder why I get an error at 400? I'm compiling with hcp.exe

and running

> NT on a 24MB machine, if that makes any difference. This is causing

me a few

> problems and I'd like to sort it out. Any thoughts?

>

> Steve Read

>

> Oracle UK

>

>

What error do you get ? I'm compiling a 10,000 .HLP file on a frequent

basis.

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Context Sensitive Help - Help?

tjr@ac.dal.ca (TIM ROBERTS) writes:

>I've created a small help file with 10 topics. The context ID for each

>is 1 to 10 respectively. I'm now trying to add context sensitive help

>to my application. When I call the help using:

>Temp% = WinHelp(hWnd,HelpFile,Help_Context,CLng(SUMOPT(Index).HelpContextID))

>All I get is "Help Topic does not exist". I cannot seem to get the two

>to talk to each other. What am I'm doing wrong?

My impression was that you need a MAP section in your help project file,

associating a number with each one of the topics you want to invoke context-

sensitively.  Then, the fourth parameter is a number (from the MAP section).

The only language I've invoked winhelp from is M (MUMPS) though, never from C.

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help with Browse

michel@eel.ufl.edu (Michel C A Tavares) writes:

>Greetings

>Could someone send me an example of how to define a browse sequence? I can't get

>mine to work...

In your help project file, in your [CONFIG] section, you need to add

the BrowseButtons() macro, e.g.:

  [CONFIG]

  BrowseButtons()

Then, you need to add footnotes to each topic that's in the browse sequence,

(+ footnotes, as opposed to # and $ footnotes).  The text of the footnote

should be two parts separated by a colon-- main:0001 might be the first

topic in a browse sequence entitled main.  That _should_ work (I did my

first browse sequence (first without a supporting tool) the other day).

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From *.hlp to *.rft

Hi!

I have one question, maybe it's stupid but here it goes.

Is there any program that can convert *.hlp files to *.rtf or any type of

text file?

Thanks

-lj 8-)

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How to make file folders open and close

I am trying to write a help file that has quite a long Contents page.  I would

like to add the folders that open and close lists of related files (just like

in the  hag.hlp file).  I have searched high and low and cannot find a

technique (I assume it is a macro of some type) to do this.  I already have

the bitmaps associated with the jumps (I'm using Visual Help).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Looking for help authoring tools

I am looking for tools that help you write on-line help/tutorials.

I know there is a tool called RoboHelp, but I would like information

on other available tools, and people's experiences using them.

If this is in the FAQ, please tell me where I can ftp the FAQ from.

Thank you in advance!

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Color Limitations

In <35nvah$gv6@news.dtc.hp.com> waynes@hppcih50.dtc.hp.com (Wayne Scott) writes:

>I'm trying to use a 256 color BMP file in a windows help file. It compiles

>correctly, but won't show the colors properly. What is the limit on the

>number of colors that the compiler can handle.

The help compiler can handle only up to 16 colors.  To display 256 color

bitmaps you need to use an embedded window.  There are a few embedded windows

available which will do the job, one of which is freeware.

Cheers,

Stefan

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Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

In article <SW2O9s7q3MTPxzol06b@panix.com>, rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

|> In article <35ut1t$gt0@dcsun4.us.oracle.com>, Steve Read wrote:

|> >

|> > In article <ZJsguAXCBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>,

|> stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

|> > |> In <mmccoy.159.000B9A44@crs.loc.gov> mmccoy@

|> > |>

|> > |> Topics per keyword: 32,767 ( Large #'s will effect performance )

|> >

|> > Hmm. I wonder why I get an error at 400? I'm compiling with hcp.exe

|> and running

|> > NT on a 24MB machine, if that makes any difference. This is causing

|> me a few

|> > problems and I'd like to sort it out. Any thoughts?

|> >

|>

|> What error do you get ? I'm compiling a 10,000 .HLP file on a frequent

|> basis.

|>

At runtime, the message is "Too many titles; displaying first 400."

Thanks for the help.

Steve Read

Oracle UK

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topics per keyword limitation

In article <Cwn11C.I9L@metrics.com>, Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> writes:

|> Steve Read asked:

|>

|> Hmm. I wonder why I get an error at 400? I'm compiling with hcp.exe and running

|> NT on a 24MB machine, if that makes any difference. This is causing me a few

|> problems and I'd like to sort it out. Any thoughts?

|>

|> >> WinHelp 3.1 limits the number of topics it will display to 400. As

|> of this morning when I read this question, I raised the limit in

|> WinHelp 4.0 to 32,766. Glad you raised you this question!

Thanks. I suppose there's nothing we can do for 3.1, though, is there?

Steve Read

Oracle UK

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Source for Boggan/Farkas/Welinske Book?

Hi,

You can try to order the Boggan et al book from:

WinWriters

1-800-838-89999

1-206-285-2830

Joe Welinske Compuserve 71640.3260@compuserve.com

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The Future of Help - 2

Hi,

I would like to thank everybody for their reaction. However, one way or the other the discussion

changed subject to the possibilities of SGML.

The discussion I would like to have is on a higher

conceptuel level. I my first message I mentioned that there are three distinct

areas concerned with Help Authoring. I know think that the first one,

"Developing and maintaining online help consists of two areas. So now we

got four areas.

1) Developing the help content, structure(s)

2) Developing the interface between the software and the online help

3) Maintaining the help files and the interface

4) The user-interface of help

In each of these areas problems will arise in medium to large organizations

where large helpfiles are developed for multiple applications.

1a) How do you manage the large number of topics, topic files, (hyper)graphics?

1b) How do you manage topics, (hyper)grahics that occure in multiple helpfiles?

1c) How does one helpauthor know if a subject, item already has been

documented?

1d) And is it documented in way it is re-usable in another help file?

1e) What if two or more topics have a common part and something extra per

topic?

1f) How can you manage hyperlinks, popups, hotspot. It it possible to

automate parts of the help authoring proces?

2a) How do you manage the interface between software and online help?

2b) How does a programmer/desginer know what topics exist and what topic to link to?

2c) What tasks does a programmer/designer have in help authoring

2d) What should a programmer/designer and a help author agree on prior to the development of the software, prior to the development of the online help?

2e) Is the development of help part the software development proces?

3a) How do you manage changes in the software (new field, screens, menus, menu-items)?

3b) How do you manage changes in the online help (new topics,(hyper)graphics, new hyperlinks, pop-ups)?

4a) Should it be possible for the user to add, remove or change hyperlinks, popups?

4b) Should it be possible for the user to add, remove or change content?

These are all I can think of at this moment. If you know another one, a problem or a whole new categorie please let everybody know.

Hope to hear from you all again,

Berno.

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UNIX Help Authoring Tools

In <CwpM3p.CyL@bristol.com> rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>In article <manual3CwIBLH.754@netcom.com>, Manual 3 International

>wrote:

>>

>> I'm looking for online help development/authoring tools for the

>Solaris

>> platform. Are there any Windows tools that I can use to develop

>online

>> help for a Motif interface.

>>[...]

>Also try to look for Bristol Technologies HyperHelp.

Send email to info@bristol.com for more information about HyperHelp.

   Dan

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Change buttons names

In article <35v9a7$1k3@newsbf01.news.aol.com> varguis@aol.com "Varguis" writes:

>Hi! I'm developing a help project in spanish. Is there any way to change

>the name of the contents, search and back buttons? I would like to have

>them written in Spanish.

Won't this happen automatically if the user is running the Spanish

version of Windows?

Chris

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bitmaps in TDialog

In article <35pkol$a1k@iitb.iitb.fhg.de>

           schmid@iitb.fhg.de "Thomas Schmid" writes:

>

>Hello, can anyone tell me how to show a bitmap in a dialog window

>in BC++ 3.1. I have a TDialog class and want to show a bitmap.

I'm afraid that you're asking on the wrong group. This group is for

discussion of the Windows on-line Help engine "WinHelp" - it is NOT a group

for obtaining general "help" with Windows programming questions. There is

a weekly FAQ posted which lists the purpose of the Windows programming

newsgroup hierarchy "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.*".

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MS Copyrights

Hi!

 I'm building a course in .hlp format. My idea is to launch it as

Shareware.

My question is:

 Is it OK to create a stand-alone .hlp file for commercial purposes (if we

can consider Shareware so) without violating Microsofts copyrights?

Can I copyright it?

Thanks!

Jorge.

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HCPARSE.DLL

Hi all:

I have just download the WHAT6.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com.  When I

tried to run the project editor, it asked me for the HCPARSE.DLL.  Can

anyone give me direction on where I could get a hold of this file?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Rick

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rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

kclarke@netcom.com (kclarke) writes:

>I would very much like to find a program that, given winhelp .rtf source,

>spits out html files that work approximately the same.

 ftp.cray.com/src/WWWstuff/RTF

Also, look around at CERN and UIUC, there's a whole page about converters

HTML <-> whatever.

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Translating help files into multiple languages...

What about translating the buttons names? I'm writing a help file in

spanish and would like to have them in that language.

Any idea?

Thanks!

Jorge.

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Multilayered list problem

>gz076t@clc.gmeds.com (Steven Hughes) wrote:

>>I am using Words Multilevel Numbered List option to create

>>an outline-like section.

>>The indents are all screwed up in the .hlp file

This is a common problem (Pete, for the FAQ?). It has something to do with a

bug about indentation in the RTF specification, I think. Sometime ago someone

posted:

"You can work around this problem by putting an explicit tab stop at the

same position at which you have your hanging indent.  This tab stop

should be set explicitely for the paragraph, not as a style format.  If

you have more than one consecutive paragraph with a hanging indent you

will also need to make sure that each paragraph has different tabs set

than the previous paragraph (I usually alternate one tab at 20" and one

at 20.25".  This keeps them out of the way of my actual text)."

  Seems a rather weird solution, not?

>>I am writing the document in Word as a printed manual then I

>>plan to use this file as a basis for creating my .rtfs.

pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>  Sounds like you need something like Doc-To-Help which lets you maintain

>your printed document and help file from the same document.

  Pete is right, Steven. Transforming the manual to help manually is no good

because then you cannot tolerate changes in the manual. The shareware

alternatives to Doc2Help are DrHelp 6.0beta and HypTrk 4.1 (hyptrk41.zip).

Definitely check out HypTrk, it not only does the doc-hlp transformation, but

also adds functionality to WINHELP: dynamic table of contents, full-text

search (not as fancy as in Viewer though), printing many topics at once.

>  Their product, however, is specifically designed to handle this and does

>it quite well

>  Pete Davis

  What does Doc2Help handle well: doc-help transformation or the screwed

indentation problem?

I don't know if HypTrk handles the screwed indentation. I do know that DrHelp

does not, at least the version I used 5 months ago. Roger Hadgraft, the

author of DrHelp, once posted what seemed a better solution, but I forgot

what it was. Roger?

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Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

bfreed@fasttax.com (Bev Freed) writes:

>I have been attempting to create a button that would jump to the contents of

>another .HLP file, displaying that file in a secondary window.

>The button macro is:

>               JI(`Wndwtips.Hlp>tips',`IDH_CONTENTS')

>The following error appears when I run the button:

>               Bad Window Class, ignored

Have you registered the window "tips" in the .HPJ file?

[W]HAG describes how to do this.

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hc31.exe error?

Pete Dixon (pdixon@telerama.lm.com) wrote:

> While using whpe.exe (Editor) i will try to compile my help project only

> to recieve a error message "This program has violated the integrity of

> the system, please shut down all systems and exit windows"  I can not

> figure out the reason behind this.  But if i compile the same help file

> using hc.exe no problems.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

> --

> pdixon@telerama.lm.com

is it that my question is to stupid that no one will answer?  any way i

corrected the problem and wanted to give this information to any one else

that may have the same problem.

I downloaded hc505.exe from microsoft.com, this has the file hcp.exe in

it I removed the hc31.exe from my program and renamed hcp.exe hp31.exe

and now everthing works perfectly and no errors!

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Planning On-Line Help in Windows

In article <35vtj3$71p$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com> J. K. Genser <74443.2067@CompuServe.COM> writes:

>

>You asked about specifics, we are aiming for context-sensitive

>help for 40 screens. The screens are all interconnected with

>shared fields and many-to-many relationships, which makes it

>difficult to tell the user where they can go from where they are.

>

>Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks,

>

>Joyce K. Genser

>Sr. Technical Writer, New York

>

Joyce,

I have a similar problem with the help project I'm working with right

now.  The only difference being, I can't make it context-sensitive.

It has to be standalone.

However, I have over 100 screens with shared fields and many-to-many

relationships. I must also tell the user where they can go from

where they are, as well as what the different fields mean (many of

them have absolutely no headings).  What I have done is written a

screen definitions topic for each screen.  I do a screen dump of the

screen with typical info in the different fields.  Then I do popup

definitions for each field, which can be used repeatedly for other

screens that use the same field.  I also list where they can go and how

they get there for each screen.

I also have a topic that lists all processes doable from a paticular

screen. Each one is linked to a topic on how to do that process.

It seems to me that you could have popups for the field definitions as

context sensitive. It would be similar to what I have done without the

screen dump.  The problem then would be how to let them know

where they can go from where they are and if they can perform

processes, what and how they do it. I admit that since I haven't had

the opportunity to use context-sensitive help and I'm not a

programmer, I'm not sure if the suggestion I'm about to make is

doable.  However, could you make f2 call a topic (not a popup) that lists

where they can go and what they can do on a particular screen with jumps

to the how to topics for the different processes.

F1 would handle field definitions, f2 would call screen specific help.

F2 would give them a quick overview of what can be done on the screen,

and allow them to jump to more specific explanations on how to do

them.  They could still go to the help menu and start at the contents

of the help file or search for a specific topic.

This is just one person's idea.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

In article <bfreed.264.005347E9@fasttax.com> bfreed@fasttax.com (Bev Freed) writes:

>I have been attempting to create a button that would jump to the contents of

>another .HLP file, displaying that file in a secondary window.

>

>The button macro is:

>

>               JI(`Wndwtips.Hlp>tips',`IDH_CONTENTS')

>

>The following error appears when I run the button:

>

>               Bad Window Class, ignored

>

>The button macro works if I do not attempt displaying in a secondary window.

>According to text in "Developing Online Help for Windows" (page 270), I should

>be able to display in a secondary window topics from another .HLP file.

>

Have you tried displaying any topic in the secondary window?  Perhaps

the problem is not your button macro but the parameters set in your

secondary window.  It seems to me that I got this error once when I

made a subtraction error when setting the parameters for window

position.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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passing parameters to WinHelp

Hi there,

i am writing a program that has to display some help

if it is needed.

First of all, it looks for the window with class MS_WINDOC

(this is the class of main window of WinHelp application,

as MS Spy told me ;-))

if it can find this window then it assumes that WinHelp is running.

In this case i would like to change current file displayed in

WinHelp window (if any) to my own.

How do i do this?

And is it in general the best way to find out if WinHelp (or any other

application ) is running? (i mean looking for a particular window)?

One more question: how to bring WinHelp to the top?

right now i iconize the window that i have found and then resore it

by posting WM_SYSCOMMAND with SC_MINIMIZE and then WM_SYSCOMMAND with

SC_RESTORE. i tried to send WM_ACTIVATE but WinHelp wouldnt

come to the top unlike other windows applications.

And of course i do know that during sturtup i can pass my filename

to WinHelp as a program parameter. ;-)

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Konst.

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256 color bitmaps, HOW?

How do you put 256 color bitmaps into a help system. I'm using VB AHA 1.34

and it looks great in the preview, but it doesn't in the final product,

looks like 16 color.

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Source code rights question

        I have a question for all you experienced programmers/software

authors out there...

        I have recently come up with the idea of putting our procedure

manual on a PC at work in hypertext format.  I am partially responsible for

the actual text content, but someone else is tasked with designing and

creating most of the new procedures.  (I am a medical lab supervisor)

        I envisioned the final program as a 'gift' to the lab after I

created the programming to make it into a hypertext windows program.

        The problem is they are now telling me how great this is and they

want me to train someone else how to do it "in case there are changes and I

am on vacation", and they want to dispose of the many copies of the paper

version, and adopt this as the New Standard, and buy a PC or to to network

together to run it.

        They also want me to give them the source code, which would allow

them to change it and recompile it. Well the actual text authorship is

theirs. But why should I feel compelled to turn the completed uncompiled

source code to them free, and give the task of changes to the lab

secretary, and teach her how to compile it?  I realize that the ownership

of the program would fall to the lab, just like one 'owns' Lotus 123 or

Excel.

        The creation was a voluntary project, and is not in my job

description, and I am valuable to them for the other functions I perform in

the lab, but this is giving me a creepy feeling.

        Should I deny them the source code, except to sell it to them if I

leave, and keep all the recompiling tasks to myself, letting the secretary

keep the task of making the actual ASCII text?  This would seem to make

them mad and diminish the value of the 'gift' work.  I freely intend to

'give' them the finished program, but I balk at giving the source code,

however since the manual is 'dynamic' and both small and large changes

occur weekly, I can't see how I can say no.

        Any advice or parallel experiences welcome.

BaDge

<baj7d@virginia.EDU>

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Source code rights question

As a general rule if you develope a work based on content owned by your

employer the work is owned by the employer.  Of course this may vary

depending on state and local law, and on any agreements between you and

the company.

Many companies recognize the authors rights in this type of case and

therefore make provisions.  You will want to discuss the matter with

company councel or with an official.  The obvious problem is that the

content belongs to the company (that is what it sounds like anyway).

Maybe you can work out a creative way to benefit from your work.

Jon

BaDge (baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU) wrote:

:         I have a question for all you experienced programmers/software

: authors out there...

:         I have recently come up with the idea of putting our procedure

: manual on a PC at work in hypertext format.  I am partially responsible for

: the actual text content, but someone else is tasked with designing and

: creating most of the new procedures.  (I am a medical lab supervisor)

:         I envisioned the final program as a 'gift' to the lab after I

: created the programming to make it into a hypertext windows program.

:         The problem is they are now telling me how great this is and they

: want me to train someone else how to do it "in case there are changes and I

: am on vacation", and they want to dispose of the many copies of the paper

: version, and adopt this as the New Standard, and buy a PC or to to network

: together to run it.

:         They also want me to give them the source code, which would allow

: them to change it and recompile it. Well the actual text authorship is

: theirs. But why should I feel compelled to turn the completed uncompiled

: source code to them free, and give the task of changes to the lab

: secretary, and teach her how to compile it?  I realize that the ownership

: of the program would fall to the lab, just like one 'owns' Lotus 123 or

: Excel.

:         The creation was a voluntary project, and is not in my job

: description, and I am valuable to them for the other functions I perform in

: the lab, but this is giving me a creepy feeling.

:         Should I deny them the source code, except to sell it to them if I

: leave, and keep all the recompiling tasks to myself, letting the secretary

: keep the task of making the actual ASCII text?  This would seem to make

: them mad and diminish the value of the 'gift' work.  I freely intend to

: 'give' them the finished program, but I balk at giving the source code,

: however since the manual is 'dynamic' and both small and large changes

: occur weekly, I can't see how I can say no.

:         Any advice or parallel experiences welcome.

: BaDge

: <baj7d@virginia.EDU>

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Absolutely!  If you own or have rights to reuse the content you may do as

you wish with the .hlp file.  You do not have the right to distribute

winhelp.exe, but that is not a problem because it comes with Windows.

Jon

Varguis (varguis@aol.com) wrote:

: Hi!

:  I'm building a course in .hlp format. My idea is to launch it as

: Shareware.

: My question is:

:  Is it OK to create a stand-alone .hlp file for commercial purposes (if we

: can consider Shareware so) without violating Microsofts copyrights?

: Can I copyright it?

: Thanks!

: Jorge.

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waynes@hppcih50.dtc.hp.com (Wayne Scott) wrote:

>I'm trying to use a 256 color BMP file in a windows help file. It compiles

>correctly, but won't show the colors properly. What is the limit on the

>number of colors that the compiler can handle.

>

>Thanks in advance,

>

>Wayne Scott

Wayne,

16 colors, unless you use a program that uses embedded windows within

winhelp. SHOWBMP.DLL  and EWDLL.DLL are shareware programs that allow this.

Pete

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Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il wrote:

>

>

>I've never heard of showbmp.dll.  Who produces it?  Where can I

>look at it or find out more about it?

>

>-dennis

Dennis,

  You can get it from compuserve's WINSDK forums. I'm not sure where it's

available on the internet, though. I'm sure it's out there. Try doing an

Archie search for showbmp. That should do it.

  Does anyone else know where this thing is on the internet? I'll add it

to the FAQ when I figure it out.

Pete

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256 color bitmaps, HOW?

In article <367d2h$p61@Island.amtsgi.bc.ca>, Ian Vink wrote:

>

> How do you put 256 color bitmaps into a help system. I'm using VB

AHA 1.34

> and it looks great in the preview, but it doesn't in the final

product,

> looks like 16 color.

>

> Ian Vink

Look for a 256 color DLL support called ewdll10.zip somewhere on CICA.

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Problem with HCP.EXE

Tokind (tokind@acca.nmsu.edu) wrote:

: : Morphic resonance?  I got exactly the same message for the first time

: : today.  Does anyone know what causes it and is there a get-around?  I'm

: : usinh HCP 5.05

: to Microsoft today. I'll let you know what turns up. BTW, I can still

: compile Word2 RTF output without a hitch. This problem seems to be specific

: to Word6 RTF files.

Turns out I had a personal bug. Getting things in order before calling

Microsoft, I found that I was unintentionally running version 504 of the

HCP.exe, refering to the wrong one in a pif file. I straightened that out

and now compoile fine.

Tom.

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Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

In article <360d4j$b8t@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca (Vladimir Alexiev) writes:

>Have you registered the window "tips" in the .HPJ file?

>[W]HAG describes how to do this.

The "tips" .HLP appears if I DON'T use a secondary window.  I assumed it is

registered since any .HLP file can call it if I DO NOT use a secondary window.

The problem lies with the issue of using a secondary window, not whether or

not the spawning .HLP can "see" it.

Bev Freed

Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

Dallas, TX

e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

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Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

In article <CwqzJH.EHI@tc.fluke.COM> lil@tc.fluke.COM (Lilly-Anne Wilder) writes:

>Have you tried displaying any topic in the secondary window?  Perhaps

>the problem is not your button macro but the parameters set in your

>secondary window.  It seems to me that I got this error once when I

>made a subtraction error when setting the parameters for window

>position.

Displaying topics in a secondary window are no problem as long as those topics

reside with the spawning .HLP file.  If they are topics in another .HLP file,

I hit that error message when attempting to present them in a secondary

window.  I can, however, present them in a main window...no problem-o.  The

windows position is the "default."  In other words: I haven't dickered with

its position or size.  It's the same position and size as the main.

Bev Freed

Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

Dallas, TX

e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

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HCPARSE.DLL

In article <366sov$d4q@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca>,

Haiying Ou <hou@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca> wrote:

>Hi all:

>

>	I have just download the WHAT6.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com.  When I

>tried to run the project editor, it asked me for the HCPARSE.DLL.  Can

>anyone give me direction on where I could get a hold of this file?

>

>	Thanks in advance for your help.

>

>

>Rick

I had this problem too!  (And I posted a few days

ago...)  Nobody answered, so I fell back to using a version

of WHPE with Word 2.0 that my current contract assignment

has installed.

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Helpfile viewer with full text search

Does there exist a windows helpfile viewer with

full text search cability?

Please E-mail me

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Viewer and WFW 6.0a questions

I'm using Multimedia Viewer to create a tittle and was

wondering how other people keep track of hundreds of

documents and references.  I'm using Winword 6.0a.

I've created outline.rtf with all the documents needed for

the tittle like below:

I.  Introduction ExecProgram!EP(`winword.exe intro.rtf', 0)

     A.  Description ExecProgram!EP(`winword.exe desc.rtf',0)

     B.  Information ExecProgram!EP(`winword.exe info.rtf',0)

I compile the outline.rtf, run the ensuing viewer tittle and

then when I wish to edit a particular topic I click on it

and Winword loads that document.  Even though it works O.K.

and I'm happy with it, is there a better way to do this?

Also I'm working all in RTF format.  Is it faster or better

to work in another format during the writing stages (just

writing not implementing any links or popups yet) and later

convert over?

Also any other ideas for keeping track of documents and

references are welcome.

Currently each doc has a corresponding doc that contains a

bibliography.

For example:

info.rtf  contains the information

info.bib  (rtf format) contains the bibliography for info.rtf.

I need to keep the information and bibliography separate.

I was planning to insert an object or a link into the end of the

info.rtf and link it to the info.bib.  But, I get

inconsistent results from Winword when I do it.

When I create an object link to another document

it operates inconsistently and is formated strangely.

But at least i can edit it by just clicking on it.

When I create a INCLUDETEXT field code it is'nt automatically updated

and when I try to save the edits Winword won't do it.

How do I do this?

Finally I understand that Microsoft will

no longer sell the viewer and is coming out with another product.

I'm I wasting my time using viewer?

Thanks, Doug

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Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

In <366187$mhj@dcsun4.us.oracle.com> sread@nirvana.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Steve Read) writes:

>In article <SW2O9s7q3MTPxzol06b@panix.com>, rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>|> In article <35ut1t$gt0@dcsun4.us.oracle.com>, Steve Read wrote:

>|> > Hmm. I wonder why I get an error at 400? I'm compiling with hcp.exe

>|> and running

>|> > NT on a 24MB machine, if that makes any difference. This is causing

>|> me a few

>|> > problems and I'd like to sort it out. Any thoughts?

>|> >

>|>

>|> What error do you get ? I'm compiling a 10,000 .HLP file on a frequent

>|> basis.

>|>

>At runtime, the message is "Too many titles; displaying first 400."

I believe there is a limit of 400 keywords in any given help file, though

I have never come across that myself.

...Stefan

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Looking for help authoring tools

In <1994Sep26.102656.21509@hsdlgw92.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> t-kimura@sdl.hitachi.co.jp (Tomoko Kimura) writes:

>I am looking for tools that help you write on-line help/tutorials.

>I know there is a tool called RoboHelp, but I would like information

>on other available tools, and people's experiences using them.

There is quite a number of help authoring tools available.  Take a look

on ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  There are some products which develop help files

inside Word (such as RoboHelp), and other products include some sort of

WYSIWYG editor to edit the text (such as our product, HWA).

...Stefan

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UNIX Help Authoring Tools

In <manual3CwIBLH.754@netcom.com> manual3@netcom.com (Manual 3 International) writes:

>I'm looking for online help development/authoring tools for the Solaris

>platform. Are there any Windows tools that I can use to develop online

>help for a Motif interface.

There are really two options for you:

HyperHelp from Bristol Technologies - which will easily compile your existing

help text under UNIX (i.e: no major changes required).

HLPDK/PA from HyperAct, which provides a multiplatform hypertext language - so

your text may have to change a little, but you will be able to recompile under

many different platforms.

If you need contact information then please let me know and I'll get it for

you.

Cheers,

Stefan

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WHAT6.EXE , WHPE, and HCPARSE.DLL

Gary M. Dietz (garyd@netcom.com) wrote:

: Current contract location uses WHPE.  I just downloaded the newest WHAT6.EXE

: from ftp.microsoft.com

: In WHAT6.EXE is the latest version of WHPE.  When I try to run WHPE,

: it tells me that I don't have a compatible version of HCPARSE.DLL

: Where do I get this DLL?

The version of whpe.exe you get with what6.exe has a date stamp of

8-1-92 (from memory so please don't correct me if I'm wrong   ;)

The one I got from the MSDN CD (Prerelease 2) has a date stamp of

11-25-92.  Why Microsoft would give an "older" version of whpe in

a "new" "release" of what is beyond comprehension.

If you have it, use the one dated 11-25-92 instead of the one in

what6.exe.

BTW: The version of hcparse.dll I have is also dated 11-25-92

If you need, I can e-mail you these files.

I would think that they're "freeware"

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What's HULK?

Can someone take a moment to describe HULK and where I can learn more

about it?

Thanks again

Dave H.

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Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

Chris Marriott (chris@chrism.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: In article <35p1en$3pm@fougere.munich.ixos.de>

:            Anton.Schegg@ixos.de "Anton Schegg" writes:

: >In article <35l3b4$kgg@panix.com>, fredg@panix.com (Fred Galli) says:

: >>

: >>I have a help project that I need to edit and recompile.

: >>I open the RTF file into Word 6.0a, make a slight textual

: >>change, and save the file. When I try to compile the

: >>file, hc31 crashes my computer. No error file is written.

: >

: >There is a newer version of the hc on the MSDN CD. The Version is

: >3.10.505. I'm using the compiler under Windows NT and it works.

: This is also the version supplied as standard with Visual C++ 1.5.

: Chris

:

I noticed something with this version: if you edit the RTF file directly

with Word 6.0a, it gives me an 'invalid format' error, but if I edit the

text in the word format, then save that to RTF, it seems to work fine...

Martin

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Size- Doc to help

We are using Doct to Help Ver 1.6 on a 486DX66 with 16megs main ram under

Windows for Workgroups. We are consistently getting Word Basic error 7,

"out of memory." This occurs during diagnostics related to titles and

during compiling the titles. We have used all of the fixes stated in the

manual to no avail.

Most of the text is in large files, although we have split them into many

pieces, it appears that we are consistently crashing in tables. All of

the files are under 1meg, from 300 to 900kb. The documents where we are

crashing are 509kb and 525kb.

We have ascertained that it is definately not main ram because we close

and reopen Windows during incremental compiles and have plenty of ram

left. Please note that we have successfully compiled a 900kb file,

although it did not consist primarily of tables.

Thanks....... Herb

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Helpfile viewer with full text search

In article <HzCCN0u4uc1aveol06b@panix.com> rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>Path: xmission!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!panix!not-for-mail

>From: rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy)

>Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

>Subject: Re: Helpfile viewer with full text search

>Date: 28 Sep 1994 07:31:37 -0400

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>X-Newsreader: Offliner for Windows 0.6b

>In article <369gjo$imd@news.iesd.auc.dk>, rene mortensen wrote:

>>

>> Does there exist a windows helpfile viewer with

>> full text search cability?

>>

>> Please E-mail me

>>

>> Rene' Mortensen

>>

>Yes and no - The MS MM Viewer has FTSearch in it - but you will have

>to re-compile the winhelp sources (with minor changes) to take care of

>this problem.

>Ron.

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You might want to look into Folio VIEWS also...  With the current release

(3.1) it can be used as an online, context-sensitive help system.  Not only do

users get FULL text searching, but they also can have on-the-fly annotations.

Many other nice features are included.  If you'd like more info on  the

products, just send me email.

--Paul Pearson

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Windows Help -> DOS

Anyone know of any program that will allow a DOS user to access a Windows help

file? If so, please let me know where I can get it.

Thanks!

Matt

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Clickable maps in help files

I've seem several applications that come with a nifty little help file

that has a 'clickable map', for example: a picture of a certain dialog

box, and you can click on the buttons and presto: the button's function is

described !

Could somebody tell me how this is done ? If it's described in a FAQ,

could you tell me where I can find it ?

THANX !

Peter

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Change buttons names

Chris:

Yes, that would happen with the spanish version of Windows but the

program's target is english windows since it's a language class.

I was also suggested to use a spanish windows to compile. Unfortunately I

don't have access to one at the present time.

Any other idea?

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AddAccelerator buttons

Hi!

What do AddAccelerator buttons do? The name is quite clear but the

parameters I've seen being used are obscure to me.

Thanks!

Jorge

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Clickable maps in help files

In <phimsch-2809941125550001@progmc11.vub.ac.be> phimsch@vnet3.vub.ac.be (Peter Himschoot) writes:

>I've seem several applications that come with a nifty little help file

>that has a 'clickable map', for example: a picture of a certain dialog

>box, and you can click on the buttons and presto: the button's function is

>described !

The pictures you are seeing are bitmaps with hotspots on.  To create such

a file use SHED.EXE which should be shipped with the tool your help compiler

came with.  Once you have SHED running you can load your pictures in and

put hotspots wherever you like!

...Stefan

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Clickable maps in help files

In article <phimsch-2809941125550001@progmc11.vub.ac.be>,

Peter Himschoot <phimsch@vnet3.vub.ac.be> wrote:

>I've seem several applications that come with a nifty little help file

>that has a 'clickable map', for example: a picture of a certain dialog

>box, and you can click on the buttons and presto: the button's function is

>described !

>

>Could somebody tell me how this is done ? If it's described in a FAQ,

>could you tell me where I can find it ?

>

>THANX !

>

>Peter

>

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Take a look at shed.exe and shed.hlp that came with your

compiler/sdk/help authoring tool.

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Helpfile viewer with full text search

In article <369gjo$imd@news.iesd.auc.dk>, rene mortensen wrote:

>

> Does there exist a windows helpfile viewer with

> full text search cability?

>

> Please E-mail me

>

> Rene' Mortensen

>

Yes and no - The MS MM Viewer has FTSearch in it - but you will have

to re-compile the winhelp sources (with minor changes) to take care of

this problem.

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Help-to-All (?)

pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) wrote:

>sascrh@norman.unx.sas.com (Chris Hemedinger) wrote:

>>

>>I just received my periodic DDJ deck of ad cards.

>Usually there nothing

>>of interest in there, but this time I noticed a

>product called

>>Help-to-All by DABIWA Ltd.  They said "call our 800

>number for a free

>>demo," but their number is already disconnected!

>>

>>Anyway, that in itself should tell me it's not worth

>pursuing, but their

>>card said that you could maintain help files in Xbase

>or Paradox, and

>>that sounded interesting to me (I'd take a free demo,

>anyway).

>>

>>Anybody else hear of this company and know what

>happened to them?

>>

>

>Chris,

>

>  I pulled that card myself. I was going to call about

>it. Too bad the  number is disconnected. I wanted to

>find out the name of the guy who wrote  it because I

>seem to recall the company name. I think I may have

>helped  the guy out when he was writing that part of

>the product. I don't  remember, though. I'd like to see

>the product. If you find out anything  about it, let me

>know.

>

>Pete

>

Pete & Chris,

Help-To-All (AKA Multidoc) was purchased from DABIWA by WexTech

Systems. We now own the marketing rights and source code.

WexTech Systems will not be selling Help-To-All, but plans on

rolling some of its technology into future versions of

Doc-To-Help.

Paul Neshamkin

WexTech Systems Technical Support

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MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

In article <35s2m7$1jk@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>, pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

|> stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) wrote:

|> >In <1994Sep16.150059.5928@leeds.ac.uk> cen5yf@gps.leeds.ac.uk (Fan.Y.) writes:

|> >>Is there such a file viewer run on X-WINDOW??

|> >

|> >This is quite a complicated issue.  As far as I know there is no product

|> >that will *view* WinHelp .HLP files on X-Windows.  However, there is a

|> >product called HyperHelp from Bristol Technology.  With their product you

|> >can recompile the help file under unix and display it!  This is quite

|> >expensive from what I have heard

|> [deleted]

|> >...Stefan

|> >

|>

|>

|>

|> Does anyone know what ever became of WABI (It was basically Windows for

|> Unix)?

|>

|>   I know they were working on a .HLP viewer for it, but I don't know what

|> ever happened with WABI.

WABI exists, on SUN at least. It should be able to run WinHelp as standard.

(WABI is meant to run, or at least walk, any Windows app that doesn't

use networking. It accesses the UNIX filesystems through an NFS type

interface, but you cannot, as far as I know, run MS-MAIL or anything that

needs Winsock or NETBIOS.)

I believe WABI ships as standard with the lower-end Sparcstations that

SUN pitch as PC competitors. Whether you want to give it disk space is

another question.

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Jumps in Popups

dscavo@crl.com (David Francis Scavo) wrote:

>Hi. We are working on the design for our help file for our app

>(rather the tech docs person is). One of the things we are considering

>doing is context sensitive help. What we were thinging about was

>using the HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP to display the context sensitive

>help. This works fine. However, the context sensitve help topics

>have jumps in them. If we invoke the help with HELP_CONTEXT, then

>everything works fine. Howver, with the HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP, the jumps

>do not appear to work (what appears to happen is that when you click

>on the jump it just dismisses the popup).

David,

  Popups cannot have jumps in them, or more accurately, jumps are disabled

in popups. When you click anywhere on a popup'ed topic, it just closes the

topic. This is normal operation. If you want to be able to use the jumps,

then you need to use HELP_CONTEXT.

Pete

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HDK - inserting pictures

Dear Newsgroup,

I am using a help editor for Winword called HDK. When I insert a picture tag

it leaves about 10 lines after the picture after compiling the help.

Why does HDK do this. If anyone out there is using HDK by Virtual Media

Technology - could you please contact me on the email address below.

Thanks

DSZUC

dszuc@trl.oz.au

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Secondary windows and other .HLP files

Has anyone had any success in working with a topic from another .HLP file,

presenting that topic in a secondary window?

Such a feat is easily accomplished when presenting in another main window.  I

want to present it in a secondary window and have not been able to resolve the

"Bad Window Class, ignored" error when trying to use a secondary window.

If anyone has managed to accomplish this, please let me know how it can be

done.  If it cannot be done, I'd like to know so I'll quit beating my head

against the cubicle partition.

Bev Freed

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Dallas, TX

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Printing .hlp files...

In article <cacclin.779879338@vanbc>

           cacclin@vanbc.wimsey.com "Stephen Cacclin" writes:

>Is there any simple way to print or copy the entire contents of a .hlp file?

>I am sick and tired or going topic by topic....

No, regretably not.

Chris

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In article <36br9k$ola@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>dscavo@crl.com (David Francis Scavo) wrote:

>>Hi. We are working on the design for our help file for our app

>>(rather the tech docs person is). One of the things we are considering

>>doing is context sensitive help. What we were thinging about was

>>using the HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP to display the context sensitive

>>help. This works fine. However, the context sensitve help topics

>>have jumps in them. If we invoke the help with HELP_CONTEXT, then

>>everything works fine. Howver, with the HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP, the jumps

>>do not appear to work (what appears to happen is that when you click

>>on the jump it just dismisses the popup).

>

>

>David,

>

>

>  Popups cannot have jumps in them, or more accurately, jumps are disabled

>in popups. When you click anywhere on a popup'ed topic, it just closes the

>topic. This is normal operation. If you want to be able to use the jumps,

>then you need to use HELP_CONTEXT.

This is not true!  I have many popups in my hlp file with

jumps to other topics in the popup text.  They work just fine.

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Macintosh compatible?

I'm writing winhelp files for a network with some mac clients. Does anyone

know of s/w to translate the .rtf files or the .hlp files to anything a

mac understands. I confess near-total illiteracy when it comes to a Macintosh.

Please e-mail me:      monag@olympus.dis.wa.gov

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HDK - inserting pictures

In <dszuc.63.2E87B70E@trl.oz.au> dszuc@trl.oz.au (Daniel Szuc) writes:

>Dear Newsgroup,

>I am using a help editor for Winword called HDK. When I insert a picture tag

>it leaves about 10 lines after the picture after compiling the help.

Are you using the normal windows [image]?  If so - then have a look

at the picture and check that the picture itself is not longer than you think.

(I presume you have already done this).  What format are the pictures in?

It seems really strange that there would be such a gap unless the paragraph

formating (space before/after, line spacing) were set differently than for

other paragraphs.

...Stefan

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passing parameters to WinHelp

konst@cis.ksu.edu (Konst Sushenko) wrote:

>Hi there,

>i am writing a program that has to display some help

>if it is needed.

>First of all, it looks for the window with class MS_WINDOC

>(this is the class of main window of WinHelp application,

>as MS Spy told me ;-))

MS Spy didn't give you the whole story, though. If WinHelp was started by

using the WinHelp() API function, then the window class is MS_WINHELP. I

think that's in the FAQ.

>if it can find this window then it assumes that WinHelp is running.

>In this case i would like to change current file displayed in

>WinHelp window (if any) to my own.

>How do i do this?

  Well, if the WinHelp was started with the WinHelp() API, then it's easy,

just use :

WinHelp(hWnd, lpOldHlpFName, HELP_COMMAND, "SetHelpOnFile(`filename.hlp')");

 Unfortunately, if the help file was started using WinExec() or via

program manager or file manager, then you're looking at a much tougher

scenario. You could do the following:

 Set the task-bit for that instance of WinHelp to a DLL (see Undocumented

Windows pg. 321)

 Then do a GetProcAddress() for the function FAPI() from WinHelp.

 Then re-set the task-bit for WinHelp.

 Next, get the instance handle for WinHelp. You can do that by

GetWindowWord(hWndWinHelp, GWW_HINSTANCE). You already have the window

handle for WinHelp.

 Now, load the instance into AX and call FAPI(). FAPI() is just like the

WinHelp() API function, except you don't have a window handle as the first

parameter. (Parameters 1, 2, & 3 of FAPI() are the same as 2, 3, & 4 of

WinHelp()).

 Like I said, it's a little more difficult, and it requires undocumented

features that you won't be able to use under Chicago.

>And is it in general the best way to find out if WinHelp (or any other

>application ) is running? (i mean looking for a particular window)?

>

  There are more ways, but it depends on what you need, exactly. For your

purposes, yes, that's the best way.

>One more question: how to bring WinHelp to the top?

WinHelp(hWndWinHelp, lpHlpFile, HELP_COMMAND, "HelpOnTop()");

>right now i iconize the window that i have found and then resore it

>by posting WM_SYSCOMMAND with SC_MINIMIZE and then WM_SYSCOMMAND with

>SC_RESTORE. i tried to send WM_ACTIVATE but WinHelp wouldnt

>come to the top unlike other windows applications.

 Tsk, tsk, tsk. Play nice.

>

>And of course i do know that during sturtup i can pass my filename

>to WinHelp as a program parameter. ;-)

>Any help will be greatly appreciated!

>Konst.

>

Pete Davis

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hlpdc137.zip location ?

Recently someone mentioned the .hlp to .doc program hlpdc137.zip.

I have been unable to locate the file on ARCHIE.AU, does anyone know where it

might be located?

Thanks

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Problem with HCP.EXE

In article <778405812snz@assistg.demon.co.uk>, <pmitchell@assistg.demon.co.uk>

writes:

> In article <CvBoM5.MtK@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>

>            ycheng@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "yung-rang cheng" writes:

> > When I use HCP to compile my help project, I got an error saying

> >         run-time error R6915

> >         -DOSX16 : unhandled exception

> Morphic resonance?  I got exactly the same message for the first time

> today.  Does anyone know what causes it and is there a get-around?  I'm

> usinh HCP 5.05

> Paul Mitchell

I contacted MS support when I got this error... I bet you are using MS Word for

Windows 6.0! MS changed the RTF format just enough to zap most help compilers

from reading them. MS has a file HC505.EXE on its BBS and @ftp.microsoft.com in

the \softlib\mslfiles directory.

Good Luck.

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Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

In <35r931$mpo@fenris.dhhalden.no> stigj@sofus.hiof.no (Stig Jørgensen) writes:

>I got a product-catalogue filled with windows-programs

>yesterday. There it was a program called Blue Sky

>RoboHELP 2.0 whitch was some kind of visual help-maker

>and a program called RoboHelp 2.6 whitch was a Word for

>Windows macro to make developing Help-files easier.

>I thought it was only one program that was called RoboHelp.

>Could someone please clarify this?

There is only one product called RoboHelp.  2.6 is an

updated version.  Both versions require Word and therefore

are not truly WYSIWYG.

...Stefan

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MS Copyrights

In <366u1u$24f@newsbf01.news.aol.com> varguis@aol.com (Varguis) writes:

>Hi!

> I'm building a course in .hlp format. My idea is to launch it as

>Shareware.

>My question is:

> Is it OK to create a stand-alone .hlp file for commercial purposes (if we

>can consider Shareware so) without violating Microsofts copyrights?

>Can I copyright it?

Yes - you can release any number of WinHelp files.  The only thing

that you should note is that in order to compile the files you require

a licence for the help compiler.  This is available with development

tools such as Visual C++ or help authoring tools such as HWA.

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Simone) writes:

I need help on viewer too. Is there a good book on how to use it?

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Advice on Help Authoring Tools Please

Yes, it's another of those damn posts asking for help with choosing a

help authoring tool.

We're going to be developing a fairly large help system and are

looking for something that can manage the following:

Multi-hotspot graphics

Multiple help files with links between them

Context-id management

RTF Import/Export

Reasonably easy to use/learn

We'd prefer it to work with Framemaker but will use Word 6 if forced

to.

Cost is not too important but, as usual, it is a consideration.

And yes Stefan, I promise to look at your product. :-)  (Seeing as

we're an NZ based software house it would be quite nice to use a

product with local support.)

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where is WHAT?

I have been looking at ftp.microsoft.com for WHAT6, but I seem unable to

locate it. Can anybody tell me where?

thanksinadvance jjge@xs4all.nl

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Clickable maps in help files

phimsch@vnet3.vub.ac.be (Peter Himschoot) wrote:

>I've seem several applications that come with a nifty little help file

>that has a 'clickable map', for example: a picture of a certain dialog

>box, and you can click on the buttons and presto: the button's function is

>described !

>

>Could somebody tell me how this is done ? If it's described in a FAQ,

>could you tell me where I can find it ?

>

>THANX !

>

>Peter

Peter,

   No, it's not in the FAQ and it should be. I'll add it. What you need

to do is use SHED. SHED comes with the SDKs and most help authoring tools

that provide the help compiler.

   SHED will allow you to mark off a rectangle within a graphic. You can

then assign a topic jump, topic popup, or macro to that rectangular area

of your graphic.

   Then you simply include it in your topic as if it were a bitmap (it

will have the extension .SHG).

Pete Davis

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Helpfile viewer with full text search

In article <ppearson.22.000AD7ED@folio.com> ppearson@folio.com (Paul Pearson) writes:

>>> Does there exist a windows helpfile viewer with

>>> full text search cability?

>>>

>>> Please E-mail me

>>>

>>> Rene' Mortensen

>> Yes and no - The MS MM Viewer has FTSearch in it - but you will have

>> to re-compile the winhelp sources (with minor changes) to take care of

>> this problem.

>>

>> Ron Loewy, Author of HLPDK, HLPDK/PA and PASTERP  | rloewy@panix.com

> You might want to look into Folio VIEWS also...  With the current release

> (3.1) it can be used as an online, context-sensitive help system. Not only

> do users get FULL text searching, but they also can have on-the-fly

> annotations.

> Many other nice features are included.  If you'd like more info on  the

> products, just send me email.

>--Paul Pearson

>  ppearson@folio.com

Or ask me. I do not work for Folio, but I do know the product, and I will

give you an unbaised opinion about it: terrific!

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Jumps in Popups

In article <1994Sep28.225648.4936@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>In article <36br9k$ola@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>>dscavo@crl.com (David Francis Scavo) wrote:

>>>Hi. We are working on the design for our help file for our app

>>>(rather the tech docs person is). One of the things we are considering

>>>doing is context sensitive help. What we were thinging about was

>>>using the HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP to display the context sensitive

>>>help. This works fine. However, the context sensitve help topics

>>>have jumps in them. If we invoke the help with HELP_CONTEXT, then

>>>everything works fine. Howver, with the HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP, the jumps

>>>do not appear to work (what appears to happen is that when you click

>>>on the jump it just dismisses the popup).

>>

>>

>>David,

>>

>>

>>  Popups cannot have jumps in them, or more accurately, jumps are disabled

>>in popups. When you click anywhere on a popup'ed topic, it just closes the

>>topic. This is normal operation. If you want to be able to use the jumps,

>>then you need to use HELP_CONTEXT.

>

>	This is not true!  I have many popups in my hlp file with

>	jumps to other topics in the popup text.  They work just fine.

>--

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>Airborne Geophysics

>Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

NO! THIS IS TRUE!!! TRY IT!!

The question is about CONTEXT-SENSITIVE HELPS, not STANDALONES!!

In CSH (Context-Sensitive-Help), your programmer calls your help system

using API's (Application Program Interface) calls. WINHELP Apps respond to

the calls CONTEXT_JUMP and CONTEXT_POPUP. If your programmer uses

CONTEXT_POPUP, jumps ***---> ARE <----***  DISABLED!

Pleas, folks, lets READ the postings and reply with FACTS. Thank you.

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Printing Windows help (.hlp) files

In article <1994Sep23.164703.13645@i88.isc.com>,

Jeff Copeland <jeffcop@i88.isc.com> wrote:

>Anyone know where I can get a utility (preferably free) to print out

>MS-Windows .hlp files? I have a bunch of class notes and would like not

>to have to interactively print each topic.

>

>Thanx,

>Jeff Copeland

Jeff,

Although I have not tried it yet, I just downloaded from

Compu$erve a file with purports to do multiple files, but it

seems to want you to add it during the compile, like a

reference in the .HPJ file to a .DLL or something. The name is:

------------------<cut here>--------------------------

[100273,310]

PRINTA.ZIP/Bin  Bytes:   8389, Count:   85, 12-Sep-94

  Title   : Print Everything (not TM)

  Keywords: PRINTALL PRINT WINHELP DLL PRINTING

  Printall.dll (5536 bytes) offers you an extremely easy way of

coding a "Print All Topics" feature in your help file, based on

your file's browse sequences; includes source, awful

instructions in write format and is free; eventually, there

will be a help file with acceptable instructions; and, by the

way, this is not fancy: prints only to paper, not to file, one

new page for any new topic -- this is definetely not your dreams

come true.

------------------<cut here>--------------------------

So why don't you try sending him a note via his CI$ ID number:

[100273.310@compuserve.com]

-hope this helps

BaDge

<baj7d@virginia.edu>

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bokchoi@delphi.com (Scot Hacker ) wrote:

>

>Cosmi Corporation <cosmi@symnet.net> writes:

>>Most of the text is in large files, although we have

>split them into many

>>pieces, it appears that we are consistently crashing

>in tables. All of

>>the files are under 1meg, from 300 to 900kb. The

>documents where we are

>>crashing are 509kb and 525kb.

>

>

>Tables can be problematic in D2H. Note that there are

>two tabling options  in the Tools pull-down: Convert

>text to table, which is built into  Word, and Standard

>Table, which is added by D2H. Be sure to use Standard

>Table. You'll get much cleaner results this way.

>- Scot

Scot,

Sorry I didn't see the original posting. Could Cosmi

Corporation re-mail details to me and I will respond. What is

meant by "crashing?" Any error messages? What specific routine

was interrupted? What version of Doc-To-Help? We really

shouldn't be having table-specific problems now (although we

have worked through many Word issues in the past). Thanks.

Paul Neshamkin

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In article <33tag7$sug@uuneo.neosoft.com> Gail@wst.com writes:

>In article <778106560snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk writes:

>>In article <33ktb6$k63@uuneo.neosoft.com> gail@wst.com  writes:

>

>.... I am creating a help file for a

>>>windows application using Word for Windows and RoboHelp. I am

>>>also trying to include some graphics in my help file. Specifically,

>>>I have created a secondary window for certain topics. This window

>>>is light yellow (255,255,128) and I need to have the same background

>>>color for my graphics. The colors I am using appear to be the same

>>>until the Winhelp compiler does its magic.

>>>

>

>>

>>If I understand your question correctly, you have a bitmap which looks

>>"correct" in Word, but whose colours are changing when incorporated into

>>a "Help" file. Is that correct? This is probably palette-related. Are you

>>using a 256-colour bitmap? Anyone else know if 256-colour bitmaps can be

>>correctly used in Help files?

>>

>Good question ... my video card is set to 256 colors, and I created the

>bitmap in paintbrush. When you look at the light yellow in my graphic

>using paintbrush, the pixels are alternately colored bright

>yellow and white in a checkerboard pattern.

>

>Gail

>gail@wst.com

I think I mentioned this before but, if you're creating your bitmap in

paintbrush, when you go to save it, set it to 16 color bitmap.  It

should work just fine.

Your other option is to use an embedded window dll to display

256-color bitmaps.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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Bev Freed (bfreed@fasttax.com) wrote:

> Has anyone had any success in working with a topic from another .HLP file,

> presenting that topic in a secondary window?

[...]

> "Bad Window Class, ignored" error when trying to use a secondary window.

  You need to use a secondary window from the other help file, if I'm

not mistaken.

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winhelp graphics - any bmp package out there ?

I  have been creating a winhelp file that has a graphic with hot spots for the

front page, and it is really painful. The process starts say with Micrografx

Draw, then using Paint Shop Pro, the region is captured from the screen and

saved to a .BMP ready to be loaded into shed.exe. This means that the

resolution of the .BMP and thus the.HLP file is the same as the screen that it

is grabbed from. We run 1024 x 768, but others don't and can't read the front

page.

So the question is, how are other people doing this ? Is there some nice .BMP

drawing package that is available ? Are we doing it the hard way ? None of our

drawing tools - Micrografx Draw, Visio, Microsoft Draw ... have a save as a

.BMP. This looks like the real problem.

davidp.

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Anybody seen ForHelp?

I did a brief test run with ForeHelp and was very impressed on most count.

It does what it says it will do well (i.e. no questions asked WYSWIG).

There's just one big drawback: if you're not importing an .RTF but want

to work with ASCII that's been passed to you, you've still got to create

all of the contents pages and subheading lists by hand and then link

them manually to their respective topics. If you're creating things

from scratch, I think it would be a dynamite tool. I often get highly

hierachical 1,000+ topic projects, and there's no way I'm going to write

out and link all those topic levels when Doc2Help will do it with *far*

less effort.

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cmsg cancel <Cwy2zF.435@tc.fluke.COM>

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.

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Cosmi Corporation <cosmi@symnet.net> writes:

>Most of the text is in large files, although we have split them into many

>pieces, it appears that we are consistently crashing in tables. All of

>the files are under 1meg, from 300 to 900kb. The documents where we are

>crashing are 509kb and 525kb.

Tables can be problematic in D2H. Note that there are two tabling options

in the Tools pull-down: Convert text to table, which is built into

Word, and Standard Table, which is added by D2H. Be sure to use Standard

Table. You'll get much cleaner results this way.

- Scot

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Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

In <1994Sep23.181133.60@vms.huji.ac.il> tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il writes:

>I've never heard of showbmp.dll.  Who produces it?  Where can I

>look at it or find out more about it?

It is available on Compuserve in the WINSDK forum, it is an

embedded window that allows display of many cool formats...

I don't know if it's available on ftp...

...Stefan

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In article <36ecml$ed9@news.xs4all.nl> jjge@xs4all.nl (jjge) writes:

> I have been looking at ftp.microsoft.com for WHAT6, but I seem unable to

> locate it. Can anybody tell me where?

Look for /developr/msdn/new(?)/whathlp.zip(?)

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Data Acquisition project !help!

In article <CvB3wx.Bn9@ucdavis.edu>

           jmokeefe@chorizo.engr.ucdavis.edu "John Michael Okeefe" writes:

>

>        Hi, I'm working on creating a data acquisition program for a race car

>team. I'm fairly new to programming C/C++/ms-windows. I'm using Borland visual

>turbo C++ 3.1.

>

>        The software that I'm writing needs to:

>

>        (1) Communicate with a stand alone data aquisition board i.e download

>        setup info. / upload data stored.

>

>        (2) Analyze the data i.e. filtering and mathmatical manipulation.

>            Integration, derivative, trig. functions, matrix manipulation,

>            FFT, etc.

>

>        (3) Display the data i.e. line plots, x y graphs, polar plots etc.

>

>        (4) Archive data in a compressed form.

>

>        (4) Export the data in Excel format, Matlab format, ascii etc.

>

>        If anyone know's of any libraries, DLL's, text, or books that could

>help me in this project I would greatly appreciate the info. Please E-Mail me.

Did you HAVE to send this message to every damned newsgroup in the Windows

programming hierarchy? Any tendency I might have had to help you very

quickly evaporated when I saw it again, and again, and again, and....

Chris

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DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

Thanks for the help so far. But it still doesn't work. When I compile the

RTF file, I get the messages that it is "Unable to open bitmap file

Help0001.shg" Any more help would really be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-eliot

> Does the help compiler give any warnings (e.g. that it cannot

> find the graphic)?

>

>

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Help and documentation

Hi,

I'm looking for a tool that has following properties :

- generates a .HLP file

- generates documentation from the same file

- generates a ASCII file that is human readable.

The last point needs a little explanation, I presume :

our documentation has to be translated. Translators can be

explained that "\b" means "bold on" "\b0" means "bold off".

But the effect of 90% of the rest of RTF is chinese to them.

(Except for chinese translators, of course :-). So the information in

the text that is allowed should be restricted.

The translator should not need to search for the text as is the case

in rtf-files generated by ROBOHELP and related tools.

Ideas, anybody ?

Paul

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Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

In article <gNcPkq530ctM057yn@oslonett.no>, peternm@oslonett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) writes:

|> In article <33kkus$jn9@edvvie2.edvg.co.at>, boehm@edvvie.edvg.c wrote:

|> > Has anyone experience in porting winhelp files(300k RTF with

|> > extensive use of hotspots, SHGs and hotspots in tables) to the OS/2

|> > INF format ?

|>

|> I remember hearing a rumour that Micrografx' Mirrors os2/windows

|> portability package contained something along those lines.

|> Never actually used the thing, though. Try getting through to

|> somebody sufficiently technical in Mgx.

Mirrors converts RTF source to IPF.  If you have bitmaps, you can

usually use the same Windows bitmaps in the OS/2 file.  However SHG

files are NOT usable.

If you want hotspots in graphics, you have lots of work to do.  You must

define each hotspot as an :artlink in terms of coordinates on the

graphics.  There is not an interactive editor, so it's trial and error.

IPF cops out of the REAL table formatting issues by making table text

monospace (so it's easy to align).  I believe you can have links in

tables; if it changes the size of your text, though (such as by making

the text bold), it will throw off all of your table rules.

Alternative solution: format using the :xmp tags; it will look like

tables except won't contain any rules, and you can align them manually.

Mirrors is useful to convert plain vanilla help files (whose topics are

IN ORDER) to plain vanilla IPF files.  I had heard that Micrografx sold

the Mirrors product to IBM (just a rumour).

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Search multiple HLP files?

HLP FILE PROBLEM:

I work in a state agency at the division level.

There are approximately 15 divisions in our agency.

I have created a Windows hlp file that is a telephone,

e-mail and personnel directory for our division. Now

other divisions want to take my file and modify it

for their use.

Here's the problem.

I have the opportunity to dictate to them the manner in

which they will develop their own information directories.

It would be great if we could coordinate our information

(a regular stone soup situation).  I figure we have two

choices:

1.  Consolidate all information into a single help

file and then distribute it throughout the agency.

2.  Have each division do their own help files and

then build a front end that will provide access to

all.

There are various advantages and disadvantages to both of

these ideas.  I am tending towards #2 provided that

we can come up with a way to search thru multiple help

files simultaneously.  Can this be done?  Does the new

Media Viewer allow you to search thru multiple hlp/viewer

files? (Of course with Viewer that would be full text

search.)

Does anyone have any other possible solutions to my problem?

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DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

In article <eliot_jablonka-020994125830@129.83.46.2>,

Eliot Jablonka <eliot_jablonka@iegate.mitre.org> wrote:

>Thanks for the help so far. But it still doesn't work. When I compile the

>RTF file, I get the messages that it is "Unable to open bitmap file

>Help0001.shg" Any more help would really be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

>

> [I wrote:]

>> Does the help compiler give any warnings (e.g. that it cannot

>> find the graphic)?

>>

If the .shg's are not in the same directory as your rtf files,

you should add the directory whre they are to the ROOT entry in

the [OPTIONS] section of the hpj file.

ROOT=.,c:\shg,c:\bmp

etc.

You can also use the BMROOT keyword (same syntax), or list

the pictures (bmp, wmf and shg) in a separate [BITMAPS]

section.

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In article <347n98$9ib@mailer.fsu.edu>,

Peter S. Lakanen <lakanen@otto.cmr.fsu.edu> wrote:

>HLP FILE PROBLEM:

>

>I work in a state agency at the division level.

>There are approximately 15 divisions in our agency.

>I have created a Windows hlp file that is a telephone,

>e-mail and personnel directory for our division. Now

>other divisions want to take my file and modify it

>for their use.

>

>Here's the problem.

>

>I have the opportunity to dictate to them the manner in

>which they will develop their own information directories.

>It would be great if we could coordinate our information

>(a regular stone soup situation).  I figure we have two

>choices:

>

>1.  Consolidate all information into a single help

>file and then distribute it throughout the agency.

>

>2.  Have each division do their own help files and

>then build a front end that will provide access to

>all.

>

>There are various advantages and disadvantages to both of

>these ideas.  I am tending towards #2 provided that

>we can come up with a way to search thru multiple help

>files simultaneously.  Can this be done?  Does the new

>Media Viewer allow you to search thru multiple hlp/viewer

>files? (Of course with Viewer that would be full text

>search.)

If I'm not mistaken, the possibility to do a full-text

search in multiple help files has been removed from

Viewer 2.0.  You can do it with Viewer 1.0 and WinHelp

using the techniques described in the FAQ for this ]

newsgroup.

The concept of multiple files has been replaced in

Viewer 2 with a concept of "topic groups".  I believe

they can be separately compiled and "linked" into

a single .MVB file.

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** Q:  Can a Hitachi CD ROM drive #CDR-1503S work with Windows? **

In article <aiCvGx4F.4wI@netcom.com> ai@netcom.com (Think) writes:

>From: ai@netcom.com (Think)

>Subject: ** Q:  Can a Hitachi CD ROM drive #CDR-1503S work with Windows? **

>Keywords: windows, CDROM drive, Hitachi CDR-1503S

>Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 20:33:49 GMT

>I have a CD ROM drive made by Hitachi which was made in 1987.

>It is the Hitachi model # CDR-1503S.  The drive has not been used

>since about 1988 (on an IBM AT).

>I am trying to find out if this drive will work OK on a 486DX66

>class machine (16Mb RAM, 350Mb disk, Windows 3.1, DOS 6.0).  I the

>original Hitachi High Sierra driver for the drive but have not

>tried installing on the Windows 3.1 machine - figuring it will

>probably not run or worse, may mess up other things given how old

>the driver is.

>I have the interface card (AT bus) and cable for the drive. I have tried

>calling Hitachi in Los Angeles but have not heard back from them yet

>on the following Q's.  I called Microsoft and they said that ISO-9600

>compatibility means the drive *should* work OK under Windows.

>I am trying to find out:

>a. what is needed in terms of software and/or driver(s) in order for

>the drive to operate under Windows (assuming the 1988 AT driver which

>I have will not operate properly).

>b. where the software and/or driver(s) that are needed can be purchased

>c. will the drive with this SW/drive(s) work OK under Windows NT

>The objective here is to be able to use this drive for installing/

>reading Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5 which only comes on CD ROM.

>Thanks very much in advance for any help or pointers on this.

>======================================================================

>Hitachi driver installer documentation (circa 1988) says that running

>the installer will:

>Copy HITACHI.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE to C:\DOS

>Update C:\CONFIG.SYS to include:

>   lastdrive=L

>   files=20

>   device=C:\DOS\HITACHI.SYS /D:MSCD0001 /N:1 /P:300

>Update C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to include:

>   C:\DOS\MSCDEX /D:MSCD0001 /L:L

>======================================================================

>The current CONFIG.SYS file on the Windows 486 machine is:

>DEVICE=C:\DOS60\HIMEM.SYS

>DEVICE=C:\DOS60\EMM386.EXE NOEMS HIGHSCAN X=DA00-DAFF

>BUFFERS=30,0

>FILES=40

>DOS=UMB

>LASTDRIVE=E

>FCBS=4,0

>DOS=HIGH

>REM DEVICEHIGH /L:2,12208 =C:\EVRXDR\TRANSCRB.SYS /T:3

>REM DEVICEHIGH /L:2,3920 =C:\EVRXDR\EVRXSCAN.SYS /Z

>REM DEVICEHIGH /L:1,19168 =C:\MOUSE\MSCMOUSE.SYS

>DEVICEHIGH /L:1,12048 =C:\DOS60\SETVER.EXE

>REM DEVICEHIGH /L:1,16848 =C:\PROAUDIO\MVSOUND.SYS D:3 Q:11 S:1,220,1,5 M:1,330,

>2 J:0

>======================================================================

>The current AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the Windows 486 machine is:

>SET CPBACKUP=C:\CPBACKUP\DATA

>ECHO OFF

>LH /L:0;1,16400;2,43920 /S C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE 8192 4096

>PATH = C:\CPBACKUP;C:\PM4;C:\EXCEL;C:\WINWORD;C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS60;C:\UTILITY;C:\

>XTGOLD;C:\PROAUDIO

>set path=%PATH%;C:\MOUSE

>set mouse=C:\MOUSE

>LH /L:1,40272 C:\MOUSE\mouse

>SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

>LH /L:1,6400 DOSKEY

>C:\VIPER\CHKPATH C:\VIPER

>IF ERRORLEVEL 3 PATH C:\VIPER;%PATH%

>SET VIPERPATH=C:\VIPER

>ECHO call C:\QL2FAX\FASTFAX /f /rec

>ECHO LH /L:1,33344 C:\VIPER\VPRBIOS

>PROMPT $D $_$P$G

>======================================================================

AI: The driver you have should work fine under Windows. But--DON'T copy

MSCDEX.EXE to the DOS directory!!! If you do, you'll overwrite the version of

MSCDEX.EXE that came with DOS, and that's the only version that'll work in DOS

6 OR Windows. Just add the following line to AUTOEXEC.BAT:

C:\DOS\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /M:12 /V

Then reboot; the player should come up as drive D: in DOS and Windows.

For general purposes, you should replace the SMARTDRV line with the follwing:

C:\DOS\SMARTDRV 2048 2048

You can take it up to 3000 if you want, but 2 megs ought to do it.

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** WANTED To Buy:  Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5 **

Sep 2, 1994

Hello -

I have been using Symantec C++ for Windows and have decided to

switch over to what looks to be the industry standard (ie MS).

I am looking to buy a new or used Microsoft Visual C++ version 1.5

software (CD ROM).  (New pricing seems to be in the $150 - $180 range,

competitive upgrade price). I would also be interested in buying the

hard copy documentation.

So if you have MS C++ v1.5 and/or hard copy documentation set that

you can sell, please contact me at:  ai@netcom.com

Thanks

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Shrinking bitmaps

I have a bunch of bitmaps (screen captures of software dialog boxes

mostly) that are too big at 100% to fit neatly into a help file. Some will

be used for SHGs, others will just be bitmaps. My problem is that

shrinking them renders them illegible. I tried using Word's Format Picture

to reduce the size as I've done for printed manuals, but they look pretty

yucky. I tried HiJaak to convert to raster, resize, then convert back to

BMP, and while the text is more readable, what happens to the "greyware"

looks awful.

Any suggestions? Am I the only one with this problem? Or do you all use

graphics at life size?

John Garison

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In article <CvBArJ.9so@world.std.com> blak@world.std.com "Ben Katz" writes:

>I'm not a windows programmer, which will no doubt be very clear from

>this question.  I'm trying to write a device driver that interfaces to

>a third part product.

[ lots of irrelevencies deleted ]

I'm afraid that you're asking on the wrong group. This group is for

discussion of the Windows on-line Help engine "WinHelp" - it is NOT a group

for obtaining general "help" with Windows programming questions. There is

a weekly FAQ posted which lists the purpose of the Windows programming

newsgroup hierarchy "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.*".

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Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.

In article <preston.778219076@kaiwan> preston@kaiwan.com (Preston L. Bannister) writes:

>>In article <Pine.3.89.9408251106.A12666-0100000@math30.math.umbc.edu>

>>           chendi@math.umbc.edu "Chendi Zhang Guest" writes:

>>>Whats the best UNcrippled help writer for windows?

>I've been trying out some of the shareware help authoring tools.  If

>the unregistered version is crippled, chances are I can't get far

>enough to want to pay for the software.

I've been watching this group for awhile, and wonder why nobody has mentioned

RTFGEN?  Is it because it's apparently only available on Compu$erve?

It IS free, though (source code $10).  You can't beat the price!

                 --Tommy Trussell

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How to change LINK-COLOR ?

I am shure this is a simple question but

Please tell me how i can change the color of the Hyperlinks

in WINHELP. I dint found any .ini file.

The links are green right now and i like to change the color to blue.

I dont have a programming tool so where can i cange the Windows-standard-

color for Winhelpfiles ?

Please help ! Mail me or post follow up

Thanks !

Markus

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In article <CvBoM5.MtK@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>

           ycheng@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "yung-rang cheng" writes:

>

> When I use HCP to compile my help project, I got an error saying

>         run-time error R6915

>         -DOSX16 : unhandled exception

>

Morphic resonance?  I got exactly the same message for the first time

today.  Does anyone know what causes it and is there a get-around?  I'm

usinh HCP 5.05

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Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

There is an undocumented macro called FloatingMenu().  Append some

menu items to a menu called 'mnu_floating', then have the

FloatingMenu() macro execute as a result of a \uldb and you can have

real popup menus!

I read this in a newbook called something like "Exploring

WinHelp.EXE".  I saw the book for the first time last night in Staceys

Book Store in Palo Alto, Ca.  Sorry I cannot remember the full

listing.

Enjoy,

Stergios

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Getting Started in Visual Help

Robert Pearson (telical@eskimo.com) wrote:

:    My version comes up with just a menu bar on the screen, nothing else

: except a little movable button toolset on the side.  I'm assuming that

: I name my project files and such and then I'm given more room to work

: with.  Re-writing samples is always an easy way to go, but I don't think

: they've made that possible.  Am I correct about this?  I get an error

: message about "no error file found."

:     Can anyone give me any more directions?

Didn't you find an example called "sample1.vh"?. Select "File" from the

VH menu and select "Open". You should find some example files there. Also go

thru the help topic on how to build a help system. The tutorial text should

help you get started.

- Galen -

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In article <34892j$s0j@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de>,

Markus Fuenfrocken <gg15hzmf@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de> wrote:

>

>I am shure this is a simple question but

>

>Please tell me how i can change the color of the Hyperlinks

>in WINHELP. I dint found any .ini file.

Well, confusingly, this should be put in WIN.INI (not

WINHELP.INI):

[Windows Help]

; other stuff

;

; colors are R G B

JumpColor=0 128 64

PopupColor=0 128 0

MacroColor=0 128 128

IFJumpColor=0 128 255     ; jump to other file

IFPopupColor=64 128 64    ; popup to  other file

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looking for wc31.exe!

In <343q5j$nek@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca (Vladimir Alexiev) writes:

> - I'm sure nobody of the authors of shareware help tools have a license for

>HC. Does this mean they are selling only "partially useful" software?

I'm sorry, but Olson Software have a licence for HC for distribution with HWA

and I know HyperAct Inc. have a licence for HC for distribution with HLPDK/PA

I would agree that Microsoft has not handled this issue well - but they are

starting to sort it out...

...Stefan

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Cue Cards: cleaning up some MS boogers

For the past few days I've been poking around with the Cue Cards tools

that came with Microsoft Project. The tools are a couple of WinWord6

template (.dot) files and some bitmap (.mrb) files.

I've found one bug and one annoying "feature" in one of the templates.

After poking around a little, I've managed to squash the bug and hack

my way around the "feature".

The bug and "feature" annoyed me enough that I finally took the time

to fix and eliminate them. Hopefully, this post will save other folks

from wasting^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hspending the time that I did.

The following two patches are for the StartCompile macro of the

cuecards.dot template.

First, squashing the bug:

About 1/3 of the way through the StartCompile macro, there's a snippet

of code that looks for the context string of the first topic in the Cue

Card file to build. The offending line looks like:

   EditFind .Find = stStartJump$, .Direction = 0, .MatchCase = 0

Turns out, that if you've done a Find or Find/Replace operation and have

set some search criteria based on style or attributes (hidden, underline,

etc.), the EditFind won't find the context string. And that will terminate

the compile before it gets started. And that sucks.

The error message looks like this:

The starting context string, <someContextString>, was not found

in the footnote section.  This will lead to a fatal run time error.

Compile Canceled.

Turns out, all you need to do is tell the EditFind to ignore formatting

when it does the Find. A simple .Format = 0 works quite nicely, making

the line look like:

   EditFind .Find = stStartJump$, .Format = 0, .Direction = 0, .MatchCase = 0

Next, hacking around the "feature".

After a compile, whether the compile was successful or not, the macro

launches notepad and shows you the contents of the .err (error) file.

That's fine if the compile was bad, but if the cue cards compile ok

(mine always do :-) I don't want to see the damn error file.

The old code (the stuff thath I changed) is at the end of the

StartCompile macro and looks like:

   Shell "notepad.exe " + StPath$ + "\" + ErrorFile$

   Canceled:

The fixed code looks like:

   ' get the length of the ErrorFile

   Open StPath$ + "\" + ErrorFile$ For Input As #1

   	Size = Lof(1)

   Close #1

   ' if no errors in compile, the ErrorFile$ is usually smaller than

   ' 175 bytes so, if the file is < 175 bytes, I don't want to see it

   If (Size > 200) Then

   	Shell "notepad.exe " + StPath$ + "\" + ErrorFile$

   Else

   	Kill StPath$ + "\" + ErrorFile$

   	Print "Compile complete."

   End If

   Canceled:

Oh yeah, I'm a technical writer, not a software grunt. These patches

are supplied with out any sort of warranty, use at your own risk,

contents packed by volume not by weight, it's not my fault, to not

taunt Happy Fun Ball, etc.

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Where is WHAT6.ZIP?

A while back, I caught wind of a WHAT upgrade called either WHAT6.EXE

or WHAT6.ZIP. One report had it on ftp.microsoft.com in the mslfiles

directory, but it is not. Another had it on MSDN CD7, but I don't

subscribe. Anyway. all searches for it have come up empty, and I would

like to know what the deal is.

Also, how is WHAT6 different from DWHAT? Is plain old WHAT.ZIP with DWHAT

enough to get the job done?

The last time I made a help file was a month or so before I upgraded to

Word 6, so it has been a while. At least I found HC505.EXE - that was easy.

But I need new templates...

Any help/information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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No network being loaded

I bought this pc with Windows already loaded and everything has been

fine, but I recently corrupted my Windows directory and had to reinstall.

I can't, for the life of me, get my network to load.  I chose the default

from the menu because it seemed to match, but I keep getting 'network

not installed' and I get no Network icon in my control files.

If you have any ideas, please e-mail me at lazyone@primenet.com.  I'm

using version 3.1

.

Much obliged,

Kat

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Hi,

in my *.hlp project I'v include a bmp. - The rtf is ca 700k and now

after compiling with hc31 comes the error message "not enough memory"

Without bmp ok.

Any ideas?

I know *.hlp, there are ca. 1.5MB!!

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Problems: WINHELP "How To" and HP DJ500 series printer driver.

Hello,

Not entirely sure if this is the right place to ask, but:

Software: WIN 3.1 and 3.11

Application: Winhelp, help files from MS Word v6.0A and Excel 5.0

Printer Driver: HP Deskjet500 series v4.0 and 4.1

Problem: In help files with Word and Excel, some hotwords activate a

second "How To" window, with 4 grey buttons, "Close", Print", "Index",

"On Top". Selecting the "Print" option in the "How To" window causes

an application error (Close or Ignore) and a General Protection Fault

in the current video driver. It does not appear to be limited to

3rd-party video drivers, as the standard VGA driver, as shipped with

Win 3.1, also yields the GP fault. The "Print" button appears to work

fine with the standard postscript printer driver selected as default

printer, but not at all with either of the HP Deskjet 500 drivers

mentioned above.

Any chance anyone can help a poor soul lost in the depths of Windows

Support?

Many thanks for anyone's help.

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Translating help files into multiple languages...

Could the panel advise on the best way to create multilingual help ?

I am writing the English version of the help files for a program

that will be translated into several other languages. My help file will

be complete in all respects (structure etc.) and will be passed on to

a non-technical translator (per language) who will translate just the

text.

I am therefore looking at the easiest way of preserving the structure

of the help file and keeping it absolutely identical between

languages, whilst letting the translator get at the text.

I haven't yet decided on which help authoring system to use (HWA

and ForeHelp are contenders) so I'd be interested to know which product

makes control of the above easiest, or if there is a product out there

that caters for this and already has the required features.

TVMIA,

Mark

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Really Weird Problem with Smart Quotes/Special characters

: Any help?  I'm planning to publish my first e-book using SoftLock technology,

: and I'd hate to see a certain unknown number of people (>0) not being able to

: reproduce these characters properly in some of the topics.

I'm lost. What is SoftLock technology?

Gerald Cheong

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Button Arrangements

I was just wondering if there is anyway to add a button to the very

beginning of the button bar (i.e. before the "Contents" button).  I

thought I'd seen it done before, but as of yet, I've not been able to

duplicate it.  (Now, I just hope I didn't miss something elementary and

feel like fool when someone tells me how (if ya can) to do it ;D )

THANKS !

Bill McDaniel

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Help and documentation

In article <3444t8$464@mydear.csl.sni.be>, Paul Busse wrote:

>

> Hi,

>

> I'm looking for a tool that has following properties :

>

> - generates a .HLP file

> - generates documentation from the same file

> - generates a ASCII file that is human readable.

>

> The last point needs a little explanation, I presume :

> our documentation has to be translated. Translators can be

> explained that "\b" means "bold on" "\b0" means "bold off".

> But the effect of 90% of the rest of RTF is chinese to them.

> (Except for chinese translators, of course :-). So the information in

> the text that is allowed should be restricted.

> The translator should not need to search for the text as is the case

> in rtf-files generated by ROBOHELP and related tools.

>

> Ideas, anybody ?

>

>

> Paul

>

>

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Try our HLPDK/PA tool, it supports WinHelp, Word Processor and Ascii Text

documents. The last one mentioned should be ok for what you want.

BTW - HLPDK/PA supports other formats such as OS/2's IPF and the World Wide

Web HTML - all from the same source.

Ron.

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Extracting Baggage form a Help File

In article <1994Sep1.192145.6259@zed.com>, Brendan Young wrote:

>

> Hi,

>

> I want to ship a text version of a help file as baggage with the

> help file. My plan is to provide a Print button which is bound to

> a macro which will extract the file from the baggage and print it.

>

> I know that some sort of custom DLL will have to be written, and

> that the are probably standard DLLs used to extract the file but

> I don't know where to start and I definitely don't know what is

> involved in printing the file once it is extracted.

>

> Any help, hints or DLLs would be greatly appreciated.

>

> Brendan.

>

Try Jim Mischel's "Developer's Guide to WinHelp.EXE" book - it includes the

source to such an animal.

Ron.

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Shrinking bitmaps

JPG3 (jpg3@aol.com) wrote:

: I have a bunch of bitmaps (screen captures of software dialog boxes

: mostly) that are too big at 100% to fit neatly into a help file. Some will

: be used for SHGs, others will just be bitmaps. My problem is that

: shrinking them renders them illegible. I tried using Word's Format Picture

: to reduce the size as I've done for printed manuals, but they look pretty

One way to approach this is to paste the graphics in in "Picture," rather

than bitmap format. To do this, select Paste:Special, and select Picture

format. This inserts a Windows Metafile format, which will render better

at different screen resolutions, and when you size it manualy on the page.

 That may not be good enough though.  I use Paint Shop Pro to scale graphics

and sometimes find it useful to reduce the graphic in two stages. Since a

scaling operation involves adding or removing pixels in an ordered fashion,

you may end up with checker-board patterns and deformed features, depending

on color & the amount of change. You might try reducing the picture twice,

using even & odd number final picture size targets. Finnaly, you may have to

go back to the reduced picture & edit it by hand to restore decent color

and clarity.

Tom Kindig

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"Standard" way to get F1?

Simple, dumb question:  What's the standard way to figure out

that the user has pressed the F1 key and wants help?

WM_KEYDOWN seems promising, but I'd hate to slow my app down by

checking this case EVERY time the user presses a key.

I thought about defining an F1 acclerator, so that I would

get a distinct message for the F1 key, but I notice that the Win32

reference manual recommends against this, since F1 is a "standard"

system-wide accelerator that supposedly calls the application's

help, if it has any.

Needless to say, this surprised me, unless the manual was just

telling me not to override F1 to mean something else, because I

really should use it to bring up help.  Is there some secret WM_COMMAND

message that I get when the user wants help?

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How to change LINK-COLOR ?

In article <34892j$s0j@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de> gg15hzmf@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Markus Fuenfrocken) writes:

>

>I am shure this is a simple question but

>

>Please tell me how i can change the color of the Hyperlinks

>in WINHELP. I dint found any .ini file.

>

>The links are green right now and i like to change the color to blue.

>I dont have a programming tool so where can i cange the Windows-standard-

>color for Winhelpfiles ?

>

>Please help ! Mail me or post follow up

>

>Thanks !

>Markus

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In WIN.INI

[Windows Help]

TextColor=255 0 0

HelpColor=0 255 0

TColor=255 0 255

IfJumpColor=255 255 0

IfPopupColor=255 255 0

JumpColor=255 255 0

PopupColor=255 255 0

MacroColor=255 255 0

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Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

The name of the book is "The Developers Guide to WinHelp.Exe"

This is one of the best books on this topic I have read.  There is a lot

of information on many aspects of help development.  They even cover some

nifty tricks (like the pop-up menu which I have already used in a

commercially distributed help)

Jon

Stergios Marinopoulos (stergios@netcom6.netcom.com) wrote:

: There is an undocumented macro called FloatingMenu().  Append some

: menu items to a menu called 'mnu_floating', then have the

: FloatingMenu() macro execute as a result of a \uldb and you can have

: real popup menus!

: I read this in a newbook called something like "Exploring

: WinHelp.EXE".  I saw the book for the first time last night in Staceys

: Book Store in Palo Alto, Ca.  Sorry I cannot remember the full

: listing.

: Enjoy,

: Stergios

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big *.hlp?

Make sure you are using the latest version of the help compiler.  If I

remember correctly, the older version needed EMM.

Jon

Rainer Schleevoigt (rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de) wrote:

: Hi,

: in my *.hlp project I'v include a bmp. - The rtf is ca 700k and now

: after compiling with hc31 comes the error message "not enough memory"

: Without bmp ok.

: Any ideas?

: I know *.hlp, there are ca. 1.5MB!!

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Translating help files into multiple languages...

In article <CvJxKD.Krz@cix.compulink.co.uk>, "Mark Beecroft" wrote:

> Could the panel advise on the best way to create multilingual help ?

>

> I am writing the English version of the help files for a program

> that will be translated into several other languages. My help file will

> be complete in all respects (structure etc.) and will be passed on to

> a non-technical translator (per language) who will translate just the

> text.

>

> I am therefore looking at the easiest way of preserving the structure

> of the help file and keeping it absolutely identical between

> languages, whilst letting the translator get at the text.

[...]

I take it you are talking about ordinary Windows help files, sources

in RTF format, and so on. There must by now be thousands of professional

translators all over the world who have experience in this sort of work.

The best way to create multi-lingual help is, simply:

1)	Write your help system in a properly structured manner,

2)	Get translators who have previous experience translating

help files, or show signs of understanding the importance

of the structure and navigation information embedded in

the files

3)	Keep track of exactly which version you send to each

translator for translation

4)	Keep an accurate record of changes between versions,

preferably provide each translator with both new

source files containing updates and "compare" files

(these are relatively easy to generate using your

word processor's compare version feature

5)	If you were sufficiently careful with what you did under

2), have the translator deliver a fully functional

compiled help file with any translator-introduced

errors already corrected.

The choice of help authoring tool is in my humble opinion fairly

irrelevant to these issues.

By the way, this message was written by a translator who has

been doing this sort of work for the last 5 years.

All the best,

Peter

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Button Arrangements

> I was just wondering if there is anyway to add a button to the

> very

> beginning of the button bar (i.e. before the "Contents" button)

>   I

> thought I'd seen it done before, but as of yet, I've not been

> able to

> duplicate it.  (Now, I just hope I didn't miss something elementary

> and

> feel like fool when someone tells me how (if ya can) to do it

> ;D )

You could change the binding of the "Contents" button with the CB macro

assigning to it the definition string and the macro you'd prefer.

Of course, you'd likely need to create another button to assign to it the

"Contents" topic.

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Collapsing effects???

In article <CvEyz2.CKt@revcan.ca>, Chris King <chrisk@revcan.ca> wrote:

>In article <CvDMC1.9MI@agora.rdrop.com>,

>Steve Perry <sperry@agora.rdrop.com> wrote:

>>Does anyone know how they create the "collapsing effects". For instance,

>>in the Knowledge Base for VB (I assume others too), they have several

>>lines and when you click on any of them, they expand out. If they click

>>on it again, it collapses. How's it done?

>>Thanks

>

>I was wondering about this too.  You could 'fake it' to some extent, I suppose,

>by jumping between the condensed and expanded displays (i.e. one topic for the

>condensed and clicking it jumps to another topic, everything the same except

>that the sub-topics are displayed, and vice versa).

>

>Seems to me that this technique could end up creating a rather large number

>of additional topics.  What's a better way?

>

Except in the case of a very tiny tree, the number of topics you'd

have to generate for expanded/nonexpanded combinations will quickly

become enormous.  The only way to do this, is to write it as a separate

piece of code (DLL or EXE).  Clicking on "Contents Tree" or whatever

from the helpfile would call a function in the DLL, or ExecProgram,

showing the window with the collapsable/expandable tree.  Double-clicking

on a leaf of the tree would in turn cause a jump to the appropriate

context-string or keyword.

I'm not sure, but I think the MSDN CD has some sample code that explains

how the expandable/collapsable tree of File Manager can be written in C.

This can easily (?) be adapted to the WinHelp case.

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No network being loaded

In article <CvJ8I8.9sG@primenet.com> lazyone@primenet.com "lazyone" writes:

>I bought this pc with Windows already loaded and everything has been

>fine, but I recently corrupted my Windows directory and had to reinstall.

>I can't, for the life of me, get my network to load.  I chose the default

>from the menu because it seemed to match, but I keep getting 'network

>not installed' and I get no Network icon in my control files.

I'm afraid that you're asking on the wrong group. This group is for

discussion of the Windows on-line Help engine "WinHelp" - it is NOT a group

for obtaining general "help" with Windows programming questions. There is

a weekly FAQ posted which lists the purpose of the Windows programming

newsgroup hierarchy "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.*".

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Viewer Reccomendation?

I am about to start production on a large multimedia project, that

would have a large number of text articles in as well as (to a lesser

extent) bitmaps, animation and some video.

Now, being as it is an educational project, and will have a ton of

articles (originating as Word Mac files) I thought of Viewer as the

likely candidate for the authoring tool. This was primarily for it's

handling of text, hypertext, and search funcitons.

I'm looking for somone who has used Viewer in producing a similiar

project to tell me their experiences. Was the production using Viewer

easily done? Clunky? Would begining with Mac Word files make this more

Hellish, or not change much?

In short, I'm looking for confirmation that Viewer would be a good way to

go or warnings away....(or anyting in between, I guess)....

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RTF Files

As many of you may know, you can save a WP file as .RTF (rich

text format) file and it looks OK as a stand alone .HLP file,

but is fairly plain.  Is anyone familiar with WP macros or

something that will embed proper codes in the text that saved

would create jump links.

This is probably a bassackward way of doing any help projects,

but since I can get everything in .RTF format from my

secretary, saving me some time, what about linking from a TOC

but having "jump to program", the program being the individual

.HLP files instead "jump to topic"?.  Is this

better or worse than having one big .HLP file?

I've been scouting at B&N for any books on the Help compiler,

or format, etc.  Nothing so far...

BaDge

<baj7d@virginia.EDU>

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Translating help files into multiple languages...

In article <CvJxKD.Krz@cix.compulink.co.uk>

           mgb@cix.compulink.co.uk "Mark Beecroft" writes:

>Could the panel advise on the best way to create multilingual help ?

>

>I am writing the English version of the help files for a program

>that will be translated into several other languages. My help file will

>be complete in all respects (structure etc.) and will be passed on to

>a non-technical translator (per language) who will translate just the

>text.

>

>I am therefore looking at the easiest way of preserving the structure

>of the help file and keeping it absolutely identical between

>languages, whilst letting the translator get at the text.

>

>I haven't yet decided on which help authoring system to use (HWA

>and ForeHelp are contenders) so I'd be interested to know which product

>makes control of the above easiest, or if there is a product out there

>that caters for this and already has the required features.

I've actually gone through this process fairly recently. A company

paid me to create a German-language version of my program (that's when

you quickly discover all the strings you forgot to put into the STRINGTABLE

resource...).

Since I use Word for my Help files directly, all I did was to send the

translator the Word files directly, telling him to just ignore all the

strange footnotes and hidden text. Everything went OK, and when I got

the translated files back again it only took a couple of hours to create

my German Help file.

I guess that this is one situation in which using Word directly really

is an advantage!

Chris

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big *.hlp?

rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de (Rainer Schleevoigt) wrote:

>in my *.hlp project I'v include a bmp. - The rtf is ca

>700k and now  after compiling with hc31 comes the error

>message "not enough memory"  Without bmp ok.

I've had this message when I have been including bmps by

embedding i.e. pasting them into the document. Problem went

away when

bmp included using the [image] command.

Actually, the compiler is quite clever about these. It

automatically store it in the baggage section and you can have

multiple refrences to it in your document but only have one

copy in

the HLP file.

Regards,

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Help-to-All (?)

pauln@wextech.com (Paul Neshamkin) wrote:

>Pete & Chris,

>

>Help-To-All (AKA Multidoc) was purchased from DABIWA by WexTech

>Systems. We now own the marketing rights and source code.

>WexTech Systems will not be selling Help-To-All, but plans on

>rolling some of its technology into future versions of

>Doc-To-Help.

>

>Paul Neshamkin

>WexTech Systems Technical Support

Paul,

   I didn't realize Help-To-All was the same as Multidoc. Steve told me

about the purchase of Multidoc, but I haven't said anything publicly

'cause I didn't know if he wanted people to know yet. I guess it's okay to

mention, though.

Pete

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jpg3@aol.com (JPG3) wrote:

>I have a bunch of bitmaps (screen captures of software dialog boxes

>mostly) that are too big at 100% to fit neatly into a help file. Some will

>be used for SHGs, others will just be bitmaps. My problem is that

>shrinking them renders them illegible. I tried using Word's Format Picture

>to reduce the size as I've done for printed manuals, but they look pretty

>yucky. I tried HiJaak to convert to raster, resize, then convert back to

>BMP, and while the text is more readable, what happens to the "greyware"

>looks awful.

>

>Any suggestions? Am I the only one with this problem? Or do you all use

>graphics at life size?

>

>John Garison

>jgarison@zdi.ziff.com

John,

   What you need is a graphics package that will do anti-aliasing on

re-sizing (for shrinking). I believe PaintShop (a shareware product)

handles this. You may also try Graphics Workshop.

  Pete Davis

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In <5W8NA409TgB@fuerst.jena.thur.de> rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de (Rainer Schleevoigt) writes:

>in my *.hlp project I'v include a bmp. - The rtf is ca 700k and now

>after compiling with hc31 comes the error message "not enough memory"

To solve your problem I would suggest upgrading to HCP (available in HC505.EXE

on ftp.microsoft.com) which uses extended memory to get around the memory

contraints of Dos.

...Stefan

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> You could change the binding of the "Contents" button with the

> CB macro

> assigning to it the definition string and the macro you'd prefer

>

>

> Of course, you'd likely need to create another button to assign

> to it the

> "Contents" topic.

>

>

Forgive me, I was wrong: with the CBB macro you could only change the

function of the Contents button but not his name.

Sorry,

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Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

BrattonRM%CWI@cwmail.usafa.af.mil (Randy Bratton) writes:

>In article <glLVUWG@quack.kfu.com> kurtv@quack.kfu.com (Kurt Vogel) writes:

>>From: kurtv@quack.kfu.com (Kurt Vogel)

[.........]

>>added some bitmaps into my project.  Is there a workaround to this problem

>>or do I need more memory?  Any help greatly appreciated.

>

>There should be a file called HCP.EXE which is the protected mode Windows 3.1

>Help Compiler.  It can handle larger files.  If you don't have it, you can get

>a copy from ftp.microsoft.com.

>

>Hope this helps.

>Randy Bratton

You should also include bitmaps using the bml or bmc command, as in

  or  [image].

(bml left justifies & bmc centres the bitmap).  This reduces the amount

of memory used during compilation.

Hope this helps a little....

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looking for wc31.exe!

vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca (Vladimir Alexiev) wrote:

>

>  Pete, this sounds ridiculous for the following reasons:

> - MS provide no help authoring package (I guess WHAT should not be

>considered one).

> - If WHAT is free, how possibly HC could be not free?

> - If they wanted to limit the distribution of HC, why did they put it on an

>ftp site?

> - If HC is a real product, how come it'not supported?

> - I'm sure nobody of the authors of shareware help tools have a license for

>HC. Does this mean they are selling only "partially useful" software?

> - By adopting RTF as input to HC and the very proprietary .HLP format as

>output (it *is* proprietary if you had to write a book about it, right? ;-)

>for such a universal tool as WINHELP, MS have morally committed themselves to

>provide HC free.

>

>I'm not a lwayer but I bet you MS are not going to sue me if I openly declare

>I've fetched HC.

>

>Regards,

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Vladimir,

  I don't know what to tell you. That's Microsoft's position and they've

been very firm about it. Why do they make it available on the ftp site?

Easier to get it out to the users. Does that mean they forfeit ownership

of the product or their right to get payed for it? No, I don't think so.

No more than the author of a shareware product forfeits his right to

getting payed if you use his product.

  On the other hand, do people abuse this? Of course they do. Will MS go

after you? Probably not. Does that make it legal? No.

  You ask why HC isn't supported. What makes you think it's not supported.

It seems to be supported as well as any other part of the SDK on the

WINSDK forum of CompuServe. In fact, it's one of their busiest sections

and the technical support guys are really good.

  Just because the .HLP file format is proprietary, I wouldn't say that MS

is morally commited to providing it for free. That's like saying that the

viewer development kit for free (.MVB is the same file format). No, I

disagree completely.

  Look, I'm not known for standing up for Microsoft, but HC is their

product. They don't want people stealing it. I think that's their right. I

think if you download it without paying for it, it is theft.

  I plan on writing a help compiler in the near future. I expect it to

replace every MS help compiler out there. And on top of that, I expect to

get payed for it! At least I've leveled the playing field a bit by

providing documentation of the file format, but if I figured it out,

didn't document it, but wrote a competing compiler, should I not get payed

for it? I'm sorry Vladimir, but I don't follow the logic on, "Because it's

proprietary it should be free."

Pete

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Translating help files into multiple languages...

In <778715767snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

>I guess that this is one situation in which using Word directly really

>is an advantage!

I don't think that using Word makes any difference.  The situation you

described could be very easily achieved by either HWA or ForeHelp (the

two products the person was looking at).  In the case of both HWA

and ForeHelp it would be even easier for the translator to work.  All

they need is a copy of the program and they they don't have to worry

about "strange footnotes and hidden text" - they can change everything

visually!

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Problems: WINHELP "How To" and HP DJ500 series printer driver.

In article <34ahtp$gp0@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, I wrote:

>

>Software: WIN 3.1 and 3.11

>Application: Winhelp, help files from MS Word v6.0A and Excel 5.0

>Printer Driver: HP Deskjet500 series v4.0 and 4.1

>Problem: Unable to print the WINHELP "How To" box due to GP

>	  conflict with video driver.

OK, problem solved: use the recently-released v5.0 DJ500 series

driver. I got it via the WWW at www.hp.com - many thanks, HP!

It's called d5w3us.exe, extracted files are dated 08/24/94.

PG Newman	(pgn@abdn.ac.uk)

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kemp@bhprtc.scpd.oz.au (Ian P Kemp) writes:

>You should also include bitmaps using the bml or bmc command, as in

> [image]  or  [image].

It's better to have only [image] in the file and include

bmroot=\project\bmaps in the .HPJ file.

>(bml left justifies & bmc centres the bitmap).

bmc actually makes the bitmap into a big "character". To center it, make the

paragraph centered. bml and bmr place the picture on the left (resp right)

margin and flow the text around.

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Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

In <34bhtt$gh8@xmission.xmission.com> jonm@xmission.com (JonM) writes:

>

>The name of the book is "The Developers Guide to WinHelp.Exe"

>

>This is one of the best books on this topic I have read.  There is a lot

>of information on many aspects of help development.  They even cover some

>nifty tricks (like the pop-up menu which I have already used in a

>commercially distributed help)

>

>Jon

>

>

>Stergios Marinopoulos (stergios@netcom6.netcom.com) wrote:

>

>

>: There is an undocumented macro called FloatingMenu().  Append some

>: menu items to a menu called 'mnu_floating', then have the

>: FloatingMenu() macro execute as a result of a \uldb and you can have

>: real popup menus!

>

>: I read this in a newbook called something like "Exploring

>: WinHelp.EXE".  I saw the book for the first time last night in Staceys

>: Book Store in Palo Alto, Ca.  Sorry I cannot remember the full

>: listing.

>

>: Enjoy,

>

>: Stergios

>

This stuff is truly neat, as you say. But you should be aware that if you're planning

to port your stuff to Chicago (if and when it ever gets on the shelf at your

local software store...), the undocumented stuff won't work at all.

Chicago help is a new ball game, new ball, new players. Just when we thought we

were getting it down, they change the rules!

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Translating help files into multiple languages...

Thanks, Chris - I thought that this may be the answer. I'm just a little

worried that the translators (who may not all be very computer-literate)

could accidentally delete a jump or something, and I don't spot it before

the program has been sold x,000 times (here's hoping !) and then the

support calls start rolling in...

Mark - mgb@cix.compulink.co.uk

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Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

In article <34bhtt$gh8@xmission.xmission.com>, jonm@xmission.com (JonM) writes:

> The name of the book is "The Developers Guide to WinHelp.Exe"

>

> This is one of the best books on this topic I have read.  There is a lot

> of information on many aspects of help development.  [............]

Jon, can you provide us with the ISBN number. I would like have my

local bookstore order in this book for me.

Thanks

Tim Roberts

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Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

hannam@ix.netcom.com (Hanna Metzger) wrote: [deleted stuff] >

>This stuff is truly neat, as you say. But you should be aware that if

>you're planning to port your stuff to Chicago (if and when it ever gets on

>the shelf at your  local software store...), the undocumented stuff won't

>work at all.

>

>Chicago help is a new ball game, new ball, new players. Just when we

>thought we were getting it down, they change the rules!

>

I disagree. I think the floating menus and most of the undocumented

macros will be carried over to Chicago. Chicago's WinHelp is still based

on the same help engine. The engine has been ported to a GUI environment,

but the base code is still there. They have added a lot of optimizations

and it should be roughly twice as fast as HCP505, but those were just

optimizations and not engine re-writes.

  It would be extra work to take out the undocumented macros and I think

that would be an incredibly low priority, since I doubt there's any real

incentive to take them out. Remember, WinHelp is maintained by a single,

very busy, person. They've got specific goals for WinHelp 4.0 and he's too

busy working on those to worry about removing macros.

  Just my opinion, but Chicago's WinHelp does use the same basic engine.

  Pete

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hc31.exe error?

In article <347e5u$65u@epicycle.lm.com>, pdixon@telerama.lm.com (Pete Dixon) says:

>> While using whpe.exe (Editor) i will try to compile my help project only

>> to recieve a error message "This program has violated the integrity of

>> the system, please shut down all systems and exit windows"  I can not

>> figure out the reason behind this.  But if i compile the same help file

>> using hc.exe no problems.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

>

>is it that my question is to stupid that no one will answer?  any way i

>corrected the problem and wanted to give this information to any one else

>that may have the same problem.

>

>I downloaded hc505.exe from microsoft.com, this has the file hcp.exe in

>it I removed the hc31.exe from my program and renamed hcp.exe hp31.exe

>and now everthing works perfectly and no errors!

One reason you might not have had replies is that it is inexplicable and,

perhaps, irreproducable.

Did you do a TYPE BINARY when you did the ftp for hc505.exe?  What version

of Word are you using to create the .RTF?

Regards, Roy

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Search multiple HLP files?

In article <CvIK43.68H@inter.NL.net>, mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) says:

>In article <347n98$9ib@mailer.fsu.edu>,

>Peter S. Lakanen <lakanen@otto.cmr.fsu.edu> wrote:

>>I work in a state agency at the division level.

>>There are approximately 15 divisions in our agency.

>>I have created a Windows hlp file that is a telephone,

>>e-mail and personnel directory for our division. Now

>>other divisions want to take my file and modify it

>>for their use.

Have you considered a database and gui solution to this need?

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The ISBN is 0-471-30326-7 (book and disk) or 471-30325-9 (book)

TIM ROBERTS (tjr@ac.dal.ca) wrote:

: In article <34bhtt$gh8@xmission.xmission.com>, jonm@xmission.com (JonM) writes:

: > The name of the book is "The Developers Guide to WinHelp.Exe"

: >

: > This is one of the best books on this topic I have read.  There is a lot

: > of information on many aspects of help development.  [............]

: Jon, can you provide us with the ISBN number. I would like have my

: local bookstore order in this book for me.

: Thanks

: Tim Roberts

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DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

In <eliot_jablonka-300894155045@129.83.46.2> eliot_jablonka@iegate.mitre.org (Eliot Jablonka) writes:

>I'm using Doc2Help and trying to make hot spots in some graphics to link to

>other topics. The manual for D2H gives instructions on using shed.exe to

>create these hot spots, but I can't get it to work. When I finally run the

>.hlp file, instead of the graphic, I get a box that says "unable to display

>picture". Any help would be appreciated. Please mail me at the address

>below.

Are the pictures in the BMROOT directory referenced in the .HPJ file or in

the same directory in the .HPJ file?  If not then add a BMROOT entry to your

.HPJ file (I'm not sure how you do this in D2H) and the pictures should be

loaded. (given all other factors being Ok :-))

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In article <Cvqysq.I7z@cix.compulink.co.uk>

           mgb@cix.compulink.co.uk "Mark Beecroft" writes:

>Thanks, Chris - I thought that this may be the answer. I'm just a little

>worried that the translators (who may not all be very computer-literate)

>could accidentally delete a jump or something, and I don't spot it before

>the program has been sold x,000 times (here's hoping !) and then the

>support calls start rolling in...

Yes, when you get your Word file back from the translator, it's obviously

a good idea to proof read it and make sure that all your jumps are still

jumps! Even if you don't understand the language (and I don't understand

German) this is still a straightforward process.

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In article <34klsk$cmg@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>,

Peter J. Davis <pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> wrote:

>hannam@ix.netcom.com (Hanna Metzger) wrote: [deleted stuff] >

>>This stuff is truly neat, as you say. But you should be aware that if

>>you're planning to port your stuff to Chicago (if and when it ever gets on

>>the shelf at your  local software store...), the undocumented stuff won't

>>work at all.

>>

>>Chicago help is a new ball game, new ball, new players. Just when we

>>thought we were getting it down, they change the rules!

>>

Hanna, could you please explain what your assertions were based

on (if you're allowed to?)?

>

>I disagree. I think the floating menus and most of the undocumented

>macros will be carried over to Chicago. Chicago's WinHelp is still based

>on the same help engine. The engine has been ported to a GUI environment,

>but the base code is still there. They have added a lot of optimizations

>and it should be roughly twice as fast as HCP505, but those were just

>optimizations and not engine re-writes.

>

>  It would be extra work to take out the undocumented macros and I think

>that would be an incredibly low priority, since I doubt there's any real

>incentive to take them out. Remember, WinHelp is maintained by a single,

>very busy, person.

Pete, just out of curiosity, can you tell us who this person is?

Is it one of bethf, dann, daveba, davidfe, ebbea, jahyenc, johnsc,

larrypo, leon, mattmul, mikeka, neelmah, robertbu, russpj or tomsn

(which are credited for 3.1 WinHelp)?

>They've got specific goals for WinHelp 4.0 and he's too

>busy working on those to worry about removing macros.

>

>  Just my opinion, but Chicago's WinHelp does use the same basic engine.

>

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need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

I'm working on a project with 22 directories of data files:

common.hlp

\dir1

data.dat	:)

data.hlp

\dir2

data.dat

data.hlp

\dir3

data.dat

data.hlp

...

When I display 'data.dat' and 'pick' an object, I invoke WinHelp() to fire up

data.hlp to display information for that object.  Now, while in that data.hlp

file, I have various popups to a single common.hlp which contains information

common to all data sets.

So, in data.hlp, my hotspot is:

!PopupId(`common.hlp',`stuff')

This all works great, but...

If I code the popup to 'common.hlp', then I'm unsure of how Windows

will look for the file, since it is being invoked from a .HLP file,

rather than from an application.  What search rules does it follow

to find the file?  It definitely isn't smart enough to look in the

directory above and I can't see it looking in the .EXE directory,

since there isn't one.  I could care less if it looks in ...\windows

or ...\windows\system since I don't intend to put it there.

So, I could hard-code the popup/jump as:

!PopupId(`..\common.hlp',`stuff')

but that would *require* common.hlp to always be in the directory

above.  That's a bit rigid and doesn't allow the user much freedom

to arrange the files.  Of course, they can't rename any of the .hlp

files either, but that's another story.

If I was calling common.hlp from my app, I could find it easily

enough by having a hlp= entry in myapp.ini, but I'm *not* calling

common.hlp from my app: data.hlp is calling it! The problem is teaching

data.hlp how to find common.hlp.

unix soft links are the perfect solution to problems like this, but this

isn't unix (which is mostly :), but sometimes :( )

Any ideas for either coding the jumps or arranging the files?

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In article <34klsk$cmg@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>hannam@ix.netcom.com (Hanna Metzger) wrote: [deleted stuff] >

>>This stuff is truly neat, as you say. But you should be aware that if

>>you're planning to port your stuff to Chicago (if and when it ever gets on

>>the shelf at your  local software store...), the undocumented stuff won't

>>work at all.

>>

>>Chicago help is a new ball game, new ball, new players. Just when we

>>thought we were getting it down, they change the rules!

>>

>

>I disagree. I think the floating menus and most of the undocumented

>macros will be carried over to Chicago. Chicago's WinHelp is still based

>on the same help engine. The engine has been ported to a GUI environment,

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I call WINHELP.EXE an 'engine' and it's always looked like a

pretty good GUI environment to me!

Do you mean the *compiler* is a GUI?  That would be nice.

[...]

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tjr@ac.dal.ca (TIM ROBERTS) wrote:

>In article <34bhtt$gh8@xmission.xmission.com>, jonm@xmission.com (JonM) writes:

>> The name of the book is "The Developers Guide to WinHelp.Exe"

>>

>> This is one of the best books on this topic I have read.  There is a lot

>> of information on many aspects of help development.  [............]

>

>Jon, can you provide us with the ISBN number. I would like have my

>local bookstore order in this book for me.

>

>Thanks

>

>Tim Roberts

>TJR@AC.DAL.CA

Tim,

   I believe I provide the ISBN number in the FAQ, but for the benefit of

everyone here, I'll provide it here:

It's: "The Developer's Guide to WinHelp.Exe"

by Jim Mischel

Published by Wiley

ISBN: 0-471-30326-7 (with disk)

      0-471-30325-9 (without disk)

Pete Davis

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jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) wrote:

>In article <34klsk$cmg@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

[deleted]

>>

>>I disagree. I think the floating menus and most of the undocumented

>>macros will be carried over to Chicago. Chicago's WinHelp is still based

>>on the same help engine. The engine has been ported to a GUI environment,

>	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>	I call WINHELP.EXE an 'engine' and it's always looked like a

>	pretty good GUI environment to me!

>

>	Do you mean the *compiler* is a GUI?  That would be nice.

John,

  Yes, I'm sorry, I was speaking of the compiler. The compiler has been

ported to a GUI environment. Sorry for the inaccuracy.

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need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

I think that you can look into writing a DLL that will provide a function

that will receive helpfile name and topic name, the function will search

in an ini file for the helpfile name, and use the FAPI callback function

to call the correct filename,

An example in your code might be :

RTF

{\uldb press here}{\v !MyFunc("common","myTopic")}

In the ini file you will have

[MYHelpFiles]

common=d:\path\common.hlp

data1=d:\path\data1\data.hlp

...

and the rest is history ... :-)

Ron.

BTW - I would like to point that our PASTERP Control for WinHelp product

can be used to create these kind of things without writing DLLs, but you

can always write the DLL if you find it better suited to your needs.

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In article <1994Sep8.073141.8781@emr1.emr.ca>,

John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>I'm working on a project with 22 directories of data files:

>

>	common.hlp

>	\dir1

>	data.dat	:)

>	data.hlp

>	\dir2

>	data.dat

>	data.hlp

>	\dir3

>	data.dat

>	data.hlp

>	...

>

>When I display 'data.dat' and 'pick' an object, I invoke WinHelp() to fire up

>data.hlp to display information for that object.  Now, while in that data.hlp

>file, I have various popups to a single common.hlp which contains information

>common to all data sets.

>

>So, in data.hlp, my hotspot is:

>	!PopupId(`common.hlp',`stuff')

>

>This all works great, but...

>

>If I code the popup to 'common.hlp', then I'm unsure of how Windows

>will look for the file, since it is being invoked from a .HLP file,

>rather than from an application.  What search rules does it follow

>to find the file?

The search order WinHelp uses is:

1) directory of current help file

2) current directory of current task

3) WINDOWS dir

4) SYSTEM dir

5) home directory of WINHELP.EXE

6) PATH directories

7) entries in WINHELP.INI

>It definitely isn't smart enough to look in the

>directory above and I can't see it looking in the .EXE directory,

>since there isn't one.  I could care less if it looks in ...\windows

>or ...\windows\system since I don't intend to put it there.

>

>So, I could hard-code the popup/jump as:

>	!PopupId(`..\common.hlp',`stuff')

>but that would *require* common.hlp to always be in the directory

>above.  That's a bit rigid and doesn't allow the user much freedom

>to arrange the files.  Of course, they can't rename any of the .hlp

>files either, but that's another story.

>

>If I was calling common.hlp from my app, I could find it easily

>enough by having a hlp= entry in myapp.ini, but I'm *not* calling

>common.hlp from my app: data.hlp is calling it! The problem is teaching

>data.hlp how to find common.hlp.

>

>unix soft links are the perfect solution to problems like this, but this

>isn't unix (which is mostly :), but sometimes :( )

>

>Any ideas for either coding the jumps or arranging the files?

I'm not sure what the current task is when you call the WinHelp()

API.  WINHELP.EXE or your own app.

Maybe the safest would be for your app to add an entry to

WINHELP.INI (in the Windows dir), like this:

[FILES]

common.hlp=D:\WORK

or whatever the full pathname is.

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hlp2doc

HLP2DOC is a DOS based utility to convert a windows help file to a word

for windows doc file.

NOTICE:  The application file HLP2DOC uploaded to  ftp.lrz-muenchen.de has

been sold to Blue Sky Software Corporation of La Jolla, California, USA.

phone number (619) 459-6365, fax number 619-459-6366. All copies of the

uploaded version of HLP2DOC should be immediately deleted from all bulletin

boards by sysops.  Individuals who currently possess a copy of HLP2DOC may

retain a copy for their own use, but may not transfer additional copies or

post the file to bulletin boards for distribution.  A new version of

HLP2DOC will be available from Blue Sky in December 1994. The new version

will be a Windows based application.  All inquiries for the new version of

HLP2DOC should be directed to Blue Sky Software Corporation of La Jolla

California, USA. phone number (619) 459-6365, fax number 619-459-6366.

(email address for participating in the beta program for HLP2DOC is via

internet 74220.3217@compuserve.com and via compuserve 74220,3217)

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In <Greg.Taylor.16.000872B4@pacit.tas.gov.au> Greg.Taylor@pacit.tas.gov.au (Greg Taylor) writes:

>Recently someone mentioned the .hlp to .doc program hlpdc137.zip.

>I have been unable to locate the file on ARCHIE.AU, does anyone know where it

>might be located?

The product has been sold to Blue Sky Software and it should now not be

avaiable via ftp according to a recent post in the WinHelp mailing list.

Of course, Blue Sky will be introducing the product as a commercial

program - so you could buy a copy :-)

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From *.hlp to *.rft

In <1994Sep25.202559.752@powertech.no> jsk@powertech.no (Jon Sverre Karlsen) writes:

>Hi!

>I have one question, maybe it's stupid but here it goes.

>Is there any program that can convert *.hlp files to *.rtf or any type of

>text file?

Look for SMARTDC12.ZIP (I'm not quite sure of the exact filename) on cica.

It converts Help files to text.

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> >Lately I have noticed several helpfiles that have a light gray

> >background in the non-scrolling region. Anyone know how this is don

> >

>

> Define a [WINDOWS] section in your hpj file like this:

>

> [WINDOWS]

> main=,(x,y,w,h,),0,,(192,192,192)

>

> where x, y, w, and h are the dimensions of the main window,

> in WinHelp virtual coordinates (1024x1024).

WHPE is also very useful to choose the color of the non

scrolling region.

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In article <37hkkj$18t4@ferrari.geac.co.nz> thomas@geac.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:

>From: thomas@geac.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)

>Subject: How do I find ForeHelp?

>Date: 13 Oct 1994 10:32:03 +1300

>Gidday,

>I'm trying to get hold of the people who write ForeHelp so I can find

>out if there is an eval version or something. (And how to get it.)

>Could anyone tell me the Fax number and/or email address for ForeHelp?

You can buy ForeHelp from Borland Int'l for $69. plus shipping.  I bought it

and my copy of RoboHelp is gathering dust.  Call them at 800-331-0877

(California)   There is a demo too (limit 10 topics) I think it was on cica.

Dont remember for sure.

regds//jefo@teleport.com in Portland, OR

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In <1994Oct7.200539.28261@ac.dal.ca> kajtek@ac.dal.ca writes:

>I have recently seen this program hlp2doc advertised as a shareware.

>I think it is on CICA. I converts  to word for windows format I belive

>but I am not sure, maybe to ascii. It loses all the graphic.

The product has just been sold to Blue Sky Software and will be released

by them as a commercial product in the next month or so.  The

shareware/freeware editions have been withdrawn from distribution.

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I have heard tell of the MS MM Viewer on these pages.

I also hear tell that it extends what it is possible to do

with Winhelp.

Can someone fill me in on the details, and tell me where it can be obtained

from.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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In article <CxGLtJ.5pM@nntpa.cb.att.com> evb@sos.wh.att.com (-HL-77163d) writes:

>I've been using ForeHelp for a few months, and I also wished that

>the folks at ForeFront had included a macro facility.  But I realized

>that you can use the Windows Recorder to record macros for any

>application.  It's not lightning fast, but it is easy, and it

>works the same way for any application.  And it's a lot faster than

>endless mouse-clicks or keystrokes.

I just discovered this myself, and it works GREAT! This was my one big

complaint about ForeHelp, and it is basically a moot point now.

Next, we have to work on getting them to make the things that are terrific

in ForeHelp to be truly wonderful... for example, FH is the only tool I know

of that has project management tools built in (Grapher, Reporter,

Navigator), but all of these have limitations. Here are my ideas for areas

that need attention:

    * REPORTER: you can list topics ----> keywords, I'd also like to be able

      to do keywords ----> topics.  Also needed are simple lists, such as

      a list of keywords, a list of topics, a liost of topics in a browse

      sequnce, that kind of thing.

    * GRAPHER: ForeFront could take a lesson from HWA and nake this listing

      dynamic. That is a very hot feature, Stefan.

    * NAVIGATOR: Make it printable, for starters. Next, view and print the

      entire system, not just a single screens-worth. Tile it 84 -by- 84 if

      necessary, but a map is really needed!

Finally, all this stuff exists in a database of some sort apparently, so why

not provide a way to export the data to other database applications, maybe

Microsoft Access or SuperBase. That way, other tools could be developed to

analyse and present the help system design, a very useful possibility from a

project managemnt viewpoint.

ForeFront : Do you read this list?

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>}  Microsoft is really pushing conformity with Windows 95 - they

>}  want all applications to be well-behaved and consistent.

>Well, it's easy for them to sit in their ivory tower and dictate

>"conformity".  I'm more interested in pleasing my customers and

>giving them a good product than conforming to arbitrary standards.

Hooray!! At last it can be said! M-S is so ***HEAVY*** and so ***HUGE***

that without even meaning to, they cause endless discussions about the

propriety and morality of the user interface issues related to

proportionality, orthogonality, and testability... AND WHO ARE WE TO ARGUE???

Someone deep in a cubicle somewhere deep in  "the campus", makes a

proposal, and overnight, we are all trying to figure out the rythm, the

rhyme, the reason. Maybe Microsft *wants* applications to be well-behaved

and consistent, but if they want to lead the parade on *that* one, they're

going to have to foillow their own rules.

Admittedly, they are trying. I just wish they'd admit how muscle-bound they

are and what a mess they've managed to give birth to. What would be really

great is if they'd share their plans for how they're going to get us all our

of this frigging mess.

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W.R. Hartley (W.R.Hartley@ncl.ac.uk) wrote:

: Can someone fill me in on the details, and tell me where it can be obtained

: from.

The MS Multimedia Viewer v2.0 is a Multimedia development kit. It supports

audio (disk & CD,) Animation, 256 color graphics, and like Winhelp, is

extendable with dll routines. It supports "Panes" within windows, multiple

windows, cutomised pop-up panes, and many other features that provide more

power & flexability in development.

The DK is CD only, you must have a CD-ROM reader in order to install it on

your system. But you do not need a CD-ROM reader to use it, so you could

cheat & borrow one for the installation only.

I'm still learning about Viewer. It's has a different flavor than WinHelp

as far as function & design go. But then, you have to create your own

development paradigm with WinHelp because there is so little to go on. ;-)

I picked up the title @ Programmers Paradise for us$369. call 908-389-9228.

Sorry, I don't have the 800 number handy, perhaps you are already familiar

with them.

Have fun!

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How do I find ForeHelp?

Jeff Orlando (jeffo@teleport.com) wrote:

: In article <37hkkj$18t4@ferrari.geac.co.nz> thomas@geac.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:

: >From: thomas@geac.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)

: >Subject: How do I find ForeHelp?

: >Date: 13 Oct 1994 10:32:03 +1300

: >Gidday,

: >I'm trying to get hold of the people who write ForeHelp so I can find

: >out if there is an eval version or something. (And how to get it.)

: >Could anyone tell me the Fax number and/or email address for ForeHelp?

You can get the demo version of ForeHelp in following FTP and try to use

it first:

FTP site: isgate.is

          /.extra/mirror1/win3/demo/forehelp.zip

   or   : gopher.nsysu.edu.tw

          /pub2/microsoft/demo/forehelp.zip

Hope this help.

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Greetings Help experts!

I'm trying to create a simple Help file to use as a phone book.  Oddly

enough I can't get the dashes between the parts of the phone numbers to

appear.  Whats the secret about this?  It doesn't seem to matter which

font I use, or how a format the document.  Any help would be much appreciated.

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Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

Hi,

I am sure that this has been asked before, but I

just changed jobs and have lost track of the

past threads.

I remeber postings about problems compiling RTF

files with WOrd 6.0 (files that compile just fine

with 2.0). Could someone verify that fact. Is there

a different compiler?

I am not having the problem with Word 6.0A, but someone

else is having trouble with Version 6.0.

Ruth-Ellen

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Deleting Group Items Utility

In article <mcelligotta.223.2E931844@ul.ie> mcelligotta@ul.ie (Annette McElligott) writes:

>Any comments/suggestions etc. would be much appreciated on the following:

>

>When one deletes an item from a group what is actually removed is the icon

>only.

>

>What would be nice is to have an option to delete all information relating to

>this group item from the hard disk.

>

>Has anyone got suggestions on how to approach writing such an utility

>for example, accessing the information in the properites box etc.

>

>Thanks in advance,

>Annette McElligott

>mcelligotta@ul.ie

What does this have to do with winhelp?

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In article <1994Oct12.105404.2611@emr1.emr.ca>,

John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>	It never ceases to amaze me how many people think this group

>	is for general help in writing Windows programs.  I can imagine

>	the thought process.... "Hmm, I have a question about Windows

>	programming, but I don't think I'll post in the other groups

>	because they are probably only for discussing cookie recipes

>	or fishing or sports cars or something like that - I guess

>	I'll post my question in the .winhelp group..."

Given the pretty crappy documentation of what available newsgroups

are about and the proliferation of NNTP, I could see where a newbie

who has not read this newsgroup could make the mistake.  Since people

wanted this group split so damn bad and picked names not much better

than *.misc, what do you expect?  Very few people show enough common

sense to read a newsgroup for a few days before posting to it.

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How do I find ForeHelp?

In article <37hkkj$18t4@ferrari.geac.co.nz>, thomas@geac.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)

writes:

> Gidday,

>

> I'm trying to get hold of the people who write ForeHelp so I can find

> out if there is an eval version or something. (And how to get it.)

>

> Could anyone tell me the Fax number and/or email address for ForeHelp?

>

> And if they do have a demo and it is available by FTP, I'd really like

> to know where it is.

>

> Thanks,

> --

>     Thomas Beagle | Beagles. Not just for breakfast!

> Software Designer | thomas@geac.co.nz

>    Wellington, NZ | +64-4-385-0988 (home)  +64-4-233-8186 (work)

ForeHelp is written by ForeFront, Inc.  I acquired my copy as a promotional

from Borland so I don't know if they have a evaluation version or not.  The

address I have for ForeFront is as follows:

  ForeFront, Inc.

  5171 Eldorado Springs Dr.

  Boulder, CO 80303

The phone number I have is a support number: (303) 522-0689.

IMHO: The software is pretty good and very usable. It has very few limitations

and many features.

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An Even Better Way (Creating great looking tables in WinHelp)

In article <omnimdiaCxIKxy.F6B@netcom.com>, omnimdia@netcom.com (OmniMedia) writes:

|>

|> Happy experimenting!  I'm quite pleased and happy with the results.

|>

|> Jon Noring

|> OmniMedia

|>

Cool! I'm more than happy. I'm practically ecstatic. This is great!

Next time you're in England, I'll buy you a beer.

Steve Read

Oracle UK

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DESPERATELY NEED QUICKHELP EXE AND DOCUMENTATION

What is it ?

Is it a solution to displaying hypertext data compiled at runtime ?

I don't have it with MS VC++ 1.5. Could not locate it on microsoft.com.

Please send me the binary and documentation by e-mail or point me to

where I can download it from

- Hemant Sawant (using a client's Internet a/c)

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I've seen some forehelp demo info at the

GMutant ftp site 198.91.36.126

cd to /pub/winhelp

_______________________________________________

Ed Bacher	email: evb@sos.att.com

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Display Search Box As Per Keyword?

In article <37enp8$m94@mailer.fsu.edu>

           lakanen@otto.cmr.fsu.edu "Peter S. Lakanen" writes:

>Is there a way to use a help macro to display the search dialog

>box so that it is already displaying a topic list for a specific

>keyword?

Yes. Take a look at the documentation of the "HELP_PARTIALKEY" option

of the "WinHelp" command.

Chris

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Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

In article <37kell$s8t@iii1.iii.net>, <kevin@iii1.iii.net> writes:

>

> I remeber postings about problems compiling RTF

> files with WOrd 6.0 (files that compile just fine

> with 2.0). Could someone verify that fact. Is there

> a different compiler?

>

Are you using HCP505?  That's the most current help compiler.  It's available

at: ftp.microsoft.com or from their WWW server.

dave

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Hi all,

How can I place a (user defined) button in client area (not in top button

bar)

Thanx

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cmsg cancel <CxLrF8.4rM@tc.fluke.COM>

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.

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In article <CxLqKt.4Lz@tc.fluke.COM> inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes:

>

>    * REPORTER: you can list topics ----> keywords, I'd also like to be able

>      to do keywords ----> topics.  Also needed are simple lists, such as

>      a list of keywords, a list of topics, a liost of topics in a browse

>      sequnce, that kind of thing.

In sequence of course.

Just providing a slick way to export the data to other databases would give

you the ability to get these kinds of lists.  However, it would be

nicer if you didn't have to have another application to get the

reports.  Keywords are so important in a good help file, I am amazed

that there are not better tools for managing them.

>    * GRAPHER: ForeFront could take a lesson from HWA and nake this listing

>      dynamic. That is a very hot feature, Stefan.

>

>    * NAVIGATOR: Make it printable, for starters. Next, view and print the

>      entire system, not just a single screens-worth. Tile it 84 -by- 84 if

>      necessary, but a map is really needed!

>

>Finally, all this stuff exists in a database of some sort apparently, so why

>not provide a way to export the data to other database applications, maybe

>Microsoft Access or SuperBase. That way, other tools could be developed to

>analyse and present the help system design, a very useful possibility from a

>project managemnt viewpoint.

>

I second all these suggestions. There just aren't enough management

tools available in most help authoring tools.  ForeFront does a pretty good

job but these added suggestions would make ForeHelp supreme (IMHO).

For that matter, it would make HWA supreme if Stefan just added some

of these missing features. He's already ahead in the graphical

interface department.

Lilly-Anne

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Sorry to those who felt offended by I posting a query in relation to the

above to this group.  I presumed that the group was concerned with general

help.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

A.

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HTML to WinHelp format .. easy way ?

Hi,

I have  some HTML format pages which I prepared which have text and

inline GIF graphics. These are really simple .. a few lines of text

and one or two <img src=http://...gif"> inline GIF image.

I want a quick way to convert them to Windows help file format, so

that they can be viewed, _with_ the inline graphics, on a windows

machine just by clicking on them.

In fact I dont care too much about hypertext links,

but that would be a cool extra, the way I see things.

What tool should I use to do this with minimal sweat ??

Or is there any easy way to just make the windows helpfiles _with_

inline graphics, when I have the ascii text and GIF files to work

with.

Please email shri@cs.umass.edu.

Thanx in advance,

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In article <61-232.1994-10-13.20.51.26@programmers.bbs.no>,

Eivind Bakkestuen <hillbilly@programmers.bbs.no> wrote:

>IG> [WINDOWS]

>IG> main=,(x,y,w,h,),0,,(192,192,192)

>IG> where x, y, w, and h are the dimensions of the main window,

>IG> in WinHelp virtual coordinates (1024x1024).

>

>Thanks! Unfortunately, this introduced an unwanted sideeffect, namely

>that the help window startup size is hardcoded into the help file. I

>guess it is possible to avoid this, too?

Sorry, just do:

main=,,0,,(192,192,192)

The reference for .HPJ can be found in the WinHelp Authoring Guide

(HAG/WHAG), available on the MSDN CD-ROM, Compuserve or ftp.microsoft.com

(I think).

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winhelp bmp hotspots:  how do _you_ do it ?

(resending this one ... no one seemed to followup, but news could be broken

here )

I  have been creating a winhelp file that has a graphic with hot spots for the

front page, and it is really painful. The process starts say with Micrografx

Draw, then using Paint Shop Pro, the region is captured from the screen and

saved to a .BMP ready to be loaded into shed.exe. This means that the

resolution of the .BMP and thus the.HLP file is the same as the screen that it

is grabbed from. We run 1024 x 768, but others don't and can't read the front

page.

So the question is, how are other people doing this ? Is there some nice .BMP

drawing package that is available ? Are we doing it the hard way ? None of our

drawing tools - Micrografx Draw, Visio, Microsoft Draw ... have a "save as a

.BMP". This looks like the real problem, it is too tedious to create a .BMP.

davidp.

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Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

In article <37kell$s8t@iii1.iii.net> kevin@iii1.iii.net (Kevin Flanagan) writes:

>I remeber postings about problems compiling RTF

>files with WOrd 6.0 (files that compile just fine

>with 2.0). Could someone verify that fact. Is there

>a different compiler?

Look for file HC505.EXE available at ftp.microsoft.com and cica.

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IG> [WINDOWS]

IG> main=,(x,y,w,h,),0,,(192,192,192)

IG> where x, y, w, and h are the dimensions of the main window,

IG> in WinHelp virtual coordinates (1024x1024).

Thanks! Unfortunately, this introduced an unwanted sideeffect, namely

that the help window startup size is hardcoded into the help file. I

guess it is possible to avoid this, too?

(Sorry if this is in the faq. My 'Borland language help compiler'

manual doesn't even list [window] among the possible entries in a .hpj

file.)

Come to think of it, does anyone have a pointer to a good description

of what a .hpj might contain?

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HC31 wont compile my old help files

I previously had two different copies of the Help Compiler. HC.EXE that came with Borland C, and HC31.EXE which came with Visual Basic Pro. My help files are pretty simple - just links, glossary entries, and keywords for Search,

and are stand alone (no context sensitive help)

and all compiled perfectly with HC.EXE. However none will compile using

HC31.EXE. If I run this in a DOS window in windows windows tells me that

that  system integrity has been violated, to close everything and reboot,

under DOS (with EMM386 giving me EMS) I get the error message:

<project file name>.HPJ

run-time error R6915

- DOSX16 : unhandled exception

This is the entire transcript - not a single topic is parsed.

Anyone have some suggestions?

Thanx in anticipation

Bruce Davey (davey@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au)

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buttons in client-area

In article <5YpCUtAeTgB@fuerst.jena.thur.de>,

Rainer Schleevoigt <rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de> wrote:

>Hi all,

>

>How can I place a (user defined) button in client area (not in top button

>bar)

You can fake it by making a .bmp of a button and turning it into

a hotspot (.shg) with SHED.

If you want a real honest-to-God button control, you must define

it as an embedded window {ew[lrc] .....}, and supply handling code

in a dll.  Can be done (done it), but it's not trivial...  I don't know if

there's a PD DLL that does this.  Otherwise, read up on embedded

windows in the WinHelp Authoring Guide.

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How do I find ForeHelp?

I also bought ForeHelp from Borland and like it a lot.

I have tried:

        What6.......... Too cryptic and user hostile

    VBaha.......... Nicely done but VB specific

    HWA............ Again nicely done but crashed too often

    RoboHelp....... I couldn't afford it but borrowed it - looked OK

        VisualHelp..... Seemed OK but In't thrilled

        Hellp!......... Might've been 3 l's. Not for me.

        Several others. I downloaded everything I could find

The end result is (sorry Stefan) I like ForeHelp. The nice thing is there is a

90 day money back garrantee (I wish they all had that!). I just had a talk

with a guy who has been using Doc2Help. I haven't seen it but he has done an

interesting thing. He has used a demo-maker program to create walk throughs of

various parts of his code, and has 'Show Me' buttons all over his help

document. Press the 'Show Me' button and the demo player is invoked and you

get a little movie of actually doing the task. Way cool IMHO!

Gary Starkweather

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How do I find ForeHelp?

In article <37hkkj$18t4@ferrari.geac.co.nz> thomas@geac.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:

>Gidday,

>

>I'm trying to get hold of the people who write ForeHelp so I can find

>out if there is an eval version or something. (And how to get it.)

>

>Could anyone tell me the Fax number and/or email address for ForeHelp?

>

You can also contact Kathy Wolfskill, Director of Marketing.  Fax

number 303 494-5446.  Or Email her at kathyw@ff.com.  At least, this

is what her business card says.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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In article <davidp.200.0035F647@qpsx.oz.au>, davidp@qpsx.oz.au (David Pascoe) writes:

> So the question is, how are other people doing this ? Is there some nice .BMP

> drawing package that is available ? Are we doing it the hard way ? None of our

> drawing tools - Micrografx Draw, Visio, Microsoft Draw ... have a "save as a

> .BMP". This looks like the real problem, it is too tedious to create a .BMP.

Sure, there are lots of programs to create bitmapped images. The problem is

that all the tools you described are _draw_ tools which typically don't do

bitmaps. You need a -paint- tool. I have MicroGraphics Picture publisher,

Corel PhotoShop, Aldus PhotoStyler, and good ole' Paint. That plus PSP are all

I need to handle BMP files. I use PhotoStyler most often.

Good Luck,

Gary Starkweather

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HELP! I NEED HCPARSE.DLL TO RUN THE WINDOWS WHAT6.EXE PROGRAM.

DOES ANYONE HAVE IT? IF SO, PLEASE E-MAIL IT TO ME AT

damon@infomatch.com....

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Dashes won't display?

Robin (robin@millcomm.com) wrote:

: Greetings Help experts!

: I'm trying to create a simple Help file to use as a phone book.  Oddly

: enough I can't get the dashes between the parts of the phone numbers to

: appear.  Whats the secret about this?  It doesn't seem to matter which

: font I use, or how a format the document.  Any help would be much appreciated.

What tool are you using to create the .RTF file?  Many word processors

insert a special code, rather than a literal dash, into a document when

you press the "-" key.  Most of them have some special keystroke that you

can use to enter a literal dash.

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most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

Here I go again...

Executive Summary

-----------------

Far too many .HLP files contain hardcoded BLACK text on top of the user's

preferred background colour, which is *NOT* necessarily WHITE!!!!

Background

----------

Windows provides a mechanism for users to change the system colours according

to their preference.  Relatively few people know that and many use 'Windows

default'.  Of those, probably most just choose a different colour scheme

from the list.  I'm beginning to think that very few people know that they

can change the individual colours, i.e. text & background colours.

Microsoft Sets a Poor Standard

------------------------------

For decades, terminals used white/amber/green text on a dark background.  Even

PCs boot up with white text on black background.  Obviously there are

hardware reasons why this is the normal mode, rather than the inverse.

But it is also a very non-fatiguing combination of colours.

But then along comes Windows, and Microsoft creates a whole set of predefined

colour schemes, almost all of which use black text on white background.

So after decades of dark screens with white text, the new standard becomes

black text on white background.  Oh sure, you can change it, but most people

don't, hence black on white becomes a de facto 'standard'.  Are you fatigued

after 10 hours of staring at black text on a vibrating white background?

Try something else - you might be surprised.

My Preference

-------------

I have selected CYAN text on MIDNIGHT DARK BLUE.  It is restful on the eyes

and very pleasing (to me, at least).  I have set the popup/jump colours in

the [help colours] section of my WIN.INI file to YELLOW.  Very nice.

Next time you see a technical slide show, notice that the slides with light

text on a dark background are much easier to read than the converse.

.HLP Files

----------

Those of us who are programmers, know that we should be coding our

applications to use GetSysColor(COLOR_WINDOWTEXT) & GetSysColor(COLOR_WINDOW)

so we don't impose our own ideas of 'nice' colours on the user.

But when it comes to creating .HLP files, the adherence to these user

preferences is sorely lacking.  Using my yellow/blue colors, I can not

read most of the Windows .hlp files (i.e. for Write, Notepad, Paintbrush, ...)

because they use my blue background colour, but have hardcoded black text.

I have also seen .HLP files which use my YELLOW text colour ok, but have

a hardcoded WHITE background (WordPerfect I think).  In both cases (black

on blue or yellow on white) the text is virtually unreadable.

An Experiment

-------------

Word creates proper .rtf files which conform to the user's colour

preferences.  My Word-created .hlp files show CYAN text on DARK BLUE,

as they should.  Can you say the same about *your* .HLP files?

Do you know if *your* selected shareware/commercial help-creation tool

is creating .HLP files with correct colours?

Go to 'Control Panel' and choose text & background colours other than black on

white: try YELLOW on BLUE.  Now look at the .hlp files for several applications,

i.e. Write, Notepad and you will see that they have hardcoded text colours.

Then look at the .hlp files for your help-creation tool - are they hardcoded

too?  Now look at the .HLP files created by this tool - chances are that

if the app's own .hlp files contain hardcoded colours, then so do their

products.  If they don't show YELLOW on BLUE as expected, ask yourself why.

Better yet, ask the vendors of the tool that you use to create the .hlp

files.

Observations

------------

I'm a fan of Word and think it's just fine for creating .HLP files.  I don't

have much need for any of these shareware/commercial utilities for creating

.hlp files.  But just for the heck of it, I downloaded 2 of them from the

net to try out.

One wouldn't install because of some brain-dead limitation of 36-characters

in a directory name and a reliance on ...\DISK1\... which didn't exist

(Yes, I *did* use pkunzip -d, but the .zip didn't contain ...\DISK1\...).

Anyway, I manually expanded the .HL_ files and checked them out - hardcoded

black text on user's preferred background colour.

The other application installed nicely, but sure enough, it has the same

problem.  So if these 2 aren't creating .hlp files correctly, are there

any .hlp-creation tools that *are* doing it right?  Generally speaking,

I wasn't impressed.

Summary

-------

Ensure that your .hlp files are being created without hardcoded colours.

Other than the hardcoded colour errors over which you may have no control,

if you do hardcode any colours, either hardcoded *ALL* of the colours or

*NONE* of the colours.

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davidp@qpsx.oz.au (David Pascoe) writes:

>.........

>resolution of the .BMP and thus the.HLP file is the same as the screen that it

>is grabbed from. We run 1024 x 768, but others don't and can't read the front

>page.

>

>So the question is, how are other people doing this ? Is there some nice .BMP

>drawing package that is available ? Are we doing it the hard way ? None of our

David,

   I believe the 'correct' solution to this problem is to prepare a different

screen for each resolution, then link the screens together as a 'multi-

resolution

bitmap'.  That is, to make the vga version, you draw a scaled-down version of

the screen, 2/3 size, then save this.  when displayed on a vga screen, it will

be full size.  I have not tried multi-resolution bitmaps myself, but their use

is detailed in the help authoring guide.  I make my screens up to be full size

when displayed on vga, therefore they are only about 2/3 full screen on my own

svga monitor.

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(Chris Marriott) writes:

Microsoft Encarta was done with MM Viewer.

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winhelp bmp hotspots:  how do _you_ do it ?

I have had pretty good luck using PhotoFinish to process bitmaps. It

allows us to save the captured graphic at any desired resolution. See Jim

Mischel's book for information on how to handle different display

resolutions. In my case, the VGA resolution of 96 dpi is fines, since

that is where all my users are.

The problem, apparently unsolvable, is that screen captures become very

fuzzy when scaled down to display in a more manageable fashion. :(

George

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Illuminati Online                  Austin, TX

 David Pascoe (davidp@qpsx.oz.au) wrote:

> I  have been creating a winhelp file that has a graphic with hot spots for the

> front page, and it is really painful. The process starts say with Micrografx

> Draw, then using Paint Shop Pro, the region is captured from the screen and

> saved to a .BMP ready to be loaded into shed.exe. This means that the

> resolution of the .BMP and thus the.HLP file is the same as the screen that it

> is grabbed from. We run 1024 x 768, but others don't and can't read the front

> page.

> So the question is, how are other people doing this ? Is there some nice .BMP

> drawing package that is available ? Are we doing it the hard way ? None of our

> drawing tools - Micrografx Draw, Visio, Microsoft Draw ... have a "save as a

> .BMP". This looks like the real problem, it is too tedious to create a .BMP.

> davidp.

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In article <CxJA9s.5zL@freenet.carleton.ca>

           aj023@FreeNet.Carleton.CA "Andrew Bachmeier" writes:

>

>I'm currently writing an Installation program

>for a program. Can anyone tell me of how to create

>a program group in program manager and display

>the icons. It can be in any language.

I'm afraid that you're asking on the wrong group. This group is for

discussion of the Windows on-line Help engine "WinHelp" - it is NOT a group

for obtaining general "help" with Windows programming questions. There is

a weekly FAQ posted which lists the purpose of the Windows programming

newsgroup hierarchy "comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.*".

Chris

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In article <37j3ja$sto@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>

           W.R.Hartley@ncl.ac.uk "W.R. Hartley" writes:

>

>

>Hi,

>

>I have heard tell of the MS MM Viewer on these pages.

>

>I also hear tell that it extends what it is possible to do

>with Winhelp.

>

>Can someone fill me in on the details, and tell me where it can be obtained

>from.

The multimedia viewer SDK is on the Level II MSDN disks. It may also be

available as a separate product - I'm afraid I don't know. Basically it

gives you lots of additional functionality, such as "full text" searching.

If you have Visual C++, the "Books Online" documentation is a good example

of the Viewer in action!

Chris

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Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

You can get the Help Compiler version 3.1.505 from the Microsoft Software

Library.

FTP: ftp.microsoft.com /softlib/mslfiles/hcp505.exe

CIS: GO MSL   (filename=hcp505.exe)

MSDL: 206-926-6735 (9600,8,1) again, hcp505.exe

James

>with 2.0). Could someone verify that fact. Is there

>a different compiler?

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HC31 wont compile my old help files

In article <9428818.5652@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>,

Bruce Andrew DAVEY <davey@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:

>

>	I previously had two different copies of the Help Compiler. HC.EXE

>that came with Borland C, and HC31.EXE which came with Visual Basic Pro.

>My help files are pretty simple - just links, glossary entries, and keywords

>for Search,

>and are stand alone (no context sensitive help)

>and all compiled perfectly with HC.EXE. However none will compile using

>HC31.EXE. If I run this in a DOS window in windows windows tells me that

>that  system integrity has been violated, to close everything and reboot,

>under DOS (with EMM386 giving me EMS) I get the error message:

>

><project file name>.HPJ

>run-time error R6915

>- DOSX16 : unhandled exception

>

>This is the entire transcript - not a single topic is parsed.

Maybe there's something wrong with the memory settings of your

DOS boxes.  You can try running HC31 outside Windows to see if

it crashes or hangs the machine too.

The only time I have had run-time errors with HC31/HCP was when

the fonttable was missing or contained empty (whitespace) font

names...

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ForeHelp 1.04 demo on gmutant

Hi folks...

Awhile back I received a copy of the ForeHelp 1.04 demo from the folks at

ForeFront to place onto a suitable FTP site. Several of you suggested

gmutant as a logical site. After switching our router out, I was finally

able to successfully put it there. So, if you're interested in an

almost-fullu functional version of ForeHelp (an excellent WinHelp

authoring tool), you can get it now at:

ftp://gmutant.wrlc.org:/pub/winhelp/ForeHelp104.zip

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where can i find ole2ui.dll?

 am looking for a file called ole2ui.dll, anyonw know where I can find it?

I am needing it when I use VB's setup-wizard (making install-disks for

your apps), it keeps asking me for it!

Please e-mail me at sinor@alf.uib.no

THANX!!!!

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bg colour in nonscroll re

In <61-232.1994-10-13.20.51.26@programmers.bbs.no> hillbilly@programmers.bbs.no (Eivind Bakkestuen) writes:

>IG> [WINDOWS]

>IG> main=,(x,y,w,h,),0,,(192,192,192)

>IG> where x, y, w, and h are the dimensions of the main window,

>IG> in WinHelp virtual coordinates (1024x1024).

>Thanks! Unfortunately, this introduced an unwanted sideeffect, namely

>that the help window startup size is hardcoded into the help file. I

>guess it is possible to avoid this, too?

Just ignore the (w,y,w,h) section have have it something like this:

main=,,0,,(192,192,192)

...Stefan

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ForeHelp macros

In <CxMAKK.B4E@tc.fluke.COM> lil@tc.fluke.COM (Lilly-Anne Wilder) writes:

>I second all these suggestions. There just aren't enough management

>tools available in most help authoring tools.  ForeFront does a pretty good

>job but these added suggestions would make ForeHelp supreme (IMHO).

>For that matter, it would make HWA supreme if Stefan just added some

>of these missing features. He's already ahead in the graphical

>interface department.

We are very interested in user commnets - I haven't seen the orignal message

yet, but I can assure you we will look very carefully at what Gary has said.

Cheers,

Stefan

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Using 2ndary window to display topic from other .HLP

In article <bfreed.274.0339ED38@fasttax.com>, bfreed@fasttax.com (Bev Freed) says:

>

>Has anyone had any luck opening up a secondary window to display a topic from

>another .HLP file?

>Is such a call possible?  If so, what is the exact macro?

>

Sorry that I cannot answer your direct question, but, since you didn't mention it:

Have you defined the window you wish to use as secondary in the .HPJ file?

This must be done, in case you are not aware.

Good Luck

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MM Viewer

In article <782178141snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>, Chris Marriott wrote:

>

>

> The multimedia viewer SDK is on the Level II MSDN disks. It may also

be

> available as a separate product - I'm afraid I don't know. Basically

it

> gives you lots of additional functionality, such as "full text"

searching.

> If you have Visual C++, the "Books Online" documentation is a good

example

> of the Viewer in action!

>

> Chris

The  MM Viewer PTK is available as a separate product - check the

programmer's shop - they carry it.

Among the other features available in the viewer and not in winhelp -

are panes in the window.

Ron.

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bg colour in nonscroll re

mcv@inter.NL.net meens at 13.10.94

on subject "Re: bg colour in nonscroll re":

> In article <61-232.1994-10-13.20.51.26@programmers.bbs.no>,

> Eivind Bakkestuen <hillbilly@programmers.bbs.no> wrote:

>

> The reference for .HPJ can be found in the WinHelp Authoring Guide

                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> (HAG/WHAG), available on the MSDN CD-ROM, Compuserve or ftp.microsoft.com

> (I think).

What is the correct name of the file?

I need the name for archie and ftp.

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In <CxLqKt.4Lz@tc.fluke.COM> inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes:

To follow up on the post made regarding HWA requiring some more features

but having the best UI (which was a followup to this message) -

this is really a request for user feedback - if people out there want

feature x we will do our best to implement it...

>    * REPORTER: you can list topics ----> keywords, I'd also like to be able

>      to do keywords ----> topics.  Also needed are simple lists, such as

>      a list of keywords, a list of topics, a liost of topics in a browse

>      sequnce, that kind of thing.

We have taken note of this and we'll see what we can do in the next release

of HWA.

>    * GRAPHER: ForeFront could take a lesson from HWA and nake this listing

>      dynamic. That is a very hot feature, Stefan.

Thank you Gary - it is great to know what features are useful for customers.

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In article <37eb63$av9@inforamp.net> dagmar@inforamp.net  writes:

>Folks,

>

>I am interested in creating Cuecards for a windows based client

>server applications. Are there any products that allow this or

>are there other ways of doing it?

What the heck is a "Cuecard"? Is it some form of help?

Chris

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Hi John,

 > Executive Summary

 > -----------------

 > Far too many .HLP files contain hardcoded BLACK text on top of the

 > user's preferred background colour, which is *NOT* necessarily WHITE!!!!

Yes...

 > Summary

 > -------

 > Ensure that your .hlp files are being created without hardcoded colours.

RIGHT!!

Thanks for this insightful message (and btw: my helpfiles are correct, I use

WinWord and HCP - yes, I'm doing things the old-fashioned way, I haven't found

ONE WinHelp tool that works the way I like it, yet...)

 > John A. Grant                        jagrant@emr1.emr.ca

Groetjes,

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Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

In article <37kell$s8t@iii1.iii.net> kevin@iii1.iii.net "Kevin Flanagan" writes:

>Hi,

>

>I am sure that this has been asked before, but I

>just changed jobs and have lost track of the

>past threads.

>

>I remeber postings about problems compiling RTF

>files with WOrd 6.0 (files that compile just fine

>with 2.0). Could someone verify that fact. Is there

>a different compiler?

>

>I am not having the problem with Word 6.0A, but someone

>else is having trouble with Version 6.0.

In order to use Word 6 RTF you must have v505 of the help compiler.

This is available on ftp.microsoft.com.

Chris

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most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

In article <782330422.AA04023@dragons.nest.nl.dragons.nest.nl>,

Bob Swart <bobs@dragons.nest.nl> wrote:

>Hi John,

>

> > Executive Summary

> > -----------------

> > Far too many .HLP files contain hardcoded BLACK text on top of the

> > user's preferred background colour, which is *NOT* necessarily WHITE!!!!

>Yes...

>

> > Summary

> > -------

> > Ensure that your .hlp files are being created without hardcoded colours.

>RIGHT!!

>

>Thanks for this insightful message (and btw: my helpfiles are correct, I use

>WinWord and HCP - yes, I'm doing things the old-fashioned way, I haven't found

>ONE WinHelp tool that works the way I like it, yet...)

>

What do those tools do then?  Do they put \cf statements all over their

RTF files?  Does Word?

Since there is no way of knowing how many colors will occur in a WordPerfect

document, what I do when scanning WP and converting it to RTF, is when

I encounter a WP color code, I construct a colortable (with one entry)

on the fly, and put the whole color-marked text between {\cf1 ... }.

That color is hard-coded, of course, but in practice it's not something

that occurs in a lot of documents.

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HCPARSE.DLL

HCPARSE.DLL is contained in the earlier version of the WHAT.  WHAT.ZIP is

available from ftp sites in both the ftp.microsoft.com and

winftp.cica.indiana.edu.

Hope this would help.

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ifthenelse macro

In article <thompsri.113.0017D278@ccmail.dell.com>,

Richard Thompson <thompsri@ccmail.dell.com> wrote:

>Hi,

>

>Does any see anything wrong with this statement.

>

>IfThenElse(IsMark("whatever"},"JI('helfile.hlp','topic')","JI('helpfile',

                           (typo)  `helpfile.hlp',`topic'      `helpfile'

>'topic')")

 `topic'

Apart from the two obvious typos, the secret is in using backquote

to start a word in single quotes: `'

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Hi,

Does any see anything wrong with this statement.

IfThenElse(IsMark("whatever"},"JI('helfile.hlp','topic')","JI('helpfile','topic

')")

I can't seem to get this to work.

I have tried IfThen(IsMark("Whatever"),"JI('helpfile.hlp','topic')") and it

also give me an error compiling of invalid syntax.

If I change the line IfThen(IsMark("Whatever"),"BACK()") it works.

Can someone point out what is wrong here for me.........

Thanks,

Richard

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Is there any way to "de-compile" a Windows .hlp file back to

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In <5YpCUtAeTgB@fuerst.jena.thur.de> rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de (Rainer Schleevoigt) writes:

>Hi all,

>How can I place a (user defined) button in client area (not in top button

>bar)

It's not possible with WinHelp - however I know there are at least three products

promising this ability very soon, one of them being ours - and we are almost ready

to release now...

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In <37kell$s8t@iii1.iii.net> kevin@iii1.iii.net (Kevin Flanagan) writes:

>Hi,

>I am sure that this has been asked before, but I

>just changed jobs and have lost track of the

>past threads.

>I remeber postings about problems compiling RTF

>files with WOrd 6.0 (files that compile just fine

>with 2.0). Could someone verify that fact. Is there

>a different compiler?

There is - I would suggest downloading HC505.EXE from

ftp.cica.indiana.edu.

Cheers,

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How do I find ForeHelp?

In <CxoJHL.HDx@cruzio.com> gstark@cruzio.com writes:

>I have tried:

>    HWA............ Again nicely done but crashed too often

Gary,

I would have been helpful to know where it crashed - we are

100% commited to having a bug free product, Beta V.1 is very

close to this and we would love to know of any additional bugs

so we can squash them.

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Can anyone tell me what the best tools are for developing help files

that are to be translated into Japanese and Chinese?

The other question I have relates to when MicroSoft intends to

support Unicode in their help system for NT?  Anyone out their know the

current plans?

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I thought I've seen pictures imbedded into Windows help files, but can't

figure out how to do so. Anyone point me in the right direction? I'd like

to do 256 color pictures, but will settle for 32 or 16 if need be (systems

that view the file would have to be running 256 color drivers anyway).

Dave

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Hi, I'd just like to thank all those who answered my query about where

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Can anyone tell me how I could get hold of DocToHelp?

Is it shareware or commercial? Is there a demo?

Thanks

Mark Giffin

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Baltimore/Washington area

 I have a network game that I wrote on the Macintosh.  My role was to

write the interface and high level communications.  The lower level

communcations routines were writen by the people who market and provide

the connection service.

 We would like to have a Windows version done by January.  I have done a

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Hi,

Thanks for the responses. I am indeed running the latest compiler

because it came with Doc-To-Help 1.6. I will pass this information

along to the other person.

Ruth-Ellen

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I'm currently writing a helpfile in which I want certain small

amounts of text info to change from time to time without having

to recompile the help file. Does anyone know a way to link in text

from a text file at run time?

-jalapeno

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In <5YpCUtAeTgB@fuerst.jena.thur.de> rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de (Rainer

Schleevoigt) writes:

>Hi all,

>How can I place a (user defined) button in client area (not in top button

>bar)

Stefan Olson adds:

It's not possible with WinHelp - however I know there are at least three

products

promising this ability very soon, one of them being ours - and we are

almost ready

to release now...

Could you make that "FOUR PRODUCTS", HELLLP! v 2.3a has had that ability

for a while. (see the FAQ for a source, or ARCHIE on HELLLP).

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In article <37v271$ium@fitzherbert.pavilion.co.uk>,

jalapeno <jalapeno@pavilion.co.uk> wrote:

>I'm currently writing a helpfile in which I want certain small

>amounts of text info to change from time to time without having

>to recompile the help file. Does anyone know a way to link in text

>from a text file at run time?

>

You can use the macro "EP" ("ExecProgram") to start up a file

editor (e.g. Notepad) or viewer.

You can make a jump to another helpfile.  That way you need only

recompile the contents of that jump (included separately in a help

file of its own).

If you have a help tool that allows you to embed edit/static text

controls (as discussed in another thread) , you can do that.  (IF

you're allowed to read in the contents from a file, dynamically,

that is).

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most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

In article <Cxstsu.LJ7@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>In article <782330422.AA04023@dragons.nest.nl.dragons.nest.nl>,

>Bob Swart <bobs@dragons.nest.nl> wrote:

>>Hi John,

>>

>> > Executive Summary

>> > -----------------

>> > Far too many .HLP files contain hardcoded BLACK text on top of the

>> > user's preferred background colour, which is *NOT* necessarily WHITE!!!!

>>Yes...

>>

>> > Summary

>> > -------

>> > Ensure that your .hlp files are being created without hardcoded colours.

>>RIGHT!!

>>

>>Thanks for this insightful message (and btw: my helpfiles are correct, I use

>>WinWord and HCP - yes, I'm doing things the old-fashioned way, I haven't found

>>ONE WinHelp tool that works the way I like it, yet...)

>>

>

>What do those tools do then?  Do they put \cf statements all over their

>RTF files?  Does Word?

The documentation for \cf states that if there is no \cf statement,

the text colour is as set by the Control Panel.

I just grepped several large .rtf files produced by Word 2C

and there's not a single \cf statement in any of them.  When

I compile them, they come out with cyan text on dark blue

background (my colours, as expected).

I guess all it takes is a single \cf statement at the top of the

.rtf file and you're screwed - the text is then hardcoded.

>Since there is no way of knowing how many colors will occur in a WordPerfect

>document, what I do when scanning WP and converting it to RTF, is when

>I encounter a WP color code, I construct a colortable (with one entry)

>on the fly, and put the whole color-marked text between {\cf1 ... }.

>That color is hard-coded, of course, but in practice it's not something

>that occurs in a lot of documents.

Generally speaking, colour is not a good method of enhancing

text:

- it doesn't show when printed on a monochrome device

- some people are colour blind

- it may not be visible if you don't hardcode ALL of

 	  the colours (ALL or NONE!)

- it imposes the author's idea of a 'nice' colour on

  the reader (how would you like to read a .HLP file with

  red text on a green background!)

The most effective techniques for enhancing the readability and

clarity of most documentation, including .hlp files is the

effective use of vertical & horizontal white space and a LIMITED

use of fonts.

Studies have shown that you need more white space in an on-line

document than in a printed document (can't remember where I

read that, but it makes sense to me).

A few carefully selected fonts and sizes can make all the difference

in the world, but a documentation which has a font change every

few lines/words can be virtually indecipherable.  I use Arial

for everything and I have 2-3 sizes of that font plus BOLD for titles

and important words.  It's quite sufficient.

IMO, the use of colour is a much less effective method of

improving your help files.

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Documentation on HC

  How can I find documentations on how to build a help file?

  I am new to the help compiler and need some basic information

  on how to build a help file from scratch. My thanks in advance

  for helping me in this matter.

  Best regards,

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In article <1994Oct18.063949.5644@emr1.emr.ca>,

John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>	The documentation for \cf states that if there is no \cf statement,

>	the text colour is as set by the Control Panel.

>	I just grepped several large .rtf files produced by Word 2C

>	and there's not a single \cf statement in any of them.  When

>	I compile them, they come out with cyan text on dark blue

>	background (my colours, as expected).

>

>	I guess all it takes is a single \cf statement at the top of the

>	.rtf file and you're screwed - the text is then hardcoded.

Minor correction here: you're screwed until the next \plain statement :-)

>[quoting me, mcv:]

>>Since there is no way of knowing how many colors will occur in a WordPerfect

>>document, what I do when scanning WP and converting it to RTF, is when

>>I encounter a WP color code, I construct a colortable (with one entry)

>>on the fly, and put the whole color-marked text between {\cf1 ... }.

>>That color is hard-coded, of course, but in practice it's not something

>>that occurs in a lot of documents.

>

>	Generally speaking, colour is not a good method of enhancing

>	text:

>	[..]

>	A few carefully selected fonts and sizes can make all the difference

>	in the world, but a documentation which has a font change every

>	few lines/words can be virtually indecipherable.  I use Arial

>	for everything and I have 2-3 sizes of that font plus BOLD for titles

>	and important words.  It's quite sufficient.

>

>	IMO, the use of colour is a much less effective method of

>	improving your help files.

Yes, although "a few carefully selected colors can make all the difference

in the  world".  I think the ability to change fonts and colors should be

there, even though it inevitably leads to excesses. (Luckily, the

population that doesn't have a clue about how to format a document's layout

largely overlaps with the population that doesn't have a clue about

properly writing a document, which is a good thing, in a way. In the old

days you had to start reading an on-line document before you could find out

it was garbage... Now a quick glance suffices: if it's a hodge-podge of fonts

and colors, it's garbage).

My remarks about color in WP documents were made from the viewpoint of a

tool developer (in this case, one that turns Wp docs into WinHelp).  I have

implemented options to map fonts and font sizes, to prevent scaling of

bitmapped pictures, etc., in order to ease the transition from printed

matter to on-line help file (without needing to change your WP document).

Mapping colors would have been another possibility, but as it occurs so

little (most printers are still B/W), I didn't think it necessary.

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Cue Cards

Chris,

If you have used any of the recent microsoft products thay have

a help-like system that not tells you how to enter things but

takes you through it step by step allowing you to enter data at

the same time.

I work with a client server application that takes a while to

enter all the data on and I want to create a system that the

users actually use, unlike most help.

Mark

chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) wrote:

>

>In article <37eb63$av9@inforamp.net>

>dagmar@inforamp.net  writes:

>

>>Folks,

>>

>>I am interested in creating Cuecards for a windows

>based client

>>server applications. Are there any products that allow

>this or

>>are there other ways of doing it?

>

>What the heck is a "Cuecard"? Is it some form of help?

>

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Windows/Netware Question

I will soon be writing a program in Borland C++ 4 which will be running under

windows 3.1 on a Novell Network (Netware). I want a main application on the

server with several client applications on other PCs.  The clients must have

access to a database being maintained on the server and be able to add/subtract

records from it. I don't think I will have any problems writing the bulk of the

client/server software but I haven't a clue how to communicate over the Novell

network between the clients and server.

Can someone please give me some help/hints/tips to point me in the

right direction. The title of a suitable book would also be a help.

Please e-mail replies if possible.

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In <robertl.28.782355726@county.lmt.mn.org>, ROBERT asks:

Can anyone tell me what the best tools are for developing help files

that are to be translated into Japanese and Chinese?

The other question I have relates to when MicroSoft intends to

support Unicode in their help system for NT?  Anyone out their know the

current plans?

>> Windows Help 4.0 which will be released in the upcoming version of

Windows 95 and the next version of NT, is not unicode enabled, but does

contain additional information that makes help files work better in

various international markets. Specifically, the locale-identifier is

stored in the help file and is used for NLS sorting of keywords and for

the full text search. Also, the charset is now specified for each font.

All the international versions of the help compiler have been replaced

with a single version that can handle all languages, including DBCS.

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Request assistance with help system

The company for which I work is developing a Windows

application where we have taken steps to have an interface

that does *not* look like other Windows applications--

we have no menus, custom bustoms, and no standard

windows devices like a system menu, etc.

We want to add online help to the system, and wanted

to use Windows help.  However, we are concerned about

the incongruity of having the standard winhelp interface

come up on top of our very non-standard software.

Are there any help systems for Windows that give one

more control over the interface presented to the user?

Thanks for any help (email please).

-*-

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DocToHelp - where?

In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp mgiffin@retix.com (Mark Giffin)

said:

>Can anyone tell me how I could get hold of DocToHelp? Is it shareware or

>commercial? Is there a demo?

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Doc-To-Help is made by my company, WexTech Systems. It is a commercial

product and we do have a sample file that demonstrates many of our

features. You can learn more about Doc-To-Help in  the FAQ for this

newsgoup, or visit our Forum on Compuserve (GO WEXTECH). We are in Section

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Debugging inside a DLL: Breakpoints  dont seem to work.

I have a application that makes use of a DLL. I have compiled

both with debug mode.  The problem I have is as follows:

 1. I am able to set breakpoints in programs that are in the DLL

 2. I am able to set breakpoints in my application that calls the DLL too.

However when I execute my application, it stops at all the break points

in the application but just whizzes past breakpoints set in the DLL.

I stepped-thru the code in the DLL. However I can't make it "step-thru till

cursor" or make it stop at a break point in the DLL.

Could somebody help me please ??

I am sure that everything has been built in debug mode. SO thats ruled out.

Thanks for ur help...

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I agree with you enthusiastically, having used Cyan as my background

colour for some months before abandoning it in disgust because I couldn't

read the help files (try finding the popups and jumps on a cyan

background).

So the question is: you say 99% of all help files have

inconsiderately hardcoded their colours; you say that your help files

don't have this problem.

So enlighten us: how *do* you write a helpfile without hardcoded

colours?? What's the secret? What's the switch? What do you do

differently? Complaining is not enough....

Bryan Trussler

(btrussl6@mach1.wlu.ca)

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most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

In article <Cxv0GL.HLG@inter.NL.net>, mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) says:

>

>In article <1994Oct18.063949.5644@emr1.emr.ca>,

<<ENORMOUS amount of stuff deleted>>

and colors, it's garbage).

>

>My remarks about color in WP documents were made from the viewpoint of a

>tool developer (in this case, one that turns Wp docs into WinHelp).  I have

 What is the name of your tool??

  Is it available?

Please tell me how to get info on it!

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Using 2ndary window to display topic from oth

Once you have defined your window link your context string as normal and

at the end of the line put a greater than sign and then the name of the

secondary window. If you want to make a jump to another HLP file then

you can tell it to search the other hlp file by using the @ sign and the

name of the other hlp file

Example  Press Me:IDH_Press_Me>Main

         Press Me:IDh_Press_Me@other.hlp

I hope this is what you were looking for.

Terry Anderson

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CENTERING GRAPHICS

 How can I center a graphic in a HLP file? I've tryed uring bmc, bml and bmr

and it doesn't do it.

 Thanks

J. C. Cuesta

TIDSA

Madrid (SPAIN)

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Looking for the 'ShowMe' button...

Whoever it was that mailed me asking for the name of the person creating help

with ShowMe buttons should do so again. I lurched when I reached for the

keyboard, and deleted the mail rather than replying to it.

Sorry 'bout that!

Gary Starkweather

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In <37um46$e2o@case.cyberspace.com> timoney@cyberspace.com (David Timoney) writes:

>I thought I've seen pictures imbedded into Windows help files, but can't

>figure out how to do so. Anyone point me in the right direction? I'd like

>to do 256 color pictures, but will settle for 32 or 16 if need be (systems

>that view the file would have to be running 256 color drivers anyway).

Just use [image] in the text for your topic.  bml can be used

to make the picture left justified and bmr for right justified.

To display 256 color bitmaps you need an embedded window such as our

upcomming product.

...Stefan

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Hang-help

I've made a Neural-net program that wouldn't work ..

After the system-hang I've recieved an error starting windows.

The 32 bit disc access couldn't be loaded, the address that MS-DOS uses to

communicate with the harddis had been changed.

I'm running QEMM 7.5, and on the same time as the other error I recieved an

error from QEMM386 saying : QuickBoot couldn't be run because QEMM couldn't

locate the ROM handler for INT 09

Please help me

Windows isn't the same without 32bitdiskaccess

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Try debugging the DLL itself, when debugging a DLL VC/C++ will ask or you

can

set the application to be used. I think it can be set in

Options-> Debug -> Calling Program.

- Vijay

....I have a application that makes use of a DLL. I have compiled

....both with debug mode.  The problem I have is as follows:

....

.... 1. I am able to set breakpoints in programs that are in the DLL

.... 2. I am able to set breakpoints in my application that calls the DLL too.

....

....However when I execute my application, it stops at all the break points

....in the application but just whizzes past breakpoints set in the DLL.

....

....I stepped-thru the code in the DLL. However I can't make it "step-thru

till

....cursor" or make it stop at a break point in the DLL.

....

....Could somebody help me please ??

....

....I am sure that everything has been built in debug mode. SO thats ruled out.

....

....

....

....Thanks for ur help...

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In <780958867snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

>In article <FQViuAXPBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>

>           stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz "Stefan Olson" writes:

>>I believe there is a limit of 400 keywords in any given help file, though

>>I have never come across that myself.

>No, the limit is that a maximum of 400 topics can have the same keyword.

>I'm not aware of any limit on the number of keywords.

Sorry - that is what I meant to say...

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ifthenelse macro

In article <thompsri.113.0017D278@ccmail.dell.com> thompsri@ccmail.dell.com (Richard Thompson) writes:

>Hi,

>

>Does any see anything wrong with this statement.

>

>IfThenElse(IsMark("whatever"},"JI('helfile.hlp','topic')","JI('helpfile','topic

>')")

>

>I can't seem to get this to work.

>

Can't tell exactly from your post but, when using single quotes you

must use a left and right single quote. The left is usually the same

key as the ~.  The right is the same as the ".  The first time I tried

using a macro I got a syntax error message.  I was using just the

right single quote (because the book that gave the argument used it).

I tried using left and right and it worked just fine.

Perhaps this is your problem?

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HWA

Hi there,

Last week I read in one article of this newsgroup that

there is  a help maker soft called "HWAB50" "help window

assistant".

It was supposed to be in CICA in /pub/pc/win3/programmr

but I couldn't find it there.

Does someone knows where I could get it ?

Is it a commercial software ?

Thanks in advance.

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buttons in client-area

In <56503@mindlink.bc.ca> Ed_Guy@mindlink.bc.ca (Ed Guy) writes:

>In <5YpCUtAeTgB@fuerst.jena.thur.de> rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de (Rainer

>Schleevoigt) writes:

>>Hi all,

>>How can I place a (user defined) button in client area (not in top button

>>bar)

[Stefan's writing deleted...]

>Could you make that "FOUR PRODUCTS", HELLLP! v 2.3a has had that ability

>for a while. (see the FAQ for a source, or ARCHIE on HELLLP).

Yes, but how does it do it?  Via embedded windows or via a bitmap?

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Pictures in .hlp

Stefan Olson (stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz) wrote:

: In <37um46$e2o@case.cyberspace.com> timoney@cyberspace.com (David Timoney) writes:

: >I thought I've seen pictures imbedded into Windows help files, but can't

: >figure out how to do so. Anyone point me in the right direction? I'd like

: >to do 256 color pictures, but will settle for 32 or 16 if need be (systems

: >that view the file would have to be running 256 color drivers anyway).

: Just use [image] in the text for your topic.  bml can be used

: to make the picture left justified and bmr for right justified.

Hi Stefan,

    How many colors can the .bmp be without your upcoming product?

Dave

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In article <382udj$7m5@tid.tid.es>, Jose Carlos Cuesta Cuesta <@tid.es> wrote:

> How can I center a graphic in a HLP file? I've tryed uring bmc, bml and bmr

>and it doesn't do it.

>

Hola,

use (in RTF):

\par\qc\ [image] \par\pard

that is:

[newline][center paragraph] [image] [newline]

in your word-processor.

If you want text on both sides of the centered graphic, that's

trickier: you can do it by definining a 3 column table:

TEXT	PICTURE	TEXT

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Winhelp Full Text Search

Now Then.

Can anybody tell me where the files to allow a full text search

in Winhelp can be found.

I have managed to find to 2 runtime DLL's but can't find the following

files (list taken from the Winhelp FAQ :

  FORAGE.EXE

  (FORAGEP.EXE)

  W_SCAN.EXE

  INDEX.EXE

  (GETMLT.EXE)

I am not quite sure what the state of copyright is with these files

but it would be useful if someone could mail them to me (ie. UUencoded)

if that is allowed.

Thanks in advance

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@tid.es wrote:

> How can I center a graphic in a HLP file? I've tryed uring bmc, bml and bmr

>and it doesn't do it.

>

use

then select that line and use the Center Paragraph option of Word. I'm

assuming you're using Word. Otherwise, use whatever centering your help

development environment provides.

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HELP: Paint

I'm working on a Programm which final goal is to paint (and repaint,

and repaint...) a very simple (lines, rectangels and text) graph.

Since I've added the Paint function to the program, it crashes at places

it has never crashed before, moving the scrollbar is enough at times...

Is there anything obvious I could have failed to do or done wrong?

Please mail me. Thanks in advance...

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bg colour in nonscroll re

In article <5YxDre4eTgB@fuerst.jena.thur.de>

           rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de "Rainer Schleevoigt" writes:

>mcv@inter.NL.net meens at 13.10.94

>on subject "Re: bg colour in nonscroll re":

>

>> In article <61-232.1994-10-13.20.51.26@programmers.bbs.no>,

>> Eivind Bakkestuen <hillbilly@programmers.bbs.no> wrote:

>>

>> The reference for .HPJ can be found in the WinHelp Authoring Guide

>                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>> (HAG/WHAG), available on the MSDN CD-ROM, Compuserve or ftp.microsoft.com

>> (I think).

>What is the correct name of the file?

WHAG.ZIP

Chris

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most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

In article <Cxw56t.Jpz@info.uucp> btrussl6@mach1.wlu.ca (bryan trussler 9209 u) writes:

>

>I agree with you enthusiastically, having used Cyan as my background

>colour for some months before abandoning it in disgust because I couldn't

>read the help files (try finding the popups and jumps on a cyan

>background).

Read the WININI.WRI file in your ...\windows directory.

It describes the settings in the [Windows Help] section of

WIN.INI to change the colours for popups and jumps.  That's what

I do.  My background colour is dark blue & my text is cyan

(Control Panel).  Then I edit WIN.INI and set the popups/jumps

to YELLOW.

>	So the question is: you say 99% of all help files have

>inconsiderately hardcoded their colours; you say that your help files

>don't have this problem.

>

>	So enlighten us: how *do* you write a helpfile without hardcoded

>colours?? What's the secret? What's the switch? What do you do

>differently? Complaining is not enough....

If you re-read my post, you will see that I stated very clearly

and very explicitly that I use Word 2c and that all of the

help files that I create are just fine.  The attributes in Word

for the text are 'automatic', which means 'no specified colour'.

My .rtf files do not contain a single \cf statement.

I don't use any of these other tools, but presumably they are

inserting \cf0 statements in the text to select black text.

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--> Table Borders in WinHelp

Hello,

As all seasoned veterans of WinHelp know, it is not possible (or is it?) to

get Table borders to appear in a WinHelp file.  The usual kludge is to use

Paragraph borders (which are supported at a simplified level), putting the

Paragraph borders around the text (i.e., the paragraph) within a Table cell.

However, I have found using paragraph borders to not work well.  The problem

I've found is that I can't seem to get the paragraph border to coincide with

the table cell borders, with obvious consequences.  So,

1) Either using WFW6, or RTF file post-editing, is it possible to get the

   paragraph borders to coincide with the table cell borders?

2) In a related vein, is there another clever way to get Table borders, say by

   RTF file post-editing?

3) Can MM Viewer 2.0 handle Table borders?  Will WinHelp 4.0 and/or the

   Windows 4.0 Viewer upgrade (whatever it'll be called) handle Table borders?

Thanks.

Jon Noring

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most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

In article <1994Oct20.181825.1844@emr1.emr.ca>,

John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

>

>	I don't use any of these other tools, but presumably they are

>	inserting \cf0 statements in the text to select black text.

Not if they've set up the colortable right.  The proper format is:

{\colortbl;\red255\green0\blue0;\red0\green255\blue0;...;}

Because the first entry (for color 0) is empty, this will cause \cf0 to

be the default color, \cf1 red, \cf2 green etc.

If you forget the semicolon after \colortbl, then you'll get \cf0 is red,

etc.

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Windows Guru's, HELP!

TO:  Microsoft Windows Guru's!!

Is there any way to run from the Windows RUN option to

run a file that has been renamed from an .EXE to something

like .ANY?

Windows must recognize .EXE files and run them a certain

way, however if I rename that same file to xxx.ANY, windows

attempts to run it a different way.

Can you force windows to run any file as an .EXE program?

Help would be much appreciated!!!

Can you e-mail me directly instead of a newsgroup post...

Thanks,

Joe Z

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Documentation on HC

In <37vr97$do@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov> hnguyen@killerbee.jsc.nasa.gov (Hung Nguyen) writes:

>  How can I find documentations on how to build a help file?

>  I am new to the help compiler and need some basic information

>  on how to build a help file from scratch. My thanks in advance

>  for helping me in this matter.

There is not really a tutorial on developing a help file as such.

However, you will find tutorials in some of the commercial and

shareware help authoring tools, such as our product HWA.

We hope the HWA tutorial will be of use to you!

...Stefan

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How do I find ForeHelp?

Hi, Stefan

IG> I would have been helpful to know where it crashed - we are

IG> 100% commited to having a bug free product, Beta V.1 is very

IG> close to this and we would love to know of any additional bugs

IG> so we can squash them.

I hope you have got rid of HWA's nasty habit of producing lots of fatal

exit-warnings under the debug kernel? It sort of defeats HWA's purpose

as a development tool when one must exit 'development mode' to run

it...

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CENTERING GRAPHICS

In <382udj$7m5@tid.tid.es> jcuesta@tid.tid.es (Jose Carlos Cuesta Cuesta) writes:

> How can I center a graphic in a HLP file? I've tryed uring bmc, bml and bmr

>and it doesn't do it.

Put the bitmap in a paragraph and make the paragaph centered.

e.g:

{bmc hello.bmp>

Then make the paragraph centered in your help authoring tool.

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Answer: VB  Help/ContextId WinHelp

I've noticed one question that is raised with some frequency

is that of

How to get context sensitive help using the WinHelp function. (Within Visual

Basic) I know that this is a WinHelp forum but as i have noticed this question

raised here on multiple occasions...

The trick I finally discovered thanks to reading someones msg re: partial key

help is this...

Instead of

Function Declaration

Init Variables etc

Ret% = WinHelp(Form1.hWnd, HelpFile$, HELP_CONTEXT, dwdata%)

Do

Function Declaration

Init Variables etc

Ret% = WinHelp(Form1.hWnd, HelpFile$, HELP_CONTEXT, ByVal dwdata%)

---------------

I noticed even within Vb knowledge base article for the Partial Key

(Search Help Dialog) they are passing a blank string _not_ ByVal - as such

you get small amount of crap (1 char) in search for entryfield. If you copy

thier code and use ByVal then it is also cleaner.

Hope this helps others

rtm

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In article <Cxv9x8.LCn@sybase.com>, cathy pacza <cathyp@sybase.com> wrote:

>I am looking for a help authoring tool that can be used on the OS/2 platform.

>Preference would be given to any tool that allows a user to develop standard

>RTF files, and convert the files to OS/2 Help.

>

>Any suggestions would be welcome.

>

>Thanks in advance.

>

Hi,

Our HLPDK/PA tool can create OS/2, Windows, HTML, dos and other targets

from one source.

Contact me, or 76350.333@Compuserve.Com for info.

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OS/2 Help Authoring Tools

In article <Cxv9x8.LCn@sybase.com>, "cathy pacza" <cathyp@sybase.com> writes:

|> I am looking for a help authoring tool that can be used on the OS/2 platform.

|> Preference would be given to any tool that allows a user to develop standard

|> RTF files, and convert the files to OS/2 Help.

|>

|> Any suggestions would be welcome.

|>

Good question.

There is a product called Mirrors that converts Windows code to

OS/2 code--it includes an RTF->IPF converter.  But the results can be

sort of flakey.

This is especially true when you use a tool like Word to generate the

RTF--did you ever try to read that stuff?  The codes are all convoluted

and nested; it's no wonder the conversion to IPF produces such weird

stuff.

Another approach might be to come up with some WordBasic macros that

find and replace the Word elements (footnotes and formatting) with

IPF codes.  Then just export the file as text.  This is an approach I

plan on looking into for my next project.

Another idea:

    - Author in some general markup language that lets you convert to

      both formats.  SGML is ideal for this if you can find the tools.

      Otherwise, I think there are a few proprietary formats (HDK?)

      that let you go to multiple target platforms.

      SGML is probably the most forward-thinking way to go (since it's

      vendor-independent and will adjust easily as your needs change).

      But, right now, there aren't many tools around to do what you

      need.  Microsoft's SGML Author add-on for Word might help,

      but you still need the translation to IPF.  Plus, SGML

      itself requires some ramp-up time--lots of planning as far

      as document structure goes.

Anyone else have any ideas?  Especially for someone committed to using

Word to author but needs IPF as one of the final formats?

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Looking for Help Authoring Tools

Hello,

I'm at the tail end of a very long project resulting in my first Windows

project that will be released as shareware.  The last big piece left for

the app is the help file.  Can anybody recommend any shareware tools that

would really make building, writing and mapping out a Windows help file

easy?  Don't forget to tell me where I can get it (ftp or CompuServe) if

you know.

Thanks in advance,

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Cue Cards

In article <380db7$ji7@inforamp.net> dagmar@inforamp.net  writes:

>Chris,

>

>If you have used any of the recent microsoft products thay have

>a help-like system that not tells you how to enter things but

>takes you through it step by step allowing you to enter data at

>the same time.

>

>I work with a client server application that takes a while to

>enter all the data on and I want to create a system that the

>users actually use, unlike most help.

Thanks for the explanation.

Chris

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In article <FQViuAXPBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>

           stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz "Stefan Olson" writes:

>I believe there is a limit of 400 keywords in any given help file, though

>I have never come across that myself.

No, the limit is that a maximum of 400 topics can have the same keyword.

I'm not aware of any limit on the number of keywords.

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Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

If anyone has had success (or nightmares) with any particular

system, I would really appreciate hearing about it.

thanks,

-*-

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Making Windows 3.0 help files with Word 6?

HC30 seems to get rather upset with RTF files from Word 6.  Is there

a version of HC30 that can deal with these files, or is there some way

to convince Word 6 to generate files that aren't offensive to HC30?

(Or, alternatively, is there a way to tell HC31, which has no trouble

with the Word 6 files, to generate a help file for use with the Windows

3.0 version of WinHelp?).

I can fix the Word 6 RTF files by moving them to my Mac, reading them

with Word 5.1a (which is what I've got there), and then writing them

back out, and I assume that I could do the same thing by digging up a

pre-6 version of Word on the PC, but this seems unsatisfactory.

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Reusing information with MS Word (overheads in return for help)

This post is mainly about MS Word, but Windows Help creation can (and hopefully

should) include some information reuse.

I'm giving a talk on reusing information and using document databases at

an STC conference in San Diego. The talk is mainly generic as far as

publishing tools go, but I do want to give people pointers about how to

accomplish things with various publishing tools.

I use MS Word, but not for long or complex documents. The following

list summarizes the information I know (or think I know) about MS Word

and the information I need. (If you are just looking for

information, please don't take any of this as gospel.)

I'll send a copy my overheads and workshop notes to anyone who helps me fill

in the gaps. (And list your names in the fine print, unless you say you don't

want me to.) I'd prefer that you reply to me at "yvonne@smartstar.com", but

I'll be scanning the newsgroup for the next couple weeks, too.

1. Using symbols for product terms: Insert an AutoText field. (Don't just use

   AutoText; insert the field.) A number of other field types could be useful

   in this area.

2. Storing information in topic files: Use an "includetext" field, document

   links, master documents, DDE, or OLE (embedding). Quite a list. Any advice

   on how to decide which technique to use? Do you use Publish and Subscribe

   instead on a Mac?

3. Storing graphics in separate files or libraries: Insert a picture with

   "Link to File" checked.

4. Using conditional processing: Use an "IF" field.

5. Using automatic conversions: (Big area -- I probably won't cover in much

   detail.) There are lots of converters that use RTF as an import format.

   There are several tools to make creating online help with RTF easier.

6. Using a database: Use mail merge and the various "Merge*", "Next*", and

   "SkipIf" fields. Or, you can use the database's report writer to generate

   RTF syntax.

Any other information reuse features I missed in MS Word?

Thanks for any info,

Yvonne DeGraw                 SmartStar Corporation

yvonne@smartstar.com          120 Cremona Dr.

(805)685-8000 x312            Goleta, CA 93117

P.S. I have similar questions about FrameMaker, Interleaf, Ventura, and SGML.

Send me e-mail if you want my summaries for any of those tools.

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HWA

The latest version is hwab51_1.zip and hwab51_2.zip

They are in the /util subdirectory of cica.

-dennis turner

In article <383vno$av1@goudron.gel.ulaval.ca>, jbentz@gel.ulaval.ca (Joel Bentz) writes:

>

> Hi there,

> Last week I read in one article of this newsgroup that

> there is  a help maker soft called "HWAB50" "help window

> assistant".

> It was supposed to be in CICA in /pub/pc/win3/programmr

> but I couldn't find it there.

> Does someone knows where I could get it ?

> Is it a commercial software ?

> Thanks in advance.

>

> Joel Bentz

> jbentz@gel.ulaval.ca

>

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Near member pointers

Hi everyone!

I have a problem with near member functions.

I can't call any member functions if I use the far pointer

to class, when i program in the medium memory model.

The compiler issue error like:

  Can't call near class member function with the far pointer

Is there any way to have the far instance of near class

and nevertheless call it's member functions ???

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!

Vlad Dovlekaev

Elementrix Technologies Ltd.

vlad@elementrix.co.il

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bonnett@axp745.gsfc.nasa.gov meens at 21.10.94

on subject "Looking for Help Authoring Tools":

>

> Hello,

>

> I'm at the tail end of a very long project resulting in my first Windows

> project that will be released as shareware.  The last big piece left for

> the app is the help file.  Can anybody recommend any shareware tools that

> would really make building, writing and mapping out a Windows help file

> easy?  Don't forget to tell me where I can get it (ftp or CompuServe) if

> you know.

>

There is a tool named 'hwab'. It is a editor for help-files.

But I work without tools, for informations I use the

Winhelp_Authoring_Guide - it is avalaible at the TECHNET-CD from MS and

also as a collection of winword2file.

But I dont know the name :_((

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Out of Memory Error

Hi,

I'm new in writing of help files.  Anyway, I tried to compile my

help file using HC31.EXE supplied with Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 Pro on

my 386SX/20 with 2Mb RAM but got an "Out of Memory" error. It compiles

fine in my friend's 486DX2/66 with 4Mb RAM. However, the funny thing is

that my .hlp file is only 18K in size.

I wonder if HC31.EXE really takes up so much memory to compile a

small 18K help file.  I have allocated the maximum amount of XMS and EMS

memory available to HC31.EXE when attempting to compile the help file.

If any one can enlighten me on the actual ratio of memory needed

by HC31.EXE to the size of the help file compiled, I would be most

grateful.

TIA.

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Out of Memory Error

In article <388vhh$5bh@nuscc.nus.sg> eng40263@solar.cc.nus.sg (Peter YW Chiam) writes:

> my 386SX/20 with 2Mb RAM but got an "Out of Memory" error. It compiles

> fine in my friend's 486DX2/66 with 4Mb RAM. However, the funny thing is

> that my .hlp file is only 18K in size.

>

> 	I wonder if HC31.EXE really takes up so much memory to compile a

> small 18K help file.  I have allocated the maximum amount of XMS and EMS

> memory available to HC31.EXE when attempting to compile the help file.

The funny thing is that HC31 does not use XMS/EMS. So by allocating many of

these you may have actually hampered it! (But wait, can you reduce

conventional memory by increasing XMS/EMS? I don't think so!)

  Anyway, you should try HCP, the protected mode compiler, that makes use of

XMS/EMS.

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Interfile jumps to different directories

In article <bfreed.279.001F1E7C@fasttax.com>,

Bev Freed <bfreed@fasttax.com> wrote:

>I am developing online help for one of our products that is actually a

>family of executables (.EXE and .DLL) that reside in different directories.

>The "manager" controls how the other executables are called and their exits.

>The entire operation is seamless, and the user has no idea that numerous

>programs are in play.

>

>I am perplexed about how I can make the online help system just as seamless as

>the actual operation is.  From Windows Program Manager File/Run, I can call

>WINHELP.EXE and pass a .HLP path and filename without any complaints.  The

>.HLP file from a different directory appears just fine.  But I can't obtain

>the same results when I run the ExecProgram Macro.  I can run WINHELP.EXE, but

>it can't find the specified path and filename.

>

>WINHELP.EXE ..\Directory\Runme.HLP   <----- This works from Pgm Mgr File/Run.

>ExecProgram("WINHELP.EXE ..\Directory\Runme.HLP",2) <--- Does not work.

>

>Am I farting into the wind?

>

Try using double backslashes (or forward slashes).

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help, windows/multiple monitors

i am new to windows pgming and i am trying to write a windows routine to

utilize two monitors.  i have an STB Systems MVP-2X dual channel SVGA card.

using the STB drivers, i can have two monitors look like one virtual

screen.  this is NOT what i need to do.  STB Systems tech support tells

me that i can utilize the standard windows VGA driver and then issue the

MVP-2X port switch command ( _outp( 0xC3C3, 0x01/2 ) ) to change between

screens.  they feel that this MAY work, but they basically don't know.

i have tried working with _outp in my windows program without success so

far.  either nothing happens ( no output to screen 2 ) or screen 1 is

corrupted.  i basically have no idea how to define this piece of hard-

ware so that windows can work with it.  if anybody has dealt with this

kind of thing or, has worked with hardware that windows isn't set up

to deal with, i would appreciate hearing from you.  i am using MS C V7

and Windows 3.1 SDK.

if posting a response is not practical or desirable, e-mail can be sent

to:

andy@gracie.msfc.nasa.gov

Thanx.

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In article <36pojrINNc92@life.ai.mit.edu> ixl@cocoa-chex.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Kozierok) writes:

>If anyone has had success (or nightmares) with any particular

>system, I would really appreciate hearing about it.

As I've testified on this group many times, I still stand by Visual Help. For

$49 it satisfies. If you want really fancy(read that more expensive) bells and

whistles...Doc-to-Help and Robo-Help get the most ink.

It's funny though...

Lately I have been trying to find help files in applications that actually use

those bells and whistles. ANd besides Microsoft and a few other biggies, most

are basic HELP files. That is to say, they're there to HELP someone without

making them wait for graphics to load.

I guess if you're working in a hardware rich environment then go for the heavy

duty programs. But if you're creating on-line documents to be read my MANY

people regardless of hardware configuration then stick with simple stuff.

Visual Help and others of its ilk fill the bill at a reasonable rate. What

they lack you may have to fill in with help from your own ingenuity. But they

work well consistently.

That's my $.02 worth.

StanO

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placing a picture and having text wrap around it?

In Word, I have this:

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Title

+---------------+ This is some text that wraps around the

|	| picture like this.  It looks fine in Word

|   picture 	| and it prints like this too.  However, it

|	| doesn't work when I create the .HLP file.

|	|

+---------------+

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

but when I export to .rtf & compile to .hlp, I get this:

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Title

+---------------+

|	|

|   picture	|

|	|

|	|

+---------------+

This is where the text appears, i.e. underneath the picture,

not beside it.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

In Word, I just did 'insert picture' and there it is.  Then I put a frame

around it so I could move it and just dropped it onto the paragraph,

pushing the text to the right.

So how do I do this in a .hlp file?

Thank you in advance for not recommending another application as a solution :)

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Problems with BC4

to run Resource Workshop, I get an error saying that RW only works

with BWCC version 2.0 and over.

  Is there any patches for this or has anyone else experience this problem?

--Ola

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buttons in client-area

Sorry for the delay in replying - lots of meetings over the weekend.

HELLLP! creates a button bar for a secondary window by using the "table

trick". It sets up a table of alternately thin and tick columns and puts a

bitmap in the thin columns of a plain button and puts the text to go on it

in the thick columns.  It then connects either a jump or a macro call to

the button bitmap.  Simple, and quite effective - the user sees the arrow

change to a hand over the button bar but that doesn't seem to bother

anyone.

The advantage is that you don't have to distribute a DLL (that somebody

will forget to copy and blame YOU for).

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There are a number of good shareware tools out there. I'm pushing mine

(HELLLP!) but in reality different tools suit different peoples working

styles.

You can find most of them on the 'net or on Compuserve.

To get HELLLP! look for HELLLP.EXE in Compuserve's GO WINSDK forum library

or as HELLLP23.ZIP at OAK.Oakland.Edu in pub/msdos/windows3/.

One of the advantages of the shareware tools is that you can try them all

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Use tables in Word.  Put your picture in one cell and the text you want

beside in the other cell(s).

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In article <5ZOMWLzuTgB@fuerst.jena.thur.de>, <rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de>

> There is a tool named 'hwab'. It is a editor for help-files.

I just had a look at it - pretty nice.  It's in the CICA archives

/PUB/PC/WIN3/UTIL/ directory.  Get HWAB51_1.ZIP & HWAB51_2.ZIP.  It's creator,

Stefan Olson, hangs out in this newsgroup.

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Rainer Schleevoigt (rainer@fuerst.jena.thur.de) wrote:

: bonnett@axp745.gsfc.nasa.gov meens at 21.10.94

: on subject "Looking for Help Authoring Tools":

: >

: > Hello,

: >

: > I'm at the tail end of a very long project resulting in my first Windows

: > project that will be released as shareware.  The last big piece left for

: > the app is the help file.  Can anybody recommend any shareware tools that

: > would really make building, writing and mapping out a Windows help file

: > easy?  Don't forget to tell me where I can get it (ftp or CompuServe) if

: > you know.

: >

You may want to check my QDHELP package.  It can be found on cica or WINSDK Forum

on Compuserve Lib(16). Quick and Easy....

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Winhelp Full Text Search

In article <385p0k$jj3@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>,

W.R. Hartley <W.R.Hartley@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:

>

>Now Then.

>

>Can anybody tell me where the files to allow a full text search

>in Winhelp can be found.

>

>I have managed to find to 2 runtime DLL's but can't find the following

>files (list taken from the Winhelp FAQ :

>

>  FORAGE.EXE

>  (FORAGEP.EXE)

>  W_SCAN.EXE

>  INDEX.EXE

>  (GETMLT.EXE)

>

The Windows NT SDK, as available from the level II MSDN CD ROM's

is, AFAIK, the only current MS source for these files.  (FORAGE.EXE

is also in the Universal Help Kit (?) on the MSDN level I CD).

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Using BMP-to-WMF in Help

Read this! It works!

--------------------------------------------

Date:    Fri, 7 Oct 1994 10:05:04 CST6CDT

From:    Matt Abe <MATTA@LEONARDO.LMT.COM>

Subject: Re: bmp, mrbc, wmf

GENERATING A WMF FOR USE IN A WINDOWS HELP FILE

We solved our need to scale (usually reduce) bitmapped screen shots by

importing them into our page layout program as WMFs. They scale up and

down perfectly, complete with gray scales, for BOTH printed AND Help

files!.

Through a lengthy trial-and-error process, we discovered two ways to get a

WMF file, using common tools you probably have lying around on your hard

drive:

Method 1: Capture a screen with your favorite tool., and copy to the

clipboard. Paste the image into CorelDRAW!. Then Export it as a WMF file.

I discovered that if you Import the resulting WMF file back into

CorelDRAW!, you can scale it down and save it out as a new WMF file, and

import this into your Help document (the Help Compiler does support WMFs,

even if it isn't obvious in your authoring tool). The results are not

ideal, but they are far better than you get from trying to use a scaled

bitmap.

Method 2: Capture a screen with PrintScreen or Alt-PrintScreen, or copy an

image from Paintbrush, to the Clipboard. Paste the image into a new Word

for Windows document. The image is now in WMF format. If you will be using

another app to create the document, copy the image in the W4W document to

the Clipboard. Now you have a WMF image that can be pasted directly into a

page layout program.

For hardcopy docs, I love the WMF vector format because it allows you to

easily scale Windows screen captures. Unfortunately, the Macs in our

bi-platform department can't read it; Macs prefer EPSs, which is another

story. I hope this knowledge somehow helps our fellow WinHelp authors

because we discovered it only after hours of agonizing trial-and-error.

HOW MICROSOFT SOLVED HIS PROBLEM (THEY CHEATED)

If you have the Microsoft Arcade HLP file, you can see how they sscaled

down screen shots for inclusion in WinHelp documents. A programmer here at

LaserMaster noticed that they recreated selected dialogs using a teeny

tiny bitmap font, and then captured them as BMPs at actual size!. If you

are working with Windows programmers, they could do this too.

In general, I have noticed that MS WinHelp seems to eschew screen shots as

much as possible. After all, chances are that the portion of the interface

in question is already being displayed live on-screen. When a screen shot

is needed, I crop or manipulate it as necessary to use it in all of its

actual size glory.

Happy authoring,

Matt Abe

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In article <36pjqjINN6r5@life.ai.mit.edu> ixl@cocoa-chex.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Kozierok) writes:

>The company for which I work is developing a Windows

>application where we have taken steps to have an interface

>that does *not* look like other Windows applications--

>we have no menus, custom bustoms, and no standard

>windows devices like a system menu, etc.

This sounds like a questionable approach.  The idea of having

a common GUI standard (for Motif, Windows, Mac etc), is that

every application has the same look & feel and requires minimal

training to use.  Each application can build upon the expertise

the user has in using other Windows applications.

Microsoft is really pushing conformity with Windows 95 - they

want all applications to be well-behaved and consistent.  IMO,

is a very desirable goal.

I hope you didn't go out of your way to do this deliberately!

Otherwise, why not write it as a DOS app - it'll fit right

in with all of the other DOS apps - every one has a different

interface which must be learned from scratch.

>We want to add online help to the system, and wanted

>to use Windows help.  However, we are concerned about

>the incongruity of having the standard winhelp interface

>come up on top of our very non-standard software.

You definitely should use Windows help - it is one of the

single greatest features of Windows.  I know of no other

system that has such a great tool built in to the O/S, that

provides such a slick help interface which is common to all

applications.

All winhelp files use the same engine and that's just great.

I can use help for any application and I know exactly how it

works, so I can spend my time *looking* for help instead of

struggling with how to *use* it.

As for a mismatch with your application, you may have a point -

it may emphasize just how non-standard your application is.

>Are there any help systems for Windows that give one

>more control over the interface presented to the user?

Not that I know of: they simply aren't needed.  Why would you

create a non-standard help system when Windows has a superb

system already built in?

There is only one help compiler (from Microsoft) that can create

.HLP files.  However, there are dozens of shareware and commercial

applications that can help you create the .RTF file which is the

input to HC.

There are several 'exotic' features of WinHelp, such as secondary

windows and access to outside DLLs that can help you provide a

distinctive set of help information for your application.  Some

of the help authoring tools can help you use these features with

relative ease.  For example, WinHelp can not display a 256-colour

bitmap, but there is a DLL that can do it and your .HLP file can

access the DLL.

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where is WHAT?

check: /softlib/mslfiles/WHAT6.EXE

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Can someone tell where I can ftp this newsgroup's FAQ from?

(I need the site name and the EXACT PATH NAME, because I can only

use ftpmail currently.)

Thank you in advance!

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Hi.

Does anybody out there know how to place a SEPERATOR in a menu defined using the Add Menu macro ?

Any help will be greatly appreciated as it is driving me mad here!!

Cheers.

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In article <stano.106.001161EF@halcyon.com>,

Stan Orchard <stano@halcyon.com> wrote:

} In article <36pojrINNc92@life.ai.mit.edu> ixl@cocoa-chex.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Kozierok) writes:

}

} >If anyone has had success (or nightmares) with any particular

} >system, I would really appreciate hearing about it.

}

} As I've testified on this group many times, I still stand by Visual Help. For

} $49 it satisfies. If you want really fancy(read that more expensive) bells and

} whistles...Doc-to-Help and Robo-Help get the most ink.

}

} It's funny though...

}

} Lately I have been trying to find help files in applications that actually use

} those bells and whistles. ANd besides Microsoft and a few other biggies, most

} are basic HELP files. That is to say, they're there to HELP someone without

} making them wait for graphics to load.

}

} I guess if you're working in a hardware rich environment then go for the heavy

} duty programs. But if you're creating on-line documents to be read my MANY

} people regardless of hardware configuration then stick with simple stuff.

} Visual Help and others of its ilk fill the bill at a reasonable rate. What

} they lack you may have to fill in with help from your own ingenuity. But they

} work well consistently.

}

} That's my $.02 worth.

Thanks for the feedback, Stan.

In my particular case, I may be interested in graphical "bells and

whistles", though that may be more in the future.  But what I really

need is a system that is easy to use, reliable, and produced by

a company that is going to be around.  I need to be able to set the

authoring system up and have a tech writer be able to use it with

minimal help from the software engineers, who have better things

to do (i.e. I don't want to have to need ingenuity, and I'm willing

to pay $300 to avoid having to do so).

I am considering RoboHelp, ForeHelp, DocToHelp and WHA.  If anyone

can provide any specific pros/cons or reviews of these systems, I'd

be eternally grateful.

More generally, do people like using the systems that run on top

of Microsoft Word?  My first impression of these systems, having

not seen one yet, is that they sound a little bit like a "hack" and

I would wonder about how much control I would have over various

aspects.  On the other hand, a system like ForeHelp is appealing

because of its instant prototyping ability and the fact that it

allows one to create the help files in a help-like environment,

but I wonder if its WP has the power of a full-blown system like

Word, and whether I would regret its limitations in time.

thanks,

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Wanted: Help Compiler

Hi all,

I am trying to find out where the latest version of the Help compiler

may be located; is it hc505.exe on cica.indiana?  That dates

back to 1993.  Any help appreciated.

Thanks again to those who offered assistance with earlier queries.

cheers,

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Test Message

uqwk test - please ignore.

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In article <36sk9rINN344@life.ai.mit.edu> ixl@cocoa-chex.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Kozierok) writes:

>From: ixl@cocoa-chex.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Kozierok)

>Subject: Wanted: Help Compiler

>Date: 4 Oct 1994 22:17:31 GMT

>Hi all,

>I am trying to find out where the latest version of the Help compiler

>may be located; is it hc505.exe on cica.indiana?  That dates

>back to 1993.  Any help appreciated.

>Thanks again to those who offered assistance with earlier queries.

>cheers,

>-*-

>charles

Why don't you just try ftp.microsoft.com? :-)

Matt

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Windows Help -> DOS

In article <mattfusf.56.0008E1CF@omni.voicenet.com>,

mattfusf@omni.voicenet.com (Matthew Fusfield) writes:

>Anyone know of any program that will allow a DOS user to access a Windows

>help file? If so, please let me know where I can get it.

There is a program that will allow this although with it being DOS based,

you loose some of the functionality of the help file (like not being able

to see the pictures).  The filename is HHELP10.ZIP.  Check the ftp site

198.91.36.126  in the pub/winhelp or pub/incoming directory.

Bill McDaniel

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In article <36pjqjINN6r5@life.ai.mit.edu>, Charles M. Kozierok wrote:

>

>

> Are there any help systems for Windows that give one

> more control over the interface presented to the user?

Look for Microsoft's MediaView.

>

> Thanks for any help (email please).

>

> -*-

> charles

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Excuse me if this is in any way an irritating question, but could

somebody tell me if there is a utility that lets me convert Windows

.wri and/or .hlp files to plain ASCII or (even better) TeX, and does

this under UNIX/OSF. (So I mean a unix-executable). And if there is,

where can I find it?

Much thanks in advance.

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to the help for an application which has been updated, and am particularly

loathe to redo the whole thing using the help editor

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In article <36rh0j$bu6@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>, William Hartley asks:

Does anybody out there know how to place a SEPERATOR in a menu defined

using the Add Menu macro ?

ExtInsertItem("menu id", "item id", "", position, 0x800)

No, it wasn't documented for WinHelp 3.1. Yes, it will be documented

and supported in Windows 95, and in the meantime you can use it in

WinHelp 3.1, knowing that it will also work in Windows 95.

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Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

I am at the moment searching the InterNet to gather as many of these systems as I

can get my hands on. At the moment, I have about 5-10 different programs.

Although I have not been able yet to test them extensively, I think 'Help

Writer's Assistant' is the nicest system I have seen so far. And as far as I can

recall, it's shareware and downloaded from some anonymous FTP-site. I will post

it's location of the Net if anybody is interested, it will have to go out and

look for it, though.

In article <36rs2dINN6vs@life.ai.mit.edu>, ixl@cocoa-chex.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Kozierok) writes:

|> In my particular case, I may be interested in graphical "bells and

|> whistles", though that may be more in the future.  But what I really

|> need is a system that is easy to use, reliable, and produced by

|> a company that is going to be around.  I need to be able to set the

|> authoring system up and have a tech writer be able to use it with

|> minimal help from the software engineers, who have better things

|> to do (i.e. I don't want to have to need ingenuity, and I'm willing

|> to pay $300 to avoid having to do so).

|>

|> I am considering RoboHelp, ForeHelp, DocToHelp and WHA.  If anyone

|> can provide any specific pros/cons or reviews of these systems, I'd

|> be eternally grateful.

Could anybody let me know where I can find a (demo)version of RoboHelp??

|> More generally, do people like using the systems that run on top

|> of Microsoft Word?  My first impression of these systems, having

|> not seen one yet, is that they sound a little bit like a "hack" and

|> I would wonder about how much control I would have over various

|> aspects.  On the other hand, a system like ForeHelp is appealing

|> because of its instant prototyping ability and the fact that it

|> allows one to create the help files in a help-like environment,

|> but I wonder if its WP has the power of a full-blown system like

|> Word, and whether I would regret its limitations in time.

.... and ForeHelp as well, please :)

Help-authoring additions to Word are not exactly a hack, since it obvious that

Microsoft has designed Word in such a way that it's easy to add menu options,

macros and the like. I have been looking at some of these systems and must admit

that I have yet to discover a really good one. They are not that easy to

configure, and while I was trying to create a simple helpfile, I still felt I was

using a wordprocessor-with-a-little-extra, clearly not a dedicated system written

with this job in mind.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sandor Spruit,  also known as 'spruit@cs.utwente.nl'

computer science student at the University of Twente

The Netherlands

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HCPARSE.DLL

HCPARSE.DLL is *now* contained in the WHAT6.EXE file (dated 9/26/94)

in the softlib/mslfiles directory on Microsoft's ftp server.

Go figure.

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(Well, I posted this in c.os.ms-win.apps.utilities, but I'll try here, too)

After installing WHAT6, I receive a "file not found: CMDIALOG.VBX" message

when I try to run the Help Project Editor.  What the heck is this file, and

where I can I get it (or can someone mail it to me...please :) so I can use

this utility?

The package was also missing help files for the HotSpot Editor.  Other than

that, it's worked great and I've made some excellent help files of my own.

Thanks!

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In article <mattfusf.60.002966CF@omni.voicenet.com>,

Matthew Fusfield <mattfusf@omni.voicenet.com> wrote:

} In article <36sk9rINN344@life.ai.mit.edu> ixl@cocoa-chex.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Kozierok) writes:

} >I am trying to find out where the latest version of the Help compiler

} >may be located; is it hc505.exe on cica.indiana?  That dates

} >back to 1993.  Any help appreciated.

}

} >Thanks again to those who offered assistance with earlier queries.

}

} Why don't you just try ftp.microsoft.com? :-)

Actually, I did; it was very hard to find the help compiler (it

wasn't in an obvious place at all) and they did not have a newer

version than the one on cica.indiana.  So I guess that's it.

cheers,

-*-

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 ixl@cocoa-chex.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Kozierok) writes:

> [...]  But what I really

>need is a system that is easy to use, reliable, and produced by

>a company that is going to be around.  I need to be able to set the

>authoring system up and have a tech writer be able to use it with

>minimal help

>I am considering RoboHelp, ForeHelp, DocToHelp and WHA.  If anyone

>can provide any specific pros/cons or reviews of these systems ...

There  are many parameters to the decision. I did look at ForeHelp

in my own evaluation and found it very intuitive for what you could

do with it.

But in the end I decided to go for HelpBreeze. The demo  was also

quite simple and convincing. The key parameter in my decision was

that I wanted to reuse a significant part of the Help Files for the paper

documentation. So the fact that it was  based on a word processor

was a key advantage. It means that you can reuse your files and the

conversion work may be no more difficult than changing fonts

for  certain styles.

I  could see very clearly how to do that with HelpBreeze and my impression

(right or wrong) was that this would be more complex with ForeHelp or,

in  general, with systems that have their own editor.

I  was not able to evaluate RoboHelp because the company does not

have a demo.  The demo is a very important  aspect.

general

>On the other hand, a system like ForeHelp is appealing

>because of its instant prototyping ability and the fact that it

>allows one to create the help files in a help-like environment,

I was more worried by the fact that ForeHelp would be a closed  system.

There is also a significant advantage to systems that are based on  Word

and generate RTF files: if you conclude later that you have  made a mistake,

or that a better system has appeared on the market, it will be quite easy

to migrate your  Word text to another Word-based system.

(In case you think  we are Word addict, we use exclusively Ami Pro aside

from Help projects.)

A final point to consider is telephone - human - support, since none of

these systems are ideally simple.  I have called HelpBreeze support on

a few occasion and found their support to be very knowledgeable: in

all cases, a 3-5 minute call was enough to resolve  whatever issues I had.

Regards,

Jean D. Ichbiah

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Jumps in Popups

In article jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>>  Popups cannot have jumps in them, or more accurately, jumps are disabled

>>in popups. When you click anywhere on a popup'ed topic, it just closes the

>>topic. This is normal operation. If you want to be able to use the jumps,

>>then you need to use HELP_CONTEXT.

>	This is not true!  I have many popups in my hlp file with

>	jumps to other topics in the popup text.  They work just fine.

Agreed.  Just download OmniMedia's latest e-book, "Fire and Fur" (address in

sig below), where popups within popups are utilized -- works great!  To see it

in action, just go to the main text, find the name "Ao Rue", and click on it.

Then within the popup that "pop ups", click on any of the words in italics

for a new popup.

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I can't seem to be able to buy Robohelp in Ottawa, Canada.

Who makes it? What's the latest version?

How much does it cost?

Pierre Goulet                   613-763-3098

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Stan Orchard (stano@halcyon.com) wrote:

: duty programs. But if you're creating on-line documents to be read my MANY

: people regardless of hardware configuration then stick with simple stuff.

: Visual Help and others of its ilk fill the bill at a reasonable rate. What

: they lack you may have to fill in with help from your own ingenuity. But they

: work well consistently.

I was really after a program that would more or less let me point and click

and found that with most of the authoring systems I was going to have to

virtually learn to use a new language.  I really only wanted something that

I could simply start writing setting my own jumps and all that sort of thing.

When I came across Help Writers Assistant by Stefan Olson I could see that

it was graphical and after going through the tutorial tried it out on

what I was trying to do.  It worked so well that by the time I found out that

it was crippled I was motivated enough to shell out some bucks and register

it.

It has allowed me to get the job done without worrying about the vagaries of

learning a help language with RTF.  All I do is cut and paste the information

I wish to put in and set up the appropiate jumps and whatever other dodads

I wish to include then set up compile.

I personally strongly recommend it as it's normal price as about the same

as the special price of Borland's Visual Help.  One can even use it for small

help files in its shareware form.  On the basis of my experience I would say

go for it.

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In article <1994Oct5.102928.25669@fys.ruu.nl> hartman@fys.ruu.nl (Jan Willem Hartman) writes:

>Excuse me if this is in any way an irritating question, but could

>somebody tell me if there is a utility that lets me convert Windows

>.wri and/or .hlp files to plain ASCII or (even better) TeX, and does

Try printing the .WRI file (with Write) to 'generic/text' printer

driver (see Control Panel | Printers).

>this under UNIX/OSF. (So I mean a unix-executable). And if there is,

>where can I find it?

Yeah, there's some sort of conversion utility for .hlp to ...

but apparently it was shareware and is now a commercial product.

I forget the name (hlp2doc?)

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Where is FAQ?

 1. Please does anybody knows where is located FAQ ?

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Menu seperator

In article <Cx7JEu.Ax2@metrics.com> Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> writes:

>In article <36rh0j$bu6@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>, William Hartley asks:

>

>	Does anybody out there know how to place a SEPERATOR in a menu defined

>using the Add Menu macro ?

>

>ExtInsertItem("menu id", "item id", "", position, 0x800)

>

>No, it wasn't documented for WinHelp 3.1. Yes, it will be documented

>and supported in Windows 95, and in the meantime you can use it in

>WinHelp 3.1, knowing that it will also work in Windows 95.

I couldn't get this to work, I have this in my .hpj file:

[config]

InsertMenu("jag","<<<Cha&pters>>>",3)

AppendItem("jag","c1","Chapter 1","JI(`',`chapter1')")

...

ExtInsertItem("jag","sep","",10,0x800)

HC505 complains:

"Warning: 3611: line 31 of xxx.hpj: Function parameter type mismatch

in macro 'ExtInsertItem("jag","sep","",10,0x800)'

I also tried it with 2048 instead of 0x800, but it gave the same error.

All of the other menu stuff works fine (did that a long time ago).

So, which parameter is wrong?

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In article <1994Oct6.031723.18910@emr1.emr.ca>, jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

|> In article <Cx7JEu.Ax2@metrics.com> Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> writes:

|> >In article <36rh0j$bu6@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>, William Hartley asks:

|> >

|> >	Does anybody out there know how to place a SEPERATOR in a menu defined

|> >using the Add Menu macro ?

|> >

|> >ExtInsertItem("menu id", "item id", "", position, 0x800)

|> >

|> >No, it wasn't documented for WinHelp 3.1. Yes, it will be documented

|> >and supported in Windows 95, and in the meantime you can use it in

|> >WinHelp 3.1, knowing that it will also work in Windows 95.

|>

|> I couldn't get this to work, I have this in my .hpj file:

|>

|> 	[config]

|> 	InsertMenu("jag","<<<Cha&pters>>>",3)

|> 	AppendItem("jag","c1","Chapter 1","JI(`',`chapter1')")

|> 	...

|> 	ExtInsertItem("jag","sep","",10,0x800)

|>

|> HC505 complains:

|> 	"Warning: 3611: line 31 of xxx.hpj: Function parameter type mismatch

|> 	in macro 'ExtInsertItem("jag","sep","",10,0x800)'

|>

|> I also tried it with 2048 instead of 0x800, but it gave the same error.

|> All of the other menu stuff works fine (did that a long time ago).

|>

|> So, which parameter is wrong?

|> --

|> John A. Grant	jagrant@emr1.emr.ca

|> Airborne Geophysics

|> Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

--

I saved this information earlier on.

I think there is an extra "" missing in the parameter list.

Date:    Wed, 31 Aug 1994 16:03:31 TZ

From:    Paul Dempsey <paulde@MICROSOFT.COM>

Subject: FW: Menu Separator on a Winhelp menu

Based on information from a Dos/Win Developer's Journal article and the

Windows API documentation, I figured this out. You can use this

undocumented (hence unsupported and likely to disappear in future

versions) macro:

ExtInsertItem("<mnu_id>", "<item_id>","","", <pos>, 2048)

<mnu_id> -- the id of the menu where you want to insert the separator.

<item_id> -- a unique item id for the separator. You must use a

different id for each separator you add.

<pos> -- absolute position of the separator. I don't know of a way to

append a separator.

In Chicago Help, there'll be a supported way to add separators.

--- Paul Chase Dempsey

paulde@microsoft.com

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In article <36v4tj$ikj@bmerha64.bnr.ca>, Pierre Goulet <gouletp@bnr.ca> wrote:

>

>I can't seem to be able to buy Robohelp in Ottawa, Canada.

>Who makes it? What's the latest version?

>How much does it cost?

>

>Pierre Goulet                   613-763-3098

>Senior Information Developer    613-763-9344 fax

>Bell-Northern Research          email gouletp@bnr.ca

>Ottawa, Canada

Try someone like the programmer's shop.

Ron.

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Please Disregard (Test Msg Only)

This post is for testing purposes only. Please disregard. Thank you,

and have a wunnerful, winhelp day.

Unless you have other plans...

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Is HCP.EXE available by FTP?

Hi.

I am planning to make an large WinHelp file out of several rather

large RTF files (originally one 300 kB Word DOC).

The problem is that HC31 (included with BCW 4.0) says that i don't

have enough memory.

I read in the Helpfile (obviously made by Microsoft) that HCP.EXE

should be used for large HLP:s as it works in protected mode.

I tried to search for HCP on Microsoft's FTP site and with archie

but without luck.

Can anyone tell me if this tool is available somewhere for free or

could someone even be kind and email it to me?

Thanks!

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In <seanmc.30.000DF16C@aztec.co.za> seanmc@aztec.co.za (Sean McLeod) writes:

>I need to convert a .hlp file whose source I have lost back into an rtf file

>in order that I can update the help file. Are their any tools to do this?

There are (or were) two products to do this.  SMTDOC12.ZIP converts your help

file back into a text file - so you will get all the text and will need to

insert it into your help authoring tool.

HLP2DOC does conversion to Word DOC format and from what I have heard does

formatting conversion quite well, but not bitmaps.  Blue Sky Software have

just purchased this product so in order to get that product you will need to

purchase it from them.

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Clickable maps in help files

On the subject of shed.exe and .shg files, has anyone worked

out the file format?

It looks to be bmp with some hotspot data tagged on. Knowing

the format would be very usefule for automatically generating

lots of hotspotted bmps for zooming maps for example.

Sean Mc Grath	digitome@iol.ie

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Wanted: Help Compiler

In article <36sk9rINN344@life.ai.mit.edu>

           ixl@cocoa-chex.ai.mit.edu "Charles M. Kozierok" writes:

>Hi all,

>

>I am trying to find out where the latest version of the Help compiler

>may be located; is it hc505.exe on cica.indiana?  That dates

>back to 1993.  Any help appreciated.

Yes - 505 is the current version.

Chris

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what6 - error starting word6.0

I have dowlnloaded what6.exe and installed it according to what6.txt. I

start whpe.exe and create a new project. When I double click a file to

open it in word6 I get an error, 'WordBasic Err=124', 'Unknown function

command..'. I have norwegian language for my word6 so the errormessage is

in norwegian.

When I open the template what6.dot from word6 I don't get any errors and

the menubar and toolbar changes ok.

I don't know where to check to find out of this. Anyone had the same

problem or can tell me where to look to solve the problem?

Thanks in advance!

- Teho

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MS-Viewer setup.exe

Hello-

This is an MS-Viewer question. I'm doing an online manual

with Viewer, and I'm making a Windows SETUP.EXE installation

script to install my Viewer doc on a user's Windows PC. I've

had limited programming experience, but I do have access to

the Windows SDK with the Setup Toolkit.

My question is, what's required to get setup.exe to ask the

user for multiple disks? Is there a simple way to do this

using the script file (.MST) or the .INF file? I've gotten

it to install fine if there's just one diskette.

It seems like it should be fairly easy to ask for another disk,

but I've dug through the Viewer documentation (it says to get the

Setup Toolkit if you're installing from multiple diskettes) and

I've looked at the Setup Toolkit for Windows manual, and no

easy answers.

Will I have to gear up for C++?

Thanks,

Mark Giffin

mgiffin@retix.com

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Changing location of annotation file(s).

I am looking for a way to have the annotation files written to a location

other than my '\Windows' directories.  I have tried to set the default

directory with 'Program Item Properites', but no luck.

Suggestions are appreciated.  E-mail or post.  Thanks.

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ExtInsertItem

Well, so much for my credibility. I looked at an example rather then

the docs when stating the syntax. Both WinHelp 4.0 and HCW 4.0 allow

you to omitt trailing parameters in a macro if they default to zero. So

the real syntax for ExtInsertItem is 6 parameters:

<menu-ID>	Identifies either a standard WinHelp menu or a menu

previously created by using the ExtInsertMenu or InsertMenu macro. The

new item is inserted into this menu.

<item-ID>	Specifies the name that WinHelp uses internally to identify

the menu item.

<item-name>	Specifies the name WinHelp displays in the menu for the

item. This name is case-sensitive. An ampersand (&) before a character

in the name identifies it as the item's accelerator key.

<macro>	Specifies a macro or macro string to be run when the user

chooses the menu item. Multiple macros in a string must be separated by

semicolons (;), or by colons (:) if specified in a Project (.HPJ) file.

<position>	Specifies the numeric position of the menu item in the menu.

Position 0 is the first or topmost position in the menu.

<state>	Specifies a numeric value for the state of the menu item:

0	Enables the menu item.

1	Displays the menu item as unavailable (grayed-out).

2	Disables the menu item.

0x800	Specifies a menu separator.

Microsoft Help Development Kit, copyright 1994.

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Jumps in Popups

In article <36br9k$ola@gwis.circ.gwu.edu> pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Peter J. Davis) writes:

>dscavo@crl.com (David Francis Scavo) wrote:

>>Hi. We are working on the design for our help file for our app

>>(rather the tech docs person is). One of the things we are considering

>>doing is context sensitive help. What we were thinging about was

>>using the HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP to display the context sensitive

>>help. This works fine. However, the context sensitve help topics

>>have jumps in them. If we invoke the help with HELP_CONTEXT, then

>>everything works fine. Howver, with the HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP, the jumps

>>do not appear to work (what appears to happen is that when you click

>>on the jump it just dismisses the popup).

>

>David,

>

>  Popups cannot have jumps in them, or more accurately, jumps are disabled

>in popups. When you click anywhere on a popup'ed topic, it just closes the

>topic. This is normal operation. If you want to be able to use the jumps,

>then you need to use HELP_CONTEXT.

>

>Pete

>

Maybe we should say, if you are trying to use context sensitive help,

jumps are disabled in popups (extremely inconvenient if you ask me).

Otherwise, they work just fine. I use them all the time in popups.

For example, I have a See Also button that pops up a list of other

topics of interest, all of which are jump-linked to the topic.  Works

great.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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Hello,

I'm looking for a good Help Editor, if you have that, please let me know.

Thanks

Michel

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Recommendations sought for help f..

Charles,

I am a Sr. Technical Writer who has recently started her first

on-line help project with ForeHelp.

From the my technical writing stand point, it is great. I have

control over the look, layout, text, and files. Everything I have

to communicate to the programmers, ForeHelp tells me. I can get

reports to see where I stand and I write the text directly into

ForeHelp. I don't need a separate wordprocessor. The test tool is

great. I prototyed a dialog for my management using the test

feature and they loved it.

I would definately recommend it from the non-programming stand

point. By the way, it was the Programming manager who suggested

we use ForeHelp.

I hope this helps,

Joyce K. Genser

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.ANN file location

In article <Cx9Js4.os@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com>, Jeffrey Chauncey asks:

I am looking for a way to have the annotation files written to a location

other than my '\Windows' directories.  I have tried to set the default

directory with 'Program Item Properites', but no luck.

>> You can't change it. WinHelp 3.1 hardcodes the directory for .ANN

files to your Windows directory. Not only is this the only place it

will write to, but its the only place it will read from -- move them to

another directory and WinHelp 3.1 won't find them. WinHelp 4.0 first

tries to write to the HELP subdirectory under Windows, and if there

isn't one it will write to your Windows directory. However, at that

point, you can move the annotation file to wherever you want (same

rules for finding help files apply to annotation files).

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MS-Viewer setup.exe

In article <Cx9wwM.4JK@retix.com>, Mark Giffin wrote:

>

>

> Hello-

>

> This is an MS-Viewer question. I'm doing an online manual

> with Viewer, and I'm making a Windows SETUP.EXE installation

> script to install my Viewer doc on a user's Windows PC. I've

> had limited programming experience, but I do have access to

> the Windows SDK with the Setup Toolkit.

>

> My question is, what's required to get setup.exe to ask the

> user for multiple disks? Is there a simple way to do this

> using the script file (.MST) or the .INF file? I've gotten

> it to install fine if there's just one diskette.

>

> It seems like it should be fairly easy to ask for another disk,

> but I've dug through the Viewer documentation (it says to get the

> Setup Toolkit if you're installing from multiple diskettes) and

> I've looked at the Setup Toolkit for Windows manual, and no

> easy answers.

>

> Will I have to gear up for C++?

>

> Thanks,

> Mark Giffin

> mgiffin@retix.com

>

I had a lot of problems implementing install programs with the Viewer

setup (Probably my fault), and found out that shelling some money for

a good installation program was a great investment that re-paid itself

a zilion times in time. I chose EDI Install Pro - but you can shop

around.

Just my 2 cents.

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Microsoft Binary Format

I urgently need the algorithm for converting from Microsoft Binary Format.  I know that all the MS compilers come with the functions "fmsbintoieee" and "dmsbintoieee".  However, I need to be able to do this on a different platform.  Any help would be grea

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.wri and .hlp to asc converter for UNIX ??

In article <1994Oct5.230510.23458@emr1.emr.ca>, jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

> In article <1994Oct5.102928.25669@fys.ruu.nl> hartman@fys.ruu.nl (Jan Willem Hartman) writes:

>>Excuse me if this is in any way an irritating question, but could

>>somebody tell me if there is a utility that lets me convert Windows

>>.wri and/or .hlp files to plain ASCII or (even better) TeX, and does

>

> 	Try printing the .WRI file (with Write) to 'generic/text' printer

> 	driver (see Control Panel | Printers).

>

>>this under UNIX/OSF. (So I mean a unix-executable). And if there is,

>>where can I find it?

> 	Yeah, there's some sort of conversion utility for .hlp to ...

> 	but apparently it was shareware and is now a commercial product.

> 	I forget the name (hlp2doc?)

I have recently seen this program hlp2doc advertised as a shareware.

I think it is on CICA. I converts  to word for windows format I belive

but I am not sure, maybe to ascii. It loses all the graphic.

Andrzej

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Good Help Editor ?

In article <1994Oct7.142517.2913@nedcu0>,

Michel.Gerber@etudiants.unine.ch wrote:

>

> Hello,

>

> I'm looking for a good Help Editor, if you have that, please let me

know.

>

> Thanks

>

> Michel

> E-mail : Gerberm@ezinfo.vmsmail.ethz.ch

>

Take a look at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the /pub/pc/win3/programmr and

util directories. There are a lot of choices there - I'm sure you will

find one that suites your needs.

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what6 - error starting word6.0

In article <urCbkCsPwBy5071yn@oslonett.no> terjeh@oslonett.no (Terje Hopso) writes:

>From: terjeh@oslonett.no (Terje Hopso)

>Subject: what6 - error starting word6.0

>Date: 6 Oct 1994 23:34:57 +0100

>I have dowlnloaded what6.exe and installed it according to what6.txt. I

>start whpe.exe and create a new project. When I double click a file to

>open it in word6 I get an error, 'WordBasic Err=124', 'Unknown function

>command..'. I have norwegian language for my word6 so the errormessage is

>in norwegian.

>When I open the template what6.dot from word6 I don't get any errors and

>the menubar and toolbar changes ok.

>I don't know where to check to find out of this. Anyone had the same

>problem or can tell me where to look to solve the problem?

>Thanks in advance!

>- Teho

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You may want to try out the Win-eXpose-I/O (in wuarchive.wustl.edu AND

ftp.cica.indiana.edu under /pub/pc/win3/util/wxi101.zip also availble

in Comuserve and AOL)   IT IS A TRUE LIFE SAVER !!!

This windows SHAREWARE traces in real time all the files I/O operations and

this may give you an idea on accessing what file make a problem/missing !!!

The program title is :

Win-eXpose-I/O v1.01 Files I/O Tracer/Debugger for Windows

If you don't have FTP access, I can send it by mail with uuncode.

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Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

In article <ichbiah.21.2E932AD7@jdi.tiac.net> ichbiah@jdi.tiac.net (Jean D. Ichbiah) writes:

> ixl@cocoa-chex.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Kozierok) writes:

>I was more worried by the fact that ForeHelp would be a closed  system.

>There is also a significant advantage to systems that are based on  Word

>and generate RTF files: if you conclude later that you have  made a mistake,

>or that a better system has appeared on the market, it will be quite easy

>to migrate your  Word text to another Word-based system.

There is no such thing as a closed Help system. All (including ForeHelp)

generate RTF Files.  That is the only format the Help Compiler can read.

With ForeHelp and other products, you can import the generated RTF into

MS-Word or other products for further processing.  As well, you can take a

help project from Word, save the RTF, and import it to ForeHelp.

Derek MacEwen

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Where to buy Robohelp?

 Pierre Goulet <gouletp@bnr.ca> wrote:

>>

>>I can't seem to be able to buy Robohelp in Ottawa, Canada.

>>Who makes it? What's the latest version?

>>How much does it cost?

SoftChoice in Toronto 1-800-268-7638 lists the current (2.6) version which

works with Word 6 for CDN$689.  Stock number is 155582.  I order lots of

stuff from them. It generally arrives in a couple of days.

They list Doc-to-Help for $381, and Help Magician Pro for $360.

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Menu seperator

In article <3712lf$rnr@btmplq.god.bel.alcatel.be> jacobsjo@bsg.bel.alcatel.be writes:

>In article <1994Oct6.031723.18910@emr1.emr.ca>, jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>|> In article <Cx7JEu.Ax2@metrics.com> Ralph Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com> writes:

>|> >In article <36rh0j$bu6@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>, William Hartley asks:

>|> >

>|> >	Does anybody out there know how to place a SEPERATOR in a menu defined

>|> >using the Add Menu macro ?

[....]

>Date:    Wed, 31 Aug 1994 16:03:31 TZ

>From:    Paul Dempsey <paulde@MICROSOFT.COM>

>Subject: FW: Menu Separator on a Winhelp menu

>

>Based on information from a Dos/Win Developer's Journal article and the

>Windows API documentation, I figured this out. You can use this

>undocumented (hence unsupported and likely to disappear in future

>versions) macro:

>

>ExtInsertItem("<mnu_id>", "<item_id>","","", <pos>, 2048)

>

><mnu_id> -- the id of the menu where you want to insert the separator.

>

><item_id> -- a unique item id for the separator. You must use a

>different id for each separator you add.

>

><pos> -- absolute position of the separator. I don't know of a way to

>append a separator.

>

>In Chicago Help, there'll be a supported way to add separators.

>

>--- Paul Chase Dempsey

>paulde@microsoft.com

>Visual C++, Microsoft

>Speaking for myself, not Microsoft

Thanks for posting this.  The original suggestion forgot the

second dummy "" argument.

It works fine and I took a wild guess and tried <pos> -1

to append and sure enough it appends.  Makes sense.

However, I'm still having some problems.  I have this:

InsertMenu(   "jag","<<<F&ile Formats>>>",4)

AppendItem(   "jag","f1","AAA...

AppendItem(   "jag","f2","BBB...

ExtInsertItem("jag","s1","","",-1,2048)

AppendItem(   "jag","f3","CCC...

AppendItem(   "jag","f4","DDD...

AppendItem(   "jag","f5","EEE...

ExtInsertItem("jag","s2","","",-1,2048)

AppendItem(   "jag","f6","FFF...

AppendItem(   "jag","f7","GGG...

AppendItem(   "jag","f8","HHH...

ExtInsertItem("jag","s3","","",-1,2048)

AppendItem(   "jag","f9" ,"III...

AppendItem(   "jag","f10","JJJ...

AppendItem(   "jag","f11","KKK...

AppendItem(   "jag","f12","LLL...

The compiler accepts it, but when I look at the help file, I see:

AAA

BBB

---------------

CCC

DDD

EEE

---------------

FFF

GGG

HHH

---------------	with this separator...

III

JJJ

<---	...I lose 2 items here

In other words, it drops the last 2 items.  If I remove separator "s4",

then I see:

...

HHH	without the separator here...

III

JJJ

KKK	<---	...I get the 2 items back

LLL

It's almost as if there is a resource limit somewhere and the separator

uses up as much as 2 normal items.  Are there any limits for this stuff?

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In <ichbiah.21.2E932AD7@jdi.tiac.net> ichbiah@jdi.tiac.net (Jean D. Ichbiah) writes:

>I was more worried by the fact that ForeHelp would be a closed  system.

>There is also a significant advantage to systems that are based on  Word

>and generate RTF files: if you conclude later that you have  made a mistake,

>or that a better system has appeared on the market, it will be quite easy

>to migrate your  Word text to another Word-based system.

But all WYSIWYG help authoring tools (such as HWA and ForeHelp) write to

RTF somewhere along the line - the systems are not closed, you can take that

RTF file into Word and use a new help authoring system at any time.  In fact,

I have heard that sometimes ForeFront recommends people do that to get over

bugs in their system (and then import them back in).

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where is WHAT?

It was last seen in /softlib/mslfiles.

James

In article <36ecml$ed9@news.xs4all.nl> jjge@xs4all.nl (jjge) writes:

>I have been looking at ftp.microsoft.com for WHAT6, but I seem unable to

>locate it. Can anybody tell me where?

>

>thanksinadvance jjge@xs4all.nl

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thomas@geac.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:

>

>How portable is RTF anyway? (In practise, not in theory.)

>

>I am also trying to choose a help writing system and we want to use

>Framemaker to write the text in before marking it up in a help writing

>tool. It would be nice if we could then load the help-marked text back

>into Framemaker to make improvements/additions.

>

>Do you think this would be possible with most of the systems around?

>Will we lose any information when transferring the files?

Rich Text Format was designed by Microsoft, and they seem to have the best

compatibility between their word processor and the Help Compiler.  I have no

experience with Framemaker, but have lots with WordPerfect.   When you

save a WP doc as RTF, and import to ForeHelp, you get each page as a

separate topic, but have to provide the topic names yourself (it gives them

system generated ones).  Using WP directly as a Help  Generator doesn't work

very well, the footnotes don't seem to work the way they do in Word.

I have yet to try porting a document from ForeHelp back to WP.  I expect

better results with this could be obtained by using Word to convert from RTF

to Word, followed by Word to WordPerfect, rather than inhaling the RTF

directly into WP.

I guess the answer to your question is that you may sometimes lose

formatting when moving between formats, but with some finetuning (sometimes

you may need to write a utility to make some mods to the intermediate RTF

files) you should be able to make it work.

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Petr Vodicka (vodicka@vszbr.cz) wrote:

>  1. Please does anybody knows where is located FAQ ?

>  2. How to get RTF from HLP files ?

>  Thank You Very

>  Petr Vodicka

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Deleting Group Items Utility

Any comments/suggestions etc. would be much appreciated on the following:

When one deletes an item from a group what is actually removed is the icon

only.

What would be nice is to have an option to delete all information relating to

this group item from the hard disk.

Has anyone got suggestions on how to approach writing such an utility

for example, accessing the information in the properites box etc.

Thanks in advance,

Annette McElligott

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ForeHelp macros

I've been using ForeHelp for a few months, and I also wished that

the folks at ForeFront had included a macro facility.  But I realized

that you can use the Windows Recorder to record macros for any

application.  It's not lightning fast, but it is easy, and it

works the same way for any application.  And it's a lot faster than

endless mouse-clicks or keystrokes.

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Request assistance with help system

In article <1994Oct4.005317.20752@emr1.emr.ca>,

John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:

} In article <36pjqjINN6r5@life.ai.mit.edu> ixl@cocoa-chex.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Kozierok) writes:

} >The company for which I work is developing a Windows

} >application where we have taken steps to have an interface

} >that does *not* look like other Windows applications--

} >we have no menus, custom bustoms, and no standard

} >windows devices like a system menu, etc.

}

} 	This sounds like a questionable approach.  The idea of having

} 	a common GUI standard (for Motif, Windows, Mac etc), is that

} 	every application has the same look & feel and requires minimal

} 	training to use.  Each application can build upon the expertise

} 	the user has in using other Windows applications.

I find it amusing that you can consider our approach "questionable"

when you know nothing at all about the application.  In our particular

case we are not interested in the standard look & feel of the Windows

OS, we want something similar but with more control over the appearance

because of our specific application, which is interactive machinery

control.  We don't *want* it to look like a word processor or a

spreadsheet, and there are specific reasons why we need it to look

different.  For one thing, the people using this application are typically

not going to use a PC for anything else, so there is no need for it to

look like Ami Pro or Paintbrush.  And for hardware and performance reasons

our application does not run if anything else is active in Windows.

} 	Microsoft is really pushing conformity with Windows 95 - they

} 	want all applications to be well-behaved and consistent.  IMO,

} 	is a very desirable goal.

Well, it's easy for them to sit in their ivory tower and dictate

"conformity".  I'm more interested in pleasing my customers and

giving them a good product than conforming to arbitrary standards.

} 	I hope you didn't go out of your way to do this deliberately!

} 	Otherwise, why not write it as a DOS app - it'll fit right

} 	in with all of the other DOS apps - every one has a different

} 	interface which must be learned from scratch.

How about--because if we write it as a DOS app we have to redo

from scratch all of the internal graphical and other routines

that are built into Windows and we don't have a decade to get

this project done?

} >Are there any help systems for Windows that give one

} >more control over the interface presented to the user?

}

} 	Not that I know of: they simply aren't needed.  Why would you

} 	create a non-standard help system when Windows has a superb

} 	system already built in?

There are extremely few situations in life where "one size fits all".

Any good system is going to find applications where it is useful but

a little more control is needed over appearance.  Telling people

"too bad, do it our way" is not how Microsoft is going to get

satisfied users of its system.

In this case our application doesn't use the standard concepts

of title bars, sizing borders, menus, etc. that are prevalent in

most Windows apps.  Having a standard Help screen appear on top

of our app would look very out-of-place.

} 	There is only one help compiler (from Microsoft) that can create

} 	.HLP files.  However, there are dozens of shareware and commercial

} 	applications that can help you create the .RTF file which is the

} 	input to HC.

Fortunately a number of people have mentioned the existence of

MediaViewer to me, which may do what we need--allow us to display

.HLP files but give us a little more control over the appearance

of the viewer itself.  Obviously compiling into the .HLP is not

a problem, it is just how to view the .HLP after compilation.

cheers,

-*-

charles

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Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

In article <379j05$15te@ferrari.geac.co.nz>, Thomas Beagle wrote:

>

>

> How portable is RTF anyway? (In practise, not in theory.)

As portable as Microsoft wants it to be :-), actually, there are newer

versions of RTF that come every once in a while that might cause

problems to older applications. (Such as when RTF V1.2 came with Word

6.0 and caused a lot of problems to other applications). I think the

RTF 1.3 is not such a dramatic change from 1.2 - and most of the apps

I have seen so far handle it ok.

>

> I am also trying to choose a help writing system and we want to use

> Framemaker to write the text in before marking it up in a help

writing

> tool. It would be nice if we could then load the help-marked text

back

> into Framemaker to make improvements/additions.

>

> Do you think this would be possible with most of the systems around?

> Will we lose any information when transferring the files?

>

I have heard about a lot of problems people have when they take frame

and export to RTF. There was a long discussion in the Winhlp-L mailing

list some time ago - maybe it is a good idea for you to  check the

lists archives.

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Problem with Windows memory

I'm running Windows version 3.11 for Workgroups. Every time I

start Windows, everything is quite normal. Then after some time

running various applications system memory runs down to zilch and

I can't get any application going, without the message:

'Not enough memory' or the message 'not enough system resources'.

What could possibly be wrong?

I'm running quite a lot of app's simultaneously, but on our other

machines (486) this does not result in this problem.

My machine is a Highscreen Pentium with 16MB of memory.

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what6 - error starting word6.0

>>I have dowlnloaded what6.exe and installed it according to what6.txt. I

>>start whpe.exe and create a new project. When I double click a file to

>>open it in word6 I get an error, 'WordBasic Err=124', 'Unknown function

>>command..'. I have norwegian language for my word6 so the errormessage is

>>in norwegian.

>

>>When I open the template what6.dot from word6 I don't get any errors and

>>the menubar and toolbar changes ok.

>

>You may want to try out the Win-eXpose-I/O (in wuarchive.wustl.edu AND

>ftp.cica.indiana.edu under /pub/pc/win3/util/wxi101.zip also availble

>in Comuserve and AOL)   IT IS A TRUE LIFE SAVER !!!

>

>This windows SHAREWARE traces in real time all the files I/O operations and

>this may give you an idea on accessing what file make a problem/missing !!!

>

I got Win-eXpose-I/O but that was just a waste of time. When the file I/O

operation returns 'Failed, path not found' or 'Unknown filename' without

writing which path or file that tells nothing at all.

But I think the program can be useful in other situations.

Sorry!

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--> WMF (Metafiles) Do Work Great for Tables, etc.

Hello,

Based on my last inquiry as to how to prepare tables for WinHelp files which

include complex borders, shading, different colors, etc., I had several people

suggest I try metafiles (.wmf) instead of bitmaps.

Well, after a lot of experimentation, I finally got it working, and it works

great! (with one caveat, discussed later.)

This is what I discovered:

1) In WFW6, compose the table the way you want it.  It's important that you

   center the table on the page (see the WFW instructions) as well as use the

   Normal template.  You can include borders of various colors/thicknesses,

   and include any type of shading offered (real neat!)

2) Select the table and do an Edit...Copy.

3) Go over to Windows Clipboard, and you will see your table in text format

   in the window (Clipboard does have a primitive picture viewer that you can

   bring up so you can see how it roughly looks if you want to).  From

   Clipboard, save this as a *.clp file.

4) Then, using PixFolio, or some other converter that can convert *.clp

   files to *.wmf (without an intermediate conversion to *.bmp, which you

   *must* avoid), you read in the *.clp file, and then save as a *.wmf file.

5) In your WinHelp rtf source file, reference the *.wmf (e.g., [image] ),

    and compile!

When you view your table in the resulting WinHelp file, and under different

video resolutions, you should get the table to look just like the original in

WFW6 (including colors, shading, and borders), and it should remain quite

sharp across the range of video resolutions (I use VGA, 800x600, and 1024x768

-- I compose my tables in 1024x768 resolution).  It is also quite space saving

when compressed into the WinHelp file, taking up a LOT less space than its

equivalent compressed bitmap (or bitmaps if MRBC is used.)

The only problem I have with the above process is that tables wider than

the standard WFW6 6.0" will get clipped.  I've tried everything on the WFW6

end, but for some reason the 6.0" seems to be fixed.  I did try saving the

*.clp file, and then read it in again, and repasted it into a new WFW6

document, and the original wide table was recreated, so the *.clp does

contain the necessary information (though the Clipboard picture option will

only view 6.0" of it).  So, the problem may occur in the *.clp --> *.wmf

conversion, but I'm not sure.  Any feedback/clues in order to get tables wider

than 6.0" to be put into a *.wmf file from the original WFW6 document would

be most appreciated.

Happy experimenting.  And if you have other ways to go from a WFW6 table -->

*.wmf file (and not via bitmaps), I would like to hear about them.  This

includes any special tools that are available.

Jon Noring

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--> MRBC Woes (memory limitation)

Hello,

I use MRBC (the multi-resolution bitmap compiler) in order to get a bitmap

image in a WinHelp file to appear sharp under a range of resolutions.  I have

found that creating two bitmaps, one for VGA resolution, and another for 8514

resolution are all that I need to adequately cover the resolution spectrum

from VGA to 800x600 to 1024x768 and beyond.  You can include a third EGA

resolution bitmap if you want predictable results under EGA (yucko).

For small bitmaps (say less than 60K in size), MRBC works great.  When one or

both of the two bitmaps I use exceed approximately 150-200K, it says "out of

memory" and it fails, even with 520K of free DOS memory.  And using SHED to

first make *.shg files from the bitmaps (resulting in substantial compression)

doesn't work!  MRBC treats the *.shg files based on the original full-sized

bitmaps used to make them.

In addition, when the bitmap file sizes are close to the max, MRBC will

combine them, but without compression (though the WinHelp compiler will

compress them if they are not compressed already -- it's more annoying than

anything else that MRBC is not working properly.)

The version of MRBC I'm using is 1.1, and it does not use extended memory

like the current version of the WinHelp compiler (HCP505).  So, is the version

of MRBC I'm using the latest?  If not, where can I find the latest?  If 1.1 is

the latest, are there any "kluges" to make version 1.1 work for larger bitmaps?

If anybody who reads this has CompuServe access, can you repost this to the

forum dealing with WinHelp?  Thanks.

Jon Noring

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In article <1994Oct10.143055.13200@cc.ruu.nl>, <blonk@serc.nl> writes:

> I'm running Windows version 3.11 for Workgroups. Every time I

> start Windows, everything is quite normal. Then after some time

> running various applications system memory runs down to zilch and

> I can't get any application going, without the message:

> 'Not enough memory' or the message 'not enough system resources'.

> What could possibly be wrong?

>

Michiel,

I had a similar problem that I traced back to my system.ini file.  For reasons

I don't remember, I had changed the line [386 Enh] "DMABufferIn1MB=" from 0

(the default) to 1.  Changing it back to the default has solved my vanishing

resources problem.

good luck!

dave

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Where is FAQ?

Another source for the Windows Help FAQs:

The FAQ in both formats (txt/hlp) can be acquired via anonymous ftp

at:

quasar.sba.dal.ca

The txt file is located under /www/doc

The hlp file is located under /www/hlp

Problems about site to TJR@AC.DAL.CA

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Where is the FAQ?

The FAQ in both formats (txt/hlp) can be acquired via anonymous ftp

at:

quasar.sba.dal.ca

The txt file is located under /www/doc

The hlp file is located under /www/hlp

Problems about site to TJR@AC.DAL.CA

Tomoko Kimura (t-kimura@sdl.hitachi.co.jp) wrote:

> Can someone tell where I can ftp this newsgroup's FAQ from?

> (I need the site name and the EXACT PATH NAME, because I can only

> use ftpmail currently.)

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256 color bitmaps, HOW?

In <367d2h$p61@Island.amtsgi.bc.ca> ianvink@IslandNet.com (Ian Vink) writes:

>How do you put 256 color bitmaps into a help system. I'm using VB AHA 1.34

>and it looks great in the preview, but it doesn't in the final product,

>looks like 16 color.

WinHelp only supports up to 16 colors.  In order to display 256 color bitmaps

you need to use an embedded window such as SHOWBMP.

...Stefan

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Lately I have noticed several helpfiles that have a light gray

background in the non-scrolling region. Anyone know how this is done?

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what6 - error starting word6.0

I used to have the same problem  with WHAT for Winword 2.0 in German. It was because

German WinWord didn't understand English DDE commands. I binary patched

WHPE.EXE to issue German commands and everything works fine since. Haven't tried

WHAT6 yet, though.

Have fun, Stephen

|> >>I have dowlnloaded what6.exe and installed it according to what6.txt. I

|> >>start whpe.exe and create a new project. When I double click a file to

|> >>open it in word6 I get an error, 'WordBasic Err=124', 'Unknown function

|> >>command..'. I have norwegian language for my word6 so the errormessage is

|> >>in norwegian.

|> >

|> >>When I open the template what6.dot from word6 I don't get any errors and

|> >>the menubar and toolbar changes ok.

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In article <61-206.1994-10-9.23.13.19@programmers.bbs.no>,

Eivind Bakkestuen <hillbilly@programmers.bbs.no> wrote:

>Lately I have noticed several helpfiles that have a light gray

>background in the non-scrolling region. Anyone know how this is done?

>

Define a [WINDOWS] section in your hpj file like this:

[WINDOWS]

main=,(x,y,w,h,),0,,(192,192,192)

where x, y, w, and h are the dimensions of the main window,

in WinHelp virtual coordinates (1024x1024).

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Using 2ndary window to display topic from other .HLP

In article <bfreed.274.0339ED38@fasttax.com>,

Bev Freed <bfreed@fasttax.com> wrote:

>Has anyone had any luck opening up a secondary window to display a topic from

>another .HLP file?

>

>Has anyone tried it and failed, as I have?

>

>An online help book indicates it is possible, yet all attempts to use the

>following macro fail:

>

>        JumpId("example.hlp>dialog", "dialog_print")

>

>Winhelp calls the topic, but not in a secondary window and not without the

>following error:

>

>       Bad Window Class, ignored

>

>Is such a call possible?  If so, what is the exact macro?

>

The macro itself is OK.  The problem is probably the window definition

for the "dialog" secondary window.   Have you defined it in the

[WINDOWS] section of the HPJ file?  I don't think it needs to be

defined in the *destination* help file's HPJ, but that's another

thing you can check...

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Derek MacEwen <dmacewen@bud.peinet.pe.ca> wrote:

>There is no such thing as a closed Help system. All (including ForeHelp)

>generate RTF Files.  That is the only format the Help Compiler can read.

>With ForeHelp and other products, you can import the generated RTF into

>MS-Word or other products for further processing.  As well, you can take a

>help project from Word, save the RTF, and import it to ForeHelp.

How portable is RTF anyway? (In practise, not in theory.)

I am also trying to choose a help writing system and we want to use

Framemaker to write the text in before marking it up in a help writing

tool. It would be nice if we could then load the help-marked text back

into Framemaker to make improvements/additions.

Do you think this would be possible with most of the systems around?

Will we lose any information when transferring the files?

BTW, while I think that HWA isn't quite ready for the bigtime, it's

going to be really nice to use once they support styles and the like.

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LaTeX -> WINHELP S/W ?

I hope this is not a FAQ...

Does anyone know of any software for converting LaTeX files

to WINHELP ?

Thanks in advance

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An Even Better Way (Creating great looking tables in WinHelp)

Hello,

Yesterday I posted my musings on how to prepare tables for WinHelp files which

include complex borders, shading, different colors, etc.  Other criteria are

that the table must look good for all video resolutions, and not greatly add

to the compile time and final WinHelp size.  Thus, bitmaps were out (even if

MRBC is used).

It turned out I was close, but keeper@netcom.com, and a couple of other people,

suggested a slightly different approach which works even better -- it is

simpler and doesn't require anything other than Word for Windows (version 6,

don't know if version 2 works for this) and SHED (the Hotspot editor).  Here's

what I found:

1) In Word for Windows, compose the table the way you want it using the Normal

   template.  You may have to move the table to the right so that part of it

   does not go into the left margin, which will otherwise get clipped unless

   you reset the left margins (see below) (and you move the table by putting

   your cursor on the left border of the table until you see the -||- symbol,

   then pull in the direction you want).  For the table, you can include

   borders of various colors/thicknesses, and include any type/color of shading

   offered (real neat!)  You can also customize fonts and font attributes used

   for the table text.

2) Select the table, along with some text outside the table (i.e., a paragraph

   marker -- this is *important* for wide tables - don't do a table select!)

   and do a Copy to the clipboard (found under the Edit menu).

3) Go over to SHED and paste what you just copied (Paste is found under the

   Edit menu).  You should see what you selected -- what you see is what you

   get -- if you don't like it, simply go back to WFW and play around til you

   get it the way you want.  If you are satisfied, in SHED simply do a save to

   a SHG file, and you've got it!  If you want to add hotspots at that time

   you can as well, or do it later.

4) In your WinHelp rtf source file, reference the *.shg (e.g., [image] ),

   and compile!

When you view your table in the resulting WinHelp file, and under different

video resolutions, you should get the table to look just like the original in

WFW (including colors, shading, and borders), and it should remain quite

sharp and even-sized across the range of video resolutions (I use VGA, 800x600,

and 1024x768 -- I compose my tables in 1024x768 resolution).  It is also quite

space saving when compressed into the WinHelp file, taking up a LOT less space

than its equivalent compressed bitmap (or bitmaps if MRBC is used), and the

WinHelp file is a lot quicker to compile (large bitmaps take forever for the

WinHelp compiler to chew on).

At this point in yesterday's post, I lamented the fact I could not get the

process to work for tables wider than 6", but I found a way to be able to

make arbitrarily wide tables (of course, you have to view these wide tables

either in an ordinary jump window, as a popup would clip the table).  What you

must do, first of all, is select text outside the table as well as the table

itself before copying -- a paragraph marker works fine (why this is so is

unknown.)  In addition, you have to do a Page Setup in WFW, which you bring

up by double clicking on the ruler (be sure to have the ruler visible as I

haven't found anywhere else you can bring up the Page Setup).  Within Page

Setup, go to the Paper Size function and reset the paper size to increase the

paper width between the side margins enough to contain the table.  You can do

a print preview, found under the file menu in WFW, to see if the page width

is wide enough.  During this process, if you see any warning messages saying

the print page/margins are not wide enough (or some warning like that), just

ignore these messages as you don't plan to print out the table anyway (and you

*don't* have to go into print manager, found in the control panel, to reset

anything regarding page width.)

I would assume the above process would also work for other metafile-like

objects created under WFW and other drawing applications.

Happy experimenting!  I'm quite pleased and happy with the results.

Jon Noring

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In <379j05$15te@ferrari.geac.co.nz> thomas@geac.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:

>How portable is RTF anyway? (In practise, not in theory.)

Not very portable at all.  We have had to put in a lot of work to

ensure that Word 6 .RTF files load - and we try and fix any other

problems that occur with other RTF files, but since it is such a

complex format there is no perfect loader of RTF files - though

Word does quite a good job.

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bg colour in nonscroll re

In article <61-206.1994-10-9.23.13.19@programmers.bbs.no>, Eivind

Bakkestuen wrote:

>

> Lately I have noticed several helpfiles that have a light gray

> background in the non-scrolling region. Anyone know how this is

done?

>

> ---

> Mr. HillBilly (hillbilly@programmers.bbs.no)

> °HR á -1.00°

In the HPJ file, in the [windows] section - define an entry for the

main window (named "main"), the 5th parameter is the non-scrolling

region background color.

Assuming that RGB of 192,192,192 is what you want the entry will look

like :

[windows]

main= , , , , (192, 192, 192)

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Is there a way to use a help macro to display the search dialog

box so that it is already displaying a topic list for a specific

keyword?

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Shed and color quality

Hi!

I began using SHED to place hotspots inside bitmaps. After creating the

hot areas and saving the bitmap into a shg format the colors and the

overall image quality gets worse.

The bitmaps were originally 16 colors and the original bmp y and the new

shg look very different even under the same aplication (ie. Paintbrush).

 Any idea Why?

Thanx!

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Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

In article <ichbiah.21.2E932AD7@jdi.tiac.net> ichbiah@jdi.tiac.net (Jean D. Ichbiah) writes:

> ixl@cocoa-chex.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Kozierok) writes:

>

>> [...]  But what I really

>>need is a system that is easy to use, reliable, and produced by

>>a company that is going to be around.  I need to be able to set the

>>authoring system up and have a tech writer be able to use it with

>>minimal help

>

>>I am considering RoboHelp, ForeHelp, DocToHelp and WHA.  If anyone

>>can provide any specific pros/cons or reviews of these systems ...

>

>There  are many parameters to the decision. I did look at ForeHelp

>in my own evaluation and found it very intuitive for what you could

>do with it.

>

>But in the end I decided to go for HelpBreeze. The demo  was also

>quite simple and convincing. The key parameter in my decision was

>that I wanted to reuse a significant part of the Help Files for the paper

>documentation. So the fact that it was  based on a word processor

>was a key advantage. It means that you can reuse your files and the

>conversion work may be no more difficult than changing fonts

>for  certain styles.

>I  could see very clearly how to do that with HelpBreeze and my impression

>(right or wrong) was that this would be more complex with ForeHelp or,

>in  general, with systems that have their own editor.

>

>I  was not able to evaluate RoboHelp because the company does not

>have a demo.  The demo is a very important  aspect.

This is really a good point. ForeHelp's demo is the actual product, but

restricted to creation of a 20-topic help system, and missing the spell

checker and thesaurus (which they just sub-license).

>>On the other hand, a system like ForeHelp is appealing

>>because of its instant prototyping ability and the fact that it

>>allows one to create the help files in a help-like environment,

One BIG plus to ForeHelp is their Test Mode - you can immediately see the

effect of changes without compiling!

>I was more worried by the fact that ForeHelp would be a closed  system.

>There is also a significant advantage to systems that are based on  Word

>and generate RTF files: if you conclude later that you have  made a mistake,

>or that a better system has appeared on the market, it will be quite easy

>to migrate your  Word text to another Word-based system.

>(In case you think  we are Word addict, we use exclusively Ami Pro aside

>from Help projects.)

I agree with much of what you way, but this last bit is slightly misleading.

*All* help authoring tools must generate an RTF file. This turns out to be

fortuitous for those of us who want to be able to take advantage of

different features for different systems. I regularly migrate my text

between ForeHelp and RoboHelp. I like ForeHelp for all the reasons you

mention, plus it has a very nice interface for keyword selections. It's

major weakness, in my mind, is not that it is any more closed than any other

tool, but that it does not have a built-in macro capability. When I need to

do the same thing to a whole slew of topics (beyond S/R, I mean), I take my

RTF to Word and use a Word macro. Then I bring that RTF back into ForeHelp

and rebuild my database. It is a little bit more bother, but right now there

is not a tool that provides both ForeHelp's WYSIWYG interface and the macro

support I seem to need all the time.

>A final point to consider is telephone - human - support, since none of

>these systems are ideally simple.  I have called HelpBreeze support on

>a few occasion and found their support to be very knowledgeable: in

>all cases, a 3-5 minute call was enough to resolve  whatever issues I had.

In this regard, I'd place ForeFront's support at the level of world-class. I

have been able to reach them quickly and reach a person with answers right

away, every time. ANd their answer people are true subject-matter experts,

too. THey aren't just accessing online data, they are telling you from their

own knowledge and experience. You learn to notice that kind of thing if you

ever have to deal with the morons some of the larger companies hire. The

support people at ForeFront have had to tell me, basically, "RTFM" on more

than one occassion, and each time they did it so politely that I didn't even

feel offended!

>Regards,

>

>

>Jean D. Ichbiah

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Test message - please ignore

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Cue Cards

Folks,

I am interested in creating Cuecards for a windows based client

server applications. Are there any products that allow this or

are there other ways of doing it?

Thanks,

Mark

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LaTeX -> WINHELP S/W ?

In article <1994Oct11.235252.6962@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

> >Does anyone know of any software for converting LaTeX files

> >to WINHELP ?

> 	What you're really looking for is something to convert LaTeX

> 	files to RTF.  After that, you just compile with HC.

Not quite, because it would be painful to insert all the page breaks and

footnotes for HC. And, no hyperlinks will be provided.

http://cs.oberlin.edu/software/tex2rtf.html

                              TEX2RTF INFORMATION

   Tex2RTF is a utility written by Julian Smart to convert from LaTeX to

   four other formats:

     * Linear RTF, for importing into a wide range of word processors.

     * Windows Help hypertext RTF, for compilation with HC (Help

       Compiler).

     * HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), as used on the World Wide Web.

     * XLP wxHelp format.

   It parses a reasonable subset of LaTeX, noteable blind spots being

   tables, the tabbing environment and maths.

ftp from ~hardy/hardy/stable

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Good Help Editor ?

In <1994Oct7.142517.2913@nedcu0> Michel.Gerber@etudiants.unine.ch writes:

>I'm looking for a good Help Editor, if you have that, please let me know.

There are quite a few help editors.  What is good is really decided by the

user - but I would recommend you take a look at our product, HWA - it provides

you with everything you need.

Also, take a look on ftp.cica.indiana.edu and in the FAQ for this group

(can someone else fill in where to get it from please...) for more information

on other help authoring tools.

...Stefan

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In article <1994Oct11.164903.26580@oxvaxd> nagttt@vax.oxford.ac.uk (Themos Tsikas) writes:

>I hope this is not a FAQ...

>

>Does anyone know of any software for converting LaTeX files

>to WINHELP ?

>

>Thanks in advance

What you're really looking for is something to convert LaTeX

files to RTF.  After that, you just compile with HC.

Perhaps an archie search on 'rtf' would be a good start.

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Help on Installation

I'm currently writing an Installation program

for a program. Can anyone tell me of how to create

a program group in program manager and display

the icons. It can be in any language.

Thnaks in advance,

Andrew

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Using 2ndary window to display topic from other .HLP

Has anyone had any luck opening up a secondary window to display a topic from

another .HLP file?

Has anyone tried it and failed, as I have?

An online help book indicates it is possible, yet all attempts to use the

following macro fail:

        JumpId("example.hlp>dialog", "dialog_print")

Winhelp calls the topic, but not in a secondary window and not without the

following error:

       Bad Window Class, ignored

Is such a call possible?  If so, what is the exact macro?

Bev Freed

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Dallas, TX

e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

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Help on Installation

In article <CxJA9s.5zL@freenet.carleton.ca> aj023@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andrew Bachmeier) writes:

>

>I'm currently writing an Installation program

>for a program. Can anyone tell me of how to create

>a program group in program manager and display

>the icons. It can be in any language.

>

>Thnaks in advance,

>Andrew

It never ceases to amaze me how many people think this group

is for general help in writing Windows programs.  I can imagine

the thought process.... "Hmm, I have a question about Windows

programming, but I don't think I'll post in the other groups

because they are probably only for discussing cookie recipes

or fishing or sports cars or something like that - I guess

I'll post my question in the .winhelp group..."

Ask in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc.  Oh, ok, I'll

answer it here... read on-line help topic "Shell Dynamic Data

Exchange Interface Overview".  At least my answer is related

to winhelp, even if the question isn't :)

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How do I find ForeHelp?

Gidday,

I'm trying to get hold of the people who write ForeHelp so I can find

out if there is an eval version or something. (And how to get it.)

Could anyone tell me the Fax number and/or email address for ForeHelp?

And if they do have a demo and it is available by FTP, I'd really like

to know where it is.

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Stop dynamic scaling of bitmaps?

In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel

Carrasquer) said:

>In article <38u2v7$f44@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>, Stephen Jenkins

><stephenj@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>>Can anyone tell me how to prevent the help engine from scaling bitmaps.

>>Depending on the pixel resolution the help file is being run on it wants

>

>>to scale everything based on the system font size. Somehow I want to

>>prevent this!!! It makes the graphics look awful. I've played around

>>with some of the MS help authoring tools but the help engine always

>>wants to scale everything. Help.

>

>Read your .BMP into the Hotspot Editor, don't define any hotspots (unless

>you want to of course), but just save the file as .SHG. Now change your

>reference to the .bmp into a reference to the .shg (using {bmc, {bml or

>{bmr...).  Voila: WinHelp will never scale ..shg's.

Miguel,

It would be wonderful if this was true, but tests have put this method to

rest. SHGs are in fact scaled in Winhelp. The only way that seems to work

is to use the MRBC or treat all graphics as 256-color and place them in an

embedded window. This last method gives your full control over the size. Of

course in order to handle embedded windows you will need a .DLL. Our

product comes with one that will handle this automatically.

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Creating help files

Hi,

Could somebody help to me how can i create WinHelp (.HLP) files?

Is it possible to download any info from internet?

Please reply by E-Mail.

Thanks

                                   Bye,

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Jim Michel in VB

In <1994Nov5.085904.360@vms.huji.ac.il> tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il writes:

>        So far so good.  I can open a help file in a binary

>editor like hedit.exe and sure enough find |KWBTREE right near

>the beginning.  However, the actual list of keywords appears

>near the end of the help file, after all the topics' text.

I think you may be getting a little confused here.  As I understand

it the |KWBTREE you are finding only indicates that there are

keywords in the file - the *actual* |KWBTREE is at the end of

the file where you are finding it.  Since I haven't done very much

work on the help file format I couldn't be sure - but that

would explain things anyway :-)

>f := HfsOpenSz (HelpFName, fFSOpenReadOnly);

>If f = 0 Then    {continue on error }

>   Continue;

>{Open the keywords file in the help file }

>hKw := HfOpenHfs (f, '|KWBTREE', fFSOpenReadOnly);

>If hKw <> 0 Then Begin

>   Size := LcbSizeHf (hKw);

>Can somebody tell me what's going on, and translate this

>in Visual Basic 3.0 for me?  I'm mystified.

He is opening the help file (HfsOpenSz) then opening

the Keyword Tree file within the help file (HfOpenHfs)

then he is getting the size of the keyword file.

(LcbSizeHf).

>The first line seems to open up a help file read only.

>But a function name such as HfsOpenSz seems to do more.Hex

>file, Help file?

If it is not a help system I would assume it will return

0 (page 357).

>Presumably if f = 0, then the help file couldn't be opened.

>Why is he continuing?

Can't answer why he's contining in Pascal, but in C he returns

if there is a problem.

>Now we get to the real mystery.  What the heck is hKw?  Can

>Michel *really* be opening a file within a file?

Yes - that is how a help file is structured - it contains lots

of different files within the one help file.

>Why is he looking for |KWBTREE?  The actual keywords are

>someplace else in the file.  Obviously, there's much I don't

>understand.

The |KWBTREE is towards the end - when he opens |KWBTREE

WinHelp looks for the *actual* |KWBTREE, not the reference

to it at the start.

>Lastly (for now), what's LcbSizeHf doing?

Look on page 360 - "Determine the size in bytes of an open

baggage file" - in this case it is an open |KWBTREE.

Cheers,

Stefan

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.hlp to .txt?

  Hello.  I have what would seem to be a simple problem, but the FAQ, etc..

haven't been much help.

  I have several files that have a .hlp extension.  I have been told they are

in winhelp format.  I need to convert them to something I can view.  I don't

have windows (I run dos 6.2).

  I got hlpdk and wh2hdk but wh2hdk reports errors with any .hlp file I five

it.

  What do I need to do?  and please, commercial guys, don't tell me that I

have to spend a bunch of money to buy your product, because its not that

important.  I can use the machines at work to view the files, but I would

like to convert them to something I can view under dos..

--Thanks.. Mike..

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LE>  I have several files that have a .hlp extension.  I have been told they are

  >in winhelp format.  I need to convert them to something I can view.  I don't

  >have windows (I run dos 6.2).

There's a product called HHELP which does exactly that.  Email them

on: uf499@freenet.victoria.bc.ca

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DOS->Winhelp

I have a similar problem to another correspondent in that I wish to

create RTF files for compiling to Winhelp format (or straight to

Winhelp if that's possible), but from DOS.  There is a product which

does this partially, the Help Engine Developers Kit, from Ron

Loewy of Isoft D&M, however this has several problems and is quite

limited in scope anyway.  Really what I'm looking for is something

like RTFGEN (Dave Baldwin), but for DOS.  Did he have an earlier

version?

Any ideas?

Thanks people

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Winword 6.0 to RTF

Does anybody know if there is a new help-compiler released from

Microsoft, because hc31.exe does not work with some RTF-Files

written by Winword 6.0.

How I detected this problem :

   There is a complete help-project, ready to compile, and it compiles.

   But then we opend the RTF-file with Winword 6.0, did a "Save as"

   without any change to the file, and the help-compiler went mad.

  (error number somwhere above R6000)

Please post answers to this newsgroup, because the E-Mail given above

is not real.

Thanks    Meikel Weber

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Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

In article <CyxKG6.Hq9@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,

BaDge <baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU> wrote:

>Good lord, are we all having the same problem? :-)

>

>Stefan, take a look at this .HPJ entry...

>

>------------------------

>[CONFIG]

>CreateButton(`glossary_btn', `&Glossary', `JI(`abb.hlp>PictWin', `Topic0000')')

[My name's not Stefan, but I took a lok anyway :-)]

Try:

CreateButton("glossary_btn", "&Glossary", "JI(`abb.hlp>PictWin',`Topic0000')")

[i.e. single quotes within, double quotes at the outer level]

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HELPMON.C

Oops!  I've received mail from Roy Natadarma at TU Delft

(hallo), telling me the HELPMON.C program I posted a few

days ago doesn't compile.  That's what you get when you

add your own stuff to <windows.h>...

Please add the following (undocumented) constants to

the code:

#define HELP_JUMPID	0x0103

#define HELP_POPUPID	0x0104

#define HELP_CLOSEWINDOW 	0x0107

#define HELP_CONTEXTNOFOCUS 	0x0108

/* Viewer 1.0 */

#define HELP_FOCUS	0x0007

#define HELP_NEWINSTANCE	0x0800

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In article <39m3gb$ej9$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com>, Michael

Cohen wrote:

>

> Greetings WinHelp Mavens!

>

> I'm planning a large Windows Help project that covers several

> related but sold-separately software products. The entire family

> of products is represented by a "common" help file to which all

> users will have access. Each individual product a user

> buys comes with its own product-specific help file. I would like

> to know how to provide users with conditional jumps from the

> common help file to product-specific help files provided they

> have been installed.

> So when a user wants to jump from the "common" help file to a

> product-specific help file, I'd like to execute a macro that will

> either display the appropriate help file (if the customer has

> installed that executable program) or display a generic message

> telling users that they need to purchase the program to get the

> help. The macro would do the following: if help file A exists,

> display topic A in help file A, otherwise, display topic X in

> current help file.

> Any help on this would be appreciated.

Hi,

It seems to me that writing a DLL will be a good solution for you. Let

the install put a line "ProductPartName=Yes" in an INI file, and use

the GetPrivateProfileString API function in the DLL to return a

boolean value to a IfThenElse macro.

You can do that without writing a DLL with our new Interactive Help

product, but if all you need is this feature, and you do not have a

problem writing a DLL, this seems the easier way for you to go.

Ro.

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.hlp to .txt?

In article <39n6gl$aeb@insosf1.infonet.net>,

 <loadstone@ins.infonet.net> wrote:

>  Hello.  I have what would seem to be a simple problem, but the FAQ, etc..

>haven't been much help.

>

>  I have several files that have a .hlp extension.  I have been told they are

>in winhelp format.  I need to convert them to something I can view.  I don't

>have windows (I run dos 6.2).

>

>  I got hlpdk and wh2hdk but wh2hdk reports errors with any .hlp file I five

>it.

WH2HDK will not convert .HLP files, only .RTF and .HPJ files, sorry for

the confusion - but we are not in the de-compiling business, (too risky)

we are in the "conversion" business.

WH2HDK is part of HLPDK/PA now, so the version you have is out of date

and will probably fail on Word 6 RTF even if you had the sources ..

>

>  What do I need to do?  and please, commercial guys, don't tell me that I

>have to spend a bunch of money to buy your product, because its not that

>important.  I can use the machines at work to view the files, but I would

>like to convert them to something I can view under dos..

>

Try to get HHELP10.ZIP from 198.91.36.126 in the /pub/winhelp directory,

it is shareware and should do what you want. (I'm a "commerical" guy, but

this is not my product, so I guess I can be excused for this one, right ?).

>--Thanks.. Mike..

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DOS->Winhelp

In article <89D5258.0FC60008D6.uuout@almac.co.uk>,

JIM MCNEILL <jim.mcneill@almac.co.uk> wrote:

>I have a similar problem to another correspondent in that I wish to

>create RTF files for compiling to Winhelp format (or straight to

>Winhelp if that's possible), but from DOS.  There is a product which

>does this partially, the Help Engine Developers Kit, from Ron

>Loewy of Isoft D&M, however this has several problems and is quite

>limited in scope anyway.  Really what I'm looking for is something

>like RTFGEN (Dave Baldwin), but for DOS.  Did he have an earlier

>version?

>

>Any ideas?

Hi,

I'm the author of the Help Development Kit, the fact that you state that

it is an ISoft D&M product indicates that it is a very old version, the

product is handled by HyperAct, Inc. since version 8.0 I think, we

currently have V11.5 out as shareware, and a commercial version -

HLPDK/PA which is in V12.2 and will be 12.3 RSN.

I would doubt that you will find an up-to-date version of HLPDK "limited

in scope", actually, I doubt it that you will find a lot of products for

the price that can have some of the very unique features built into this

product. If you are interested in more info, please e-mail me and I'll

send you some info. You can also download the last shareware version from

garbo.uwasa.fi in the /pc/programming directory as hdk115a.zip, hdk115b.z

ip and hdk115l.zip. If you have ideas how to improve the product, I will

love to hear them.

>

>Thanks people

>

>Jim

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Windows Help RTFs -> HTMLs

Hi everyone,

I'm currently trying to convert some Word6 rtf files (written for the Windows

Help Compiler) into HTML format. Does anyone know of a conversion utility that

will keep the links between topics. I've tried RTF2HTML, but it makes a bit

of a mess of it, leaving a lot of clearing up to do. More importantly it

cannot interpret Word footnotes and so looses all the links between the topics.

All (any :-}) advice, hints & tips I get I'll summarise and post to this

newsgroup.

Thanks in advance,

Marcus.

*******************************************

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GIS Technician,

School of Geography,

Leeds University

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Eric:

Thanks for the input. I agree with your approach completely.  Not

only will it be easier for me as the help author, but it makes

sense from a marketing point of view. Up to now, the powers that

be have resisted this approach. The perceived technical

difficulty has fortunately changed their minds and I will be

including all the help files. To do otherwise would be

mean getting a programmer here to write a DLL and getting a

programmer to do something here is like squeezing blood from a

stone (no offense meant to programmers anywhere else).

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was: help menu option in OWL2, now: RTF format

Stefan Olson (stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz) wrote:

: Clark wrote:

: >But how do i associate this .hlp file with the "help" in

: >my menu? I'm using OWL 2.0, and i can find nothing about

: Yes - there is an API call called WinHelp.  There should

Thanks muchly.

: >ps: On a related note, does anyone know where i might find

: >specifications for .RTF files?

: I would suggest you don't write your RTF files manually.  It

: is a huge pain!  Either use a word processor (e.g: Microsoft

: Word) or a WYSIWYG help authoring tool (e.g: HWA).

Well, i've looked at a couple such things, and they look very nice.

But, i can't afford any of the shareware products i've seen at the

moment, let alone ms word. Where did you find documentation on RTF?

thanks,

clark

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DocToHelp - where?

Thanks for your comments but the PC still takes 2 days to compile the

project. The project consists of some 15 Word Documents contains around

500 SHG (Segmented Hyper Graphics) and 2000+ Topics.

The actual HCP compile only takes about 1 hour but the Doc2Help Macro's

for Diagnostics, Converting to RTF Format etc. take another 47 Hours. It

may take less but Word 6 bombs out with 'Out of Memory' Errors about 3-4

times during each compilation process.

Their may be other products on the market that are able to handle both

On-Line and Printed Manuals. We have looked at

        RoboHelp v2.6   -               No Printed Version Produced

        ForeHelp        -               Well integrated,  cheap, but

                                        again, no printed manual.

I am mailing Wextech to see if they have an answer but if you have

Doc2Help you will notice  that the Help System supplied (Help on

Doc2Help) has a suprising lack of SHG.

Any comments welcome.

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I'm developing some pretty big HLP files.  I'd like to be able to

distribute them on floppies but I can't figure out how to break them up

and put them back together!  Can someone give me any tips on how they

might do this?

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Some of the HLP files I'm building have very large topics that wont fit in

the Edit copy feature.  Does anyone have a way to do this?  What I'd

really like is to be able to highlight and copy text right from the screen

into the clipboard.  (hint hint 4.0 developers)

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Windows Help Overhead

I am working on a project with a large footprint (currently approx. 18Mb).

Before roll-out, we have to reduce the footprint so that our product can run

(under Windows) on a 16 Mb machine.

My question is, does anyone know how much overhead the online help will require?

Thanks in advance.

Cathy Pacza

Technical Writer

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Multi-File Keyword Search

In article <1994Nov5.085904.360@vms.huji.ac.il>, dennis turner writes:

|         I'm trying to translate a routine from pascal to visual

| basic - so far, without much success.  It appears in Jim

| Michel's book, A Developer's Guide to Wihelp.exe, from pages

| 278 to 286 in chapter 11, Adding a Multi-File Keyword Search

| Facility.

Jim's routine relies on the implementation of WinHelp, assuming that

keywords are not compressed. That's still true for WinHelp 4.0, but is

much less likely to be true for future releases as we continue to work

on reducing the size of help files. If the keywords get compressed in a

future version, any dll trying to access this internal help file

structure will break.

And as an aside, multi-file keyword and full-text searching is built-in

to WinHelp 4.0.

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In article <39ofh6$re@news.millcomm.com>, Robin <robin@millcomm.com> wrote:

>

>I'm developing some pretty big HLP files.  I'd like to be able to

>distribute them on floppies but I can't figure out how to break them up

>and put them back together!  Can someone give me any tips on how they

>might do this?

>

> --

>Robin

>    robin@millcomm.com

>

Try to buy a install utility that supports this. I'm using EDI Install

PRO, and it supports that, I know that MS Setup includes that capability too.

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In article <Cyyo61.CBu@sybase.com>, cathy pacza <cathyp@sybase.com> wrote:

>I am working on a project with a large footprint (currently approx. 18Mb).

>Before roll-out, we have to reduce the footprint so that our product can run

>(under Windows) on a 16 Mb machine.

>

>My question is, does anyone know how much overhead the online help will require?

>

>Thanks in advance.

>

>Cathy Pacza

>Technical Writer

>Sybase Canada, Inc

>cathy.pacza@sybase.com

>

I'm not sure I understand the question, if you are talking about the

size of the help file, even if the file is really big, it should not be a

real problem, I have been able to run a 30MB help file on a 8MB machine.

If you are talking about the size of that will be added to your

application when you add all the WinHelp calls, this is something that

can not be answered until you do that.

If it is non of the above, I'm sorry, but I did not understand.

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In <39m3gb$ej9$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com> Michael Cohen <74507.54@CompuServe.COM> writes:

>So when a user wants to jump from the "common" help file to a

>product-specific help file, I'd like to execute a macro that will

>either display the appropriate help file (if the customer has

>installed that executable program) or display a generic message

>telling users that they need to purchase the program to get the

>help. The macro would do the following: if help file A exists,

>display topic A in help file A, otherwise, display topic X in

>current help file.

The best way to do this would be via a DLL function which would

check if the file exists and you use a macro to jump to the

other help file.  This is what you would have as the macro for

the link:

IfThen(Exists(`myhelp.hlp'), JumpId(`myhelp.hlp', `my_context'))

Cheers,

Stefan

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Interactive Winhelp

Hi,

HyperAct, Inc. plan to release a new Winhelp extension product in the near

future, and we would like to find some beta testers to the product.

Interactive Winhelp (IW) is what we would have called version 2 of our

PASTERP Control for WinHelp product, but it seems that it will be able to

do so much more that we decided to give it a new name.

Our offer is :

Beta testers will get an early release of the software, and will get a 50%

off the shipping price when the version will actually go GA. (We plan on

a less than $200 price - so this is not like you get a 50% off a 3000$

product ..).

We are looking for a small number of beta testers, so if you are interested,

please e-mail me and describe the kind of projects you create with WinHelp,

and why your project will be an interesting beta test.

A brief description of the product :

- Adds an embedded pascal - like macro language to your winhelp titles.

- Trap and handle WinHelp events.

- Break the 255 character WinHelp macro limit.

- Add logic to your macro processing.

- Expose the internal WinHelp API, without the need to write a DLL.

- Expose the Windows API without the need to write a DLL, but with the

  ability to use it in a structured language.

- Ask questions and receive answers from the users.

- Display listboxes with options and allow the users to choose from these

  lists.

- Display forms (a.k.a Dialog Boxes) and process the input you receive from

  the users.

- Connect to databases via a dynamic function dispatcher.

and more ..

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HELP!!!!

I have a Windows 3.1 MDI application. The top level menu is the standard FILE,

EDIT, HELP, etc. main window.  The next level window is a toolbar window and thenext level child window is for displaying graphs.  With no graphs in the mdiclient area using context sensitive help on the main menu works fine.  However, with graphs, contex

get on the top level menu is the Title bar as a popup and not a full scrollabe

help (ie the title with the underbarring indicating scrollabe help.

Any ideas?????????????????

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full text

Hi:

I have successfully compiled a help file with a full text capability (that is,

it has the index and the full text search button within the help file.)

When I try to run the file, however, I get the following message:

Not Enough Memory to Run This Application

Close one or more applications and try again.

I do have enough memory. I don't understand.  Any suggestions.

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RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

IMHO you should definitely go for Doc-To-Help!

We recently changed from RoboHelp 2.6 to Doc-To-Help, and finally got the job

done fast, efficiently and correctly.

In RoboHelp, apart from a lot of irritating quirks, we experienced severe problems

when using jumps containing - *believe* it or not - the letter "p"!! This was

driving us crazy, and Blue Skys slack support did not follow up the matter.

(OK, so we are placed in Norway, but nevertheless.......)

The Navigator capability of Doc-To-Help which lets you optionally create an

adjacent and navigatable overview of your help-file is also a nice feature.

All in all Doc-To-Help seems a better, more stable, less expensive, and

therefore superior tool.

Hope this helps.

Odd-Wiking

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

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Winword 6.0 to RTF

In article <39nlbnINN24o4@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>,

student@informatik.uni-koeln.de (student) wrote:

> Microsoft, because hc31.exe does not work with some RTF-Files

> written by Winword 6.0.

[...]

>    There is a complete help-project, ready to compile, and it compiles.

>    But then we opend the RTF-file with Winword 6.0, did a "Save as"

>    without any change to the file, and the help-compiler went mad.

>   (error number somwhere above R6000)

A known problem, and documented, too! You need rev. 505 of the

help compiler, available from ftp.microsoft.com and various

other sources.

All the best,

Peter

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In <39nlbnINN24o4@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> student@informatik.uni-koeln.de (student) writes:

>Does anybody know if there is a new help-compiler released from

>Microsoft, because hc31.exe does not work with some RTF-Files

>written by Winword 6.0.

The updated help compiler is available from ftp.cica.indiana.edu

as HC505.EXE.

Cheers,

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Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

In <CyxKG6.Hq9@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>In article <Dd2tuAIABh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>,

>Stefan, take a look at this .HPJ entry...

>------------------------

>[CONFIG]

>CreateButton(`glossary_btn', `&Glossary', `JI(`abb.hlp>PictWin', `Topic0000')')

Try using normal quotes outside each parameter.  It might or might not work

then.  E.g:

CreateButton("glossary_btn", "&Glossary", "JI(`abb.hlp>PictWin', `Topic0000')")

...Stefan

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SAMS ; How to book on help

I've run into a problem ordering the How to build online help book published

by SAMS and also distributed by WinWriters. I was getting

all sorts of bizarre answers why an order could not be taken.

The most recent now is that the rights have gone back

to the authors and that SAMS cannot reprint.

Does anyone know of any publisher/book-chain that still has

it in stock (phone # etc would be appreciated)?

To date, this is the only recommended book I have traced to

this point. Does anyone know of another? We'd like our own

customers to be able to buy the book if we think it is

worth it. The stuff with SAMS does not look good if I'm

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need help with ms-windows graphics

Could someone please help me with a simple problem.

I just got a 486 computer, and the monitor is SVGA,(I have the correct Video card)

when in DOS, i can view pictures that are 256 colors.

When i am in windows (3.11) i can not view the same

pictures (for backgrounds, etc) with the correct amount

of colors.  I know I need a driver, but when I tried to

load a driver from the windows disks, it gave me an error.

Maybe I am stupid, maybe I'm not,

I could use some help, thanks a lot!

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I've been asked to find out what HDK is. Does anybody know

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Edit copy of large topics

In article <39ofkm$re@news.millcomm.com>, robin@millcomm.com (Robin)

writes:

>Some of the HLP files I'm building have very large topics that wont fit

in

>the Edit copy feature.  Does anyone have a way to do this?  What I'd

>really like is to be able to highlight and copy text right from the

screen

>into the clipboard.  (hint hint 4.0 developers)

Robin,

I don't know whether or not WinHelp 4.0 (or 95, or whatever they'll be

calling it by the time it's released) will have this feature. However, the

MediaView libraries (which have just been released on the latest MSDN CD

level II and on the new Multimedia Jumpstart CD 2.0) certainly do permit

this. You have to be willing to write your own browser (or modify one of

the samples that Microsoft has provided) but you gain much more control

over the user interface.

Steve Diamond

Diamond Consulting Services

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In article <MARCUS.42.003AE2C4@leeds>, Marcus Blake <marcus@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

>Hi everyone,

>

>I'm currently trying to convert some Word6 rtf files (written for the Windows

>Help Compiler) into HTML format. Does anyone know of a conversion utility that

>will keep the links between topics. I've tried RTF2HTML, but it makes a bit

>of a mess of it, leaving a lot of clearing up to do. More importantly it

>cannot interpret Word footnotes and so looses all the links between the topics.

>

>All (any :-}) advice, hints & tips I get I'll summarise and post to this

>newsgroup.

>

>Thanks in advance,

>

>Marcus.

>

>

>*******************************************

>Marcus Blake,

>GIS Technician,

>School of Geography,

>Leeds University

>Leeds

>England

Hi,

Our HLPDK/PA product contains a WinHelp -> HLPDK converter tool. The tool

creates a HLPDK document from the input RTF and HPJ files, and retains

the link and topic structure.

The HLPDK document that is created can be translated (using the provided

HLPDK compilers) to several targets, including HTML, Several dos targets,

OS/2 IPF and more.

E-mail me for more information.

Ron.

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DocToHelp - Long Compile Times was: DocToHelp - where?

In article <CyyG4o.5HE@cix.compulink.co.uk>,

I Anderson <walkermartyn@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:

>Thanks for your comments but the PC still takes 2 days to compile the

>project. The project consists of some 15 Word Documents contains around

>500 SHG (Segmented Hyper Graphics) and 2000+ Topics.

>

>The actual HCP compile only takes about 1 hour but the Doc2Help Macro's

>for Diagnostics, Converting to RTF Format etc. take another 47 Hours. It

>may take less but Word 6 bombs out with 'Out of Memory' Errors about 3-4

>times during each compilation process.

>

>Their may be other products on the market that are able to handle both

>On-Line and Printed Manuals. We have looked at

>

>        RoboHelp v2.6   -               No Printed Version Produced

>        ForeHelp        -               Well integrated,  cheap, but

>                                        again, no printed manual.

>

>I am mailing Wextech to see if they have an answer but if you have

>Doc2Help you will notice  that the Help System supplied (Help on

>Doc2Help) has a suprising lack of SHG.

>

>Any comments welcome.

I too ran into this problem with D2H 1.5.  I had a doc that was 150 pages

when printed, and in the online version about 120 topics (in secondary windows)

that were marked as "online only."

The D2H pre-compile took about 5 hours.

Now, I think that the design of the precompile is brilliant (and, ironically

somewhat reminiscent of the  4 pass compile performed by the mainframe

publishing system BookMaster).  Yet, it takes FOR-FRICKIN'-EVER and did

consistently crash Word 2.0c.

The design of D2H is so smart, that all you had to do was restart it, and

it would take over from where it crashed Word.  The only problem:  you had

to be close by, as you never knew when it would crash.

Another issue (not a problem, but an issue): D2H is almost exclusively

designed for those who desire to have a printed book and an identical

online "book."  There are many aspects to this issue, and you can in

fact use D2H to create a real "help" file (that isn't intended for

printing), but it is not really designed for that purpose.

Currently, here's our current methodology at my contract:

RoboHelp, cause it can support a help structure for "context

sensitive" and dialog level help topics.

Second best choice:  ForeHelp, another brilliant piece of work (and it's only

$69 if you have Borland C++)

Gary

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frequent flyer miles before they actually earn them."  -Gary Dietz, Aug 5, 1902

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Jim Michel in VB

In article <1994Nov5.085904.360@vms.huji.ac.il>,

 <tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il> wrote:

>

>        Here's a few lines of Michel's code that I can't

>make sense of(page 283):

>

>f := HfsOpenSz (HelpFName, fFSOpenReadOnly);

>If f = 0 Then    {continue on error }

>   Continue;

>

>{Open the keywords file in the help file }

>hKw := HfOpenHfs (f, '|KWBTREE', fFSOpenReadOnly);

>If hKw <> 0 Then Begin

>   Size := LcbSizeHf (hKw);

>

>Can somebody tell me what's going on, and translate this

>in Visual Basic 3.0 for me?  I'm mystified.

>

>The first line seems to open up a help file read only.

>But a function name such as HfsOpenSz seems to do more.Hex

>file, Help file?

>

>Presumably if f = 0, then the help file couldn't be opened.

>Why is he continuing?

>

>Now we get to the real mystery.  What the heck is hKw?  Can

>Michel *really* be opening a file within a file?  I can

>understand him getting a pointer somewhere and going there,

>or looking for a particular string, but how can he actually

>be using another open statement.

>

>Why is he looking for |KWBTREE?  The actual keywords are

>someplace else in the file.  Obviously, there's much I don't

>understand.

>

>Lastly (for now), what's LcbSizeHf doing?

>

O.k., I'll try to explain.

The WinHelp file is actually a file system, in a .HLP file there are

different files that the help viewer (WinHelp.EXE) references when it

displays the help file. That is why you will usuall see more than 1 open

statement, the functions that reference Hfs are doing something on the

file system (the .HLP file), the ones that do Hf are doing something on

the internal file inside the file system (e.g. - |KBTREE).

Now the sad part for you - VB can not create DLLs, so I do not think you

will be able to use these functions from VB, unless you use a DLL that

someone wrote for you.

Here's the scoop - When WinHelp registers a routine from a DLL (as you

define with the RR macro in the [Config] part of the HPJ file), it looks

for a function in the DLL called LDLLHandler. If this function is found -

WinHelp calls it with an initialization code. The DLL traps this code,

and returns a message to WinHelp that sais "These are the messages I want

you to send me", one of these messages is called DW_Callbacks. If the DLL

decided to get this message, WinHelp sends it the DW_Callbacks message,

and one of the parameters to this message is an array of pointers to the

"Internal" functions of WinHelp. These are the funny names you see with

Hf and Hfs in them.

The code that you see up there tries to assign the |KBTREE file to hKw,

Now, I think that what you have seen in the .HLP file (The string

|KBTREE) is actually the "Directory" of the file system, so when he opens

this file, he will actually get the keywords that are not stored where

the directory is.

LcbSizeHf is (If I remember correctly, I changed these funny names to

something that I can live with such as baggageFileSize) is the size of

the internal file.

I would suggest that you either buy Turbo Pascal for Windows/Borland

Pascal and re-compile the examples Jim gives, or ask someone to build you

such a DLL that you will be able to call from VB.

Hope this helps.

Ron.

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Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

I want to include a bitmap graphic in my .DOC file and associate it

with a jump macro so that a user can click on the graphic to view

a specific help topic.

This graphic should appear in the non-scrolling region of the window

with a topic caption.

I've included the BMROOT option in my .HPJ file and ensured that

the bitmap is placed in the root directory.

In my .DOC file, I've added the following syntax:

Topic Caption [image] A_G where ag.bmp is the name of the bitmap file

and A_G is the topic it should jump too.

My compilation goes fine without any errors, but I don't see the bitmap

displayed along with the topic caption in the non-scrolling region.

What am I missing? I can't figure out the graphic won't display in

the non-scrolling region?

Lavanya Mandavilli

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winhelp bmp hotspots:  how do _you_ do it ?

David,

This is how I create bitmaps for help files, it may not be the best way but it works.

1. Capture the graphic to the clipboard.

2. Paste it into Paint Shop Pro.

3. Convert this graphic to 16 colours.

4. Save it as a Zsoft PCX file.

5. Retreive the file using the windows supplied Paint Brush.

This is where I do any editing of colours for the hotspots.

6. Save this file as a .BMP or .PCX file.

7. Retrieve the file using SHED.EXE.

   ( SHED.EXE is a hotspot editor for graphics. It comes with Applications such as Borland C 3.1)

    Create the necessary hotspots with context strings, as popup or jump.

8. Save this file as .SHG

This file can now be included in your help files.

I hope this helps. The above may look involved but it doesn't take

very long to create hotspot graphics this way.

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DocToHelp - where?

In article <Cyqv8n.1CF@cix.compulink.co.uk> walkermartyn@cix.compulink.co.uk ("I Anderson") writes:

> Doc2Help ... runs like a Dog. (A compile of a 350

> Page Help Document takes around 2 days !! on a 486 dx 50

You may want to give a try to a couple of shareware products that *do*

support printed-and-online. They are WinWord macros. I don't quite believe

they will avoid this problem, but who knows?

ftp.cica.indiana.edu:pub/pc/win3/winword

drhelpe5.zip  DrHelp

hyptrk41.zip  Hyper Track. This adds very nice extra functionality to WinHelp

Unfortunately the non-registered versions only support a handful of topics

(like 20 or 30), but then registration is mere $30 or something.

  If you try them, *please* tell us about your experience. I have used DrHelp

for a small (20 pages, 60 topics) project and I plan on using HypTrk for

another not very large project.

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Enabling Search Across Help Projects

Would you please post how we can get the SearchAll product and

a phone number, if possible. I am sure there are other WINHELP

writers that would be interested in the details just as I am.

Thanks,

Lavanya K. Mandavilli

Cisco Systems

>

> Jim has produced a product called SearchAll - it does *exactly*

> what you want.  I'm not actually sure what the price is - but it

> would be a lot faster than writing it yourself.  Email me for

> contact details.

>

> Cheers,

> Stefan

>

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Looking for Help Authoring Tools

In article <h2DuuAPCBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>,

stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) wrote:

> In <393qs8$6lr@yeshua.marcam.com> colson@marcam.com (Garrett Colson) writes:

> >(Stefan: Why did you use 4 tabs and a tiny, tiny spin ctrl in the pref.

> >dialog? Why not just use 5 tabs?)

>

> We actually use 5 tabs - one just happens to be hidden.  You will

> find that a plan similar to this tiny spin ctrl is used in MFC 3.0

> (included in Visual C++ 2.0), so you may see some applications

> using these in the near future.  5 tabs wouldn't fit in the dialog -

> in that case our tabbed dialogs create a spin control.

>

How about if you remember for each dialog which panel was last active

and then when you next call up the dialog reselect the same panel?

That ought to reduce some of the tabbing around. I don't know why but

I always seem to want either the first or the last panel.

I know you said that VC2 does this, but other MS products such as

Word and Excel stack the tabs. At the end of the day we have to hope

that one method wins over the others (so we have inter product

consistency) and right now the stacked ones seem to have an advantage

in ease of use.

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HDK is the Hypertext Development Kit...

From Virtual Media. U.S. Distributor is

DEK International

1843 the Woods II

Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

(609) 424-6565

HDK claims to be "the next generation in help authoring tools." Call DEK for

a demo or reply to me by mail for more info - I have the demo but haven't had

time to play with it much...\

It's $295/license by the way...

Jim

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Winhelp FTP Site

In article <39lto0$8th@Owl.nstn.ca>,

James Brown <james-b@aci1.aci.ns.ca> wrote:

>Could anyone provide the URL for Winhelp's FTP site(s).

>

>Thanks in advance...

198.91.36.126/pub/winhelp

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Quest 5 Windows Press Text

The following is a little dated, but the product is expected to ship in

December 1994.

Can't yet come out and say how, but I can assure readers of this text that

the product works, is almost a quantum leap over Authorware and other

packages, and it's very stable, generating fast applications. It's well

worth it's (some might think steep) $3,995 ($US) asking list price,

although part of the asking price, I am sure, is a "built in" license to

use the product, and distribute MM applications.

There are rumors that a Mac and possibly UNIX version is/are on the

drawing board, once the Windows version gets out the door:

--------------------------------------------------------------

Quest 5.0 for Windows Brings Unprecedented Interactive Power and

Flexibility

to Multimedia Authoring Systems

SAN JOSE, CA, March 1, 1994--At the 1994 Intermedia Conference &

Exposition,

Allen Communication, of Salt Lake City, Utah, introduced a Windows version

of

its Quest Multimedia Authoring System. For ten years the DOS version of

Quest

has been the de facto standard for interactive multimedia trainers and

educators. Quest 5.0 for Windows presents an all-new user interface and a

breakthrough system design that promises developers the flexibility to

move

beyond typical boundaries and create in their own style.

"Quest 5.0 is far more than a conversion to the Windows platform," said

Rex

Allen, president of Allen Communication. "This is a fundamentally new

approach. It is designed, from the ground up, to harness the power of

Windows

and to bring greater interactive power within the reach of more developers

whether they are creating training, educational titles, or entertainment."

A fully-integrated authoring system, Quest 5.0 is designed for developers

at

all levels. All multimedia tasks that are frequently used are available at

the entry level. Developers work from WYSIWYG displays and floating

toolbars

to assemble graphics, text, audio, video motion, buttons, and animations,

or

to set up branching and interactions. Non-programmers can design and

create

dynamic titles and courses with Quest. At the same time, skilled

programmers

will not be inhibited either. All the power of "C" programming code is

embedded in the system.

Flexibility at Design and Frame Levels: Quest 5.0 is the only authoring

system that gives developers the flexibility to author at both the Design

and

Frame levels.

At the Design level, developers can make big-picture decisions about flow,

overall structure, and interactions. Working with postage-stamp

representations of actual frames, developers have an immediate view of how

the title content looks and how it links together. This not only

encourages

sound design, but reduces the mistakes that are made when developers are

forced to work at a micro level too soon.

At the Frame level, developers work from the inside of the frame, viewing

the

screens exactly as the end-user will see them. Quest 5.0 offers a true

WYSIWYG environment. All functions of the system can be accessed without

exiting to outside editors. Graphics, audio/video options, controls,

interactions, branching, and animations are all built into the system.

Live Objects Bring Unprecedented Interactive Power: Quest 5.0 provides

unlimited possibilities for interactivity because every object is a

"smart"

object. Developers and users can "talk to" and modify object properties

during both development and runtime. Once a "smart" object has been named,

it

comes alive. Developers can select actions and conditions for it, request

data from it, and even let the end-user manipulate it.

"'Smart' objects are the heart of Quest's interactive power. These aren't

just display tricks, but true independent objects with a life of their

own.

This feature alone shatters previous limitations on multimedia

interactivity.

True 'smart' objects bring high-level interactivity within the reach of

every

developer," Allen said.

Windows Quest includes an embedded authoring language called "Quest C,"

which

makes all the power of "C" programming language available within the

system.

Using the "Quest C Coach," non-programmers can select options from

dialogue

boxes to create C-syntax code. Without entering a line of code, they can

access programming functions, variables, and command statements to control

and manipulate "smart" objects. These features give non-programmers more

access to programming power than ever before available in an authoring

system. "C" programs can be written and compiled without going to an

external

editor. By blending "Quest C" programs with "smart" objects, developers

have

virtually unlimited multimedia power. Plus, Quest's extensible design

allows

developers to create customized "smart" objects to meet their specific

needs.

Custom "C" program templates can also be stored for repeated use.

FastTrack: With Quest's FastTrack feature, developers can quickly add

their

own content to pre-built screen layouts, menus, templates, borders,

buttons,

question/answer frames, and interactions--even a whole series of

pre-linked

frames. Entire interactions can literally be built in minutes. FastTrack

not

only cuts start-up time for new users, it also allows experienced users to

create and store their own templates, layouts, and strategies for repeated

use.

Dynamic-Link Librarian: Developers can manage all data from a dynamic-link

librarian tool. All types of data can be stored in the same

library--graphics, bitmaps, digital video (AVI) files, animations, audio

files, buttons (such as media control panels, dials, and slide controls),

screen designs, testing sequences, or even large sequences of frames

within a

title design. These items can be then be quickly accessed and used

repeatedly

in a course or title without increasing its size.

More Productivity Features: A full-featured debugger traces all objects,

interactions, and programs used within a title; it provides detailed,

prescriptive feedback in message windows. This helps developers quickly

isolate and correct problems.

A smart-spots editor helps developers specify irregular or non-adjacent

touch

areas, down to the pixel level.

On-line help and documentation, tutorials, and pre-created management

options

for controlling student logon or tracking performance are also included

with

package.

Quest 5.0 for Windows is priced at $3,995. There are no runtime fees or

royalties. Significant education and quantity discounts are available.

Customer support is free.

Allen Communications

Lakeside Plaza II

5225 Wiley Post Way

Salt Lake City, Utah 84116

(801) 537-7800,   FAX (801) 587-7805

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help files losing colour

This isn't really a winhelp programming question, but a support question.

This has probably been covered before, but my access to the news is sporadic

and I have not seen  any solutions.

Occassionally, I come across pc's where the familiar green of jump and

definition points are as black as the text.  This change of colour does not

seem to be the result of anything deliberate on the users part.  For example,

I was installing some software today, and my help files jump points are now

black whereas they used to be green.

Can anyone suggest a solution, other than reinstalling Windows?  Any ideas as

to what is causing the problem would also be interesting.

Please email me with any suggestions

Thanks in advance.

Steven Panter

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Enabling Search Across Help Projects

In <9411091203.AA56016@198.92.15.143> lmandavi@cisco.com (Lavanya K. Mandavilli) writes:

>Would you please post how we can get the SearchAll product and

>a phone number, if possible. I am sure there are other WINHELP

>writers that would be interested in the details just as I am.

I'm trying to find out phone and fax details at the moment.  I'll

post them when I've received the information.

In the meantime you can contact the company's CIS #:

Ability Software 72506,3275

(72506.3275@compuserve.com)

Cheers,

Stefan

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In <9411091222.AA35414@198.92.15.143> lmandavi@cisco.com (Lavanya K. Mandavilli) writes:

>I want to include a bitmap graphic in my .DOC file and associate it

>with a jump macro so that a user can click on the graphic to view

>a specific help topic.

>This graphic should appear in the non-scrolling region of the window

>with a topic caption.

>I've included the BMROOT option in my .HPJ file and ensured that

>the bitmap is placed in the root directory.

>In my .DOC file, I've added the following syntax:

>Topic Caption [image] A_G where ag.bmp is the name of the bitmap file

>and A_G is the topic it should jump too.

Have you tried it with just bmc rather than bmcwd??

...Stefan

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Help Compiler

In <PETER.94Nov6112056@swamp.indigo.co.il> peter@swamp.indigo.co.il (Peter Gordon) writes:

>There are several non-standard commads in an RTF compiler

>that the help compiler uses - notably the footnotes.

>Can someone point me to the documentation on the HC31 help compiler,

>or explain what the different footnotes are.

Take a look at HAG.ZIP on ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  While you are

there I would recommend that you take a look at some of the

shareware help authoring tools.  With tools such as our own

HWA you don't need to worry about footnotes at all - it makes

authoring help files a lot less stressful.

...Stefan

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HLP -> WWW?

In <39k4ce$i6i@jaws.cs.hmc.edu> jrice@pluto.pomona.claremont.edu writes:

>	Is there a converter than will convert my help file to an html doc, for WWW use?

>  I'd like to keep my links and graphics and all....

There is a tool called included in HLPDK/PA by HyperAct to do this. I

haven't seen the converter so I don't know how well it works, but it is

worth a go.

Email me if you want contact details.

...Stefan

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Tutor for C/C++ windows programing (Introduction)?

Can anyone tell me where to find a good Intro to programing windows in C or

C++?  One that can be found via FTP.  I am using Borland C++ 4.0.  It has OWL

2.0 but requires that you know somthing about programing windows. I need

the basics, source code files writen txt etc... I tried using gopher and archie

but I found nothing.  I am very good with programing DOS apps but I don't have

a clue to windows. As a mater of fact I am the author of AUTOZIP v1.0

(auto_10.zip) but still if anyone can help just follow up or e-mail me

(prefered) bbrat@indy.net

Thanks in advance.

Brian Bratcher

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 Hi !

After a few years programming in the DOS-environment, i've now to learn how

to programm in Windows. I looked at the online manual, at the books and i

found no solution for my problem. Could anybody tell me how to generate a

group in windows in Borland C++. The next questions are ? How can i generate a

programm in thiis group ? AND last but not least how can i change the icon there ?

I would be happy if anybody could help me via email

Thanks Sven

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        _/    _/  _/     _/    _/   _/   _/  _/   _/  _/       _/    _/

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DLL to scroll the Winhelp window

In article <C.Feroldi.41.0006EB04@pn.itnet.it>,

Cesare Feroldi de Rosa <C.Feroldi@pn.itnet.it> wrote:

>

>I need to insert in a topic an entry macro that scrolls the

>Winhelp window to a defined position.

>

>It should send a message to the window's scroller, I think.

>

>Has anyone already written such a .DLL?

>

You can jump to a topic in the middle of a WinHelp "page".

That's a much easier solution.  Just define a # or K footnote

in the middle of another topic (i.e. no \page before or after

it), and JI or JK to it (from your entry macro or elsewhere).

WinHelp will scroll automatically to the right position.

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HELP ! Windows problems......

Help !

I am having a lot of trouble connecting to Internet via windows-programs.

I am using Mosaic,Ewan, IrcII, WinFTP, WinGopher and Finger for Windows.

I am connected via a SLIP-connection, using Winsock.

My problem:

   "Unrecoverable Application Error"

              or

   "General Protection Failure"

              or

   "The system just locks up"

I get this message all the time. It is VERY frustrating when I get the

message in the middle of an IRC-session, or during ftp-ing a file. I then

usually get tossed out of the program.

I have used DrWatson to log some of the crashes. I don't know how to use the

information provided from this program, so I hope someone, somwhere will

PLEASE help me !!

If you can't help me, please tell me where I can find help.

If you need additional information, please mail me !

.--Eirik--.

eirika@powertech.no

Here's the log file from DrWatson:

Start Dr. Watson 0.80 - Thu Nov  3 23:16:43 1994

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Dr. Watson 0.80 Failure Report - Thu Nov  3 23:23:12 1994

BCGOPHER had a 'Null Selector (Read)' fault at BCGOPHER 1:385e

$tag$BCGOPHER$Null Selector (Read)$BCGOPHER 1:385e$mov     ax, es:[bx+01b0]$Thu Nov  3 23:23:12 1994

$param$, Last param error was: Invalid handle passed to USER 18:1aac: 0x0000

CPU Registers (regs)

ax=0160  bx=0000  cx=0400  dx=740b  si=24cc  di=0000

ip=385e  sp=5580  bp=55dc  O- D- I+ S- Z- A- P- C-

cs = 264f  8068b9a0:b53f Code Ex/R

ss = 2647  808311e0:689f Data R/W

ds = 2647  808311e0:689f Data R/W

es = 0000         0:0000 Null Ptr

CPU 32 bit Registers (32bit)

eax = 00000160  ebx = 00000000  ecx = 00000400  edx = 0000740b

esi = 000024cc  edi = 00000000  ebp = f0f055dc  esp = 80015570

fs = 0000         0:0000 Null Ptr

gs = 0000         0:0000 Null Ptr

eflag = 00000202

System Info (info)

Windows version 3.10

Retail build

Windows Build 3.1

Username Eirik Amundsen

Organization

System Free Space 15660160

Stack base 6520, top 20466, lowest 21166, size 13946

System resources:  USER: 86% free, seg 0767  GDI: 75% free, seg 05bf

LargestFree 16375808, MaxPagesAvail 3998, MaxPagesLockable 1106

TotalLinear 4924, TotalUnlockedPages 1113, FreePages 428

TotalPages 1390, FreeLinearSpace 4071, SwapFilePages 2930

Page Size 4096

6 tasks executing.

WinFlags -

  Math coprocessor

  80486

  Enhanced mode

  Protect mode

Stack Dump (stack)

Stack Frame 0 is BCGOPHER 1:385e              ss:bp 2647:55dc

264f:3853  52                    push	dx

264f:3854  50                    push	ax

264f:3855  9a 836f 0117          callf	0117:836f

264f:385a  c4 1e 159e            les	bx, [159e]

(BCGOPHER:1:385e)

264f:385e  26 8b 87 01b0         mov	ax, es:[bx+01b0]

264f:3863  c4 5e b2              les	bx, [bp+b2]

264f:3866  26 89 87 01b2         mov	es:[bx+01b2], ax

264f:386b  ff 76 0e              push	word ptr [bp+0e]

System Tasks (tasks)

Task DRWATSON, Handle 1d17, Flags 0001, Info   26864 06-16-92 12:00

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\DRWATSON.EXE

Task  PROGMAN, Handle 05f7, Flags 0001, Info  115504 06-16-92 12:00

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\PROGMAN.EXE

Task      NVS, Handle 12e7, Flags 0001, Info   33792 06-01-94  3:42

  FileName C:\NORMAN\NVS.EXE

Task    CLOCK, Handle 19c7, Flags 0001, Info   16784 06-16-92 12:00

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\CLOCK.EXE

Task   TCPMAN, Handle 1da7, Flags 0001, Info   93184 02-02-94 23:31

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\MOSAIC\TCPMAN.EXE

Task BCGOPHER, Handle 2757, Flags 0001, Info  113536 02-17-94 11:02

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\GOPHER\BCGOPHER.EXE

1> I am using an Internet mail reader via a

****************************************************************************

Dr. Watson 0.80 Failure Report - Thu Nov  3 23:24:12 1994

MOSAIC had a 'Exceed Segment Bounds (Read)' fault at MOSAIC 7:3c47

$tag$MOSAIC$Exceed Segment Bounds (Read)$MOSAIC 7:3c47$repne   scasb$Thu Nov  3 23:24:12 1994

CPU Registers (regs)

ax=0000  bx=0002  cx=fee1  dx=0002  si=0001  di=0120

ip=3c47  sp=d892  bp=d892  O- D- I+ S- Z+ A- P+ C-

cs = 2657  80817a60:a59f Code Ex/R

ss = 278f  807e2000:ed5f Data R/W

ds = 278f  807e2000:ed5f Data R/W

es = 24c7     75900:011f Data R/W

CPU 32 bit Registers (32bit)

eax = 00000000  ebx = 00000002  ecx = 0000fee1  edx = 00000002

esi = 00000001  edi = 00000120  ebp = c0c0d892  esp = 8001d882

fs = 0000         0:0000 Null Ptr

gs = 0000         0:0000 Null Ptr

eflag = 00000202

System Info (info)

Windows version 3.10

Retail build

Windows Build 3.1

Username Eirik Amundsen

Organization

System Free Space 15428960

Stack base 47868, top 52770, lowest 53370, size 4902

System resources:  USER: 77% free, seg 0767  GDI: 72% free, seg 05bf

LargestFree 15798272, MaxPagesAvail 3857, MaxPagesLockable 1106

TotalLinear 4924, TotalUnlockedPages 1113, FreePages 255

TotalPages 1390, FreeLinearSpace 3898, SwapFilePages 2930

Page Size 4096

6 tasks executing.

WinFlags -

  Math coprocessor

  80486

  Enhanced mode

  Protect mode

Stack Dump (stack)

Stack Frame 0 is MOSAIC 7:3c47                ss:bp 278f:d892

2657:3c3d  8b d7                 mov	dx, di

2657:3c3f  c4 7e 06              les	di, [bp+06]

2657:3c42  33 c0                 xor	ax, ax

2657:3c44  b9 ffff               mov	cx, ffff

(MOSAIC:7:3c47)

2657:3c47  f2 ae                 repne	scasb

2657:3c49  f7 d1                 not	cx

2657:3c4b  75 01                 jnz	short 3c4e

2657:3c4d  49                    dec	cx

System Tasks (tasks)

Task DRWATSON, Handle 1d17, Flags 0001, Info   26864 06-16-92 12:00

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\DRWATSON.EXE

Task  PROGMAN, Handle 05f7, Flags 0001, Info  115504 06-16-92 12:00

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\PROGMAN.EXE

Task      NVS, Handle 12e7, Flags 0001, Info   33792 06-01-94  3:42

  FileName C:\NORMAN\NVS.EXE

Task    CLOCK, Handle 19c7, Flags 0001, Info   16784 06-16-92 12:00

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\CLOCK.EXE

Task   TCPMAN, Handle 1da7, Flags 0001, Info   93184 02-02-94 23:31

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\MOSAIC\TCPMAN.EXE

Task   MOSAIC, Handle 23a7, Flags 0001, Info  592432 01-31-94 16:37

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\MOSAIC\MOSAIC.EXE

1> I am using Mosaic for Windows. This

2> happens often with all my internet software. I

3> am connectet via a SLIP connection. I just

4> cant't figure out what's wrong. PLEASE HELP

5> !

****************************************************************************

Dr. Watson 0.80 Failure Report - Thu Nov  3 23:47:22 1994

IRCII had a 'Exceed Segment Bounds (Read)' fault at IRCII 15:0d15

$tag$IRCII$Exceed Segment Bounds (Read)$IRCII 15:0d15$lodsb$Thu Nov  3 23:47:22 1994

$param$, Last param error was: Invalid handle passed to USER 25:274d: 0x0000

CPU Registers (regs)

ax=0b00  bx=959c  cx=0000  dx=2d3f  si=0a00  di=95a8

ip=0d15  sp=959c  bp=9aba  O- D- I+ S- Z- A- P+ C+

cs = 2d47  80904760:129f Code Ex/R

ss = 2d3f  80915120:f79f Data R/W

ds = 35b7  808a05e0:09ff Data R/W

es = 2d3f  80915120:f79f Data R/W

CPU 32 bit Registers (32bit)

eax = 00000b00  ebx = 0000959c  ecx = 00000000  edx = 00002d3f

esi = 00000a00  edi = 000095a8  ebp = f8f89aba  esp = 8001958c

fs = 0000         0:0000 Null Ptr

gs = 0000         0:0000 Null Ptr

eflag = 00000202

System Info (info)

Windows version 3.10

Retail build

Windows Build 3.1

Username Eirik Amundsen

Organization

System Free Space 14906560

Stack base 23008, top 26850, lowest 45378, size 3842

System resources:  USER: 65% free, seg 0767  GDI: 55% free, seg 05bf

LargestFree 15351808, MaxPagesAvail 3748, MaxPagesLockable 1103

TotalLinear 4924, TotalUnlockedPages 1110, FreePages 146

TotalPages 1390, FreeLinearSpace 3789, SwapFilePages 2930

Page Size 4096

7 tasks executing.

WinFlags -

  Math coprocessor

  80486

  Enhanced mode

  Protect mode

Stack Dump (stack)

Stack Frame 0 is IRCII 15:0d15                ss:bp 2d3f:9aba

2d47:0d09  8b dc                 mov	bx, sp

2d47:0d0b  8c da                 mov	dx, ds

2d47:0d0d  36 c4 7f 08           les	di, ss:[bx+08]

2d47:0d11  36 c5 77 04           lds	si, ss:[bx+04]

(IRCII:15:0d15)

2d47:0d15  ac                    lodsb

2d47:0d16  aa                    stosb

2d47:0d17  8a c8                 mov	cl, al

2d47:0d19  32 ed                 xor	ch, ch

System Tasks (tasks)

Task DRWATSON, Handle 1d17, Flags 0001, Info   26864 06-16-92 12:00

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\DRWATSON.EXE

Task   MOSAIC, Handle 2657, Flags 0001, Info  592432 01-31-94 16:37

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\MOSAIC\MOSAIC.EXE

Task      NVS, Handle 12e7, Flags 0001, Info   33792 06-01-94  3:42

  FileName C:\NORMAN\NVS.EXE

Task  PROGMAN, Handle 05f7, Flags 0001, Info  115504 06-16-92 12:00

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\PROGMAN.EXE

Task    CLOCK, Handle 19c7, Flags 0001, Info   16784 06-16-92 12:00

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\CLOCK.EXE

Task   TCPMAN, Handle 1da7, Flags 0001, Info   93184 02-02-94 23:31

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\MOSAIC\TCPMAN.EXE

Task    IRCII, Handle 2b87, Flags 0001, Info  155648 07-23-94 17:05

  FileName C:\WINDOWS\IRC\IRCIIWIN.EXE

Stop Dr. Watson 0.80 - Fri Nov  4 00:05:15 1994

Start Dr. Watson 0.80 - Mon Nov  7 21:07:28 1994

Stop Dr. Watson 0.80 - Mon Nov  7 21:10:00 1994

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ANNOUNCE: Help Assistant 3.3 Available

I just uploaded the latest version of Help Assistant (version 3.3)

You can obtain it via anon ftp from quasar.sba.dal.ca under /www/zips

This is an excellent tool for help file development. It will even

allow you to include animations and avi files. I presently use it to

maintain the Visual Basic FAQ (HLP format)

I recommend you give it a try, it is an inexpensive alternative to the

"others". It requires Word 6.0a.

Please note I am not the developer of this tool, just a very satisfied

customer.

Cheers.

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Training Technologies Group

School of Business Administration, Dalhousie University

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Nova Scotia? Check out http://ttg.sba.dal.ca/nstour

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was: help menu option in OWL2, now: RTF format

In <39o7lk$rbq@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> clump@andes.cs.mcgill.ca (c. verbrugge) writes:

>Well, i've looked at a couple such things, and they look very nice.

>But, i can't afford any of the shareware products i've seen at the

>moment, let alone ms word. Where did you find documentation on RTF?

The RTF docs are in quite a few different places - the best place

for you to get a copy would be on ftp.cica.indiana.edu in HAG.ZIP.

Cheers,

Stefan

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   and easy way to write Windows Help files.

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Stop dynamic scaling of bitmaps?

In <EGp7N4OhGJMRvFol06b@panix.com> rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>

>In article <CyG9Ew.L5q@inter.NL.net>, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

>>

>> In article <38u2v7$f44@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>,

>> Stephen Jenkins <stephenj@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>> >Can anyone tell me how to prevent the help engine from scaling

>bitmaps.

>> >Depending on the pixel resolution the help file is being run on it

>wants

>> >to scale everything based on the system font size. Somehow I want

>to

>> >prevent this!!! It makes the graphics look awful. I've played

>around

>> >with some of the MS help authoring tools but the help engine always

>> >wants to scale everything. Help.

>>

>> Read your .BMP into the Hotspot Editor, don't define any hotspots

>> (unless you want to of course), but just save the file as .SHG.

>> Now change your reference to the .bmp into a reference to the .shg

>> (using {bmc, {bml or {bmr...).  Voila: WinHelp will never scale

>> .shg's.

>

>Or use mrbc to have specific bitmaps for specific resolutions.

>

>Ron

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>

>

I think I tried your suggestion, about using mrbc to lock in specific

bitmap resolutions, but it bloated the help file too much.

Thanks for your interest.

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SAMS ; How to book on help

You can order Developing Online Help for Windows from the authors:

WinWriters

3415 Soundview Dr. W

Seattle, WA 98199

206-285-2606

800-838-8999

CompuServe: 71640,3260

-Patti Anastasia

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RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

Its incredible that so many people prefer Doc2Help to RoboHelp.

IMO, RoboHelp is more flexible, easier to learn, is less

dependent on Word for Windows macros, compiles much faster, and

is generally a friendlier, more usable product than Doc2Help.

I don't like the level of automation that Doc2Help uses-it makes

me feel powerless over the authoring process.

Also, as an author of technical docs, its my job to decide how to

supply information to customers. Like it or not, all software

information is going online-what's the purpose of print

documentation for non-hardware info (except quick reference

cards)? This is my chief complaint against Doc2Help-its

straddling the fence on this issue. RoboHelp helps me create

online documentation without worrying about print documentation.

Besides, no company will pay to produce both.

For the fastest conversion of Word print docs to online, use

HelpBreeze. This is so far the best compromise I've found.

HelpBreeze also lets you embed presentations/interactive

tutorials in your help (yes, with animation) and lets you group

topics on the fly and assign a new parent topic to the group.

Try it.

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DocToHelp - Long Compile Times was: DocToHelp - where?

In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp garyd@netcom.com (Gary M. Dietz)

said:

>I too ran into this problem with D2H 1.5.  I had a doc that was 150 pages

>when printed, and in the online version about 120 topics (in secondary

>windows) that were marked as "online only."

>

>The D2H pre-compile took about 5 hours.

>

>Now, I think that the design of the precompile is brilliant (and,

>ironically somewhat reminiscent of the  4 pass compile performed by the

>mainframe publishing system BookMaster).  Yet, it takes FOR-FRICKIN'-EVER

>and did consistently crash Word 2.0c.

Gary,

There has to be something very wrong here. I would not expect a project of

this size (even if you had added a slew of additional links, index entries

(keywords) and Glossary Terms) to take more than 20 - 30 minutes. What type

of a processor were you using? You also mention that it crashed the system.

What were the actual messages and when did they occur. If you'd like, I'd

be glad to review the project.

Paul Neshamkin

WexTech Systems Techncial Support

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Multi-File Keyword Search

In article <Cyz3zM.Mpo@metrics.com>,

Ralph Walden  <ralphw@microsoft.com> wrote:

>In article <1994Nov5.085904.360@vms.huji.ac.il>, dennis turner writes:

>

>|         I'm trying to translate a routine from pascal to visual

>| basic - so far, without much success.  It appears in Jim

>| Michel's book, A Developer's Guide to Wihelp.exe, from pages

>| 278 to 286 in chapter 11, Adding a Multi-File Keyword Search

>| Facility.

>

>Jim's routine relies on the implementation of WinHelp, assuming that

>keywords are not compressed. That's still true for WinHelp 4.0, but is

>much less likely to be true for future releases as we continue to work

>on reducing the size of help files. If the keywords get compressed in a

>future version, any dll trying to access this internal help file

>structure will break.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The last sentence was refering to the "undocumented" internal help file I

hope, if I want to access a file using the internal documented callbacks,

it will still work, right ?

I know that MediaView is not based on the LDLLHandler model, I hope that

you will notify us in advance if you intend to abandon this model for

WinHelp as well ...

>

>And as an aside, multi-file keyword and full-text searching is built-in

>to WinHelp 4.0.

Thanks,

Ron.

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Microsoft JumpStart CD

I've seen a few references to the JumpStart CD. What is on this CD and how

do I get it?

-Patti Anastasia

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full text

Timothy A. Stewart (tstewart@ruacad.ac.runet.edu) wrote:

: Hi:

: I have successfully compiled a help file with a full text capability (that is,

: it has the index and the full text search button within the help file.)

: When I try to run the file, however, I get the following message:

: Not Enough Memory to Run This Application

: Close one or more applications and try again.

: I do have enough memory. I don't understand.  Any suggestions.

the dll's are not being found perhaps?

--

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Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

[CONFIG]

CreateButton(`glossary_btn', `&Glossary', `JI(`abb.hlp>PictWin', `Topic0000')')

Try using normal quotes outside each parameter.

It might or might not work

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

then.  E.g:

CreateButton("glossary_btn", "&Glossary", "JI(`abb.hlp>PictWin', `Topic0000')")

>

>...Stefan

Duh, I guess it's me, then. Let me start over a bit...  All I

am trying to do is create a "standard" Glossary type button and

call it into a secondary window.  Am I possibly using the wrong

macro command?  Should it be JumpContents I should be using?

So I did what you suggested, and it still gives an error and no

secondary window.  When I remove the -- >PictWin' -- term, the

error goes away, but, of course no secondary window. It just

shows up in the same window I am in, returning to last topic

when I hit 'BACK'.

I guess HWA does the glossary thing automatically, eh?

[Heh, I did my first .SHG the other day. Egads, that is

convoluted by hand.]

-\i regards \i0

\pard

BaDge

<baj7d@virginia.EDU>

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Problem Part II

        OKay, when I remove my file it loads okay.  But why?

I've compiled the hlp file in the past, and it functions as it

should.  Yet it seems to be the problem.

        Granted, I have quite a few topics, and I've done it

all in one file.  Is this the problem?

                                        Jeff

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Looking for Help Authoring Tools

In <cPWlkaN0YikT072yn@rcp.co.uk> Duncan@rcp.co.uk (Duncan Booth) writes:

>How about if you remember for each dialog which panel was last active

>and then when you next call up the dialog reselect the same panel?

>That ought to reduce some of the tabbing around. I don't know why but

>I always seem to want either the first or the last panel.

I think we might change it so that if you press the button it doesn't

actually change the active tab, but rather displays one other tabs, so

to go from one end to the other would take only 1 click rather than the

4 it does now.  Does that sound Ok?

>I know you said that VC2 does this, but other MS products such as

>Word and Excel stack the tabs. At the end of the day we have to hope

>that one method wins over the others (so we have inter product

>consistency) and right now the stacked ones seem to have an advantage

>in ease of use.

I agree - the stacked ones are better, but they are *much* more complex

to implement.  Chicago appears to use stacked tabs (from the pictures

freely available) so it won't be long before we'll all be happy :-).

Cheers,

Stefan

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   Ask about Help Writer's Assistant for Windows - the visual

   and easy way to write Windows Help files.

   (HWAB51_1.ZIP and HWAB51_2.ZIP on ftp.cica.indiana.edu)

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   I have to pay for email so please ask before sending large messages.

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Creating help files

In article <CysJso.J86@cruzio.com>, gstark@cruzio.com says:

>

>In article <G4NuuAsKBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>, stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

>> In <1994Nov1.134636.5510@ludens> kunszabo@ludens.elte.hu writes:

>> >Hi,

>>

>> >Could somebody help to me how can i create WinHelp (.HLP) files?

>>

>> >Is it possible to download any info from internet?

>>

>> You can download quite a few tools from ftp.cica.indiana.edu -

>> I'm sure you'll find a tool you like.

>>

>> Our tool, HWA, includes a tutorial which will help you get to

>> know how to create help files, I'm sure other tools do also.

>>

>> ...Stefan

>Very smoothly done,Dude!

>

>This is exactly what I meant by my 'value added' comments. Kudos.

>

>Gary

But then again, Stefans message seems to be a magnitude more useful to

the original poster than yours...

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Out of Memeory Error

In article <3932m2INNsm1@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Eric Davis <edavis@oasys.dt.navy.mil> writes:

>Hi,

>

>I've noticed a few problems with running out of memory

>as well.

>

>I think it has to do with the size of the graphics in the

>file.  I once put a graphic in and it would balk trying

>to compile it, when I would take the graphic out, it would

>compile without any problems.

>

>I have a P5-66 with 16Mbytes.  And the file is only 31666bytes

>without the graphic.

>

>Anybody got any ideas?

Try referencing the graphics instead of pasting them in the document.

For example, [image] where you want the graphic to display.

Lilly-Anne

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help files losing colour

In article <783900811snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

>From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)

>Subject: Re: help files losing colour

>Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 22:13:31 +0000

>In article <s.panter.100.000772E5@dce.vic.gov.au>

>           s.panter@dce.vic.gov.au "Steven Panter" writes:

>>Occassionally, I come across pc's where the familiar green of jump and

>>definition points are as black as the text.  This change of colour does not

>>seem to be the result of anything deliberate on the users part.  For example,

>>I was installing some software today, and my help files jump points are now

>>black whereas they used to be green.

>>

>>Can anyone suggest a solution, other than reinstalling Windows?  Any ideas as

>>to what is causing the problem would also be interesting.

>The default colours are set in the VIDEO driver. You'll get black jumps,

>for example on all 24-bit display drivers, due to a bug in Windows.

>You can override the default colours by specifying your own in WIN.INI.

>I don't know the settings off the top of my head, but I'm sure that

>somebody else will tell you. John?

>Chris

I have managed to solve the problem on one computer so far.  By changing the

video display to be the normal VGA and restarting Windows, changed the colours

back to normal.  I then changed the display back to 800x600x256 colours.  I

still have green for jump points.  Trying this solution on the second pc did

not work.

Any suggestions anyone

Steven

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Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

  A while ago I posted a question about how to prevent WinHelp from

dynamically scaling bitmaps depending on the system font size.  While

I didn't get any answers that worked for me, it did  prompt me to do

some research in to the problem. Happy to say I did find a solution.

I am posting a utility, that I wrote, that will allow you to change

the target resolution of a SHG file without using SHED(segmented

hotspot editor). The really cool thing about this utility is that it

also allows you to set the SHG file so that WinHelp *will not* scale

the bitmap(yes, it's true). The name of the application is "ShgRez",

and requires VBRUN300.DLL, which is not included. So, if you don't

have this file you'll have to find it somewhere on the NET. This

application is freeware, so feel free to post it anywhere you feel is

appropriate. There is a short description about its usage if you

click on the "About" button.

  The bulk of this message is ShgRez in uuencoded format. If you

don't know how to rebuild this into the ZIP file that contains the

ShgRez application, you will need a uudecoder and then an

unzipper. If this is all geek to you please post a message asking

for help. I'll see if I can get you up and running.

  Enjoy, and please let me know what you think.

ShgRez is Copyright(c)1994 by Stephen Jenkins-All Rights Reserved.

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Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

In article <Cz295L.Dx@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>CreateButton("glossary_btn", "&Glossary", "JI(`abb.hlp>PictWin', `Topic0000')")

>>

>Duh, I guess it's me, then. Let me start over a bit...  All I

>am trying to do is create a "standard" Glossary type button and

>call it into a secondary window.  Am I possibly using the wrong

>macro command?  Should it be JumpContents I should be using?

>So I did what you suggested, and it still gives an error and no

>secondary window.  When I remove the -- >PictWin' -- term, the

>error goes away, but, of course no secondary window. It just

>shows up in the same window I am in, returning to last topic

>when I hit 'BACK'.

In which .HPJ file is PictWin defined?  If it is defined in the .HPJ for the

.HLP calling abc.hlp, then you will always get the error you describe.  If you

define PictWin in ABC.HPJ, you will see the results you want.

When you do an interfile jump to a secondary window, that secondary window

must be defined in the .HPJ for the destination .HLP.  Otherwise, the

destination .HLP says it doesn't know a thing about the secondary window you

want to use.

Hope this helps!

Bev Freed

Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

Dallas, TX

e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

'Toon Physics: Any body in motion will tend to remain

in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly.

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Hello,

I just downloaded VB Helpwriter 1.8.9 and am having a few problems.

First, the tutorial helpfile doesn't seem to match the actual

application.  It's as if the tutorial was written for an older version

of the program and wasn't updated when the author added fancy new

tabs and 3D controls to the program.  Doesn't seem like a very good

advertisement of the product if the author doesn't bother to use it

himself...  no big deal really, just curious.

Anyway, I'm also having trouble with what seem to be simple procedures.

The help (both tutorial and application help) says that to create a jump

to a new (non-existing) topic, you select the text and then click the

right mouse button and drag the arrow shape to the main window.  When *I*

have text selected and then click the right button, the selection

reverts back to a bar (carat).  I can't drag anything anywhere.

I must be doing something wrong cause I've seen lots of talk about this

product on the net but haven't seen this problem.

Any help...

Tom

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Word 2.0c macros

I'm betting that some of you guys have some really nifty macros for making

help programming simpler.  I'm finding the macro language documention very

obscure, and I'm wondering if any kind souls with neat macro would

consider sharing them with others here.  If anyone felt inclinded to email

me some I would be appreciative.

I'd also like to mention that I have created a couple of rather large

Windows Help files that contain occult classics, like Aleister Crowleys

Book of the Law, and Magick in theory and Practice.  If anyone is

interested in seeing these I would be happy share them, although I don't

have an ftp site.  perhaps some Win Help archive site somewhere?  Does

anyone know of such a site where uploads could be placed?

It would be interesting as well to see RTF files as well as macros so that

we might be able to see how differnt people address the various issues of

creating help files.

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Edit copy of large topics

SMDiamond (smdiamond@aol.com) wrote:

: In article <39ofkm$re@news.millcomm.com>, robin@millcomm.com (Robin)

: writes:

: >Some of the HLP files I'm building have very large topics that wont fit

: in

: >the Edit copy feature.  Does anyone have a way to do this?  What I'd

: >really like is to be able to highlight and copy text right from the

: screen

: >into the clipboard.  (hint hint 4.0 developers)

: Robin,

: I don't know whether or not WinHelp 4.0 (or 95, or whatever they'll be

: calling it by the time it's released) will have this feature. However, the

: MediaView libraries (which have just been released on the latest MSDN CD

: level II and on the new Multimedia Jumpstart CD 2.0) certainly do permit

: this. You have to be willing to write your own browser (or modify one of

: the samples that Microsoft has provided) but you gain much more control

: over the user interface.

Sounds like a daunting task... Where might these samples be found?

: Steve Diamond

: Diamond Consulting Services

: Tucson, Arizona

: smdiamond@aol.com

: 70762.130@compuserve.com

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Copying text from WinHelp 4.0

 In article <39ofkm$re@news.millcomm.com>, robin@millcomm.com (Robin) writes:

| >Some of the HLP files I'm building have very large topics that wont fit

| in

| >the Edit copy feature.  Does anyone have a way to do this?  What I'd

| >really like is to be able to highlight and copy text right from the

| screen

| >into the clipboard.  (hint hint 4.0 developers)

Not only does WinHelp 4.0 allow you to select the text you want to

copy, but if the application you want to copy the text to is an OLE 2

drop target, you can simply click on the highlighted text in your topic

and drag it to the application you want it copied to. Note that

selection is done directly in the topic -- the Edit copy dialog box has

been removed completely. The only limitation on size is the amount of

memory available on your system (including swap file space).

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Multi-File Keyword Search

In article <39p4lm$sk1@panix2.panix.com>, Ron asks

| The last sentence was refering to the "undocumented" internal help file I

| hope, if I want to access a file using the internal documented callbacks,

| it will still work, right ?

Yes, they will continue to work.

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can't get [Windows] main= statement to work

Damn it, I know this was discussed some time ago, but I didn't save it

and it's not in the winhelp faq (mine may be old).

What's wrong with this:

[Windows]

main=, (0,60,400,300), 0, (,,), (,,), 1

HC 3.10.505 says:

"Warning 2411: line...16 of ...: Invalid syntax in window color"

and ignores the whole "main=" line.

If I replace each (,,) with (255,0,0) or any valid RGB triplet, the

message goes away.

All I want to do is specify the location and size of the initial window.

I definitely don't want to have to specify any colours.

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Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

In article <39ulul$kg2@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>, stephenj@ix.netcom.com

(Stephen Jenkins) writes:

>The bulk of this message is ShgRez in uuencoded format. If you

>don't know how to rebuild this into the ZIP file that contains the

>ShgRez application, you will need a uudecoder and then an

>unzipper. If this is all geek to you please post a message asking

>for help. I'll see if I can get you up and running.

Well, not all "geek" but I don't have access to a Unix machine at the

moment. Are you aware of where I can find a uudecoder that will run under

DOS/Windows? Or can you post your program at some ftp site? It would be a

very useful thing to have!

Thanks.

Steve Diamond

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PLEASE HELP!!!! DESPERATE

Keith A. Luczywo

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.   USA

kal993@nwu.edu

Please help me.  I am having a serious problem.  While in Windows

I will be randomly kicked out into Dos.  I will be doing something at

one moment and the next I am staring at a C:\ prompt.  I have tried

everything.  I have reinstalled Windows.  Any help would be very

appreciated.  I really don't want to format my drive.  I have over 350 Megs

on it.  If this is the wrong group please forward it to others that can

answer my question.  Thanks!!!

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DLL to scroll the Winhelp window

Nice, much like the #anchor statement of HTML .

Many thanks to Chris Hemedinger and Miguel Carrasquer who

answered to my question.

BTW It seems I should read the HAG more carefully :-)

+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=

<a href="mailto:C.Feroldi@pn.itnet.it">Cesare Feroldi</a>

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SCANNER use in WINDOWS

     I use photoshop for windows and I have a non-twain compatable

hand-held scanner.  I also have the UMAX twain driver installation

program.  How could I go about getting the scanner to work with photoshop??

        ANy help would be great!!!

email  --  csmyth@uoguelph.ca

CHriS>..

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full text

In article <1994Nov11.124557.6925@reks.uia.ac.be>,

Boris.Treiger <treiger@schs.uia.ac.be> wrote:

>'m not able to use full-text-search ability. All the time I receive error: NOT

>ENOUGH MEMORY!!

>Please, winhelp guru's (Miguel, Stefan ?) help me. What I do wrong?

>	Boris Treiger

>	Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen

>	Chemical Dept

>	treiger@uia.ua.ac.be

I've checked this, and the most likely cause is that in your

xxx.HPJ, [BAGGAGE] section, you have specified:

BAG.INI

or:

xxx.ini

or:

<nothing>

instead of bag.ini.  The full-text search engine looks for a

baggage file called "bag.ini", all lowercase, and won't accept

anything else!  The error message is not very "help"-"full",

of course...

Groeten,

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Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

In <Cz295L.Dx@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>Duh, I guess it's me, then. Let me start over a bit...  All I

>am trying to do is create a "standard" Glossary type button and

>call it into a secondary window.  Am I possibly using the wrong

>macro command?  Should it be JumpContents I should be using?

>So I did what you suggested, and it still gives an error and no

>secondary window.  When I remove the -- >PictWin' -- term, the

>error goes away, but, of course no secondary window. It just

>shows up in the same window I am in, returning to last topic

>when I hit 'BACK'.

This is taken from the HWAWIN.HPJ file for HWA/w.  It works for

me, hopefully it will also work for you!

[CONFIG]

CreateButton("btn_glossary", "&Glossary", "JumpId(`HWAWIN.HLP>wnd_glos', `glossary_title')")

[Windows]

main="Help Writer's Assistant Help",,,,

wnd_glos="Glossary",(590,0,433,1023),,,

Cheers,

Stefan

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   and easy way to write Windows Help files.

   (HWAB51_1.ZIP and HWAB51_2.ZIP on ftp.cica.indiana.edu)

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VB Helpwriter ?'s

Hi, Tom!

I'm the author of VB HelpWriter. Perhaps I can help here.

Tom Hudgins (thudg@tog-1s.hac.com) wrote:

: Hello,

: I just downloaded VB Helpwriter 1.8.9 and am having a few problems.

: First, the tutorial helpfile doesn't seem to match the actual

: application.  It's as if the tutorial was written for an older version

: of the program and wasn't updated when the author added fancy new

: tabs and 3D controls to the program.  Doesn't seem like a very good

: advertisement of the product if the author doesn't bother to use it

: himself...  no big deal really, just curious.

Actually, you're right.  I need to update the Tutorial.

I've put so much effort into getting requested features incorporated, I

forgot to update it.

Perhaps that's be remedied this week<G>.

: Anyway, I'm also having trouble with what seem to be simple procedures.

: The help (both tutorial and application help) says that to create a jump

: to a new (non-existing) topic, you select the text and then click the

: right mouse button and drag the arrow shape to the main window.  When *I*

: have text selected and then click the right button, the selection

: reverts back to a bar (carat).  I can't drag anything anywhere.

Click the right mouse button and move the mouse without releasing the

button. (Forgive me if this is what you're already doing)

Another alternative is to use the "Arrow" button on the button bar.

(It does the same thing)

: I must be doing something wrong cause I've seen lots of talk about this

: product on the net but haven't seen this problem.

If the "Select" and "drag" problem continues not to work, it might be due

to some sort of DLL conflict in your system.

If you continue to have problems, please email a short description of

your system configuration. I also encourage you to reboot with just

program manager as shell and try VB HelpWriter as the only running

process. Sometimes that helps identify conflicting applications.

I've heard of Dashboard or Compuserve Navigator problems "stealing" the

mouse processing in some cases.  (Although I routinely use both programs

with VB HelpWriter without problems now.)

Please let me know how this works out for you.

Sincerely,

Fred Bunn

President, Teletech Systems

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Quest 5 Windows Press Text

jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>>Quest 5.0 for Windows is priced at $3,995. There are no runtime fees or

>>royalties. Significant education and quantity discounts are available.

>>Customer support is free.

>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>	Well, with a price tag of $4k, it bloody well be free!

The sad thing about customer support is that most people will pick up

the phone and call for "Free" customer support instead of reading the

manual. In my work, I have to take tech calls inbetween working on other

programs. Half the time, people haven't even opened the manual much less

read anything in it.

Maybe Quest wouldn't cost $4000 if people would learn to RTFM!!!!!

instead of calling 1-800-HELP-ME-I-CANT-READ-A-FUCKING-MANUAL.

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Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

In article <noringCz482z.536@netcom.com>, Jon Noring <noring@netcom.com> wrote:

>Hello,

>

>As a publisher of electronic books (and currently using WinHelp with a lot

>of custom enhancements), I am always looking for ways to improve the

>usability of the books.

>

>The one thing that would go the furthest in adding user-friendliness to the

>e-books is to make it possible for the end-user to be able to scale the

>fonts up or down in point size in the viewer.  This would make it possible

>for the end-user to optimize the appearance depending on screen resolution

>and monitor size.  Right now I have to compromise in uncomfortable ways to be

>able to handle everything from VGA laptops to >21" super-hi-res monitors.  In

>addition, many of the visually-impaired would like to be able to increase

>the font-size for obvious reasons.

>

>My question is, can this be done *now*, either in WinHelp (3.1 and the

>upcoming Windows 95), MS Multimedia Viewer 2.0, or in MediaView?  Or are

>there fundamental limitations to all of these tools that make this capability

>impossible?  (I would be surprised if this could not be done using MediaView

>but I'd really like to be able to do it in WinHelp 95.)

Yes, MediaView can do it.  The sample Media View viewer has an

Options | Magnify Text... menuitem, which corresponds with the

fMVSetMagnifier() MediaView API function.

>Of course, if it is doable for WinHelp 3.1 and 95 using custom DLL's, I would

>be the happiest camper in the world.  I'd even pay a small royalty off of

>e-book sales for incorporating this capability!  (hint, hint, nudge, nudge,

>say no more, say no more... :^) )

>

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For Sale: RoboHelp 2.6

Scot Hacker <bokchoi@delphi.com> writes:

>RoboHelp 2.6, disk packet still sealed.  $100.

.. is sold.

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SAMS ; How to book on help

Try the on-line computer bookstore on CompuServe. When I looked

last they had it. Also, the small computer book club has it.

Good luck!

J.K. Genser

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Jim Michel in VB

In article <39lbgq$jfi@panix2.panix.com>, rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>

> I would suggest that you either buy Turbo Pascal for Windows/Borland

> Pascal and re-compile the examples Jim gives, or ask someone to build you

> such a DLL that you will be able to call from VB.

>

> Hope this helps.

>

> Ron.

> --

> Ron Loewy, Author of HLPDK/PA, PASTERP and Interactive Help |

> rloewy@panix.com

Funny you suggest this.  I meandered into Kol Ze'ev, the local

computer store next to the trendy cafes, and there on sale was

the "Hebrew" edition of TPW, for 309 shekels.  "Why does the

English edition cost 599 shekels, and the Hebrew 309,", I asked.

"What's the difference?"

The wrapper, I was told.  Also, there is rewritten Hebrew documentation

inside.  I see, I replied.  They paid some Tel-Aviv advertising company

a small fortune to design and produce this fancy outside, paid a

translater another fortune to translate the documentation into Hebrew,

then cut the price in half?  Do they also want to buy shares in the

brooklyn bridge?

Anyway, I bought it.  The Hebrew "documentation" is a 12 page

"guide" that doesn't even tell me how to compile a program into

a dll or exe.  I haven't been able to figure it out.

So, I'm begging.  What commands to I use to compile Jim Mischel's

code into a dll.  I'd be mighty thankful.

-dennis turner

p.s.  The store had not one book on turbo pascal for windows, nor

did any other store in town.

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CBT Recording and Playback

I'm looking for some information about tools that can handle computer

based training.  Something that can generate the kinds of online

tutorials found in Word 2.0, or Quattro Pro 5.0, and play them back would

be ideal.  If you know of any packages that can do this, I would love to

hear about it.

patrick@shamrck.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca

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Software Developer              |  to fly, he'd make it easier to

Shamrock Systems & Technology   |  get to the airport."

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Enabling Search Across Help Projects

In article <Q7luuATBBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>, stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

>

> As I have already mentioned in another post - there is a product

> called SearchAll which will allow this.  It allows you to override

> the Search button to display their Search dialog (really similar to

> the WinHelp one).  If I recall correctly the price is around

> $149-$199US.  Email me if you want contact details.

>

> ...Stefan

>

> --

I'd like the address.  Probably, a lot of readers would.  Why

not post it here?

-dennis turner

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DLL to scroll the Winhelp window

I need to insert in a topic an entry macro that scrolls the

Winhelp window to a defined position.

It should send a message to the window's scroller, I think.

Has anyone already written such a .DLL?

TIA for any hint.

(please email and I'll summarize)

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In <1994Nov11.031811.6160@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>Damn it, I know this was discussed some time ago, but I didn't save it

>and it's not in the winhelp faq (mine may be old).

>What's wrong with this:

>	[Windows]

>	main=, (0,60,400,300), 0, (,,), (,,), 1

>HC 3.10.505 says:

>	"Warning 2411: line...16 of ...: Invalid syntax in window color"

>and ignores the whole "main=" line.

>If I replace each (,,) with (255,0,0) or any valid RGB triplet, the

>message goes away.

Try leaving the field blank - I do this all the time and

it works great!

Cheers,

Stefan

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full text

In <1994Nov11.124557.6925@reks.uia.ac.be> treiger@schs.uia.ac.be (Boris.Treiger) writes:

>'m not able to use full-text-search ability. All the time I receive error: NOT

>ENOUGH MEMORY!!

I've never actually used Full Text search - though I must have a look at it...

What I do recall from some time ago is that there were some problems if files

referenced where in uppercase when WinHelp expected them to be in lower case

(or vice versa).

I hope I have been of some assistance,

Stefan

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In article <1994Nov11.031811.6160@emr1.emr.ca>, John Grant wrote:

>

> Damn it, I know this was discussed some time ago, but I didn't save

it

> and it's not in the winhelp faq (mine may be old).

>

> What's wrong with this:

> 	[Windows]

> 	main=, (0,60,400,300), 0, (,,), (,,), 1

>

> HC 3.10.505 says:

> 	"Warning 2411: line...16 of ...: Invalid syntax in window

color"

> and ignores the whole "main=" line.

>

> If I replace each (,,) with (255,0,0) or any valid RGB triplet, the

> message goes away.

>

> All I want to do is specify the location and size of the initial

window.

> I definitely don't want to have to specify any colours.

Just replace (,,) with nothing.

Ron.

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RFP: WinHelp fixed price contract for VB Application (SF Bay Area)

We are currently finishing up a MS Visual Basic project and are

looking to out-source the development of the Help screens for

the application.  This is a Request For Proposal for development

of these screens.  We do not anticipate that this will be a major

effort (see description below). However, while the application is

reasonably small, some of the logic and screen functionality

may not be obvious to someone unfamiliar with the niche it is

targeted at.  For this reason, we're ideally looking for someone

local (to the SF Bay area) who we would be able to meet with

(face to face) for application walk-throughs & followup questions.

Application description:  The application is the Client side of a

Client/Server program, written in MS Visual Basic.  There are about

8 major data storage/retrieval screens and another 10 minor screens.

We're looking for development of a single help "page" for each of

these screens, with minimal linking between any of the help screens.

The application can be set up to run standalone against an Access 2.0

database, so during help screen development, you will have use of

a fully functional version of the software without the need for

a networked environment or expensive RDBMS software.

Procedure:  For this initial phase of our RFP, we're looking for

resumes from interested parties.  Depending on how many we get,

we'll followup with phone calls to narrow it down to a few likely

developers.  At that point we'll ask for examples of your previous

work.  (NOTE: If you don't have any samples of previous professional

Help screen development to provide, please DON'T bother to respond.)

At that point, we'll discuss the final specification and price with

the finalists.

We're hoping to go through this whole procedure in the next 2 to 3

weeks.

If this phase goes well, there is a good likleyhood of follow-on

work for both this and other projects.

If you're interested, please email me copy of your resume at:

        brada@sesinc.com

Thanks,

-brad albom

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I'm having problems with connecting my dexxa hand held scanner to

photoshop in windows.  I have the UMAX twain interface but I don't know

if the scanner is twain compatable.  If it is not how do I get it to work???

   Please help me........

email -- csmyth@uoguelph.ca

thanx..

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Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

In <3a0h1d$4q5@newsbf01.news.aol.com> smdiamond@aol.com (SMDiamond)

writes:

>Are you aware of where I can find a uudecoder that will run under

>DOS/Windows? Or can you post your program at some ftp site? It would be

a

>very useful thing to have!

>

>Thanks.

>

>Steve Diamond

>

I use "WinCode" which I got off Compu$erve.

Try ftp to:

ftp.cica.indiana.edu

wuarchive.wustl.edu

Then look for Windows utilities.

I'll research which ftp to post it to, probably:

198.91.36.126/pub/winhelp

Let me know how it goes...

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can't get [Windows] main= statement to work

In article <1994Nov11.031811.6160@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

[...]

>

>What's wrong with this:

>	[Windows]

>	main=, (0,60,400,300), 0, (,,), (,,), 1

>

>HC 3.10.505 says:

>	"Warning 2411: line...16 of ...: Invalid syntax in window color"

>and ignores the whole "main=" line.

[...]

Let me answer my own question...  Stefan said just leave out

the color triplets, i.e.:

main=, (0,60,400,300), 0, , , 1

I tried that and it worked.  I guess I was too concerned with

counting commas and I wasn't treating the "(r,g,b)" group as

a single entity which could be omitted (the parentheses should

have tipped me off).

--

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Airborne Geophysics

Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

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MediaView...have I been in a cave?

Is MediaView Viewer 3.0 or something different altogether? I just

now got Viewer 2.0...my fate is to live a release behind the world I guess.

Mark

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Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

In <3929kh$5m0@ocean.CAM.ORG> ntworld@CAM.ORG (John Bielby) writes:

>Could anyone help me with a glitch I've run into?  I am trying to make

>the Contents button on Viewer and Help files jump to a secondary window.

>I have been using a format like ChangeButtonBinding("btn_contents",

>"JumpId(`title.hlp', `name_of_contents>cont')")  cont would be the

>secondary window in question.

Try using the following macro:

JumpId(`title.hlp>cont', `name_of_contents')

In the case of JumpID WinHelp wants the secondary window name after

the filename...

...Stefan

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Distributing large Help files

In article <39p1uu$pbv@panix2.panix.com> rloewy@panix.com "Ron Loewy" writes:

>In article <39ofh6$re@news.millcomm.com>, Robin <robin@millcomm.com> wrote:

>>

>>I'm developing some pretty big HLP files.  I'd like to be able to

>>distribute them on floppies but I can't figure out how to break them up

>>and put them back together!  Can someone give me any tips on how they

>>might do this?

>>

>> --

>>Robin

>>    robin@millcomm.com

>>

>

>

>Try to buy a install utility that supports this. I'm using EDI Install

>PRO, and it supports that, I know that MS Setup includes that capability too.

A alternate "low tech" approach is to use the "-&" (spanning) option of

PKZIP.

Chris

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Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

In article <bfreed.294.0409823B@fasttax.com>,

Bev Freed <bfreed@fasttax.com> wrote:

>destination .HLP says it doesn't know a thing about the secondary window you

>want to use.

>

>Hope this helps!

>

>Bev Freed

Hope this helps! ? HOPE THIS HELPS????  YES, YES, YES.

Thanks Bev!

BTW, you are back in my will, and I've named my second born

after you...hehe.

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Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

Hello,

As a publisher of electronic books (and currently using WinHelp with a lot

of custom enhancements), I am always looking for ways to improve the

usability of the books.

The one thing that would go the furthest in adding user-friendliness to the

e-books is to make it possible for the end-user to be able to scale the

fonts up or down in point size in the viewer.  This would make it possible

for the end-user to optimize the appearance depending on screen resolution

and monitor size.  Right now I have to compromise in uncomfortable ways to be

able to handle everything from VGA laptops to >21" super-hi-res monitors.  In

addition, many of the visually-impaired would like to be able to increase

the font-size for obvious reasons.

My question is, can this be done *now*, either in WinHelp (3.1 and the

upcoming Windows 95), MS Multimedia Viewer 2.0, or in MediaView?  Or are

there fundamental limitations to all of these tools that make this capability

impossible?  (I would be surprised if this could not be done using MediaView

but I'd really like to be able to do it in WinHelp 95.)

Of course, if it is doable for WinHelp 3.1 and 95 using custom DLL's, I would

be the happiest camper in the world.  I'd even pay a small royalty off of

e-book sales for incorporating this capability!  (hint, hint, nudge, nudge,

say no more, say no more... :^) )

Thanks.

Jon Noring

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Jim Michel in VB

In article <1994Nov12.010138.417@vms.huji.ac.il>,

 <tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il> wrote:

>In article <39lbgq$jfi@panix2.panix.com>, rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>>

>> I would suggest that you either buy Turbo Pascal for Windows/Borland

>> Pascal and re-compile the examples Jim gives, or ask someone to build you

>> such a DLL that you will be able to call from VB.

>>

>> Hope this helps.

>>

>> Ron.

>> --

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>> rloewy@panix.com

>

>then cut the price in half?  Do they also want to buy shares in the

>brooklyn bridge?

So they did go public on the BB ? Interesting news ..

>

>Anyway, I bought it.  The Hebrew "documentation" is a 12 page

>"guide" that doesn't even tell me how to compile a program into

>a dll or exe.  I haven't been able to figure it out.

If it is TPW, you compile it from the ide, just load your source file

into the ide, and use the compile option, if it is BP (The professional

version) you can do the same, or use bpc - the command line compiler).

> >So,

I'm begging.  What commands to I

use to compile Jim Mischel's >code into a dll.  I'd be mighty thankful.

>

The interesting thing about Jim's finddll is that it is written to

Borland Pascal, not Turbo Pascal for Windows, The only difference you

will have to do is change the uses statement in finddll.pas (One of the

first 10 ones), and replace :

objects, WObject and WDialogs with WObjects (If I remember correctly,

this is the Windows Objects unit in TPW, I have BP, so I'm not sure about

it, - just ask comp.lang.pascal), and stdDlgs ..

>-dennis turner

>

>p.s.  The store had not one book on turbo pascal for windows, nor

>did any other store in town.

>

>

I thought there is a store in Binyan Klal (Or there used to be) that had

a lot of cool stuff .. (But I have not been to J. for more than 6 month ..)

Ron

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Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

In article <3a0h1d$4q5@newsbf01.news.aol.com>, SMDiamond wrote:

>

> In article <39ulul$kg2@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>,

stephenj@ix.netcom.com

> (Stephen Jenkins) writes:

>

> Well, not all "geek" but I don't have access to a Unix machine at

the

> moment. Are you aware of where I can find a uudecoder that will run

under

> DOS/Windows? Or can you post your program at some ftp site? It would

be a

> very useful thing to have!

>

> Thanks.

>

> Steve Diamond

garbo.uwasa.fi in the /pc/decode directory has several

uudecode/uuencode programs for dos.

Ron.

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Help!  Whpe died....

        I'm having trouble here....let me explain:

        About 6 this evening I started work again on a project

I've been doing.  WHPE worked just fine, although it has never

been able to compile.  anyway, loading and exiting went fine

all day.

        Tonight, I came back to contiue work. Now, I get GPF's

every time I load, with some problem is hcparse.dll.  I've

recopied all files from my originals, and changed the file that

should load first, with no luck.  Has anyone come across this?

                                        Jeff

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500K DOC 2 HELP demo

I have a demo .hlp file that displays D2H's abilities to make

'watermarks' in help file bg color.

Is there a site that I can ul it to, or is it up already?

Also anyone know how they get a resizable bmp in the

nonscrolling window? I wonder if they fudge it using tables...

BaDge

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WHPE Compiles

I posted about this a while ago and got no response, so I'm going to try

again.

I'm using WHPE to make my help files, but for some reason, it won't compile.

When I press compile, it flashes some message that goes by far, far too quickly to

read and then says "error: could not perform compile."  The compile works just fine

if I shell to Dos and use Hcp.  Does anyone have an installation sheet for WHPE?

There is a reference to a setup program for it in HAG, but I got my copy off ftp

from microsoft, and no install is included.  I've copied the dll's to system, but

that hasn't helped.  What's up?

Jeff

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Public Thank You

mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>In article <CynyJp.JA5@tc.fluke.COM>,

>Lilly-Anne Wilder <lil@tc.fluke.COM> wrote:

>>I want to thank Miguel publically because the little utility he gave

>>me that intercepts calls to the WinHelp() API worked perfect.  It

>>displays the parameters used in a message box.

>>

>>I was able to determine that the application to which I didn't have

>>the source was passing a context number and it told me what the

>>context number was.  I assigned the same context number to my little

>>one-topic help file and voila, no error dialog boxes.

>>

>>Thanks for the help, Miguel!

>>

>

>You're welcome.  For the benefit of people with a C compiler

>and a copy of James Finnegan's PROCHOOK.DLL (and PROCHOOK.H)

>-- as published in the Jan. issue of Microsoft's System Journal,

>and available on the MSDN CD's --- here is the source code.

>I didn't think it would be suitable to post the binaries here

>to this group.  I posted to comp.binaries.ms-windows, but that

>group is moderated, and I haven't heard or seen anything yet.

Miguel, perhaps you would consider uploading the utility to the

windows help ftp site, 198.91.36.126, for the benefit of people

without a C compiler (!)

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WinHelp / Multimedia Viewer 2.0  availability and price

Hi everyone,

I'm looking to buy the developpment kit for WinHelp / Multimedia viewer and have some

question about that:

1. if i buy Turbo C++ or VBasic 1.0 (very cheap now...), which come with the hcp

help compiler exe, will I have the right to use the full text search I recently

downloaded ?

2. how can I buy the Multimedia developpment kit, and the viewer ? What are the

current prices ?

Thank you for everything...

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I need Help

In article <CyK2A6.LJ5@tc.fluke.COM>, lil@tc.fluke.COM (Lilly-Anne Wilder)

writes:

>

> Msg-ID: <CyK2A6.LJ5@tc.fluke.COM>

> Posted: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 20:58:50 GMT

>

> Org.  : Fluke Corporation, Everett, WA

>

>

> I'm hoping someone can help me with a little problem I'm working on.

>

> I'm writing a stand-alone help file for some internal processes. We

> use a windows based application to access an IBM mainframe to do these

> processes.

>

> I wanted to add my help file to the application's menu.  However, as

> far as I know (since we don't have the source for this application) I

> can't.

>

> I had this idea, to create a one-topic help file that had a macro

> hotspot (jumpcontents) for both my help file and the application's help

> file.  I would rename this one-topic help file to whatever the

> application's

> help file was called.  Then rename the application's help file to

> something else (which I also use for the macro hotspot).

>

> It almost works.

>

> When I click on the application's help menu item, the one-topic help

> file comes up.

> Both macro hotspots jump to the correct help file's contents.

>

> The only thing is when the one-topic help file comes up, a little

> error dialog box comes up saying, "Help topic does not exist."  I get

> this twice.  It works great except for these stupid error dialog boxes

> that display.

>

> Before I messed with the files, the application help file's contents

> always

> displayed when you clicked on the menu item, which, originally, made me

> think the menu item was tied to the jumpcontents macro. However, these

> error dialog boxes make me think the menu item is tied to something

> like jumpid/jumpcontext/jumphash

> where it is specifying an actual topic string/context number/hash

> code.  However, it could also be indexed, something which I know very

> little about.

>

> My guess is that I have to find out what the application is looking for

> and

> supply it.

>

> If this is true, I have no idea how I'm going to find this out.  Am I

> on the right track or could this be some other problem that didn't

> occur to me?  If I need to find out what the application is looking

> for, does anyone have an idea of how I could find it?

>

> I do have freeware called HelpSpy, which is supposed to give you the

> context number for a help file's topics.  However, I can't get it to

> work.

>

> I also have something called hash.exe which I haven't tried to use

> yet.

>

> I thought about converting the help file back to word but,

> hlp2doc doesn't give you footnotes.

>

> HELP! I would be so grateful if someone could point me in the right

> direction.

>

> Lilly-Anne

You may have a situation like that with the HAG.HLP file.  It is hard coded

to make its contents topic come up in a secondary window with something

like:

JI("HAG.HLP>WindowZ","HAG_Contents_Topic") in the config section

If you change its name it can't find itself when it boots.

Try as I might I couldn't find a work around for this, so HELLLP! does it

the same way.

Maybe Stefan has a solution in his product, 'cos I don't in mine!

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error 5059

In <38oqah$rp6@ftcnews.scs.ag.gov> tburton@ftc.scs.ag.gov (Terry W. Burton) writes:

>I am having a persistant and aggravating problem with error 5059, which

>causes my compile to abort. I have not been able to figure out precisely

>what the error is -- I'm guessing it has something to do with a bitmap

>file. If you have any experience with this problem and know what to do

>about it, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

Ensure that you are not using embedded bitmaps.  If you are, take them

out and reference them through the {bmx } commands.

...Stefan

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 Terry W. Burton


Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER - Ver. 1.01

 There was a non-fatal bug in the first version of ShgRez.

 This is the fix.

  A while ago I posted a question about how to prevent WinHelp from

dynamically scaling bitmaps depending on the system font size.  While

I didn't get any answers that worked for me, it did  prompt me to do

some research in to the problem. Happy to say I did find a solution.

I am posting a utility, that I wrote, that will allow you to change

the target resolution of a SHG file without using SHED(segmented

hotspot editor). The really cool thing about this utility is that it

also allows you to set the SHG file so that WinHelp *will not* scale

the bitmap(yes, it's true). The name of the application is "ShgRez",

and requires VBRUN300.DLL, which is not included. So, if you don't

have this file you'll have to find it somewhere on the NET. This

application is freeware, so feel free to post it anywhere you feel is

appropriate. There is a short description about its usage if you

click on the "About" button.

  The bulk of this message is ShgRez in uuencoded format. If you

don't know how to rebuild this into the ZIP file that contains the

ShgRez application, you will need a uudecoder and then an

unzipper. If this is all geek to you please post a message asking

for help. I'll see if I can get you up and running.

ShgRez is Copyright(c)1994 by Stephen Jenkins-All Rights Reserved.

***The rest of this message is "ShgRez11.zip" in uuencoded form.***

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In <3a5h9f$5m0@newsbf01.news.aol.com> smdiamond@aol.com (SMDiamond)

writes:

>

>Stephen, if you're on CompuServe, why not mention this in WINSDK,

section

>16, and upload it to the library there? (If you've already done this,

>forgive me, I haven't seen it yet.) I'm sure there are a lot of

interested

>folks there.

>

>Steve Diamond

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>smdiamond@aol.com

>70762.130@compuserve.com

>

Will do, real soon now...

New version. See message about 1.01.

Later...

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'm not able to use full-text-search ability. All the time I receive error: NOT

ENOUGH MEMORY!!

Please, winhelp guru's (Miguel, Stefan ?) help me. What I do wrong?

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Nigel Campbell (nigelc@cognos.com) wrote:

: I've run into a problem ordering the How to build online help book published

: by SAMS and also distributed by WinWriters. I was getting

: all sorts of bizarre answers why an order could not be taken.

: The most recent now is that the rights have gone back

: to the authors and that SAMS cannot reprint.

: Does anyone know of any publisher/book-chain that still has

: it in stock (phone # etc would be appreciated)?

: To date, this is the only recommended book I have traced to

: this point. Does anyone know of another? We'd like our own

: customers to be able to buy the book if we think it is

: worth it. The stuff with SAMS does not look good if I'm

: having all these hassles!

If you mean Developing Online Help by Boggan, Farkas, and Welinske,

I just found a copy a few days ago in the local (Albuquerque)

Borders bookstore.  The onle I bought was the last one on the

shelf, but if they have it here, they probably have it elsewhere

in their chain.  I'd also give a call to a chain like Bookstar/Bookstop

to see if they could track down a copy.

           -- hardin

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You can also find the latest version of ShgRez at:

compu$erve->WINSDK->lib 16

ftp->198.91.36.126->pub/incoming

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help, please!

I recently put some files from Windows without workgroups onto my comput

ter which has win with wkgrps. Now my IRQ's are all filled and I can't

use my soundblaster with windows. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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In <Cz87M0.KCC@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>Does HWA/w allow coloring background esp. in the Non-scrolling

>area? I looked around in the menus quite a bit and didn't find

>anything.  Norton DFW has an awesome .hlp file, and they get

>this very pale yellow by bit patterning. How the heck do they

>get that in a NS window, unless they use a bitmap?  If they do

>use a bitmap, what's the trick to have it fill completely?

It is specified in the .HPJ file - the tutorial file demonstrates

this - the prices window.  You can specify your own RGB codes,

which is how NDW will be doing their effect.

Cheers,

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I'm trying to compile a help file that contains many large bitmaps. I

reference these bitmaps and have split the most RTF file into smaller

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using HC31. I tried running HCP.EXE from Windows but it causes a

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In <1994Nov14.023828.430@vms.huji.ac.il> tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il writes:

>In article <Cz4IBL.Awr@inter.NL.net>, mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>>

>> Yes, MediaView can do it.  The sample Media View viewer has an

>> Options | Magnify Text... menuitem, which corresponds with the

>> fMVSetMagnifier() MediaView API function.

>>

>Please post once again what media view is?

Media View allows you to code your own browser around topics.

The problem for you is really that I know you don't like to code

in C (an understatment maybe?) - but there is a Visual Basic

sample included in the Media View kit, it may be useful for you.

As far as I know the best way to get hold of Media View kit

is through the MSDN Level II subscription - it's only $495US,

and well worth it...

Download the demo of the MSDN CD from ftp.microsoft.com to see

what you can do with the tools.

Here is some futher information:

You can use the kit’s authoring tools to create a multimedia title. A

multimedia title is an on line document that includes media such as text,

pictures, movies, sounds, and interactive controls for viewing the media.

You can use the MediaView libraries that come with this kit to develop a

Windows-based application that can play your multimedia title through

media views. A media view is essentially a window programmed to display

multimedia using the MediaView libraries.

A MediaView title and title player built with MediaView can:

- Display topics containing richly formatted text, pictures, video,

audio, and other media.

- Quickly move from topic to topic at a stroke of the keyboard or

a click of the mouse.

- Select text for copying or for looking up in an index.

- Change the way text looks while playing the title

- Print a single topic or a number of topics.

- Display an index to the title’s topics.

- Perform a search for any word in the title.

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Looking for RTF information

I'm looking for the title of a reference book, or even

better some on-line information on how to code RTF for

window help. I've read the introduction on the subject

in the SDK help, but want details of non-scroll regions,

and so on.

The idea is to generate windows help from SGML source

documents.

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In <783512375snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

>In article <CHShah.1.0008CD51@engprn.mobil.com>

>           CHShah@engprn.mobil.com "Chetan H Shah" writes:

>>Could any one please suggest how to implement (What tools I need) to provide a

>>full text search in my windows.hlp files. I have completed the help file and

>>now the users would like to get a full text searching capability rather them

>>the limited search capability build within the help file.

>You need to build your help system for the Multimedia Viewer, rather than

>WinHelp. The MMV SDK is on the MSDN Level II disks, and can be used

>royalty-free. I don't know whether or not it's available as a separate

>product.

It may also be worth looking at the files included on MSDN II in the

Win32 (NT) SDK - they allow full text searching, and I believe it includes

all the files referenced in the FAQ for using full text search.

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500K DOC 2 HELP demo

In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU

(BaDge) said:

>I have a demo .hlp file that displays D2H's abilities to make 'watermarks'

>in help file bg color.

>

>Is there a site that I can ul it to, or is it up already?

>

>Also anyone know how they get a resizable bmp in the nonscrolling window?

>I wonder if they fudge it using tables...

--

BaDge,

We don't have our Hyperformance Tools sample files up on the Internet yet.

We are still not set up with an ftp site. You can find it on Compuserve (GO

WEXTECH). We maintain a forum and library there as Section 4 of WINAPD.

Bitmaps can be place as Watermarks to the non-scrolling and/or scrolling

region of any specific Window (i.e., Main, secondary - by name) or to a

specific Topic or group of topics, or to the Contents topic. This is not

fudged with tables. The bitmaps can be located in any one of 9 positions

within this region, or they can be tiled.

Paul Neshamkin

WexTech Systems Technical Support

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In article <Cz99u8.6FK@oasis.icl.co.uk>,

Alfie Kirkpatrick <ak@oasis.icl.co.uk> wrote:

>I'm looking for the title of a reference book, or even

>better some on-line information on how to code RTF for

>window help. I've read the introduction on the subject

>in the SDK help, but want details of non-scroll regions,

>and so on.

>

>The idea is to generate windows help from SGML source

>documents.

>

>Thanks, Alfie.

>--

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Get Jim Mischel's book - it is specified in the FAQ.

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In article <1994Nov14.071356.25304@cs.cornell.edu>, Alain Hanash

wrote:

>

> I'm trying to compile a help file that contains many large bitmaps.

I

> reference these bitmaps and have split the most RTF file into

smaller

> ones. I keep getting an out of memory error when I try to compile it

> using HC31. I tried running HCP.EXE from Windows but it causes a

> "system violation error". Has anyone experienced similiar problems?

>

>

>

>

Just try to execute HCP from Dos.Most of the times I use HCP from

within Windows there are no problems, but sometimes there are. I never

had these problems from dos, or an OS/2 VDM.

Ron.

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Cross-platform MediaView ???

Hi All,

Tough question for cutting-edge technology:  can the MediaView libraries

be used for cross-platform development yet?  I understand that Altura

has a Viewer compiler for the Mac, but the stock Viewer is not powerful

enough for my application.  Extensions are desparately needed.

Programming is not a particularly difficult proposition for me, but not

having programmed a MAC before, I would like to get a feel for how

difficult it would be to do Viewer extensions on the Mac.

Thanks for any insight.

John Lam

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Well, you have done a classy job with the "Best of" sample. I

really like the royal blue patterned background in the

non-scrolling region.  Can you post a sample .hpj section where

you specify this, or is it too dependent on using a WFW macro

(watermarks?)  I didn't really follow the technical details of

doing a watermark since I don't have WFW yet.

-regards

BaDge

<baj7d@virginia.edu>

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Is there a way to display 256 colors using the winhelp? Maybe some third

party hypertext engine?

Thank you

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In <3a81jp$jqg@vertigo.helix.net> camirand@helix.net (Eric Camirand) writes:

>Is there a way to display 256 colors using the winhelp? Maybe some third

>party hypertext engine?

It is possible only through embedded windows.  There are very few currently

available which do this - one of which is our own Olson Software Help Tools.

You will find it on cica as OSHTLS10.ZIP.

Note: There is no product that I have yet seen that successfully allows you

to display more than 1 256 color bitmap on the screen at a time.

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In <1994Nov14.071356.25304@cs.cornell.edu> hanash@cs.cornell.edu (Alain Hanash) writes:

>I'm trying to compile a help file that contains many large bitmaps. I

>reference these bitmaps and have split the most RTF file into smaller

>ones. I keep getting an out of memory error when I try to compile it

>using HC31. I tried running HCP.EXE from Windows but it causes a

>"system violation error". Has anyone experienced similiar problems?

Do you have the latest version (5.05)?  If not download the update

from ftp.cica.indiana.edu as HC505.EXE.

Cheers,

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MA>Does anybody know if there is a compiler for WordPerfect 6.0 to Winhelp

  >format?

If anybody out there is thinking of writing one, then might I suggest

that they do something which is compatible with WordPerfect 5.1 and

takes advantage of WP's outline processing, indexing etc.  To make it

easier they might just produce a decent RTF file for compilation by

HC/ HCP.  Or even just an input file to HDK?

Might even try it myself if I can't find any other work.

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Calling Viewer experts...

Hello folks,

I'm looking for a little advice if your willing. There are two things

actually, both of which I hope are fairly simple. :-) As may be

apparent I am not a programmer by nature, I'm just a designer who's a

little in the dark.

The first question regards fonts. I'm having a struggle getting a nice

balence between print and screen. All I'm after is the standard

"Windows help file" format which looks right on every Windows machine.

I'm assuming this means using a standard Windows font but I just can't

seem to get it right. They either print badly or look uncomfortable on

screen. Mayday! Mayday! Can anyone point me in the right direction. I

really need to know what the correct fonts are...

Challenge number two may be slightly more problematical. I've created an

interface with a control window at the side. I.e. the control window

displays the title's Contents page with appropriate hotspots. My problem

involves printing from this setup. If I want to print the topic in the main

window I get the control window printed at the same time, beneath the first

one.  Arrrgggg. This is slightly annoying (not to say unprofessional).

As I mentioned I'm not a programmer by trade. Is this problem fixable by

non-programming means or do I have to delve into the arcane realm of the

technical manual? If the latter is true perhaps someone could give me a

shove towards the right place... thanks!

If anyone out there has a moment to answer one or both of these queries

I'd be much abliged. As a Viewer Virgin (well almost) I'd also be interested

in corresponding with someone who knows there way around. Just a thought.

Nick (Warren) at Interactive Rabbit.

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In <393qs8$6lr@yeshua.marcam.com> colson@marcam.com (Garrett Colson) writes:

>(Stefan: Why did you use 4 tabs and a tiny, tiny spin ctrl in the pref.

>dialog? Why not just use 5 tabs?)

We actually use 5 tabs - one just happens to be hidden.  You will

find that a plan similar to this tiny spin ctrl is used in MFC 3.0

(included in Visual C++ 2.0), so you may see some applications

using these in the near future.  5 tabs wouldn't fit in the dialog -

in that case our tabbed dialogs create a spin control.

Cheers,

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What is the accepted way of nonprinting 'commenting' in a .RTF file?

I have tried the double backslash, the leading semi-colon and

curley brackets without control within, and non of those work...

Also, I realize there are three ways to implement use of .bmp

files in .hlp projects, the paste in, the {bmx bmp.bmp} and the

{bmxwd bmp.bmp}.  Although all my .BMPs are referenced the

second way, it appears that my .HLP files actually carry the

.BMP inside them. That is, I can display them with no disk

access, or on another user's machine.  What is the function of

the 'wd', or 'with data' param?

Oh, I am listing my .bmps in the .hpj [bitmaps] section.

-regards

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In article <39tb59$79b@mack.rt66.com>, hardin@mack.rt66.com (Hardin Brothers) says:

>If you mean Developing Online Help by Boggan, Farkas, and Welinske,

>I just found a copy a few days ago in the local (Albuquerque)

>Borders bookstore.  The onle I bought was the last one on the

>shelf, but if they have it here, they probably have it elsewhere

>in their chain.  I'd also give a call to a chain like Bookstar/Bookstop

>to see if they could track down a copy.

>           -- hardin

>

I've tried to order the above mentioned book from 2 different bookstores

and both have told me that it is out of print.

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DocToHelp - where?

>>>>> "VA" == Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir@thorhild.cs.ualberta.ca> writes:

\

 VA> In article <Cyqv8n.1CF@cix.compulink.co.uk>

 VA> walkermartyn@cix.compulink.co.uk ("I Anderson") writes:

 VA> You may want to give a try to a couple of shareware products that

 VA> *do* support printed-and-online. They are WinWord macros. I don't

 VA> quite believe they will avoid this problem, but who knows?

 VA> ftp.cica.indiana.edu:pub/pc/win3/winword

 VA> drhelpe5.zip DrHelp

 VA> hyptrk41.zip Hyper Track.

 VA> This adds very nice extra functionality to WinHelp

 Anyone know if the author of hyptrk41.zip Hyper Track can still be

reached at the Malasia address given in REGISTER.TXT?  A friend (who

has no net access) is considering Hyper Track for a project and would

like to know if hyptrk40.zip is the latest version for her WinWord 2.

Also, is the program still supported by the author?

Are the prices still current?  (US $25)

Does anyone have any experiences with Hyper Track?

All opinions sought.....

                                           Thanks,

                                           Dave Chapman

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>>>>> "JM" == JIM MCNEILL <jim.mcneill@almac.co.uk> writes:

 JM> There's a product called HHELP which does exactly that.  Email

 JM> them on: uf499@freenet.victoria.bc.ca

 Victoria Freenet has suffered a hard disk crash and will probably not

be up again for at lease a couple off weeks.  Do you know who this

person is other than uf499@freenet.victoria.bc.ca?

                                           Dave Chapman

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In article <3a7ppk$91j@panix2.panix.com>, rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

|> In article <Cz99u8.6FK@oasis.icl.co.uk>,

|> Alfie Kirkpatrick <ak@oasis.icl.co.uk> wrote:

|> >I'm looking for the title of a reference book, or even

|> >better some on-line information on how to code RTF for

|> >window help. I've read the introduction on the subject

|> >in the SDK help, but want details of non-scroll regions,

|> >and so on.

|> >

|> >The idea is to generate windows help from SGML source

|> >documents.

|> >

|> >Thanks, Alfie.

|> >--

|> >

|>

|> Get Jim Mischel's book - it is specified in the FAQ.

|>

|> Ron.

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|> rloewy@panix.com

|>

Cheaper suggestion: I seem to recall a file names RTFDOC or something, and I'm

pretty sure it's on ftp.microsoft.com ...

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In <19941114190232.R.A.M.vGeel@sp0383.kub.nl> R.A.M.vGeel@kub.nl  (GEEL R.A.M.VAN) writes:

>I want to disable (preferabley delete) the standard menu's and

>buttons. A big applause for the person that shows if, and how, this

>is possible.

There is only one tool that I know of that allows you to remove

the menus - our own Olson Software Help Tools.  We did some

brief work on removing the buttons - and this feature will most

likely be available in a future release.  At this stage you can

at least remove the menu!

Cheers,

Stefan

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WordPerfect to Winhelp

In article <89DB3EA.0FC600094E.uuout@almac.co.uk>,

JIM MCNEILL <jim.mcneill@almac.co.uk> wrote:

>MA>Does anybody know if there is a compiler for WordPerfect 6.0 to Winhelp

>  >format?

>

>If anybody out there is thinking of writing one, then might I suggest

>that they do something which is compatible with WordPerfect 5.1 and

>takes advantage of WP's outline processing, indexing etc.  To make it

>easier they might just produce a decent RTF file for compilation by

>HC/ HCP.

That's exactly what HelpPerfect does.  It bypasses WordPerfect's

RTF conversion, and automatically turns text that is marked for

index, TOC, etc. into RTF \footnotes.  WP footnotes are turned

into pop-ups, as you'd want them to.  The rest is handled using

WP styles, which you can freely assign to any WinHelp feature you

want.

I'm working on the WP6 code right now; the current version supports

WP5.x only...

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I've got a nice little question for you all:

I have compiled a help file with a button that activates an EXE.

This EXE asks a question about the text, lets the subject answer

it and writes the answer and time to file.

I have converted this EXE into a DLL, for some purposes (see below).

Now: How do I make WINHELP.EXE clear where to find the path to the DLL

     if it is not in the DOS-environment path or in the current path?

     You can't set the directory, like with EXE's.

The question is relevant because I need to run the HLP file local

on a network server with a very rigid supervisor. I can't execute

from a local data drive, but CAN use DLL's (at least, a WP macro could

call the DLL without an "execution from data-drive denied" error).

At home, both the DLL and the EXE version do work properly.

O, and yet another (very, very interesting!) question:

I want to disable (preferabley delete) the standard menu's and

buttons. A big applause for the person that shows if, and how, this

is possible.

Rob van Geel

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                2  When I'm not right, I'm still right

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Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

In article <Cz4IBL.Awr@inter.NL.net>, mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>

> Yes, MediaView can do it.  The sample Media View viewer has an

> Options | Magnify Text... menuitem, which corresponds with the

> fMVSetMagnifier() MediaView API function.

>

Please post once again what media view is?

Thanks.

-dennis turner

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Help Assistant v3.3

Greetings!

Has anyone try Help Assistant v3.3 yet?

Recently,  I've tried  some of the Help Authoring Systems and HA33S.ZIP is my choice.

I have down load HA33S.ZIP  and found it NOT works WELL on my system as its

previous version HA31S.ZIP.

Here are some of problems that I have experienced:

1) The Open_Project option NOT works - It generates some WordBasic error messages

    The previous version HA31S works very well for me.

2) The Windows_Setup option has added two customized buttons [Setcolor], but they both

   give me error messages : "unknown command" when I try to use it.

Maybe I miss something from the package ?

If anyone has the same problem, please share !

Thanks!

LouisN

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Out of Memory Error

In <CyKF4y.BwC@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>Lilly-Anne,

>I don't understand your comment about paragraph size. I need to

>use imbedded graphix and am compiling single bmps up to 50 and 70K in

>size in them. Should I not be experiencing problems?

Yes - the maximum size of a topic's text (including embedded bitmaps)

is 64k.  Although it is possible you'll have problems with topics

larger than 32k.

Cheers,

Stefan

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Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

BaDge (baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU) wrote:

: In article <Dd2tuAIABh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>,

: Stefan Olson <stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz> wrote:

: >In <3929kh$5m0@ocean.CAM.ORG> ntworld@CAM.ORG (John Bielby) writes:

: >>Could anyone help me with a glitch I've run into?  I am trying to make

: >>the Contents button on Viewer and Help files jump to a secondary window.

: >>I have been using a format like ChangeButtonBinding("btn_contents",

: >>"JumpId(`title.hlp', `name_of_contents>cont')")  cont would be the

: >>secondary window in question.

: >

: >Try using the following macro:

: >JumpId(`title.hlp>cont', `name_of_contents')

: >

: >In the case of JumpID WinHelp wants the secondary window name after

: >the filename...

: >

: >...Stefan

: >

: Good lord, are we all having the same problem? :-)

: Stefan, take a look at this .HPJ entry...

: ------------------------

: [CONFIG]

: CreateButton(`glossary_btn', `&Glossary', `JI(`abb.hlp>PictWin', `Topic0000')')

: [WINDOWS]

: PictWin="Picture Window", (40,120,512,512), 0, , (192,192,192)

: -------------------------

: -

: I am getting Bev Freed's "Bad Window Class, Ignored" error box

: upon running this macro.

: Still not picking up the problem. Can you help?

: -regards

: BaDge

: <baj7d@virginia.EDU>

  Hmmmm, you might try changing one of the values for your secondary

window configuration...your values are (40,120,512,512) try changing them

to (40,120,512,510).  This should help...ummm maybe.  Good luck!

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Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

In article <3a0thf$fpc@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>, stephenj@ix.netcom.com

(Stephen Jenkins) writes:

>I use "WinCode" which I got off Compu$erve.

>Try ftp to:

>ftp.cica.indiana.edu

>wuarchive.wustl.edu

>Then look for Windows utilities.

>I'll research which ftp to post it to, probably:

>198.91.36.126/pub/winhelp

>Let me know how it goes...

Thanks, Stephen and Ron.

Stephen, if you're on CompuServe, why not mention this in WINSDK, section

16, and upload it to the library there? (If you've already done this,

forgive me, I haven't seen it yet.) I'm sure there are a lot of interested

folks there.

Steve Diamond

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DOS WinHelp reader?

In article <3adf34$s1s@news.millcomm.com>, Robin <robin@millcomm.com> wrote:

>

>I've had some requests from non-Windows DOS users that they would like to

>be able to use some WinHelp files.  Is there somekind of DOS WinHelp

>reader available somewhere?  Any Help is much appreaciated.

>

> --

> Robin

> robin@millcomm.com

>

Hi,

Take a look at the FAQ - There is a package called HHELP10.ZIP you can

use for that.

Ron.

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embedding WinHelp??

Hi all,

  You must excuse my ignorance with regard to OLE and DDE etc., but

I am writing an application that makes extensive use of winhelp

files. The application is aimed at people who don't necessarily have

a great understanding of windows or for that matter computers. For

this reason I would like to embed winhelp within my application to

avoid the constant swapping of focus between my app and winhelp,

which might cause slight confusion.

  Is this possible using OLE? Is there any other way I might be able

to do it?

  I am using BC4 and OWL2, but I believe BC4.5 will offer greater

support for OLE. Would it be worth me upgrading on these grounds?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Rory                                         R.J.Barr@Durham.ac.uk

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Multimedia Viewer

Hi,

Is there anywhere that I can find a demo version of the MS Multimedia Viewer.

I don't want to spend, spend, spend until I know it is what I am really after.

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Hi,

Is there anywhere that I can find a demo version of the MS Multimedia Viewer.

I don't want to spend, spend, spend until I know it is what I am really after.

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Configuring WHPE to use HCP.EXE

Hi all,

 I've finally managed to get the dwhat template to work in word 6,

by changing the ViewSelection macro to use hcp instead of hc31, but

I can't get WHPE to do the same, so I can edit the project information

Does anybody know how I can do this? Is there a more recent version

of what.zip containing a version of WHPE that lets you use hcp.

Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.

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Browse Sequence Problems...

We have a problem using Visual Help and getting the Browse

Sequence to work. Some topics do not appear to be included in

the sequence despite efforts to edit the RTF directly.

Is there a shareware package that allows easy editting of Browse

Sequences?

Any advice much appriciated.

--

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WordPerfect to Winhel

In article <89DD2D7.0FC6000960.uuout@almac.co.uk>,

JIM MCNEILL <jim.mcneill@almac.co.uk> wrote:

>MC>That's exactly what HelpPerfect does.  It bypasses WordPerfect's

>  >RTF conversion, and automatically turns text that is marked for

>  >index, TOC, etc. into RTF \footnotes.  WP footnotes are turned

>  >into pop-ups, as you'd want them to.  The rest is handled using

>  >WP styles, which you can freely assign to any WinHelp feature you

>  >want.

>  >I'm working on the WP6 code right now; the current version supports

>  >WP5.x only...

>

>Sounds like just what I'm after Miguel!  But you'll have to get your

>marketing hat on... you never said how I might get a copy of your

>software to try it out.

>

There will be a demo version to try out very soon (my colleague's

working on that).  I'll announce when ready.

Now where's my marketing hat...

For the commercial product, contact:

In the Americas:

European Software Connection

PO Box 1982

Lawrence, KS 66044

phone: (913) 832 2070      fax: (913) 832 8787

CIS  71141,3624

Net 71141.3624@compuserve.com

In the rest of the world:

NICEWARE

Postbus 2264

3500 GG  Utrecht

The Netherlands

++ 31 30 520018 (phone)

++ 31 30 517555 (fax)

Net Niceware@LET.RUU.NL

(also:    mcv@inter.NL.net)

CIS  100041,2760

(I'm posting this because the information in the FAQ is not

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500K DOC 2 HELP demo

In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU

(BaDge) said:

>Well, you have done a classy job with the "Best of" sample. I really like

>the royal blue patterned background in the non-scrolling region.  Can you

>post a sample .hpj section where you specify this, or is it too dependent

>on using a WFW macro (watermarks?)  I didn't really follow the technical

>details of doing a watermark since I don't have WFW yet.

----------------------------

BaDge,

This section of the .HPJ really won't do you any good without Doc-To-Help

and our Hyperformance Tools. But I'll post it anyway. In the [Config]

section we are registering the routines that are in our D2HTOOLS.DLL, which

supports the watermark feature, 256-color support and .AVI support. Window

watermarks are called here also. Topic watermarks are called by topic macro

calls in the .RTF file.

-------------------------

[CONFIG]

CB("btn_glossary","&Glossary","JC(`',77)")

;{{Watermark: DO NOT EDIT!

RR("D2HTOOLS.DLL", "InitWatermark", "")

RR("D2HTOOLS.DLL", "SetWatermark", "SSSS")

RR("D2HTOOLS.DLL", "SetTopicWatermark", "USSS")

RR("D2HTOOLS.DLL", "SetMainWatermark", "SSS")

InitWatermark()

SetMainWatermark(qchPath, "tip04.bmp", "xsbr")

SetMainWatermark(qchPath, "marble2.bmp", "nwtl")

;}}Watermark: DO NOT EDIT!

BrowseButtons()

--------------------------------------------------

When you get WFW, take a look at our product.

Regards,

Paul Neshamkin

WexTech Systems

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PLEASE HELP!!!! DESPERATE

try WIN /B (from memory, so check the docs first). This should create a

boot logfile; that may give you a clue on where the problem occurred.

I vaguely remember having experienced a similar problem caused by a

corrupted GRP file (these do not go away if you re-install Windows, so

perhaps you should also clean up the WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI, and dewlete

or rename all GRP files, and all other INI files (there are LOTS of them,

and any single one of them could wreak havoc).

Of course I assume that you ran all hardware diagnostics. How about

turning 32 bit access off? (you can edit SYSTEM.INI with a text editor)

Hope this helps

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Problem compiling large help files

Alain Hanash (hanash@cs.cornell.edu) wrote:

: I'm trying to compile a help file that contains many large bitmaps. I

: reference these bitmaps and have split the most RTF file into smaller

: ones. I keep getting an out of memory error when I try to compile it

: using HC31. I tried running HCP.EXE from Windows but it causes a

: "system violation error". Has anyone experienced similiar problems?

Just ran into the same problem yesterday.  If you are using version 3.10.504,

upgrade to 3.10.505, which I got from CompuServe (GO MSL) under the name

"VBHC505.EXE".  (A self-extracting ZIP.)  It is also available from

gopher.microsoft.com

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In <784985174snz@respub.demon.co.uk> GeoffC@respub.demon.co.uk (geoffc) writes:

>We have a problem using Visual Help and getting the Browse

>Sequence to work. Some topics do not appear to be included in

>the sequence despite efforts to edit the RTF directly.

>Is there a shareware package that allows easy editting of Browse

>Sequences?

You may want to look at HWA - which through its topic tree allows

automatic creation of browse sequences.  I never remember my

browse sequence numbers any more - I just look at the tree structure

of my topics!

...Stefan

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In article <noringCz482z.536@netcom.com>, noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)

writes:

<The one thing that would go the furthest in adding user-friendliness to

the

<e-books is to make it possible for the end-user to be able to scale the

<fonts up or down in point size in the viewer.

>My question is, can this be done *now*, either in WinHelp (3.1 and the

>upcoming Windows 95), MS Multimedia Viewer 2.0, or in MediaView?  Or are

>there fundamental limitations to all of these tools that make this

capability

>impossible?  (I would be surprised if this could not be done using

MediaView

>but I'd really like to be able to do it in WinHelp 95.)

It CAN be done now in MediaView. It cannot be done now in WinHelp 3.1 or

in Viewer 2.0. And since, from what I've heard, WinHelp 95 is a rewrite

that mostly does what Viewer does, I wouldn't count on this ability there

either. (Perhaps someone who knows more can jump in here. I'm not under

NDA, but I know nothing! <g>)

Steve Diamond

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Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font

In article <e8AyuA8LBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>,

stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

>As far as I know the best way to get hold of Media View kit

>is through the MSDN Level II subscription - it's only $495US,

>and well worth it...

I agree that the MSDN Level II subscription is worth the price, but the

MediaView developer's kit is available for FREE on the Multimedia

Jumpstart CD, release 2.0. It's not shipping to the masses yet, but the

early versions were given out at the recent Multimedia Bootcamp sessions

and the new one is supposed to go out before the end of the year. Just

send your name and address to a-martha@microsoft.com to get on the mailing

list.

Steve Diamond

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Multimedia Viewer

In article <3aa5sf$d3o@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>, "W.R. Hartley"

<W.R.Hartley@ncl.ac.uk> writes:

>Is there anywhere that I can find a demo version of the MS Multimedia

Viewer.

Yes, buy a copy of "Microsoft Multimedia Viewer How-To CD," a book with CD

by Stephen Pruitt, published by The Waite Group, ISBN 1-878739-60-3. The

book is an excellent tutorial on Viewer, and the CD contains a limited

version of Viewer plus some excellent add-ons. For $39.95 you can find out

whether or not it's for you!

Steve Diamond

Diamond Consulting Services

Tucson, Arizona

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Printing line numbers

Is there a utility somewhere that will print line numbers on the left

side of a document? Something that can be downloaded free? Something easy

to use is Windows?

I have used the Norton line printer version 4.5 on DOS for years, but it

does not seem work with DOS 5.0 even if I get out of Windows. The line

numbers were printed with the /n flag in earlier version of DOS.

Thanks, Bill

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Bug?...word wrap wrong

In article <mm.785089421@dptspd>, Mike Mitchell <mm@datapoint.com> wrote:

>Well, here's a good one...I'm working on a help file that describes how

>to use Windows menus and the commands within the menus.  The SQA people

>here think that every time you mention a menu, it needs to be represented

>the same way it appears in the menu bar.  For example the when mentioning

>the File menu, they want the 'F' underscored.

>

>Here's the problem:  After compiling the help file, it can be opened with

>the Windows help application.  You can resize the help window.  However,

>if the window is narrowed to a point where the word with a single character

>underscored *should* wrap the whole word, it only wraps the chunk of the

>word *after* the underscored character.

>

>I did a hex dump of the help file, and noticed that there is a hex nul (00)

>immediately preceding and immediately following the underscored character.

>I can only surmise that the help engine sees the null following the us

>character as some sort of break, and therefore allows the wrap to occur.

>

>Does anyone know of any way around this problem?  I have thought of

>duplicating the lower ascii character set into teh upper ascii region and

>using a font editor to create an upper ascii underscore set...AARGH!  There's

>got to be an easier way...

>

This is a bug in the WinHelp word-wrap algorithm: attribute changes

(bold, italic, underline, etc.) are treated as word breaks.  It also

occurs in the more common case that you have marked a whole word, and

there's a period or comma following:

{\ul word}.	is wrapped as:	word

.

Rather than make your own font, I'd suggest making bitmaps of all

your menus and items.  That'll give you the *real* menu look & feel

as an additional bonus.

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There are several ways of displaying 256 colour buitmps in WinHelp. The one

I like is EWDLL.DLL from the Free Software Foundation (do an ARCHIE on

EWDLL to find it).  There is also a shareware product called SHOWBMP.DLL by

Dr Rudolph Bumm in Munich.

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In article <39otrc$9me@hpchase.rose.hp.com> adrian@hprswt1.rose.hp.com (adrian peterson) writes:

>HELP!!!!

>

>I have a Windows 3.1 MDI application. The top level menu is the standard FILE,

>EDIT, HELP, etc. main window.  The next level window is a toolbar window and thenext level child window is for displaying graphs.  With no graphs in the mdiclient area using context sensitive help on the main menu works fine.  However, with graphs, conte

>get on the top level menu is the Title bar as a popup and not a full scrollabe

>help (ie the title with the underbarring indicating scrollabe help.

>

>Any ideas?????????????????

>

It sounds like the topics you are trying to call in the top levels

might be popups with non-scrolling regions defined.  I popup with a

non-scrolling region only displays the title bar.

This is just a guess.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

In article <9411091222.AA35414@198.92.15.143> lmandavi@cisco.com (Lavanya K. Mandavilli) writes:

>

>I want to include a bitmap graphic in my .DOC file and associate it

>with a jump macro so that a user can click on the graphic to view

>a specific help topic.

>

>This graphic should appear in the non-scrolling region of the window

>with a topic caption.

>

>I've included the BMROOT option in my .HPJ file and ensured that

>the bitmap is placed in the root directory.

>

>In my .DOC file, I've added the following syntax:

>

>Topic Caption [image] A_G where ag.bmp is the name of the bitmap file

>and A_G is the topic it should jump too.

>

>My compilation goes fine without any errors, but I don't see the bitmap

>displayed along with the topic caption in the non-scrolling region.

>

>What am I missing? I can't figure out the graphic won't display in

>the non-scrolling region?

>

>Lavanya Mandavilli

>

I suggest you drop the wd and just use [image].  The wd means "with

data" and can add a lot of size to your file.  This is especially important

if you plan to use the bitmap more than once or it is a large bitmap.  Also,

there is a limit of 64k (compressed) for bitmaps stored with data.

BMROOT is optional.  You really only need to use it if your bitmaps are

stored somewhere other than the directory where your .hpj file is stored.

If you have used BMROOT, you might want to check the path you referenced

and check to make sure that it is where the bitmaps are stored.

This problem has nothing to do with the non-scrolling region. You

would probably have the same problem if you tried to reference it in

the client region. If you have other referenced bitmaps that have

worked.  Check to see how they might be different from the one you are

trying to reference in the non-scrolling region.

If you check all this and still can't get it to display.  Let me know

and I'll see if I can come up with any other possibilities.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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buttons in client-area

I'm currently writing a large help file. It's for a 32 bit app aimed,

currently, at Win32s users.

I've got a few questions:

o Should we continue supporting WinHelp, or is the MM Viewer the

  way to go? If MM, where can I find docs, samples and the compiler etc.

  Basically - what is the future of WinHelp?

o Where can I find advice on the design of help; books, docs?

o Do any RoboHelp users out there have any comments to make about it?

  I should have a copy soon, I'd like to know what to expect!!

o Where's the faq??!

I'm also after information on linking the help to the app (C++).

Interactive help, menu items, Help buttons etc etc.

Andy advice would be really appreciated.

It's probably best if you could email me and post here as well, I'm

not sure how reliable this feed is..

Regards,

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SAMS ; How to book on help

Nigel Campbell (nigelc@cognos.com) wrote:

: I've run into a problem ordering the How to build online help book published

: by SAMS and also distributed by WinWriters. I was getting

: all sorts of bizarre answers why an order could not be taken.

: The most recent now is that the rights have gone back

: to the authors and that SAMS cannot reprint.

: Does anyone know of any publisher/book-chain that still has

: it in stock (phone # etc would be appreciated)?

: To date, this is the only recommended book I have traced to

: this point. Does anyone know of another? We'd like our own

: customers to be able to buy the book if we think it is

: worth it. The stuff with SAMS does not look good if I'm

: having all these hassles!

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You can get this book directly from the author at Winwriters.

This book is out of print (heard it is a legal thing with SAMs) but copies

can be ordered directly from Joe

Welinske. Joe is the president of WinWriters, a company that creates

documentation for Windows software and offers training on developing

online help. To order this book directly from WinWriters, call

1-800-838-8999 or 1-206-285-2830. Joe's Internet address is

71640.3260@compuserve.com.

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James Brown (james-b@aci1.aci.ns.ca) wrote:

: In article <39tb59$79b@mack.rt66.com>, hardin@mack.rt66.com (Hardin Brothers) says:

: >If you mean Developing Online Help by Boggan, Farkas, and Welinske,

: >I just found a copy a few days ago in the local (Albuquerque)

: >Borders bookstore.  The onle I bought was the last one on the

: >shelf, but if they have it here, they probably have it elsewhere

: >in their chain.  I'd also give a call to a chain like Bookstar/Bookstop

: >to see if they could track down a copy.

: I've tried to order the above mentioned book from 2 different bookstores

: and both have told me that it is out of print.

Officially, the book is out of print (meaning we won't be printing any

more in the current edition) and the rights have been reverted back to the

authors.  That doesn't mean copies aren't still floating about the stores.

I sent a note to my publisher to find out what the latest scoop is...

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Is the Help Compiler redistributable?

Hi,

I want to write a Windows app that depends on the user

having the Help Compiler from MS installed (HC505).

Can I distribute the compiler with my app or is there

some other way for a "normal" user (non-developer) to

get access to it?

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Browsing Example

In article <PETER.94Nov16084234@swamp.indigo.co.il>, Peter Gordon

wrote:

>

>

> Can someone send me a tiny example rtf file which allows browsing.

> I have read the HAG manual but there are no examples. I have tried

> using +{\footnote +how:000} after \page but I can't seem to get

> to the next page.

I'm not sure - but try +{\footnote + how:000} - You need the extra

space after + (I think) as a RTF token end.

>

> And yes, I have defined BrowseButtons() in the definition file. The

> browse buttons are there, but greyed out.

>

> I am missing something small, but important.

>

> Please e-mail replies.

>

> Thanks

>

> Peter

Ron.

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There has been some discussion recently about shareware tools

for creating windows help systems. Can anyone provide me with information

about COMMERCIAL authoring systems?

I apologize if this is in the FAQ -- I couldn't find it.

Sheri

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compiling help files

In <CzBpI9.9x5@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>Also, I realize there are three ways to implement use of .bmp

>files in .hlp projects, the paste in, the {bmx bmp.bmp} and the

>{bmxwd bmp.bmp}.  Although all my .BMPs are referenced the

>second way, it appears that my .HLP files actually carry the

>.BMP inside them. That is, I can display them with no disk

>access, or on another user's machine.  What is the function of

>the 'wd', or 'with data' param?

That is correct - the bitmaps are normally placed in the baggage

section, and as I understand it the wd option will actually place

the bitmap in the help topic itself.  Therefore, since WinHelp

doesn't need to change to the baggage section it provides faster

access to the bitmap.

>Oh, I am listing my .bmps in the .hpj [bitmaps] section.

That isn't really required if you have your directories set

up correct.  Personally, I never use the [bitmaps] section.

...Stefan

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programmatic hotspot creation - SHED?

In article <ladr.15.0097DC63@interport.net>,

Raphael Laderman <ladr@interport.net> wrote:

>I want to find out if there exists or if anyone knows how to get the

>information necessary to write a utility which would create hotspots in a SHG

>file.

>

Your starting point should be Pete Davis' article in the february

'94 issue of Windows/DOS Developers Jornal, which discusses the

file format of .shg and .mrb files.

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I'm exploring the possibility of using audio with our help files and

tutorials, as well as embedded windows for video.

Can someone point me to some recent articles or collection of articles on

these features so I can create .HLP files that are bigger than their

corresponding .EXE files?  It's a girl thing, ya know.

Bev Freed

Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

Dallas, TX

e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

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Edit copy of large topics

In article <39ofkm$re@news.millcomm.com>, robin@millcomm.com (Robin) writes:

|>

|> Some of the HLP files I'm building have very large topics that wont fit in

|> the Edit copy feature.  Does anyone have a way to do this?  What I'd

|> really like is to be able to highlight and copy text right from the screen

|> into the clipboard.  (hint hint 4.0 developers)

|>

|>

According to Ralph Walden (MS), Windows '95 will have this capability.

The copy dialog will go away completely.

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In Article <YdhyuA+FBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz> "stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson)" says:

> In <19941114190232.R.A.M.vGeel@sp0383.kub.nl> R.A.M.vGeel@kub.nl  (GEEL R.A.M.VAN) writes:

> >I want to disable (preferabley delete) the standard menu's and

> >buttons. A big applause for the person that shows if, and how, this

> >is possible.

>

> There is only one tool that I know of that allows you to remove

> the menus - our own Olson Software Help Tools.  We did some

> brief work on removing the buttons - and this feature will most

> likely be available in a future release.  At this stage you can

> at least remove the menu!

>

Not true. I discovered that this will do the job:

[CONFIG]

RR("USER", "GetMenu", "u=u")

RR("USER", "GetActiveWindow", "u=")

RR("USER", "DestroyMenu", "u=u")

RR("USER", "SetMenu", "uu")

RR("USER", "GetItemHandle", "I")

DestroyMenu(GetMenu(GetActiveWindow()))

SetMenu(GetActiveWindow(), 0)

But thanks anyway for your support.

Rob van Geel

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Out of Memeory Error

In article <CyLIFs.Ft0@tc.fluke.COM> lil@tc.fluke.COM (Lilly-Anne Wilder) writes:

>From: lil@tc.fluke.COM (Lilly-Anne Wilder)

>Subject: Re: Out of Memeory Error

>Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 15:45:25 GMT

>Try referencing the graphics instead of pasting them in the document.

>For example, [image] where you want the graphic to display.

>Lilly-Anne

Yeah when I looked more closely in my document I found a 16million color bmp

that snuck through without me decreasing the color depth so it was definatly

over the 32000byte paragraph deal, so I changed it and referenced my larger

BMPs, and it worked!

Thanks for those who helped.

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Browsing Example

Can someone send me a tiny example rtf file which allows browsing.

I have read the HAG manual but there are no examples. I have tried

using +{\footnote +how:000} after \page but I can't seem to get

to the next page.

And yes, I have defined BrowseButtons() in the definition file. The

browse buttons are there, but greyed out.

I am missing something small, but important.

Please e-mail replies.

Thanks

Peter

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programmatic hotspot creation - SHED?

I want to find out if there exists or if anyone knows how to get the

information necessary to write a utility which would create hotspots in a SHG

file.

What I am envisioning is: if I know that I have 100 different hotspots at

specific locations on the screen and specific sizes, I would rather have a

program edit the SHD file to specify these instead of having to do it by hand

with SHED2.EXE.

Also, I think SHED2.EXE has a size bug: if there is a lot of text in the Macro

Command area and there are many hotspots, SHED crashes when writing the file.

Any help will be appreciated! (Email please)

Thanks!

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I've had some requests from non-Windows DOS users that they would like to

be able to use some WinHelp files.  Is there somekind of DOS WinHelp

reader available somewhere?  Any Help is much appreaciated.

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Is the Help Compiler redistributable?

In article <CzD91G.AKv@viewlogic.com>, greg@equipe.viewlogic.com (Gregory

Larkin) writes:

>I want to write a Windows app that depends on the user

>having the Help Compiler from MS installed (HC505).

>Can I distribute the compiler with my app or is there

>some other way for a "normal" user (non-developer) to

>get access to it?

Microsoft's policy, which has been stated repeatedly in their forums on

CompuServe, is that the Help compiler is NOT distributable. It's only

available to those who have licensed it by buying one of their development

products that includes it. The fact that they post the latest version of

the compiler publicly does not contradict this policy. It's supposed to be

downloaded only by those who already have licensed it.

It's my understanding that companies that wish to redistribute the

compiler along with their own Help development tools (as Blue Sky software

does with RoboHELP, for example) have paid a hefty fee to Microsoft for

that privilege (somewhere in five figures, from what I've heard).

The only hope that I can see for another avenue in the future is if MSFT

would finally recognize that Help has become an industry in its own right

for the publication of standalone hypertext documents. It doesn't make

sense any longer to consider it just as part of an SDK. When they realize

this, perhaps they'll unbundle it and make it available at a reasonable

price.

Steve Diamond

Diamond Consulting Services

Tucson, Arizona

smdiamond@aol.com

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Commercial Authoring Tools

>In article <78501853313n12@news.cecer.army.mil>, Sheri=Steffes%FFK%USACERL@leo.cecer.army.mil writes:

>There has been some discussion recently about shareware tools

>for creating windows help systems. Can anyone provide me with information

>about COMMERCIAL authoring systems?

     RoboHelp, DocToHelp, ForeHelp.  Others, anyone?

     ForeHelp is WYSIWYG.  Can someone else comment about the others?

     ForeHelp is available from Borland for $69 and from ForeFront directly for

$139 (?) as a competitive upgrade and $199 (?) if not an upgrade.  I bought it

at the upgrade price.  I'm very pleased with the product and feel I got

great value for the money.

Kevin Koch

Speaking for myself, not Digital

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Audio help

In article <CzF287.D5F@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,

BaDge <baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU> wrote:

>

>Bev,

>

>I looked in both my ref manuals (DOLH, and PGTW) and found

>little or no info about multimedia for WinHelp apps. I imagine

>you are calling a .WAV file from the ExecuteProg. macro?

>

>If I turn up anything, I'll pass it along.

>

>BaDge

><baj7d@virginia.EDU>

>

I must have missed the original post, butyou usually play a WAV from WinHelp

by registering the MMSYSTEM.DLL SndPlaySound routine, and calling it with

a !link.

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+Commercial Authoring Tools

There are several good windows help authoring tools. I have used

Doc2Help, which is made by WexTech; RoboHelp, made by Blue Sky

Software; and HelpBreeze, made by SolutionSoft. All of these

require Word for Windows (either version 2 or 6) as they reside

on your system as Word templates. My experience has been (and I'm

sure others would disagree) that for quick conversions of Word

documents into online Help, use HelpBreeze. To create both online

and print documents from the same source document, use Doc2Help,

although this tool is difficult to learn and takes a long time to

compile. For the most flexibility, ease of learning, and quick

compile times, use RoboHelp. You can also try ForeHelp, which

does not require Word for Windows and is good for smaller,

stand-alone help files.

This is just an intro. I can supply more information if you need

it.

Good luck,

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HDK / ODBC Conflict

Hi,

   our documentation writer is currently documenting an application that uses

the ODBC Access database driver.  When he is running the application and HDK

at the same time, the application intermittently fails to access the database.

Trying other ODBC samples provided with the ODBC SDK results in similar

problems.  This makes it difficult to document as you could imagine.

Anyone with similar problems?

Thanks for your help.

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MC>That's exactly what HelpPerfect does.  It bypasses WordPerfect's

  >RTF conversion, and automatically turns text that is marked for

  >index, TOC, etc. into RTF \footnotes.  WP footnotes are turned

  >into pop-ups, as you'd want them to.  The rest is handled using

  >WP styles, which you can freely assign to any WinHelp feature you

  >want.

MC>I'm working on the WP6 code right now; the current version supports

  >WP5.x only...

Sounds like just what I'm after Miguel!  But you'll have to get your

marketing hat on... you never said how I might get a copy of your

software to try it out.

Cheers

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Large MM Viewer file distribution

I am trying to distribute a program with a relatively large (~3MB) .mvb

file using the MS Setup Toolkit.  When I use DISKLYT2.EXE to layout the

floppies, I get this error:

Reading layout file

Starting layout: 11/02/94 06:42:31

Compressing files

Error opening file: \3

Error opening file: e:\data\compass\setup\..\comp\mon94-95.mvb

Since this is _the_ large file, I assume that the toolkit doesn't handle

anything that it can't fit on a floppy.  The questions are:

Is this a true assumption?

Can you segment the file with setup toolkit so it will fit on floppies?

Is it hard/what's the magic trick?

Is there another tool that's better/easier for setup program generation

(please tell me it's cheap)?

Thanks in advance for _any_ answers/suggestions.

Tim Mackay

Marquette Electronics, Inc.

Tim.Mackay@mail.mei.com

(414) 362-3349

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In article <3acokv$p6k@mercury.dur.ac.uk>,

Rory Barr  <R.J.Barr@Durham.ac.uk> wrote:

>Hi all,

>  You must excuse my ignorance with regard to OLE and DDE etc., but

>I am writing an application that makes extensive use of winhelp

>files. The application is aimed at people who don't necessarily have

>a great understanding of windows or for that matter computers. For

>this reason I would like to embed winhelp within my application to

>avoid the constant swapping of focus between my app and winhelp,

>which might cause slight confusion.

>  Is this possible using OLE? Is there any other way I might be able

>to do it?

>  I am using BC4 and OWL2, but I believe BC4.5 will offer greater

>support for OLE. Would it be worth me upgrading on these grounds?

>

As far as I know, WinHelp is not OLE-aware.  Neither is WinHelp32

in WinNT, I believe.  I don't know about Win95 WinHelp: it might be,

since "Chicago" will be an OLE-centered OS.

I haven't looked into MediaView a lot yet, but it looks like

you could use MediaView to embed Help in your application windows.

And from what I've seen, the MediaView API is far less intimidating

than the OLE2 API... (I have this nightmare about being forced to

use the OLE2 API ever since I read the "OLE for Dummies" articles

on the MSDN CD... no more articles have appeared in the last two

editions, so I guess the author has also given up on it and gone

on to enjoy life... :-)

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Stefan,

Thanks for the lucid explanation. I had a cold sweat there for

a sec when I imagined I'd have to change all my {bmx...} to

{bmxwd...} and that my end user would see 'image not found'

messages. :-)

Have you had any success including an icon file withing the

.hlp file that not only allows a custom icon when the .hlp file

is minimized, but when the .hlp file is displayed in a windows

.grp file?  I have compiled with the .ico file listed in the

[OPTIONS] section, but windows still wants to use the rude

yellow giant question mark when added to a .grp. I realize one

can change the icon via properties, and I can see the icon in a

hex browse of the file, but I don't understand why it still

defaults to the WinHelp icon in the group. I even tried adding

it as a line to the [Baggage] section.

My project is now looking exceptionally smooth and actually is

now taking on a neat Hypertext look and feel, especially using

the intra window jumps to other help files, where one can

return to one's reading via the 'back' button, or actually move

on into the new help file via the 'contents' button. (I'm using

the {\uldb "text"}{\v !JI(`filename.hlp', `topiccontextname')}

macro).  The addition of the 'glossary' to secondary window

also helps with this 'illusion' of 'hyperness'.

I looked at your Olson's tools, and they are quite nice! A bit

advanced for my purposes.  Do you require royalties if your

.DLL is utilized?

-regards

BaDge

<baj7d@virginia.EDU>

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In article <CzF1H9.CBI@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,

BaDge <baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU> wrote:

>

>Have you had any success including an icon file withing the

>.hlp file that not only allows a custom icon when the .hlp file

>is minimized, but when the .hlp file is displayed in a windows

>.grp file?  I have compiled with the .ico file listed in the

>[OPTIONS] section, but windows still wants to use the rude

>yellow giant question mark when added to a .grp. I realize one

>can change the icon via properties, and I can see the icon in a

>hex browse of the file, but I don't understand why it still

>defaults to the WinHelp icon in the group. I even tried adding

>it as a line to the [Baggage] section.

>

The problem is that a .HLP file is not an .EXE.  Program

Manager knows how to parse an .EXE and extract the icons

that are in the bound .RES (resource) file.  It doesn't

know a thing about Baggage files, the WinHelp Filesystem

or anything like that.  As far as ProgMan is concerned, it's

just a data file that is represented by the icon of the

application that's associated with it...

I'm only joking, but a workaround would be to have an .EXE

for each helpfile:

whatever WinMain(whatever)

{

WinHelp(NULL, "my.hlp", HELP_CONTENTS, 0L);

return 0;

}

with the proper icon bound in...

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In article <3acokv$p6k@mercury.dur.ac.uk>, Rory Barr wrote:

>

> Hi all,

>   You must excuse my ignorance with regard to OLE and DDE etc., but

> I am writing an application that makes extensive use of winhelp

> files. The application is aimed at people who don't necessarily have

> a great understanding of windows or for that matter computers. For

> this reason I would like to embed winhelp within my application to

> avoid the constant swapping of focus between my app and winhelp,

> which might cause slight confusion.

I think the way to go for you is to take a look at MediaView. It is on

MSDN Level 2.

>   Is this possible using OLE? Is there any other way I might be able

> to do it?

>   I am using BC4 and OWL2, but I believe BC4.5 will offer greater

> support for OLE. Would it be worth me upgrading on these grounds?

>

> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

>

> Rory                                         R.J.Barr@Durham.ac.uk

Ron.

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+Commercial Authoring Tools

In <78501853313n12@news.cecer.army.mil> Sheri=Steffes%FFK%USACERL@leo.cecer.army.mil writes:

>There has been some discussion recently about shareware tools

>for creating windows help systems. Can anyone provide me with information

>about COMMERCIAL authoring systems?

Both shareware and commercial tools are mentioned in the FAQ, and

I'm sure some kind person will tell you where you can get a copy

of the FAQ.

If I were you, I wouldn't knock a tool off your list because it

is shareware - there have been some amazing shareware tools

produced!

...Stefan

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koch@sousa.tay1.dec.com (Kevin Koch) writes:

>     RoboHelp, DocToHelp, ForeHelp.  Others, anyone?

>     ForeHelp is WYSIWYG.  Can someone else comment about the others?

I am using HelpBreeze and I  am very pleased with the product and with

the telephone support.  My choice was  motivated by the need to

reuse a large part of the help file for the paper documentation.  Then having

a  product that uses an EXISTING word processor was a definite advantage.

(An embedded word processor was a disadvantage.)

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Bug?...word wrap wrong

Well, here's a good one...I'm working on a help file that describes how

to use Windows menus and the commands within the menus.  The SQA people

here think that every time you mention a menu, it needs to be represented

the same way it appears in the menu bar.  For example the when mentioning

the File menu, they want the 'F' underscored.

Here's the problem:  After compiling the help file, it can be opened with

the Windows help application.  You can resize the help window.  However,

if the window is narrowed to a point where the word with a single character

underscored *should* wrap the whole word, it only wraps the chunk of the

word *after* the underscored character.

I did a hex dump of the help file, and noticed that there is a hex nul (00)

immediately preceding and immediately following the underscored character.

I can only surmise that the help engine sees the null following the us

character as some sort of break, and therefore allows the wrap to occur.

Does anyone know of any way around this problem?  I have thought of

duplicating the lower ascii character set into teh upper ascii region and

using a font editor to create an upper ascii underscore set...AARGH!  There's

got to be an easier way...

Any help will be most appreciated.

Thanx

Mike Mitchell

mm@dptspd.sat.datapoint.com

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WordPerfect to Winhelp

In article <1994Nov12.234222.244737@lector.admin.kth.se> Mikael_Asmola@lector.admin.kth.se writes:

>From: Mikael_Asmola@lector.admin.kth.se

>Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 23:42:22 MET

>Subject: WordPerfect to Winhelp

>Does anybody know if there is a compiler for WordPerfect 6.0 to Winhelp

>format?

I'd suggest you look into a help authoring tool such as ForeHelp. You can

still do all your text in WP and then use copy and past to bring it into the

help program, which then takes care of all the details of creating help files.

It's *far* easier working this way than any other method.

Michael McCoy

mmccoy@crs.loc.gov

202-707-6539

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Using DLL calls in VC++

Hi

given: The name of a subroutine inside a DLL

       The name of a DLL

       The number of parameters of this subroutine

       The type of this parameters.

wanted: Using this function by calling via a function pointer.

This is easy done by calling Getprocadress, and assigning the value returned

by Getprocadress to a function pointer, when you know the number and type

of the parameters at compile time ( You simply prototype a function pointer )

BUT!!!! I get the name and the type of parameters of the function just at

runtime. There is no chance of prototyping a function pointer with

the given arguments.

==> I need to create the stack frame for the DLL call at runtime

    and call the function, or something else.

How do I manage that? I know that Visualbasic has a 'declare' statement

which allows you to do this. Excel also has the abilty of calling external

DLLs, from which you only know the name, and the parameters. Wordbasic

does this too, and the MS Help systems also allows that too, via

'RegisterRoutine'

Short: I need the C++ equivalent for 'RegisterRoutine', or 'declare'

But I can't find a hint somewhere how they do it. There is no hint

at the developers network CD. Gimme a hint, please !!!!

But please email me

schinagl@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at

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Looking for Help Files

I am looking for help files that are related to the travel industry.

files such as national state parks, tourism offices, etc....

thanksd,

kevin

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In article <h2DuuAPCBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>, stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) says:

>

>In <393qs8$6lr@yeshua.marcam.com> colson@marcam.com (Garrett Colson) writes:

>>(Stefan: Why did you use 4 tabs and a tiny, tiny spin ctrl in the pref.

>>dialog? Why not just use 5 tabs?)

>

>We actually use 5 tabs - one just happens to be hidden.  You will

>find that a plan similar to this tiny spin ctrl is used in MFC 3.0

>(included in Visual C++ 2.0), so you may see some applications

>using these in the near future.  5 tabs wouldn't fit in the dialog -

>in that case our tabbed dialogs create a spin control.

>

I repeat:

Why not use 5 tabs.

I'm sure you have a logical explanation about why you couldn't make

a dialog box a little wider to hold the 5 tabs, but...

It's a usability issue. For ease of use/speed of use, having all the tabs

visible would be preferable. People who do not use MSVC++ may not

find the tiny, tiny button exactly intuitive or helpful. ( C++ users probably

write their help files in assembly so wouldn't benefit from the UI similiarity.)

-Garrett

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         So sorry to waste space, I see that I've already got it.  Dumb me.

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Browse Sequence Problems...

In article <784985174snz@respub.demon.co.uk>, GeoffC@respub.demon.co.uk

(geoffc) writes:

>

> Msg-ID: <784985174snz@respub.demon.co.uk>

> Posted: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 11:26:14 +0000

>

> Org.  : Myorganisation

>

>

> We have a problem using Visual Help and getting the Browse

> Sequence to work. Some topics do not appear to be included in

> the sequence despite efforts to edit the RTF directly.

>

> Is there a shareware package that allows easy editting of Browse

> Sequences?

>

> Any advice much appriciated.

>

>

> --

> geoffc

Although advertising is not usually encouraged, I don't think anyone will

mind if I answer your question.  Several shareware packages support browse

sequence manipulation.  My package is HELLLP!, which is available as

HELLLP23.ZIP from any of the SimTel sites (do an ARCHIE on HELLLP to find

one convenient for you - its on OAK.Oakland.Edu for sure), but it is by no

means the only one.  The beauty of shareware is that you can try them all

before you make up your mind!

Different ones suit different work styles.  I've also heard good things

about Stefan Olsen's stuff - even if he is half a world away from me, but

I'm sure he'll also reply.

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Audio help

In article <CzF287.D5F@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>I looked in both my ref manuals (DOLH, and PGTW) and found

>little or no info about multimedia for WinHelp apps. I imagine

>you are calling a .WAV file from the ExecuteProg. macro?

>If I turn up anything, I'll pass it along.

Thanks bunches...anything, anything.  I'm a virgin at this audio stuff.  All

offers of sacrifice gleefully accepted.

Bev Freed

Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

Dallas, TX

e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

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in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly.

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In article <mm.785089421@dptspd> mm@datapoint.com (Mike Mitchell) writes:

>Here's the problem:  After compiling the help file, it can be opened with

>the Windows help application.  You can resize the help window.  However,

>if the window is narrowed to a point where the word with a single character

>underscored *should* wrap the whole word, it only wraps the chunk of the

>word *after* the underscored character.

Talk them into letting you emphasize the letter by color and bold.  Slimey

work-around, I know, but it would make your life easier.

Bev Freed

Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

Dallas, TX

e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

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Well apparantly this was asked before but I seemed to miss it.  I am using Visual

Basic Standard Edition to develop a particular project.  I would like to include

help in this project but a tight budget does not allow me to purchase the

Professional Edition (or even the Upgrade).  Are there any public domain help

compilers available?

Any information would be appreciated.

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Anyone using ForeHelp?

We've just started using Borland ForeHelp, and have run up against

what appears to be a size problem.  Importing a very large .RTF file

with "split into topics" checked caused the program to die. Chopping

the .RTF into two parts manually and importing them into separate

ForeHelp projects worked okay, so it's not the files that are at

fault.  It could be the number of topics - there are approximately

1,800 popups all in the main Contents topic!  Anyone have any ideas or

suggestions?

Andrew

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Full-Text Search in WinHelp?

Is there a way to get full-text search (as in Multimedia Viewer)

in a standard Windows help file?

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[Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

In article <CzHrC3.Mr0@inter.NL.net>,

Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@inter.NL.net> wrote:

>In article <mTPVVc1w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz>,

>Wayne W. McDougall <system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> wrote:

>>What does this sentence mean in the Help Compiler Guide, Creating Help Macros

>>under the heading Running Macros when a User Enters a Topic (p 68 in my copy).

>>

>>"If a Help macro is authored in a topic footnote, WinHelp runs that macro

>>automatically whenever the user jumps to the topic."

>>

>>Ok, thats what I want to do, but I just don't understand what "authored in

>>a topic footnote" means. I would be grateful if someone would clarify. I am

>>using Word 6, creating the help files in RTF format.

>>

>

>It just means that your topic should have a ! footnote containing the

>macro.  In RTF:

>

>${\footnote Title}

>#{\footnote CString}

>K{\footnote Keyword}

>!{\footnote ExecProgram("clock.exe", 0)}

>

Notice that you can have multiple ! footnotes to carry on several

actions upon entry.

FWIW - Our new (currently in beta) Interactive Help product allows

you to take it even further and have "exit" macros as well.

>

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In article <3ai85o$sgs$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com>,

Michael Cohen  <74507.54@CompuServe.COM> wrote:

>Is there a way to get full-text search (as in Multimedia Viewer)

>in a standard Windows help file?

From the c.o.m.p.winhelp FAQ:

[6-1-2] Using the Full-Text Search Engines in WinHelp

Q: Can I add full-text search capabilities to my Windows Help file?

A: Yes.  The problem is finding the tools to do it with.

The full-text search engine of the Multimedia Viewer 1.0 is completely

compatible with WinHelp.  To create an index file from your help file,

you'll need:

FORAGE.EXE

(FORAGEP.EXE)

W_SCAN.EXE

INDEX.EXE

(GETMLT.EXE)

The run-time support is in the following DLLs:

FTUI.DLL

FTENGINE.DLL

MVAPI.DLL

These were all available in the MDK (Multimedia Developer's Kit), now

superseded by the Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit (Viewer 2.0).

Viewer 2 also supports full-text searching, but the indexing is handled

by the integrated Viewer compiler: no separate .IND file is created.

The runtime DLLs are also different (MVFS2.DLL, MVFSTUI2.DLL, MVAPI2.DLL).

The Indexing programs (FORAGE, W_SCAN and INDEX) are now available in the

Windows NT SDK (MSTOOLS\HLPINDEX directory), as included in the MS Developer's

Library Level II CD sets.  They are identical to the original Viewer 1 tools.

However, WinNT does *not* include the required 16-bit run-time DLLs, but comes

instead with new 32-bit versions (FTUI32.DLL, FTENG32.DLL, MVAPI32.DLL).

The 16 bit DLLs are available from ftp.microsoft.com in some of the

KnowledgeBase helpfiles (e.g. Softlib/MSLFILES/WFWG.EXE).  They should

also be found with any Multimedia Viewer 1.0 product (like my 1991 MS

Boookshelf for Windows).

[**NOTE** You might also want to check out:

ftp.netcom.com:/pub/noring/WinHelp/ftskit.zip

]

Q: Suppose I have laid my hands upon the EXEs and DLLs required.  What

must I do next?

A: Say you have a Windows Help project called MYPRJ.  First you must tell

WinHelp where to find the full-text search routines.  In MYPRJ.HPJ, add

these lines to the [CONFIG] section:

[CONFIG]

; initialize DLLs

RR("ftengine", "LoadFTEngine", "U")

LoadFTEngine(0)

RR("ftui", "InitRoutines", "SU")

InitRoutines(qchPath, 1)

; declare the main routines

RR("ftui", ExecFullTextSearch", "USSS")

RR("ftui", "SwitchToTopicsFound", "U")

; provide ways to use them: suit to your own taste

AddAccelerator(0x46,2,"SwitchToTopicsFound(hwndApp)")

CreateButton("btn_fts","FullText","ExecFullTextSearch(hwndApp,qchPath,`',`')")

Add the following line to the [BAGGAGE] section

[BAGGAGE]

bag.ini

{ Editor's Note: "bag.ini" must be all lower case. Baggage files are case

sensitive. Not making it all lower case will produce errors.             }

Save MYPRJ.HPJ.

"bag.ini" is a simple text file, that tells the full-text search engine the

name of the index file, and whether several different help-files share one

single index.  The simple case is one .HLP file, one .IND file.  bag.ini

should look like this:

[bag.ini]

groupcount=1

group1=MYPRJ

[MYPRJ]

Title=My Project

Indexfile=MYPRJ.IND

If you have two helpfiles that share an index:

[bag.ini]

groupcount=2

group1=MYPRJ1

group2=MYPRJ2

[MYPRJ1]

Title=My Project I

Indexfile=MYPRJ.IND

[MYPRJ2]

Title=My Project II

Indexfile=MYPRJ.IND

All the Indexfile= lines should be the same.  You can have up to 15 groups.

The same bag.ini file should be included in the baggage of all the help files.

Next you'll need a field-description file.  It comes with the Viewer 1

and NT Helpindex tools (as GENERIC.FLD).  If you don't have it, it's

a simple textfile containing the following text:

topic [inline, search, stop]

filename [catalog, string]

address [catalog, fixed(4)]

length [catalog, fixed(4)]

topicTitle [catalog, trunc(32)]

topicNSR [inline, search, stop]

Finally there's the stop-words file.  This is a text file containing words

that need not be indexed, each on a separate line.  Viewer 1 and NT come

with GENERIC.STP, which contains a list of English words:

a

an

and

the

...

If your text is in a different language, you should provide your own .STP

file.  Viewer 2 comes with ready-made French and German .STP files.

Since we're talking internationalization, one drawback of the Viewer 1

FTUI.DLL (solved in Viewer 2) is that the Full-Text Search dialog box

is English only.  Borland's Resource Workshop barfed on the dialog resource

in the DLL (Did MS do this on purpose?).

OK, all is set now to create the full-text index.  Viewer1 and the NT SDK

come with ready-to-run batchfiles, that in turn invoke a makefile that

creates the actual index.  In order the explain what's going on,  we'll

ignore the compexities of the makefile provided by MS.

For the simple case of one helpfile with one indexfile, you can create

(or generate) a batchfile, to invoke the Help Compiler and the Indexing

programs:

@ECHO OFF

hcp MYPRJ

echo.

forage /w MYPRJ.HLP

w_scan MYPRJ.ANS,,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,,MYPRJ.LST;

index MYPRJ,,MYPRJ,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,MYPRJ.MAP;

rem produced by FORAGE

del MYPRJ.ANS

rem produced by W_SCAN

del MYPRJ.CFG

del MYPRJ.LST

del MYPRJ.OCA

del MYPRJ.WRS

del MYPRJ.ZON

del MYPRJ.ZOS

rem produced by INDEX

del MYPRJ.MAP

rem think that covers all the garbage generated

If you have several helpfiles for which you want to create a single index,

first create the .HLP files (using HC or HCP), then make the index with

a batchfile like this:

getmlt bag.ini;

forage /m bag.ini BAG.MLT

w_scan MYPRJ.ANS,,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,BAG.MLT,MYPRJ.LST;

index MYPRJ,,MYPRJ,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,MYPRJ.MAP;

rem clean up the directory

GETMLT.EXE is a very clever program that reads a bag.ini file and produces

the following output (given the bag.ini file above):

My Project I

MYPRJ1.HLP

My Project II

MYPRJ2.HLP

It needs two arguments (name of bag.ini and name of output .MLT file),

but will only accept one (hey! let's make it interactive!).  If I didn't

have a program to generate all of this FTSearch stuff automatically, I'd

even prefer to make the .MLT file by hand!

That's it.  You should now have a file MYPRJ.IND to go with your

help file(s).  When you distribute the help file(s), just make sure that

you include the .IND file, *and* the FTUI, FTENGINE and MVAPI DLLs.

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[Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

In article <mTPVVc1w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz>,

Wayne W. McDougall <system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> wrote:

>What does this sentence mean in the Help Compiler Guide, Creating Help Macros

>under the heading Running Macros when a User Enters a Topic (p 68 in my copy).

>

>"If a Help macro is authored in a topic footnote, WinHelp runs that macro

>automatically whenever the user jumps to the topic."

>

>Ok, thats what I want to do, but I just don't understand what "authored in

>a topic footnote" means. I would be grateful if someone would clarify. I am

>using Word 6, creating the help files in RTF format.

>

It just means that your topic should have a ! footnote containing the

macro.  In RTF:

${\footnote Title}

#{\footnote CString}

K{\footnote Keyword}

!{\footnote ExecProgram("clock.exe", 0)}

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How do you enable search across several independent help project files

for WINHELP?

Is there a utility or product that will enable us to do this? Any

suggestions or info would be greatly appreciated.

Lavanya K. Mandavilli

Cisco Systems Inc.,

lmandavi@cisco.com

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Is the Help Compiler redistributable?

In <CzD91G.AKv@viewlogic.com> greg@equipe.viewlogic.com (Gregory Larkin) writes:

>I want to write a Windows app that depends on the user

>having the Help Compiler from MS installed (HC505).

>Can I distribute the compiler with my app or is there

>some other way for a "normal" user (non-developer) to

>get access to it?

You have to licence the compiler from Microsoft or

talk to a help authoring tool developer (such

as Olson Software) to redistribute it.  Each disk based

copy of HWA sold includes a licence for the help

compiler.

...Stefan

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In article <CzFq2E.BoD@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, BaDge wrote:

>

>  >you usually play a WAV from WinHelp by registering the

>  >MMSYSTEM.DLL SndPlaySound routine, and calling it with a !link.

>

> Ron,

>

>   I'm sure Astro-girl will appreciate your help more than my

> half-baked comment. ;-) I might also add that the newest issue

> of Windows/DOS Dev Jour (V5#11) has an ad for BlueSky's help

> add-on, which reportedly plays .avi & .wav files directly out

> of the [Baggage] section, royalty free.  However they want 2

> Bills for it unless you already have RH.

>

> BaDge

> <baj7d@virginia.EDU>

>

>

Hi,

I think you are right about Blue Sky's MM WinHelp, I have heard that

this is a great package (But you can expect that from these guys ..).

Here is the "scoop" on SndPlaySound :

Windows 3.1 ships with a DLL called MMSYSTEM.DLL - The Multimedia

services DLL.

If you want to use this DLL in your winhelp projects, do the

following:

In the HPJ file, [config] section add the following message :

RR("MMSYSTEM","sndPlaySound","Su")

In the RTF file, when you want to play a wav file insert a link :

!sndPlaySound("mywav.wav",3)

Ron.

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In article <CzD91G.AKv@viewlogic.com>, greg@equipe.viewlogic.com (Gregory

Larkin) writes:

>I want to write a Windows app that depends on the user

>having the Help Compiler from MS installed (HC505).

You should be aware that the help compiler that will be released as

part of the Win95 SDK will be a Windows application, rather then a DOS

application, and will have a different name. You will still need a

license to redistribute it.

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In <CzF1H9.CBI@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>Have you had any success including an icon file withing the

>.hlp file that not only allows a custom icon when the .hlp file

>is minimized, but when the .hlp file is displayed in a windows

>.grp file?

You will need to get your setup program to add the icon to the

group when installing the help file.  WinHelp doesn't put the

icon in a place where the progman will find it, so you need

to specify the icon file (.ico) manually in the properties

part of the program manager.

>I looked at your Olson's tools, and they are quite nice! A bit

>advanced for my purposes.  Do you require royalties if your

>.DLL is utilized?

No - the price is $55NZ for as many help files as you want!

Cheers,

Stefan

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In <3ah24n$c5a@bigboote.WPI.EDU> sean@joseph.WPI.EDU (Sean R Gilhooly) writes:

>Well apparantly this was asked before but I seemed to miss it.  I am using Visual

>Basic Standard Edition to develop a particular project.  I would like to include

>help in this project but a tight budget does not allow me to purchase the

>Professional Edition (or even the Upgrade).  Are there any public domain help

>compilers available?

The only way you can get a compiler is through something like VB Prof or

a help authoring tool which includes the compiler.  The cheepest tool I know

of that includes the help compiler is our tool, HWA at $70US.

...Stefan

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In article <nvozuA0DBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>, stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) says:

>> sean@joseph.WPI.EDU (Sean R Gilhooly) writes:

>> I would like to include help in this project but a tight budget does not allow me to purchase the

>>Professional Edition (or even the Upgrade).  Are there any public domain help

>>compilers available?

>

>The only way you can get a compiler is through something like VB Prof or

>a help authoring tool which includes the compiler.  The cheepest tool I know

>of that includes the help compiler is our tool, HWA at $70US.

>

>...Stefan

You can also ftp microsoft's WHAT.EXE or WHAT6.EXE (windows help authoring

 tools) in the pub/winhelp directory at:  gmutant.wrlc.org

These both are for use with MS Word and include the help compiler, some online

documentation and various useful tools.  Best of all they are free!  There are also

many other wonderful and not so wonderful help authoring tools at this site.

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In article <nvozuA0DBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>,

stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

Stefan in what directory are your two files?

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Problem compiling large help files

For the Out of Mem errors, don't forget the earlier advice to

increase your 'files=' in config.sys to about 50.

Also make sure your hc.pif is set up correctly.

If you want more specific help, I've found it's helpful to post

your .hpj, or a sample of how you are reffing your .bmp entry

in the .rtf.

-hope this winhelps, /pard !

BaDge

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As far as setting up custom icons, I might mention the

obvious...

There is a nice util on CICA that binds all your .ico files

into a nice little .dll for a multi-.hlp project, it's very

clean and less cluttered, and prevents little, 'oops, forgot

one' probs.  It's in the icon dir.

BaDge

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See my earlier post about managing those pesky .ico files.  It

sure is annoying setting up the prog man groups. I am

experimenting with a shareware 'setup' program so that the user

will be able to put in the disk and type 'B:setup'.

BTW, have you noticed that the copywrite symbol that you can

'alt' key in to the .hpj looks smudged compared to the one that

is in the line about Microsoft?  Since the .hpj won't take a

/'a9, I don't know of any other way to get a better looking one

in there.

Didja see my earlier ques. about how to comment out lines in

the .rtf file so they won't show up in the final .hlp? I'm at a

loss.

-see ya

BaDge

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Dave.Connet@napervilleil.ncr.com (David Connet) writes:

>In article <ekkers.783254432@galaxy.ph.tn.tudelft.nl> ekkers@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Rob Ekkers) writes:

>>>....I have a application that makes use of a DLL. I have compiled

>>>....both with debug mode.  The problem I have is as follows:

>>>.... 1. I am able to set breakpoints in programs that are in the DLL

...material deleted

>>I've encountered the same problem when I used an internal make (project)

>>file for the dll. I stepped over to an external makefile and suddenly

>>the breakpoints did work! I havn't examined the difference between the

>>two makefiles, but I used the usual flags:

>>CFLAGS = -c -AMw -G2Dce -Od -Zeip

...material deleted

Unless I'm badly mistaken you guys are in the wrong newsgroup.

This newsgroup is _not_ for help with Windows programming, it's for help

"programming" Windows Help. WinHelp.

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This is purely my personal opinion.

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lmandavi@cisco.com (Lavanya K. Mandavilli) writes:

>How do you enable search across several independent help project files

>for WINHELP?

>Is there a utility or product that will enable us to do this? Any

>suggestions or info would be greatly appreciated.

>Lavanya K. Mandavilli

>Cisco Systems Inc.,

>lmandavi@cisco.com

I, too, would be extremely interested in any way of doing this.

I'd like to split an enormous help file into pieces that could be

distributed and installed separately. The biggest drawback to

this (that I can see, anyhow) is that the search function would

be restricted to the help file that happened to be open at the

time Search was pressed.

This is no small thing, I realize. Any ideas?

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Anyone using ForeHelp?

AJ,

I think most folks will tell you it is better to break up your

topics into multiple .rtf, modularly, if I am understanding

your question.  You compile into one .hlp file by listing all

the .rtf in the .hpj [files] section.  Makes for easier

correcting or updating and stuff.

BaDge

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In article <3al2u8$8k4@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, andrew vessey wrote:

>

> In article <nvozuA0DBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>,

stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) says:

>

> >> sean@joseph.WPI.EDU (Sean R Gilhooly) writes:

> >> I would like to include help in this project but a tight budget

does not allow me to purchase the

> >>Professional Edition (or even the Upgrade).  Are there any public

domain help

> >>compilers available?

> >

> >The only way you can get a compiler is through something like VB

Prof or

> >a help authoring tool which includes the compiler.  The cheepest

tool I know

> >of that includes the help compiler is our tool, HWA at $70US.

> >

> >...Stefan

>

> You can also ftp microsoft's WHAT.EXE or WHAT6.EXE (windows help

authoring

>  tools) in the pub/winhelp directory at:  gmutant.wrlc.org

> These both are for use with MS Word and include the help compiler,

some online

> documentation and various useful tools.  Best of all they are free!

There are also

> many other wonderful and not so wonderful help authoring tools at

this site.

>

Stefan was right, unless you own a tool that include the help compiler

and related utilities, you are not allowed to use the help compiler

that MS uploaded to several places for it's customers.

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In article <3ajq3d$4nf@panix2.panix.com>, Ron Loewy <rloewy@panix.com> wrote:

>

>FWIW - Our new (currently in beta) Interactive Help product allows

>you to take it even further and have "exit" macros as well.

>

LDLLHandler DW_STARTJUMP I presume?

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In article <CzIvHv.EHy@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,

BaDge <baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU> wrote:

>

>Didja see my earlier ques. about how to comment out lines in

>the .rtf file so they won't show up in the final .hlp? I'm at a

>loss.

>

Must have missed that...  If you're talking about raw RTF,

you can put the text between

 {\v xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx }

(hidden text).  To prevent problems if there happens to be a

{\ul ...} or {\uldb ...} just before it, you can also use

the \comment keyword.  The Help Compiler ignores it, and all

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In article <mm.785089421@dptspd>, mm@datapoint.com (Mike Mitchell) writes:

>However,if the window is narrowed to a point where the word with a single

>character underscored *should* wrap the whole word, it only wraps the

chunk

>of the word *after* the underscored character.

Mike,

I don't believe that there's a way around this one. Apparently whenever

the character formatting changes, Help thinks that's an okay place to cut

the line, even if there isn't a space. This has been really inconvenient

for me, too. Picture a list of text hotspots separated by commas. You

don't really want the commas to be green too, but you _certainly_ don't

want to see a line beginning with a black comma!

If there's anyone out there who knows how to hack around this limitation,

please speak up!

Steve Diamond

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Hi,

This is a strange question, but here goes :

In my DLL, I display some dialogs using DialogBoxIndirectParam

(instead of DialogBox), and I also try to capture DW_Activate in my

LDLLHandler.

When a dialog is displayed and the user switches to another

application I get a GPF somewhere in either Windows or WinHelp. My

LDLLHandler does not get the DW_Activate message before the GPF

occurs.

If I'm using "regular" dialog boxes, everything works as expected.

If I'm not intercepting DW_Activate (By not returning DC_Activate in

the LDLLHandler initialization), everything works.

FWIW - I have given the DLL as much local heap as I could (Around

60K), but the problem still occurs. If anyone has any insights he is

willing to share, I would be happy to hear them.

Another interesting "observation", my travels into low level WinHelp

programming lead me to belive that WinHelp consumes a lot of stack

space when a macro is called from the menubar, compared to not a lot

at all when it is called from the topic's text. Did anyone else notice

that, and - can anyone offer an explanation ?

Thanks,

Ron.

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In article <3al2u8$8k4@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, avessey@bev.net (andrew vessey)

writes:

>You can also ftp microsoft's WHAT.EXE or WHAT6.EXE (windows help

authoring

> tools) in the pub/winhelp directory at:  gmutant.wrlc.org

>These both are for use with MS Word and include the help compiler, some

online

>documentation and various useful tools.  Best of all they are free!

There are also

>many other wonderful and not so wonderful help authoring tools at this

site.

While it's true that Microsoft makes the latest Help compilers available

for download, that is supposed to be only for those who are already

licensed to use Help by having bought a product that included it. The

files publicly available are not supposed to be just there for anyone to

take. They're only for upgrades. Microsoft has stated this policy

repeatedly. Just fair warning!

Steve Diamond

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In article <CzIysD.Hzz@inter.NL.net>,

Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@inter.NL.net> wrote:

>In article <3ajq3d$4nf@panix2.panix.com>, Ron Loewy <rloewy@panix.com> wrote:

>>

>>FWIW - Our new (currently in beta) Interactive Help product allows

>>you to take it even further and have "exit" macros as well.

>>

>

>LDLLHandler DW_STARTJUMP I presume?

Yes, but with a twist, For topics that you supply a ! entry macro

(Called setTopic in the IH DLL) a flag is signaled to the DLL Parser,

If there is a PASTERP procedure called "enter" followed by the argument

you passed to the setTopic macro it is executed upon entry, and one

called "exit" followed by the same argument is activated (If it exist)

during DW_StartJump processing.

This makes a very "clean" interface for IH macros, the beta testers that

have seen the little PIM application I wrote in IH Beta 5 will see that when

they enter the Phone List topic the menu is changed, and when they get

out of it it is cleaned, the same happens when you enter the "To Do" topic,

The code looks like :

procedure enterToday

macInsertMenu(.. );

macAppendItem(.. );

endproc

procedure exitToday

macResetMenu;

endProc

(There is no wizardry, it is just making it really easy ..)

>

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On Nov 14, R.A.M.vGeel@kub.nl (GEEL R.A.M.VAN) wrote:

>How do I make WINHELP.EXE clear where to find the path to the DLL

>if it is not in the DOS-environment path or in the current path?

I've never called a DLL function from a help file, but the other day I noticed the following new

entry in my WINHELP.INI file after installing Microsoft Access:

[Files]

CUECARDS.DLL=C:\ACCESS\

WINHELP.INI is normally used to tell WINHELP where to find .HLP files that are off the system path.

 However, it appears that it can also be used to locate DLLs as well!

>You can't set the directory, like with EXE's.

I know you are always right, but this statement is confusing.  How have you "normally" been

specifying the path of an .EXE called from WINHELP?

>I want to disable (preferabley delete) the standard menu's and

>buttons. A big applause for the person that shows if, and how, this

>is possible.

You can't disable all the standard buttons, but you can use the ChangeButtonBinding macro to make

them essentially non-functional.  I've never tried it with menus, though.  Let me know if you want

more info.

Bob Staudenmaier

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compiling help files

{/v xxxxxxx...}

[slaps forehead] arrgh.  Of course, invisib. text...

gracias.

BaDge

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In <1994Nov1.134636.5510@ludens> kunszabo@ludens.elte.hu writes:

>Hi,

>Could somebody help to me how can i create WinHelp (.HLP) files?

>Is it possible to download any info from internet?

You can download quite a few tools from ftp.cica.indiana.edu -

I'm sure you'll find a tool you like.

Our tool, HWA, includes a tutorial which will help you get to

know how to create help files, I'm sure other tools do also.

...Stefan

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[Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

What does this sentence mean in the Help Compiler Guide, Creating Help Macros

under the heading Running Macros when a User Enters a Topic (p 68 in my copy).

"If a Help macro is authored in a topic footnote, WinHelp runs that macro

automatically whenever the user jumps to the topic."

Ok, thats what I want to do, but I just don't understand what "authored in

a topic footnote" means. I would be grateful if someone would clarify. I am

using Word 6, creating the help files in RTF format.

Thanks for your time, and forgive me if I am being dense.

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Bev,

I looked in both my ref manuals (DOLH, and PGTW) and found

little or no info about multimedia for WinHelp apps. I imagine

you are calling a .WAV file from the ExecuteProg. macro?

If I turn up anything, I'll pass it along.

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KnowledgeBase-style interface

I would like to create a user interface similar to that used in the

knowledegbase help files, with several topics listed, and when one is

selected, several more appear indented below it. Anybody know how this is

done?

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 >you usually play a WAV from WinHelp by registering the

 >MMSYSTEM.DLL SndPlaySound routine, and calling it with a !link.

Ron,

  I'm sure Astro-girl will appreciate your help more than my

half-baked comment. ;-) I might also add that the newest issue

of Windows/DOS Dev Jour (V5#11) has an ad for BlueSky's help

add-on, which reportedly plays .avi & .wav files directly out

of the [Baggage] section, royalty free.  However they want 2

Bills for it unless you already have RH.

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: >There has been some discussion recently about shareware tools

: >for creating windows help systems. Can anyone provide me with information

: >about COMMERCIAL authoring systems?

  ...another commercial package, that I've never seen mentioned on either

c.o.m.p.winhelp or WINHELP-L, is called "Help Yourself!" from SoftLogic

Solutions.  It is a *complete* WYSIWYG authoring tool that has its own

editor.  Support is provided for tables, templates, etc. and you can even

cut and paste tables that contain linked topics and it will maintain

those links.  There is also a customizable speedbar from which you

can select from over 100 speedbuttons. All I can say is that it is very

intuitive to use.  The current version is v.1.0 but they should be

releasing v.2.0 in the near future; I should have their beta v.2.0 very soon.

There are many other great features...but I'm beginning to sound like a

salesman!...so I think I'll quit. :-)  I'm not sure what the selling

price is going to be for v.2.0 but the list price for v.1.0 was $299.

But I did see v.1.0 available for $99 at one time.  If you need more info

call their Technical Support Department at (603)644-5555.

Sorry to sound like a salesman...I'm just a very satisfied customer.

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Where's the files?

I tried to install WHAT6, and it won't run. It is missing several files

not mentions in the docs. HCPARSE.DLL is one of them. Does anyone know

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      I've seen quite a few posts refering to this .dll, but never seen it?  I

assume it is part of a package of somesort, but which one?  How does one go

about getting it?

                                             Thanks,

                                                     Jeff

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Creating a Help File PROBLEMS :(

 Hi, People !

Don't know 'bout U, but I had some problems

during writing my project on the first grade.

And there are some questions I'd like to ask

any help will be appreciated.

1)

 The Help Compiler - when I run it in the

DOS prompt window - after some times of

successfull compiling prints

 ERROR 1079: Out Of file handles

OR:

  File HC.ERR not found in his directory

BUT when I quit from ms-windows and reenter

all it's alright, but not for a long time.

What these strange messages mean ???

2)

  I'd like to write, run & debug *.hlp

files for winhelp in DOS media.

 HOW can I do it ?

3)

  Now about the "<<" and ">>" buttons.

If I created the needed footnotes with

'+' sign, ":"  and a number -

 WHY the buttons "<<" and ">>" not added

to the .hlp file automatically ?

 Thanx in advance

                        Alexander M. Abramovich

                        avramov@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il

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In article <3aa5sf$d3o@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>, "W.R. Hartley" <W.R.Hartley@ncl.ac.uk> writes:

|>

|> Hi,

|>

|> Is there anywhere that I can find a demo version of the MS Multimedia Viewer.

|>

|> I don't want to spend, spend, spend until I know it is what I am really after.

|>

|>

|> Replies by email or to this Newsgroup

|> Thanks for any help

|>

|>

|> William Hartley

|> W.R.Hartley@uk.ac.ncl

|>

|>

Buy the book How to CD, MM Viewer 2.0.

There you will have a full version of Viewer. Limited by the number of topics.

 eilam

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Keywords:

Viewer 2.0

Hi there Viewers.

Its nice to see that more people started to use Viewer.

I am not YET a programmer.

There are two features which I'd like to have on Viewer and you

do not get for free.

One is Buttons (professional look)

the other is Mouse sensitivity, i.e. I move the mouse into hot areas and

a command is executed (popup or so).

 Both features one can get in the commercial release of Touchsend Tools.

 That costs about $275 or so.

 However I wondered, can anybody tell me if

 in order to do it myself I need to go into

 Visual C++ or Visual Basic will do?

  Is that very hard?

 Are these features included in the Media-View, mentioned by people here as

 if it is sort of Viewer 3.0?

 I do not mind to get a bit into programming. But please tell

me which software I start with to get the above features. C++ or Basic?

     I have never done Windows programming before.

     If I buy the Touchsend tools I will have also to pay them

   royalty etc....

 And Ill be limited by their ways of thinking...

  Thanks for the answer.

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Enabling Search Across Help Projects

In article <bruce.783802293@internet>, Bruce Stephenson <bruce@spss.com> wrote:

>lmandavi@cisco.com (Lavanya K. Mandavilli) writes:

>

>

>>How do you enable search across several independent help project files

>>for WINHELP?

>

>>Is there a utility or product that will enable us to do this? Any

>>suggestions or info would be greatly appreciated.

>

>>Lavanya K. Mandavilli

>>Cisco Systems Inc.,

>>lmandavi@cisco.com

>

>I, too, would be extremely interested in any way of doing this.

>I'd like to split an enormous help file into pieces that could be

>distributed and installed separately. The biggest drawback to

>this (that I can see, anyhow) is that the search function would

>be restricted to the help file that happened to be open at the

>time Search was pressed.

>

>This is no small thing, I realize. Any ideas?

>

Two things:  full-text search *can* be done over several

independent help files.  See the FAQ for details (I know

Pete uploaded it to Compuserve, it's also on some ftp sites,

sorry I didn't make a note of them).

The normal "Search" is limited to one file only.  There may be

ways of overcoming this difficulty... but they might take some work.

For instance, for every keyword in a file, define a topic

in the "main" file, that has:

the same {K}eyword

an entry {!}macro that does a JK("other file", "keyword")

This of course requires you to maintain a list of the

keywords you have used, and a little utility that would

generate a tedious RTF file consisting only of a list

of such topics...

Now to top it off, you should redefine the "Search" button

in the other files to execute a Search() in the "main" file:

I don't know if that can work, but an obvious first try

would be CBB("btn_search", "JumpContents(`main.hlp'):Search()")

in the [CONFIG] sections.

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DLL Path

In Article <CzK16B.15B@beach.silcom.com> "rss@silcom.com" says:

>

> On Nov 14, R.A.M.vGeel@kub.nl (GEEL R.A.M.VAN) wrote:

>

> >How do I make WINHELP.EXE clear where to find the path to the DLL

> >if it is not in the DOS-environment path or in the current path?

>

> I know you are always right, but this statement is confusing.  How have you "normally" been

> specifying the path of an .EXE called from WINHELP?

>

> >I want to disable (preferabley delete) the standard menu's and

> >buttons. A big applause for the person that shows if, and how, this

> >is possible.

>

> You can't disable all the standard buttons, but you can use the ChangeButtonBinding macro to make

> them essentially non-functional.  I've never tried it with menus, though.  Let me know if you want

> more info.

>

> Bob Staudenmaier

> rss@silcom.com

>

>

First of all, I've discovered a newsgroup that specializes in Winhelp, so

I won't bother you any more with _these_ questions. However, it might be

interesting to know at least something about winhelp-files, after all

ANY good Win-program should have one.

The Windows help-texts are Ritch Text Format texts (as Word produces them,

not Wp). Every topic is a page. Such a RTF file is _really_ easy to make.

In every topic there might be footnotes. A footnote contains topic-related

information, such as the ID (string), keywords, groups of topics belonged to an

browse sequence.

You make a .HPJ file (Help ProJect - file) in which you define how your

.HLP file is going to be compiled. In this file you can define which DLL-

routines are imported from which DLL, and which EXE to run when clicked

on what button (or topic). You can add or delete buttons and menus.

You can also define a path to an exe. No path to a DLL.

You compile the thing with HC31.EXE and there you have a HLP file.

Hope this might be of interest to anyone.

Rob van Geel

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Okay, I see that the previous message is send to this newsgroup

as well. Please ignore.

> Rob van Geel

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Anyone using ForeHelp?

> I think most folks will tell you it is better to break up your

> topics into multiple .rtf, modularly, if I am understanding

> your question.  You compile into one .hlp file by listing all

> the .rtf in the .hpj [files] section.  Makes for easier

> correcting or updating and stuff.

Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, I'm generating the .RTF

file automatically from a W4W merge file, using a (huge) table which

is supplied to me.  I suppose I could split up the source data table

myself each time I wanted to reprocess the information (it's a

glossary of about 1,800 items by the way).

Andrew

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I need a USER FRIENDLY shareware piece of software that can play *.mpg files.  Preferably for

windows, but MS-DOS is okay too.  Can anyone please tell me where to FTP one?  Thanks in advance.

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Build tags and non-scrolling region

How do I define two topics with the same name but different build tags

and ensure that each topic has a non scrolling region at the top?

In Word, I have tried:

*<condition A> #<topic name> Title

...words ...

<hard page break>

*<condition B> #<topic name> Title

... some different words to reflect condition B...

and I have set the tht title paragraphs to have the keep with next

attribute set on both paragraphs.

I seem to get Warning 4813 (non scrolling region crosses page boundary)

I am using Word 2.0c and hcp 3.1.505.

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In article sweethvn@infinet.com (David L. Heiserman) writes:

>Marc (mercuri@ace.com) wrote:

>> I've been using the product for over a year, if a newsgroup develops,

>> please keep me informed. Also, if any other users are out there, we

>> might start a mailing list until the newsgroup comes into existence.

>Yeh, we are three months into developing two products with MM Viewer

>2.0a.  Chatting with the WinHelp people can be very helpful, but the

>specs for our products preclude the usual Help look and feel. It would be

>nice to exchange ideas and experiences specifically related to MMV.

The newsgroup comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp is chartered to talk

about MM Viewer as well as WinHelp and there are several people there

interested in and experienced with Viewer.

I'd suggest you first make inquiries there as I would vote against creating

a MMViewer newsgroup *until* it's been made clear to me that the WinHelp

newsgroup should be "split".  I believe we should stick together because

WinHelp 95 will be very much like MM Viewer 2.0 is today, but with a few less

capabilities.  And then we have the issue of MS MediaView (or something like

that), which is essentially sort of a superset to Viewer.  We'll have to see

how this all washes out when Win95 comes out as we'd hate to start creating

all these splinter newsgroups and then find everything changes, including

the names to the hypertext/multimedia engines!

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Bug? ExecProgram in Config vs HotSpot

Is this a bug or am I just missing something? I have run .exe files from a

button before, but never with a path specified. Here's my problem:

If I include a hotspot in the help file with the following code it works just

fine:

ExecProgram(`\\programs\\prog1.exe',0)

If  I include the following in the [CONFIG] section of my help file the button

returns unable to locate program:

CreateButton("btn_1","&Test","ExecProgram(`\\programs\\prog1.exe',0)")

I have tested this and when I do not specify the path i.e. just prog1.exe it

works. In order for my application to work I need to be able to specify the

path.

Help! Am I lost? Am I confused? Or am I at the mercy of a WinHelp bug/feature?

Thanks.

Sherry Oliver

Manager, Technology Research

The Hiram Walker Group

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In <jrice.17.0010E918@pluto.pomona.claremont.edu> jrice@pluto.pomona.claremont.edu (Jeffrey Rice) writes:

>      I've seen quite a few posts refering to this .dll, but never seen it?  I

>assume it is part of a package of somesort, but which one?  How does one go

>about getting it?

It is part of windows - allowing some multimedia effects.  Look in your

windows\system directory

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program manager secret screen

Does anyone know how to get to the secret screen ? Not that it's of any

positive value, but I just want to know...

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In Article <sherryo.55.00139717@interlog.com> "sherryo@interlog.com (Sherry Oliver)" says:

> Is this a bug or am I just missing something? I have run .exe files from a

> button before, but never with a path specified. Here's my problem:

>

> If  I include the following in the [CONFIG] section of my help file the button

> returns unable to locate program:

> CreateButton("btn_1","&Test","ExecProgram(`\\programs\\prog1.exe',0)")

>

> I have tested this and when I do not specify the path i.e. just prog1.exe it

> works. In order for my application to work I need to be able to specify the

> path.

>

> Help! Am I lost? Am I confused? Or am I at the mercy of a WinHelp bug/feature?

> Thanks.

You can set the path to the .exe in a loose statement in

the [config] part. If the path is in the DOS-path, you don't

need to set it.

In the createbutton part, don't use directory.

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I want to thank Miguel publically because the little utility he gave

me that intercepts calls to the WinHelp() API worked perfect.  It

displays the parameters used in a message box.

I was able to determine that the application to which I didn't have

the source was passing a context number and it told me what the

context number was.  I assigned the same context number to my little

one-topic help file and voila, no error dialog boxes.

Thanks for the help, Miguel!

Lilly-Anne

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In article <sebben.2.001328E8@shu.sacredheart.edu> sebben@shu.sacredheart.edu (SHU) writes:

>Does anyone know how to get to the secret screen ? Not that it's of any

>positive value, but I just want to know...

>Darshan

Hold down CTRL+SHIFT.  Go into the Program managers' About... screen and

double click on one of the panes of the Windows logo.  Click OK.  Go back into

the About screen and double-click on the same pane.  You'll get the first

secret screen.  Click OK, go back in and double-click the same pane again.

You'll get one of three variations of the second secret screen.  I think they

come up at random, so it may take a few tries to see them all.

Remember to hold down CTRL+SHIFT the whole time.

      /

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In <3al6rf$ji6@newsbf01.news.aol.com> mjudd@aol.com (MJudd) writes:

>In article <nvozuA0DBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>,

>stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

>Stefan in what directory are your two files?

pub/pc/win3/util

for HWA

I'm not sure where the Olson Software Help Tools are...

...Stefan

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In <3al2u8$8k4@solaris.cc.vt.edu> avessey@bev.net (andrew vessey) writes:

>You can also ftp microsoft's WHAT.EXE or WHAT6.EXE (windows help authoring

> tools) in the pub/winhelp directory at:  gmutant.wrlc.org

>These both are for use with MS Word and include the help compiler, some online

>documentation and various useful tools.  Best of all they are free!  There are also

>many other wonderful and not so wonderful help authoring tools at this site.

The point here is that they are *not* free!  If you do not own a licence

for the help compiler then you are using it illegally.  Microsoft really

didn't make this clear enough for a start - the help compiler files you

can download are for licenced users and should not be downloaded unless

you already own a licence.

Cheers,

Stefan

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[Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

In <mTPVVc1w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne W. McDougall) writes:

>What does this sentence mean in the Help Compiler Guide, Creating Help Macros

>under the heading Running Macros when a User Enters a Topic (p 68 in my copy).

>"If a Help macro is authored in a topic footnote, WinHelp runs that macro

>automatically whenever the user jumps to the topic."

>Ok, thats what I want to do, but I just don't understand what "authored in

>a topic footnote" means. I would be grateful if someone would clarify. I am

>using Word 6, creating the help files in RTF format.

You need to add a ! footnote with the macro referenced to that footnote.

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Help with W.H.A.T. 6?

Hi. I have word 6.0 (not c) and WHAT. I'd like to compile a hypertext-like

document to distribute. The problem is that when I try to open or make

a document from "WHAT6.DOT", word complains that It "can't read file".

What am I doing wrong?

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button does macro + original task?

Is it possible to attach a macro to a button and still do the

original button task?

What I mean is this: I want (need) to "log" at exactly what time

people press the Back and Contents-button (write info to file), so I'll

have to calla DLL-routine. However, it still needs to jump back

(or to contents)

Much obliged

Rob van Geel

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Save as .rtf and as .doc via macro in Winword 2

Some months ago somebody posted a macro here that allows to save

a winword document (v.2.0) as a .rtf and as a .doc-file by just

pressing a button on the toolbar.

I started to use this macro. By installing some other macro's I

unfortunately lost this macro.

Can the person who wrote the macro be so kind to post or mail the

macro again ?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        V         | Johan Jacobs           | Internet:

+---------------+ | EE253                  | jacobsjo@bsg.bel.alcatel.be

| A L C A T E L | | de Villermontstraat 38 | Phone:

+---------------+ | 2550 Kontich           | (32) 3 450 3241

  BELL Telephone  | Belgium                | Fax:

                  |                        | (32) 3 450 3579

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Buttons, Mouse (Viewer 2.0)

If you have access to Compuserve, look in Microsoft's Multimedia Group

Under library 6, there is a file called 'browse.zip', which demonstrates

how to interact with Viewer 2.0 using Visual Basic.

Good luck!

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button does macro + original task?

In article <19941122110454.R.A.M.vGeel@sp0392.kub.nl>,

GEEL R.A.M.VAN <R.A.M.vGeel@kub.nl> wrote:

>Is it possible to attach a macro to a button and still do the

>original button task?

>

>What I mean is this: I want (need) to "log" at exactly what time

>people press the Back and Contents-button (write info to file), so I'll

>have to calla DLL-routine. However, it still needs to jump back

>(or to contents)

>

>Much obliged

>

Yes, that's easy:

CBB(btn_back, "LogBack();Back()")

If this is in the [CONFIG] section of the hpj file, don't

forget to substitute the ";" with ":".

Graag gedaan,

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mmsystem.dll

In article <jrice.17.0010E918@pluto.pomona.claremont.edu>,

jrice@pluto.pomona.claremont.edu (Jeffrey Rice) says:

>

>      I've seen quite a few posts refering to this .dll, but never seen

it?  I

>assume it is part of a package of somesort, but which one?  How does one

go

>about getting it?

>                                             Thanks,

>                                                     Jeff

>

I believe it comes w/ Windows 3.1

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Public Thank You

In article <CynyJp.JA5@tc.fluke.COM>,

Lilly-Anne Wilder <lil@tc.fluke.COM> wrote:

>I want to thank Miguel publically because the little utility he gave

>me that intercepts calls to the WinHelp() API worked perfect.  It

>displays the parameters used in a message box.

>

>I was able to determine that the application to which I didn't have

>the source was passing a context number and it told me what the

>context number was.  I assigned the same context number to my little

>one-topic help file and voila, no error dialog boxes.

>

>Thanks for the help, Miguel!

>

You're welcome.  For the benefit of people with a C compiler

and a copy of James Finnegan's PROCHOOK.DLL (and PROCHOOK.H)

-- as published in the Jan. issue of Microsoft's System Journal,

and available on the MSDN CD's --- here is the source code.

I didn't think it would be suitable to post the binaries here

to this group.  I posted to comp.binaries.ms-windows, but that

group is moderated, and I haven't heard or seen anything yet.

If you don't have Borland C, you'll have to change the makefile,

and maybe some details in the source code...

/* HELPMON.C */

#include <stdio.h>

#include <string.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <ctype.h>

#include <windows.h>

#include <commdlg.h>

#include "prochook.h"

NPHOOKCHILD helphook;

struct HelpInfo {

HWND hwnd;

char file[1024];

UINT cmd;

DWORD id;

char *string;

MULTIKEYHELP mkh;

HELPWININFO hwi;

} helpinfo;

void HelpMonitor(struct HelpInfo *helpinfo)

{

static char s[1024], *p;

sprintf(s, "hWnd:\t%04X\nHelpFile:\t%s\n", helpinfo->hwnd,

helpinfo->file);

p=&s[strlen(s)];

switch(helpinfo->cmd) {

case HELP_CONTEXT:

sprintf(p, "HELP_CONTEXT %lu", helpinfo->id);

break;

case HELP_SETCONTENTS:

sprintf(p, "HELP_SETCONTENTS %lu", helpinfo->id);

break;

case HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP:

sprintf(p, "HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP %lu", helpinfo->id);

break;

case HELP_CONTEXTNOFOCUS:

sprintf(p, "HELP_CONTEXTNOFOCUS %lu", helpinfo->id);

break;

case HELP_COMMAND:

sprintf(p, "HELP_COMMAND %s", helpinfo->string);

break;

case HELP_PARTIALKEY:

sprintf(p, "HELP_PARTIALKEY %s", helpinfo->string);

break;

case HELP_KEY:

sprintf(p, "HELP_KEY %s", helpinfo->string);

break;

case HELP_JUMPID:

sprintf(p, "HELP_JUMPID %s", helpinfo->string);

break;

case HELP_POPUPID:

sprintf(p, "HELP_POPUPID %s", helpinfo->string);

break;

case HELP_MULTIKEY:

sprintf(p, "HELP_MULTIKEY %s", helpinfo->string);

break;

case HELP_SETWINPOS:

sprintf(p, "HELP_SETWINPOS %s", helpinfo->string);

break;

case HELP_CONTENTS:

sprintf(p, "HELP_CONTENTS");

break;

case HELP_FORCEFILE:

sprintf(p, "HELP_FORCEFILE");

break;

case HELP_HELPONHELP:

sprintf(p, "HELP_HELPONHELP");

break;

case HELP_QUIT:

sprintf(p, "HELP_QUIT");

break;

default:

sprintf(p, "HELP_??? 0x%04X", helpinfo->cmd);

break;

}

MessageBox(GetFocus(), s, "Help Status", MB_OK|MB_ICONINFORMATION);

}

BOOL WINAPI _export MyWinHelp(HWND hwnd, LPCSTR helpfile, UINT helpcmd, DWORD data)

{

BOOL b;

struct HelpInfo helpinfo;

memset(&helpinfo, 0, sizeof(helpinfo));

helpinfo.hwnd=hwnd;

if(!IsBadStringPtr(helpfile, 1024))

strcpy(helpinfo.file, helpfile);

helpinfo.cmd=helpcmd;

switch(helpcmd) {

case HELP_CONTEXT:

case HELP_SETCONTENTS:

case HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP:

case HELP_CONTEXTNOFOCUS:

helpinfo.id=data;

break;

case HELP_COMMAND:

case HELP_PARTIALKEY:

case HELP_KEY:

case HELP_JUMPID:

case HELP_POPUPID:

if(!IsBadStringPtr((LPCSTR)data, 2048))

helpinfo.string=strdup((LPCSTR)data);

break;

case HELP_MULTIKEY:

helpinfo.mkh=*(MULTIKEYHELP *)data;

if(!IsBadStringPtr((LPCSTR)data, 2048))

helpinfo.string=strdup(((MULTIKEYHELP *)data)->szKeyphrase);

break;

case HELP_SETWINPOS:

helpinfo.hwi=*(HELPWININFO *)data;

if(!IsBadStringPtr((LPCSTR)data, 2048))

helpinfo.string=strdup(((HELPWININFO *)data)->rgchMember);

break;

}

HelpMonitor(&helpinfo);

if(helpinfo.string) free(helpinfo.string);

ProcUnhook(helphook);

b=WinHelp(hwnd, helpfile, helpcmd, data);

ProcHook(helphook);

return b;

}

long WINAPI _export WndProc (HWND, UINT, UINT, LONG);

int PASCAL WinMain(HANDLE hInstance, HANDLE hPrevInstance,

    LPSTR lpszCmdLine, int nCmdShow)

{

HWND hwnd, desktop;

MSG msg;

WNDCLASS wndclass;

if(!hPrevInstance) {

wndclass.style          = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;

wndclass.lpfnWndProc    = WndProc;

wndclass.cbClsExtra     = 0;

wndclass.cbWndExtra     = DLGWINDOWEXTRA;

wndclass.hInstance      = hInstance;

wndclass.hIcon          = LoadIcon(hInstance, "HelpMonitor");

wndclass.hCursor        = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);

wndclass.hbrBackground  = COLOR_WINDOW + 1;

wndclass.lpszMenuName   = NULL;

wndclass.lpszClassName  = "HelpMonitor";

RegisterClass (&wndclass);

} else {

BringWindowToTop(FindWindow("HelpMonitor", NULL));

return 0;

}

helphook=SetProcAddress(WinHelp, MakeProcInstance(MyWinHelp, hInstance), FALSE);

hwnd = CreateDialog (hInstance, "HelpMonitor", 0, NULL);

ShowWindow (hwnd, nCmdShow);

SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE);

while (GetMessage (&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) {

TranslateMessage(&msg);

DispatchMessage(&msg);

}

SetProcRelease(helphook);

return msg.wParam;

}

long WINAPI _export WndProc(HWND hwnd,UINT message,WPARAM wParam,LPARAM lParam)

{

switch (message) {

case WM_COMMAND:

DestroyWindow(hwnd);

return 0;

case WM_DESTROY:

PostQuitMessage (0);

return 0;

}

return DefWindowProc (hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);

}

/* HELPMON.RC */

#include <windows.h>

HelpMonitor ICON <insert_icon_to_taste>.ICO

HelpMonitor DIALOG 20, 20, 61, 34

STYLE WS_OVERLAPPED | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU

CLASS "HelpMonitor"

CAPTION "HelpMonitor"

BEGIN

PUSHBUTTON "Quit", 68, 14, 10, 33, 14

END

/* HELPMON.DEF */

NAME           HELPMON

DESCRIPTION    'Monitors calls to WinHelp'

EXETYPE        WINDOWS

STUB           'WINSTUB.EXE'

CODE           PRELOAD MOVEABLE DISCARDABLE

DATA           PRELOAD MOVEABLE MULTIPLE

HEAPSIZE       1024

STACKSIZE      8192

/* HELPMON.MAK */

WINLINK=tlink /x/P-/A=16/Twe c0wl.obj

WINLIB=import cwl

WINCC=bcc -c -ml -d -h -K -N -W -w-cln -wsig -wucp -weas -wpre -w-pia

RC=brc

helpmon.exe: helpmon.obj helpmon.def helpmon.res

     $(WINLINK) helpmon, helpmon, NUL, prochook $(WINLIB), helpmon

     $(RC) helpmon.res

helpmon.obj: helpmon.c

     $(WINCC) helpmon.c

helpmon.res : helpmon.rc helpmon.ico

     $(RC) -r helpmon.rc

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MVPUBKIT

We're using the Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit version 2.0.  Is

there a newer update?  The header file viewer.h could use some work, to

wit, use "const char * " not "char * " where applicable.  This causes

headaches for string class users in C++.

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email address of Blue Sky Software.

Try reaching Blue Sky Software through email on the Internet

at the following address:

71234.1100@compuserve.com

Lavanya Mandavilli

>

> Sorry if this is not the right place to post this question.

> Can anybody on the net tell me the email address of the maker

> of RoboHelp - Blue Sky Software?

>

> I would like to get a copy of RoboHelp. However, I can't find any

> agent here in Taiwan. So somebody please show me the way to contact

> this company through email.

>

> TIA.

>

> Karl

>

>

>

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Bug? ExecProgram in Config vs HotSpot

In <sherryo.55.00139717@interlog.com> sherryo@interlog.com (Sherry Oliver) writes:

>Is this a bug or am I just missing something? I have run .exe files from a

>button before, but never with a path specified. Here's my problem:

>If I include a hotspot in the help file with the following code it works just

>fine:

>ExecProgram(`\\programs\\prog1.exe',0)

>If  I include the following in the [CONFIG] section of my help file the button

>returns unable to locate program:

>CreateButton("btn_1","&Test","ExecProgram(`\\programs\\prog1.exe',0)")

Try using 4 backslashes in the HPJ file.  Then it should work.  This

seems to be totally undocumented.  Give it a go anyway - I hope it solves

your problem:

CreateButton("btn_1","&Test","ExecProgram(`\\\\programs\\\\prog1.exe',0)")

...Stefan

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mmsystem.dll

In article <g2k0uACJBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>,

jrice@pluto.pomona.claremont.edu (Jeffrey Rice) writes:

> >      I've seen quite a few posts refering to this .dll, but never seen it?

 I

> >assume it is part of a package of somesort, but which one?  How does one go

> >about getting it?

>

> It is part of windows - allowing some multimedia effects.  Look in your

> windows\system directory

>

> ....Stefan

>

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The mmsystem.dll supports the mciSendString interface to MCI. If you have a

version of Windows that predates MCI, it may not have mmsystem.dll. Its one of

those DLLs you are supposed to distribute with an MCI based app because not

everyone has it.

Gregory J. Peto

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KnowledgeBase-style interface

In article <CzKtpC.G6@indirect.com>, <tandika@indirect.com> writes:

> I would like to create a user interface similar to that used in the

> knowledegbase help files, with several topics listed, and when one is

> selected, several more appear indented below it. Anybody know how this is

> done?

>

> Thanks

The easiest way is to create a topic that looks just the like the first, but

with the indented text/hot spots added. When you click in the first it jumps to

the second and gives the visual clue it expanded, but usually it just did a

jump. There are more sophisticated ways of doing this with specialized DLLs,

but the second topic method is the easiest and most common way.

Gregory J. Peto

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256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!

A fellow on CI$ has come up with a way to put 256 color .shg

files in a help file without using any extra .dll files. This

guy's name is Bruce Hartford and I think we all owe him a tip

of the hat for discovering this AND for giving out his solution.

I am convinced that MS knows about this, since it is so

straightforward, but now to the details.

Apologies if this has already made the rounds, I just got to

test it tonight. (It works, it works!)

First step, after being sure that you are running Win in 256

color mode, and you have a 256 color .bmp, is to convert the

graphic into a Windows metafile (.wmf). There is a conversion

utility on CI$ in the SDK forum if you can't find one elsewhere.

Then call it into the HotSpot editor and save it as a .shg file.

The next 5 steps are... just joking, THAT's it! Compile it into

a sample .hlp file and call it up.

Kudos to Bruce.  (if you really need it I have his Ci$ id)

BaDge

<baj7d@virginia.EDU>

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email address of Blue Sky Software.

Sorry if this is not the right place to post this question.

Can anybody on the net tell me the email address of the maker

of RoboHelp - Blue Sky Software?

I would like to get a copy of RoboHelp. However, I can't find any

agent here in Taiwan. So somebody please show me the way to contact

this company through email.

TIA.

Karl

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Dll's, Exe's and Menu's in Help files

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

Path: beach.silcom.com!usenet

From: rss@silcom.com

Subject: DLL Path

Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Message-ID: <CzK16B.15B@beach.silcom.com>

Sender: usenet@beach.silcom.com

Organization: SB Communications - Public Access Internet

X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from

NetManage

Mime-Version: 1.0

Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 06:03:14 GMT

On Nov 14, R.A.M.vGeel@kub.nl (GEEL R.A.M.VAN) wrote:

>How do I make WINHELP.EXE clear where to find the path to the DLL

>if it is not in the DOS-environment path or in the current path?

I've never called a DLL function from a help file, but the other day I

noticed the following new

entry in my WINHELP.INI file after installing Microsoft Access:

[Files]

CUECARDS.DLL=C:\ACCESS\

WINHELP.INI is normally used to tell WINHELP where to find .HLP files

that are off the system path.

 However, it appears that it can also be used to locate DLLs as well!

>You can't set the directory, like with EXE's.

I know you are always right, but this statement is confusing.  How have

you "normally" been

specifying the path of an .EXE called from WINHELP?

>I want to disable (preferabley delete) the standard menu's and

>buttons. A big applause for the person that shows if, and how, this

>is possible.

I've never been able to change all the standard buttons, but you can use

the ChangeButtonBinding macro to make

them essentially non-functional.  I've never tried it with menus, though.

Bob Staudenmaier

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HC31.ERR? Where?

Where can HC31.ERR be found?

I got the help authoring stuff off MSDN, but this file

doesn't seem to be in the archive.

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I need a good MPG player for DOS or Windows. Please help.

In article <3aqtp7$6pf@balsam.unca.edu>

           rodman@cs.unca.edu "Zachary Rodman" writes:

>I need a USER FRIENDLY shareware piece of software that can play *.mpg files.

> Preferably for

>windows, but MS-DOS is okay too.  Can anyone please tell me where to FTP one?

> Thanks in advance.

What does this have to do with Windows on-line Help programming?

Chris

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WHAT6 WHPE

I am using (beginning to) WHPE from WHAT6, and I have some unidentified

problem when I select the Compile menu 's Start. I see a message flashing

by too fast to read it; then I get the message box "could not perform

compile". No error number so I presume it did not find the compiler

altogether (although I have a copy in the current directory AND in

\Windows). Any idea what WHPE is looking for?

kindregardsjjge

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WinHelp viewer for DOS

Does anyone know of a Windows Help file viewer for DOS?  If not, has the

format for help files been published anywhere so that I could write one?

Thanks,

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IPF--> RTF  OS/2.hlp --> WIN.hlp

I know,this question was asked in the past, but i ask it again:

Isthere a tool to convert IPF files to RTF or OS/2.hlp to WIN.hlp ?.

Maybe somewhere on an FTP site ???

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Are there any demo versions of Doctor Help out there? Where can I get one?

I'd appreciate also the address of the company distributing Dr. Help.

And another question: PC/TCP v3 has a good looking help system.

Which development kit has been used to produce it? Where can it be obtained?

Thanks,

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In article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:

>In article baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>

>>A fellow on CI$ has come up with a way to put 256 color .shg

>>files in a help file without using any extra .dll files. This

>>guy's name is Bruce Hartford and I think we all owe him a tip

>>of the hat for discovering this AND for giving out his solution.

>>

>>First step, after being sure that you are running Win in 256

>>color mode, and you have a 256 color .bmp, is to convert the

>>graphic into a Windows metafile (.wmf). There is a conversion

>>utility on CI$ in the SDK forum if you can't find one elsewhere.

>Thanks for the tip.  I just experimented with this and am surprised that

>the 256 colors came out fine.  I also came up with the following

>observations:...

Since this last post, I've had a little more time to tinker with this, and

came up with the disconcerting observation that only one 256 color image

per WinHelp file seems to work -- 2 or more and each image is corrupted

(probably the pallettes get screwed up) when viewed the second time.  In

addition, even with a single image, you don't want to put it into a popup --

only a jump topic -- in a popup the second access of it will cause the image

to go bad even if it is the only 256 color image in the WinHelp file.

I haven't tried secondary windows yet...

Thus, I don't know if one could successfully use 2 or more 256 color images

per help file by this technique, especially if there's the possibility each

image could be viewed twice or more times during a session.  It might require

resetting the pallette before displaying an image -- I don't know if this is

doable without a custom DLL.  If a DLL is necessary, then the other techniques

already developed seem to be a better solution.

Oh well, this seemed like such a neat idea, but it does have severe

restrictions (now, if only one 256 color image is used in a help file, then

this method makes a lot of sense as long as the image is not put into a popup.)

Any other clever ideas to make this work?

Jon Noring

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Please post the FAQ

I saw someone write about a FAQ but couldn't find one. Can someone

please post it? (or email me)

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Can it be that even the release 505 of the Help Compiler doesn't recognize

the subscripts (indexes) ?

The .RTF file produced from WinWord 6.0 has several (obviously worthless) \sub

commands at the places where indices should appear...

Ist there any .RTF editor for mathematical formulas? A dvi2rtf converter from

TeX's output would be the best. (that's utopic I'm afraid)

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[Q] Managing help files in different languages

Hello,

       My company is in the process of localizing one of our Windows

products for the Japanese market.  This includes translating our help

files into Japanese.  Since the support of this product will be

ongoing, we need some way to manage the different revisions of our help

files in both English and Japanese.  Ideally, for each new revision of

an English help source file, I would like to create another source file

that contains the existing Japanese help text plus the modified English

text.  Then only the new English text would be translated into Japanese

to produce a new revision of the Japanese help files.

       Is there anyone out there already doing this?  Are there any

tools that will help us manage this process?  Please email answers to me

at "davidj@Data-IO.COM".  Thanks for your help.

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In <19941124174121.R.A.M.vGeel@sp0422.kub.nl> R.A.M.vGeel@kub.nl  (GEEL R.A.M.VAN) writes:

>> >2. Is it possible to modify/change the menu bar of the HELP window ?

>>

>> You can do this through macros in the HPJ files.  If you require the

>> menu bar to be removed you may want to look at our Olson Software

>> Help Tools.

>

>Not true. Check this out:

That was not the point - I said you *may* want to look at OSHTOOLS.

In addition - what you are suggesting will not remove the button bar,

whereas the Olson Software Help Tools 1.1 (avaiable early next week)

allow you to remove both the menu and the button bar to produce totally

customised Windows Help file!

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Won't stay maximize

This is probably a common problem but since there's no FAQ here (that

I can find) so I'm posting it.

I can't seem to get Windows Help to stay maximized from 1 session to the

next.  This happens on every system I can find.  Does anyone have

a solution to this.

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More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

In <noringCzt956.433@netcom.com> noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:

>Since this last post, I've had a little more time to tinker with this, and

>came up with the disconcerting observation that only one 256 color image

>per WinHelp file seems to work -- 2 or more and each image is corrupted

>(probably the pallettes get screwed up) when viewed the second time.

You may want to do some testing with the Olson Software Help Tools -

whilst they are designed to only display 1 palette at a time (due to

a windows problem) I would be surprised if they were both corrupted

when displaying them a second time.

>In

>addition, even with a single image, you don't want to put it into a popup --

>only a jump topic -- in a popup the second access of it will cause the image

>to go bad even if it is the only 256 color image in the WinHelp file.

I've just tried adding a bitmap into a popup using the Olson Software Help

tools - it appears to work just fine.

...Stefan

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Buttons in the menu-bar ?

Hi,

 I am concerned in a project about multimedia helpfiles for use in computer

aided learning/teaching for students.

I found some questions about 'buttons' in this newsgroup, but there were no

real answers. :)  So, here comes a question about user-defined buttons in the

menu-bar:

How can I tell my help file, that I wish to show my defined button in the

menu bar ? Avoiding  (!) to click first on a button in the work area, which

says 'click this button to get a button in the menu bar' ? I want the button

to 'arise and vanish away', depending on the topic which is shown in the work

area. Maybe someone has solved this problem sucessful and likes to give me a

hint.

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Subscripts/indexes unknown ???

In <3b5e3d$5o@si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de> anli@informatik.uni-siegen.de (Anli Shundi) writes:

>Can it be that even the release 505 of the Help Compiler doesn't recognize

>the subscripts (indexes) ?

There is no version of the help compiler for Windows 3.1 that will support

subscripts and superscripts.  Note that the media view compiler will compile

subscripts and supersciprts...

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mediaview

Anyone out there have any experience with MediaView?

Is it some kind of alternative Windows help system, or a

whole different kind of animal? I read somewhere that

Microsoft makes a MediaView dev. kit available on one

of its MSDN CDs, but is that the only source?

Thanks.

Garry Forbes, San Jose, CA

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RTF Files with Winword 6.0

Hi Everybody

I have HC31.EXE, some working sample files and Winword 6.0

If i compile the sample files, everything works fine. Now I tried

to open the sample RTF file with winword and saved it, without

any changes as RTF file. After this procedure, HC31.EXE crashes

if i compile the sample files.

Do you know what's wrong?

Many thanks in advance

                            Roman

Roman Fried

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More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

The problem of conflicting palettes can easily be overcome by using

a package such as Paint shop pro (shareware) to make sure all the

bitmaps you wish to use in a particular file use the same palette.

I have done this and produced excellent looking help files with

many 256 colour bitmaps. Several on the same page and in popups.

Rory.            R.J.Barr@Durham.ac.uk

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More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in

I'm a technical writer getting ready to do a Windows help project. A couple

of years ago I used RoboHelp to help create the help system, and it seemed

quite serviceable if sometimes a bit buggy. Is RoboHelp still a product of

choice, or are there other, much better products out there? (I'm a writer

and not a programmer, so that I like the products that fit with the tools I

know, such as MS Word).

Thanks in advance for your comments.

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WinHelp viewer for DOS

In article <59504-785720385@mindlink.bc.ca> DBW@mindlink.bc.ca (Daniel B. Wright) writes:

>Does anyone know of a Windows Help file viewer for DOS?  If not, has the

>format for help files been published anywhere so that I could write one?

>Thanks,

Yes.  It's shareware from Victoria BC.  Details:

File name: HHELP10.ZIP

One line description: Displays Windows Help files without Windows (under DOS)

Replaces: n/a

Suggested Garbo directory: /pc/tsr

Uploader name & email: Mike Baker      mbaker@galaxy.gov.bc.ca

Author or company: John Adlersparre  (Adlersparre & Associates Inc.)

Email address: uf499@freenet.victoria.bc.ca

Surface address: 304 - 1803 Douglas St., Victoria, B.C.  CANADA V8T5C3

Special requirements: mouse, MSDOS 3.1+

Shareware payment required from private usrs: $US35

Shareware payment required from corporates: $CALL

Distribution limitations: None for shareware version

Demo: No

Nagware: No

Self-documenting: Yes

External documentation included: Yes / 12.7K

Source included: No

Size: 370K zipped

10 lines description:

  HHELP is a DOS program which will display Windows 3.1

  format help files without Windows. It supports hypertext

  jumps, popups, keyword search, bookmarks, and multiple help

  files.  Launch your favorite graphics display program to

  present graphic images from wherever you wish in the text.

  Includes screen capture functions and mouse support.  You

  can use HHELP to:

    - display your own help files.

    - display them from within your favorite applications or

      from within your own software.

-Derek MacEwen

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Secondary Windows on Startup

I'm trying to learn how to write help files for a project at my office. I've

pretty well figured most of it out, and have already constructed some help

files. But here's one thing I have not been able to do: open a help file with

both the main and a secondary window open at startup. I can create a help file

with a secondary window, and start it with a jump. But I want to create a

table of contents in the secondary window, which will be there at startup.

I'm using WHAT and winword6. Any help/suggestions would be truly appreciated.

thanks.

+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

    Steve Katz

    sjkatz@cais.com

+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

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Making a help file

I hope this isn't a repeated question, but as I am both new to this group,

and new to Windows programming, I am at a little bit of a loss.

I am using Watcom 10.0 as my Windows compiler, and can't figure out

how to make help files. There sample code is rather puzzling, and

I can't find the correct help file.

Basically, where do I start? How to make a RTF file? What is a RTF file?

Thanks for any help.

Lee

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replacement for shed?

Does anyone know of a replacement for shed.exe that has more

functionality?  Specifically, I'm looking for something that

will let me edit the bitmap in the .shg file.  I often run

into situations where I make a minor change to a dialog;

it would be much easier to edit the image of the dialog and

add or remove hotspots than add all the hotspots to a new image.

   -M-                                     mark@camazotz.com

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In <9411261039591.DLITE.michaeljacob@delphi.com> michaeljacob@delphi.com (Michael Jacob) writes:

>I'm a technical writer getting ready to do a Windows help project. A couple

>of years ago I used RoboHelp to help create the help system, and it seemed

>quite serviceable if sometimes a bit buggy. Is RoboHelp still a product of

>choice, or are there other, much better products out there?

There are a number of help authoring tools now available.  RoboHelp is still

out there, but there have been new additions such as ForeHelp and our own HWA

(standalone WYSIWYG help authoring tools) as well as some word based tools

such as HelpBreeze.

I would recommend you check out ftp.cica.indiana.edu for demos of these tools.

...Stefan

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Making a help file

In <CzvEpH.52o@iceonline.com> leep@iceonline.com (Lee Patterson) writes:

>I hope this isn't a repeated question, but as I am both new to this group,

>and new to Windows programming, I am at a little bit of a loss.

>I am using Watcom 10.0 as my Windows compiler, and can't figure out

>how to make help files. There sample code is rather puzzling, and

>I can't find the correct help file.

>Basically, where do I start? How to make a RTF file? What is a RTF file?

Firstly you need the help compiler - which I assume Watscom include.

Secondly you need either Microsoft Word or a standalone help authoring

tool (such as our own WYSIWYG authoring tool, HWA).

HWA includes a tutorial which you may find helpful when learning how

to write windows help files!

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RTF Files with Winword 6.0

In <1994Nov25.165445.2245@rzu-news.unizh.ch> rmf@ikc.unizh.ch (Roman Fried) writes:

>Hi Everybody

>I have HC31.EXE, some working sample files and Winword 6.0

>If i compile the sample files, everything works fine. Now I tried

>to open the sample RTF file with winword and saved it, without

>any changes as RTF file. After this procedure, HC31.EXE crashes

>if i compile the sample files.

Try downloading HC505.EXE from ftp.cica.indiana.edu - it contains

an updated compiler.

...Stefan

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sgml, html, and winhelp

I would like to write documents that can be converted to multiple forms.

Specifically, I would like to write one document and then have it appear

as both a winhelp file, an html file, and on paper.  Primarily it would

be a hypertext thing, the paper document would be mostly for editing

purposes ("please review this document and make sure it is correct.")

What exists in the way of:

   o  SGML (any) --> winhelp

   o        HTML --> winhelp

   o     winhelp --> SGML (any)

   o     winhelp --> HTML

I'm interested in all four cases.

The documents I am thinking about include sound, images, and text.  I

marked SGML as "any" because what I really mean there  is "besides html".

I'm interested both in what actually exists today, and what research

projects may be leading toward this kind of thing in the future.

Thanks,

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sgml, html, and winhelp

In article <CzwEuw.797@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,

justin wells <rjwells@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>

>I would like to write documents that can be converted to multiple forms.

>

>Specifically, I would like to write one document and then have it appear

>as both a winhelp file, an html file, and on paper.  Primarily it would

>be a hypertext thing, the paper document would be mostly for editing

>purposes ("please review this document and make sure it is correct.")

>

>What exists in the way of:

>

>   o  SGML (any) --> winhelp

>   o        HTML --> winhelp

>   o     winhelp --> SGML (any)

>   o     winhelp --> HTML

>

>I'm interested in all four cases.

>

>The documents I am thinking about include sound, images, and text.  I

>marked SGML as "any" because what I really mean there  is "besides html".

>

>I'm interested both in what actually exists today, and what research

>projects may be leading toward this kind of thing in the future.

>

>Thanks,

>

>--

>Justin Wells <rjwells@lagrange.uwaterloo.ca, stem@sizone.tlug.org>

>

>Unfilled time on the broadcast stations is thought to be nonproductive time.

>Why, the viewers might have their own ideas!  Horrid thought.  -Don Norman

Not exactly what you want, but closer than anything else I'm aware of is

our HLPDK/PA product.

We currently offer a one source to many targets translations, the targets

include HTML, WinHelp, Ascii text (with pagination, index, glossary and

table of contents), Word Proccessors (What you refer to as printed

documentation), OS/2 IPF, DESQview/X and several Dos targets. We intend

to add several other targets in future releases.

We also offer some converters that can take code in some formats and

translate it to HLPDK so you can later translate it to other targets.

Currently included with the package are converters from WinHelp, Norton

Guides, Internet usenet, POPHELP, HelpPC and others. We also offer some

tools for the creation of hypertext databases from non-hypertext sources,

including automatic hypertext generation from plain ascii text.

(We intend to add more conversions in future releases).

E-mail me for more information.

Ron.

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WinHelp viewer for DOS

In article <3b5e5u$f4r@mack.rt66.com>, Hardin Brothers wrote:

>

> Daniel B. Wright (DBW@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:

> : Does anyone know of a Windows Help file viewer for DOS?  If not,

has the

> : format for help files been published anywhere so that I could

write one?

> : Thanks,

>

> : --

> : Dan Wright

> : dbw@mindlink.bc.ca

>

> The format of a .HLP file was explained some time ago in Dr. Dobbs.

> I don't have the issue handy -- maybe someone else can supply the

date,

> article name, etc.

>

>      -- hardin

>         hardin@rt66.com

>

The issues were Sept and Oct 93.

Ron.

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RTF Files with Winword 6.0

In article <1994Nov25.165445.2245@rzu-news.unizh.ch>

           rmf@ikc.unizh.ch "Roman Fried" writes:

>

>Hi Everybody

>

>I have HC31.EXE, some working sample files and Winword 6.0

>

>If i compile the sample files, everything works fine. Now I tried

>to open the sample RTF file with winword and saved it, without

>any changes as RTF file. After this procedure, HC31.EXE crashes

>if i compile the sample files.

>

>Do you know what's wrong?

You're probably using an old version of the Help Compiler. To work with

Word 6, you need v505, available from ftp.microsoft.com.

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Making a help file

In article <CzvEpH.52o@iceonline.com>,

Lee Patterson <leep@iceonline.com> wrote:

>I hope this isn't a repeated question, but as I am both new to this group,

>and new to Windows programming, I am at a little bit of a loss.

>

>I am using Watcom 10.0 as my Windows compiler, and can't figure out

>how to make help files. There sample code is rather puzzling, and

>I can't find the correct help file.

>

>Basically, where do I start? How to make a RTF file? What is a RTF file?

>

>Thanks for any help.

>

>Lee

>

Hi,

Take a look at the FAQ of this group, it will provide some "startup"

references.

Ron.

BTW - The faq is supposed to be in the WinHlp-L group site in

198.91.36.126 in the /pub/winhelp directory.

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replacement for shed?

In article <785880303snz@discreet.demon.co.uk>, mark@camazotz.com (Mark

Smith) writes:

>

> Msg-ID: <785880303snz@discreet.demon.co.uk>

> Posted: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 20:05:03 +0000

>

> Org.  : Camazotz

>

> Does anyone know of a replacement for shed.exe that has more

> functionality?  Specifically, I'm looking for something that

> will let me edit the bitmap in the .shg file.  I often run

> into situations where I make a minor change to a dialog;

> it would be much easier to edit the image of the dialog and

> add or remove hotspots than add all the hotspots to a new image.

>

>    -M-                                     mark@camazotz.com

You can do this with the current version of SHED.  Capture your new version

bitmap to the clipboard, open your SHG file in SHED and then select REPLACE

from the menu and presto! your new bitmap is there.  I do it all the time

when I make minor dialog box changes in HELLLP!.

(Remember, of course to save your SHG after you've done it).

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footnote in Viewer2

Having troubles entering footnotes in Viewer I found the following article in the KB of

Microsoft.

I tried to follow their suggestion, however

whenever I try to access the footnote with the hotkey it treats is as a text

and does not recognize the special character.

Has anybody have an idea why?

     Eilam

DOCUMENT:Q116338  13-SEP-1994  ÝP_VIEWER¨

TITLE   :PRB: Problem Entering Footnotes in Word for Windows 6.0

PRODUCT :Multimedia Viewer

PROD/VER:2.00 2.00a

OPER/SYS:WINDOWS

KEYWORDS:

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit, versions 2.0

   and 2.0a

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SYMPTOMS

========

After entering footnotes in Word for Windows version 6.0 rich-text format

(RTF) files through the New Viewer Element dialog box, you cannot select

certain characters in the text immediately following the footnote symbol.

The following Viewer elements are affected:

   (#) Context Strings

   ($) Topic Title

   (!) Topic Entry Command

   (+) Topic Groups

   (*) Build Tags

   (K) Keywords

Other Viewer elements remain unaffected.

RESOLUTION

==========

You can enter footnotes for Viewer elements by following these steps:

1. Choose Footnote from the Insert menu.

2. Choose Custom Mark.

3. Enter the mark that corresponds to the Viewer element you want to use.

4. Choose the "OK" button.

5. Highlight the footnote character in your document (not in the footnote

   window).

6. Invoke the Viewer Topic Editor by typing your Topic Editor hot key. Use

   the Topic Editor dialog boxes as you normally would to add pictures,

   videos, context strings, and other Viewer elements.

7. Resume editing the document.

Using the macro facility in Word for Windows, version 6.0, you can create a

macro to automate these steps. Please refer to your Word for Windows

version 6.0 documentation for information concerning creating and using

macros.

Additional reference words: viewer 2.00 2.00a 6.00

KBCategory: Prg

KBSubCategory: MdkView

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OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  IN NO

EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR

ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,

CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF

MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE

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SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY.

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256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!

In article baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>A fellow on CI$ has come up with a way to put 256 color .shg

>files in a help file without using any extra .dll files. This

>guy's name is Bruce Hartford and I think we all owe him a tip

>of the hat for discovering this AND for giving out his solution.

>

>First step, after being sure that you are running Win in 256

>color mode, and you have a 256 color .bmp, is to convert the

>graphic into a Windows metafile (.wmf). There is a conversion

>utility on CI$ in the SDK forum if you can't find one elsewhere.

Can you upload this?  (see below)

>Then call it into the HotSpot editor and save it as a .shg file.

Thanks for the tip.  I just experimented with this and am surprised that

the 256 colors came out fine.  I also came up with the following

observations:

1) Both the WMF and the SHG work the same.  Of course, one can put hotspots

   into the SHG file.

2) One has to be careful in what video resolution you create the WMF and SHG

   files and compile the WinHelp file, or else you get weird results.  I

   always view my WinHelp files under the following four resolutions:

   1024x768x256 (small or default fonts)

   1024x768x256 (large fonts)

    800x600x256

    640x480x256

   If I do the image processing in the 1st and 4th resolutions above, it

   works fine, with the image scaling properly and looking sharp at all

   except the *large font* resolution of 1024x768x256, where the image looks a

   little jagged due to interpolative scaling, I suppose (but it's acceptable).

   Of course, one's video driver plays a role in all of this.  It is

   *important* to view your resulting WinHelp file in several resolutions to

   make sure you do it all in the best resolution (I conclude it probably is

   best to do all image processing at 640x480x256).  I would assume that the

   alternative method(s) using DLL's do not have this limitation.

   BTW, when I did all the image processing in 1024x768x256 (large fonts) on

   my Orchid ProDesigner II video board, the resulting WinHelp file images

   developed obnoxious "checker" patterns when viewed at the other three

   resolutions.

Now some questions:

1) I haven't tried this yet and might, but I'll ask this anyway -- what

   happens when you use several 256 color bitmaps with quite different

   pallettes?  Does the pallette reset for each viewing or is it the first

   one viewed under WinHelp that sets the pallette for the rest?

2) I'm using PixFolio to make the WMF file from the bitmap, but it seems to

   have a bug in it where there's a maximum size to the bitmap before the

   WMF file pallette gets severely corrupted (leading to a surrealistic

   effect).

   Can somebody upload to me or to this newsgroup, or make it available via

   anonymous ftp, the CIS software to convert a bitmap to a WMF file?  You

   can upload the file to  ftp.netcom.com  /pub/noring/incoming.

Much thanks for the lead.  I never bothered to try WMF files before for 256

color reproduction.  BTW, using the DLL method(s), is there any way under the

sun to reset the 256-color pallette for each bitmap (it seems like the first

image viewed sets the pallette for the rest)?

I've heard that WinHelp 95 will support 256 color bitmaps.  Is the pallette

fixed by the first viewed bitmap?

Jon Noring

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Enabling Search Across Help Projects

In article <CynwLC.6o7@inter.NL.net>, mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)

writes:

Could you please let me know which ftp site contains the FAQ and

the directory where the FAQ resides? I would very much like to get

the FAQ.

(I don't have access to CompuServer).

Thanks,

Lavanya K. Mandavilli

> Two things:  full-text search *can* be done over several

> independent help files.  See the FAQ for details (I know

> Pete uploaded it to Compuserve, it's also on some ftp sites,

> sorry I didn't make a note of them).

>

> The normal "Search" is limited to one file only.  There may be

> ways of overcoming this difficulty... but they might take some work.

> For instance, for every keyword in a file, define a topic

> in the "main" file, that has:

>

> the same {K}eyword

> an entry {!}macro that does a JK("other file", "keyword")

>

> This of course requires you to maintain a list of the

> keywords you have used, and a little utility that would

> generate a tedious RTF file consisting only of a list

> of such topics...

>

> Now to top it off, you should redefine the "Search" button

> in the other files to execute a Search() in the "main" file:

> I don't know if that can work, but an obvious first try

> would be CBB("btn_search", "JumpContents(`main.hlp'):Search()")

> in the [CONFIG] sections.

>

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+Commercial Authoring Tools

In article <3ag6pj$e46$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com> Michael Cohen <74507.54@CompuServe.COM> writes:

>There are several good windows help authoring tools. I have used

>Doc2Help, which is made by WexTech; RoboHelp, made by Blue Sky

>Software; and HelpBreeze, made by SolutionSoft. All of these

>require Word for Windows (either version 2 or 6) as they reside

>on your system as Word templates. My experience has been (and I'm

>sure others would disagree) that for quick conversions of Word

>documents into online Help, use HelpBreeze. To create both online

>and print documents from the same source document, use Doc2Help,

>although this tool is difficult to learn and takes a long time to

>compile. For the most flexibility, ease of learning, and quick

>compile times, use RoboHelp. You can also try ForeHelp, which

>does not require Word for Windows and is good for smaller,

>stand-alone help files.

>

>This is just an intro. I can supply more information if you need

>it.

This is indeed "just an intro", and I'd suggest it paints all of these tools

with too broad a brush. For example, characterizing Forehelp as "good for

smaller, stand-alone help files" grossly over-generalizes about this fine

product (which, co-incidentally I am currently using for a very large,

context-sensitive help system). Saying Doc2Help is "hard to learn" is simply

not true, any more than stating that RoboHelp is best for the things listed.

Rather than state such large (and essentially meaningless) formulaes, I

think we serve the newcomer better by pointing out the great diversity in

the available toolset and point them to sources where the details already

exist.

To Regular Readers: When people ask for a recommendation for a tool, PLEASE

direct them to the FAQ or to one of the publications listed there. To toss

off a one-liner about these products is not just unfair to the person

looking for information, but grossly unfair to the many terrific products,

both shareware and commercial, that are out there.

To New Readers: PLEASE learn about FAQs and how to access them before

posting to ANY newgsroup!

To Mike Cohen: Nothing personal. Your posting just happened to catch my ire.

This group has a really good FAQ, available at ftp.cica.indiana.edu and its

many mirrors, as well as being posted regularly here.

>Good luck,

>

>Mike Cohen

...and have fun.

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+Commercial Authoring Tools

In article <78501853313n12@news.cecer.army.mil> Sheri=Steffes%FFK%USACERL@leo.cecer.army.mil writes:

>There has been some discussion recently about shareware tools

>for creating windows help systems. Can anyone provide me with information

>about COMMERCIAL authoring systems?

>

>I apologize if this is in the FAQ -- I couldn't find it.

>

>Sheri

Couldn't find the FAQ, or couldn't find the reference within the FAQ?

If the former, check ftp.cica.indiana.edu or one of its mirrors; if the

latter, you just need to look harder! :-) :-) The FAQ for this group has a

very good description of the various tools, writter to the best of my

knowledge by the toolbuilders themselves. This means there is a certain

amount of 'advertising brush-off' you have to apply to what you read, but at

least you get a listing of what each vendor is most proud of in their product.

Aside:

Stefan Olson (author of the shareware product HWA/w) asked you to not

disregard shareware, arguing that there are many fine shareware products.

While this is undoubtedly true, I did want to say that the decision about

what product to buy is not always based on feature sets.  The term

"shareware" still carries an aroma of informality and uncertainty.  If

someone is shipping product commercially, you KNOW they are committed;

shareware people may or may not be there tomorrow; resalers need the

assurance of constancy and so far, that has only been available from

commercial enterprises.

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.WAV Files in HLP

I would appreciate it if someone could post the proper code in order

to play WAV files in a HLP file.  I know that you need to register the

MMSYSTEM.DLL in the HPJ, but I've been running into glitches.. So...If

someone could post the proper HPJ entry as well as the proper entry for

my .DOC file, it would be appreciated grately.

-Dave

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In <CzxIwG.Mu0@tc.fluke.COM> inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes:

>Stefan Olson (author of the shareware product HWA/w) asked you to not

>disregard shareware, arguing that there are many fine shareware products.

>While this is undoubtedly true, I did want to say that the decision about

>what product to buy is not always based on feature sets.  The term

>"shareware" still carries an aroma of informality and uncertainty.  If

>someone is shipping product commercially, you KNOW they are committed;

>shareware people may or may not be there tomorrow; resalers need the

>assurance of constancy and so far, that has only been available from

>commercial enterprises.

Well I can tell you we are committed - we are a growing company which

currently simply finds it easiest to distribute the product via shareware.

It's only a method of distribution really.

...Stefan

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Shift F1 help to a 2nd hlp file

What do I have to change to get context sensitive help to read from a hlp file

that is not named after the application?  Changing m_pszHelpFilePath works

great with OnHelpIndex, but doesn't seem to work at all with OnContextHelp.

What gives here?  Any suggestions?

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replacement for shed?

Ed_Guy@mindlink.bc.ca "Ed Guy" writes:

> You can do this with the current version of SHED.  Capture your new version

> bitmap to the clipboard, open your SHG file in SHED and then select REPLACE

> from the menu and presto! your new bitmap is there.  I do it all the time

> when I make minor dialog box changes in HELLLP!.

Now this is really weird.  I'm using the version of shed.exe that came

with VC++ 1.51 on the VC++ 2.0 CD.  The About box says it's v3.10.

There is no Replace command under the Edit menu and nothing in the help

file refers to one either.  The latest MSDN CD has a Kbase article dated

05/94 which says that the only way to change the bitmap is to copy all

of the hotspots manually from the old .shg file onto a new image as I've

been doing.  But in my Windows directory, I just found another shed.hlp

file that *does* list a Replace command.  I don't know where it came from

and there's no shed.exe to go with it.  Where did your copy come from?

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Help on Win 3.1!

Hello,

    I am new to Windows programming, so I would be really appreciated if

someone out there could e-mail me addresses of FTP sites that have Windows

programs source codes for bc++ 4.0.  Thanks for your help!

Kent Law

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Secondary Windows on Star

...Then on 11-26-94, sjkatz@cais.com  said to ALL ...

s>I want to create a  table of contents in the secondary window, s>which

s>will be there at startup.

Use the JumpId macro in the [CONFIG] section of your .hpj file:

JumpId("filename>window_name","context_string")

filename is the name of the Help file that contains the topic you want

to display. window_name is the name of your secondary window as defined

in the [WINDOW] section of your .hpj. context_string is the the context

string of the topic you want to display in the secondary window. Be sure

to use the > character between filename and window_name.

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replacement for shed?

In <785974163snz@discreet.demon.co.uk> msmith@discreet.demon.co.uk (Mark Smith) writes:

>Now this is really weird.  I'm using the version of shed.exe that came

>with VC++ 1.51 on the VC++ 2.0 CD.  The About box says it's v3.10.

>There is no Replace command under the Edit menu and nothing in the help

>file refers to one either.  The latest MSDN CD has a Kbase article dated

>05/94 which says that the only way to change the bitmap is to copy all

>of the hotspots manually from the old .shg file onto a new image as I've

>been doing.  But in my Windows directory, I just found another shed.hlp

>file that *does* list a Replace command.  I don't know where it came from

>and there's no shed.exe to go with it.  Where did your copy come from?

Mark,

As a licenced user of SHED you can download the update from ftp.microsoft.com.

...Stefan

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Winhelp on Unix

Does anyone have any comments about Bristol's Hyperhelp (WinHelp on Unix)?

I have ftp'd the demo, but would like some user comments before laying down

$5G!

Thanx for any info.

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Enabling Search Across Help Projects

In article <9411020957.AA42111@198.92.15.143>, Lavanya K. Mandavilli

wrote:

>

>

> How do you enable search across several independent help project

files

> for WINHELP?

>

> Is there a utility or product that will enable us to do this? Any

> suggestions or info would be greatly appreciated.

>

> Lavanya K. Mandavilli

> Cisco Systems Inc.,

> lmandavi@cisco.com

>

>

>

>

Jim Mischel's book (The developer's guide to Winhelp.exe) includes

such a utility, and all the source code to it.

It is a great book, and well worth it's $40 price.

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WinHelp viewer for DOS

Daniel B. Wright (DBW@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:

: Does anyone know of a Windows Help file viewer for DOS?  If not, has the

: format for help files been published anywhere so that I could write one?

: Thanks,

: --

: Dan Wright

: dbw@mindlink.bc.ca

The format of a .HLP file was explained some time ago in Dr. Dobbs.

I don't have the issue handy -- maybe someone else can supply the date,

article name, etc.

     -- hardin

        hardin@rt66.com

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Secondary Windows on Star

In article <CzxKpy.1Dy@tyrell.net>, Kevin Wehner <kwehner@tyrell.net> wrote:

>...Then on 11-26-94, sjkatz@cais.com  said to ALL ...

>

>s>I want to create a  table of contents in the secondary window, s>which

>s>will be there at startup.

>

>Use the JumpId macro in the [CONFIG] section of your .hpj file:

>

>JumpId("filename>window_name","context_string")

>

>filename is the name of the Help file that contains the topic you want

>to display. window_name is the name of your secondary window as defined

>in the [WINDOW] section of your .hpj.

If "filename" is not the current filename, it's important to

realize that "window_name" should be defined in the [WINDOWS]

section of that *other* helpfile's HPJ.

>context_string is the the context

>string of the topic you want to display in the secondary window. Be sure

>to use the > character between filename and window_name.

>

>

>___K__e__v__i__n_____________________________________________

>                                        kwehner@tyrell.net

>

>

>CMPQwk 1.42-17á #328

>

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>

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Does anyone know if the following applets are DDE and/or OLE compatible

Notepad

Write

Schedule

calender

Mail

cardfile

thanks

Chris

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In article <3b8758$fcp@panix2.panix.com>, rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>BTW - The faq is supposed to be in the WinHlp-L group site in

>198.91.36.126 in the /pub/winhelp directory.

I don't know what the WinHlp-L group is, but this site doesn't seem

to be an anonymous FTP site...

  -- George

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Isthere a  WYSIWYG like tool to generate RTF files for WINDOWS ??

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Macros in Jumps

Feel free to give me a kick up the arse if this is an obvious question.

I have the WHAG and so far have not hit any problems with anything much.

What I want to do is have a link which doesn't jump anywhere when clicked on, but simply

executes a macro.

The WHAG says:

"A hot spot containing a macro is formatted like any other hotspot. The text or bitmap

reference used for the macro is formatted as double-underlined text, and the macro

(preceeded by an exclamation point) is formatted as hidden text"

I inserted

Link Text!ExecProgram("clock.exe",0)

^^^^^^^^^&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

 Double	    Hidden

Underlined

When compiled this gives me an 'undefined variable' error. Does the same

when clicked on in the help file.

With a

CreateButton("Demo","&Demo","ExecProgram(`clock.exe',0)")

in the CONFIG section of the hpj file, it works fine, brings

up clock.exe without hassle when the Demo button is pressed - it

just doesn't seem to work from links in the text.

So what am I failing to do?

I'm using Word 6.0a for the editing and the compiler is 3.10.505.

Any help would be great - also, if you can, please email me a copy

of your post, my newsfeed is a little unreliable..

Regards,

Ollie.

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v. 505 ... Quirks or Features?!

I have nearly completed the .HLP file for a project but have encountered a

couple of quirks that I can neither explain or work-around.

1. I've used bullet lists in many topics.  None of the bullet chars are

displayed, however, in the compiled .HLP file.  I've tried Insert|Symbol from

the Word 6 menu as well as simply putting the char I wanted there (ALT 0149, I

believe) using the Symbol font.  Funny thing is, I use another True Type font,

PC Keys, throughout the document and all chars appear fine in the compiled

.HLP.  None of my Symbol, WindDings, or the ALT-0149 char in any font will

display. Any clues?

2. When I embed a couple graphics (e.g., screen snapshots) in the .RTF file,

the compiler chokes and claims there is not enough memory to complete the

compilation.  I've cut back to the bare bones with no luck - I've quit

Windows and rebooted without net drivers, etc.  It makes no difference if

I use the protected mode HCP compiler (shelled from Windows) or the

HC version in the stripped down configuration. The only way I get the file to

compile is to embed a  reference to the graphic in the .RTF.  But this results

in a help file that, at run-time, has a very annoying and sluggish pause when

jumping to any topic with a graphic for the first time. Any suggestions here?

Thanks,

Bob

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WinHelp viewer for DOS

dmacewen@bud.peinet.pe.ca wrote:

: In article <59504-785720385@mindlink.bc.ca> DBW@mindlink.bc.ca (Daniel B. Wright) writes:

: >Does anyone know of a Windows Help file viewer for DOS?  If not, has the

: >format for help files been published anywhere so that I could write one?

: >Thanks,

: Yes.  It's shareware from Victoria BC.  Details:

[...]

: File name: HHELP10.ZIP

Is this available somewhere via ftp?  I can't find an address anywhere in

the post that seems to indicate this.

Thanks!

------

Robin

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Anyone know HCP ERRORLEVEL results?

Has anyone figured out the DOS errorlevel values set by HCP.EXE

(3.10.505) for various exit conditions?

I'd like to set up some batch files that take different actions depending

on a HCP result.  HCP seems to always write the target .HLP file - even

if HPC crashes or is aborted - so I'm looking for another event

(preferrably the errorlevel) to base my logic on...

Rich Taylor

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>To New Readers: PLEASE learn about FAQs and how to access them before

>posting to ANY newgsroup!

>

>To Mike Cohen: Nothing personal. Your posting just happened to catch my ire.

>This group has a really good FAQ, available at ftp.cica.indiana.edu and its

>many mirrors, as well as being posted regularly here.

Um...  I looked around at ftp.cica.indiana.edu and couldn't stumble on the FAQ

for this group.  Can someone post better information about how to find the

FAQ?  Thanks.

Rich Taylor

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Help Authoring Tools phone and fax numbers

John,

Please add our Help Authoring tool to your list!

VB HelpWriter	Teletech Systems

404-475-6985	FAX:NA (yet)

There's a freeware version at "ftp.netcom.com pub/vb_helpwriter" and at

"ftp.cica.indiana.edu win3/programr/vbasic". The free version is limited

to 30 topics.

Thank you.

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Out of Memory Error

In article <U4DuuAyDBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz> stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

>In <CyKF4y.BwC@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>>Lilly-Anne,

>

>>I don't understand your comment about paragraph size. I need to

>>use imbedded graphix and am compiling single bmps up to 50 and 70K in

>>size in them. Should I not be experiencing problems?

>

>Yes - the maximum size of a topic's text (including embedded bitmaps)

>is 64k.  Although it is possible you'll have problems with topics

>larger than 32k.

>

For some reason, I never saw the original post from BaDge.  So, I'm

sorry Stefan for piggybacking your posting.

I am assuming you are using WORD, so I'm going to explain this using

this assumption.

Any text that comes before one of those paragraph markers is

considered part of the paragraph, including any embedded graphics.

WinHelp limits the size of a paragraph to 32k.  So, if you embed a

graphic in your topic that is bigger than 32k, WinHelp will give you

an out of memory error when you try to compile.

One way to get around this is to reference the graphic, instead.  You

do this by placing a comment like [image] where you want the

graphic to display in your topic. For example,

========================================================

Topic Title

 places the picture to the left of any text once you

  compile your help file.

If you use [image] it treates the reference as a character

and places the picture within the sentence.  So, if your picture

is bigger than your font size you will see your line spacing messed

up.

If you use

it places the picture to the right of your text

once you compile your help file.

========================================================

One thing I notice in the FAQ, it does say by-reference bitmaps are

limited in size to 32,767 (I assume these are bytes?)  So, you may

still have a problem referencing graphics as big as 50k.  You might

try using the shed editor to convert them into .shg.  I seem to

remember someone suggesting this shrinks the file size.  Haven't

tested that though. I suppose you could also split the bitmaps in two.

Hope this helps.

Lilly-Anne

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DIB palettes in WinHelp/Viewer (was re:256 colors in .hlp file NO .dl

In article <noringCzsqvA.LGr@netcom.com>, <noring@netcom.com> writes:

> In article baj7d@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (BaDge) writes:

>

> >A fellow on CI$ has come up with a way to put 256 color .shg

> >files in a help file without using any extra .dll files. This

> >guy's name is Bruce Hartford and I think we all owe him a tip

> >of the hat for discovering this AND for giving out his solution.

> ><stuff deleted>

> <stuff deleted>

> 1) I haven't tried this yet and might, but I'll ask this anyway -- what

>    happens when you use several 256 color bitmaps with quite different

>    pallettes?  Does the pallette reset for each viewing or is it the first

>    one viewed under WinHelp that sets the pallette for the rest?

The Windows API allows the current active app (the one with focus) to get the

best palette it can. When the app "realizes" a palette, it gets precedence over

all other applications in Windows and it gets as many colors allocated to it

from the system palette as are available.

The applications that do not have the focus are also sent windows "paint"

messages, and part of painting is to "realize" their prefered palette. However,

if the application with the focus has "used up" all the "available" (20 are

reserved by Windows, so if you are a well behaved app that only leaves 236

colors available typically in an 8bit, 256 color mode), then those colors are

not allocated and when the app draws a DIB it gets the nearest matching color.

When the app with focus draws multiple DIBs, the first one drawn gets as many

available colors as it wants allocated in the system palette. Each additional

DIB then gets more colors allocated to it if any are available.

In a WinHelp/Viewer title with multiple 256 colors DIBs, the first one visible

gets all the available system palette entries available. The second is allowed

to get any system palette entries remaining, or is forced to use the "closest

matching" colors already in the palette.

This behavior is basically required of Windows because of the hardware

implementation of palettes. A video board in 256 color mode can only display

256 colors at a time. It is not physically possible in 256 color mode to

display two 256 color DIBs that have over 256 unique colors between them in

their "actual colors". One of the two DIBs has to go without getting the colors

it wants. Window's basic algorithm is "first come first serve", starting with

the app with focus.

You may have noticed that if you are running in 256 color mode and have to apps

showing two DIBs with different palettes, the one drawn correctly is the one

with focus. If you click on the title bar of the other changing focus, then the

other one's DIB is drawn correctly. This is Windows best effort to give you

what your want within the limitations of the hardware. You may also have

noticed that chaninging focus between two such apps on anything less than a

Pentium machine takes considerable time and you can sit an watch each DIB draw.

That is because all this palette negotiation and translation to the system

palette takes considerable overhead.

Suggestions on DIBs for WinHelp/Viewer:

1) If you have DIBs with more than 16 colors, try to normalize them with an

"identity" palette (force them all to use the same palette). The BitEdit tool

that comes with Viewer can dither a DIB to match an imported palette.

It may sound like tremendous overkill, but you can also put the DIBs in an AVI

movie using RLE compression, and then extract them as single DIBs. VFW

automatically calculates the "best" palette for a certain number of frames at

the beginning of the movie using a histogram method and will force each frame

to this "best" palette.

2) Try to reduce the number of colors in all DIBs. The BitEdit tool that comes

with Viewer can dither a DIB down to a smaller number of colors.

My experience is that you can display two 150 color "photograph' DIBs on the

same screen, and often get them to look OK, in 256 color mode. The first one to

draw will typically get the all the colors it needs (150). When the second one

is drawn it will typically reuse some of the colors already allocated by the

first, and will get most of the additional colors it needs.

The quality of two DIBs with more than 150 colors on the same screen can

degrade rapidly depending on how different the "color tone" of the two

photographs are.

If you look closely you'll notice that you can't really get 256 unique colors

in WinHelp/Viewer. Windows reserves 20 colors for itself and WinHelp/Viewer,

being a good little app, does not try to take over those reserved colors. A DIB

will only get the first 236 colors in its palette that do not happen to match

the one of the 20 reserved colors.

I would recommend reducing all 256 color bitmaps to at least 236.

3) If it is important to allow displaying 256 (236 really) color DIBs with

the correct colors, then provide the option in your title to display them in a

secondary window.

Since the secondary window is drawn first, that DIB will always get as many

colors as it can.

I would imagine that's why Encarta provides an icon for each photograph to

display it in a secondary window rather than just displaying it in an embedded

window in the scrolling region (besides the fact it improves scrolling

performance).

4) If you put any DIBs in a non-scrolling region (NSR), try to reduce the DIBs

colors to a bare minimum.

The DIB in the NSR will get first priority since it is drawn first. If you put

a 236 color DIB in the NSR it will likely take all available colors and any DIB

in the scrolling region will likely starve for colors and will be forced to

reuse colors from the NSR DIB (causing itm to take on unnatural tones).

I recently did a title where a put a DIB with 30 colors in the NSR. I then went

through all the "photograph" style DIBs using the BitEdit tool that comes with

Viewer to dither them down to 200 colors. Generally I could not even detect a

visible difference in the 200+ color DIB.

Not only did this allow the 200 color DIBs to display correctly with the NSR,

the BitEdit tool also reorganizes the palette so that the most used colors come

first. By putting the most used colors first in the palette they are more

likely to be allocated, and the DIB is more likely to get the "important"

colors.

Gregory J. Peto

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replacement for shed?

In article <785974163snz@discreet.demon.co.uk>, <msmith@discreet.demon.co.uk>

writes:

> Ed_Guy@mindlink.bc.ca "Ed Guy" writes:

> > You can do this with the current version of SHED.  Capture your new

version

> > bitmap to the clipboard, open your SHG file in SHED and then select

REPLACE

> > from the menu and presto! your new bitmap is there.  I do it all the time

> > when I make minor dialog box changes in HELLLP!.

>

> Now this is really weird.  I'm using the version of shed.exe that came

> with VC++ 1.51 on the VC++ 2.0 CD.  The About box says it's v3.10.

> There is no Replace command under the Edit menu and nothing in the help

> file refers to one either.  The latest MSDN CD has a Kbase article dated

> 05/94 which says that the only way to change the bitmap is to copy all

> of the hotspots manually from the old .shg file onto a new image as I've

> been doing.  But in my Windows directory, I just found another shed.hlp

> file that *does* list a Replace command.  I don't know where it came from

> and there's no shed.exe to go with it.  Where did your copy come from?

VC++ v1.51 does not have the latest version of SHED. It is an older version

without the Replace command. I'm not sure where the latest version is

available. The SHED that comes with Doc2Hlp is new enough to have a Replace

and thats the one I use.

Gregory J. Peto

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 healthcare, we don't want to       (most of whom are children) are not

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MS KB ommision (was footnote in Viewer2)

In article <1994Nov27.090904.13242@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il>,

<fhgross@wishful.weizmann.ac.il> writes:

> Having troubles entering footnotes in Viewer I found the following article

in the KB of

> Microsoft.

If I want to delete an existing footnote from Viewer RTF source in Word v6 I

highlight the footnote (using drag selection with the mouse), and then retype

the part that is highlighted I don't want deleted, then delete it. Word takes

the footnote and the other highlighted text.

Word v6 seems to have a bug not letting you highlight just the footnote and

alwasy selects around 6 more characters after the footnote.

> I tried to follow their suggestion, however

> whenever I try to access the footnote with the hotkey it treats is as a

text

> and does not recognize the special character.

I experimented with this and found that under certain circumstances if you

create the footnote in Word as stated, then highlight it and then hit the

Viewer topic editor hotkey, it did not recognize that it was a footnote

highlighted.

However, I was able to get it to work by editting the empty footnote in the

footnote window in Word before going to the Topic Editor. For example the

Topic Editor would not recognize a "+" footnote until I modified the footnote

in the footnote window to read "+;". If you create a Topic Group footnote in

Topic Editor that is empty you will notice it always includes the semi-colon,

and apparently without it, does not recognize the "+" footnote as a Topic

Group object.

I also notice that if I create a "$" footnote in Word, highlight it and bring

up Topic Editor it is unrecognized. But if I edit the "$" footnote in the

footnote window so that it is not empty, then highlight the "$" in the main

Word editting window, then bring up Topic Editor, it is recognized.

I would imagine that if you experiment with the others you will find the

"minimum" requirements the Viewer Topic Editor has before it recognizes the

footnote as a Viewer data item. The KB article should porbably have a step

explaining that it may be necessary to edit the footnote before the Viewer

Topic Editor will recognize it.

Gregory J. Peto

gpeto@mudshark.sunquest.com

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"85% of Americans have adequate   - The 36 million without good healthcare

 healthcare, we don't want to       (most of whom are children) are not

 ruin that."                        significant politically, so lets all turn

                                    our back on them.

> Has anybody have an idea why?

>      Eilam

>

> DOCUMENT:Q116338  13-SEP-1994  ÝP_VIEWER¨

> TITLE   :PRB: Problem Entering Footnotes in Word for Windows 6.0

> PRODUCT :Multimedia Viewer

> PROD/VER:2.00 2.00a

> OPER/SYS:WINDOWS

> <stuff deleted>

> SYMPTOMS

> ========

>

> After entering footnotes in Word for Windows version 6.0 rich-text format

> (RTF) files through the New Viewer Element dialog box, you cannot select

> certain characters in the text immediately following the footnote symbol.

> <stuff deleted>

> RESOLUTION

> ==========

>

> You can enter footnotes for Viewer elements by following these steps:

>

> 1. Choose Footnote from the Insert menu.

>

> 2. Choose Custom Mark.

>

> 3. Enter the mark that corresponds to the Viewer element you want to use.

>

> 4. Choose the "OK" button.

>

> 5. Highlight the footnote character in your document (not in the footnote

>    window).

>

> 6. Invoke the Viewer Topic Editor by typing your Topic Editor hot key. Use

>    the Topic Editor dialog boxes as you normally would to add pictures,

>    videos, context strings, and other Viewer elements.

>

> 7. Resume editing the document.

> <stuff deleted>

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What is the name of the FAQ for this list and where can I ftp it? I noticed

that someone said it's on ftp.cica.indiana.edu, and I've looked through

there and downloaded a few different FAQs, but they weren't it.

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In article <3bde6m$mse@data.interserv.net>,

Rich Taylor <rtaylor@capella.walldata.com> wrote:

>In article <CzxHzM.Mso@tc.fluke.COM>, inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) says:

>

>>To New Readers: PLEASE learn about FAQs and how to access them before

>>posting to ANY newgsroup!

>>

>>To Mike Cohen: Nothing personal. Your posting just happened to catch my ire.

>>This group has a really good FAQ, available at ftp.cica.indiana.edu and its

>>many mirrors, as well as being posted regularly here.

>

>

>Um...  I looked around at ftp.cica.indiana.edu and couldn't stumble on the FAQ

>for this group.  Can someone post better information about how to find the

>FAQ?  Thanks.

>

>Rich Taylor

Try 198.91.36.126:/pub/winhelp or /pub/incoming.

Ron.

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replacement for shed?

In article <785974163snz@discreet.demon.co.uk>, msmith@discreet.demon.co.uk

(Mark Smith) writes:

>

> Msg-ID: <785974163snz@discreet.demon.co.uk>

> References: <59656-785905576@mindlink.bc.ca>

> Posted: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 22:09:23 +0000

>

> Org.  : Camazotz

>

> Ed_Guy@mindlink.bc.ca "Ed Guy" writes:

> > You can do this with the current version of SHED.  Capture your new

> version

> > bitmap to the clipboard, open your SHG file in SHED and then select

> REPLACE

> > from the menu and presto! your new bitmap is there.  I do it all the

> time

> > when I make minor dialog box changes in HELLLP!.

>

> Now this is really weird.  I'm using the version of shed.exe that came

> with VC++ 1.51 on the VC++ 2.0 CD.  The About box says it's v3.10.

> There is no Replace command under the Edit menu and nothing in the help

> file refers to one either.  The latest MSDN CD has a Kbase article dated

> 05/94 which says that the only way to change the bitmap is to copy all

> of the hotspots manually from the old .shg file onto a new image as I've

> been doing.  But in my Windows directory, I just found another shed.hlp

> file that *does* list a Replace command.  I don't know where it came from

> and there's no shed.exe to go with it.  Where did your copy come from?

I got a copy with Borland C++ v4.0, I also downloaded a copy from the GO

WINSDK forum on Compuserve and BOTH have the replace.

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In article <3bdvn6$f4g@panix2.panix.com>, rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

> In article <3bde6m$mse@data.interserv.net>,

> Rich Taylor <rtaylor@capella.walldata.com> wrote:

> >Um...  I looked around at ftp.cica.indiana.edu and couldn't stumble on the FAQ

> >for this group.  Can someone post better information about how to find the

> >FAQ?  Thanks.

> >Rich Taylor

>

> Try 198.91.36.126:/pub/winhelp or /pub/incoming.

>

> Ron.

>

This is great, I just asked Stefan about this. Who is 198.91.36.126? Are they

a CICA mirror? How is the FAQ maintained? All that good FAQ stuff...

Wow, I have been hanging out here for 4-5 months and this is the first

concrete reference I have seen. (my trn server is constipated I think).

Gary Starkweather

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In article <Doy2uAkOBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>, stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

> In <19941128.063531.935@almaden.ibm.com> bes@VNET.IBM.COM writes:

> >Isthere a  WYSIWYG like tool to generate RTF files for WINDOWS ??

>

> There are tools with various levels of WYSIWYGness.  One product

> that is almost 100% WYSIWYG (better than all other tools anyway

> in this regard) is our own HWA.

>

> Check on cica for an evalutation version of HWA and demo versions

> of other Tools.

>

> ....Stefan

Stefan, It sure seems as though there ought to be a FAQ for this question

(which *is* frequently asked, after all...) and those like it. My news feed

has been having the hiccups and lately it took a trn for the worse, but I have

been waiting for a FAQ announcement for some months now. If there is no FAQ, I

would be happy to join a committee and write one (divvy up the topics kind 'o

thing). In any case, reasonable as your answer is, a referal to the FAQ would

make sense, in that it would not be a referal to any one of the several good

products which are discussed regularly in this forum. I have noticed several

FAQ questions in the past several days, and I've seen others in the past. I

assume I myst have missed the answers, cause I try to read all the postings

here.

BTW: Is the HWA refered to in your SIG still the Beta veraion that I have?

Will there be an announcement when it goes Gamma or Release? Will there be

upgrade notices?

Keep up the good work though, this is a mild comment - not even any smoke..

Gary Starkweather

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Where to get Dr. Help ?

In article <CztAEw.1Dw@utu.fi> mikruutu@utu.fi (Mikail Ruutu) writes:

> Are there any demo versions of Doctor Help out there? Where can I get one?

ftp.cica.indiana.edu ~ftp/pub/pc/win3/drhelpe5.zip (Word 2.0 only,

the version for Word 6.0 is DrHelp 6 beta)

> I'd appreciate also the address of the company distributing Dr. Help.

roger.hadgraft@eng.monash.edu.au

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DIB palettes in WinHelp/Viewer (was re:256 colors in .hlp file NO .dl

In Gegory Peto's article on multiple many color bitmaps in one image, he

suggests using the BitEdit tool in Viwer to manage th palette. I am sure this

works, (never treid it - but it sounds right) but I like Paint Shop Pro.

This is a shareware product readily available all over. My manual (I liked it

so much - I bought it!) says that they are:

JASC, Inc.

10901 Red Circle Drive, Ste 340

Minnetonka, MN 55343

(612) 930-9171

I suspect the file is something like psp20.zip and can be gotten from Simtel

or CICA.

So, back to the tool. It is very quick and dirty to import photos or images

from almost any format, and calibrate the colors by doing the following:

Open the image

From the Colors menu, boost colors to 16 million (you do not need the vide

hardware, it's a math thing)

Then, from the same menu, reduce colors to 256. Be sure to use a standardized

set of parameters.

I often use the Standardized Palette, Error Diffusion, and Reduced color

Bleeding. This gets all my images in a safe (for windows) stanard palette.

If the image is photographic and this process gives too many artifacts, try

the Optimized palette, error Diffusion, Reduced Bleeding, and be *sure* to

have Include Windows Colors checked (for the reasons Gregory mentioned).

You can also use the nice (but minimal) image processing tools to adjust

brightness or whatever and resize (very smoothly too). When you are done you

can export an image as a large RLE file for an opening screen.

Well, that's enough unsolicted sales stuff, but the tool is exceptional and

cheap at $60+- (I've forgotten)

Gary Starkweather

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In article <3bdkke$sdp@news.primenet.com>, hugh@primenet.com says...

>

>I have completed a help file that I want to include the browse buttons.

I

>have attempted every possible combination (but the correct one!) of auto

> browse numbers (on/off), hierarchical topics (on/off) - etc. I have

>checked the In Browse Sequence buttons - have put topic names in and

>taken them out - but NEVER get the buttons in the actual compiled help

>file! What I am doing wrong?????   Thanks.

>

SORRY - I found the info - at the end of the Tutorial section (I seldom

read or use these - but this time it proved helpful. -

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In article <D00pqs.GBB@cruzio.com>,  <gstark@cruzio.com> wrote:

>In article <3bdvn6$f4g@panix2.panix.com>, rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>> In article <3bde6m$mse@data.interserv.net>,

>> Rich Taylor <rtaylor@capella.walldata.com> wrote:

>

>> >Um...  I looked around at ftp.cica.indiana.edu and couldn't stumble on the FAQ

>> >for this group.  Can someone post better information about how to find the

>> >FAQ?  Thanks.

>> >Rich Taylor

>>

>> Try 198.91.36.126:/pub/winhelp or /pub/incoming.

>>

>> Ron.

>>

>

>This is great, I just asked Stefan about this. Who is 198.91.36.126? Are they

>a CICA mirror? How is the FAQ maintained? All that good FAQ stuff...

>

>Wow, I have been hanging out here for 4-5 months and this is the first

>concrete reference I have seen. (my trn server is constipated I think).

>

>Gary Starkweather

>

It is the Winhlp-L archive site.

Ron.

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Spy, Echo, Something or Other

Somewhere out there is a tool that echos to the screen the parameters passed

to it by the calling application.  For instance, I rename this tool to

WINHELP.EXE.  When MYAPP.EXE calls WINHELP, it passes context values to this

tool which then displays them.

Any notions where I can find this little gem?

Thanks!

Bev Freed

Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

Dallas, TX

e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

'Toon Physics: Any body in motion will tend to remain

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Quirks or Features?!

In article <bob.smi.106.000CBA66@jntsea.gsfc.nasa.gov>, Bob asks:

| 1. I've used bullet lists in many topics.  None of the bullet chars are

| displayed, however, in the compiled .HLP file.  I've tried

Insert|Symbol from

| the Word 6 menu as well as simply putting the char I wanted there

(ALT 0149, I

| believe) using the Symbol font.  Funny thing is, I use another True

Type font,

| PC Keys, throughout the document and all chars appear fine in the compiled

| ..HLP.  None of my Symbol, WindDings, or the ALT-0149 char in any font will

| display. Any clues?

WinHelp 3.1 will not display any font other then Symbol that does not

use the default charset -- since WingDings requires a symbol charset,

it won't display in WinHelp 3.1. Bullets will display only if the RTF

writer (Word in this case) writes the bullet out as a symobl character

rather then a \bullet RTF token. (Both problems have been fixed in

WinHelp/HCW 4.0).

| 2. When I embed a couple graphics (e.g., screen snapshots) in the .RTF file,

| the compiler chokes and claims there is not enough memory to complete the

| compilation.  I've cut back to the bare bones with no luck - I've quit

| Windows and rebooted without net drivers, etc.  It makes no difference if

| I use the protected mode HCP compiler (shelled from Windows) or the

| HC version in the stripped down configuration. The only way I get the

file to

| compile is to embed a  reference to the graphic in the .RTF.  But

this results

| in a help file that, at run-time, has a very annoying and sluggish

pause when

| jumping to any topic with a graphic for the first time. Any suggestions here?

All versions of hc/hcp prior to HCW 4.0 (which isn't available yet)

limit embedded bitmaps to ~64K. Switch to a bitmap-by-reference and you

should be able to compile.

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In article <bfreed.301.031D36B5@fasttax.com>,

Bev Freed <bfreed@fasttax.com> wrote:

>Somewhere out there is a tool that echos to the screen the parameters passed

>to it by the calling application.  For instance, I rename this tool to

>WINHELP.EXE.  When MYAPP.EXE calls WINHELP, it passes context values to this

>tool which then displays them.

>

I don't know exactly what you are referring to.  If you want to

intercept calls to WinHelp() with parameters, I have written

a little utility, which you'll find at ftp 198.91.36.126

(gmutant), /pub/incoming/helpmon2.zip.  It pops up a little

message box displaying the parameters, then calls WinHelp

itself.

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Making a help file

Well, folks, I have tried the connection mentioned in this thread to get

the FAQ and it does work.

ftp to:  198.91.36.126

login:  anonymous

password:  <your complete e-mail address>

When the ftp prompt appears, type:

cd pub <CR>

Then type:

cd winhelp <CR>

Then type:

bin <CR>

Then type:

get winhelp.faq

Now say goodbye:

bye <CR>

<CR> = carriage return, enter, whatever

Diane

Michael Jacob (michaeljacob@delphi.com) wrote:

: What is the name of the FAQ for this list and where can I ftp it? I noticed

: that someone said it's on ftp.cica.indiana.edu, and I've looked through

: there and downloaded a few different FAQs, but they weren't it.

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In article <3bflkk$c6c@ss10.retix.com>, usenet@ss10.retix.com (NNTP remote postings) writes:

<Snip!>

> I find ForeHelp to be more "wysiwyg" than HWA.

>

> Of course, I don't have a lot of experience with HWA,

> other than when it suddenly started itself while I was

> working one day. It was the free version which I had

> installed but not yet had time to look at. Unbeknownst to me,

> HWA had registered itself as the opener of RTF files,

> and I double clicked on an RTF file, expecting Winword to start.

>

> Surprise! HWA opened. Annoying, but I figured I'd try to

> use it to look at the file anyway. I found the HWA interface

> to be incomprehensible and gave up.

>

> Data point: I don't work for ForeHelp or for HWA.

>

> Mark Giffin

I am a registered user of both. I liked Stefan's interface and am awaiting the

final product (what I have is a beta) to do a fair comparison. This is just

around the corner I guess. (HWA95? <grin>)

Data point: I don't work for anybody.

Gary

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hotspot graphics high resoluted

Hello everybody!

Please help a beginner. I would like to create hotspot graphics. The

original graphics are PageMaker pages, which I can either print to EPS or

scan as TIFF and convert to other raster formats).

However after saving in the hotspot editor the files become quite small.

This would be pretty good if I could still see an acceptable resolution in

my helpfile. But I can't. What can I do?

Thanks in advance

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In article <3bfcs9$sn7@panix2.panix.com>, rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

> In article <D00pqs.GBB@cruzio.com>,  <gstark@cruzio.com> wrote:

<stuff snipped here>

>>> Try 198.91.36.126:/pub/winhelp or /pub/incoming to find the FAQ

>>>

>>> Ron.

>> This is great, I just asked Stefan about this. Who is 198.91.36.126? Are they

>> a CICA mirror? How is the FAQ maintained? All that good FAQ stuff...

>>

>> Wow, I have been hanging out here for 4-5 months and this is the first

>> concrete reference I have seen. (my trn server is constipated I think).

>>Gary Starkweather

>>

> It is the Winhlp-L archive site.

>

> Ron.

OK, but what is Winhlp-L, and who is providing the service etc.

Gary

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In <19941128.063531.935@almaden.ibm.com> bes@VNET.IBM.COM writes:

>Isthere a  WYSIWYG like tool to generate RTF files for WINDOWS ??

There are tools with various levels of WYSIWYGness.  One product

that is almost 100% WYSIWYG (better than all other tools anyway

in this regard) is our own HWA.

Check on cica for an evalutation version of HWA and demo versions

of other Tools.

....Stefan

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WinHelp or WinExec?

In article <bfreed.289.031A1F3B@fasttax.com>,

Bev Freed <bfreed@fasttax.com> wrote:

>Just for grins, I moved all the .hlp files residing in my windows directory to

>another directory called "HELP."  I then put this HELP directory in my path

>statement.  I did NOT put a FILES statement in the Winhelp.Ini.  I wanted to

>see if a path statement could do the trick.

>

>Next, I ran every executable whose corresponding .HLP file had been moved, and

>I asked for help via HELP/CONTENTS.  Out of all those programs, only

>Paintbrush.Exe failed to find its .HLP file.  So, I have a question...

>

>Is there something different about the way Paintbrush calls Winhelp?  Is it

>using WinExec?  I would like to have our programmers call Winhelp so we can

>move all the .HLP files for our products to a single directory.  How simple

>this would make my life!

>

PaintBrush does call WinHelp(), but with the name "C:\WINDOWS\PBUSH.HLP"

(or whatever your Windows directory is called, I assume it does a

GetWindowsDirectory()).

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How do I re-configure a Winhelp file for viewing on a Mac?

In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp bulsecod@ava.bcc.orst.edu (Dylan

Bulseco) said:

>It is my understanding, that any Winhelp help file can be viewed on a Mac

>if MS-Powerpoint or Excel are already used on that Mac.  Evidently, the

>help engine for these two apps can be used to view the windows help file.

>

>How do I change the winhelp file to use it in this way?  Thanks

Dylan,

Here are some notes from our (WexTech Systems) last newsletter.  These

apply if you are running version of Excel previous to the latest Excel 5 on

the Mac.

----------------------------------------

Running a Windows Help File on the Mac

Many of our users need to produce help files that can be distributed both

to Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users. Impossible, you might think -

after all, Apple does not offer a Windows-compatible help engine. Or,

perhaps it can be done, but requires a proprietary solution: Altura sells

software capable of converting RTF files into proprietary help files that

can be read on the Mac (with their reader). But we heard about another

intriguing method several years ago: If you have Microsoft Excel or

Powerpoint on the Mac you have MSHE, a help engine that normally runs the

Excel and Powerpoint help files, but can run any other Windows help file

you want to associate with it.

Using MSHE

The idea is quite simple.  After you copy your help file to the Mac, you

associate it with MSHE.  To do this, use ResEdit, a Mac system file editor.

(If you don't have ResEdit, it's available from the Macintosh Developers

Forum on Compuserve. Type GO MACDEV at any prompt.) Open ResEdit and select

your file, and then from the File menu select Get Info. You will see two

boxes under the Filename box, TYPE and CREATOR. Enter HELP (case sensitive)

into the TYPE box and MSHE (case sensitive) into the CREATOR box. Save your

file. Now you can run the file on the Mac by simply double clicking on it.

Use only bitmap graphics (.BMP files_no .WMF metafiles or .SHG hotspot

files) in the help file. Like the Windows 3.0 help compiler, MSHE cannot

handle graphics other than bitmaps; nor can it run help macros. For these

reasons, we suggest using the HC30 compiler. We also recommend using

Palatino, as this font displays on the Mac better than Arial or MS Sans

Serif. Also increase the default body text font size by two points since

the help file display is somewhat smaller on the Mac.

--------------------------

Since these notes were written Microsoft Office for the Mac and the latest

version of FoxPro on the Mac, seem to have added a new twist. I append here

notes from Microsoft:

------------------------

From the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Title: INF: Distributing Help Files for FoxPro for the Macintosh

Document Number: Q117354           Publ Date: 16-SEP-1994

Product Name: Microsoft FoxPro

Product Version: 2.50b 2.50c

Operating System: MACINTOSH

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

 The information in this article applies to:

  - Microsoft FoxPro for Macintosh Distribution Kit, versions 2.5b, 2.5c

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

 SUMMRY

 =======

 If your application includes a graphical Help file, you can also

distribute

 the Microsoft Help engine by adding the "FoxPro Help" and "Microsoft Help"

 files to your application folder. These two files are located in the

System

 Folder:Extensions:Microsoft:Help folder. These files were omitted from the

 list of distributable files on page 8 of the "User's Guide" for the FoxPro

 for Macintosh Distribution Kit. However, they are listed as distributable

 files in the "DK ReadMe" file.

 NOTE: As listed on page 8 of the Distribution Kit "User's Guide," the

 FOXHELP.DBF, FOXHELP.FPT, and FOXHELP.HLP files in the FoxPro folder

 CANNOT be distributed.

 MORE INFORMATION

 ================

 Help files are created using Microsoft Word for Windows or Microsoft Word

 for the Macintosh. The rich-text format (RTF) files created by Word must

be

 compiled with the Windows Help compiler.

 A floppy disk titled "Disk 1 MS-DOS Series" is included with the FoxPro

for

 Macintosh Distribution Kit. This disk contains the files you need to

 compile the RTF files under Windows. It is an MS-DOS-formatted disk, not a

 Macintosh-formatted disk. This disk contains the following files:

    HC35.EXE

    HC35.ERR

    SHED.EXE

    SHED.HLP

    MRBC.EXE

 REFERENCES

 ==========

 Distribution Kit "User's Guide," page 8

 Distribution Kit "DK ReadMe" file, "Part 2: Other Additional

Information,"

 "#7, Distributable Files"

 KBCategory:

 KBSubcategory:

 Additional reference words: 2.50b 2.50c dk docerr

COPYRIGHT Microsoft Corporation, 1994.

----------------------------------------------

Hope this helps.

Paul Neshamkin

WexTech Systems Techncial Support

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DIB palettes in WinHelp/Viewer (was re:256 colors in .hlp file NO .dl

In article <D00pEI.Fu4@cruzio.com>, <gstark@cruzio.com> writes:

> In Gegory Peto's article on multiple many color bitmaps in one image, he

> suggests using the BitEdit tool in Viwer to manage th palette. I am sure

this

> works, (never treid it - but it sounds right) but I like Paint Shop Pro.

I only meant to give BitEdit as an example of one tool that will do it. I

have tried several shareware tools, but not found one I liked. I also use a

very nice, sophisticated package called PaintShop Pro, but have never been

able to figure out how to do some of the things that BitEdit does quite

easily (like dithering down the colors to a reduced set, or select a region

in the bitmap and merge any pixels in the selection into a single color).

I would like to find another tool besides BitEdit because it does not appear

that Microsoft is going to supply it with any newer products or SDKs beyond

Viewer.

><stuff deleted>

>

> Open the image

> From the Colors menu, boost colors to 16 million (you do not need the vide

> hardware, it's a math thing)

> Then, from the same menu, reduce colors to 256. Be sure to use a

standardized

> set of parameters.

This sounds like a bug. Why not just set it to 256?

> Gary Starkweather

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Need help on windows font files

Help!  My \windows\system directory is fast filling up with

font files.  (>15 megs)

My question is:  What do the different extensions stand for?

I figure the .TTF are true type fonts.

The .FON files are probably soft fonts, but what are the

.FOT files?  Are they necessary?  Can I delete them?  What are

the consequences?

Please direct responses to

bigelos@hudson.ece.orst.edu

Thanks,

-Steve

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Build tags and non-scrolling region

In article <9411211442.AA05698@fss.icl.co.uk> jm@wg.icl.co.uk (John Moulder) writes:

>How do I define two topics with the same name but different build tags

>and ensure that each topic has a non scrolling region at the top?

>

>In Word, I have tried:

>

>*<condition A> #<topic name> Title

>...words ...

>

><hard page break>

>*<condition B> #<topic name> Title

>... some different words to reflect condition B...

>

>and I have set the tht title paragraphs to have the keep with next

>attribute set on both paragraphs.

>

>I seem to get Warning 4813 (non scrolling region crosses page boundary)

>

>I am using Word 2.0c and hcp 3.1.505.

If I were doing this, I would give topic 2 a slightly different

context string:

*<condition A> #<topic name> Title

... words ...

<page break>

*<condition B> #<topic name2> Title

...different words...

Another thing I might mention.  You might want to check and make sure

you didn't define all of topic 1 as a non-scrolling region.  Try

removing the non-scrolling region on topic 2 and see what topic one

looks like when compiled.

Lilly-Anne Wilder

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Second Help Windows

In <D02I47.Cx3@utu.fi> jyrlaine@utu.fi (Jyrki Laine) writes:

>Hi!

>I was wondering how could I make the glossary jump to an opened second

>help window or if it is not opened then to open it. I'm using now the

>execprogram("winhelp.exe myown.hlp","context_str",0) macro (it was

>something like this), but this allways opens a new window. Any ideas?

You may want to investigate using secondary windows.  Check in HAG.HLP

for some explainations on this, or look in the HWA tutorial which shows

you how to work with a secondary window.

...Stefan

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   (HWAB51_1.ZIP and HWAB51_2.ZIP on ftp.cica.indiana.edu)

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WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

In <3bflkk$c6c@ss10.retix.com> usenet@ss10.retix.com (NNTP remote postings) writes:

>Of course, I don't have a lot of experience with HWA,

>other than when it suddenly started itself while I was

>working one day. It was the free version which I had

>installed but not yet had time to look at. Unbeknownst to me,

>HWA had registered itself as the opener of RTF files,

>and I double clicked on an RTF file, expecting Winword to start.

This has been changed in Version 1.0 of HWA - released today.

>Surprise! HWA opened. Annoying, but I figured I'd try to

>use it to look at the file anyway. I found the HWA interface

>to be incomprehensible and gave up.

Please let me know via mail what you think should be improved.

A number of our customers have found ForeHelp to be far to

confusing, and found HWA to be much simpler.

Cheers,

Stefan

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OLE & dde compatable applets

In article <Czz25o.4Cx@liffe.com>, <chris.milburn@liffe.com> writes:

> Does anyone know if the following applets are DDE and/or OLE compatible

>

> Notepad

> Write

> Schedule

> calender

> Mail

> cardfile

>

> thanks

>

> Chris

Look in the registration database. If an app is well-behaved and supports an

"open" operation via DDE, it should register the command in REG.DAT in

\Windows. Use the \windows\regedit.exe to look at the entries for the above

apps (if they exist).

The registration database only supports registering "open" and "print" DDE

commands, and how to open a file with the application. For other DDE commands

you will have to have the external documentation of the application on any

DDE supported.

If you are using a low level programming language, look at Windows 3.1 SDK

help under "registration database". There are a number of APIs for querying

info from the registration database.

To see if something is OLE enabled, the easiest is to use another OLE client

enabled app to see if you can insert an object for that app. For example,

from Word choose Edit->Insert Object. If an object for one of the apps you

are interested in is in the list that comes up, then that app has registered

itself as an OLE server. You can also look in WIN.INI. The OLE server enabled

app has to have run at least once to have registered itself.

Some apps, like MediaPlayer, have info in their online help on how to use

them as an OLE server.

Good luck,

Gregory J. Peto

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"85% of Americans have adequate   - The 36 million without good healthcare

 healthcare, we don't want to       (most of whom are children) are not

 ruin that."                        significant politically, so lets all turn

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+Commercial Authoring Tools

In article <D02Frp.Dzw@cruzio.com>, gstark@cruzio.com wrote:

>

> In article <3bfcs9$sn7@panix2.panix.com>, rloewy@panix.com (Ron

Loewy) writes:

> > In article <D00pqs.GBB@cruzio.com>,  <gstark@cruzio.com> wrote:

>

> <stuff snipped here>

>

> >>> Try 198.91.36.126:/pub/winhelp or /pub/incoming to find the FAQ

> >>>

> >>> Ron.

> >> This is great, I just asked Stefan about this. Who is

198.91.36.126? Are they

> >> a CICA mirror? How is the FAQ maintained? All that good FAQ

stuff...

> >>

> >> Wow, I have been hanging out here for 4-5 months and this is the

first

> >> concrete reference I have seen. (my trn server is constipated I

think).

> >>Gary Starkweather

> >>

>

> > It is the Winhlp-L archive site.

> >

> > Ron.

>

> OK, but what is Winhlp-L, and who is providing the service etc.

>

> Gary

>

Winhlp-L is the WinHelp discussion mailing list. I think that George,

the mail owner provides the service, but do not catch me on this.

Download the FAQ, and read about the mailing list, it is easy to join

the list, sometimes the discussion there is very interesting.

Ron.

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Info: Opening a file from Winhelp/Viewer

A while back there was some discussion in the WINHLP-L list about how to open

a file in a Windows app that is already running rather than starting a

sec0ond copy of the app. I posted the online help from ShellExecute to try to

help, but it did not have the desired behavior. A coworker of mine has since

stumbled upon the answer.

The Registration Database is the "best" way a Windows app can register how to

open a file as a new instance of itself. It is also the only way I am aware

of to register DDE commands for this purpose. The Windows 3.1 SDK help file

say that File Manager and other "shell" apps (meaning the new desktop coming

in Windows '95) use the Registration Database to get the app specific

command and command line arguments to "open" and "print" a file.

Perhaps the person that developed the DLL to find an existing version of an

app would like to extend his DLL to use the Registration Database and DDE and

then repost it.

By the way, rather than using the window title string to find a running

version of an app, the prefered method is to use TOOLHELP APIs to traverse

the task list.

Gregory J. Peto

gpeto@mudshark.sunquest.com

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 healthcare, we don't want to       (most of whom are children) are not

 ruin that."                        significant politically, so lets all turn

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ExecProgram in Viewer?? Problem with Paths

I'm having a problem using the ExecProgram in the Multimedia Viewer. I'm

simply trying to run an executable from the same directory as the Viewer

(.mvb) file. It doesn't appear to recognize it when the executable is

located in the .mvb file directory.

If, however, I put that same executable in the same directory that the

VIEWER (mviewer2.exe) is located, it runs it just fine. What gives? Any

suggestions? The documentation says that it searches in the directory

where the viewer file is located but this doesn't appear to be the case.

Any and all help appreciated,

Brian

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The FAQ

Someone mentioned the FAQ again. Yes, the FAQ.

Anybody have it that can post it? It sounds useful.

Mark Giffin

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Viewer, would you use it?

I would use it for now. For future projects I would look toward migrating to

WinHelp v4.x (if it ends up having the features needed) or MediaView. There is

also the possibility some third party tool will come along that is a better

choice. All the ones I have looked at target highend CBT (computer based

training), except for Folio, and Folio does not have the support for multimedia

materials.

After looking at MediaView closer last weekend, I think it will only be a

matter ot time until someone comes out with a product based on MediaView with

very similar features to Viewer.

My plans are to do future projects in MediaView. If nobody has produced a

MediaView toolkit in the next few months making it easier to produce MediaView

based titles, then I might do it myself.

Gregory J. Peto

gpeto@mudshark.sunquest.com

Republican Healthcare Phrase Translation Guide:

"Americans have the right to      - Republicans will fight to allow physicians

 pay as much as they want for       and healthcare big business to continue

 healthcare."                       to extort as much money as they want

                                    from the American people.

>Question for you MM viewer/help experts:

>if you were starting a multimedia development

>project now for delivery to the windows

>platform, would you still use viewer?

>

>It is my preferred tool for including AVI,

>animations, hypertext, etc., but with

>Microsoft seemingly backing away from it,

>I wonder if I should be looking at a new

>tool.

>

>Thanks for any insights you can offer.

>

>Glenn Hamilton

>

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Buttons in the menu-bar ?

In article <bieletz.1.0059F385@wi.uni-muenster.de>,

Stefan Bieletzke <bieletz@wi.uni-muenster.de> wrote:

>Hi,

> I am concerned in a project about multimedia helpfiles for use in computer

>aided learning/teaching for students.

>

>I found some questions about 'buttons' in this newsgroup, but there were no

>real answers. :)  So, here comes a question about user-defined buttons in the

>menu-bar:

>

>How can I tell my help file, that I wish to show my defined button in the

>menu bar ? Avoiding  (!) to click first on a button in the work area, which

>says 'click this button to get a button in the menu bar' ? I want the button

>to 'arise and vanish away', depending on the topic which is shown in the work

>area. Maybe someone has solved this problem sucessful and likes to give me a

>hint.

>

This should be done with entry macros (!-footnotes).

Each time the topic is entered, the macros in the footnote will

be executed.  For this case, the macro can do an "insertMenu()",

"InsertItem()", "DeleteItem()", "ChangeItemBinding()" or "AppendItem()".

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The FAQ

In article <39bt11$e3h@ss10.retix.com>,

NNTP remote postings <usenet@ss10.retix.com> wrote:

>Someone mentioned the FAQ again. Yes, the FAQ.

>

>Anybody have it that can post it? It sounds useful.

>

>Mark Giffin

>

Well, OK.  This is the last version I saved.  This is

*not* an "official" FAQ posting.

(I hope Pete Davis hadn't scheduled to post it tomorrow,

or something.  If so, I apologise, Pete).

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          maintained by Pete Davis (pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu)

               cheesy "BIG-ASCII" type by Pete Davis

                        Last Update: 8/25/94

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DISCLAIMER: This FAQ is information. Information is a tool. Like a saw,

if you cut off your arm with it, it ain't my fault. Many of the product

descriptions are provided from users or authors. I can not vouch for their

accuracy. I have neither the money, time, nor incentive to check all of these

products. I will always accept comments regarding products and modify this

FAQ when appropriate.

{ Parts of disclaimer adapted from unknown author. If it's you, let me know

and I'll give you credit. }

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CONTENTS

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[1] Introduction

    [1-1] What is WinHelp?

    [1-2] What is Viewer?

    [1-3] What's this document all about?

    [1-4] What if this FAQ needs more information?

[2] How to Learn to Build WinHelp Files

    [2-1] Software and Online Documentation

    [2-2] Books

    [2-3] Magazines

[3] WinHelp Authoring Tools

    [3-1] Shareware/Freeware

    [3-2] Commercial

[4] Other Non-Authoring Tools

    [4-1] Shareware/Freeware

    [4-2] Commercial

[5] Sources for Undocumented WinHelp Features

    [5-1] Magazine Articles

[6] Question and Answer

[6-1-1] Hardcoding Colors

    [6-1-2] Using the Full-Text Search Engines in WinHelp

[7] Misc.

    [7-1] Online Sources of WinHelp Help

        [7-1-1] Newsgroups

        [7-1-2] Listserv Lists

    [7-2] Online Sources of WinHelp Related Software

        [7-2-1] Authoring Tools

        [7-2-2] Authoring Guides and Info

        [7-2-3] Non-Authoring Software

    [7-3] Differences Between HC.EXE, HC30.EXE, HC31.EXE, and HCP.EXE

    [7-4] WinHelp limits

[8] Thanks

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[1] - Introduction

    This FAQ is for the comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup.

Notice the WinHelp at the end of that. This newsgroup is not for general

programming questions, but for questions regarding WinHelp. In particular,

it's for questions on development of WinHelp .HLP files and DLLs and macros

to be used with WinHelp.

[1-1] - What is WinHelp?

    If you've ever hit the help menu item in a Windows program, you've seen

WinHelp. WinHelp is the program that provides the hypertext help system

for Windows programs. WinHelp is actually a very complex and extendable help

system. It allows programmers to add their own functionality through the

use of macros and .DLLs.

[1-2] - What is Viewer?

    Viewer is the short name for Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer. It too is

covered by this newsgroup and FAQ. Viewer can be thought of as an extended

version of WinHelp. Its entire foundation of code is based on WinHelp and

the two are very similiar in many ways. In fact, Multimedia Viewer files

(.MVB files) are essentially the same format as WinHelp (.HLP) files.

    There are a lot of places in this document where I will use the name

WinHelp, but in all cases (except where pointed out), it applies to both

WinHelp and Viewer.

[1-3] - What's this document all about?

    This document is written as a supplement to the

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup. It is meant to help answer

some of the more common questions about WinHelp. It also supposed to

provide people with sources of information about authoring and extending

WinHelp .HLP files.

[1-4] - What if this FAQ needs more information?

    Think this FAQ is deficient in one or more areas? Let me know. Tell me

what you'd like to see. My product list is very incomplete. I don't have time

to track down all products, so if you have one, let me know. I'll gladly add

your product to the list. If you're a user of a product that's not listed,

let me know about it.

    I'll try to monitor the newsgroup for common questions to add to the

Question and Answer section. If you have questions that you think should

be included, let me know.

    Send all comments, suggestions, etc to pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu or

on Compuserve, 71644,3570.

[2] - How to learn to build WinHelp files

    It is far beyond the scope of this FAQ to teach people how to build

WinHelp .HLP files. However, there is a bit of documentation out there

on creating them.

[2-1] - Software and Online documentation

what.zip, hag.zip, and whag.zip

    These three files go together. what.zip has WinHelp Authoring Templates

for WinHelp. hag.zip and whag.zip are the WinHelp authoring guides. whag.zip

contains the Word for Windows .DOC version and hag.zip contains a .HLP file.

These are put together by Microsoft (I believe) and are freely available from

ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the /pub/win3/programr directory.

MSDN-CD

    The Microsoft Developer's Network CD, besides having the Windows Help

Authoring Guide, also has a great knowledge base with information about

WinHelp and creating WinHelp files. For the WHAG, look under Unsupported

Tools.

[2-2] - Books

Developing Online Help

    Published by SAMS, written by Scott Boggan, David Farkas, and Joe Welinske.

ISBN: 0-672-30230-6. This book, besides explaining how to generate WinHelp

files, also goes into great detail about how to make your help files look

good. This book is good for beginners and intermediate help writers. It does

not cover advanced features such as writing DLLs for WinHelp.

The Developer's Guide to WinHelp.EXE

Published by Wiley, written by Jim Mischel. ISBN:0-471-30326-7 (with disk)

ISBN:0-471-30325-9 (without disk). This book covers everything from how to

create help files from scratch to a description of commercial authoring tools,

to undocumented macros. The second half of the book is devoted to programming

for WinHelp. This book is a must for the intermediate to advanced help author

and an absolute necessity for WinHelp DLL programmers.

[2-3] - Magazines

Windows/DOS Developer's Journal

    I mention W/DDJ, a general Windows and DOS programming magazine, simply

because there is lots of WinHelp coverage in W/DDJ. Ron Burk, the editor

of W/DDJ is a real WinHelp fanatic. He's also working on a book tentatively

titled, 'WinHelp for Programmers and Technical Writers'. When the book is

published, I'll add it to the list here.

PC Magazine

The following articles by Ray Duncan were in PC Magazine and are a good

tutorial on building Windows help files.

Ray Duncan, "Constructing Your Own Windows Help Files", PC Magazine, April 27,

1993

   Ray gives an overview of WinHelp .HLP files and talks abou the basics of

the help project file.

Ray Duncan, "Building the Basic Structure of a Windows Help File", PC Magazine,

May 11, 1993

    Ray describes the very basics of generating a simple help file.

Ray Duncan, "Integrating a Windows Help File into an Application, PC Magazine,

May 25, 1993

    Ray shows how to implement code in your Windows programs to use Windows

help files.

Ray Duncan, "Four Techniques to Enhance Your Windows Help Files", PC Magazine,

June 11, 1993

Ray Duncan, "Implementing Macros In Your Help Files", PC Magazine, June 29,

1993

    Ray gives an overview of the macros available in WinHelp 3.1.

Ray Duncan, "Extending WinHelp with Custom DLLs", PC Magazine, September 14,

1993

[3] - Tools Available for Creating Windows Help Files. (Authoring Software)

    Okay, this list is pathetically short. I don't have time to go research

all of these products. Please, if you are a user or an author, send product

descriptions to me: pete@gwis.circ.gwu.edu.

[3-1] - Shareware/Freeware

> VB AHA!!!

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

    ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/util/vbaha124.zip.

Description:

    VB AHA!!! is an inexpensive and easy to use utility for writing Windows

help files. You won't need any expensive wordprocessors or have to use any

cryptic commands. With simple mouse clicks and Drag n Drop ease you will be

able to construct your help files quickly.

    If you use Visual Basic then VB AHA!!! will handle all of the

HelpContextID values for you and even recompile your programs with the new

values. No more hassles of having to insert the values by hand! If you program

in C/C++ or Pascal then VB AHA!!! will create a header file containing all of

the definitions that you will need for context sensitive help in your programs.

> HLPDK - The Help development Kit.

Availability:

Anonymous FTP

    ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/programr as :

    hdk115a.zip, hdk115b.zip, hdk115l.zip

    HLPDK is a Hypertext and Hypermedia generation system, that supports

multiple targets from one source. With HLPDK's Help Compiler, one help

source can be translated to Windows WinHelp and Multimedia Viewer, DOS

(THELP, QuickHelp, Turbo-Vision Help, POPHelp, Native Engines),

DESQview/X, OS/2 IPF, World Wide Web HTML, Ascii and Word Processor

documents. HLPDK allows you to *Write Once, Help Many*.

Features :

Topics, PopUps, Links, Keywords, Text Formats, Navigational and

Structural facilities, Target Code insertion, Multiple module files,

Automatic Pascal/C/C++ reference generation, Exception handling,

Multiple file target databases, Graphics, Sound, Groups, Application

Launch, Automatic exports creation, user defined link templates and

more.

    HLPDK Contains 4 Native Help Readers (Engines) for the Dos and DPMI

target, and 4 Help Compilers hosted on Dos, DPMI, Windows and OS/2.

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> DWHAT.ZIP

Availability:

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       ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/winword/dwhat.zip

Description:

        DWHAT is a version of WHAT.ZIP for Word for Windows 6.0. It

includes a handy Toolbar with the most used Help-Creation functions. It

also can link to the on-line help in HAG.ZIP (see previous section). The

package is Freeware. A major upgrade is due to be released within the

next month(s) (when I get the time), with new features like fancy dialogs

for inserting and editing graphic links.

> Help Writer's Assistant for Windows                      Price: $85NZ ($55US)

Availability:

    Olson Software

    4 Anaru Place

    Palmerston North

    New Zealand

    Phone: +64 6 359 1408

    Fax: +64 6 355 2775

Anonymous FTP

    ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/util/hwab51_1.zip and hwab51_2.zip

Compuserve:

    WinSDK Forum - Section 16 [WinHelp/Tools] hwab51.zip

Email:

    Internet: stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz

    Compuserve: 100352,1315

Description:

HWA (Help Writer's Assistant) is a visual help authoring package with

features normally only seen in expensive products - at a price you can

afford!

HWA is a WYSIWYG help development environment.  The results of your work

are displayed in a visual editor where all formatting is seen.  The visual

editor is designed specifically for the task of developing help files.  HWA

works the way you do, not forcing you to change the way you work.

HWA provides topic management tools which make it possible to easily see

the structure and links of your help file at a glance.

HWA helps to make Windows help authoring visual and exciting!

>Help File Author Tool for WinWord 2.0 & 6.0

Availability:

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    oak.oakland.edu - pub/msdos/windows3/helllp22.zip

Description:

    HELLLP! v2.2 <ASP> - Multi-File build and HelpContextID property [MAP]

generation.  User friendly.  Automatically sets up top level table of

contents with Hypertext jumps to your topics.  You add additional jumps

and popups by highlighting the place you want to jump from and pointing

to the place you want to jump to.  Can add SOUND EFFECTS, SECONDARY

windows with buttons, launch other programs for MULTIMEDIA.

Changes: Now works with both US & non-English versions of Word 6 & 2.

> DR Help

Availability:

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   ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/winword/drhelpe5.zip.

Description:

  DR Help is a set of Word for Windows macros for creating WinHelp

files from Word documents.  It uses Word's standard heading styles to

automatically create links between sections using the section titles

and optionally also generating keyword links from the titles.

  DR Help makes it easy to keep a single source document, maintained

with a familiar and powerful word processor, and then generate printed

documentation, WinHelp and potentially also ASCII and/or PostScript

(using Word's and Windows' built-in capabailities).  The Windows FAQ and

Windows Programmer FAQ are created using DR Help.

{ Editor's Note: The WinHelp version of this FAQ was originally created

using Visual Help but is updated using Word for Windows.                }

[3-2] - Commercial

> Doc-To-Help - WexTech Systems, Inc.                Price: $295.00 (U.S)

                                                            $375.00 (Intl)

Availability:

    WexTech Systems, Inc.

    310 Madison Ave.

    Suite 905

    New York, NY 10017

    FAX:   (212) 949-4007

    Phone: (212) 949-9595

Description:

    Doc-To-Help is perfect for people who want their help files to accurately

reflect what's in the printed documentation. Doc-To-Help allows you to create

your WinHelp file and your printed documentation in the same Word for Windows

document.

> The Windows Help Magician - Software Interphase, Inc.   Price: $149.00

Availability:

    Software Interphase, Inc.

    82 Cucumber Hill Rd.

    Suite 207A

    Foster, RI 02825

    FAX:   (401) 397-6814

    Phone: (800) 542-2742

Description:

    Windows Help Magician is one of the few products to allow you to easily

create WinHelp .HLP files without Word for Windows. It provides its own

editor and WYSIWYG environment. Imports documents from Word.

> Help Perfect - Niceware                         Price: $495.00

Availability:

    Niceware

    Oosterstraat 33

    3581 ML  UTRECHT

    FAX:   ++31 30 517 555

    Phone: ++31 30 520 018

    CIS:   100041,2760

    e-mail: niceware@let.ruu.nl

Description:

    Help Perfect converts WordPerfect documents to WinHelp/

Multimedia Viewer.  Does not rely on WordPerfect for RTF conversion.

Use any WordPerfect style, attribute or mark for setting topics and

hotspots.  Automatic conversion of foot/endnotes, header/footers,

index words, lists and autorefs.  Extension DLL provides graphics,

multimedia, advanced searching, window color manipulation, menu links,

etc.

>SOS Help! for Windows v2.01 - QBS Software        Price: 195 pounds sterling

Availability:

          QBS Software Ltd                email willw@qbss.demon.co.uk

          10 Barley Mow Passage

          Chiswick

          London W4 4PH, UK

          Fax +44 81 994 3441

          Tel +44 81 994 4842

          BBS +44 81 747 1979

 Anonymous FTP (demo version: limited to 10 topics)

         ftp.cica.indiana.edu - pub/pc/win3/uploads/soshp201.zip

Description:

    WYSIWYG Help design system for Windows creates all files required by

the help compiler. RTF editors, such as Word for Windows, are redundant.

    Add jumps, popups and Windows Help macros quickly and easily using

the Topic editor.

    Full support for styles and sylesheets: design a house style for use

in any Help project.

    Application Programming Interface - create context sensitive help

from within an application with one function call.

> RoboHELP 2.6

Availability:

RoboHELP 2.6 is available NOW at a suggested retail price of $499.  For

more information, please contact Blue Sky Software Sales Department at 1-

800-677-4WIN, tel: 619-459-6365 or

fax: 619-459-6366

Description:

RoboHELP 2.6, the award-winning Help Authoring Tool for Windows and Windows

NT automates the task of creating on-line Help for Windows-based

applications.  Supports both Word 6.0 and Word 2.0.  Lets you easily create

features such as jumps, popups, topics, secondary windows, multiple hotspot

graphics and more.  Includes VBX and special custom controls.  Version 2.6

of RoboHELP, turns both Microsoft Word 6.0 and Word 2.0 for Windows into

hypertext authoring tools capable of producing Windows Help files as easily

as text documents.  RoboHELP 2.6 guides users step by step through the

creation of their Windows Help systems.  The whole process is automated and

allows users to rapidly create elegant and professional Help systems.

RoboHELP has won numerous awards.  In 1994, RoboHELP received the Win 100

1994 Award from Windows Magazine and the Productivity Award from Software

Development Magazine.

[4] Other Non-Authoring Tools

    This section is devoted to tools that aren't really authoring tools for

WinHelp files, but may be useful to WinHelp authors and/or users. As with

the other product list, this is real incomplete, so send me descriptions of

products you've used or authored.

[4-1] Shareware/Freeware

> NewsDB - Usenet News and unstructured text to HLPDK conversion Tool.

Availability :

Anonymous FTP - Oak.OAKLAND.EDU : /pub/SimTel/msdos : newsdb10.zip

Description:

    News Hypertext Database generator - The tool that allows you to enjoy

"Other People's Wizdom" - Create sophisticated hypertext databases

from Usenet News articles. A companion to HLPDK, allows you to store

the news articles that are of value to you, with smart news groups

directories, automatic keywords generation for fast search, user

defined groups, automatic article association from articles textual

information to user groups, Author directories and references,

article references to other (previous) and from other (later) articles

and more. Database can be compiled to all the targets supported by

HLPDK, including Windows, OS/2, DOS (several targets), DESQview/X and

documents. Can even handle non Usenet text articles, with user groups

links as well.

    If you have large sets of ascii articles, you would like to create a

hypertext heirarchy, using user defined associations, NewsDB may be

the fastest way to create the hypertext database.

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> WinHelp -> HLPDK Conversion Tool

Availability :

Anonymous FTP - garbo.uwasa.fi : /pc/programming/wh2hdk10.zip

Description:

    WinHelp -> HLPDK Conversion Tool. With WH2HDK you can port your

Windows Help Databases to other platforms such as OS/2, World Wide

Web, DOS, DESQview/X and more. Use WH2HDK (with HLPDK) to save the

additional investment required for multiple target development !

    Now you can create your Help Databases in your favorite winHelp

authoring tool, and still benefit from HLPDK cross-platform portability,

and enhanced navigation and code generation tools.

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> RC2HDK -> RC Help Template Generator

Availability :

Anonymous FTP - ftp.cica.indiana.edu : /pub/pc/win3/programr/rc2hdk30.zip

Description:

    Generate Help Templates for Windows Programs from RC resource

description files. User's interaction with your application is done

through the resources described in the RC file. With this tool, Your

RC files are parsed, and a help template for your project is created.

All you need to do is feel in your application options specific help,

compile, and go!

Vendor : HyperAct Inc., P.O.Box. 5517

         Coralville IA 52241 U.S.A

         Compuserve - 76350,333

         Phone/Fax - (319) 351-8413

> HLP2DOC

Availability:

Anonymous FTP - ftp.lrz-muenchen.de :

                /pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows/hlpdc132.zip

Description:

HLP2DOC is a utility to convert WinHelp .HLP files and Multimedia Viewer

.MVB files into Word for Windows 2.0 .DOC files. HLP2DOC is still in the early

stages, but the author is continuing to work on it and improve it rapidly.

HLP2DOC does not yet do a full translation. Bitmaps aren't converted as of the

latest version (1.32). Despite the few drawbacks, it does a very good job

and will make it possible for people to print entire help files by converting

them to .DOC files. HLP2DOC is freeware.

[4-2] Commercial

> HyperHelp

Availability :

    Bristol Technology

    (203) 438-6969

    Internet: info@bristol.com)

Description:

    Hyperhelp is a WinHelp compiler and viewer for Unix. You simply recompile

your rtfs, bmps, and hpjs and you get a Unix versions of your help file.

Hyperhelp supports MIF and SGML and has a bridge that lets you use these on

the Windows WinHelp too.

[5] Sources for undocumented WinHelp features.

    WinHelp is one of Windows least documented features. As most Windows

programmers are aware these days, many aspects of Windows do go undocumented

by Microsoft, but for the rest of Windows, this tends to be less vital

functionality. With WinHelp, many of the important aspects are kept

undocumented. Whether this is the result of laziness or intentions, is

unclear.

    Luckily, a few people have taken a lot of time to discover these

undocumented features and made them available in one way or another. In

particular, Ron Burk (editor of Windows/DOS Developer's Journal) has

spent a lot of time working with WinHelp and he is arguably the most

knowledgeable WinHelp expert outside of Microsoft (and maybe including

Microsoft).

    Below are a list of articles and other sources of undocumented WinHelp

features listed in alphabetical order by author.

[5-1] Magazine articles

Ron Burk, "Automatic Help Topic Extraction", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

February 1993

    In this article Ron writes a .DLL that allows you to insert an "extract"

button in your help file that will extract a WinHelp topic to a file. He also

discusses the fact that WinHelp executes some macros asynchronously.

Ron Burk, "Automatic Help Topic Printing", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

March 1993

    In this article Ron writes a .DLL to allow you to print all topics in

a WinHelp .HLP file.

Ron Burk, "Spying on WinHelp," Dr. Dobb's Journal, June 1993

    In this article, Ron discusses the WM_WinHelp message used by the

WinHelp() API call. The article describes some uses of this message and

the parameters associated with it.

Ron Burk, "Controlling WinHelp's Always-on-Top State", Windows/DOS Developer's

Journal, November 1993

    Ron shows how to control the Always-on-Top State of WinHelp from your

applications.

Pete Davis, "Documenting Documentation," Dr. Dobb's Journal, September 1993

and October 1993

    In this two part article, a detailed, though not quite complete,

description of the WinHelp file format is provided. It discusses WinHelp's

internal file system and the structures of the internal files in a

.HLP file.

Pete Davis, ".mrb and .shg File Formats", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

February 1994

    This article contains a fairly complete description of the .mrb

(multi-resolution bitmap) and .shg (segmented hyper-graphic) file formats.

These files are used by WinHelp to display bitmaps. The file formats are

almost identical between the two files, though their purposes are quite

different.

Jim Mischel, "Undocumented WinHelp Macros", Windows/DOS Developer's Journal,

January 1994

    Jim describes a lot of undocumented WinHelp macros such as ExtAbleItem(),

ExtInsertItem(), ExtInsertMenu(), ResetMenu(), JumpHash(), and PopupHash().

[6] Question & Answer:

[6-1] WinHelp Q & A

Q: How can I view my WinHelp files on the Apple Macintosh? Unix?

A: You can use QuickHelp from Altura Software (see product info)

QuickHelp will convert your .RTF files, .BMPs, etc and converts them

into a format that is compatible with their QuickHelp interpreter.

You can also use the Macintosh version of WinHelp that comes with Excel

to view already made .HLP files.

Q: How do I insert symbols (such as the copyright symbol) in my WinHelp

files?

A: There are three ways. The first way works with Word 6.0 only, I believe:

1> select Insert Symbol

   choose Normal Text, not Symbol font.

   Select the copyright symbol

2> Hold down the Alt key and type: 0169

3> insert the code {\'A9} in the .rtf file or your Word document.

Q: Why won't my Word 6.0 .rtf files compile with hc31?

A: Microsoft changed RTF slightly with the release of Word 6.0 which made

it incompatible with the old help compiler. You need to get Release 505

(HC505.ZIP) of the compiler. See section [7-2-1] for availability.

Q: Why can't I set the background color with the \cb help rtf statement?

A: Simple: It doesn't work. The \cb statement was never implemented by

Microsoft. Ooops.

Q: When I sub-class the WinHelp window, my DLL breaks when the help file is

executed from the WinHelp() API function.

A: WinHelp uses the class name MS_WINDOC for the main window when run

as a standalone program however, when WinHelp is executed from the WinHelp()

API function, the class name is MS_WINHELP.

Q: I get out of memory errors when running the help compiler. Why?

A: There are several reasons this could be happening:

   1> You can't paste bitmaps larger than 32k into a topic. The solution is

      to include them by reference using the \bml, \bmc, and \bmr commands.

   2> You really are running out of memory. If you're using HC31 or HC30, try

      using HCP.

   [see other limitations in section 7-4]

Q: I get an out of file handles error when running the help compiler.

A: Try increasing the number of file handles in your config.sys file to

FILES=40 or higher.

[6-1-1] Hardcoding Colors

Q: Should I hard-code the colour of the text of my help system?

A: A certain amount of colour can help the user find important information.

Therefore, judicious use of colour in a help system may be beneficial.

The key words here, though, are "judicious" and "may".

Researchers into user interfaces seem to agree that overuse of colour is

significantly worse than under-use: too much colour distracts the user from

the message of the text, making it more difficult for them to understand

what they are reading. (For those who have some experience in publishing:

it's very similar to too many fonts on a page).

But there are other points, some of which are specific to PCs and the

Windows WinHelp environment, that also argue against the use of coloured

text (or even hard-coded black!).

1. The user can set their own colour scheme using Control Panel. This allows

   the user to choose the background colour that most suits them. Hence, a

   help writer should NEVER assume that the background that their help text

   will be displayed on is white. It may, for example, be blue.  If the help

   system contains blue text, it will be impossible to read on a blue

   background! And the "standard" black text is almost impossible to read on

   a dark blue background.

2. The user can set the colour of the text of jumps and popups. If they set

   their jump colour to, say, green, and you have green text in your help

   system, they WILL click on the non-jump green text. Frequently, they will

   click repeatedly, wondering why a new topic hasn't appeared. I have

   watched people do this several times (and I have done it myself).

3. You could overcome problem 1 by hard coding the colour of the background

   as well. Most people who take this approach hard-code a white background.

   But a user who has changed the colour of their background from the white

   default has probably done so for a good (to them) reason. Will they

   appreciate you forcing them to use a colour they felt was not appropriate

   for them? Will you be encouraging them to use your help system? Or will

   you be encouraging them to look elsewhere, perhaps to a competing product

   which allows them to do things their way?

4. Monitors can differ markedly in their display of colours. Hence you have

   no way of knowing how the colour scheme you carefully selected to look

   good on your monitor will look on the monitors of users. Two recent

   examples from my own experience may help explain this.

   I frequently use two computers, each of which uses the same graphics card

   and the same driver. The monitors are different brands. Both monitors are

   good quality, reasonably expensive monitors. But a colour scheme which

   looks good on one, looks atrocious on the other. The differences in the

   individual colours are not obvious; it is only combinations that show up

   the differences.

   I recently wrote a program which displayed a graph (among other things).

   Several colours were needed for the graph, and one of the graph

   components I defaulted to red (though the colours were user-selectable).

   I ran this program on four different computers, all with different

   monitors. The default colour scheme looked attractive (though not

   identical) on all monitors. I delivered the initial version of the

   software. The person paying for the software did not like my choice of

   red for the default for this graph component. When I saw the program

   running on their computer, I realised why. On the monitor they were

   using (yes, a cheap one), red was a horrible, washed out, sickly looking

   thing. The other colours were also different, but the red now clashed

   terribly with them all.

5. Don't forget that some users will probably be colour-blind.

6. Different colours imply different things to different cultures, so if

   you want your help system to be read by people from more than one

   country, carefully consider any colour choices you make.

And finally, you may wish to read the section on colour in help systems in

Chapter 4 of the Help Author's Guide, under "Formatting and Style" (Search

on "Color" in the newer version of this file).

[6-1-2] Using the Full-Text Search Engines in WinHelp

Q: Can I add full-text search capabilities to my Windows Help file?

A: Yes.  The problem is finding the tools to do it with.

The full-text search engine of the Multimedia Viewer 1.0 is completely

compatible with WinHelp.  To create an index file from your help file,

you'll need:

FORAGE.EXE

(FORAGEP.EXE)

W_SCAN.EXE

INDEX.EXE

(GETMLT.EXE)

The run-time support is in the following DLLs:

FTUI.DLL

FTENGINE.DLL

MVAPI.DLL

These were all available in the MDK (Multimedia Developer's Kit), now

superseded by the Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit (Viewer 2.0).

Viewer 2 also supports full-text searching, but the indexing is handled

by the integrated Viewer compiler: no separate .IND file is created.

The runtime DLLs are also different (MVFS2.DLL, MVFSTUI2.DLL, MVAPI2.DLL).

The Indexing programs (FORAGE, W_SCAN and INDEX) are now available in the

Windows NT SDK (MSTOOLS\HLPINDEX directory), as included in the MS Developer's

Library Level II CD sets.  They are identical to the original Viewer 1 tools.

However, WinNT does *not* include the required 16-bit run-time DLLs, but comes

instead with new 32-bit versions (FTUI32.DLL, FTENG32.DLL, MVAPI32.DLL).

The 16 bit DLLs are available from ftp.microsoft.com in some of the

KnowledgeBase helpfiles (e.g. Softlib/MSLFILES/WFWG.EXE).  They should

also be found with any Multimedia Viewer 1.0 product (like my 1991 MS

Boookshelf for Windows).

Q: Suppose I have laid my hands upon the EXEs and DLLs required.  What

must I do next?

A: Say you have a Windows Help project called MYPRJ.  First you must tell

WinHelp where to find the full-text search routines.  In MYPRJ.HPJ, add

these lines to the [CONFIG] section:

[CONFIG]

; initialize DLLs

RR("ftengine", "LoadFTEngine", "U")

LoadFTEngine(0)

RR("ftui", "InitRoutines", "SU")

InitRoutines(qchPath, 1)

; declare the main routines

RR("ftui", ExecFullTextSearch", "USSS")

RR("ftui", "SwitchToTopicsFound", "U")

; provide ways to use them: suit to your own taste

AddAccelerator(0x46,2,"SwitchToTopicsFound(hwndApp)")

CreateButton("btn_fts","FullText","ExecFullTextSearch(hwndApp,qchPath,`',`')")

Add the following line to the [BAGGAGE] section

[BAGGAGE]

bag.ini

{ Editor's Note: "bag.ini" must be all lower case. Baggage files are case

sensitive. Not making it all lower case will produce errors.             }

Save MYPRJ.HPJ.

"bag.ini" is a simple text file, that tells the full-text search engine the

name of the index file, and whether several different help-files share one

single index.  The simple case is one .HLP file, one .IND file.  bag.ini

should look like this:

[bag.ini]

groupcount=1

group1=MYPRJ

[MYPRJ]

Title=My Project

Indexfile=MYPRJ.IND

If you have two helpfiles that share an index:

[bag.ini]

groupcount=2

group1=MYPRJ1

group2=MYPRJ2

[MYPRJ1]

Title=My Project I

Indexfile=MYPRJ.IND

[MYPRJ2]

Title=My Project II

Indexfile=MYPRJ.IND

All the Indexfile= lines should be the same.  You can have up to 15 groups.

The same bag.ini file should be included in the baggage of all the help files.

Next you'll need a field-description file.  It comes with the Viewer 1

and NT Helpindex tools (as GENERIC.FLD).  If you don't have it, it's

a simple textfile containing the following text:

topic [inline, search, stop]

filename [catalog, string]

address [catalog, fixed(4)]

length [catalog, fixed(4)]

topicTitle [catalog, trunc(32)]

topicNSR [inline, search, stop]

Finally there's the stop-words file.  This is a text file containing words

that need not be indexed, each on a separate line.  Viewer 1 and NT come

with GENERIC.STP, which contains a list of English words:

a

an

and

the

...

If your text is in a different language, you should provide your own .STP

file.  Viewer 2 comes with ready-made French and German .STP files.

Since we're talking internationalization, one drawback of the Viewer 1

FTUI.DLL (solved in Viewer 2) is that the Full-Text Search dialog box

is English only.  Borland's Resource Workshop barfed on the dialog resource

in the DLL (Did MS do this on purpose?).

OK, all is set now to create the full-text index.  Viewer1 and the NT SDK

come with ready-to-run batchfiles, that in turn invoke a makefile that

creates the actual index.  In order the explain what's going on,  we'll

ignore the compexities of the makefile provided by MS.

For the simple case of one helpfile with one indexfile, you can create

(or generate) a batchfile, to invoke the Help Compiler and the Indexing

programs:

@ECHO OFF

hcp MYPRJ

echo.

forage /w MYPRJ.HLP

w_scan MYPRJ.ANS,,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,,MYPRJ.LST;

index MYPRJ,,MYPRJ,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,MYPRJ.MAP;

rem produced by FORAGE

del MYPRJ.ANS

rem produced by W_SCAN

del MYPRJ.CFG

del MYPRJ.LST

del MYPRJ.OCA

del MYPRJ.WRS

del MYPRJ.ZON

del MYPRJ.ZOS

rem produced by INDEX

del MYPRJ.MAP

rem think that covers all the garbage generated

If you have several helpfiles for which you want to create a single index,

first create the .HLP files (using HC or HCP), then make the index with

a batchfile like this:

getmlt bag.ini;

forage /m bag.ini BAG.MLT

w_scan MYPRJ.ANS,,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,BAG.MLT,MYPRJ.LST;

index MYPRJ,,MYPRJ,GENERIC.STP,GENERIC.FLD,MYPRJ.MAP;

rem clean up the directory

GETMLT.EXE is a very clever program that reads a bag.ini file and produces

the following output (given the bag.ini file above):

My Project I

MYPRJ1.HLP

My Project II

MYPRJ2.HLP

It needs two arguments (name of bag.ini and name of output .MLT file),

but will only accept one (hey! let's make it interactive!).  If I didn't

have a program to generate all of this FTSearch stuff automatically, I'd

even prefer to make the .MLT file by hand!

That's it.  You should now have a file MYPRJ.IND to go with your

help file(s).  When you distribute the help file(s), just make sure that

you include the .IND file, *and* the FTUI, FTENGINE and MVAPI DLLs.

[6-2] Viewer Q & A

[editor's note: This section is for questions and answers that are specific

 to Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer. The Q & A section for WinHelp applies

 to WinHelp and Viewer. This section does not apply to WinHelp at all.]

[7] Miscellaneous

[Ed. Note: Everyone thought I was serious about the spelling of Misc.

 I guess it wasn't very funny, but I was joking. I do own a dictionary.]

    This is just a sort of free form, general information about whatever

comes to my mind that I can't pigeon-hole in some other section because it's

not appropriate, or it's too small for its own section.

[7-1] Online Sources of WinHelp Help

[7-1-1] Newsgroups

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup

    This FAQ is for the comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp newsgroup,

so you probably already know about it. Just making sure.

[7-1-2] Listserv Lists

WINHLP-L listserv list

    Listservs are a system set-up on BITNET, an IBM mainframe network. They

are very similiar to usenet newsgroups and can be subscribed to over the

internet. The main difference is that all messages are sent as e-mail. After

subscribing, you will be sent a message confirming your subscription and

instructions on how to unsubscribe. For other listserv commands, send

e-mail to the listserv with the contents of your message being:

HELP

- To subscribe to the WINHLP-L list, send e-mail to:

LISTSERV@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA

- The contents of your e-mail should be simply:

SUB WINHLP-L

- To unsubscribe, send e-mail to the same address with the contents:

SIGNOFF WINHLP-L

- To post a message to the WINHLP-L list, send e-mail to:

WINHLP-L@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA

- The subject and contents of the e-mail are sent to all subscribers.

[7-2] Online Sources of WinHelp Related Software

    This section lists various files related to WinHelp and where they

can be obtained. In all cases, the files are available via anonymous

FTP from the sites and directories listed. I can't guarantee the accuracy

of this list as sites go up and down and move files around. Please

notify me of any changes or additions I should make.

    Some of the files are shown elsewhere in this document. In this area

I'll try to provide alternate sites.

[7-2-1] Authoring Tools

HC505.ZIP - Version 5.05 of the help compiler

ftp.microsoft.com           /Softlib/MSLFILES

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/misc

WHAT.ZIP - Windows Help Authoring Templates

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

HLPDK40.ZIP - Help System Deveopment Kit for Windows

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/util

HELPED19.ZIP - Help Edit V1.9 Windows Help File Generator

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/util

VH.ZIP - Visual Help - A Windows 3.1 Help File Creating program

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/util

[7-2-2] Authoring Guides and Info

WHAG.ZIP - Windows Help Authoring Guide

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

HAG.ZIP - Help Authoring Guide

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

WFWHLP.ZIP - Info on constructing Windows Help Files

ftp.cica.indiana.edu        /pub/pc/win3/programr

[7-2-3] Non-Authoring Software

[7-4]

    This section describes limits of WinHelp, not necessarily the

compilers, however. Some of these limits are not shared by the 32-bit

version of WinHelp, though I don't have specifics yet. I will investigate.

    This information is adapted from Microsoft's knowledge base article

Q85676

Paragraph: ~32,000 bytes - Includes any pasted bitmaps

Topic title string: 127 characters

Topics per RTF source: ~32,000

Topics per help file: ~42,000,000

Help file size: 2 gigabytes

By-reference bitmaps per help file: 32,767

Topic footnote (# chars): 1023 characters

Keywords per help file: Limited by file size

Keyword length: 255 characters

Topics per keyword: 32,767 ( Large #'s will effect performance )

Browse sequence length: Limited by # of topics

Bookmarks per help file: Limited by file size

Annotations per topic: 1

Annotations per help file: 32,767

History List Length: 40 topics

Macro Length: 512 characters

Main windows per topic: 1

Secondary Windows per topic: 5

Items in [MAP] section: 4096

[8] Thanks

    I'd like to thank the following people for assistance in this FAQ. If

I've missed your name, it's due to my incompetence and not my lack of

appreciation. Please let me know if I missed you.

Roger Burton - Some corrections.

Anne Foxworthy - Questions for the Q&A section. She supplied some of the more

important ones that I missed. She also supplied the text for the question

about hardcoding colors in [6-1-1]. E-mail to:anne@greebo.apana.org.au

Ron Levi - Provided WINHLP-L Listserv information

Derek MacEwen - Suggested talking about Viewer

Duncan Murdoch - Provided information on how to distribute the FAQ

Arthur Muller - Coming up with the original WinHelp version of the FAQ

Richard Prince - Came up with the idea for section [7-2]

Brenden Young - Updates to section [7-4]

Miguel Carrasquer - Section [6-1-2]

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References

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RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

In article <39av00$1ra@paperboy.gsfc.nasa.gov>,

Greg Smith <gregory_smith@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:

>I am seeking some advice on applications designed to assist

>developers in creating Windows style Help systems in conjunction

>with User Manuals in Microsoft Word.

RoboHELP is not designed to produce printed doc, only online doc.

>

>Two applications are under consideration:

>

>        RoboHELP for $435

>        Doc-To-Help for $249

>

>Both of these products work with Microsoft Word for Windows

>(Versions 2 or 6) to create both a User Manual and a Help system

>from the same text.

>

>I have read a little about each one, but not enough to know what

>(if any) significant differences exist between them.

>

>Does anyone out there have any experience with either of these

>two products?  Is RoboHELP significantly better than Doc-To-Help

>(enough to justify its significantly higher price)?

From what I know Doc-To-Help will produce both help and doc, but

you are constrained to the 'format' that D2H sets up for you. If

you want to heavily customize your doc, then use RoboHELP.

..but then you don't get printed doc...

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In article <bruce.783802293@internet> bruce@spss.com (Bruce Stephenson) writes:

>lmandavi@cisco.com (Lavanya K. Mandavilli) writes:

>>How do you enable search across several independent help project files

>>for WINHELP?

>>Is there a utility or product that will enable us to do this? Any

>>suggestions or info would be greatly appreciated.

>

>I, too, would be extremely interested in any way of doing this.

>I'd like to split an enormous help file into pieces that could be

>distributed and installed separately. The biggest drawback to

>this (that I can see, anyhow) is that the search function would

>be restricted to the help file that happened to be open at the

>time Search was pressed.

>

Check out chapter 11 of Jim Mischel's book "Developer's Guide to

Winhelp.exe."

I haven't had a chance to play around with this but it seems like

it should do the trick.

Lilly-Anne

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In <9411020957.AA42111@198.92.15.143> lmandavi@cisco.com (Lavanya K. Mandavilli) writes:

>How do you enable search across several independent help project files

>for WINHELP?

>Is there a utility or product that will enable us to do this? Any

>suggestions or info would be greatly appreciated.

There is a product called SearchAll by Ability Software (I think that's

their name).  It should do what you want.  Email me if you want more

details.

Cheers,

Stefan

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   and easy way to write Windows Help files.

   (HWAB51_1.ZIP and HWAB51_2.ZIP on ftp.cica.indiana.edu)

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Looking for Help Authoring Tools

In <398d9i$6j0@yeshua.marcam.com> colson@marcam.com (Garrett Colson) writes:

>I repeat:

>Why not use 5 tabs.

You don't see 5 tabs because of the width of the dialog.  It would look

really strange.  Things will change in Version 2.0 - where there will only

be 4 tabs.

>It's a usability issue. For ease of use/speed of use, having all the tabs

>visible would be preferable. People who do not use MSVC++ may not

>find the tiny, tiny button exactly intuitive or helpful. ( C++ users probably

>write their help files in assembly so wouldn't benefit from the UI similiarity.)

But what I am saying is that you will find other applications doing *exactly*

the same thing as HWA.  Microsoft has decided that in terms of usability it

is Ok.  However, I take your point and I've noted it down, and we'll look at

ensuring it does what you want in Version 2.0.

Cheers,

Stefan

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Where is full-text search data?

Thanks, I got it. See ftskit.zip at ftp.netcon.com /pub/noring/winhelp.

 And thanks to John Noring at Omnimedia!

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WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

In article <289_9411032203@ima.infomail.com>,

Kevin McLeod <Kevin.McLeod@hub.ima.infomail.com> wrote:

>Recently, in the alt.hypertext usegroup, I was lurking through a discussion

>that touched on the fact that winhelp is a subset of the MS multi-media

>viewer engine (API or whatever).  I am a person that has translated some

>static administrative regulations from text to hypertext using the WinHelp

>engine, but my curiosity has been piqued by this recent revelation.

>

>Can someone please tell me in what way are winhelp and MM viewer related?

>What would I need to do to translate a winhelp-ready RTF file into something

>more, using winhelp's added capabilities?

To turn the file into a Viewer file (.MVB) all you need is the

Multimedia Viewer Kit and its compiler.

To turn it into something more, you would have to read the

Viewer 2 documentation, especially the stuff about multimedia

(adding wav, avi etc. to your help file), window panes, full-text

search, etc.  Note that many of these things can be accomplished

using standard WinHelp as well: you just need the proper tools, DLL's

etc.

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Recently, in the alt.hypertext usegroup, I was lurking through a discussion

that touched on the fact that winhelp is a subset of the MS multi-media

viewer engine (API or whatever).  I am a person that has translated some

static administrative regulations from text to hypertext using the WinHelp

engine, but my curiosity has been piqued by this recent revelation.

Can someone please tell me in what way are winhelp and MM viewer related?

What would I need to do to translate a winhelp-ready RTF file into something

more, using winhelp's added capabilities?

Any light shed on this would be greatly appreciated.

Kevin McLeod

<kevin.mcleod@hub.ima.infomail.com or

kmcleod@smtpgate.tnrcc.texas.gov>

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The FAQ

I subscribe to another winhelp newsgroup that has set up its own ftp site.

You can find the current FAQ at:

        198.91.36.126

        /pub/winhelp/whfaq.hlp

Hope this helps.

Cathy Pacza

>

>Someone mentioned the FAQ again. Yes, the FAQ.

>

>Anybody have it that can post it? It sounds useful.

>

>Mark Giffin

>

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PLEASE HELP!!!! DESPERATE

In article <3976k8$slg@news.acns.nwu.edu>, <kal993@nwu.edu> writes:

> Please help me.  I am having a serious problem.  While in Windows

> I will be randomly kicked out into Dos.  I will be doing something at

> one moment and the next I am staring at a C:\ prompt.  I have tried

> everything.  I have reinstalled Windows.  Any help would be very

> appreciated.  I really don't want to format my drive.  I have over 350 Megs

> on it.  If this is the wrong group please forward it to others that can

> answer my question.  Thanks!!!

1)

I have experienced a similar problem because a wrong GRP file. (!)

Try to use another "shell" in Windows, for example the filemanager :

In the "sytem.ini" file, section [boot], replace the line :

shell=progman.exe

  by	shell=winfile.exe

2)

Run Windows with the command "win /B" and after that, examine the

file "bootlog.txt" (in WINDOWS directory), especially at the end, to see

the unsuccess loading.

For each driver, in case of success, there are the both lines :

LoadStart = c:\mouse\mouse.drv

LoadSuccess = c:\mouse\mouse.drv

If the line "LoadSuccess" does not appear, certainly you have a problem

with the driver.

For example, last week, I changed the resolution of my screen,

and I put a wrong configuration. So the last lines of "bootlog.txt" were :

....

LoadStart = c:\mouse\mouse.drv

LoadSuccess = c:\mouse\mouse.drv

LoadStart = WINNER08.DRV

<END OF FILE>

The line "LoadSuccess =WINNER08.DRV" was no present.

3)

Check if all drivers (*.drv, *.386, ...) are present.

May the Force be with you !

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In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp kmajkut@netcom.com (Keith Majkut)

said:

>From what I know Doc-To-Help will produce both help and doc, but you are

>constrained to the 'format' that D2H sets up for you. If you want to

>heavily customize your doc, then use RoboHELP. ...but then you don't get

>printed doc...

--

Keith,

There is no reson why you can't heavily customize Doc-To-Help both for the

"look" of the document and help file and for their structure. We have made

version 1.6 even more flexible than previous versions in order to make it

possible to break from or add to the heirarchical basis of Doc-To-Help's

.RTF construction. If there are particular contraints that you can not get

past, I would be glad to try to assist you. If there is something that we

can't do, I'd like to report that to our developers.

Regards,

Paul Neshamkin

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DocToHelp - where?

Doc2Help can be purchased from QPC (Phone 081-994 4842). They can only

supply Version 1.5. In the States, v1.6 is available. It has major

improvements over v1.5 but still runs like a Dog. (A compile of a 350

Page Help Document takes around 2 days !! on a 486 dx 50

We have the US Version but it causes problems with paging in MS Word.

ForeHelp and RoboHelp are better products but I think I'm right in saying

that they do not support the production of both Printed and OnLine

manuals.

Anyone else know of a better Help Authoring Tool ?

Douglas Bain (Walker Martyn Software, Glasgow)

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The FAQ

The FAQ is available via anonymous ftp at

quasar.sba.dal.ca

There is a text version in /www/doc, and a winhelp

version in /www/hlp.

Thanks to Pete Davis for pulling this together.

Ed

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Large MM Viewer file distribution

In article <39890u$dgn@news.moneng.mei.com>, Tim.Mackay@mail.mei.com (Tim

Mackay) writes:

>Since this is _the_ large file, I assume that the toolkit doesn't handle

>anything that it can't fit on a floppy.  The questions are:

>Is this a true assumption?

No, dsklayt2.exe can split a large file into dozens of segments, if

necessary.

>Can you segment the file with setup toolkit so it will fit on floppies?

Sure.

>Is it hard/what's the magic trick?

Include the following in your command line for dsklayt2: /k 144 (this is

for 1.44 MB floppies).

I'm not sure that this is really your problem, though. It would help if

you posted the contents of your layout file and the command line that

you're using for dsklayt2.exe.

Steve Diamond

Diamond Consulting Services

Tucson, Arizona

smdiamond@aol.com

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error 5059

I am having a persistant and aggravating problem with error 5059, which

causes my compile to abort. I have not been able to figure out precisely

what the error is -- I'm guessing it has something to do with a bitmap

file. If you have any experience with this problem and know what to do

about it, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

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Winhelp Full Text Search

In article <CxzsIt.94u@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

>Path: interlog.com!lsuc.on.ca!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!io.org!sun.cais.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!mcv

>From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)

>Subject: Re: Winhelp Full Text Search

>Message-ID: <CxzsIt.94u@inter.NL.net>

>Organization: NLnet

>References: <385p0k$jj3@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>

>Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 22:16:04 GMT

>Lines: 26

>In article <385p0k$jj3@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>,

>W.R. Hartley <W.R.Hartley@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:

>>

>>Now Then.

>>

>>Can anybody tell me where the files to allow a full text search

>>in Winhelp can be found.

>>

>>I have managed to find to 2 runtime DLL's but can't find the following

>>files (list taken from the Winhelp FAQ :

>>

>>  FORAGE.EXE

>>  (FORAGEP.EXE)

>>  W_SCAN.EXE

>>  INDEX.EXE

>>  (GETMLT.EXE)

>>

Got them this week from:

ftp.netcom.com  /pub/noring/WinHelp/ftskit.zip

>The Windows NT SDK, as available from the level II MSDN CD ROM's

>is, AFAIK, the only current MS source for these files.  (FORAGE.EXE

>is also in the Universal Help Kit (?) on the MSDN level I CD).

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Sherry Oliver

Manager, Technology Research

The Hiram Walker Group

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WinHelp 4.0 point sizes

Message-ID: <UdatuALFBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>

Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 21:26:28 +1200

Organization: Olson Software

Lines: 25

Ralph: If you are reading this - why only two points (or maybe the article

didn't disclose everything?)?  Why not allow it to be x percent bigger

like in MediaView?

>> Most bitmap fonts only come in increments of 2. Scale a 10 pt font

by 10% and you may not see a difference. Scale a 12 point font and you

will. Which means if you have a title in 12 point, and body text in 10,

then scaling 10% may result in two 10 point fonts. A lot of 3.1 help

files used bitmap fonts (which arguably are more legible on screen), so

rather then wreak havoc with these files, we choose to limit the range

to sizes that are likely to work. We also made the assumption that

users would not want to change help files much more then the rest of

their system. If the user needs a 25% larger font to read help files,

then chances are, they need larger fonts for the entire system, and

Windows 95 provides for that. I.e., WinHelp 4.0 provides you a +-2

point range over whatever you have scaled fonts to in the system.

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help menu option in OWL2

OK, i finally managed to figure out how to create a .hlp

file.

But how do i associate this .hlp file with the "help" in

my menu? I'm using OWL 2.0, and i can find nothing about

this in any of the manuals or in the online help. Is there

any windows API function, or OWL function for this? How do

i (or do i?) call winhelp?

Thanks for any 'help'

clark

clump@cs.mcgill.ca

ps: On a related note, does anyone know where i might find

specifications for .RTF files?

ObBorlandBash: They really do have the most miserable indices

i've ever used. This has been true since Turbo C 1.0, and now

their online help inherits this property.

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In article <s.panter.100.000772E5@dce.vic.gov.au>

           s.panter@dce.vic.gov.au "Steven Panter" writes:

>This isn't really a winhelp programming question, but a support question.

>This has probably been covered before, but my access to the news is sporadic

>and I have not seen  any solutions.

>

>Occassionally, I come across pc's where the familiar green of jump and

>definition points are as black as the text.  This change of colour does not

>seem to be the result of anything deliberate on the users part.  For example,

>I was installing some software today, and my help files jump points are now

>black whereas they used to be green.

>

>Can anyone suggest a solution, other than reinstalling Windows?  Any ideas as

>to what is causing the problem would also be interesting.

The default colours are set in the VIDEO driver. You'll get black jumps,

for example on all 24-bit display drivers, due to a bug in Windows.

You can override the default colours by specifying your own in WIN.INI.

I don't know the settings off the top of my head, but I'm sure that

somebody else will tell you. John?

Chris

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Looking for Help Authoring Tools

In article <1994Oct30.040932.17490@emr1.emr.ca>, jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) says:

>

>>help freely to all comers without un-seemly self promotion. In this case the

>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>

>        SURELY YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS?!  How can you say that with a

>        straight face?  Every time he posts, his .sig contains his

>        advertisement.  Most of his answers find a way to mention his

>        product and if there isn't a way, he'll find a way.

>

The .sig I don't really mind, I never look at them. It's too bad some people like to

waste bandwidth with such long cutesy sigs, but self interest wins over all for some people.

Oft repeated posts that are nothing more than a sales pitch for one product probably go  over

the line. The INET is successful and useful because it is inexpensive, widely accessible, and

FREE of a constant barrage of commercial messages. Lets keep the group focused on help tools,

not HWA.

>        Stefan is using this group as his own personal BBS for

>        announcing (and pre-announcing) his new gizmos and

>        buttons and new releases.  The dominant theme in this group

>        always seems to be HWA in some shape or form.

>

>        Give it a rest, Stefan.  It is sufficient to post an

>        announcement of the newest version to the .announce group.

>        I'm sure your product is in the FAQ.  If you were truly

>        unbiased and helpful, a response to a request for information

>        on help tools could be handled with a pointer to the

>        winhelp FAQ.

>

I think people looking for help tools, want a listing of all available tools to evaluate. Meybe

grouped by category or type of tool. (i.e. Large project tools; small project tools) I expended

many hours during my recent evaluation just trying to find out what was on the market.

It would have been nice to see a weekly post of a comprehensive listing of all known tools and

the tools focus, or major features, and the location of demo version. I think this is a little more in

 the spirit of INET, and would have the benefit of minimizing the need for some authors to

 constantly post ads in the guise of answers to questions.

Given the lack of a weekly summary, It is probably a benefit to potential users for an author to

post early and often.  I may grumble, but I really want to know what is out there.  I really appreciated

the e-mail form rstpierr@fox.nstn.ns.ca regarding his 'Help Assistant' tool. It wasn't on my list, so I

will take a look at it. If I am going to pick the best tool, (easiest to use, needed features, most flexibility,

best directions, best output, etc) then I need to know what is on the market. Someone's opinion of

"Use this, it's Great!" is sort of like saying "Buy a Ford, Theyre Great!" I would rather do my own

evaluation. (In other words Stefan, a brief what and where is adequate)

I think HWA is one of the better tools I looked at. It received my best marks for documentation. But...

I found it difficult to add jumps. VB HelpWriter (fbrunn@netcom.com) was easier to use for me.

Both tools were professionally done and resulted in a quality helpfile. I haven't made a concrete buy

decision yet, but I'm tilting.

(Stefan: Why did you use 4 tabs and a tiny, tiny spin ctrl in the pref. dialog? Why not just use 5 tabs?)

-Garrett

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Out of Memory Error

In article <tbarratt.77.0008A029@fox.nstn.ns.ca> tbarratt@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Taylor Barratt) writes:

>Oh yeah...silly me I forgot to mention. My .rtf is just over 2megs and I'm

>using hot spot graphics. I was gonna take this over to work and try it on our

>32meg Pentium...but I fear extended memory isn't the problem.

>

I am sure you are probably referencing your graphics, but just in case

you aren't.  There is a limit to your paragragh size--32,000

bytes--including pasted graphics.

I believe if you go over this size you will get an out-of-memory

error.  I've never gotten it personally so I'm guessing on this one.

Lilly-Anne

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Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

>Could anyone help me with a glitch I've run into?  I am trying to make

>the Contents button on Viewer and Help files jump to a secondary window.

>I have been using a format like ChangeButtonBinding("btn_contents",

>"JumpId(`title.hlp', `name_of_contents>cont')")  cont would be the

>secondary window in question.

Try....

"JumpID(`title.hlp>cont',`name_of_contents')"

Hope this helps!

Bev Freed

Advanced Technology Group, CLR Fast-Tax

Dallas, TX

e-mail: bfreed@fasttax.com, bev@nss.org

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in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly.

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John Grant (jagrant@emr1.emr.ca) wrote:

: 	Stefan is using this group as his own personal BBS for

                                              ^^^^^^^^

: 	announcing (and pre-announcing) his new gizmos and

: 	buttons and new releases.  The dominant theme in this group

: 	always seems to be HWA in some shape or form.

...

: 	If people are discussing your product with respect to

: 	other products, then let them discuss it in peace, without

: 	you rushing in and hijacking the discussion and turning

                           ^^^^^^^^^

: 	it around into a commercial for your product.  Listen to what

: 	people are saying.  If they are wrong, then correct them publicly.

: 	Otherwise, keep quiet and let the discussion proceed.

: 	You don't sound particularly unbiased.  It would appear

: 	that Stefan is using this group as his private BBS to service

                                               ^^^^^^^

: 	his customer base and you as a customer are quite happy

: 	to have such BBS access to the author.

All the terms I've highlighted are usually taken to imply that the person

they're being applied to has control over something.  If Stefan were

trying to exercise such control over this newsgroup, they might be

applicable.  If he were to consistently flame competing products, if he

were to intimidate people who were trying to discuss anything other than

HWA, if his messages about HWA were so numerous that news adminstrators

had to set this group up for very short expiration periods, then Stefan

would indeed be out of line.

But none of the above is happening.  I, for one, don't see any

discussions about things unrelated to HWA being stifled or crowded out by

Stefan's messages.  I don't see anything *inherently* wrong in promoting

oneself or one's creations.  I do see *certain ways* of promotion as

wrong (such as constantly trying to one-up others, or spamming a whole

hierarchy).  But those are wrong, not because they promote someone or

something, but because they make it more difficult for others to use the

net in the process.  Stefan's promotion isn't doing that.

Most of the arguments I've seen against advertising anywhere in Usenet

fall into two categories.  The first involves (IMHO very legitimate)

concerns that Usenet should not be beholden to any particular commercial

interests.  This is the issue of control.  But shareware authors are hardly

in a position to exercise such control.  The real danger comes when

commercial organizations try to invest their money in the net and expect

control in return for that investment.

The second category of argument is, IMHO, not much different from

something that can be seen all the time in groups like

rec.music.industrial, where fans of a particular band devote a great deal

of bandwidth to complaints that "posers" are starting to buy the band's

records, wear the band's T-shirts, and go to the band's concerts.  The

complaint really boils down to "we want to feel like an elite, and we

can't do that if the uninitiated start walking on our territory."  All

too often, "we've got something special that we don't want to lose"

really means "we want to feel special because we've got something that

other's don't."

Most, if not all, of us know enough to round up the appropriate number of

Na+ and Cl- ions when we see the author of a product talking about it,

and we probably put more stock in the reports of a satisfied customer

than in the claims of an author.  That's as it should be.  If we were to

forbid authors from promoting their own products, though, we'd actually

be giving them an incentive to cheat and have "plants" post laudatory

descriptions of those products without indentifying their affiliations.

This would hurt the honest authors and benefit the dishonest ones.

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In article <G4NuuAsKBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>, stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

> In <1994Nov1.134636.5510@ludens> kunszabo@ludens.elte.hu writes:

> >Hi,

>

> >Could somebody help to me how can i create WinHelp (.HLP) files?

>

> >Is it possible to download any info from internet?

>

> You can download quite a few tools from ftp.cica.indiana.edu -

> I'm sure you'll find a tool you like.

>

> Our tool, HWA, includes a tutorial which will help you get to

> know how to create help files, I'm sure other tools do also.

>

> ...Stefan

>

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>    Olson Software                Compuserve: 100352,1315

>    Ask about Help Writer's Assistant for Windows - the visual

>    and easy way to write Windows Help files.

>    (HWAB51_1.ZIP and HWAB51_2.ZIP on ftp.cica.indiana.edu)

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Very smoothly done,Dude!

This is exactly what I meant by my 'value added' comments. Kudos.

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WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

In article <289_9411032203@ima.infomail.com>,

Kevin McLeod <Kevin.McLeod@hub.ima.infomail.com> wrote:

| Recently, in the alt.hypertext usegroup, I was lurking through a discussion

| that touched on the fact that winhelp is a subset of the MS multi-media

| viewer engine (API or whatever).  I am a person that has translated some

| static administrative regulations from text to hypertext using the WinHelp

| engine, but my curiosity has been piqued by this recent revelation.

|

| Can someone please tell me in what way are winhelp and MM viewer related?

| What would I need to do to translate a winhelp-ready RTF file into something

| more, using winhelp's added capabilities?

WinHelp, MM Viewer, and MediaView all started from the same code base a

number of years ago, and as such share much of the viewing system for

layout of topics. One of the goals of WinHelp 4.0 was to provide the

majority of multimedia functionality that you currently can only get

with Viewer and MediaView. This includes support for MultiMedia

commands (AVI, WAV, etc.) plus 256 and 24-bit graphics (and full-text

search, which isn't really multimedia). Hopefully, that will narrow

your choices to 2: MediaView if you want a completely customized UI and

want to write the code to do that; WinHelp for everybody else.

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Kevin.McLeod@hub.ima.infomail.com (Kevin McLeod) writes:

>Can someone please tell me in what way are winhelp and MM viewer related?

>What would I need to do to translate a winhelp-ready RTF file into something

>more, using winhelp's added capabilities?

About all you have to do is replace the winhelp project file (.hpj) with

a multimedia viewer "project" file (.mvp if I remember correctly).  When

I did this with a project of mine, the .rtf files were 100% compatible.

Simply by recompiling, I had full text search in my former winhelp file :)

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RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

Greg --

IMO, Doc2Help is superior by a long shot. Although the two programs offer

a lot ofsimilar capabilities, D2H has two major advantages right off the bat:

1) Just riding with the built-in defaults, your first draft of a D2H

project will be a whole lot more handsome than the same project done in

RoboHelp. Non-scrolling regions and clean (non-Courier) fonts are

automatic. Of course you can control these things in RoboHelp, but why

should you have to do extra work that should be automatic?

2) D2H's hierarchization scheme is by far the simplest of any product I've

seen -- no need to link contents to topic and topic to contents. Just code

lines in your doc with a one-press hot key and the magic macros take care

of the rest.

3) D2H won't make you bump file handles up to a million just to compile

a simple project.

4) I'm not positive about this, but I believe you have to purchase add-in

modules for RoboHelp if you want to incorporate video. D2H has .AVI

support built in.

I'm just one guy, but I'll tell you. The two weeks I spent evaluating

RoboHelp are not among my fondest memories.

-- Scot Hacker

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Out of Memory Error (I Beg to differ you all)

>You might have a bad RTF code in one of your sources, try to copy the

>file to the clipboard and paste it into a new word document, and re-

>save it.

>You might also have a storage problem, if the temp environment

>variable points to a directory that does not have a lot of storage

>space on it, the help compiler might have funny problems when it

>creates the help files. Try to set the temp variable to a directory

>that has a small number of files, on a drive that has a lot of free

>space.

>Hope this helps.

>Ron.

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I tried to compile it on a Pentium 60 with 600megs free and 32 megs ram and I

got the same error in DOS, WINDOWS 3.1, WINDOWS NT. I'm going to try your

suggestion of copying to the clipboard and back and removing my non-hotspot

bitmaps and make references instead.

Thanks for your help.

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DocToHelp - where?

"I Anderson" <walkermartyn@cix.compulink.co.uk> writes:

>improvements over v1.5 but still runs like a Dog. (A compile of a 350

>Page Help Document takes around 2 days !! on a 486 dx 50

Odd. Such a document takes me about an hour or less on a DX2/66 with

8MB RAM. Is there something unusual about your project or your machine?

You should look into  this, as it sounds a litte scary!

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For Sale: RoboHelp 2.6

RoboHelp 2.6, disk packet still sealed.  $100.

Reply by e-mail please.

- Scot Hacker

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Horizontal Scroll Bar in ListBox using BorlandC++

    Hi,

  I am trying to create a listbox using OWL. I want the

listbox to have a horizontal scroll bar. I have tried

setting the Attr.Style member to WS_HSCROLL but this

does'nt work. In the examples in Borland there is a listbox

which has a horizontal scroll bar. However this was a multicolumn

listbox. My question is Can one create a single column listbox

with a horizontal scroll bar?

  Thanks,

  Sharad Sogani

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s.panter@dce.vic.gov.au (Steven Panter) writes:

>Occassionally, I come across pc's where the familiar green of jump and

>definition points are as black as the text.  This change of colour does not

>seem to be the result of anything deliberate on the users part.  For example,

>I was installing some software today, and my help files jump points are now

>black whereas they used to be green.

Please post any solutions, I'm experiencing this strange problem myself.

Ever since I installed Word 6 my JumpColor's etc. appear with the standard

Windows textcolor. Changing the values in WIN.INI or WINHELP.INI has *no*

effect! I've tried to install a new copy of WINHELP.EXE, but this didn't

have any effect either, clearly the problem lies elsewhere...

Henrik S

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Executing a windows program from another one.

Hello wizards!

I would like to be able to execute a windows application from

within another windows application.  The only 2 commands I've seen

that would do this are:

system("...");

But this seems to drop to DOS before running it, so this is not good

since the applicatuion wants to run in windows.  I also tried saying

something like "win application_to_run", but windows complained that

it was oin memroy already.

Then there's spawn(), but I can't get the sucker to work.  For some

reason it doesn't find it at link time.  It seems that I should  be

using a "flat model", but the docs don't say anything about it.

(They say that I need the flat model, but nothing else).  So, what's

the flat model??  And how can I get to it?

Of course, if there's a more conventional way to start a win app,

please let me know!!  I'm using TC++ 3.1 if that makes a difference.

I also apologize, if this is the wrong group to post, but it seemed

to be the best.

Thanks much for your help!

Roberto

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help menu option in OWL2

In <39e9lg$7gh@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> clump@andes.cs.mcgill.ca (c. verbrugge) writes:

>OK, i finally managed to figure out how to create a .hlp

>file.

>But how do i associate this .hlp file with the "help" in

>my menu? I'm using OWL 2.0, and i can find nothing about

>this in any of the manuals or in the online help. Is there

>any windows API function, or OWL function for this? How do

>i (or do i?) call winhelp?

Yes - there is an API call called WinHelp.  There should

be an OWL wrapper of this function which will make life

easier for you.  The Windows SDK help file (included with

BC++) will give you the parameters for this.

>ps: On a related note, does anyone know where i might find

>specifications for .RTF files?

I would suggest you don't write your RTF files manually.  It

is a huge pain!  Either use a word processor (e.g: Microsoft

Word) or a WYSIWYG help authoring tool (e.g: HWA).

Cheers,

Stefan

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help files losing colour

In article <hshon.784049154@login.dknet.dk> hshon@login.dknet.dk (Henrik Sahlholt) writes:

>s.panter@dce.vic.gov.au (Steven Panter) writes:

>>Occassionally, I come across pc's where the familiar green of jump and

>>definition points are as black as the text.  This change of colour does not

>>seem to be the result of anything deliberate on the users part.  For example,

>>I was installing some software today, and my help files jump points are now

>>black whereas they used to be green.

>Please post any solutions, I'm experiencing this strange problem myself.

>Ever since I installed Word 6 my JumpColor's etc. appear with the standard

>Windows textcolor. Changing the values in WIN.INI or WINHELP.INI has *no*

>effect! I've tried to install a new copy of WINHELP.EXE, but this didn't

>have any effect either, clearly the problem lies elsewhere...

It has to do with the video card.  My PC at work does this in the high-res

modes, but not in standard VGA.

Derek MacEwen

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Executing a windows program from another one.

In article <39hp5f$fim@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, Rob wrote:

>

> Hello wizards!

>

> 	I would like to be able to execute a windows application from

> within another windows application.  The only 2 commands I've seen

> that would do this are:

>

> system("...");

This is not the right group for the question, please try comp.os.ms-

windows.programmer.misc.

Ron.

- Oh what the hell, look for the WinExec api function for simple spawn

options, or for Yaniv Golan's XSpawn for something more sophisticated.

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In article <783900811snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk writes:

>In article <s.panter.100.000772E5@dce.vic.gov.au>

>           s.panter@dce.vic.gov.au "Steven Panter" writes:

>

>>This isn't really a winhelp programming question, but a support question.

>>This has probably been covered before, but my access to the news is sporadic

>>and I have not seen  any solutions.

>>

>>Occassionally, I come across pc's where the familiar green of jump and

>>definition points are as black as the text.  This change of colour does not

>>seem to be the result of anything deliberate on the users part.  For example,

>>I was installing some software today, and my help files jump points are now

>>black whereas they used to be green.

>>

>>Can anyone suggest a solution, other than reinstalling Windows?  Any ideas as

>>to what is causing the problem would also be interesting.

>

>The default colours are set in the VIDEO driver. You'll get black jumps,

>for example on all 24-bit display drivers, due to a bug in Windows.

>You can override the default colours by specifying your own in WIN.INI.

>I don't know the settings off the top of my head, but I'm sure that

>somebody else will tell you. John?

They are documented in the WININI.WRI file in your ...\windows

directory:

[Windows Help]

JumpColor= r,g,b

PopupColor=r,g,b

MacroColor=r,g,b

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Multimedia Viewer anyone?

Thanks, Ron and Steve,  I'll give it atry.

Shraga

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Full Text search in Help files

Could any one please suggest how to implement (What tools I need) to provide a

full text search in my windows.hlp files. I have completed the help file and

now the users would like to get a full text searching capability rather them

the limited search capability build within the help file.

Please e-mail to chshah@engprn.mobil.com

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HLP -> WWW?

Is there a converter than will convert my help file to an html doc, for WWW use?  I'd like to keep my links and graphics and all....

Jeff

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WHAT6 WHPE

 I get this same "unable to compile" message!  When I shell to DOS and use hcp, either with RTF or HPJ, there is no problem.  What a useless message!  Honestly, I can see that it didn't compile...how about some info now?

                                          Jeff

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In article <39k4ce$i6i@jaws.cs.hmc.edu>,

 <jrice@pluto.pomona.claremont.edu> wrote:

>	Is there a converter than will convert my help file to an html doc, for WWW use?  I'd like to keep my links and graphics and all....

>	Jeff

Out HLPDK/PA tool will help you with some of the conversion process using

the included WinHelp -> HLPDK tool included. The output of this tool is a

HLPDK document that can be converted to several targets, HTML and OS/2

IPF included.

Ron.

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Help Compiler

There are several non-standard commads in an RTF compiler

that the help compiler uses - notably the footnotes.

Can someone point me to the documentation on the HC31 help compiler,

or explain what the different footnotes are.

Please e-mail the answer becuase our news feed does not always work

that work.

Thanks

Peter

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Jim Michel in VB

        I'm trying to translate a routine from pascal to visual

basic - so far, without much success.  It appears in Jim

Michel's book, A Developer's Guide to Wihelp.exe, from pages

278 to 286 in chapter 11, Adding a Multi-File Keyword Search

Facility.

        I have many questions but will focus on one here.

Michel says that a help file has an internal "file system."

Among the internal "files" is |KWBTREE, which includes a list of the

keywords in that help file. |KWBTREE consists of a 40-byte

header, followed by 2048 byte "pages" that contain the keyword strings

and pointers to the topics referenced by the keywords.  Each

page consists of 6 bytes of header information, followed by as

many keyword entries as will fit in the remainder of the block.

(I'm quoting, here).  Each keyword entry consists of the keyword

(a nul-terminated string) and 6 bytes of pointer information.

        So far so good.  I can open a help file in a binary

editor like hedit.exe and sure enough find |KWBTREE right near

the beginning.  However, the actual list of keywords appears

near the end of the help file, after all the topics' text.

        The header of "|KWBTREE" always seems to begin

;)....i24... but I can't be certain of that.

        I knew that C would be as incomprehensible as sanskrit

to me, but I mistakenly thought that I'd be able to make some

sense of pascal.  Unfortunately, it's as incomprehensible as -

as - Hebrew :-).

        Here's a few lines of Michel's code that I can't

make sense of(page 283):

f := HfsOpenSz (HelpFName, fFSOpenReadOnly);

If f = 0 Then    {continue on error }

   Continue;

{Open the keywords file in the help file }

hKw := HfOpenHfs (f, '|KWBTREE', fFSOpenReadOnly);

If hKw <> 0 Then Begin

   Size := LcbSizeHf (hKw);

Can somebody tell me what's going on, and translate this

in Visual Basic 3.0 for me?  I'm mystified.

The first line seems to open up a help file read only.

But a function name such as HfsOpenSz seems to do more.Hex

file, Help file?

Presumably if f = 0, then the help file couldn't be opened.

Why is he continuing?

Now we get to the real mystery.  What the heck is hKw?  Can

Michel *really* be opening a file within a file?  I can

understand him getting a pointer somewhere and going there,

or looking for a particular string, but how can he actually

be using another open statement.

Why is he looking for |KWBTREE?  The actual keywords are

someplace else in the file.  Obviously, there's much I don't

understand.

Lastly (for now), what's LcbSizeHf doing?

Thanks muchly.

-dennis turner

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>In Visual Basic, I'm using a List Box to try to display text such as:

>   There are 10 days until Dan's Birthday

>   There are 30 days until the Visa Bill is due

>But I want it to automatically sort by the number of days it says are

>left. How can this best be accomplished? Do I need to have it write the

>sorted info to temporary disk space first and then read it into the list

>box?  Any suggestions or comments welcome, as I am a beginner.  Thanks

Prepend the number of days to each message and load them into a sorted list

box. Then loop through the messages removing the prepended days. The list will

not resort.

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>Subject: No subject

>In Visual Basic, I'm using a List Box to try to display text such as:

>   There are 10 days until Dan's Birthday

>   There are 30 days until the Visa Bill is due

>But I want it to automatically sort by the number of days it says are

>left. How can this best be accomplished? Do I need to have it write the

>sorted info to temporary disk space first and then read it into the list

>box?  Any suggestions or comments welcome, as I am a beginner.  Thanks

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In article <lBx0BiEJD3xB4iol06b@panix.com>, rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>>

> Jim Mischel's book (The developer's guide to Winhelp.exe) includes

> such a utility, and all the source code to it.

>

> It is a great book, and well worth it's $40 price.

>

> Ron.

> --

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>

The trouble with Mischel's find dll is that the reader has to

type in the keyword.  It doesn't scroll through a list of keywords

as with regular search.  Furthermore, it allows a search through

several help files that have been grouped together in winhelp.ini.

I'd like to alter it - to produce the scrollable list, and to

maintain the groups of target help files in an application ini

file.

The trouble is, as I've actually at last gone through the book,

is that the internal file structure only seems accessible to

a dll.  I'm a visual basic programmer, unfortunately.  I'vbe

read enough that there are utilities that can enable visual

basic to access what visual basic is not supposed to be able

to access.

Do any of you know a way to get the pointers to winhelps

internal filestructure and callbacks in visual basic?

My cousin - who is a *real* programmer - networks between

the court system, interior ministry and police - says there

is.  He won't tell me how, but promises that if I can do it

he'll buy me dinner at the Yemenite Step.  Humus, malaweh,

tehina, hamutzim, olive oil, etc., all on him.

Can somebody give me a clue?

-dennis turner

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In article <h2DuuAPCBh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>, stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz (Stefan Olson) writes:

> In <393qs8$6lr@yeshua.marcam.com> colson@marcam.com (Garrett Colson) writes:

>>(Stefan: Why did you use 4 tabs and a tiny, tiny spin ctrl in the pref.

>>dialog? Why not just use 5 tabs?)

>

> We actually use 5 tabs - one just happens to be hidden.  You will

> find that a plan similar to this tiny spin ctrl is used in MFC 3.0

> (included in Visual C++ 2.0), so you may see some applications

> using these in the near future.  5 tabs wouldn't fit in the dialog -

> in that case our tabbed dialogs create a spin control.

>

> Cheers,

> Stefan

>

I find that spin control to be one of the very few irritants in

hwa.  C'mon Stefan, give us two rows of tabs.

Other than that, I manage and expand a large information system

using Stefan's product - it includes well over 100 rtf files and

about 30 help files - the number will get larger.  It's updated

constantly.  Many, many of my jumps are between help files.

I've found hwa's scheme for doing that - pressing Cntrol-M after

selecting text and popping to a scrollable macro list, to be

extremely easy.  When I click JumpIF two text boxes appear,

one for the help file to jump to and the other for the context

id of the topic to jump to.  Hwa is stuffed with conveniences

like this.

It's important to note that I'm a real ignoramous about programming

and the winhelp engine.  I'm almost completeley content oriented.

Yet I've had very few problems creating and managing this system

using hwa.

But, c'mon Stefan.  That spin control is an inconvenience.  We need

all five tabs on one row, or for you to put them on two rows.

-dennis turner

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I am seeking some advice on applications designed to assist

developers in creating Windows style Help systems in conjunction

with User Manuals in Microsoft Word.

Two applications are under consideration:

        RoboHELP for $435

        Doc-To-Help for $249

Both of these products work with Microsoft Word for Windows

(Versions 2 or 6) to create both a User Manual and a Help system

from the same text.

I have read a little about each one, but not enough to know what

(if any) significant differences exist between them.

Does anyone out there have any experience with either of these

two products?  Is RoboHELP significantly better than Doc-To-Help

(enough to justify its significantly higher price)?

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I need Help (don't we all!)

In article <CyK2A6.LJ5@tc.fluke.COM>, lil@tc.fluke.COM (Lilly-Anne Wilder) writes:

|>

|> I'm hoping someone can help me with a little problem I'm working on.

|>

|> I'm writing a stand-alone help file for some internal processes. We

|> use a windows based application to access an IBM mainframe to do these

|> processes.

Don't know if this will help you, but there is a product called

WYSI-Help that lets you tie context-sensitive help to an application

WITHOUT needing the source code.

It works by using a run-time "spy" in the background.  You can tie your

own help to dialogs and pmenus of 3rd-party software.

I've never tried this, but I have the brochure.  You can call UDICO at

1-800-289-1948.  The brochure I have advertises a price of $198 ($129

for STC members).

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  And yet I recognize my mouth says things that aren't so wise."

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Pardon me if my terminology is incorrect.

I have an application (Oracle Forms) that allows me to activate

Word, Excel, etc through a dde.execute command.

Everything works fine **on the first attempt**, but subsequent

attmepts to activate the application fail.  For example, if I want to

open Word and have word open up FileA.doc, the first time it

works.  If I close Word and try this again (while remaining in Forms,

 ie not leaving Forms and reloading), Word opens but does not

open the file.  The same is true for all of the apps.  If I am opening

a help file, it works the first time, but on subsequent attempts

it fails to find the proper help file.

I am thinking that perhaps I need some kind of .dll to let Forms know

that the procedure/file has been completely terminated.  How do I correct this

situation?  Can anyone offer some ideas?

I appreciate the help very much.

Bill Kurtz

AT&T GIS

william.kurtz@daytonoh.ncr.com

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Greetings WinHelp Mavens!

I'm planning a large Windows Help project that covers several

related but sold-separately software products. The entire family

of products is represented by a "common" help file to which all

users will have access. Each individual product a user

buys comes with its own product-specific help file. I would like

to know how to provide users with conditional jumps from the

common help file to product-specific help files provided they

have been installed.

So when a user wants to jump from the "common" help file to a

product-specific help file, I'd like to execute a macro that will

either display the appropriate help file (if the customer has

installed that executable program) or display a generic message

telling users that they need to purchase the program to get the

help. The macro would do the following: if help file A exists,

display topic A in help file A, otherwise, display topic X in

current help file.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Mike Cohen

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In <bieletz.1.0059F385@wi.uni-muenster.de> bieletz@wi.uni-muenster.de (Stefan Bieletzke) writes:

>Hi,

> I am concerned in a project about multimedia helpfiles for use in computer

>aided learning/teaching for students.

[...]

>How can I tell my help file, that I wish to show my defined button in the

>menu bar ? Avoiding  (!) to click first on a button in the work area, which

>says 'click this button to get a button in the menu bar' ? I want the button

>to 'arise and vanish away', depending on the topic which is shown in the work

>area. Maybe someone has solved this problem sucessful and likes to give me a

>hint.

This is quite involved - maybe more involved depending on your help authoring

tool.  We wanted to do a similar thing in the HWA help file - in our case we

wanted an Up button to be disabled in some topics and enabled in others.  To

do this we put the following macro into the [Config] section of the HPJ file:

---

[Config]

[...]

CreateButton("btn_up", "&Up", "JumpContents(qchPath)")

---

qchPath is the actual path of the help file - this means that if you change the

help file name you don't have to worry about changing the file name in this

section.

In each topic where we wanted to disable the topic we had the following entry

macro (! footnote outside HWA):

---

DisableButton("btn_up")

---

In each topic where we wanted to disable the topic we had the following entry

macro (! footnote outside HWA):

---

EnableButton("btn_up")

---

In your case things are quite a bit more complicated - I would suggest that you

follow a scheme such as the one above.

If you try using CreateButton and DestroyButton entry macros you will find that

if the button is already created an error message will be displayed to your users.

What you need to do is ensure that you don't create or destroy a button if the

button has already been created/destroyed.

So your config section should look like this:

--

CreateButton("btn_do", "&Do this", "MyStuff()"):SaveMark("Button Mark")

--

MyStuff is whatever you want to do.  SaveMark will ensure that you can tell if

the button has been created.

Your entry macros should look like this (this is for a topic where you want

to delete the button):

--

IfThen(IsMark(`Button Mark'), `DestroyButton(`btn_do');DeleteMark(`Button Mark')')

--

It checks if the button exists (IsMark) then destroys the button and destroys the

mark so that you know the button doesn't exist.

Your entry macros should look like this (this is for a topic where you want

to add the button):

--

IfThen(Not(IsMark(`Button Mark')), `CreateButton(`btn_do', `&Do this', `MyStuff()'):SaveMark(`Button Mark')')

--

It checks that the button does not exist (Not(IsMark)) and creates the button and

the mark if it doesn't exist.

I hope this is of assistance to you.

Disclaimer: I have not tested this - if things don't operate as the documentation

says they should (or if I have made a mistake :-()) then play around - there will

be a work around or fix.

Cheers,

Stefan

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In article <39m3gb$ej9$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com>,

Michael Cohen  <74507.54@CompuServe.COM> wrote:

>Greetings WinHelp Mavens!

>

>I'm planning a large Windows Help project that covers several

>related but sold-separately software products. The entire family

>of products is represented by a "common" help file to which all

>users will have access. Each individual product a user

>buys comes with its own product-specific help file. I would like

>to know how to provide users with conditional jumps from the

>common help file to product-specific help files provided they

>have been installed.

>So when a user wants to jump from the "common" help file to a

>product-specific help file, I'd like to execute a macro that will

>either display the appropriate help file (if the customer has

>installed that executable program) or display a generic message

>telling users that they need to purchase the program to get the

>help. The macro would do the following: if help file A exists,

>display topic A in help file A, otherwise, display topic X in

>current help file.

>Any help on this would be appreciated.

>

WinHelp offers the "IfThenElse" macro, which can do this

provided you have a function in a DLL somwhere that returns

TRUE or FALSE if a file exists.  The Win 3.1 API has OpenFile,

but unfortunately that requires an OFSTRUCT FAR * parameter,

which you cannot easily fake from a WinHelp macro, and it

returns -1 on error, which is also unfortunate.

Using standard WinHelp, I see no way out but writing the (trivial)

function in a DLL, which has to be included with your product.

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In article <9411020957.AA42111@198.92.15.143> lmandavi@cisco.com

(Lavanya K. Mandavilli) writes:

>How do you enable search across several independent help project files

>for WINHELP?

>Is there a utility or product that will enable us to do this? Any

>suggestions or info would be greatly appreciated.

>Lavanya K. Mandavilli

>Cisco Systems Inc.,

>lmandavi@cisco.com

Virtual Media has just released a product called Hypershelf that does this.

The product has a nice interface and some very sophisticated search tools.

contact their distributor, DEK Software International (609-424-6565) for

further information.

Happy authoring,

Matt Abe

LaserMaster Corporation

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Michael Cohen (74507.54@CompuServe.COM) wrote:

: So when a user wants to jump from the "common" help file to a

: product-specific help file, I'd like to execute a macro that will

: either display the appropriate help file (if the customer has

: installed that executable program) or display a generic message

: telling users that they need to purchase the program to get the

: help. The macro would do the following: if help file A exists,

: display topic A in help file A, otherwise, display topic X in

: current help file.

I'm not sufficiently up on Help macros to give a technical answer to

this, but consider...

Why not include the help files for *all* your products in the

distribution for each of them, and let the help files for the unpurchased

products market them for you?  It's not going to make piracy any easier

(since someone with a pirated copy of another of your products is going

to have the help file anyway; help files aren't like paper manuals in

this respect).

Another possibility would be to include "promotional" versions of the

other help files in your distribution; you'd just have to set your

installer up to make sure it won't overwrite an existing "real" help file

with a "promotional" help file when the user installs a subsequent

program.  IMHO, though, including the real live help files from the other

programs would help your users develop the feeling that they need the

other programs.

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Winhelp FTP Site

Could anyone provide the URL for Winhelp's FTP site(s).

Thanks in advance...

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In article <1994Nov6.224355.377@vms.huji.ac.il>,

 <tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il> wrote:

>In article <lBx0BiEJD3xB4iol06b@panix.com>, rloewy@panix.com (Ron Loewy) writes:

>>>

>> Jim Mischel's book (The developer's guide to Winhelp.exe) includes

>> such a utility, and all the source code to it.

>>

>> It is a great book, and well worth it's $40 price.

>>

>> Ron.

>> --

>> Ron Loewy, Author of HLPDK, HLPDK/PA and PASTERP  | rloewy@panix.com

>>

>

>

>

>I'd like to alter it - to produce the scrollable list, and to

>maintain the groups of target help files in an application ini

>file.

>

>The trouble is, as I've actually at last gone through the book,

>is that the internal file structure only seems accessible to

>a dll.  I'm a visual basic programmer, unfortunately.  I'vbe

>read enough that there are utilities that can enable visual

>basic to access what visual basic is not supposed to be able

>to access.

>

>Do any of you know a way to get the pointers to winhelps

>internal filestructure and callbacks in visual basic?

>My cousin - who is a *real* programmer - networks between

>the court system, interior ministry and police - says there

>is.  He won't tell me how, but promises that if I can do it

>he'll buy me dinner at the Yemenite Step.  Humus, malaweh,

>tehina, hamutzim, olive oil, etc., all on him.

>

>Can somebody give me a clue?

>

>-dennis turner

I have heard (But have not witnessed it myself, so you will have to

verify it for yourself) that Desaware or something like that have a tool

that allows you to trap messages and do other funky things from VB. I do

not think that they will allow you to create DLLs from VB, so you still

will not be able to do what you want, but if their tool does, and you are

able to do that, you owe me some Humus :-)

Ron.

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Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

In article <Dd2tuAIABh107h@olson.manawatu.gen.nz>,

Stefan Olson <stefan@olson.manawatu.gen.nz> wrote:

>In <3929kh$5m0@ocean.CAM.ORG> ntworld@CAM.ORG (John Bielby) writes:

>>Could anyone help me with a glitch I've run into?  I am trying to make

>>the Contents button on Viewer and Help files jump to a secondary window.

>>I have been using a format like ChangeButtonBinding("btn_contents",

>>"JumpId(`title.hlp', `name_of_contents>cont')")  cont would be the

>>secondary window in question.

>

>Try using the following macro:

>JumpId(`title.hlp>cont', `name_of_contents')

>

>In the case of JumpID WinHelp wants the secondary window name after

>the filename...

>

>...Stefan

>

Good lord, are we all having the same problem? :-)

Stefan, take a look at this .HPJ entry...

------------------------

[CONFIG]

CreateButton(`glossary_btn', `&Glossary', `JI(`abb.hlp>PictWin', `Topic0000')')

[WINDOWS]

PictWin="Picture Window", (40,120,512,512), 0, , (192,192,192)

-------------------------

-

I am getting Bev Freed's "Bad Window Class, Ignored" error box

upon running this macro.

Still not picking up the problem. Can you help?

-regards

BaDge

<baj7d@virginia.EDU>

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In <1994Nov6.224355.377@vms.huji.ac.il> tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il writes:

>The trouble with Mischel's find dll is that the reader has to

>type in the keyword.  It doesn't scroll through a list of keywords

>as with regular search.  Furthermore, it allows a search through

>several help files that have been grouped together in winhelp.ini.

>I'd like to alter it - to produce the scrollable list, and to

>maintain the groups of target help files in an application ini

>file.

Dennis,

Jim has produced a product called SearchAll - it does *exactly*

what you want.  I'm not actually sure what the price is - but it

would be a lot faster than writing it yourself.  Email me for

contact details.

Cheers,

Stefan

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 header file COMPDDK.H

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 Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

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 winhelp -> text??? help!

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 Available: The Hypertext Demo "A History of the Warfare of Science..."

 winhelp docs to html converters

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 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 Special Characters in Help File

 Where to get HDK?

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 FAQ????

 Multimedia Viewer Development Kit - where?

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 Online Documentation Workshop

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 help compiler

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 secondary help window buttons

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 Special Characters in Help File

 Jump Colors!

 First Post

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 using the ExecProgram macro

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 HCP from Windows

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 real buttons

 Jump Colors!

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 using the ExecProgram macro

 extra spaces after italicized words

 Word 2.0 TOC Style probs.

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 WinHelp File Format

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 WFW6.0 find file problem

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 HC31 out of memory

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 regarding HideMenuBar(),etc

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 Jump Colors!

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 Fonts in WinHelp

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 Hidden paragraph?

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 'what' with german Winword Version 2.0b / 6.0

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 WinHelp() API call

 how to get bmc to work with hc31?

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 WinHelp() API call

 help compiler

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 WinHelp() API call

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 New newsgroup comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

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 WHAT6

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 WHAT6

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 printing out a help file?

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 Help DLLs

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 hlp2doc version 1.22 available

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 Copyright Symbol and others

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 tech writer's style guide for Windows

 tech writer style guide

 QUESTIONS

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 how to get bmc to work with hc31?

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 Floating Table of Contents?

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 HCP causes system integrity violation

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

 tech writer's style guide for Windows

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 HP Editor

 HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

 Winhelp on MAC ?

 Adding help to application

 HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

 Location of What6

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 doc2help vs robohelp

 Floating Table of Contents?

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

 How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

 Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

 Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

 help compiler

 Weird kerning in MS Word screen font

 RoboHelp review in Info World

 tech writer style guide

 "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

 Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

 doc2help vs robohelp

 doc2help vs robohelp

 Windows Application Localization (language change)

 Windows Application Localization (language change)

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 winhelp docs to html converters

 Knowledge Base Files in Help format

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 QUESTIONS

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 Converting a help file to a text file

 HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

 Floating Table of Contents?

 Converting a help file to a text file

 Converting a help file to a text file

 Converting a help file to a text file

 Converting a help file to a text file

 --> Have Saved All Posts -- Anyone Volunteer to Make 'Em Available?

 Little Icons in links

 MS-DOS Windows Help File transfering to Apple Mac Windows Help File

 Win. Help Compiler for Apple < ? >

 WinHelp on MAC?

 doc2help vs robohelp

 Knowledge Base Files in Help format

 help compiler

 Knowledge Base Files in Help format

 wh2hdk does it exist?

 help compiler

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 hlp2doc.zip available

 Third Post

 Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

 Table Dialog?

 Windows help file questions

 WinHelp file size???

 How to write Help files.

 How to write Help files.

 Change default colors?

 Change default colors?

 Change default colors?

 List of Different RTF Compilers?

 Is there a .HLP Editor?

 Is there a .HLP Editor?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups

 Adding help to application

 Adding help to application

 WinHelp File Format

 Unix .hlp viewer

 Macros

 Windows help file questions

 Adding help to application

 help compiler

 Windows help file questions

 Help for both Mac and Windows?

 Change default colors?

 Fonts in winhelp

 *.hpj file stuff

 Windows help file questions

 Tables *WITH* Borders in Winhelp Files? -PLEASE

 Unix .hlp viewer?

 Macros

 Adding help to application

 Help compiler runs out of file handles

 Unix .hlp viewer?

 MicroHelp

 Unix .hlp viewer?

 Visual Help?

 MS *.doc format

 On-Line Books: how to create?

 On-Line Books: how to create?

 help compiler

 Writing Style Guidelines for Online Information Systems

 WinHelp File Format

 help compiler

 Unix .hlp viewer?

 Bugs? or am I missing something?

 Doc-To-Help vs RoboHELP

 Help compiler runs out of file handles

 Windows help file questions

 help compiler

 help compiler

 Windows help file questions

 MicroHelp

 --> Have Saved All Posts -- Anyone Volunteer to Make 'Em Available?

 HP Editor

 Bitmaps in Help Files

 Converting .hlp to OS/2 ipf help format

 Converting .hlp to OS/2 ipf help format

 NEED HELP WITH SCREEN SAVERS

 How to deactivate network messages ?

 BC++ 3.1 for sale

 HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 Gateway test -- please ignore

 Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

 "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

 Winhelp on MAC ?

 HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

 Location of What6

 How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

 Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 doc2help vs robohelp

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

 How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

 Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

 Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

 RoboHelp review in Info World

 tech writer style guide

 "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

 Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

 HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

 doc2help vs robohelp

 Floating Table of Contents?

 doc2help vs robohelp

 Windows Application Localization (language change)

 QUESTIONS

 Weird kerning in MS Word screen font

 Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 The FAQ

 Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

 Floating Table of Contents?

 Converting a help file to a text file

 Floating Table of Contents?

 HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 Converting a help file to a text file

 Winhelp on MAC ?   Yeah but...

 Converting a help file to a text file

 Converting a help file to a text file

 Converting a help file to a text file

 cursor lost

 HCP causes system integrity violation

 Converting a help file to a text file

 Windows Application Localization (language change)

 Little Icons in links

 MS-DOS Windows Help File transfering to Apple Mac Windows Help File

 WinHelp on MAC?

 doc2help vs robohelp

 Title Bar creation?

 Title Bar creation?

 doc2help vs robohelp

 WinHelp on MAC?

 HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

 novell netware and windows interface?

 This Newsgroup

 WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?

 This Newsgroup

 WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?

 Re:This Newsgroup

 WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?

 HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

 Title Bar creation?

 cmsg cancel <1994May26.172853.29746@emr1.emr.ca>

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 How can I create .WMF files from clipboard

 smart quotes

 Converting a help file to a text file

 smart quotes

 WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?

 Help missing characters

 This Newsgroup

 Capture a sequence of screens?

 Smart quotes (was: This Newsgroup)

 Bitmaps in Help Files

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Bitmaps in Help Files

 Bitmaps in Help Files

 Page feed in topic?

 Bitmaps in Help Files

 Bitmaps in Help Files

 Page feed in topic?

 Bitmaps in Help Files

 Page feed in topic?

 Windows Programming

 WANTED: WINDOWS Puzzle Source Code

 tech writer's style guide for Windows

 Capture a sequence of screens?

 This Newsgroup

 Bitmaps print in black/white

 Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 What wrong with my VC++ f/NT

 bmp placement & size

 What wrong with my VC++ f/NT

 bitmap help

 This Newsgroup

 Doc-To-Help and other help programs

 List Reminder

 Can you use a path to find the file? Re: hyperlinks between hlp Files

 Windows & Modem

 what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 'guide' re how-to-create-help

 MWHAG

 Can you use a path to find the file? Re: hyperlinks between hlp Files

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 Can anyone get JumpColors when video driver is > 256 colors

 what6.dot

 How do you make a word-breaker for viewer?

 posting by non-subscriber

 Phone numbers for RoboHelp and ForeHelp

 furture help

 what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 Help files in Chicago

 furture help

 Help files in Chicago

 Doc-To-Help and other help programs

 what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 posting by non-subscriber

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

 Help for NT

 Help files in Chicago

 Help Files for WHAT6

 Mac Viewer ??

 Help for NT

 Help files in Chicago

 what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 Help files in Chicago

 Cue cards

 cmsg cancel <2tcg6e$gm7@hermes.fwi.uva.nl>

 Help files in Chicago

 Mac Viewer ??

 what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 viewer FAQ?

 Doc-To-Help and other help programs

 what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

 DWHAT2.0 for WinWord 6.0 Released

 Printing entire .hlp files

 cmsg cancel <2tcgv0$gq9@hermes.fwi.uva.nl>

 cmsg cancel <Cr7AGH.A83@metrics.com>

 cmsg cancel <Cr865C.BLu@metrics.com>

 Long: Word 2 -> Word 6 (was Re: Help Files for WHAT6)

 macros in [config] section

 WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

 Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

 posting by non-subscriber

 macros in [config] section

 WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

 How to make *.HLP more easy?

 WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

 HC31 has OutOfMemory ...

 HC31 has OutOfMemory ...

 .hlp -> .rtf conversion

 help with ftp.microsoft.com

 Help files in Chicago

 Help files in Chicago

 "Console"-type window for Windows App?

 Printing entire .hlp files

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

 Recommendation on tutorial tools

 what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 'guide' re how-to-create-help

 Cue cards

 Capturing/editing screen shots

 How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

 .hlp -> .rtf conversion

 Capturing/editing screen shots

 Re:This Newsgroup

 How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

 Recommendation on tutorial tools

 Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

 How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

 How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

 Help metrics

 WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

 How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

 MSVC 1.5: WinHelp Question

 what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 pLeasE hELpmE

 MSVC 1.5: WinHelp Question

 Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

 How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

 Context Sensitive

 WINHLP-L Digest - 13 Jun 1994 to 14 Jun 1994 -Reply

 Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

 Digest problem?

 WINHLP-L Digest - 13 Jun 1994 to 14 Jun 1994 -Reply

 Lotus Screencam

 Concurrent Authoring System

 Open Sesame!

 Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

 associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

 Lotus Screencam

 Digest problem?

 Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

 associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

 associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

 MAPI-VIM-API details / White paper

 associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

 smart quotes

 NEED HELP WITH SCREEN SAVERS

 Lotus Screencam

 associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

 Digest problem?

 Using FrameMaker to author help files

 Lotus Screencam

 associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

 Capturing/editing screen shots

 Lotus ScreenCam

 header file COMPDDK.H

 Sound in Help

 Viewer 2.0 experts?

 Lotus Screencam

 Lotus Screencam

 Concurrent Authoring System

 Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

 Help files in Chicago

 List Reminder

 MAPI-VIM-API details / White paper

 Lotus Screencam

 Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

 Fonts in Winhelp

 Open Sesame!

 How do you fix ugly graphics?

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 Capturing/editing screen shots

 Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

 How do you fix ugly graphics?

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 winhelp => html

 TOC windows with help

 Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

 Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

 "Console"-type window for Windows App?

 associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

 Using FrameMaker to author help files

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 Using FrameMaker to author help files

 Using FrameMaker to author help files

 Works for Win and *rtf ?

 Bitmaps print in black/white

 Help i need help on Help files

 pLeasE hELpmE

 Help i need help on Help files

 Searching programs.

 How do you fix ugly graphics?

 Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

 Digest problem?

 WWORKS.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com

 Message Boxes

 Buildtags (was: Using FrameMaker to author help files)

 Message Boxes

 Bitmaps print in black/white

 posting by non-subscriber

 Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

 WWORKS.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com

 TOC windows with help

 Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

 help .dlls

 Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

 Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

 Message Boxes

 help with ftp.microsoft.com

 header file COMPDDK.H

 Viewer 2.0 experts?

 Capturing/editing screen shots

 One warning message per compile?

 One warning message per compile?

 WWORKS.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com

 Converting Ventura codes

 Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

 Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

 Digest problem?

 Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

 Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

 Viewer 2.0 experts?

 WWORKS.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com

 Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

 Ever beamed Win messages at a VB app from Help?

 Bad "Digest"ion

 Your winhlp-l posting re: Sound in Help

 Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

 Warning From uucp

 Warning From uucp

 Warning From uucp

 Warning From uucp

 animations in help files, change symbol of hlp File

 Searching programs.

 Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

 Non-FTP sight for WHAT.ZIP??

 Your removal from the WINHLP-L list

 TOC windows with help

 Need help with bug when COMPRESS=HIGH is set

 What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

 Recommendation on tutorial tools

 .hlp -> .rtf conversion

 What about Ami Pro 2.0?? Is rtf=rtf regardless? :)

 Am I blind or crazy?

 Non-FTP sight for WHAT.ZIP??

 What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

 Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Non-FTP sight for WHAT.ZIP??

 HELP!!!  Word Perfect & Garamond REWARD !

 Missing Bullets in help file - AmiPro 3.01, WinHelp

 Help metrics

 HELP!!!  Word Perfect & Garamond REWARD !

 Printing entire .hlp files

 "Console"-type window for Windows App?

 Sites for GIF Files

 awk and rtf files

 Printing Entire Help Files

 OS/2 and Visual C++ 1.1

 What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

 Missing Bullets in help file - AmiPro 3.01, WinHelp

 ForeHelp

 Dots in Help Compiler

 API doc for DLL

 HTML to RTF/winhelp converter needed!!!

 This newsgroup is for WRITING HELP SYSTEMS, NOT for asking random windows quest

 Where is WHAT6.DOT?

 awk and rtf files

 Anyone hear of a program called "Filewalker"?

 Calling Winhelp.exe to find a specific topic - How do I?

 Pictures in floating text

 Pictures in floating text

 Clickable image maps

 HC vs. HCP   143K difference

 color background for non-scrollable area

 Calling Winhelp.exe to find a specific topic - How do I?

 Pictures in floating text

 Doc-To-Help and other help programs

 color background for non-scrollable area

 Convert Text file to Binary?

 ForeHelp

 Dots in Help Compiler

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 Help! SetIndex and SetContents

 Help! SetIndex and SetContents

 drag and drop?!

 'guide' re how-to-create-help

 Looking for Multimedia Viewer

 Doc-To-Help and other help programs

 header file COMPDDK.H

 FAQ for this group?

 Anybody heard of HelpBreeze ?

 Names of commercial/shareware compilers?

 WHAT6.DOT ftp availability

 Names of commercial/shareware compilers?

 Anybody heard of HelpBreeze ?

 ForeHelp

 Vis C++ Bug?

 Looking for Multimedia Viewer

 Open Sesame!

 Vis C++ Bug?

 Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

 Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 SETWINPOS broken?

 Looking for Multimedia Viewer

 .hpjwin

 Need scroll bars

 tip of the day -- how?

 RTF

 Am I blind or crazy?

 RTF

 Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

 Looking for Multimedia Viewer

 .hpjwin

 RTF

 SETWINPOS broken?

 on-line Tutorial / tour - How?

 Help/Search ... - How can it be done?

 RTF

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

 animations in help files, change symbol of hlp File

 FAQ for this newsgroup

 Help/Search ... - how can it be done?

 --> Password Protect a Help File?

 --> Password Protect a Help File?

 Need scroll bars

 Off-Topic Question

 --> Password Protect a Help File?

 Need scroll bars

 What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

 HELP - Macro Problem

 Am I blind or crazy?

 .hlp -> translated to unix

 HELP - Macro Problem

 hlp2doc 1.32 available

 Trapping Help messages and altering output

 fonts under WinHelp

 FAQ: It's NEW FTP Home.

 Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

 HELP - Macro Problem

 --> Password Protect a Help File?

 utility to check/optimize RAM utilization

 NonScroling regions

 Returning a non-zero value from winhelp?

 FAQ for this newsgroup

 fonts under WinHelp

 Returning a non-zero value from winhelp?

 Lotus AMI Pro??

 Help for converting Japanese rtf file, Please...

 TOC windows with help (+ more!)

 What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

 --> Password Protect a Help File?

 FAQ for this newsgroup

 Minimized Startup of a Help File

 Winhelp on Unix?

 Winhelp on Unix?

 Macro convert

 Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

 Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

 {bmc} bitmaps are HUGE!

 Lotus AMI Pro??

 {bmc} bitmaps are HUGE!

 CFormView, F1-Help does not work?

 WinHelp with Chinese Word 5.0

 Converting .hlp to OS/2 ipf help format

 Minimized Startup of a Help File

 Lotus AMI Pro??

 kill the menu!!

 Windows/DOS Prog Journal - how, where??

 kill the menu!!

 Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

 FTP Site with Windows Source Code in C/C++

 "Console"-type window for Windows App?

 Viewer 2.0 experts?

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

 Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) !!

 NonScroling regions

 Minimized Startup of a Help File

 Minimized Startup of a Help File

 NonScroling regions

 "Console"-type window for Windows App?

 Minimized Startup of a Help File

 Thanks: Am I Blind....

 WINHLP-L Digest - 3 Jun 1994 to 4 Jun 1994

 WINHLP-L Digest - 3 Jun 1994 to 4 Jun 1994

 "Console"-type window for Windows App?

 Minimized Startup of a Help File

 Hypergraph and Secondary window

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 Minimized Startup of a Help File

 WINHLP-L Digest - 3 Jun 1994 to 4 Jun 1994

 "Console"-type window for Windows App?

 Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Minimized Startup of a Help File

 hyperlinks between hlp Files

 tables in help files

 hyperlinks between hlp Files

 Am I blind or crazy?

 hyperlinks between hlp Files

 HelpAuthor problem

 Cross-platform multimedia

 What wrong with my VC++ f/NT

 Erratic behavior of PopUp HotSpots. Any ideas why?

 win /3 doesn't work anymore.

 ROBOHELP 2.5

 Erratic behavior of PopUp HotSpots. Any ideas why?

 ROBOHELP 2.5

 Erratic behavior of PopUp HotSpots. Any ideas why?

 Q: Using Integra VBX with BC 4.0?

 Borland or Microsoft...need help

 Printing entire .hlp files

 wav and winhelp

 "Console"-type window for Windows App?

 Borland or Microsoft...need help

 Printing entire .hlp files

 tables in help files

 tables in help files

 Printing entire .hlp files

 MWHAG

 MWHAG

 MWHAG

 Printing entire .hlp files

 Printing entire .hlp files

 None

 MWHAG

 Borland or Microsoft...need help

 Borland or Microsoft...need help

 Doc-To-Help and other help programs

 Windows & Modem

 Commercial software list request

 WP -> HLP

 win /3 doesn't work anymore.

 Capture a sequence of screens?

 Q: Using Integra VBX with BC 4.0?

 Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

 Help hierarchies

 Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

 Visual Basic: Question

 Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

 Full-text search

 Full-text search

 Memory problem with SMC Ethernet.

 Beta copies of Windows 4.0 -- Chicago

 Beta copies of Windows 4.0 -- Chicago

 Anyone Using HDK by Virtual Media Tech

 Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

 STONE VIRUS INFO. NEEDED ASAP!

 graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

 How are MS Previews made?

 Doc-To-Help & RoboHelp Contact Info?

 graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

 VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

 VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

 Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

 Memory problem with SMC Ethernet.

 Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

 Virtual Functions

 HELP PC GRAPHICS

 cancel

 Jagged edges in captured bitmaps

 Anyone Using HDK by Virtual Media Tech

 RoboHelp Contact

 Need format of '.shg' files for current project...

 How are MS Previews made?

 NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

 Need format of '.shg' files for current project...

 Any news on MediaView? (MM Viewer 3.0?)

 Winhelp and Visual Basic

 Winhelp on Unix?

 Winhelp and Visual Basic

 Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

 Pen Controls

 Quote characters in Winhelp

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documents

 Windows Help-Builders

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printabl

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printabl

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documents

 NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

 Help hierarchies

 NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

 New VB HelpWriter release (FREE help tool)

 SHED Editor Macros?

 Virtual Functions

 Quote characters in Winhelp

 Books on writing WinHlp files ?

 SHED Editor Macros?

 Quote characters in Winhelp

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documents

 NEW: Help Assistant 3.1 - Plays AVI files

 Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

 Current help compiler version

 Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

 Current help compiler version

 Current help compiler version

 Viewer

 MediaView (MM Viewer 3.0)

 MediaView (MM Viewer 3.0)

 Licence issues for embedded objects (EQN2.0)

 NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

 Books on writing WinHlp files ?

 Visual C++, Std or Prof Edition????

 Quote characters in Winhelp

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documents

 NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

 NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

 Help using DLL

 Books on writing WinHlp files ?

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documents

 How to Move Sequentially thru a .HLP file

 Does any tool handle Keywords well?

 Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Prin

 Books on writing WinHlp files ?

 Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 Does any tool handle Keywords well?

 MediaView is out - Can't find it!

 Current help compiler version

 Books on writing WinHlp files ?

 Current help compiler version

 WinHelp for Windows Chicago (4.0) -- what's the scoop?

 Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

 Undocumented .HLP file format

 Current help compiler version

 shed grey/green

 Current help compiler version

 MediaView (MM Viewer 3.0)

 Does any tool handle Keywords well?

 Request for Criticism

 shed grey/green

 Request for Criticism

 Request for Criticism

 Lotus AMI Pro??

 converting doc to .hlp?

 Help using DLL

 WHAT2

 Recompiling with bookmark and annotate

 ForeHelp demo in Australia?

 shed grey/green

 Determining current font in a Win application

 WHAT2

 converting doc to .hlp?

 converting doc to .hlp?

 Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

 Help hierarchies

 Request for Criticism

 WinHlp-L Mailgroup. Where do I sign up?

 Request for Criticism

 Hotspot Editor Resolution Problem

 Visual Help?

 Let's share .rtf and .rc files

 Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 Request for Criticism

 Visual Help?

 Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 WHAT6.???

 VB And Help Topics.

 Let's share .rtf and .rc files

 MICROSOFT Help Authoring Tool: fix for WORD4Win 6.0 required.

 Let's share .rtf and .rc files

 Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 Determining current font in a Win application

 Let's share .rtf and .rc files

 Visual Help?

 ForeHelp demo in Australia?

 HELLLP?

 Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

 Survey on reuse of software components

 HELLLP?

 Winhelp FAQ

 256 Colours Under WinHelp?

 HELLLP?

 Object containers/reference embedding.

 Word 2.0 Converts RTF, but ugly

 Word 2.0 Converts RTF, but ugly

 ForeHelp demo in Australia?

 ForeHelp demo in Australia?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Regarding the WinHelp FAQ

 Avi

 Object containers/reference embedding.

 AVI Hotspot Editor?

 Object containers/reference embedding.

 Intercepting messages to winhelp

 Re: NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

 FontDialog problems

 Anyone have time for a project?

 Object containers/reference embedding.

 Lotus AMI Pro??

 Large Fonts messing up my Help

 Symbol font in a .hlp file

 Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 Symbol font in a .hlp file

 WinHelp w/ Media Viewer 2

 WinHelp w/ Media Viewer 2

 Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 ToolBook

 cmsg cancel <CtoCCH.Cps@tc.fluke.COM>

 ToolBook

 WHAT6.???

 Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 Full Text Searchable Help

 Full Text Searchable Help

 Intercepting messages to winhelp

 H.Writer's Assist. error

 Where is HCP.zip???

 Winhelp on Unix?

 Winhelp on Unix?

 Create .hlp files using Multimedia Viewer?

 Windows Help-Builders

 Help hierarchies

 Create .hlp files using Multimedia Viewer?

 WHAT6.???

 Help not on top

 Out of memory!

 WinHelp Archives

 MidTopic Jumps

 MidTopic Jumps

 Only 2 Open windows at once?

 MidTopic Jumps

 Only 2 Open windows at once?

 Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

 Winhelp and using DLL's

 Winhelp and using DLL's

 Winhelp and using DLL's

 Graphical Help Builder

 Graphical Help Builder

 Table rules in help files

 Only 2 Open windows at once?

 Producing WinHelp and HTML

 Windows Help-Builders

 Graphical Help Builder

 Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

 Lotus Amipro

 Graphical Help Builder

 MidTopic Jumps

 Only 2 Open windows at once?

 Help not on top

 Table rules in help files

 Help not on top

 Windows Help-Builders

 graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

 graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

 Help hierarchies

 HyperHelp 4 released (Announcement)

 graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

 Windows Help-Builders

 WHAT6.???

 Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

 Windows Help-Builders

 Graphical Help Builder

 Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

 Help graphics and a MAC

 Windows Help-Builders

 Groups and such...Help!

 Any news on MediaView? (MM Viewer 3.0?)

 Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

 Automatically minimizing and restoring a help window

 Help for OS/s

 Visual Basic: Question

 MS SITE???

 --drag-and-drop--?

 Convert .hlp file to text file?

 Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

 Chinese Word for Windows and Help Compiler

 Winhelp on Unix?

 Help Magician

 Convert .hlp file to text file?

 Convert .hlp file to text file?

 Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

 MS SITE???

 VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

 Location of HC505

 Location of HC505

 Help Magician

 --drag-and-drop--?

 Help hierarchies

 Convert .hlp file to text file?

 VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

 Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

 Jagged edges in captured bitmaps

 Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

 Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

 Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

 Where to find HC505.zip - Again.

 graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

 Chinese Word for Windows and Help Compiler

 256 Colours

 Hypertext Help-like Documents

 Looking for structure of Winhelp

 Windows Worry

 WinHelp DeCompiler???

 Keyword search jumpst

 Help authoring tools FAQ etc.

 WinHelp DeCompiler???

 Help authoring tools FAQ etc.

 256 Colours

 HELP : Borland(C++3.1)->Windows->OWL

 HELP : Borland(C++3.1)->Windows->OWL

 Help-files with full text search ?

 256 Colours

 --> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

 --> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

 WinHelp DeCompiler???

 WinHelp DeCompiler???

 Good Help Authoring Software ?

 Program to display 256 color pictures -- which?

 Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top

 --> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

 Looking for structure of Winhelp

 Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 WinHelp DeCompiler???

 Dithering colors

 WinHelp DeCompiler???

 Need tools for converting c++ source code to WP or RTF ?

 Keyword search >> 2ndary windows

 Creating On-Line Books

 Creating On-Line Books

 printf and scanf in OWL environment

 enumeration under Word 6.0

 Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

 Help Authoring Testimonials?

 Windows Multimedia Viewer 2.0

 Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

 Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

 How to print helpfiles ?

 WinHelp DeCompiler???

 Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

 Removing the CTRL+INS Accelerator

 Removing the CTRL+INS Accelerator

 non-scrolling region error

 Help authoring tools FAQ etc.

 Hypertext Help-like Documents

 Free Issue of EIA Electronic Document Report

 Removing the CTRL+INS Accelerator

 Beginner at WINHELP

 Removing the CTRL+INS Accelerator

 test

 test

 Create/Change button macros

 Good Help Authoring Software ?

 Windows Multimedia Viewer 2.0

 FAQ location?

 Expiration of Help files??

 Create/Change button macros

 WinHelp DeCompiler???

 Create/Change button macros

 Wizards and Cue Cards

 Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

 Keyword search >> 2ndary windows

 What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

 WinHelp DeCompiler???

 Button macro to launch Word 6

 WinHelp DeCompiler???

 Help-files with full text search ?

 Button macro to launch Word 6

 Help Authoring Tool

 Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

 Inter File HELP Jump and PopUp

 WinWord 6.0 and RTF files

 Visual WinHelp Designer/Tool?

 newgroup comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

 Windows Multimedia Viewer 2.0

 Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

 WinWord 6.0 and RTF files

 N e e d   H e l p . . .

 enumeration under Word 6.0

 Help System Utility

 Help System Utility

 Help System Utility

 Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

 Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

 Dithering colors

 [Q] Beginner's Question

 Helpfile Template or project Maker

 [Q] Beginner's Question

 Help-files with full text search ?

 What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

 Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

 Help System Utility

 WinHelp DeCompiler???

 [Q] Beginner's Question

 Visual WinHelp Designer/Tool?

 Help Authoring Tool

 Help System Utility

 winhelp with parameter?

 Help System Utility

 Botton to print all the topic in help file

 Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

 How do I print an entire WinHelp file?

 Help System Utility

 Help System Utility

 Help Authoring Tool

 User manual *and* online help

 Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

 WinWord 6.0 and RTF files

 Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

 User manual *and* online help

 Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring

 Violation, WORD6,RTFMod,HCP!!

 Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

 Comparing versions of RTF files

 [Q] Beginner's Question

 User manual *and* online help

 more buttons in help?

 Help Writer Assistant?

 more buttons in help?

 Visual WinHelp Designer/Tool?

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 winhelp with parameter?

 MMViewer development tools

 Help System Utility

 What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

 Comparing versions of RTF files

 User manual *and* online help

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 WinHelp DeCompiler???

 LSeekHF function

 Help Authoring Tool

 Non-wrapping text in WinHelp

 VBX Needed: Convert an RTF to MSWord?

 LSeekHF function

 Topic limit

 [Q] Beginner's Question

 LSeekHF function

 Helpfile Template or project Maker

 LSeekHF function

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 Help Writer Assistant?

 more buttons in help?

 Non-wrapping text in WinHelp

 Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

 ForeHelp with ATI Mach32 video?

 Help System Utility

 Help System Utility

 Help System Utility

 LSeekHF function

 Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

 VBX Needed: Convert an RTF to MSWord?

 quote char

 Help System Utility

 Non-wrapping text in WinHelp

 quote char

 Full text search

 Help System Utility

 Out of Memory errors

 Help System Utility

 Looking for a help decompiler

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 N e e d   H e l p . . .

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 Help System Utility

 Button macro to launch Word 6

 Q about the FAQ

 Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

 Help Spy for NT??

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 Q about the FAQ

 Help Spy for NT??

 Full-text searches in help

 Robohelp:Word Basic Err=133

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.

 Full-text searches in help

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 Help System Utility

 MFC AfxMessageBoxes

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 Help System Utility

 MFC AfxMessageBoxes

 Out of Memory errors

 Multiple Embedded Windows in a Help File... HELP!

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 Multi platform help

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 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

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 Out of Memory errors

 Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

 Help compiler????

 Non-wrapping text in WinHelp

 Dithering colors

 Looking for a help decompiler

 Manipulating the History List

 Help compiler????

 Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

 what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

 Help System Utility

 Looking for a help decompiler

 Need Full-text Search Files

 Public Apology

 Jumping to topics in other files?

 Need Full-text Search Files

 Help System Utility

 Is there an HDF summary around?

 Using Database

 Converting GML to RTF

 Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

 Multi platform help

 MFC AfxMessageBoxes

 Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

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 Bullet lists in help files

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 Does WPWin work to author help files?

 Creating On-Line Books

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 faq posting

 ForeHelp with ATI Mach32 video?

 Expiration of Help files??

 Really Weird Problem with Smart Quotes/Special characters

 Need Full-text Search Files

 Help compiler????

 what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

 A Red Ribbon For Your Help (was Re: Need Full-text Search Files)

 Need Full-text Search Files

 Help compiler????

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 Really Weird Problem --> Please download and view WinHelp test file

 Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.

 Help - Multiplatform

 Help font

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 Argh!  You should be able to download now (was Please download...)

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 Question on the starting Windows size

 Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.

 Help font

 ToolBook

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 Question on the starting Windows size

 Help-to-All (?)

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 Help-to-All (?)

 Hidden text problems

 Data Acquisition project !help!

 Hidden text problems

 Help Assistent: ha31s

 Dithering colors

 Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

 Dithering colors

 Getting absolute physical address of pointer

 Help font

 faq posting

 Help font

 DOSHelp??elp

 Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

 DOSHelp??elp

 256 Colours

 Problem with HCP.EXE

 Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.

 Help System Utility

 Dithering colors

 Help System Utility

 Thanks -- really!

 Dithering colors

 ==== HELP : MSAVI VERSION ERRORS ====

 Problem with HCP.EXE

 Conundrum Corner

 I need my text to wrap

 what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

 Conundrum Corner

 Help System Utility

 Dithering colors

 DOSHelp??elp

 Conundrum Corner

 Out of Memory errors solved!

 DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

 DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

 I need my text to wrap

 DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

 Help font

 Collapsing effects???

 Problem with HCP.EXE

 Conundrum Corner

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

 Conundrum Corner

 Collapsing effects???

 Problem with HCP.EXE

 HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

 Help Authoring Testimonials?

 HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

 Source for Boggan/Farkas/Welinske Book?

 looking for wc31.exe!

 Collapsing Effects?

 looking for wc31.exe!

 looking for wc31.exe!

 Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

 Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

 Help Authoring Testimonials?

 Where is HCP.zip???

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 ForeHelp demo FTP site

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 UNIX Help Authoring Tools

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 WHAT6.EXE , WHPE, and HCPARSE.DLL

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 Anybody seen ForHelp?

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 where is WHAT?

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 HCPARSE.DLL

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 MM Viewer

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 MM Viewer

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 HCPARSE.DLL

 ifthenelse macro

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 buttons in client-area

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 Documentation on HC

 most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

 Cue Cards

 Windows/Netware Question

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 DocToHelp - where?

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 ifthenelse macro

 HWA

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 where is WHAT?

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 Jim Michel in VB

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 .hlp to .txt?

 DOS->Winhelp

 Winword 6.0 to RTF

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 HELPMON.C

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 Windows Help Overhead

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 Programmatic WinHelp

 full text

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 Winword 6.0 to RTF

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 Jim Michel in VB

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 Winhelp FTP Site

 Quest 5 Windows Press Text

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 Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

 Help Compiler

 HLP -> WWW?

 Tutor for C/C++ windows programing (Introduction)?

 How to create Programmgroups in Windows

 DLL to scroll the Winhelp window

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 ANNOUNCE: Help Assistant 3.3 Available

 was: help menu option in OWL2, now: RTF format

 Stop dynamic scaling of bitmaps?

 SAMS ; How to book on help

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 Multi-File Keyword Search

 Microsoft JumpStart CD

 full text

 Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 Problem Part II

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 Creating help files

 Out of Memeory Error

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 Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

 Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 VB Helpwriter ?'s

 Word 2.0c macros

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 Multi-File Keyword Search

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 DLL to scroll the Winhelp window

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 full text

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 VB Helpwriter ?'s

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 SAMS ; How to book on help

 Jim Michel in VB

 CBT Recording and Playback

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 full text

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 can't get [Windows] main= statement to work

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 Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

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 Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

 Jim Michel in VB

 Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

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 500K DOC 2 HELP demo

 WHPE Compiles

 Public Thank You

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 error 5059

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 full text

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 500K DOC 2 HELP demo

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 500K DOC 2 HELP demo

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 Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scal

 Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font

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 SAMS ; How to book on help

 SAMS ; How to book on help

 Is the Help Compiler redistributable?

 Browsing Example

 +Commercial Authoring Tools

 compiling help files

 programmatic hotspot creation - SHED?

 Audio help

 Edit copy of large topics

 Dll's, Exe's and Menu's in Help files

 Out of Memeory Error

 Browsing Example

 programmatic hotspot creation - SHED?

 Chicago, Windows NT Disassembler!!!

 DOS WinHelp reader?

 Is the Help Compiler redistributable?

 Commercial Authoring Tools

 Audio help

 +Commercial Authoring Tools

 HDK / ODBC Conflict

 WordPerfect to Winhel

 Large MM Viewer file distribution

 embedding WinHelp??

 compiling help files

 compiling help files

 embedding WinHelp??

 +Commercial Authoring Tools

 Commercial Authoring Tools

 Bug?...word wrap wrong

 WordPerfect to Winhelp

 Looking for Help Files

 Looking for Help Authoring Tools

 Ack...sorry <blush>

 Browse Sequence Problems...

 Audio help

 Bug?...word wrap wrong

 UnCommercial compilers

 Anyone using ForeHelp?

 Full-Text Search in WinHelp?

 [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 Full-Text Search in WinHelp?

 [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 Is the Help Compiler redistributable?

 Audio help

 Is the Help Compiler redistributable?

 compiling help files

 UnCommercial compilers

 UnCommercial compilers

 UnCommercial compilers

 Problem compiling large help files

 compiling help files

 compiling help files

 Debugging inside a DLL: Breakpoints dont seem to work.

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 Anyone using ForeHelp?

 UnCommercial compilers

 [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 compiling help files

 Bug?...word wrap wrong

 GPF in Windows/WinHelp when using dynamic dialogs

 UnCommercial compilers

 [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 DLL Path

 compiling help files

 Creating help files

 [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 Audio help

 KnowledgeBase-style interface

 Audio help

 Commercial Authoring Tools

 Where's the files?

 mmsystem.dll

 Creating a Help File PROBLEMS :(

 Multimedia Viewer

 Buttons, Mouse (Viewer 2.0)

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 DLL Path

 DLL Path

 Anyone using ForeHelp?

 I need a good MPG player for DOS or Windows. Please help.

 Build tags and non-scrolling region

 MS Multimedia Viewer 2.0

 Bug? ExecProgram in Config vs HotSpot

 mmsystem.dll

 program manager secret screen

 Bug? ExecProgram in Config vs HotSpot

 Public Thank You

 program manager secret screen

 UnCommercial compilers

 UnCommercial compilers

 [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 Help with W.H.A.T. 6?

 button does macro + original task?

 Save as .rtf and as .doc via macro in Winword 2

 Buttons, Mouse (Viewer 2.0)

 button does macro + original task?

 mmsystem.dll

 Public Thank You

 MVPUBKIT

 email address of Blue Sky Software.

 Bug? ExecProgram in Config vs HotSpot

 mmsystem.dll

 KnowledgeBase-style interface

 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!

 email address of Blue Sky Software.

 Dll's, Exe's and Menu's in Help files

 HC31.ERR? Where?

 I need a good MPG player for DOS or Windows. Please help.

 WHAT6 WHPE

 WinHelp viewer for DOS

 IPF--> RTF  OS/2.hlp --> WIN.hlp

 Where to get Dr. Help ?

 More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

 Please post the FAQ

 Subscripts/indexes unknown ???

 [Q] Managing help files in different languages

 need format of the *.HLP file

 Won't stay maximize

 More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

 Buttons in the menu-bar ?

 Subscripts/indexes unknown ???

 mediaview

 RTF Files with Winword 6.0

 More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

 More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in

 WinHelp viewer for DOS

 Secondary Windows on Startup

 Making a help file

 replacement for shed?

 More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in

 cmsg cancel <1994Nov3.020147.20849@emr1.emr.ca>

 Making a help file

 RTF Files with Winword 6.0

 sgml, html, and winhelp

 sgml, html, and winhelp

 WinHelp viewer for DOS

 RTF Files with Winword 6.0

 Making a help file

 replacement for shed?

 footnote in Viewer2

 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 +Commercial Authoring Tools

 +Commercial Authoring Tools

 .WAV Files in HLP

 +Commercial Authoring Tools

 Shift F1 help to a 2nd hlp file

 replacement for shed?

 Help on Win 3.1!

 Secondary Windows on Star

 replacement for shed?

 Winhelp on Unix

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 WinHelp viewer for DOS

 Secondary Windows on Star

 OLE & dde compatable applets

 Making a help file

 WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

 Macros in Jumps

 v. 505 ... Quirks or Features?!

 WinHelp viewer for DOS

 Anyone know HCP ERRORLEVEL results?

 +Commercial Authoring Tools

 Help Authoring Tools phone and fax numbers

 Out of Memory Error

 DIB palettes in WinHelp/Viewer (was re:256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

 replacement for shed?

 MS KB ommision (was footnote in Viewer2)

 Making a help file

 +Commercial Authoring Tools

 replacement for shed?

 +Commercial Authoring Tools

 WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

 Where to get Dr. Help ?

 DIB palettes in WinHelp/Viewer (was re:256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

 cmsg cancel <39b3hl$b1m@anemone.saclay.cea.fr>

 browse sequences in HWA

 +Commercial Authoring Tools

 Spy, Echo, Something or Other

 Quirks or Features?!

 Spy, Echo, Something or Other

 Making a help file

 WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

 hotspot graphics high resoluted

 +Commercial Authoring Tools

 WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

 WinHelp or WinExec?

 How do I re-configure a Winhelp file for viewing on a Mac?

 DIB palettes in WinHelp/Viewer (was re:256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

 Need help on windows font files

 Build tags and non-scrolling region

 Second Help Windows

 WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

 OLE & dde compatable applets

 +Commercial Authoring Tools

 Info: Opening a file from Winhelp/Viewer

 ExecProgram in Viewer?? Problem with Paths

 The FAQ

 Viewer, would you use it?

 Buttons in the menu-bar ?

 The FAQ

 RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 Looking for Help Authoring Tools

 Where is full-text search data?

 WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

 WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

 The FAQ

 PLEASE HELP!!!! DESPERATE

 RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

 DocToHelp - where?

 The FAQ

 Large MM Viewer file distribution

 error 5059

 Winhelp Full Text Search

 WinHelp 4.0 point sizes

 help menu option in OWL2

 help files losing colour

 Looking for Help Authoring Tools

 Out of Memory Error

 Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 Looking for Help Authoring Tools

 Creating help files

 WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

 WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

 RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

 Out of Memory Error (I Beg to differ you all)

 DocToHelp - where?

 For Sale: RoboHelp 2.6

 Horizontal Scroll Bar in ListBox using BorlandC++

 help files losing colour

 Executing a windows program from another one.

 help menu option in OWL2

 help files losing colour

 Executing a windows program from another one.

 help files losing colour

 Multimedia Viewer anyone?

 Full Text search in Help files

 HLP -> WWW?

 WHAT6 WHPE

 HLP -> WWW?

 Help Compiler

 Jim Michel in VB

 No subject

 No subject

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 Looking for Help Authoring Tools

 RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

 I need Help (don't we all!)

 Using dde commands to activate other programs

 Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

 Buttons in the menu-bar ?

 Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

 Winhelp FTP Site

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects


News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.SETUP

 Diamond Stealth Video Card


News Group COMP.OS.OS2.PROGRAMMER.PORTING

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool


News Group COMP.OS.OS2.PROGRAMMER.TOOLS

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Help Files: Creating both WinHelp and IPF from single source?

 Help Files: Creating both WinHelp and IPF from single source?

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Help Files: Creating both WinHelp and IPF from single source?

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool


News Group COMP.PROGRAMMING

 Windows Help-Builders

 Windows Help-Builders


News Group COMP.TEXT

 Available: The Hypertext Demo "A History of the Warfare of Science..."


News Group COMP.TEXT.SGML

 sgml, html, and winhelp

 sgml, html, and winhelp


News Group COMP.UNIX.PROGRAMMER

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool

 Looking for Source Control Tool


News Group COMP.WINDOWS.MS

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows


News Group COMP.WINDOWS.X.APPS

 HyperHelp 4 released (Announcement)


News Group COMP.WINDOWS.X.MOTIF

 HyperHelp 4 released (Announcement)


News Group MISC.JOBS.CONTRACT

 RFP: WinHelp fixed price contract for VB Application (SF Bay Area)


News Group NETCOM.PROGRAMMERS

 Windows boot-up graphic change


News Group REC.ARTS.BOOKS

 Available: The Hypertext Demo "A History of the Warfare of Science..."


News Group SOC.LIBRARIES.TALK

 Available: The Hypertext Demo "A History of the Warfare of Science..."


News Group SU.JOBS

 RFP: WinHelp fixed price contract for VB Application (SF Bay Area)


CREDITS

The NewsDB (n2h) Program is a copyright (c) 1993,94 HyperAct, Inc.

The Help Development Kit is a copyright (c) 1992,94 HyperAct, Inc.

NewsDB and HLPDK were created using Borland Pascal with Objects 7.0

NewsDB and HLPDK were created by Ron Loewy.


Overview winhelp

This database was created by NewsDB, Part of the HLPDK/PA Product.

Choose From The Following Entries :

 Author Directory

 CREDITS

 News Groups Directory

 User Groups Directory

 This Database was created using NewsDB, Copyright (c) 1993,94 HyperAct, Inc.

 This Database was compiled with HLPDK,  Copyright (c) 1992,94 HyperAct, Inc.


News Groups Directory

Choose from the following News Groups :

 News Group ALT.BINARIES.MULTIMEDIA

 News Group ALT.BOOKS.REVIEWS

 News Group ALT.CHINESE.COMPUTING

 News Group ALT.ETEXT

 News Group ALT.HYPERTEXT

 News Group ALT.SPAM

 News Group BA.JOBS.CONTRACT

 News Group CHINESE.COMP.SOFTWARE

 News Group COMP.ARCHIVES.MSDOS.ANNOUNCE

 News Group COMP.BBS.MISC

 News Group COMP.DATABASES

 News Group COMP.DATABASES.INFORMIX

 News Group COMP.DATABASES.INGRES

 News Group COMP.DATABASES.O

 News Group COMP.DATABASES.ORACLE

 News Group COMP.DATABASES.SYBASE

 News Group COMP.HUMAN-FACTORS

 News Group COMP.INFOSYSTEMS.WWW.PROVIDERS

 News Group COMP.LANG.BASIC.MISC

 News Group COMP.LANG.BASIC.VISUAL

 News Group COMP.LANG.BASIC.VISUAL.DATABASE

 News Group COMP.LANG.C

 News Group COMP.LANG.C++

 News Group COMP.LANG.VISUAL

 News Group COMP.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.DRIVERS

 News Group COMP.MULTIMEDIA

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-W

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WIN

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDO

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOW

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.APPS

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.APPS.MISC

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.APPS.UTILITIES

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.APPS.WORD-PROC

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.MISC

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.NT.MISC

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.NT.SETUP

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.CONTROLS

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.DRIVERS

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.GRAPHICS

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.MEMORY

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.MISC

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.MUL

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.MULTIMEDIA

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.NETWORKS

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.OLE

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.TOOLS

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.WIN32

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.PROGRAMMER.WINHELP

 News Group COMP.OS.MS-WINDOWS.SETUP

 News Group COMP.OS.OS2.PROGRAMMER.PORTING

 News Group COMP.OS.OS2.PROGRAMMER.TOOLS

 News Group COMP.PROGRAMMING

 News Group COMP.TEXT

 News Group COMP.TEXT.SGML

 News Group COMP.UNIX.PROGRAMMER

 News Group COMP.WINDOWS.MS

 News Group COMP.WINDOWS.X.APPS

 News Group COMP.WINDOWS.X.MOTIF

 News Group MISC.JOBS.CONTRACT

 News Group NETCOM.PROGRAMMERS

 News Group REC.ARTS.BOOKS

 News Group SOC.LIBRARIES.TALK

 News Group SU.JOBS


User Groups Directory

Choose from the following User Groups :

 User Group BITMAPS

 User Group CONVERSION

 User Group DLL

 User Group GRAPHICS

 User Group KEYWORDS

 User Group LINKS

 User Group MACROS

 User Group MM_VIEWER

 User Group MULTIMEDIA

 User Group POPUPS

 User Group SEARCH

 User Group VISUAL

 User Group WHAT

 User Group WORD


Author Directory

Choose articles from the following authors :

 Author

 Author "David Greenhalgh"

 Author "I Anderson"

 Author "Mark Beecroft"

 Author "Nathaniel J. Cross"

 Author "Nicholas Waltham"

 Author "Pilot Software Limit"

 Author "rabbit

 Author -a94269853-m.walton-oth-400-

 Author -HL-77163d

 Author 820077@oes

 Author 91625590s@sgcl1.unisg.ch

 Author <3PMGJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>

 Author <hembert@BOOKIE.ENET.DEC.COM>

 Author <herr67@delphi.com>

 Author <SAHRABI@auvm.american.edu>

 Author A.J.M. Rosendaal

 Author Abe <MATTA@LEONARDO.LMT.COM>

 Author Adam Cinzion

 Author Adam Connor

 Author Adam Megacz

 Author adrian peterson

 Author ah694@FreeNet.Carleton.CA

 Author Alain Hanash

 Author Alan Gratland

 Author Alan Hamilton

 Author Alex McCarney

 Author Alfie Kirkpatrick

 Author Alten JP

 Author Amanda T Marlowe

 Author Amarnath Rama Poola

 Author Amir Raveh

 Author Andreas Bittner

 Author Andrea Malone

 Author Andrew Bachmeier

 Author Andrew Fraser

 Author Andrew Hately

 Author Andrew J. Lazarus

 Author andrew vessey

 Author Andre Teig

 Author andy bridle

 Author Andy DeFaria

 Author Andy Meadows

 Author Aniket Pratap Kothari

 Author Anli Shundi

 Author Annette McElligott

 Author Anne Foxworthy

 Author Ann Katholi

 Author Antipov <ia23+@andrew.cmu.edu>

 Author antonio dias

 Author Anton Schegg

 Author Aris Antanas Buinevicius

 Author Arnold du Toit

 Author Arnold Jagt

 Author Arthur Muller

 Author Art Miller (usenet)

 Author Art Smoot

 Author Audley Brown

 Author Automatic-Newsgroup-Creation-Program@romana.Tymnet.COM

 Author Autonetics

 Author A Hanekamp <dh4h+@andrew.cmu.edu>

 Author BaDge

 Author Banerji Research <A.Banerji@TEESSIDE.AC.UK>

 Author Barry

 Author Barry McConnell

 Author Barr <R.J.Barr@Durham.ac.uk>

 Author Bart D Vitti

 Author Benny Schnaider

 Author Benson <inc@TC.FLUKE.COM>

 Author Ben Katz

 Author Bernd Rohde

 Author Bernhard Froehlich

 Author Berno van Soest

 Author Bert Plat

 Author bes@VNET.IBM.COM

 Author Bev Freed

 Author bhagavat dharma

 Author Bill Barrett

 Author Bill Bartelt

 Author Bill Bledsoe

 Author Bill Burtle

 Author Bill Klein

 Author Bill Luby

 Author Bill Rayer

 Author Bill Ruediger

 Author Bingyang Zhou

 Author Bing Li

 Author Blake C. Ramsdell

 Author bob@epsilon.com

 Author Bob Smith

 Author Bob Swart

 Author Boehm (boehm@edvvie.edvg.co.at

 Author Boris.Treiger

 Author Brad Albom

 Author Brendan Young

 Author Brent Gossett - 6108

 Author Brett Middleton

 Author Brett Miller

 Author briand@ihs.com

 Author Brian Beatty

 Author Brian Orrell

 Author Brian Osborn

 Author Brian Russ

 Author Brian Samson

 Author Brian S Cugno

 Author Brian T. Wilson

 Author BRMcDaniel

 Author Bruce Andrew DAVEY

 Author Bruce Blackshaw

 Author Bruce Covell

 Author Bruce Kozuma

 Author Bruce Stephenson

 Author Bryan <jamesbryan@delphi.com>

 Author bryan trussler 9209 u

 Author bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au

 Author Byrnes <BYRNES@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA>

 Author C. Farell

 Author c. verbrugge

 Author C. Zajac <jczajac@delphi.com>

 Author Cal Jewell

 Author Camille Benachour

 Author Carlos Antunes

 Author Carl Cuneo

 Author Carl Hoang

 Author Carl Verner Skou

 Author Carothers <dennisc@WORLD.STD.COM>

 Author Century Software

 Author Cesare Feroldi de Rosa

 Author Charles M. Kozierok

 Author Charles Miller

 Author Charles Nichols

 Author Cheah Kean Hock

 Author Chendi Zhang Guest

 Author Cheng Tan

 Author Chester Garfield

 Author Chetan H Shah

 Author Chet Cady

 Author Choen Adi

 Author chou@.notis.com

 Author chou@n5145.notis.com

 Author chou@notis.com

 Author chris

 Author Christensen <davo@halcyon.com>

 Author CHRISTER JAHREN

 Author Christohper Antony Koziol MSC93

 Author Christopher King

 Author Christopher M. Hogan

 Author Christopher N Fortner

 Author Christopher Pearson

 Author Christopher Salter

 Author Christopher Taylor Oates

 Author Christoph Mueller

 Author Chris Allen

 Author Chris Bowering

 Author Chris Chubb

 Author Chris Hemedinger

 Author Chris Hemedinger,R1423,5776,,2610

 Author Chris Johnson

 Author Chris King

 Author Chris L Smyth

 Author Chris Marriott

 Author Chris Olson

 Author Chuck Meyer

 Author Chuck Murray

 Author Chuck Stuart

 Author chungr@cobra.uni.edu

 Author cisitm@albert.cad.cea.fr

 Author Cohen <74507.54@CompuServe.COM>

 Author Coley <coleyma@SCAN.SI.EDU>

 Author Comfortably Numb

 Author Con Zymaris

 Author Cosmi Corporation

 Author Cox  Dennis James

 Author Craig Villalon

 Author Cuyler

 Author Cuyler Buckwalter 66678

 Author CW

 Author C Philip Donner

 Author D. Warnick

 Author dagmar@inforamp.net

 Author Dale Barnard

 Author Dale Roberts x5-7345

 Author Damon J. Wong

 Author Daniel B. Bikle

 Author Daniel B. Wright

 Author Daniel Smith

 Author Daniel Szuc

 Author Danny Smith

 Author Dan Konigsbach

 Author Dan Stickel

 Author Dan Tarnower

 Author Darrel Hankerson

 Author Dave DeLuca

 Author Dave Pfister

 Author Dave Read

 Author Dave Sampson

 Author Dave  Woods

 Author David A. Ondzes

 Author David Arasmith

 Author David Brabant

 Author David Castell

 Author David Chapman

 Author David C Lawrence

 Author David_Foringer

 Author David Francis Scavo

 Author David Gardiner

 Author David Jablonski

 Author David L. Heiserman

 Author David Pascoe

 Author David Thomson

 Author David Timoney

 Author David V. Allen

 Author Davis" <p00137@psilink.com>

 Author davo@halcyon.com

 Author Dawn-Marie Oliver

 Author Dean Hoover

 Author Deborah J. Graham

 Author Dempsey <paulde@MICROSOFT.COM>

 Author Dennis Carothers

 Author Dennis G German

 Author depending on mood <lew721@delphi.com>

 Author Derek MacEwen

 Author Diane Henderson

 Author Digitome Ltd

 Author dikran Hovagimian

 Author dmacewen@bud.peinet.pe.ca

 Author Donald Munro

 Author Don Lipper

 Author Don M Chaffee

 Author Doug Robinson

 Author Doug Simone

 Author Dr A.D. Walmsley

 Author dub

 Author Dubin <David_Dubin@NOTES.PW.COM>

 Author DUCK@PEMBVAX1.PEMBROKE.EDU (CRAIG TAYLOR)

 Author dunbar" <mardunba@cs.indiana.edu>

 Author Duncan Booth

 Author Duncan Murdoch

 Author dwightm@bcm.tmc.edu

 Author E. Vonheim         Sign.: SoM

 Author EagleMage

 Author Eddie Lotter

 Author Edward G. Hazen

 Author Edward Mccreary

 Author Ed Guy

 Author ee92pms@brunel.ac.uk

 Author Eirik Amundsen

 Author Eivind Bakkestuen

 Author Eliot Jablonka

 Author em81125

 Author Emery Lapinski

 Author Emil Obermayr

 Author Emmett Henderson

 Author English, grant

 Author erichc@yvax.byu.edu

 Author Erich Reimberg N.

 Author Eric Bohlman

 Author Eric Camirand

 Author Eric J. Bowersox

 Author Ernst Kraemer

 Author Espen Joranger

 Author ETSI DP Dept.

 Author Evans <VEVANS@SBA-LAWS.SBA.MUOHIO.EDU>

 Author Ewan

 Author F. DelGreco" <delgreco@RAHUL.NET>

 Author Fabrice Mativat

 Author Falloon <jfalloon@ZEKE.WIN.NET>

 Author Fan.Y.

 Author Feroldi de Rosa <C.Feroldi@pn.itnet.it>

 Author Feroldi De Rosa <MC0604@mclink.it>

 Author Floyd <mikef@SYACUS.ACUS.OZ.AU>

 Author Fong Whye Koon

 Author Forbes <gforbes@powergrid.electriciti.com>

 Author Foxworthy <Annef@DMP.CSIRO.AU>

 Author Francis J. Bruening;627-xxxx;47-704

 Author Franks <t114b02@GOODYEAR.COM>

 Author Frank Robijn

 Author Frank Tallelt

 Author Fraser Cain

 Author FRAY@mail.law.yale.edu

 Author Fredrik Viklund

 Author Fred Albrecht

 Author Fred Bunn

 Author Fred Galli

 Author Fred Lloyd [Phoenix SE]

 Author Fritz Whittington

 Author Fukuda <fukuda@SYS1.CPG.SONY.CO.JP>

 Author Gabriel Patterson

 Author gail@wst.com

 Author Galen Raben

 Author Gamache Michel

 Author Garrett Colson

 Author Garry Pearson

 Author Gary Benson

 Author Gary Duvall

 Author Gary M. Dietz

 Author Gavin Greig

 Author GEEL R.A.M.VAN

 Author Geir A M Drange

 Author Genser <74443.2067@CompuServe.COM>

 Author gen on BIX

 Author geoffc

 Author Geoff Bradbury

 Author George de Bouter

 Author George Gottschalk

 Author George Hasty

 Author George Mah

 Author GEORGE TASKER

 Author George Tatge

 Author Gerald Cheong

 Author German Velazquez Rincon

 Author gfp@mcmurray

 Author gfp@rd000940

 Author giles@research.canon.oz.au

 Author Glenn McComb

 Author Goeshere@indy.net

 Author Golan Yaniv

 Author GOWTHAM,MR" <BKOY000@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA>

 Author gparsons@syncrude.com

 Author gpeto@mudshark.sunquest.com

 Author gracie!eliasson

 Author Grant <darin@rahul.net>

 Author Gregory Larkin

 Author Greg Smith

 Author Greg Taylor

 Author Gross Eilam

 Author gstark@cruzio.com

 Author Guess

 Author Guitarist

 Author Gwo-Juh Hwang

 Author H.Shrikumar

 Author H. Tsuru

 Author Haapanen <tomh@metrics.metrics.com>

 Author Haavard Bjoerge

 Author Hacker <bokchoi@delphi.com>

 Author Haiying Ou

 Author Hal German

 Author Hand <khand@NETCOM.COM>

 Author Hanna Metzger

 Author Hans de Bue

 Author Hardin Brothers

 Author Hartley" <W.R.Hartley@ncl.ac.uk>

 Author hayek adam michael

 Author Heath I Hunnicutt

 Author Hedges <a.j.hedges@open.ac.uk>

 Author Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba

 Author Heiko Jacobs

 Author Heiko Schulz

 Author Hein <henrih@MICROSOFT.COM>

 Author Henriksen <peterhe@MICROSOFT.COM>

 Author Henrik Sahlholt

 Author Hermann Schinagl

 Author Holly G. Jahangiri

 Author Howard Sobel

 Author Hp. Roth

 Author Hugh DeLong

 Author Hung Nguyen

 Author Ian P Kemp

 Author Ian Vink

 Author Ibrahim Sert

 Author idps102@shts.seed.net.tw

 Author idpt867@tpts1.seed.net.tw

 Author IM Hogan

 Author I Johnston

 Author I were a masochist,              I would be having a lot of fun

 Author J.-Albert Ferrez

 Author J. Daniel Smith

 Author J. Peto" <gpeto@MUDSHARK.SUNQUEST.COM>

 Author Jackie F. Russell

 Author Jack Godfrey

 Author Jacobs 3241 <jacobsjo@BSG.BEL.ALCATEL.BE>

 Author jae@ucsd.edu

 Author jager@odie.ee.wits.ac.za

 Author jalapeno

 Author James A. O'Brien

 Author James Brown

 Author Jamey Graham

 Author Jan-Friedrich Mutter

 Author Janet D.

 Author Janet Gomez

 Author Jan Willem Hartman

 Author Jason Hunter

 Author jason leedy

 Author Jean-Claude.Bellamy@der.edf.fr

 Author Jean-Francois CORDIER

 Author Jean-Francois Messier

 Author Jean D. Ichbiah

 Author Jean Ichbiah

 Author Jeffrey Chauncey

 Author Jeffrey Rice

 Author Jeffrey Rothman

 Author Jeffrey Shneidman

 Author Jeffrey Smartt

 Author Jeffrey T. Kouzmanoff

 Author Jeff Copeland

 Author Jeff Jungblut

 Author Jeff Orlando

 Author Jeff Wilkinson

 Author Jennifer Moter

 Author Jenwen

 Author Jen Cheng

 Author Jim Fallon

 Author Jim Hassert

 Author JIM MCNEILL

 Author Jim Syiek

 Author Jim Thomas

 Author jinzhao wang

 Author jjge

 Author Joel Bentz

 Author Joern Yngve Dahl-Stamnes

 Author Joe Morris

 Author Joe Wasik

 Author Johanna Draper

 Author Johanna Metzger

 Author Johan Jacobs (Alcatel)

 Author Johan Jacobs 3241

 Author JohnMovie

 Author John Asa Price

 Author John Burgdorf

 Author John C. Wang

 Author John Davis

 Author John Foy (DECsplit Contractor)

 Author John Grant

 Author John Hooper

 Author John Lam

 Author John Michael Okeefe

 Author John Moulder

 Author John Panzer

 Author John S. Robinson

 Author John Styles

 Author John Taylor

 Author John Wheeler

 Author Jonathan Acheson

 Author Jonathon Montgomery

 Author JonM

 Author Jonne Itkonen

 Author Jon Morby

 Author Jon Noring

 Author Jon Schull

 Author Jon Sverre Karlsen

 Author JosephRot

 Author Joseph E. Bonnett

 Author Joseph Kowaleski

 Author Jose Carlos Cuesta Cuesta

 Author JPG3

 Author jrice@pluto.pomona.claremont.edu

 Author jss6@jaguar.uofs.edu

 Author Juan Carlos Cuesta Cuesta

 Author Julian James Bunn

 Author justin wells

 Author Jyrki Laine

 Author J Scott MacCready

 Author K. Genser <74443.2067@CompuServe.COM>

 Author kajtek@ac.dal.ca

 Author Karanitsch Johannes

 Author Karel Sprenger

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User Group BITMAPS

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Prin

 secondary help window buttons

  shed grey/green

 Hotspot Editor Resolution Problem

 AVI Hotspot Editor?

  How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

 Winhelp and using DLL's

 256 Colours

  256 Colours

  256 Colours

  Help System Utility

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

  Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

  Jumping to topics in other files?

  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  AVI Hotspot Editor?

  Templates for word

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

  256 Colours

  256 Colours

 extra spaces after italicized words

  WINHELP: Creating a jump = Find area

  HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

  Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

 need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  buttons in client-area

 Problems with WHAT6 - missing files

  Clickable maps in help files

 An Even Better Way (Creating great looking tables in WinHelp)

  Stop dynamic scaling of bitmaps?

  winhelp bmp hotspots:  how do _you_ do it ?

  Stop dynamic scaling of bitmaps?

 Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

  I need Help

 Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER - Ver. 1.01

 Bug? ExecProgram in Config vs HotSpot

  Bug? ExecProgram in Config vs HotSpot

 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!

  256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!

 hotspot graphics high resoluted

 How do I re-configure a Winhelp file for viewing on a Mac?

  The FAQ

 Commercial

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  Bitmaps in Help Files

  Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

 associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

  associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

  Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

  Pictures in floating text

 WHAT6.DOT ftp availability

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  --> Password Protect a Help File?

  --> Password Protect a Help File?

  Need scroll bars

 Returning a non-zero value from winhelp?

  Returning a non-zero value from winhelp?

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

  Hypergraph and Secondary window

  hyperlinks between hlp Files

  hyperlinks between hlp Files

  Jagged edges in captured bitmaps

  Winhelp and Visual Basic

 How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

 SHED Editor Macros?

  SHED Editor Macros?


User Group CONVERSION

  winhelp docs to html converters

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Producing WinHelp and HTML

  Expiration of Help files??

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  User manual *and* online help

  User manual *and* online help

  Topic limit

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  Multi platform help

 Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

  Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

  Help - Multiplatform

  Help System Utility

  Expiration of Help files??

  Help - Multiplatform

 Looking for HTML/C++ toolkit

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

 Various Help Questions

 Mysterious Green - > Black Change

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

  Mysterious Green - > Black Change

 rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

 Microsoft announces SGML support

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  Various questions

  Microsoft announces SGML support

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

 WHAT6.EXE , WHPE, and HCPARSE.DLL

  UNIX Help Authoring Tools

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  HCPARSE.DLL

  Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

 Looking for Source Control Tool

  Help and documentation

 HTML to WinHelp format .. easy way ?

  OS/2 Help Authoring Tools

  OS/2 Help Authoring Tools

  LaTeX -> WINHELP S/W ?

 Windows Help RTFs -> HTMLs

  Windows Help RTFs -> HTMLs

  HLP -> WWW?

  DLL to scroll the Winhelp window

  Problem compiling large help files

 IPF--> RTF  OS/2.hlp --> WIN.hlp

  winhelp docs to html converters

 sgml, html, and winhelp

  sgml, html, and winhelp

  WinHelp file size???

  The FAQ

 HLP -> WWW?

  HLP -> WWW?

 WinHELP to HTML or vice versa

  HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

 Help Files: Creating both WinHelp and IPF from single source?

  HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

 winhelp docs to html converters

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format

  Help Files: Creating both WinHelp and IPF from single source?

  Windows help file questions

 D:\COMPWH\SRC\9404\63.944

  Unix .hlp viewer?

  Converting .hlp to OS/2 ipf help format

  HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 What wrong with my VC++ f/NT

  What wrong with my VC++ f/NT

  Unix .hlp viewer?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Available: The Hypertext Demo "A History of the Warfare of Science..."

  Looking for Source Control Tool

 What about Ami Pro 2.0?? Is rtf=rtf regardless? :)

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 OS/2 and Visual C++ 1.1

 HTML to RTF/winhelp converter needed!!!

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  RTF

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  What wrong with my VC++ f/NT

  Help and Viewer on NT?

  Help Files: Creating both WinHelp and IPF from single source?


User Group DLL

  Help using DLL

  WinHelp mulitple links.

  Graphical Help Builder

  Graphical Help Builder

  Graphical Help Builder

 HyperHelp 4 released (Announcement)

 Groups and such...Help!

  --> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

  --> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

 Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

  Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

  Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

 Removing the CTRL+INS Accelerator

  Removing the CTRL+INS Accelerator

  Removing the CTRL+INS Accelerator

  Help-files with full text search ?

  WinHelp mulitple links.

 LSeekHF function

  LSeekHF function

  How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

  Help System Utility

 Robohelp:Word Basic Err=133

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

  WinHelp mulitple links.

  Dithering colors

  Dithering colors

  Collapsing effects???

  Expiration of Help files??

  256 Colours

  Multiple Embedded Windows in a Help File... HELP!

 Writing DLLs for WinHelp

  Writing DLLs for WinHelp

  Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top

  Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  Chicago Help compatability

  Help problems from Hell

  Collapsing effects? (with HyperTrack 4.1)

  Help problems from Hell

 Extracting Baggage form a Help File

  Color Limitations

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  256 color bitmaps, HOW?

  passing parameters to WinHelp

  Dithering colors

  Extracting Baggage form a Help File

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  MM Viewer

  buttons in client-area

 Debugging inside a DLL: Breakpoints  dont seem to work.

  Debugging inside a DLL: Breakpoints  dont seem to work.

  buttons in client-area

  Request assistance with help system

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

 Multi-File Keyword Search

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  Jim Michel in VB

  Multi-File Keyword Search

  VB Helpwriter ?'s

  Jim Michel in VB

  Jim Michel in VB

 Dll's, Exe's and Menu's in Help files

 Using DLL calls in VC++

  Full-Text Search in WinHelp?

  Audio help

  Debugging inside a DLL: Breakpoints dont seem to work.

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 GPF in Windows/WinHelp when using dynamic dialogs

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 DLL Path

  DLL Path

  Dll's, Exe's and Menu's in Help files

 More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

  256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!

 Info: Opening a file from Winhelp/Viewer

  The FAQ

 Commercial

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 Help DLLs

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Help DLLs

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format

  Windows help file questions

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  Page feed in topic?

  Page feed in topic?

 How do you make a word-breaker for viewer?

 Mac Viewer ??

  Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

 TOC windows with help

  Message Boxes

 WinHelp mulitple links.

 Warning From uucp

  TOC windows with help

 API doc for DLL

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

 --> Password Protect a Help File?

  --> Password Protect a Help File?

  --> Password Protect a Help File?

  Returning a non-zero value from winhelp?

  TOC windows with help (+ more!)

  --> Password Protect a Help File?

  Minimized Startup of a Help File

  Minimized Startup of a Help File

  Minimized Startup of a Help File

 Q: Using Integra VBX with BC 4.0?

  Q: Using Integra VBX with BC 4.0?

 Help using DLL


User Group GRAPHICS

  Current help compiler version

  Current help compiler version

 shed grey/green

  Help compiler runs out of file handles

  256 Colours

  256 Colours

  Help compiler runs out of file handles

  256 Colours

 Color Limitations

  Color Limitations

  Color Limitations

  Color Limitations

  Color Limitations

  Color Limitations

  Clickable maps in help files

  Clickable maps in help files

 big *.hlp?

  big *.hlp?

  big *.hlp?

  winhelp bmp hotspots:  how do _you_ do it ?

  Clickable maps in help files

 --> MRBC Woes (memory limitation)

 An Even Better Way (Creating great looking tables in WinHelp)

 Shed and color quality

 500K DOC 2 HELP demo

 500K DOC 2 HELP demo

  Out of Memeory Error

 programmatic hotspot creation - SHED?

  replacement for shed?

  replacement for shed?

  replacement for shed?

  Out of Memory Error

  replacement for shed?

  replacement for shed?

 WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

  Bitmaps in Help Files

 Bitmaps in Help Files

  Bitmaps in Help Files

  Bitmaps in Help Files

  Bitmaps in Help Files

  Bitmaps in Help Files

  Help for both Mac and Windows?

 Concurrent Authoring System

  Concurrent Authoring System

  Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

  Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

 Sites for GIF Files

 Anyone hear of a program called "Filewalker"?

  tables in help files

  graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

  Jagged edges in captured bitmaps

 SHED Editor Macros?

 Current help compiler version


User Group KEYWORDS

 Does any tool handle Keywords well?

  Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Prin

  Does any tool handle Keywords well?

  Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

  Does any tool handle Keywords well?

  Visual Help?

  Word 2.0 Converts RTF, but ugly

  Object containers/reference embedding.

 Full Text Searchable Help

  Full Text Searchable Help

  MidTopic Jumps

  MidTopic Jumps

  Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

  Keyword search jumpst

  Help System Utility

  winhelp with parameter?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

  Jumping to topics in other files?

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

  what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

  Using Database

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  Templates for word

 Keyword search jumpst

  Keyword search jumpst

 Keyword search >> 2ndary windows

 Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Mysterious Green - > Black Change

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

 The Future of Help

  Command line switches for WINHELP.EXE

  The Future of Help (long)

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

  ForeHelp macros

  ForeHelp macros

 HC31 wont compile my old help files

  HC31 wont compile my old help files

  ForeHelp macros

 Unicode and help

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

 'what' with german Winword Version 2.0b / 6.0

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Jim Michel in VB

 Multi-File Keyword Search

  Jim Michel in VB

  Multi-File Keyword Search

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  WinHelp viewer for DOS

 footnote in Viewer2

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  The FAQ

 Jim Michel in VB

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Windows help file questions

 Change default colors?

  Bugs? or am I missing something?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows


User Group LINKS

 Knowledge Base Files in Help format

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Prin

  Word Docs as Help Files

 Recompiling with bookmark and annotate

  Help hierarchies

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

  WinHelp mulitple links.

  Visual Help?

 Word Docs as Help Files

 Word 2.0 Converts RTF, but ugly

  Word 2.0 Converts RTF, but ugly

  Word Docs as Help Files

  How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

  Object containers/reference embedding.

 Jump Colors!

 Help hierarchies

  WHAT6.???

 WinHelp Archives

  MidTopic Jumps

  MidTopic Jumps

  Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

  Only 2 Open windows at once?

  Windows Help-Builders

  MidTopic Jumps

  Help hierarchies

 HyperHelp 4 released (Announcement)

 Help graphics and a MAC

  Bugs? or am I missing something?

 Hypertext Help-like Documents

  Jump Colors!

  Good Help Authoring Software ?

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

 Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

  Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

  Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

  Hypertext Help-like Documents

 Inter File HELP Jump and PopUp

  Help System Utility

  WinHelp mulitple links.

  Help System Utility

  User manual *and* online help

  Hypertext Help-like Documents

  Help System Utility

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  Jump Colors!

 Jumping to topics in other files?

  Using Database

  Jumping to topics in other files?

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

 Really Weird Problem --> Please download and view WinHelp test file

  WinHelp mulitple links.

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

 Question on the starting Windows size

  Question on the starting Windows size

 DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

  DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

  DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  Collapsing effects???

  Templates for word

 Command line switches for WINHELP.EXE

 New Version of VB HelpWriter!!

  Command line switches for WINHELP.EXE

 Keyword search >> 2ndary windows

 Getting Started in Visual Help

 Hotspots not hot--help!

 Help help

  Jump Colors!

 Invoking help from VBW - how to open at dif. ID?

 WINHELP: Creating a jump = Find area

  Collapsing effects? (with HyperTrack 4.1)

 Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  WINHELP: Creating a jump = Find area

  Help problems from Hell

 rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

 Jumps in Popups

  Various questions

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 Wanted: .HLP-editor

  Command line switches for WINHELP.EXE

 Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

  WinHelp File Format

 How to make file folders open and close

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 The Future of Help - 2

  Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

  Planning On-Line Help in Windows

  Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

 Viewer and WFW 6.0a questions

  Jumps in Popups

  Jumps in Popups

 Advice on Help Authoring Tools Please

  Jumps in Popups

  Anybody seen ForHelp?

  Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

 How to change LINK-COLOR ?

  How to change LINK-COLOR ?

  How to change LINK-COLOR ?

  Collapsing effects???

 RTF Files

 other undocumented winhelp macros

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

 need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  winhelp bmp hotspots: how do _you_ do it ?

 Loading external text  -  helpsend.txt [1/1]  -  helpsend.txt [1/1]

  Loading external text  -  helpsend.txt [1/1]  -  helpsend.txt [1/1]

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  Using 2ndary window to display topic from oth

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  buttons in client-area

  Jumps in Popups

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Jumps in Popups

 An Even Better Way (Creating great looking tables in WinHelp)

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

 Windows Help RTFs -> HTMLs

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

  Windows Help RTFs -> HTMLs

 Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

 Quest 5 Windows Press Text

 help files losing colour

  Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

  HLP -> WWW?

  DLL to scroll the Winhelp window

  help files losing colour

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 VB Helpwriter ?'s

  VB Helpwriter ?'s

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  I need Help

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scal

  Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

  compiling help files

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  Audio help

 [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 button does macro + original task?

  button does macro + original task?

  KnowledgeBase-style interface

 More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

  More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

 Macros in Jumps

 .HLP internals - "Character" offsets?

  WinHelp file size???

  Second Help Windows

  The FAQ

 Commercial

  help files losing colour

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

  help files losing colour

 Executing a windows program from another one.

  help files losing colour

  help files losing colour

 HLP -> WWW?

  HLP -> WWW?

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

 Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 QUESTIONS

  QUESTIONS

  QUESTIONS

  HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

 "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  QUESTIONS

 D:\COMPWH\SRC\9404\50.944

  Windows help file questions

 Change default colors?

  Change default colors?

  Change default colors?

  Change default colors?

  help compiler

 "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

  QUESTIONS

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 helllp22.zip - Help File Author Tool for WinWord 2.0 & 6.0

 Can you use a path to find the file? Re: hyperlinks between hlp Files

  Can you use a path to find the file? Re: hyperlinks between hlp Files

  Help for both Mac and Windows?

  Help files in Chicago

 DWHAT2.0 for WinWord 6.0 Released

 How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

  How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

  How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

  How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

 Sound in Help

  Concurrent Authoring System

 How do you fix ugly graphics?

  Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

  How do you fix ugly graphics?

 One warning message per compile?

  One warning message per compile?

  Viewer 2.0 experts?

 Your winhlp-l posting re: Sound in Help

  Doc-To-Help and other help programs

  ForeHelp

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  --> Password Protect a Help File?

  Returning a non-zero value from winhelp?

  Viewer 2.0 experts?

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

 Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) !!

  Hypergraph and Secondary window

 hyperlinks between hlp Files

  hyperlinks between hlp Files

  hyperlinks between hlp Files

 Bugs? or am I missing something?

  Printing entire .hlp files

  tables in help files

  Help hierarchies

  WinHelp File Format

 Winhelp and Visual Basic

  Winhelp and Visual Basic

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen

 How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

  Help hierarchies

 New VB HelpWriter release (FREE help tool)

 SHED Editor Macros?

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen


User Group MACROS

  winhelp docs to html converters

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Prin

  Lotus AMI Pro??

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

  Let's share .rtf and .rc files

  Let's share .rtf and .rc files

  How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

  Object containers/reference embedding.

  Lotus AMI Pro??

  Special Characters in Help File

  Windows Help-Builders

 Winhelp and using DLL's

  Only 2 Open windows at once?

  Help not on top

 Help graphics and a MAC

 VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

  --> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

  --> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

 Create/Change button macros

  Create/Change button macros

  Create/Change button macros

  Help System Utility

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

 Botton to print all the topic in help file

  more buttons in help?

 using the ExecProgram macro

  User manual *and* online help

 undocumented macros

  Help Authoring Tool

 Proposal: Special characters

  LSeekHF function

  more buttons in help?

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 Manipulating the History List

  Color Common Dialog help button

 Get topic from command line?

  Expiration of Help files??

 Really Weird Problem with Smart Quotes/Special characters

 Really Weird Problem --> Please download and view WinHelp test file

  Help - Multiplatform

  WinHelp mulitple links.

  Question on the starting Windows size

  winhelp -> text??? help!

  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  Collapsing effects???

  Get topic from command line?

 other books on winhelp?

  WinHLP Undocumented Stuff??

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

  Expiration of Help files??

 Using JumpID with a secondary window

  Templates for word

  Expiration of Help files??

  Program to display 256 color pictures -- which?

 New Version of VB HelpWriter!!

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

  Help - Multiplatform

  Command line switches for WINHELP.EXE

 Writing DLLs for WinHelp

  Keyword search jumpst

  Writing DLLs for WinHelp

 Keyword search >> 2ndary windows

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

 FAQ

 HelpGen Windows Help File Generator Released

 JumpId() doesn't work (sometimes)

  Collapsing effects? (with HyperTrack 4.1)

  using the ExecProgram macro

  WINHELP: Creating a jump = Find area

  JumpId() doesn't work (sometimes)

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

 [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 Extracting Baggage form a Help File

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 Doc To Help's Watermark 'feature'

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

 Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

  Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

 Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 How to make file folders open and close

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Proposal: Special characters

  Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

  Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

  Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

  undocumented macros

  Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

  Clickable maps in help files

 Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

 Macros

 Cue Cards: cleaning up some MS boogers

  Extracting Baggage form a Help File

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

 Button Arrangements

 RTF Files

 Button Arrangements

 other undocumented winhelp macros

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  ForeHelp macros

  Display Search Box As Per Keyword?

 ifthenelse macro

  Loading external text  -  helpsend.txt [1/1]  -  helpsend.txt [1/1]

  Hidden paragraph?

  ifthenelse macro

  OS/2 Help Authoring Tools

  buttons in client-area

 Winhelp : Adding menus

 Menu seperator

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Menu seperator

  Menu seperator

 ExtInsertItem

  Menu seperator

 ForeHelp macros

 Macro Recorder

  Using 2ndary window to display topic from other .HLP

 Display Search Box As Per Keyword?

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

 Using 2ndary window to display topic from other .HLP

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

 Interactive Winhelp

  Jim Michel in VB

 Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

  Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

  DLL to scroll the Winhelp window

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 Word 2.0c macros

 DLL to scroll the Winhelp window

  I need Help

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  500K DOC 2 HELP demo

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  winhelp docs to html converters

 Dll's, Exe's and Menu's in Help files

 Configuring WHPE to use HCP.EXE

  500K DOC 2 HELP demo

  Macro Recorder

  Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

 programmatic hotspot creation - SHED?

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 GPF in Windows/WinHelp when using dynamic dialogs

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 DLL Path

 [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  DLL Path

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 button does macro + original task?

 Save as .rtf and as .doc via macro in Winword 2

  button does macro + original task?

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Dll's, Exe's and Menu's in Help files

  need format of the *.HLP file

  winhelp docs to html converters

 footnote in Viewer2

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 Secondary Windows on Star

  Secondary Windows on Star

 Macros in Jumps

  Second Help Windows

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Buttons in the menu-bar ?

  The FAQ

 Commercial

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

 Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  Buttons in the menu-bar ?

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

 WinHelp() vs. FAPI()

  Mystifying Memory Problem...

  QUESTIONS

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 winhelp docs to html converters

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format

  Windows help file questions

  other books on winhelp?

  Macros

 *.hpj file stuff

  Macros

  On-Line Books: how to create?

  On-Line Books: how to create?

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 Patch for using MS Help Project Editor with Word 6

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 Can you use a path to find the file? Re: hyperlinks between hlp Files

 Long: Word 2 -> Word 6 (was Re: Help Files for WHAT6)

 macros in [config] section

  macros in [config] section

  WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

  WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?

  How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

  How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

  WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

 Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

  Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

  Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

 Sound in Help

 All Symbols Work For Me -- Why for me and not for others?

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?

  Using FrameMaker to author help files

 Message Boxes

  Message Boxes

 Ever beamed Win messages at a VB app from Help?

 Your winhlp-l posting re: Sound in Help

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  Need scroll bars

  Returning a non-zero value from winhelp?

 Macro convert

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?

  Minimized Startup of a Help File

  Minimized Startup of a Help File

 HyperTrack 4.1: Expanding WinHelp's horizon..

  Minimized Startup of a Help File

  hyperlinks between hlp Files

  hyperlinks between hlp Files

 Erratic behavior of PopUp HotSpots. Any ideas why?

  Printing entire .hlp files

  VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

  Quote characters in Winhelp

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printabl

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printabl

 How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

 SHED Editor Macros?

  Quote characters in Winhelp

  SHED Editor Macros?

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen

 Current help compiler version


User Group MM_VIEWER

 newgroup comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

 MediaView is out - Can't find it!

 WinHelp for Windows Chicago (4.0) -- what's the scoop?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 WinHelp w/ Media Viewer 2

  WinHelp w/ Media Viewer 2

  ToolBook

 Create .hlp files using Multimedia Viewer?

  Create .hlp files using Multimedia Viewer?

 First Post

  Graphical Help Builder

  Graphical Help Builder

 HyperHelp 4 released (Announcement)

  Graphical Help Builder

  Help-files with full text search ?

  Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top

 Windows Multimedia Viewer 2.0

  Help-files with full text search ?

 newgroup comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

  Windows Multimedia Viewer 2.0

  [Q] Beginner's Question

  Help-files with full text search ?

  [Q] Beginner's Question

  winhelp with parameter?

  [Q] Beginner's Question

  winhelp with parameter?

  [Q] Beginner's Question

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  Multi platform help

 A Red Ribbon For Your Help (was Re: Need Full-text Search Files)

  Need Full-text Search Files

  ToolBook

  Multi platform help

  256 Colours

  what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

 Q: Licensing fonts for multimedia applications

 How to create large titles with Multimedia Viewer 2.0?

  256 Colours

  How to create large titles with Multimedia Viewer 2.0?

 Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top

  Help-files with full text search ?

  Writing DLLs for WinHelp

  Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top

  Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Chicago Help compatability

 Ralph Walden, Please Post!!!!!

  Ralph Walden, me too! (was Re: Chicago Help compatability)

 Slow avivideo loading in Viewer

 Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

 Sub- and Superscript fonts (AGAIN)

 Viewer: hierarchical folders/topics in contents

 Multimedia Viewer Search Engine replacement

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

 MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

 Various Help Questions

  Slow avivideo loading in Viewer

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

 rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

 Ralph Walden, me too! (was Re: Chicago Help compatability)

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

 Various questions

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

  Various questions

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

 MediaView and Chicago's WinHelp

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  MediaView and Chicago's WinHelp

  MediaView and Chicago's WinHelp

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

  The Future of Help

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

  The Future of Help (long)

  Multilayered list problem

 Helpfile viewer with full text search

 Viewer and WFW 6.0a questions

  Helpfile viewer with full text search

  Helpfile viewer with full text search

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

  Viewer and WFW 6.0a questions

  Helpfile viewer with full text search

 Search multiple HLP files?

  Search multiple HLP files?

 Viewer Reccomendation?

  looking for wc31.exe!

 regarding HideMenuBar(),etc

 MM Viewer

  MM Viewer

  MM Viewer

  MM Viewer

  WinHelp File Format

 --> Table Borders in WinHelp

 MS-Viewer setup.exe

  MS-Viewer setup.exe

  Request assistance with help system

 --> WMF (Metafiles) Do Work Great for Tables, etc.

 HELPMON.C

 REQUEST: Doc check for Viewer2

  Jim Michel in VB

  Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?

 New newsgroup comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

  Unix .hlp viewer?

 MediaView...have I been in a cave?

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

 WinHelp / Multimedia Viewer 2.0  availability and price

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

 Cross-platform MediaView ???

 Calling Viewer experts...

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scal

  Multimedia Viewer

  buttons in client-area

  Full-Text Search in WinHelp?

  Multimedia Viewer

 Buttons, Mouse (Viewer 2.0)

  MS Multimedia Viewer 2.0

  Buttons, Mouse (Viewer 2.0)

  MVPUBKIT

 WinHelp viewer for DOS

  WinHelp viewer for DOS

  WinHelp viewer for DOS

 footnote in Viewer2

  WinHelp viewer for DOS

 .HLP internals - "Character" offsets?

  WinHelp viewer for DOS

  DIB palettes in WinHelp/Viewer (was re:256 colors in .hlp file NO .dl

  MS KB ommision (was footnote in Viewer2)

 ExecProgram in Viewer?? Problem with Paths

  The FAQ

  WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

 WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

 Commercial

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

  WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

  .HLP internals - "Character" offsets?

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format

  Winhelp on MAC ?   Yeah but...

  HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

 Third Post

 Table Dialog?

  Windows help file questions

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  List of Different RTF Compilers?

 D:\COMPWH\SRC\9404\63.944

  Unix .hlp viewer

  Unix .hlp viewer?

  Unix .hlp viewer?

  Unix .hlp viewer?

  On-Line Books: how to create?

  On-Line Books: how to create?

  WinHelp File Format

  How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

  Winhelp on MAC ?   Yeah but...

 This Newsgroup

 Patch for using MS Help Project Editor with Word 6

 This Newsgroup

  This Newsgroup

  Smart quotes (was: This Newsgroup)

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  This Newsgroup

 How do you make a word-breaker for viewer?

 Help files in Chicago

  Help files in Chicago

 Help files in Chicago

 Mac Viewer ??

  Help for NT

  Help files in Chicago

  Help files in Chicago

  Help files in Chicago

  Mac Viewer ??

 viewer FAQ?

  Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?

 Long: Word 2 -> Word 6 (was Re: Help Files for WHAT6)

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  Help files in Chicago

  Help files in Chicago

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

  associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

 Viewer 2.0 experts?

  Help files in Chicago

 Fonts in Winhelp

  associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

  Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?

  Bitmaps print in black/white

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  Viewer 2.0 experts?

  Viewer 2.0 experts?

 Your winhlp-l posting re: Sound in Help

 Warning From uucp

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  Looking for Multimedia Viewer

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Multimedia Viewer Development Kit - where?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  Multimedia Viewer Development Kit - where?

  RTF doc viewer?

  RTF doc viewer?

  Viewer 2.0 experts?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  Help and Viewer on NT?

  Help hierarchies

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  Winhelp on Unix?

 Viewer


User Group MULTIMEDIA

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Prin

 WinHelp for Windows Chicago (4.0) -- what's the scoop?

  MediaView (MM Viewer 3.0)

  Request for Criticism

  Help using DLL

  Request for Criticism

  Request for Criticism

  Let's share .rtf and .rc files

 Object containers/reference embedding.

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Avi

 AVI Hotspot Editor?

 Anyone have time for a project?

 WinHelp w/ Media Viewer 2

  WinHelp w/ Media Viewer 2

  ToolBook

 Create .hlp files using Multimedia Viewer?

  Create .hlp files using Multimedia Viewer?

 First Post

  Graphical Help Builder

  Graphical Help Builder

 HyperHelp 4 released (Announcement)

  Jump Colors!

  Graphical Help Builder

 Windows Multimedia Viewer 2.0

  Windows Multimedia Viewer 2.0

  Help-files with full text search ?

  Windows Multimedia Viewer 2.0

  Help System Utility

 [Q] Beginner's Question

  [Q] Beginner's Question

  Help-files with full text search ?

  [Q] Beginner's Question

  winhelp with parameter?

  [Q] Beginner's Question

  winhelp with parameter?

  [Q] Beginner's Question

  List of Different RTF Compilers?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  Jump Colors!

 A Red Ribbon For Your Help (was Re: Need Full-text Search Files)

  ToolBook

  what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  AVI Hotspot Editor?

  Templates for word

 Q: Licensing fonts for multimedia applications

 How to create large titles with Multimedia Viewer 2.0?

  256 Colours

  How to create large titles with Multimedia Viewer 2.0?

  Jump Colors!

  Help-files with full text search ?

 Windows boot-up graphic change

  Jump Colors!

 Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

 Viewer: hierarchical folders/topics in contents

 Multimedia Viewer Search Engine replacement

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Slow avivideo loading in Viewer

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  The Future of Help (long)

 Viewer and WFW 6.0a questions

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 Viewer Reccomendation?

  MM Viewer

  MM Viewer

  MM Viewer

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Edit copy of large topics

 Quest 5 Windows Press Text

 ANNOUNCE: Help Assistant 3.3 Available

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  Edit copy of large topics

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

 Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

 WinHelp / Multimedia Viewer 2.0  availability and price

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

  Full Text search in Help files

 Multimedia Viewer

 Multimedia Viewer

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scal

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font

  Multimedia Viewer

  Audio help

  Audio help

 Full-Text Search in WinHelp?

  Full-Text Search in WinHelp?

  Audio help

  Audio help

  Audio help

  Commercial Authoring Tools

  Multimedia Viewer

  mmsystem.dll

  Buttons, Mouse (Viewer 2.0)

  MVPUBKIT

  mmsystem.dll

 Buttons in the menu-bar ?

 footnote in Viewer2

 .WAV Files in HLP

  DIB palettes in WinHelp/Viewer (was re:256 colors in .hlp file NO .dl

 ExecProgram in Viewer?? Problem with Paths

  Viewer, would you use it?

  Buttons in the menu-bar ?

  The FAQ

  WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

 Commercial

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

 WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

  WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

  Buttons in the menu-bar ?

  List of Different RTF Compilers?

  How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format

  List of Different RTF Compilers?

  List of Different RTF Compilers?

 Third Post

 Table Dialog?

  Windows help file questions

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  List of Different RTF Compilers?

 D:\COMPWH\SRC\9404\63.944

  On-Line Books: how to create?

  On-Line Books: how to create?

 Writing Style Guidelines for Online Information Systems

  How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 helllp22.zip - Help File Author Tool for WinWord 2.0 & 6.0

 Capture a sequence of screens?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  Capture a sequence of screens?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  Writing Style Guidelines for Online Information Systems

 How do you make a word-breaker for viewer?

 Help files in Chicago

  Help files in Chicago

  Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

 Help files in Chicago

 Mac Viewer ??

  Help files in Chicago

  Help files in Chicago

  Help files in Chicago

  Mac Viewer ??

  Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  Help files in Chicago

  Help files in Chicago

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  Lotus Screencam

  Lotus Screencam

 Sound in Help

 Viewer 2.0 experts?

  Lotus Screencam

  Lotus Screencam

  Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

  Help files in Chicago

  Lotus Screencam

  Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?

  Message Boxes

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  Viewer 2.0 experts?

  Viewer 2.0 experts?

 Your winhlp-l posting re: Sound in Help

  Looking for Source Control Tool

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Looking for Multimedia Viewer

  Looking for Multimedia Viewer

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  Looking for Multimedia Viewer

 Multimedia Viewer Development Kit - where?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  Multimedia Viewer Development Kit - where?

 HELP - Macro Problem

  HELP - Macro Problem

  Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

  HELP - Macro Problem

  Viewer 2.0 experts?

 Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) !!

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Cross-platform multimedia

  help compiler

 wav and winhelp

  Help and Viewer on NT?

  Doc-To-Help and other help programs

  Doc-To-Help vs RoboHELP

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  Full-text search

 How are MS Previews made?

  How are MS Previews made?

 NEW: Help Assistant 3.1 - Plays AVI files

 Help using DLL


User Group POPUPS

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Prin

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

  How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

  Help hierarchies

 Inter File HELP Jump and PopUp

  Help System Utility

  WinHelp mulitple links.

  User manual *and* online help

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

  WinHelp mulitple links.

  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

 HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

  HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

  Templates for word

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

  Planning On-Line Help in Windows

 Viewer and WFW 6.0a questions

  Jumps in Popups

  Jumps in Popups

  Jumps in Popups

 Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  How to change LINK-COLOR ?

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

 need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  Jumps in Popups

  Jumps in Popups

 An Even Better Way (Creating great looking tables in WinHelp)

 Programmatic WinHelp

  winhelp bmp hotspots:  how do _you_ do it ?

  Programmatic WinHelp

 Anyone using ForeHelp?

 More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

  More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

  The FAQ

 Commercial

 Change default colors?

  Change default colors?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 helllp22.zip - Help File Author Tool for WinWord 2.0 & 6.0

 Patch for using MS Help Project Editor with Word 6

 Long: Word 2 -> Word 6 (was Re: Help Files for WHAT6)

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

 HyperTrack 4.1: Expanding WinHelp's horizon..

 Erratic behavior of PopUp HotSpots. Any ideas why?

  Erratic behavior of PopUp HotSpots. Any ideas why?

  Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

 Winhelp and Visual Basic

  Winhelp and Visual Basic

 How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen


User Group SEARCH

 Does any tool handle Keywords well?

  Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Prin

  Does any tool handle Keywords well?

  Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

  Does any tool handle Keywords well?

  WHAT6.???

  MidTopic Jumps

  Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

 HyperHelp 4 released (Announcement)

 Looking for structure of Winhelp

  Keyword search jumpst

  Help-files with full text search ?

  Looking for structure of Winhelp

  Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

  Help-files with full text search ?

  Help System Utility

  Help-files with full text search ?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

  what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

  Help System Utility

  Dithering colors

  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  Templates for word

 Keyword search jumpst

  Keyword search jumpst

 Help-files with full text search ?

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  How can I get 'Search' window directly?

 Add help in MSVC?

  Ralph Walden, me too! (was Re: Chicago Help compatability)

  REQUEST: Shareware help compiler

 Multimedia Viewer Search Engine replacement

  Help problems from Hell

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format

 [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  Printing .hlp files...

 Various questions

  Help and documentation

  Various questions

  Help and documentation

  Help and documentation

 Change buttons names

  WinHelp File Format

  Change buttons names

  Change buttons names

  Multilayered list problem

  Planning On-Line Help in Windows

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

 Helpfile viewer with full text search

  Helpfile viewer with full text search

  Helpfile viewer with full text search

  Helpfile viewer with full text search

 Help and documentation

 Search multiple HLP files?

  Search multiple HLP files?

 Cue Cards: cleaning up some MS boogers

  Help and documentation

 Viewer Reccomendation?

 need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  Display Search Box As Per Keyword?

 Problems with Windows HLP-files

  WinHelp File Format

  Using 2ndary window to display topic from oth

 Winhelp Full Text Search

 Answer: VB  Help/ContextId WinHelp

  Winhelp Full Text Search

 Is HCP.EXE available by FTP?

 Display Search Box As Per Keyword?

  LaTeX -> WINHELP S/W ?

 Multi-File Keyword Search

 full text

  Multi-File Keyword Search

  full text

  full text

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  full text

 WinHelp / Multimedia Viewer 2.0  availability and price

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

  Full Text search in Help files

 Full-Text Search in WinHelp?

  Full-Text Search in WinHelp?

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  The FAQ

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Winhelp Full Text Search

  WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

 Full Text search in Help files

 Jim Michel in VB

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 Help DLLs

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Help DLLs

 How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

  How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format

 Table Dialog?

  Windows help file questions

  WinHelp File Format

  WinHelp File Format

 How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

  How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

 Patch for using MS Help Project Editor with Word 6

  Smart quotes (was: This Newsgroup)

  Help files in Chicago

  Help for NT

  Help files in Chicago

 Long: Word 2 -> Word 6 (was Re: Help Files for WHAT6)

  WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

  WinHelp File Format

  WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

  WinHelp File Format

 Another patch to WHPE.EXE for Word 6.0 users

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 Need help with bug when COMPRESS=HIGH is set

  Help! SetIndex and SetContents

  Looking for Multimedia Viewer

 Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

  Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

 Help/Search ... - How can it be done?

  Help/Search ... - how can it be done?

  Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

  TOC windows with help (+ more!)

  Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program


User Group VISUAL

 Visual Help?

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

  Visual Help?

 VB And Help Topics.

  Visual Help?

  ForeHelp demo in Australia?

  ForeHelp demo in Australia?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Jump Colors!

  help compiler

  Windows Help-Builders

  Windows Help-Builders

  Windows Help-Builders

  Windows Help-Builders

 Visual Basic: Question

  Location of HC505

  Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

 Hypertext Help-like Documents

  Good Help Authoring Software ?

 help compiler

 Creating On-Line Books

  Creating On-Line Books

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

  Help authoring tools FAQ etc.

  Hypertext Help-like Documents

 Beginner at WINHELP

  Good Help Authoring Software ?

 Visual WinHelp Designer/Tool?

  Visual WinHelp Designer/Tool?

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  Visual WinHelp Designer/Tool?

 Proposal: Special characters

  Helpfile Template or project Maker

  Hypertext Help-like Documents

  Help Writer Assistant?

  more buttons in help?

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  Out of Memory errors

  Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

  Multi platform help

  MFC AfxMessageBoxes

  Expiration of Help files??

  Help compiler????

  what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

  Using Database

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

 Data Acquisition project !help!

  Help font

  Dithering colors

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

 How to install Visual Help or Help Pre Compiler

 New Version of VB HelpWriter!!

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

 Getting Started in Visual Help

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

 Add help in MSVC?

 FAQ

 Invoking help from VBW - how to open at dif. ID?

  WINHELP: Creating a jump = Find area

  On-Line Books?? Authoring???

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  [Q] How to do "title bar"?

 ** Q:  Can a Hitachi CD ROM drive #CDR-1503S work with Windows? **

  [Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

  howto make a .HLP

  REQUEST: Shareware help compiler?

  RTF Editors

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  [Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

  Getting Started in Visual Help

  MediaView and Chicago's WinHelp

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  looking for wc31.exe!

 Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

  Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

  Collapsing effects???

  Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

  HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

 How to make file folders open and close

  Color Limitations

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  Looking for help authoring tools

  UNIX Help Authoring Tools

  Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

  Clickable maps in help files

  HDK - inserting pictures

  Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

  MS Copyrights

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Data Acquisition project !help!

  ** Q:  Can a Hitachi CD ROM drive #CDR-1503S work with Windows? **

 ** WANTED To Buy:  Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5 **

  looking for wc31.exe!

  big *.hlp?

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

  hlpdc137.zip location ?

  From *.hlp to *.rft

  .wri and .hlp to asc converter for UNIX ??

 HC31 wont compile my old help files

  MM Viewer

  HC31 wont compile my old help files

  bg colour in nonscroll re

  ForeHelp macros

  MM Viewer

  ForeHelp macros

  buttons in client-area

  Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

  How do I find ForeHelp?

  Pictures in .hlp

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  buttons in client-area

  Documentation on HC

  CENTERING GRAPHICS

 Answer: VB  Help/ContextId WinHelp

 Out of Memory Error

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Menu seperator

  .hlp uncompile (reverse engineer)

  help compiler

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  256 color bitmaps, HOW?

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Good Help Editor ?

  Jim Michel in VB

 was: help menu option in OWL2, now: RTF format

 Multi-File Keyword Search

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  Winword 6.0 to RTF

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  Jim Michel in VB

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

 Quest 5 Windows Press Text

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

  Help Compiler

  HLP -> WWW?

 ANNOUNCE: Help Assistant 3.3 Available

  was: help menu option in OWL2, now: RTF format

  Multi-File Keyword Search

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  can't get [Windows] main= statement to work

  full text

 RFP: WinHelp fixed price contract for VB Application (SF Bay Area)

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  error 5059

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  WordPerfect to Winhelp

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

  Full Text search in Help files

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  WinHelp in 256 colors?

  Problem compiling large help files

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  Dll's, Exe's and Menu's in Help files

  Out of Memory Error

 Browse Sequence Problems...

  Browse Sequence Problems...

  compiling help files

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  Browse Sequence Problems...

 UnCommercial compilers

  Is the Help Compiler redistributable?

  compiling help files

  UnCommercial compilers

  Creating help files

  Commercial Authoring Tools

 Buttons, Mouse (Viewer 2.0)

  mmsystem.dll

  UnCommercial compilers

  UnCommercial compilers

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  Buttons, Mouse (Viewer 2.0)

  Bug? ExecProgram in Config vs HotSpot

  KnowledgeBase-style interface

  need format of the *.HLP file

  More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

  Subscripts/indexes unknown ???

  More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in

  Making a help file

  RTF Files with Winword 6.0

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  replacement for shed?

 WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

  WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

  WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

  Second Help Windows

  WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

  The FAQ

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

 Commercial

  Creating help files

  help menu option in OWL2

 Jim Michel in VB

  No subject

  No subject

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  Buttons in the menu-bar ?

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 doc2help vs robohelp

  help compiler

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format

  help compiler

  Windows help file questions

  How to write Help files.

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups

 D:\COMPWH\SRC\9404\63.944

  Packaging .HLP files for distribution

  Visual Help?

  help compiler

  help compiler

 doc2help vs robohelp

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Windows Programming

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 furture help

  furture help

 Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?

  Re:This Newsgroup

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

 Sound in Help

  Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

 Fonts in Winhelp

  Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

 Help i need help on Help files

 Help i need help on Help files

  Message Boxes

  posting by non-subscriber

 TOC windows with help

 Your winhlp-l posting re: Sound in Help

 Warning From uucp

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Missing Bullets in help file - AmiPro 3.01, WinHelp

 "Console"-type window for Windows App?

 OS/2 and Visual C++ 1.1

  Calling Winhelp.exe to find a specific topic - How do I?

  Names of commercial/shareware compilers?

 Vis C++ Bug?

  Vis C++ Bug?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Help/Search ... - How can it be done?

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  Where to get HDK?

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Borland or Microsoft...need help

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?

  Borland or Microsoft...need help

  Printing entire .hlp files

  Borland or Microsoft...need help

  Borland or Microsoft...need help

  Visual Basic: Question

 Winhelp and Visual Basic

  Winhelp and Visual Basic

 Windows Help-Builders

 New VB HelpWriter release (FREE help tool)

 Visual C++, Std or Prof Edition????


User Group WHAT

  WHAT6.???

  WHAT6.???

  WHAT6.???

 [Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find what6.zip?

  [Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find what6.zip?

  [Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find wh

 Where is WHAT6.ZIP?

  what6 - error starting word6.0

  what6 - error starting word6.0

 WHAT6

  WHAT6

 Where's the files?

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

 WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?

  WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?

  WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?

  WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?

 Long: Word 2 -> Word 6 (was Re: Help Files for WHAT6)

 pLeasE hELpmE

  pLeasE hELpmE

 What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  Non-FTP sight for WHAT.ZIP??

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?


User Group WORD

  Robohelp to The Rescue!

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Prin

  Word Docs as Help Files

 secondary help window buttons

  Request for Criticism

  WHAT2

  WHAT2

  converting doc to .hlp?

  Request for Criticism

 Let's share .rtf and .rc files

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

  Visual Help?

 WHAT6.???

  Let's share .rtf and .rc files

 MICROSOFT Help Authoring Tool: fix for WORD4Win 6.0 required.

  Let's share .rtf and .rc files

  Let's share .rtf and .rc files

 Word Docs as Help Files

 Word 2.0 Converts RTF, but ugly

  Word 2.0 Converts RTF, but ugly

  Word Docs as Help Files

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  Object containers/reference embedding.

  Lotus AMI Pro??

  WHAT6.???

  WHAT6.???

 MidTopic Jumps

  MidTopic Jumps

 Only 2 Open windows at once?

  MidTopic Jumps

  Only 2 Open windows at once?

 Winhelp and using DLL's

 Lotus Amipro

  graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

 HyperHelp 4 released (Announcement)

  graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

  Windows Help-Builders

 Chinese Word for Windows and Help Compiler

 Help Magician

  Convert .hlp file to text file?

  Help hierarchies

  Bugs? or am I missing something?

  Convert .hlp file to text file?

  VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

 Jagged edges in captured bitmaps

  Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

 Where to find HC505.zip - Again.

  Chinese Word for Windows and Help Compiler

  Word Docs as Help Files

  Help authoring tools FAQ etc.

  Help-files with full text search ?

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

 enumeration under Word 6.0

 non-scrolling region error

 Beginner at WINHELP

  Adding help to application

 Button macro to launch Word 6

  Button macro to launch Word 6

 WinWord 6.0 and RTF files

  WinWord 6.0 and RTF files

  enumeration under Word 6.0

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  WinWord 6.0 and RTF files

  User manual *and* online help

 Violation, WORD6,RTFMod,HCP!!

  Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

  User manual *and* online help

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  Comparing versions of RTF files

  User manual *and* online help

  User manual *and* online help

  Help Authoring Tool

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  VBX Needed: Convert an RTF to MSWord?

 quote char

  quote char

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  Looking for a help decompiler

  Help System Utility

  Proposal: Special characters

  Button macro to launch Word 6

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  Help System Utility

  Multi platform help

  Dithering colors

 what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

 Converting GML to RTF

 Bullet lists in help files

 Does WPWin work to author help files?

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

  what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

  Help - Multiplatform

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

  Help font

  ToolBook

  Dithering colors

  Help font

 Help Assistent: ha31s

  Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

  winhelp -> text??? help!

  Dithering colors

  Help font

  Help font

 Problem with HCP.EXE

  Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.

  Help System Utility

  Problem with HCP.EXE

 Word Docs As Help Files

  what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

  Dithering colors

  Conundrum Corner

  Help font

  Problem with HCP.EXE

  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  Collapsing effects???

  Problem with HCP.EXE

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

 Source for Boggan/Farkas/Welinske Book?

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

 Templates for word

  Expiration of Help files??

  Templates for word

  Bullet lists in help files

  design .hlp with WPwin5.2?

  Templates for word

 New Version of VB HelpWriter!!

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

  Help - Multiplatform

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

  Bullet lists in help files

 Keyword search >> 2ndary windows

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

 real buttons

  RTF Editors

 Multilayered list problem

  Jump Colors!

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

 can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

  can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

 FAQ

  can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

  REQUEST: Shareware help compiler?

  Help problems from Hell

 HelpGen Windows Help File Generator Released

  Collapsing effects? (with HyperTrack 4.1)

 On-Line Books?? Authoring???

  On-Line Books?? Authoring???

 Multimedia Viewer Search Engine replacement

 Word 2.0 TOC Style probs.

 HELP! Revision Marks Sidebar: How to change it?

  Anybody seen ForHelp?

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  Help and documentation

  [Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find wh

 [Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

  [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  Printing .hlp files...

  [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  [Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

  howto make a .HLP

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  HyperTrack 4.1: Expanding WinHelp's horizon..

 Microsoft announces SGML support

  [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  [Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  [Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

 Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

  Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

  FOLIO VIEWS (Was: On-Line Books?? Authoring???)

  Help and documentation

  Various questions

  Microsoft announces SGML support

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

  Getting Started in Visual Help

  Multilayered list problem

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

  can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

  Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

 Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

  Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

  Help and documentation

  Word 2.0 TOC Style probs.

  Multilayered list problem

  The Future of Help (long)

  Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

 help with Browse

  looking for wc31.exe!

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Multilayered list problem

  HCPARSE.DLL

  Looking for help authoring tools

  Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

 Size- Doc to help

  Problem with HCP.EXE

  Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

 Advice on Help Authoring Tools Please

  Size- Doc to help

  Dithering colors

 Where is WHAT6.ZIP?

 Problems: WINHELP "How To" and HP DJ500 series printer driver.

 HC31 out of memory

  Help and documentation

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  HC31 out of memory

 Viewer Reccomendation?

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  Problems: WINHELP "How To" and HP DJ500 series printer driver.

  hc31.exe error?

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  HC31 out of memory

 hlp2doc

  .wri and .hlp to asc converter for UNIX ??

 Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

  Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

  Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

  Dashes won't display?

 most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

  ifthenelse macro

  Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  Hidden paragraph?

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  OS/2 Help Authoring Tools

 Making Windows 3.0 help files with Word 6?

 Reusing information with MS Word (overheads in return for help)

 placing a picture and having text wrap around it?

 Using BMP-to-WMF in Help

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

 Is HCP.EXE available by FTP?

  .hlp uncompile (reverse engineer)

  .wri and .hlp to asc converter for UNIX ??

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Where to buy Robohelp?

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Winhelp on MAC ?

  Request assistance with help system

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

 An Even Better Way (Creating great looking tables in WinHelp)

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  how to get bmc to work with hc31?

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  LaTeX -> WINHELP S/W ?

  .hlp to .txt?

 Windows Help RTFs -> HTMLs

 was: help menu option in OWL2, now: RTF format

  DocToHelp - where?

  Windows Help RTFs -> HTMLs

 DocToHelp - Long Compile Times was: DocToHelp - where?

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

 HELP ! Windows problems......

 ANNOUNCE: Help Assistant 3.3 Available

  RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

 DocToHelp - Long Compile Times was: DocToHelp - where?

  Windows Help compiler?

 CBT Recording and Playback

  I need Help

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  winhelp docs to html converters

 Configuring WHPE to use HCP.EXE

  Bug?...word wrap wrong

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  Commercial Authoring Tools

 Bug?...word wrap wrong

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Bug?...word wrap wrong

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  UnCommercial compilers

  UnCommercial compilers

  Bug?...word wrap wrong

  UnCommercial compilers

 [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  Robohelp to The Rescue!

  DLL Path

 Build tags and non-scrolling region

  UnCommercial compilers

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

 Help with W.H.A.T. 6?

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  winhelp docs to html converters

  More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in

  Making a help file

  sgml, html, and winhelp

  RTF Files with Winword 6.0

 footnote in Viewer2

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 Macros in Jumps

 v. 505 ... Quirks or Features?!

  MS KB ommision (was footnote in Viewer2)

  Where to get Dr. Help ?

 Quirks or Features?!

 How do I re-configure a Winhelp file for viewing on a Mac?

  Build tags and non-scrolling region

  OLE & dde compatable applets

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  The FAQ

  RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

 Commercial

  Out of Memory Error (I Beg to differ you all)

  help files losing colour

  help menu option in OWL2

  help files losing colour

 RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

 Using dde commands to activate other programs

 hlp2doc version 1.22 available

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

 Weird kerning in MS Word screen font

  how to get bmc to work with hc31?

  Mystifying Memory Problem...

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  Winhelp on MAC ?

  Floating Table of Contents?

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  help compiler

  Weird kerning in MS Word screen font

  "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

  doc2help vs robohelp

  Help for both Mac and Windows?

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format

  Winhelp on MAC ?   Yeah but...

  Adding help to application

  Converting a help file to a text file

  Converting a help file to a text file

  Converting a help file to a text file

 hlp2doc.zip available

 Table Dialog?

  Windows help file questions

 Change default colors?

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

 Help for both Mac and Windows?

  Adding help to application

 MicroHelp

  On-Line Books: how to create?

  On-Line Books: how to create?

  Windows help file questions

  MicroHelp

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  Winhelp on MAC ?

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

  doc2help vs robohelp

  Floating Table of Contents?

  Weird kerning in MS Word screen font

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  Converting a help file to a text file

  Winhelp on MAC ?   Yeah but...

  Converting a help file to a text file

  Converting a help file to a text file

 helllp22.zip - Help File Author Tool for WinWord 2.0 & 6.0

  Title Bar creation?

 Patch for using MS Help Project Editor with Word 6

  Title Bar creation?

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  Special Characters in Help File

 smart quotes

  Converting a help file to a text file

  smart quotes

  Smart quotes (was: This Newsgroup)

  MicroHelp

  Bitmaps in Help Files

  Bitmaps in Help Files

  Bitmaps in Help Files

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Doc-To-Help and other help programs

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 what6.dot

 Phone numbers for RoboHelp and ForeHelp

  Help for both Mac and Windows?

  Doc-To-Help and other help programs

  Help Files for WHAT6

  Help files in Chicago

 Cue cards

 Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 Long: Word 2 -> Word 6 (was Re: Help Files for WHAT6)

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

  WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

  HC31 has OutOfMemory ...

  Printing entire .hlp files

  WinHelp File Format

  WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  WinHelp File Format

  Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

  Lotus Screencam

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

  smart quotes

  Lotus Screencam

  Lotus Screencam

  Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

 How do you fix ugly graphics?

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 All Symbols Work For Me -- Why for me and not for others?

  How do you fix ugly graphics?

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

  Using FrameMaker to author help files

  How do you fix ugly graphics?

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

 help .dlls

  MS *.doc format

 Converting Ventura codes

 What about Ami Pro 2.0?? Is rtf=rtf regardless? :)

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 HELP!!!  Word Perfect & Garamond REWARD !

  HELP!!!  Word Perfect & Garamond REWARD !

  Printing entire .hlp files

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  Special Characters in Help File

 Where is WHAT6.DOT?

  Doc-To-Help and other help programs

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

  'guide' re how-to-create-help

  Doc-To-Help and other help programs

  Names of commercial/shareware compilers?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  RTF

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

 Off-Topic Question

 hlp2doc 1.32 available

  RTF doc viewer?

  fonts under WinHelp

 Lotus AMI Pro??

 Macro convert

  Where to get HDK?

  Lotus AMI Pro??

 WinHelp with Chinese Word 5.0

  RTF doc viewer?

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

  NonScroling regions

 HyperTrack 4.1: Expanding WinHelp's horizon..

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 tables in help files

 Bugs? or am I missing something?

  Erratic behavior of PopUp HotSpots. Any ideas why?

  ROBOHELP 2.5

  tables in help files

  Doc-To-Help and other help programs

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

 Anyone Using HDK by Virtual Media Tech

  VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

  Anyone Using HDK by Virtual Media Tech

 NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

  Any news on MediaView? (MM Viewer 3.0?)

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable document

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printabl

 New VB HelpWriter release (FREE help tool)

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen

  NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen


Author

 Determining current font in a Win application

 Really Weird Problem --> Please download and view WinHelp test file

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

 HelpBreeze - has anyone tried it

  Source for Boggan/Farkas/Welinske Book?

 REQUEST: Doc check for Viewer2

 Waiting on Console & Sockets in Win32

 C to WInHelp program?

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

 Adding help to application

 Capture a sequence of screens?

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?


Author "David Greenhalgh"

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  Topic limit

  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ


Author "I Anderson"

  DocToHelp - where?

  DocToHelp - where?


Author "Mark Beecroft"

 Translating help files into multiple languages...

  Translating help files into multiple languages...


Author "Nathaniel J. Cross"

  Looking for Source Control Tool


Author "Nicholas Waltham"

 How can I create .WMF files from clipboard


Author "Pilot Software Limit"

 HDK


Author "rabbit

 Calling Viewer experts...


Author -HL-77163d

  How do I find ForeHelp?

 ForeHelp macros

  The FAQ


Author -a94269853-m.walton-oth-400-

  Doc-To-Help and other help programs


Author 820077@oes

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows


Author 91625590s@sgcl1.unisg.ch

 animations in help files, change symbol of hlp File

 hyperlinks between hlp Files


Author <3PMGJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>

  [Q] Beginner's Question


Author <SAHRABI@auvm.american.edu>

  Jump Colors!

  Books on Help


Author <hembert@BOOKIE.ENET.DEC.COM>

  Lotus Screencam

  Lotus Screencam

  Lotus Screencam


Author <herr67@delphi.com>

 .hpjwin


Author A Hanekamp <dh4h+@andrew.cmu.edu>

 Help DLLs


Author A.J.M. Rosendaal

  can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?


Author Abe <MATTA@LEONARDO.LMT.COM>

 Using BMP-to-WMF in Help


Author Adam Cinzion

 Is there a .HLP Editor?


Author Adam Connor

  WinHelp on MAC?

  doc2help vs robohelp

  WinHelp on MAC?

  doc2help vs robohelp

  doc2help vs robohelp

  WinHelp on MAC?


Author Adam Megacz

 Help with W.H.A.T. 6?


Author Alain Hanash

 Problem compiling large help files


Author Alan Gratland

 HELP!!!  Word Perfect & Garamond REWARD !


Author Alan Hamilton

  program manager secret screen


Author Alex McCarney

 Please Disregard (Test Msg Only)


Author Alfie Kirkpatrick

 Table rules in help files

 Writing DLLs for WinHelp

 Looking for RTF information


Author Alten JP

  Good Help Authoring Software ?

  Looking for IMPLIB-like utility


Author Amanda T Marlowe

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED


Author Amarnath Rama Poola

 HELP : Borland(C++3.1)->Windows->OWL


Author Amir Raveh

  Converting a help file to a text file

 How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file


Author Andre Teig

 FontDialog problems


Author Andrea Malone

  Unix .hlp viewer?

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6


Author Andreas Bittner

 'what' with german Winword Version 2.0b / 6.0


Author Andrew Bachmeier

 Help on Installation


Author Andrew Fraser

  Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

  looking for wc31.exe!

  REQUEST: Shareware help compiler?


Author Andrew Hately

  Comparing versions of RTF files


Author Andrew J. Lazarus

 .hlp -> translated to unix


Author Andy DeFaria

  winhelp docs to html converters


Author Andy Meadows

 Where is WHAT6.DOT?


Author Aniket Pratap Kothari

 Why is windows crashing because it can't read my hd???


Author Anli Shundi

 Subscripts/indexes unknown ???


Author Ann Katholi

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?


Author Anne Foxworthy

  HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?


Author Annette McElligott

  Deleting Group Item Utility

 Deleting Group Items Utility


Author Antipov <ia23+@andrew.cmu.edu>

 --drag-and-drop--?

 drag and drop?!


Author Anton Schegg

  Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??


Author Aris Antanas Buinevicius

  Unix .hlp viewer


Author Arnold Jagt

  Adding help to application

  Adding help to application

  WinHelp File Format

  Macros


Author Arnold du Toit

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

 WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?

 pLeasE hELpmE


Author Art Miller (usenet)

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)


Author Art Smoot

 Question on the starting Windows size


Author Arthur Muller

  Converting .hlp to OS/2 ipf help format

  Help files in Chicago

 cmsg cancel <2tcg6e$gm7@hermes.fwi.uva.nl>

  Help files in Chicago

 cmsg cancel <2tcgv0$gq9@hermes.fwi.uva.nl>

 cmsg cancel <Cr7AGH.A83@metrics.com>

 cmsg cancel <Cr865C.BLu@metrics.com>

  {bmc} bitmaps are HUGE!

  Printing entire .hlp files


Author Audley Brown

 WinHelp DeCompiler???

  WinHelp DeCompiler???


Author Automatic-Newsgroup-Creation-Program@romana.Tymnet.COM

 New newsgroup comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp


Author Autonetics

  MVPUBKIT


Author BRMcDaniel

  WHAT2

  Convert .hlp file to text file?

  Convert .hlp file to text file?

  VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

  Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

 FAQ location?

  Help System Utility

  Conundrum Corner

  Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

  Printing .hlp files...

  [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  [Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

 Button Arrangements

  Windows Help -> DOS

  NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool


Author BaDge

 Help font

  Help font

 Boxes and shading

 Source code rights question

  Printing Windows help (.hlp) files

 RTF Files

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 500K DOC 2 HELP demo

  500K DOC 2 HELP demo

 compiling help files

  compiling help files

  Problem compiling large help files

  compiling help files

  compiling help files

  Anyone using ForeHelp?

  compiling help files

  Audio help

  Audio help

 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)


Author Banerji Research <A.Banerji@TEESSIDE.AC.UK>

 Concurrent Authoring System

 Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) !!


Author Barr <R.J.Barr@Durham.ac.uk>

 embedding WinHelp??

 Configuring WHPE to use HCP.EXE

  More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)


Author Barry

  WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?


Author Barry McConnell

 Out of Memory errors

 Out of Memory errors solved!


Author Bart D Vitti

 WHAT6.DOT ftp availability


Author Ben Katz

 Getting absolute physical address of pointer


Author Benny Schnaider

  FAQ


Author Benson <inc@TC.FLUKE.COM>

 Minimized Startup of a Help File

  WINHLP-L Digest - 3 Jun 1994 to 4 Jun 1994


Author Bernd Rohde

 Erratic behavior of PopUp HotSpots. Any ideas why?


Author Bernhard Froehlich

 Looking for IMPLIB-like utility


Author Berno van Soest

 The Future of Help

 The Future of Help - 2


Author Bert Plat

 Program to display 256 color pictures -- which?


Author Bev Freed

 Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

  Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

  Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

 Secondary windows and other .HLP files

 Using 2ndary window to display topic from other .HLP

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 Audio help

  Audio help

  Bug?...word wrap wrong

 Spy, Echo, Something or Other

  FAQ

  how to get bmc to work with hc31?

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  FAQ for this newsgroup


Author Bill Barrett

 On-Line Books?? Authoring???


Author Bill Bartelt

 RoboHelp review in Info World

 RoboHelp review in Info World

  Borland or Microsoft...need help


Author Bill Bledsoe

 Word Docs As Help Files

 Robohelp to The Rescue!

 tech writer style guide

 tech writer style guide


Author Bill Burtle

 {bmc} bitmaps are HUGE!


Author Bill Klein

 Printing line numbers


Author Bill Luby

 WGW3.11 Question

 WGW 3.11 Question


Author Bill Rayer

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

 Help problems from Hell

  Help problems from Hell

  Help problems from Hell

  Help problems from Hell

  Help problems from Hell

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  Help problems from Hell


Author Bill Ruediger

 CFormView, F1-Help does not work?


Author Bing Li

  where is WHAT?


Author Bingyang Zhou

 WinHelp printing


Author Blake C. Ramsdell

 How do you make a word-breaker for viewer?


Author Bob Smith

 v. 505 ... Quirks or Features?!


Author Bob Swart

 most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?


Author Boehm (boehm@edvvie.edvg.co.at

 Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF


Author Boris.Treiger

 full text


Author Brad Albom

 RFP: WinHelp fixed price contract for VB Application (SF Bay Area)


Author Brendan Young

 Button macro to launch Word 6

 Comparing versions of RTF files

 Extracting Baggage form a Help File

 Doc To Help's Watermark 'feature'

 HCP causes system integrity violation

 HCP causes system integrity violation


Author Brent Gossett - 6108

 Change default colors?


Author Brett Middleton

  RTF


Author Brett Miller

  Windows help file questions


Author Brian Beatty

 Helpfile Template or project Maker


Author Brian Orrell

  ToolBook

 HCP from Windows

 Viewer: hierarchical folders/topics in contents

 List of Different RTF Compilers?

 ExecProgram in Viewer?? Problem with Paths


Author Brian Osborn

  Books on Help


Author Brian Russ

 "Console"-type window for Windows App?


Author Brian S Cugno

 MS SITE???


Author Brian Samson

  Request for Criticism

  HELLLP?

 WinHelp Archives

 MidTopic Jumps

 Only 2 Open windows at once?

 HULK: Any way I can get it??

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable document

 SHED Editor Macros?


Author Brian T. Wilson

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?


Author Bruce Andrew DAVEY

 HC31 wont compile my old help files


Author Bruce Blackshaw

 "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

 "Super" WinHelp-like Help????


Author Bruce Covell

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)


Author Bruce Kozuma

  WinWord6 <> RoboHelp


Author Bruce Stephenson

 Does any tool handle Keywords well?

  Debugging inside a DLL: Breakpoints dont seem to work.

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file


Author Bryan <jamesbryan@delphi.com>

 can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?


Author Byrnes <BYRNES@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA>

  posting by non-subscriber

  Digest problem?

 List Reminder

  Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

  Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

  WWORKS.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com

  Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

 Warning From uucp


Author C Philip Donner

 Slow avivideo loading in Viewer

 Source for Boggan/Farkas/Welinske Book?


Author C. Farell

 Windows Multimedia Viewer 2.0


Author C. Zajac <jczajac@delphi.com>

 Windows Guru's, HELP!


Author CHRISTER JAHREN

 Hang-help


Author CW

  Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top


Author Cal Jewell

  Print margins within winhelp

 Cue Cards: cleaning up some MS boogers

 Returning a non-zero value from winhelp?


Author Camille Benachour

 win /3 doesn't work anymore.


Author Carl Cuneo

 shed grey/green

  shed grey/green

 Hotspot Editor Resolution Problem

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 256 Colours Under WinHelp?

  graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

 256 Colours

  Program to display 256 color pictures -- which?

  Jagged edges in captured bitmaps

  Anyone Using HDK by Virtual Media Tech


Author Carl Hoang

 Good Help Authoring Software ?


Author Carl Verner Skou

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?


Author Carlos Antunes

 What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?


Author Carothers <dennisc@WORLD.STD.COM>

  MWHAG


Author Century Software

  WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?


Author Cesare Feroldi de Rosa

 DLL to scroll the Winhelp window


Author Charles M. Kozierok

 Request assistance with help system

 Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

 Wanted: Help Compiler

  Wanted: Help Compiler

  Request assistance with help system


Author Charles Miller

  Cue cards

 Capturing/editing screen shots


Author Charles Nichols

  Help for both Mac and Windows?


Author Cheah Kean Hock

  WHAT6.???


Author Chendi Zhang Guest

 Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.


Author Cheng Tan

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?


Author Chester Garfield

 WinHelp Listserver name?

  Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

  where is WHAT?

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  Any news on MediaView? (MM Viewer 3.0?)


Author Chet Cady

 Hotspots not hot--help!


Author Chetan H Shah

 Full Text search in Help files


Author Choen Adi

 NonScroling regions

 wav and winhelp


Author Chris Allen

  Doc-To-Help and other help programs


Author Chris Bowering

 Command line switches for WINHELP.EXE


Author Chris Chubb

 Object containers/reference embedding.


Author Chris Hemedinger

  Only 2 Open windows at once?

  Help hierarchies

  Keyword search >> 2ndary windows

 Help-to-All (?)

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

 Microsoft announces SGML support

  MediaView and Chicago's WinHelp

  The Future of Help

  Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

  OS/2 Help Authoring Tools

  Edit copy of large topics

  I need Help (don't we all!)

 HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

 Weird kerning in MS Word screen font

  Smart quotes (was: This Newsgroup)

 Full-text search


Author Chris Hemedinger,R1423,5776,,2610

  Help-files with full text search ?

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring


Author Chris Johnson

  what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu


Author Chris King

 Getting Started in Visual Help


Author Chris L Smyth

 SCANNER use in WINDOWS

 SCANNER use in WINDOWS


Author Chris Marriott

  Help using DLL

  WHAT2

  Symbol font in a .hlp file

  printf and scanf in OWL environment

  Windows Multimedia Viewer 2.0

  Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

  Dithering colors

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  Help Authoring Tool

  WinWord 6.0 and RTF files

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  [Q] Beginner's Question

  Help System Utility

  Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.

  quote char

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

  Dithering colors

  faq posting

  WinHLP Undocumented Stuff??

  Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

  Windows Worry

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  How can I get 'Search' window directly?

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  Chicago Help compatability

  REQUEST: Shareware help compiler?

  Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

  Color Limitations

  Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

  Change buttons names

  bitmaps in TDialog

  Jump Colors!

  Printing .hlp files...

  Data Acquisition project !help!

  Getting absolute physical address of pointer

  No network being loaded

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  Display Search Box As Per Keyword?

  Help on Installation

  MM Viewer

  Cue Cards

  Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

  bg colour in nonscroll re

  Cue Cards

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  Wanted: Help Compiler

  Distributing large Help files

  I need a good MPG player for DOS or Windows. Please help.

  HC31.EXE - Where to get?

  RTF Files with Winword 6.0

  help files losing colour

  Special Characters in Help File

  how to get bmc to work with hc31?

  HP Editor

  HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  HP Editor

  HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  cursor lost

  Title Bar creation?

  Adding help to application

  Windows & Modem

  NEED HELP WITH SCREEN SAVERS

  help with ftp.microsoft.com

  header file COMPDDK.H

  Searching programs.

  Open Sesame!

  Vis C++ Bug?

  Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

  FAQ for this newsgroup

  Lotus AMI Pro??

  Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

  NonScroling regions

  win /3 doesn't work anymore.

  Visual Basic: Question

  Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

  Memory problem with SMC Ethernet.

  Virtual Functions

  Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?


Author Chris Olson

 Need format of '.shg' files for current project...


Author Christensen <davo@halcyon.com>

  Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  Problem with Windows memory


Author Christohper Antony Koziol MSC93

  Intercepting messages to winhelp

 Trapping Help messages and altering output


Author Christoph Mueller

 looking for wc31.exe!


Author Christopher King

 Jumping to topics in other files?


Author Christopher M. Hogan

 Macros

 BC++ 3.1 for sale


Author Christopher N Fortner

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  smart quotes


Author Christopher Pearson

  Adding help to application


Author Christopher Salter

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?


Author Christopher Taylor Oates

 Vis C++ Bug?


Author Chuck Meyer

  Visual Help?


Author Chuck Murray

  WinHelp DeCompiler???


Author Chuck Stuart

  No subject

  No subject


Author Cohen <74507.54@CompuServe.COM>

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

 What is HDK?

  RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

 Full-Text Search in WinHelp?

 Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles


Author Coley <coleyma@SCAN.SI.EDU>

  WWORKS.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com


Author Comfortably Numb

 Chicago, Windows NT Disassembler!!!


Author Con Zymaris

 Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe


Author Cosmi Corporation

 Size- Doc to help


Author Cox  Dennis James

  help compiler


Author Craig Villalon

  Format of Browse sequence

  256 Colours

  HC31.EXE - Where to get?

  HC31.EXE - Where to get?

  HC31.EXE - Where to get?

  help compiler

  help compiler

  help compiler

  Am I blind or crazy?

  Format of Browse sequence


Author Cuyler

  [Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find wh

 furture help

  pLeasE hELpmE


Author Cuyler Buckwalter 66678

  Word Docs as Help Files

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?


Author D. Warnick

 PIF HELP.


Author DUCK@PEMBVAX1.PEMBROKE.EDU (CRAIG TAYLOR)

 WinHLP Undocumented Stuff??

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Mystifying Memory Problem...

  QUESTIONS


Author Dale Barnard

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?


Author Dale Roberts x5-7345

 Patch for using MS Help Project Editor with Word 6

 Another patch to WHPE.EXE for Word 6.0 users


Author Damon J. Wong

 HCPARSE.DLL


Author Dan Konigsbach

 Does WPWin work to author help files?


Author Dan Stickel

 NT Help Font Problems

 "Standard" way to get F1?

 Hidden paragraph?


Author Dan Tarnower

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?


Author Daniel B. Bikle

 Looking for Source Control Tool


Author Daniel B. Wright

 WinHelp viewer for DOS


Author Daniel Smith

 Winhelp on Unix?


Author Daniel Szuc

 HDK - inserting pictures


Author Danny Smith

  NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

  NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool


Author Darrel Hankerson

  Help Files: Creating both WinHelp and IPF from single source?


Author Dave  Woods

  Removing the CTRL+INS Accelerator

 Create/Change button macros

 Keyword search jumpst

 Keyword search >> 2ndary windows

 Winhelp and Visual Basic


Author Dave DeLuca

  Mysterious Green - > Black Change


Author Dave Pfister

 .WAV Files in HLP


Author Dave Read

  Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe


Author Dave Sampson

 Bitmaps in Help Files


Author David A. Ondzes

 HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

 HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes


Author David Arasmith

 Intercepting messages to winhelp


Author David Brabant

  --drag-and-drop--?

  USING GLOBALALLOC()


Author David C Lawrence

 newgroup comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp

 newgroup comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp


Author David Castell

  Looking for Source Control Tool

 Help compiler runs out of file handles

  Unix .hlp viewer?


Author David Chapman

  DocToHelp - where?

  .hlp to .txt?


Author David Francis Scavo

 Jumps in Popups


Author David Gardiner

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

 Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

  Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

 Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

  Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

 DWHAT2.0 for WinWord 6.0 Released


Author David Jablonski

 [Q] Managing help files in different languages


Author David L. Heiserman

 Is there an HDF summary around?

  Is there an HDF summary around?

 Thanks -- really!

 What's HULK?


Author David Pascoe

 winhelp graphics - any bmp package out there ?

 winhelp bmp hotspots:  how do _you_ do it ?


Author David Thomson

 how to get bmc to work with hc31?


Author David Timoney

 Pictures in .hlp

  Pictures in .hlp


Author David V. Allen

  Winhelp on MAC ?   Yeah but...

  Winhelp on MAC ?   Yeah but...


Author David_Foringer

  Windows Help-Builders


Author Davis" <p00137@psilink.com>

  help compiler


Author Dawn-Marie Oliver

  Getting Started in Visual Help

  Capturing/editing screen shots


Author Dean Hoover

 User manual *and* online help


Author Deborah J. Graham

  Am I blind or crazy?


Author Dempsey <paulde@MICROSOFT.COM>

  Menu seperator


Author Dennis Carothers

 non-scrolling region error

 WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

 Open Sesame!

 Macro convert


Author Dennis G German

 howto make a .HLP


Author Derek MacEwen

  Visual WinHelp Designer/Tool?

  Proposal: Special characters

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

 DOSHelp??elp

  Anybody seen ForHelp?

  Change buttons names

  Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Where to buy Robohelp?

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  help compiler

  Special Characters in Help File


Author Diane Henderson

  Making a help file


Author Digitome Ltd

  The Future of Help (long)

  big *.hlp?

  Clickable maps in help files


Author Don Lipper

 HELP! Revision Marks Sidebar: How to change it?


Author Don M Chaffee

  Converting a help file to a text file

  Converting a help file to a text file

  help compiler

  Converting a help file to a text file

  Converting a help file to a text file


Author Donald Munro

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?


Author Doug Robinson

  ForeHelp


Author Doug Simone

 Viewer and WFW 6.0a questions


Author Dr A.D. Walmsley

 Macro Recorder


Author Dubin <David_Dubin@NOTES.PW.COM>

 Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools


Author Duncan Booth

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools


Author Duncan Murdoch

  WinHelp File Format

  WinHelp File Format

 .HLP internals - "Character" offsets?

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format

  Tables *WITH* Borders in Winhelp Files? -PLEASE

  How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

  How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

  WinHelp File Format


Author E. Vonheim         Sign.: SoM

 Windows help file questions


Author ETSI DP Dept.

  List of Different RTF Compilers?


Author EagleMage

 Winhelp and using DLL's

  Winhelp and using DLL's

  Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

 Non-FTP sight for WHAT.ZIP??

  Non-FTP sight for WHAT.ZIP??

  RTF

  Need scroll bars


Author Ed Guy

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Prin

  converting doc to .hlp?

  HELLLP?

  Object containers/reference embedding.

  MidTopic Jumps

  Only 2 Open windows at once?

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

  Help System Utility

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.

  Dithering colors

  Conundrum Corner

  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  Templates for word

  REQUEST: Shareware help compiler

  buttons in client-area

  buttons in client-area

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  placing a picture and having text wrap around it?

  I need Help

  WinHelp in 256 colors?

  Browse Sequence Problems...

  replacement for shed?

  replacement for shed?

 helllp22.zip - Help File Author Tool for WinWord 2.0 & 6.0

  Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

  Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printabl

 Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printabl

  SHED Editor Macros?

  Current help compiler version


Author Eddie Lotter

  Help problems from Hell


Author Edward G. Hazen

 How to make file folders open and close


Author Edward Mccreary

  Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?


Author Eirik Amundsen

 HELP ! Windows problems......


Author Eivind Bakkestuen

  bg colour in nonscroll re

  How do I find ForeHelp?

 bg colour in nonscroll re


Author Eliot Jablonka

 DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

  DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics


Author Emery Lapinski

  Looking for Source Control Tool


Author Emil Obermayr

 design .hlp with WPwin5.2?

  Windows Worry


Author Emmett Henderson

 Page feed in topic?

  Page feed in topic?

 WP -> HLP


Author English, grant

 How are MS Previews made?


Author Eric Bohlman

  Dashes won't display?

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles


Author Eric Camirand

 WinHelp in 256 colors?


Author Eric J. Bowersox

 Help Files: Creating both WinHelp and IPF from single source?


Author Erich Reimberg N.

 Winhelp FAQ


Author Ernst Kraemer

  Special Characters in Help File

 Where to get HDK?


Author Espen Joranger

 Windows Help-Builders


Author Evans <VEVANS@SBA-LAWS.SBA.MUOHIO.EDU>

  Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

  MWHAG


Author Ewan

  RTF doc viewer?


Author F. DelGreco" <delgreco@RAHUL.NET>

  Digest problem?


Author FRAY@mail.law.yale.edu

 Sites for GIF Files


Author Fabrice Mativat

 WINHELP: Creating a jump = Find area

 Print margins within winhelp

 WinHelp / Multimedia Viewer 2.0  availability and price


Author Falloon <jfalloon@ZEKE.WIN.NET>

  Viewer 2.0 experts?


Author Fan.Y.

 MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?


Author Feroldi De Rosa <MC0604@mclink.it>

  Collapsing Effects?

 Button Arrangements

 Button Arrangements

  Bg Colour In Nonscroll Re


Author Feroldi de Rosa <C.Feroldi@pn.itnet.it>

  DLL to scroll the Winhelp window


Author Floyd <mikef@SYACUS.ACUS.OZ.AU>

 TOC windows with help

 Warning From uucp


Author Fong Whye Koon

 This Newsgroup


Author Forbes <gforbes@powergrid.electriciti.com>

 mediaview


Author Foxworthy <Annef@DMP.CSIRO.AU>

  Digest problem?


Author Francis J. Bruening;627-xxxx;47-704

 How to run DOS apps under win with more file handles?


Author Frank Robijn

  Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe


Author Frank Tallelt

 Anybody heard of HelpBreeze ?


Author Franks <t114b02@GOODYEAR.COM>

  Digest problem?


Author Fraser Cain

 Location of What6

 Location of What6

 Title Bar creation?


Author Fred Albrecht

  Current help compiler version

 Current help compiler version


Author Fred Bunn

  Windows Help-Builders

  Graphical Help Builder

  Windows Help-Builders

  Graphical Help Builder

  Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

  Help System Utility

 New Version of VB HelpWriter!!

  New Version of VB HelpWriter!!

 (Free) New VB HelpWriter (1.8.5)

  VB Helpwriter ?'s

  Help Authoring Tools phone and fax numbers

  'guide' re how-to-create-help

  VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

  VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

 New VB HelpWriter release (FREE help tool)


Author Fred Galli

 Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??


Author Fred Lloyd [Phoenix SE]

 Multimedia Viewer Development Kit - where?


Author Fredrik Viklund

  Windows Worry

  Winhelp on MAC ?


Author Fritz Whittington

  smart quotes


Author Fukuda <fukuda@SYS1.CPG.SONY.CO.JP>

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

  Using FrameMaker to author help files


Author GEEL R.A.M.VAN

 Dll's, Exe's and Menu's in Help files

  Dll's, Exe's and Menu's in Help files

  DLL Path

  DLL Path

  Bug? ExecProgram in Config vs HotSpot

 button does macro + original task?


Author GEORGE TASKER

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system


Author GOWTHAM,MR" <BKOY000@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA>

 help, please!


Author Gabriel Patterson

 need help with ms-windows graphics


Author Gail@wst.com

 Hidden text problems

  Dithering colors


Author Galen Raben

  Getting Started in Visual Help


Author Gamache Michel

 icons definition in .HPJ file


Author Garrett Colson

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools


Author Garry Pearson

  Help compiler runs out of file handles


Author Gary Benson

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 cmsg cancel <CtoCCH.Cps@tc.fluke.COM>

  Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

  ForeHelp with ATI Mach32 video?

  Expiration of Help files??

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

  Planning On-Line Help in Windows

  FOLIO VIEWS (Was: On-Line Books?? Authoring???)

  Printing .hlp files...

  Helpfile viewer with full text search

  Jumps in Popups

 cmsg cancel <Cwy2zF.435@tc.fluke.COM>

  ForeHelp macros

  Request assistance with help system

 cmsg cancel <CxLrF8.4rM@tc.fluke.COM>

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  This Newsgroup

  what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

  'guide' re how-to-create-help

  ForeHelp

  Dots in Help Compiler

 Off-Topic Question

  Minimized Startup of a Help File


Author Gary Duvall

 Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program


Author Gary M. Dietz

 WHAT6.EXE , WHPE, and HCPARSE.DLL

  HCPARSE.DLL

 DocToHelp - Long Compile Times was: DocToHelp - where?


Author Gavin Greig

  Request for Criticism

 Get topic from command line?

 Winhelp Environment Variable?

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Unix .hlp viewer?

  This Newsgroup


Author Geir A M Drange

  N e e d   H e l p . . .


Author Genser <74443.2067@CompuServe.COM>

  SAMS ; How to book on help


Author Geoff Bradbury

  Shrinking bitmaps


Author George Gottschalk

 graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

  graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word


Author George Hasty

  winhelp bmp hotspots:  how do _you_ do it ?

  Where is FAQ?

  Where is FAQ?

  Where is the FAQ?

  Capture a sequence of screens?

  Anybody heard of HelpBreeze ?


Author George Mah

  Help hierarchies


Author George Tatge

  what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu


Author George de Bouter

 Please post the FAQ

  Making a help file


Author Gerald Cheong

 Undocumented .HLP file format

  Current help compiler version

  WinHlp-L Mailgroup. Where do I sign up?

  Request for Criticism

  WHAT6.???

  Really Weird Problem with Smart Quotes/Special characters

  Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program


Author German Velazquez Rincon

 WORDS 6.0 help me!!!!!!!


Author Glenn McComb

 RTF doc viewer?


Author Goeshere@indy.net

 Tutor for C/C++ windows programing (Introduction)?


Author Golan Yaniv

 Non-wrapping text in WinHelp


Author Grant <darin@rahul.net>

 Large Fonts messing up my Help


Author Greg Smith

 RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help


Author Greg Taylor

 hlpdc137.zip location ?


Author Gregory Larkin

 Is the Help Compiler redistributable?


Author Gross Eilam

  Multimedia Viewer

 Buttons, Mouse (Viewer 2.0)

 footnote in Viewer2


Author Guess

 Windows Programming

 Borland or Microsoft...need help


Author Guitarist

 Creating a Help File PROBLEMS :(


Author Gwo-Juh Hwang

  Unix .hlp viewer?


Author H. Tsuru

 FAQ for this group?


Author H.Shrikumar

 HTML to WinHelp format .. easy way ?


Author Haapanen <tomh@metrics.metrics.com>

  List Reminder


Author Haavard Bjoerge

 Problems with Windows HLP-files


Author Hacker <bokchoi@delphi.com>

  Anybody seen ForHelp?

  Size- Doc to help

  For Sale: RoboHelp 2.6

  RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

  DocToHelp - where?

 For Sale: RoboHelp 2.6


Author Haiying Ou

 Books on Winhelp

 HCPARSE.DLL

 HCPARSE.DLL


Author Hal German

 Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?


Author Hand <khand@NETCOM.COM>

  Viewer 2.0 experts?


Author Hanna Metzger

  Non-wrapping text in WinHelp

  Help System Utility

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!


Author Hans de Bue

 HC31 has OutOfMemory ...


Author Hardin Brothers

  SAMS ; How to book on help

  WinHelp viewer for DOS


Author Hartley" <W.R.Hartley@ncl.ac.uk>

 MM Viewer

 Winhelp Full Text Search

 Winhelp : Adding menus

 Multimedia Viewer

 Multimedia Viewer


Author Heath I Hunnicutt

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?


Author Hedges <a.j.hedges@open.ac.uk>

 Anyone using ForeHelp?

  Anyone using ForeHelp?


Author Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba

 MS *.doc format


Author Heiko Jacobs

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

  WinHelp DeCompiler???


Author Heiko Schulz

  Doc-To-Help and other help programs


Author Hein <henrih@MICROSOFT.COM>

  Minimized Startup of a Help File


Author Henrik Sahlholt

  help files losing colour


Author Henriksen <peterhe@MICROSOFT.COM>

 Cue cards


Author Hermann Schinagl

 Using DLL calls in VC++


Author Holly G. Jahangiri

  WHAT6.???


Author Howard Sobel

 Viewer


Author Hp. Roth

 How to print helpfiles ?


Author Hugh DeLong

  browse sequences in HWA


Author Hung Nguyen

 Documentation on HC


Author I Johnston

 Producing WinHelp and HTML

 Commercial software list request


Author I were a masochist,              I would be having a lot of fun

 Digest problem?


Author IM Hogan

 HDK / ODBC Conflict


Author Ian P Kemp

  Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

  winhelp bmp hotspots: how do _you_ do it ?

  Public Thank You


Author Ian Vink

 256 color bitmaps, HOW?


Author Ibrahim Sert

 MS-DOS Windows Help File transfering to Apple Mac Windows Help File

 Win. Help Compiler for Apple < ? >

 MS-DOS Windows Help File transfering to Apple Mac Windows Help File


Author J Scott MacCready

  Using 2ndary window to display topic from other .HLP


Author J. Daniel Smith

  Multi platform help

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

  UNIX Help Authoring Tools


Author J. Peto" <gpeto@MUDSHARK.SUNQUEST.COM>

  Help files in Chicago

  Concurrent Authoring System

  Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

  Help files in Chicago

  Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

  associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

  Using FrameMaker to author help files

 Warning From uucp

 Warning From uucp

  Viewer 2.0 experts?


Author J.-Albert Ferrez

 Dots in Help Compiler


Author JIM MCNEILL

 .hlp to .txt?

 DOS->Winhelp

 WordPerfect to Winhelp

  WordPerfect to Winhel


Author JPG3

 Call for Proposals - InterChange Tech Writing Conference

 Shrinking bitmaps


Author Jack Godfrey

 Location of HC505


Author Jackie F. Russell

 Names of commercial/shareware compilers?


Author Jacobs 3241 <jacobsjo@BSG.BEL.ALCATEL.BE>

 Bitmaps print in black/white


Author James A. O'Brien

 Help hierarchies


Author James Brown

  SAMS ; How to book on help

 Winhelp FTP Site


Author Jamey Graham

 Looking for HTML/C++ toolkit


Author Jan Willem Hartman

 .wri and .hlp to asc converter for UNIX ??


Author Jan-Friedrich Mutter

 enumeration under Word 6.0

 Manipulating the History List

 what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

 Help Assistent: ha31s


Author Janet D.

  what6 - error starting word6.0


Author Janet Gomez

  HCPARSE.DLL


Author Jason Hunter

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

  MS SITE???

 VB HelpWriter - Bug Report

 Where to find HC505.zip - Again.


Author Jean D. Ichbiah

  Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Commercial Authoring Tools


Author Jean Ichbiah

 Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

  Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler


Author Jean-Claude.Bellamy@der.edf.fr

  PLEASE HELP!!!! DESPERATE


Author Jean-Francois CORDIER

  Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top


Author Jean-Francois Messier

  Winhelp and using DLL's

  HULK: Any way I can get it??

  can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

  REQUEST: Shareware help compiler?

  FAQ

  [Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find what6.zip?

  WHAT6

  Converting a help file to a text file

  Windows help file questions

  Converting a help file to a text file

  Bitmaps in Help Files

  Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  Names of commercial/shareware compilers?

  --> Password Protect a Help File?

  Where to get HDK?

  WINHLP-L Digest - 3 Jun 1994 to 4 Jun 1994

  Beta copies of Windows 4.0 -- Chicago


Author Jeff Copeland

 printing MS-Windows Help files

 Printing Windows help (.hlp) files


Author Jeff Jungblut

  Help for both Mac and Windows?


Author Jeff Orlando

  Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

  How do I find ForeHelp?


Author Jeff Wilkinson

  How to write Help files.


Author Jeffrey Chauncey

 Changing location of annotation file(s).


Author Jeffrey Rice

 Ack...sorry <blush>

 mmsystem.dll


Author Jeffrey Rothman

 printf and scanf in OWL environment


Author Jeffrey Shneidman

  Help - Multiplatform

  ToolBook


Author Jeffrey Smartt

 How do I print an entire WinHelp file?


Author Jeffrey T. Kouzmanoff

 Word 2.0 Converts RTF, but ugly

 MFC AfxMessageBoxes


Author Jen Cheng

 Chinese Word for Windows and Help Compiler

 Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

 WinHelp with Chinese Word 5.0


Author Jennifer Moter

 bmp placement & size

 bitmap help


Author Jenwen

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows


Author Jim Fallon

 ROBOHELP 2.5


Author Jim Hassert

 Invoking help from VBW - how to open at dif. ID?


Author Jim Syiek

 HDK is the Hypertext Development Kit...


Author Jim Thomas

  Help not on top


Author Joe Morris

  what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu


Author Joe Wasik

 Can anyone get JumpColors when video driver is > 256 colors


Author Joel Bentz

 HWA


Author Joern Yngve Dahl-Stamnes

 help compiler


Author Johan Jacobs (Alcatel)

 Save as .rtf and as .doc via macro in Winword 2


Author Johan Jacobs 3241

 Bitmaps print in black/white


Author Johanna Draper

  Help System Utility


Author Johanna Metzger

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen


Author John Asa Price

 Fonts in winhelp


Author John Burgdorf

 Writing Style Guidelines for Online Information Systems


Author John C. Wang

  Chinese Word for Windows and Help Compiler


Author John Davis

 Microsoft Binary Format


Author John Foy (DECsplit Contractor)

 How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?


Author John Grant

  Request for Criticism

  Let's share .rtf and .rc files

  HELP : Borland(C++3.1)->Windows->OWL

  Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

  EDIT files in windows HELP

  Windows Worry

  Windows Worry

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

 JumpId() doesn't work (sometimes)

  Mysterious Green - > Black Change

  [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  Jumps in Popups

  How to change LINK-COLOR ?

 need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Deleting Group Items Utility

 most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  Hidden paragraph?

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

 cmsg cancel <1994Oct22.192908.18285@emr1.emr.ca>

 placing a picture and having text wrap around it?

  Request assistance with help system

  .wri and .hlp to asc converter for UNIX ??

  Menu seperator

  Menu seperator

  LaTeX -> WINHELP S/W ?

  Help on Installation

 can't get [Windows] main= statement to work

  can't get [Windows] main= statement to work

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 cmsg cancel <1994Nov3.020147.20849@emr1.emr.ca>

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  help files losing colour

  How to write Help files.

  Change default colors?

 cmsg cancel <1994May26.172853.29746@emr1.emr.ca>

  posting by non-subscriber

  associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

  Open Sesame!

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen


Author John Hooper

  Help authoring tools FAQ etc.

  Help System Utility

  MFC AfxMessageBoxes


Author John Lam

 Cross-platform MediaView ???

  Buttons, Mouse (Viewer 2.0)


Author John Michael Okeefe

 Data Acquisition project !help!


Author John Moulder

 Build tags and non-scrolling region


Author John Panzer

  Quote characters in Winhelp


Author John S. Robinson

 Fonts in Winhelp


Author John Styles

  Re:This Newsgroup


Author John Taylor

 Wizards and Cue Cards

  Visual WinHelp Designer/Tool?

  User manual *and* online help


Author John Wheeler

 NEED HELP WITH SCREEN SAVERS


Author JohnMovie

  256 Colours

  Looking for Multimedia Viewer


Author Jon Morby

 OS/2 and Visual C++ 1.1


Author Jon Noring

 First Post

 --> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

 Removing the CTRL+INS Accelerator

  Removing the CTRL+INS Accelerator

  Help System Utility

 Need Full-text Search Files

 Really Weird Problem with Smart Quotes/Special characters

  Need Full-text Search Files

 A Red Ribbon For Your Help (was Re: Need Full-text Search Files)

 Argh!  You should be able to download now (was Please download...)

 Sub- and Superscript fonts (AGAIN)

 Ralph Walden, me too! (was Re: Chicago Help compatability)

 --> Table Borders in WinHelp

  Jumps in Popups

 Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

 More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

  256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!

 All Symbols Work For Me -- Why for me and not for others?

 Available: The Hypertext Demo "A History of the Warfare of Science..."

 --> Password Protect a Help File?


Author Jon Schull

  winhelp docs to html converters


Author Jon Sverre Karlsen

 From *.hlp to *.rft


Author JonM

  Word Docs as Help Files

  Books on writing WinHlp files ?

 Help not on top

  Help compiler runs out of file handles

  [Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find what6.zip?

  Source code rights question

  MS Copyrights

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  big *.hlp?

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Special Characters in Help File

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  other books on winhelp?

  Packaging .HLP files for distribution

  winhelp docs to html converters

  MicroHelp

  Tables *WITH* Borders in Winhelp Files? -PLEASE

  Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

  MS *.doc format

  Multimedia Viewer Development Kit - where?

  How are MS Previews made?

  MediaView (MM Viewer 3.0)


Author Jonathan Acheson

  what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

  HELP!!!  Word Perfect & Garamond REWARD !


Author Jonathon Montgomery

  Windows help file questions

  List of Different RTF Compilers?

  Adding help to application

  help compiler

 Third Post

  Windows help file questions

 How to write Help files.

  Change default colors?

  List of Different RTF Compilers?

  Is there a .HLP Editor?

  Windows help file questions

  Adding help to application


Author Jonne Itkonen

  Lotus AMI Pro??


Author Jose Carlos Cuesta Cuesta

 CENTERING GRAPHICS


Author Joseph E. Bonnett

 Looking for Help Authoring Tools


Author Joseph Kowaleski

 RTF


Author JosephRot

 Quest 5 Windows Press Text


Author Juan Carlos Cuesta Cuesta

 FILTER TO ELIMINATE MS-WORD FIGURES


Author Julian James Bunn

 WinHELP to HTML or vice versa


Author Jyrki Laine

 Fonts in WinHelp


Author K. Genser <74443.2067@CompuServe.COM>

  Planning On-Line Help in Windows

  Planning On-Line Help in Windows

  Recommendations sought for help f..


Author KIM D WARD

 EDIT files in windows HELP


Author Karanitsch Johannes

  Printing entire .hlp files


Author Karel Sprenger

  Looking for Source Control Tool


Author Karen Millar

  Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

  .hlp -> .rtf conversion

 What about Ami Pro 2.0?? Is rtf=rtf regardless? :)


Author Kathleen Nosbisch

 Online Documentation Workshop


Author Keith A. Luczywo

 PLEASE HELP!!!! DESPERATE


Author Keith Majkut

  RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

  Special Characters in Help File


Author Ken Chomic-TCI/AIT Sybase

 Convert .hlp file to text file?


Author Ken Schneider

 Jump Color Changes Thru DLL


Author Kenneth Brody

  Problem compiling large help files


Author Kenneth Liew

  Collapsing effects? (with HyperTrack 4.1)

  HyperTrack 4.1: Expanding WinHelp's horizon..

  TOC windows with help (+ more!)


Author Kenneth Seymour

  help compiler


Author Kenneth Yongyuan Law

 Help on Win 3.1!


Author Kent Tong

  Expiration of Help files??


Author Kerber@onramp.net

  Problem with HCP.EXE


Author Kevin Burrows

 macros in [config] section


Author Kevin Egolf

 Looking for Help Files

  mmsystem.dll


Author Kevin Flanagan

 Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

 Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

  SAMS ; How to book on help


Author Kevin Hintergardt

  Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top


Author Kevin Hood

  [Q] Beginner's Question

 How to create large titles with Multimedia Viewer 2.0?


Author Kevin J. Hopps

 Word 2.0 TOC Style probs.


Author Kevin Koch

  Commercial Authoring Tools


Author Kevin Kuehl

  Help on Installation

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?


Author Kevin Lee

 Windows boot-up graphic change


Author Kevin McLeod

 WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset


Author Kevin Wehner

 Test Message

 Test

 Secondary Windows on Star


Author Keylime

 HC31.EXE - Where to get?


Author Kim, Myung Ho

 Memory problem with SMC Ethernet.

 Beta copies of Windows 4.0 -- Chicago


Author Kit Kauffmann

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?


Author Klaas <jklaas@umich.edu>

  Missing Bullets in help file - AmiPro 3.01, WinHelp


Author Klaus Malorny

 Q: Licensing fonts for multimedia applications

 Multimedia Viewer Search Engine replacement

  Help problems from Hell


Author Knut Martin Tornes

 HTML to RTF/winhelp converter needed!!!


Author Konst Sushenko

 passing parameters to WinHelp


Author Kowshik Bhat

 novell netware and windows interface?


Author Kurt Vogel

 Beginner at WINHELP

 Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)


Author Kurtz <wkurtz@dsd1gate.daytonoh.ncr.com>

 Using dde commands to activate other programs


Author L. Houck, Jr." <rob@HOUCK.NORDEN1.COM>

 FTP Site with Windows Source Code in C/C++


Author Lance Andrewes

 ForeHelp with ATI Mach32 video?


Author Larry Rau (Migration Software)

 Lotus AMI Pro??

  Lotus AMI Pro??


Author Laurens Cloete

  Macros


Author Lavanya K. Mandavilli

 Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

 Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  email address of Blue Sky Software.

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects


Author Lawson <alfalfa@BOOSTER.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>

  Lotus Screencam

  WWORKS.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com


Author Lee Chun-Woo

 How can I get 'Search' window directly?


Author Lee Patterson

 Making a help file


Author Leo Plugge

  Windows Worry


Author Leonard Norrgard

 Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)


Author Lev Shraga

  Multimedia Viewer anyone?


Author Levinson <mark%CRABAPPLE.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>

 Lotus Screencam

 Cross-platform multimedia


Author Lilly-Anne Wilder

  Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

  Dithering colors

  Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

  Help problems from Hell

  Planning On-Line Help in Windows

  Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

  Dithering colors

  ForeHelp macros

  How do I find ForeHelp?

  ifthenelse macro

  Jumps in Popups

  Out of Memeory Error

  Programmatic WinHelp

  Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

 Public Thank You

  Out of Memory Error

  Build tags and non-scrolling region

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Out of Memory Error

 smart quotes

  This Newsgroup

  WinWord6 <> RoboHelp


Author Lim Hyon Chang.

 AVI Hotspot Editor?


Author Linda H. Schoenhoff

 Help Magician


Author Linda McKenna

 Help! SetIndex and SetContents


Author Live Link

 Hypertext Beta Sites Wanted


Author Lorna Allies

 Survey on reuse of software components


Author Louis=Nguyen%OS=Quality%Sys=Hou@bangate.compaq.com

  Re: NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

 Help Assistant v3.3


Author LovGuide team

 Need tools for converting c++ source code to WP or RTF ?


Author Lu Cheng

 Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?


Author Luca Dionisi

 Please help, I'm a greenhorne!


Author Lucas <Jeff_Lucas.LOTUS@CRD.LOTUS.COM>

  Lotus ScreenCam


Author Ludovic Dubost

  What wrong with my VC++ f/NT


Author Lunn <Jonathan.Lunn@Canada.NCR.COM>

  Looking for a help decompiler


Author M. Aaron Barnett

 Windows Programmer Needed


Author M. G. Ravichandran

 Missing Bullets in help file - AmiPro 3.01, WinHelp

 color background for non-scrollable area

 on-line Tutorial / tour - How?

 Help/Search ... - How can it be done?


Author M. Mcmanus

 USING GLOBALALLOC()

 USING GLOBALALLOC()

 HELP PC GRAPHICS


Author M. Sosteric

 Templates for word

 HP Editor

 QUESTIONS

 Questoin

 Little Icons in links

 Little Icons in links

 Printing Entire Help Files

 Clickable image maps


Author M.S.

 Convert Text file to Binary?


Author MIKE CESSNA

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  Commercial Authoring Tools


Author MJudd

  Viewer and WFW 6.0a questions

  MM Viewer

  UnCommercial compilers


Author Mac-My-Day

 REQUEST: Shareware help compiler?


Author Mackay <Tim.Mackay@MEIPWS.MIS.MEI.COM>

  Mac Viewer ??


Author Manual 3 International

 UNIX Help Authoring Tools


Author Manuel Mall

 How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

 How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?


Author Marcel Katz

 utility to check/optimize RAM utilization


Author Marcus Blake

 Windows Help RTFs -> HTMLs


Author Maria Hamilton

 doc2help vs robohelp

 doc2help vs robohelp


Author Marie Ratajczyk

 VB And Help Topics.


Author Mark Aurit

  Chicago Help compatability


Author Mark Butler

 Mysterious Green - > Black Change


Author Mark Giffin

 DocToHelp - where?

 MS-Viewer setup.exe


Author Mark Gregory

 WHAT6


Author Mark Henrichs

  Windows Application Localization (language change)


Author Mark Smith

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 replacement for shed?

  replacement for shed?

  Re:This Newsgroup

  Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

  Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program

  Need Shareware/Freware Text > Winhelp Program


Author Mark Thompson

 Won't stay maximize


Author Mark Trenerry

  Converting a help file to a text file


Author Mark Warren

 Can you use a path to find the file? Re: hyperlinks between hlp Files


Author Mark Woodward

 MediaView...have I been in a cave?


Author Marko Milisavljevic

  Capturing/editing screen shots


Author Markus Fuenfrocken

 How to change LINK-COLOR ?


Author Martin Bechard

 Looking for structure of Winhelp

  Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

  Help files in Chicago

 Looking for Multimedia Viewer


Author Martin Piazzola

 WHAT6.???


Author Martin Sckopke

 Printing entire .hlp files


Author Marty Leisner 25733

 printing out a help file?

  Windows .WRI to RTF Converter

  Printing entire .hlp files


Author Mary Anthony

 Robohelp:Word Basic Err=133


Author Matt Abe

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects


Author Matt Arnold

  Windows Worry

 [Q] How to do "title bar"?

 [Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?


Author Matthew Fusfield

 Windows Help -> DOS

  Wanted: Help Compiler


Author Max Headroom

  Jump Colors!

  Jump Colors!


Author McBride <mike@dasleepr.lasc.lockheed.com>

 Converting GML to RTF


Author Media-Flex Technology

 winhelp -> text??? help!

  winhelp docs to html converters


Author Melissa Mortellaro

 WANTED: WINDOWS Puzzle Source Code


Author Meng C. Vang

 Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

 Hypergraph and Secondary window


Author Meng Vang

 WinHelp w/ Media Viewer 2


Author Michael A. Vealey

 Help authoring tools FAQ etc.


Author Michael Cooperman

 Out of memory!

  Bugs? or am I missing something?

  Capturing/editing screen shots

 One warning message per compile?

  Adding help to application

 Bugs? or am I missing something?

  Capture a sequence of screens?


Author Michael Heggen

  ForeHelp demo in Australia?

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

 ForeHelp demo FTP site

 ForeHelp 1.04 demo on gmutant


Author Michael Jacob

  More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in

  Making a help file


Author Michael McCoy

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

 Full Text Searchable Help

 Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  WordPerfect to Winhelp


Author Michael S. Pelley

 Where is the FAQ


Author Michael Suedkamp

 hotspot graphics high resoluted


Author Michael Vincze

 Color Common Dialog help button

  Get topic from command line?


Author Michael West

 Avi


Author Michel C A Tavares

 help with Browse


Author Michel.Gerber@etudiants.unine.ch

 Good Help Editor ?


Author Michelsen <BRUCEM@WORDPERFECT.COM>

 WINHLP-L Digest - 13 Jun 1994 to 14 Jun 1994 -Reply


Author Michiel van der Blonk

 Problem with Windows memory


Author Miguel Carrasquer

  Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

  Symbol font in a .hlp file

  WinHelp w/ Media Viewer 2

  Full Text Searchable Help

  Create .hlp files using Multimedia Viewer?

  Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)

  Help not on top

  Table rules in help files

  Create/Change button macros

  Help-files with full text search ?

  Button macro to launch Word 6

  winhelp with parameter?

  Non-wrapping text in WinHelp

  Color Common Dialog help button

  Jumping to topics in other files?

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

  Help font

  WinHelp mulitple links.

  Help font

  256 Colours

  DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

  I need my text to wrap

  HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

  Program to display 256 color pictures -- which?

  Winhelp Environment Variable?

  How to create large titles with Multimedia Viewer 2.0?

  Keyword search jumpst

  Help-files with full text search ?

  MMViewer development tools

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  How can I get 'Search' window directly?

  Help problems from Hell

  Help problems from Hell

  JumpId() doesn't work (sometimes)

  Help problems from Hell

  DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

  Search multiple HLP files?

  How to change LINK-COLOR ?

  Collapsing effects???

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  bg colour in nonscroll re

  buttons in client-area

  HC31 wont compile my old help files

  Fonts in WinHelp

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  ifthenelse macro

  Loading external text  -  helpsend.txt [1/1]  -  helpsend.txt [1/1]

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  CENTERING GRAPHICS

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?

  Interfile jumps to different directories

  Winhelp Full Text Search

  WinHelp() API call

  WinHelp() API call

  bg colour in nonscroll re

  Using 2ndary window to display topic from other .HLP

  how to get bmc to work with hc31?

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

 HELPMON.C

  DLL to scroll the Winhelp window

  full text

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

  WordPerfect to Winhelp

  WordPerfect to Winhel

  Bug?...word wrap wrong

  programmatic hotspot creation - SHED?

  embedding WinHelp??

  compiling help files

  Full-Text Search in WinHelp?

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  compiling help files

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  HC31.EXE - Where to get?

  button does macro + original task?

  Public Thank You

  Secondary Windows on Star

  Spy, Echo, Something or Other

  WinHelp or WinExec?

  Buttons in the menu-bar ?

  The FAQ

  WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset

  .HLP internals - "Character" offsets?

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  QUESTIONS

  "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

  "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  How to produce 'free text search' .hlp files?

  Title Bar creation?

  Bitmaps in Help Files

  Bitmaps in Help Files

  Page feed in topic?

  Can you use a path to find the file? Re: hyperlinks between hlp Files

  Help for NT

  macros in [config] section

  Help files in Chicago

  Capturing/editing screen shots

  How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

  Recommendation on tutorial tools

  How to jump to a topic in a "standard" help file

  MSVC 1.5: WinHelp Question

  Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

  associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

  How do you fix ugly graphics?

 Buildtags (was: Using FrameMaker to author help files)

  Bitmaps print in black/white

  Message Boxes

  Pictures in floating text

  color background for non-scrollable area

  Help! SetIndex and SetContents

  Microsoft Knowledge Base(d) Help file??

  Looking for Multimedia Viewer

  .hpjwin

  RTF

  SETWINPOS broken?

  animations in help files, change symbol of hlp File

  Help/Search ... - how can it be done?

  --> Password Protect a Help File?

  Need scroll bars

  Am I blind or crazy?

  HELP - Macro Problem

  fonts under WinHelp

  Returning a non-zero value from winhelp?

  Winhelp on Unix?

  NonScroling regions

  Minimized Startup of a Help File

  Hypergraph and Secondary window

  Minimized Startup of a Help File

  hyperlinks between hlp Files

  What wrong with my VC++ f/NT

  Erratic behavior of PopUp HotSpots. Any ideas why?

  Full-text search

  Need format of '.shg' files for current project...

  Winhelp and Visual Basic

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen

  Help hierarchies

  Current help compiler version


Author Mik Kvitchko

  Recommendation on tutorial tools


Author Mika Erkkila

  AVI Hotspot Editor?


Author Mikail Ruutu

  WinHLP Undocumented Stuff??

  Command line switches for WINHELP.EXE

 Where to get Dr. Help ?

  Special Characters in Help File

 Format of Browse sequence


Author Mike Bellusci

 associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

  associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

  associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file


Author Mike Hill

 HC vs. HCP   143K difference


Author Mike Hinchman

 Looking for a help decompiler

 How do you fix ugly graphics?

 Anyone hear of a program called "Filewalker"?


Author Mike Mitchell

 Bug?...word wrap wrong


Author Mike Ovington

  Unix .hlp viewer?


Author Mike Zemina

 Multi platform help


Author Mike_Glenn@magic-bbs.corp.apple.com

 Graphical Help Builder


Author Mona Guarino

 Macintosh compatible?


Author Mr Alan Richard Knowles

 In->Out->In = Lock


Author Mr Bryan  Li

  How do I find ForeHelp?


Author Mr P.D. Carter

 Hypertext Help-like Documents

  EDIT files in windows HELP


Author Mr. Cheah Kean Hock

  Keeping translations in one source file? (& more)


Author Mr. J.P. Gregory

 Windows/Netware Question


Author Muller <muller@FWI.UVA.NL>

 Help files in Chicago

 Help files in Chicago


Author Muthu Kumar

 MSVC 1.5: WinHelp Question


Author Muthu Kumar" <pearl@PowerPCHost>

 Help Authoring Tool

 Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  Help Authoring Tool


Author NNTP remote postings

 The FAQ


Author Neil Polowin

 Full-text searches in help

 Bullet lists in help files

 Conundrum Corner


Author Nelson Cheng

 Windows Help Magician - any comments?


Author Neshamkin <pauln@WEXTECH.COM>

 TOC windows with help


Author Ng Chi Him

 H.Writer's Assist. error

 Sound in Help

 Works for Win and *rtf ?

 WWORKS.EXE from ftp.microsoft.com

 API doc for DLL


Author Niall Shanahan

 Converting .hlp to OS/2 ipf help format


Author Nic Gibson

 Books on Help

  Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?

  Books on Help

  Books on Help


Author Nick Youd

 Floating Table of Contents?

 Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?

 Floating Table of Contents?


Author Nigel Campbell

 SAMS ; How to book on help

 'guide' re how-to-create-help


Author Nobuo Date

 Help for converting Japanese rtf file, Please...


Author O'Connell <patricko@EICON.COM>

 Viewer 2.0 experts?

 Ever beamed Win messages at a VB app from Help?

 Your winhlp-l posting re: Sound in Help


Author Odd-Wiking Rahlff

  RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help


Author Ola  Sprauten

 Problems with BC4


Author Ola Strandberg

 Finished AFXOLECL.RTF? Share it??

 Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6


Author Olaf Schroeder

 Winhelp on Unix


Author Oliver Niggemann

 fonts under WinHelp


Author Olivier Stolzenberg

 Help i need help on Help files

 Help i need help on Help files


Author Ollie Cornes

 Macros in Jumps


Author OmniMedia

 WinHelp for Windows Chicago (4.0) -- what's the scoop?

 New Electronic Hypertext Book Published by OmniMedia

 SoftLock (was Re: New Electronic Hypertext Book Published by OmniMedia

 --> WMF (Metafiles) Do Work Great for Tables, etc.

 --> MRBC Woes (memory limitation)

 An Even Better Way (Creating great looking tables in WinHelp)

  MS Multimedia Viewer 2.0


Author Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>

  WINHLP-L Digest - 13 Jun 1994 to 14 Jun 1994 -Reply

  Lotus Screencam

  MAPI-VIM-API details / White paper

  How do you fix ugly graphics?

 Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

  Message Boxes

  Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

  Minimized Startup of a Help File

  WINHLP-L Digest - 3 Jun 1994 to 4 Jun 1994


Author Oystein Ornegaard

 where can i find ole2ui.dll?


Author P.G.Newman

 Problems: WINHELP "How To" and HP DJ500 series printer driver.

  Problems: WINHELP "How To" and HP DJ500 series printer driver.


Author PAnastasia

  SAMS ; How to book on help

 Microsoft JumpStart CD


Author Patrick Arial

  Fonts in winhelp

 CBT Recording and Playback


Author Patrick Lamastus

 Copyright Symbol and others

 Converting a help file to a text file

 Converting a help file to a text file


Author Paul B. Booth

 Help Spy for NT??

 Source for Boggan/Farkas/Welinske Book?


Author Paul Busse

 Help and documentation


Author Paul Holmes-Higgin

  Winhelp on Unix?

  Winhelp on Unix?


Author Paul L Fagerburg

  Quest 5 Windows Press Text


Author Paul Mitchell

  Problem with HCP.EXE


Author Paul Neshamkin

  Word Docs as Help Files

  Command line switches for WINHELP.EXE

  Word 2.0 TOC Style probs.

  Help-to-All (?)

  Size- Doc to help

 DocToHelp - where?

  Stop dynamic scaling of bitmaps?

 DocToHelp - Long Compile Times was: DocToHelp - where?

 500K DOC 2 HELP demo

  500K DOC 2 HELP demo

 How do I re-configure a Winhelp file for viewing on a Mac?

  RoboHelp .vs. Doc-To-Help

  Floating Table of Contents?

  doc2help vs robohelp

  Floating Table of Contents?

  doc2help vs robohelp

  Doc-To-Help and other help programs

  tables in help files

  Request for Criticism: Maintaining both Winhelp and Printable documen


Author Paul Pearson

  Creating On-Line Books

  On-Line Books?? Authoring???

  Helpfile viewer with full text search


Author Paul Sorenson

  "Console"-type window for Windows App?


Author Pete Bosch

 RoboHelp Contact


Author Pete Cascio

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?


Author Pete Dixon

 Help Writer Assistant?

 hc31.exe error?

  hc31.exe error?


Author Peter "Britus Midgetus Ignoramus" Chambers

 Multiple Embedded Windows in a Help File... HELP!


Author Peter C. Bosch, X3549

 Doc-To-Help & RoboHelp Contact Info?


Author Peter Drayton

  Printing entire .hlp files


Author Peter Gordon

 Browsing Example

 Help Compiler


Author Peter Himschoot

 Clickable maps in help files


Author Peter Hug

  Creating help files


Author Peter J. Davis

  Keyword search jumpst

  Help authoring tools FAQ etc.

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

  256 Colours

  --> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

  Looking for structure of Winhelp

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

  Jump Color Changes Thru DLL

  WinWord 6.0 and RTF files

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  User manual *and* online help

  Help System Utility

  LSeekHF function

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  Looking for a help decompiler

  Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

  Q about the FAQ

  Help Spy for NT??

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  Full-text searches in help

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  MFC AfxMessageBoxes

  Help compiler????

  Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

  Looking for a help decompiler

  Need Full-text Search Files

 Public Apology

 faq posting

  Need Full-text Search Files

  Help-to-All (?)

  winhelp -> text??? help!

  DOSHelp??elp

  Conundrum Corner

  Help System Utility

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

  looking for wc31.exe!

  Where is HCP.zip???

  256 Colours

  Multiple Embedded Windows in a Help File... HELP!

  Adding help to application

  WinHLP Undocumented Stuff??

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

 cmsg cancel <34no0m$prh@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>

 FAQ

  Ralph Walden, me too! (was Re: Chicago Help compatability)

  REQUEST: Shareware help compiler?

  Chicago Help compatability

  Viewer: hierarchical folders/topics in contents

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Books on Winhelp

  Slow avivideo loading in Viewer

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  [Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  Multilayered list problem

  Color Limitations

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Jumps in Popups

  passing parameters to WinHelp

  Clickable maps in help files

  Help-to-All (?)

  Shrinking bitmaps

  looking for wc31.exe!

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  HC31 out of memory

  WinHelp File Format

  CENTERING GRAPHICS

 WinHelp() API call

  FAQ

  FAQ

 WinHelp() vs. FAPI()

  HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

  List of Different RTF Compilers?

  help compiler

 WinHelp File Format

  Windows help file questions

  MicroHelp

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 The FAQ

 This Newsgroup

  WHATever happened to WHAT6 ?

  furture help

  Help files in Chicago

  HC31 has OutOfMemory ...

  Books on Help

  .hlp -> .rtf conversion

  WinHelp File Format

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

  FAQ????

 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp faq

 FAQ for this newsgroup

  --> Password Protect a Help File?

  Printing entire .hlp files

  WinHelp File Format

  graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word


Author Peter Jacobs

 MicroHelp


Author Peter Kasaty

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

  Books on writing WinHlp files ?


Author Peter Lancaster

  Adding help to application


Author Peter Lindgren

 Wanted: .HLP-editor


Author Peter N. M. Hansteen

  Comparing versions of RTF files

  design .hlp with WPwin5.2?

  Windows Worry

  Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

  Compiling RTF's made with Word 6.0a??

  Help and documentation

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  Winword 6.0 to RTF

 Calling Winhelp.exe to find a specific topic - How do I?


Author Peter S. Lakanen

  shed grey/green

  MidTopic Jumps

  Non-wrapping text in WinHelp

 Ralph Walden, Please Post!!!!!

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Windows boot-up graphic change

 Search multiple HLP files?

 Display Search Box As Per Keyword?

 kill the menu!!

 Windows/DOS Prog Journal - how, where??

  Help hierarchies


Author Peter YW Chiam

 Out of Memory Error


Author Petr Vodicka

 Where is FAQ?


Author Phil Allen

  WinHelp File Format

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  help compiler

  Windows help file questions


Author Phil Paxton

  SAMS ; How to book on help


Author Phil Scarr

 Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?


Author Phil Veldhuis

  Adding help to application

  winhelp docs to html converters

 winhelp docs to html converters


Author Philip C. Murray

 Free Issue of EIA Electronic Document Report


Author Philip H. Taylor

  header file COMPDDK.H


Author Philipp Schmitz

 [Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find what6.zip?


Author Pierre Goulet

 Where to buy Robohelp?


Author Ping  Zhong

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?


Author Poole <jpo@KOBE.PFBS.PHILIPS.SE>

 Message Boxes


Author Preston L. Bannister

  Windows Help-Builders

  Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.

  Help Authoring Testimonials?


Author Proficz <ve002jp@SMOKIE.ELKA.PG.GDA.PL>

 Searching programs.


Author Qing Yin

  MWHAG

  what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

  what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

  Shareware/Freeware Winhelp compiler?

 tip of the day -- how?

 HelpAuthor problem


Author R. E. S.

 Knowledge Base Files in Help format


Author R. Hall" <JHALL@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>

  Re Terese Urutia's Request on Tutorial Tools

  Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

  Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.


Author R.T.Cutler

  Robohelp to The Rescue!


Author R.Wagenaar

 Table in Winhelp: borders won't show


Author RANDY BRATTON

  Books on writing WinHlp files ?


Author ROBERT LAUMEYER

 Unicode and help


Author Rachel Campbell

 Help for both Mac and Windows?


Author Rainer Schleevoigt

 more buttons in help?

 HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

 big *.hlp?

 buttons in client-area

  bg colour in nonscroll re

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools


Author Ramachandran <hari@SOLOMON.TECHNET.SG>

 Mac Viewer ??


Author Randall P. Carver

 Context Sensitive


Author Randy Bratton

  quote char

  Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)


Author Raphael Laderman

 programmatic hotspot creation - SHED?


Author Rapp <rapp@VAXD.GAT.COM>

  Help Files for WHAT6


Author Ray Duncan

  Graphical Help Builder

  Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe


Author Ray Sayre,LumiPod

 Using Database

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

 To Ron Loewy re: HLPDK/PA


Author Reichelt <reichelt@ACEC.COM>

 MWHAG


Author Rene Kuenzel ANL A426 PR4

  Windows boot-up graphic change


Author Rich Paul

 RTF Editors


Author Rich Taylor

 Anyone know HCP ERRORLEVEL results?

  +Commercial Authoring Tools


Author Richard Joltes

  Hidden paragraph?


Author Richard Kerridge

 Lotus Amipro

  Graphical Help Builder

 Help Magician


Author Richard M Warren

 STONE VIRUS INFO. NEEDED ASAP!


Author Richard P. Boehme

  Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

 Q about the FAQ


Author Richard Parratt

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

 HC31.ERR? Where?


Author Richard Thompson

 ifthenelse macro


Author Rick Innis

  Microsoft announces SGML support


Author Rick Wirthlin

 Recompiling with bookmark and annotate


Author Rob

 Executing a windows program from another one.


Author Rob Caplan

  Current help compiler version

  Bullet lists in help files

  Patch for using MS Help Project Editor with Word 6

  Where to get HDK?


Author Robert Pearson

 Visual Help?

 Let's share .rtf and .rc files

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

  Request for Criticism

  Let's share .rtf and .rc files

  Visual Help?

  ForeHelp demo in Australia?

 HELLLP?

 Anyone have time for a project?

 Where is HCP.zip???

 I need my text to wrap

  I need my text to wrap

  I need my text to wrap


Author Robertino Benis

 Books on writing WinHlp files ?


Author Robin

 Full text search

  Help System Utility

 Out of Memory errors

 Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

  Help problems from Hell

 Dashes won't display?

 Distributing large Help files

 Edit copy of large topics

  full text

 Word 2.0c macros

  Edit copy of large topics

 DOS WinHelp reader?

  WinHelp viewer for DOS


Author Roger J. Wolfgram

 Shift F1 help to a 2nd hlp file


Author Roger Langen

 HELP: Paint


Author Roger Layton - KMC

  Location of HC505

  Help hierarchies

  Calling Winhelp.exe to find a specific topic - How do I?

  Quote characters in Winhelp

 Licence issues for embedded objects (EQN2.0)


Author Roman Fried

 RTF Files with Winword 6.0


Author Ron Levi

  WinHelp mulitple links.

  WinHelp() API call

  WinHelp file size???

  HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

  Bugs? or am I missing something?

  WinHelp File Format

  HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

  Writing Style Guidelines for Online Information Systems

  winhelp docs to html converters

  Word6 / Viewer 2 compatibility?


Author Ron Loewy

  --> Oh Fudge, how does one disable/remove the standard menu items?

  Removing the CTRL+INS Accelerator

  Create/Change button macros

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  User manual *and* online help

  more buttons in help?

  User manual *and* online help

  Help System Utility

  LSeekHF function

  LSeekHF function

  Multi platform help

  Porting Winhelp .HLP to OS/2 .INF

  Using Database

  Is there an HDF summary around?

  Help compiler????

  Dithering colors

  Question on the starting Windows size

  Hidden text problems

  Help - Multiplatform

  Writing DLLs for WinHelp

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  To Ron Loewy re: HLPDK/PA

  UNIX Help Authoring Tools

  Color Limitations

  Help and documentation

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  256 color bitmaps, HOW?

  Clickable maps in help files

  Helpfile viewer with full text search

  Help and documentation

  Extracting Baggage form a Help File

  need ideas to arrange .hlp files with cross-jumps

  MM Viewer

  OS/2 Help Authoring Tools

  Request assistance with help system

  Where to buy Robohelp?

  MS-Viewer setup.exe

  Good Help Editor ?

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  bg colour in nonscroll re

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  .hlp to .txt?

  DOS->Winhelp

  Distributing large Help files

  Windows Help Overhead

 Interactive Winhelp

  Windows Help RTFs -> HTMLs

  Jim Michel in VB

  Winhelp FTP Site

  Multi-File Keyword Search

  can't get [Windows] main= statement to work

  Jim Michel in VB

  Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

  Looking for RTF information

  Problem compiling large help files

  DOS WinHelp reader?

  Browsing Example

  Audio help

  embedding WinHelp??

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  Audio help

  UnCommercial compilers

 GPF in Windows/WinHelp when using dynamic dialogs

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  sgml, html, and winhelp

  WinHelp viewer for DOS

  Making a help file

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  Executing a windows program from another one.

  HLP -> WWW?

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects


Author Ron Pool

  --> Password Protect a Help File?


Author Ross Keatinge

 Winhelp on MAC ?

  Looking for Multimedia Viewer

 Quote characters in Winhelp

  Quote characters in Winhelp


Author Roy Beatty

 Regarding the WinHelp FAQ

  Object containers/reference embedding.

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

  hc31.exe error?

  Search multiple HLP files?


Author Rune J|rgensen

 Doc-To-Help vs RoboHELP


Author Rushford <markr@CRL.COM>

 Converting Ventura codes


Author S H Bowman

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

 WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?


Author S. N. Shah

  Does any tool handle Keywords well?

 MediaView is out - Can't find it!

  MediaView (MM Viewer 3.0)

 Groups and such...Help!

 Any news on MediaView? (MM Viewer 3.0?)

 MediaView (MM Viewer 3.0)


Author SHU

 program manager secret screen


Author SMDiamond

  Edit copy of large topics

  Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

  Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scal

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font

  Multimedia Viewer

  Is the Help Compiler redistributable?

  Bug?...word wrap wrong

  UnCommercial compilers

  Large MM Viewer file distribution


Author Sacksteder <CJS@psuvm.psu.edu>

  Windows Help-Builders


Author Sandor A.G.L. Spruit

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Looking for RTF information


Author Scot Wingo

 HyperHelp 4 released (Announcement)


Author Scott <RSCOTT@USRD.NRL.NAVY.MIL>

  Help Writer's Assistant for Windows


Author Scott Gifford

  Expiration of Help files??

 Using JumpID with a secondary window


Author Scott M Bulmahn

  Doc-To-Help and other help programs


Author Sean McLeod

 .hlp uncompile (reverse engineer)

 Direct editing of .hlp


Author Sean R Gilhooly

 UnCommercial compilers


Author Shahram Raiszadeh

 test

 test

 ignore this test


Author Shannon Hooper

 tables in help files


Author Sharad Kumar Sogani

 Horizontal Scroll Bar in ListBox using BorlandC++


Author Shenoy" <shiva@twg.com>

 Debugging inside a DLL: Breakpoints  dont seem to work.


Author Shenwei B. Lee

 [Q] Beginner's Question


Author Sheri=Steffes%FFK%USACERL@leo.cecer.army.mil

 +Commercial Authoring Tools


Author Sherry Oliver

 Bug? ExecProgram in Config vs HotSpot

  Winhelp Full Text Search


Author Shiva Shenoy

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format


Author Shrivastav" <vijays@twg.com>

  Debugging inside a DLL: Breakpoints  dont seem to work.


Author Simpson Poon

 WFW6.0 find file problem


Author Smirnov Alexej

 Add help in MSVC?


Author Spectrum Business Support Pvt. Ltd.

 DESPERATELY NEED QUICKHELP EXE AND DOCUMENTATION


Author Squibb <scs@VECTIS.DEMON.CO.UK>

 Long: Word 2 -> Word 6 (was Re: Help Files for WHAT6)


Author Stan Orchard

  Visual Help?

 Jump Colors!

  Windows Help-Builders

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

  Hypertext Help-like Documents

  Help-files with full text search ?

  Jump Colors!

  Jump Colors!

  Help Authoring Testimonials?

  Chicago Help compatability

  Chicago Help compatability

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

 rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  Various questions

  topics per keyword limitation

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

 viewer FAQ?


Author Stan Seltser

 help with ftp.microsoft.com


Author Stefan Bieletzke

 Buttons in the menu-bar ?


Author Stefan Kuehnel

  Special Characters in Help File


Author Stefan Olson

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

  Help authoring tools FAQ etc.

  Good Help Authoring Software ?

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  Help Authoring Tool: WANTED

  Helpfile Template or project Maker

  Help Writer Assistant?

  more buttons in help?

  Help System Utility

  Out of Memory errors

  Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

  Multi platform help

  MFC AfxMessageBoxes

  Help compiler????

  what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp

  Using Database

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

  Help font

  Dithering colors

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  WINHELP: Creating a jump = Find area

  On-Line Books?? Authoring???

  [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  howto make a .HLP

  REQUEST: Shareware help compiler?

  RTF Editors

  [Q] Shareware RTF word-processor?

  MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?

  MediaView and Chicago's WinHelp

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  looking for wc31.exe!

  Collapsing effects???

  HELP pointer at Bitmapps?

  Color Limitations

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  Looking for help authoring tools

  UNIX Help Authoring Tools

  Clickable maps in help files

  HDK - inserting pictures

  Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6

  MS Copyrights

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  looking for wc31.exe!

  big *.hlp?

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics

  hlpdc137.zip location ?

  From *.hlp to *.rft

  .wri and .hlp to asc converter for UNIX ??

  bg colour in nonscroll re

  ForeHelp macros

  ForeHelp macros

  buttons in client-area

  Compiling RTF files with Word 6.0

  How do I find ForeHelp?

  Pictures in .hlp

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  buttons in client-area

  Documentation on HC

  CENTERING GRAPHICS

  .hlp uncompile (reverse engineer)

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  256 color bitmaps, HOW?

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

  Good Help Editor ?

  Jim Michel in VB

  Conditional Jumps between Helpfiles

  Winword 6.0 to RTF

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Displaying a Bitmap in Non-Scrolling Region

  Help Compiler

  HLP -> WWW?

  was: help menu option in OWL2, now: RTF format

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  can't get [Windows] main= statement to work

  full text

  Contents to Secondary window? (Viewer/.HLP)

  error 5059

  WordPerfect to Winhelp

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

  Full Text search in Help files

  WinHelp in 256 colors?

  Problem compiling large help files

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  Dll's, Exe's and Menu's in Help files

  Out of Memory Error

  Browse Sequence Problems...

  compiling help files

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  Is the Help Compiler redistributable?

  compiling help files

  UnCommercial compilers

  Creating help files

  mmsystem.dll

  UnCommercial compilers

  UnCommercial compilers

  [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic

  Bug? ExecProgram in Config vs HotSpot

  need format of the *.HLP file

  More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in .hlp file NO .dlls!)

  Subscripts/indexes unknown ???

  More Feedback (was Re: 256 colors in

  Making a help file

  RTF Files with Winword 6.0

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  replacement for shed?

  WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

  Second Help Windows

  WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  help menu option in OWL2

  Buttons in the menu-bar ?

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects


Author Sten Westerback

 Is HCP.EXE available by FTP?


Author Stephen Bennett

 Windows & Modem


Author Stephen Cacclin

 Printing .hlp files...


Author Stephen Griffin

  Winhelp on Unix?


Author Stephen Heilbronner

  what6 - error starting word6.0


Author Stephen Jenkins

  Stop dynamic scaling of bitmaps?

 Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

  Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

 Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER - Ver. 1.01

  Stop dynamic bitmap scaling - THE ANSWER

 ShgRez Ver. 1.01 - Stop dynamic bitmap scaling


Author Stephen Schimpf

  Winhelp on Unix?


Author Stephen Walsh

  winhelp bmp hotspots:  how do _you_ do it ?


Author Stephen"              <POWERSOFT/BURLINGTON/gilson%Powersoft_Co

 Help for NT


Author Stergios Marinopoulos

 Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!


Author Steve Bigelow

 Need help on windows font files


Author Steve Hopkins

 Jagged edges in captured bitmaps


Author Steve Katz

 Secondary Windows on Startup


Author Steve Metsker

 Packaging .HLP files for distribution

  awk and rtf files


Author Steve Perry

 quote char

 Collapsing effects???


Author Steve Read

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  Size of Help files: Practical Limits?

  topics per keyword limitation

  An Even Better Way (Creating great looking tables in WinHelp)


Author Steve Schaff

  Templates for word


Author Steve Scott

 Need help building beav140 with Borland C++ 4.0


Author Steve Sherwood

  Borland or Microsoft...need help

  Borland or Microsoft...need help


Author Steven Hughes

  Current help compiler version

  Let's share .rtf and .rc files

  RTF Editors

 Multilayered list problem

  can you use microsoft's help authoring templates for word 6.0?

  Multilayered list problem

  Multilayered list problem

  WHAT6.EXE , WHPE, and HCPARSE.DLL

  Context Sensitive Help - Help?

  WHAT6.EXE , WHPE, and HCPARSE.DLL


Author Steven Panter

 help files losing colour

  help files losing colour


rgensen
Author Stig Jørgensen

 Blue Sky RoboHELP 2.0 vs. RoboHelp 2.6


Author Stig Skjervold

 HC31 out of memory


Author Suri Medapati

 Help using DLL


Author Susan Johnson

 Need help with bug when COMPRESS=HIGH is set


Author Sven Willsch

 How to create Programmgroups in Windows


Author System Manager Wuest

 R these lists available via E-mail?


Author T.H

 HyperTrack 4.1: Expanding WinHelp's horizon..


Author TD

 ==== HELP : MSAVI VERSION ERRORS ====


Author TIM ROBERTS

 FAQ Update - Now Available

  Books on Winhelp

  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp FAQ

 Context Sensitive Help - Help?

  Cool Undocumented Feature, and new book!

 ANNOUNCE: Help Assistant 3.3 Available

 HELP - Macro Problem

 FAQ: It's NEW FTP Home.

 NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool

 NEW: Help Assistant 3.1 - Plays AVI files

  NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool


Author TIMO AUTIOKARI, P: INT+358 0 511 5280, FAX: INT+358 0 511 6496

 Help-files with full text search ?

  Knowledge Base Files in Help format


Author TOD R. MASSA, SLU-IR" <MASSATR@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU>

  Minimized Startup of a Help File

  Minimized Startup of a Help File


Author Tam Kenneth Kin Wai

 N e e d   H e l p . . .


Author Tandika L. Star

 KnowledgeBase-style interface

 Where's the files?


Author Tandy Penn

  Does any tool handle Keywords well?

  Button macro to launch Word 6

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?


Author Taylor Barratt

  Out of Memeory Error

  Out of Memory Error (I Beg to differ you all)


Author Teh Kao Yang

 Windows Application Localization (language change)

 Windows Application Localization (language change)


Author Terje Hopso

 what6 - error starting word6.0

  what6 - error starting word6.0


Author Terrance Au

 Virtual Functions


Author Terry Anderson

  Using 2ndary window to display topic from oth


Author Terry Chung

  Books on writing WinHlp files ?

 Create .hlp files using Multimedia Viewer?

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows

  Building WinHelp under Chinese Windows


Author Terry Turner

 converting doc to .hlp?


Author Terry W. Burton

 error 5059


Author Themos Tsikas

 LaTeX -> WINHELP S/W ?


Author Think

 ** Q:  Can a Hitachi CD ROM drive #CDR-1503S work with Windows? **

 ** WANTED To Buy:  Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5 **


Author Think/Global

 ** WANTED to buy:  PCOpenClient and NetLib for PC Windows **


Author Thomas Beagle

 Advice on Help Authoring Tools Please

  How do I find ForeHelp?

  Recommendations sought for help file authoring/development system

 How do I find ForeHelp?


Author Thomas Muhr

  What's up with WHAT6 on MSDN 2?

  WinHelp DeCompiler???


Author Thomas Schmid

 bitmaps in TDialog


Author Thor Vollset

  Help and documentation


Author Thornton K. Prime

  Where to get HDK?


Author Tie Ju Chen

 Help compiler????


Author Tim Chambers

 Viewer Reccomendation?


Author Tim L. Pascal" <pascal@NSSF.AF.MIL>

 Bad "Digest"ion


Author Tim Mackay

 Large MM Viewer file distribution


Author Tim Smith

  Does WPWin work to author help files?

 Making Windows 3.0 help files with Word 6?


Author Timothy A. Stewart

 full text


Author Tokind

  How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

  Special Characters in Help File

 Violation, WORD6,RTFMod,HCP!!

 MMViewer development tools

 Proposal: Special characters

  How to fire off both a macro and a popup from a hotspot?

  VBX Needed: Convert an RTF to MSWord?

  Problem with HCP.EXE

  Dithering colors

  DOSHelp??elp

  Problem with HCP.EXE

  [Q] WHAT and Winword 6: where to find what6.zip?

  using the ExecProgram macro

  Color Limitations

  Proposal: Special characters

  undocumented macros

  Problem with HCP.EXE

  undocumented macros

  Shrinking bitmaps

  MM Viewer

  Where is full-text search data?

  tech writer's style guide for Windows

  WinHelp file size???

  Special Characters in Help File

  Bitmaps in Help Files

  tech writer's style guide for Windows

  Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...


Author Tom Cable

 Anyone Using HDK by Virtual Media Tech


Author Tom Haapanen

 Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

  --> Have Saved All Posts -- Anyone Volunteer to Make 'Em Available?

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups

  --> Have Saved All Posts -- Anyone Volunteer to Make 'Em Available?

 Gateway test -- please ignore

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]

 Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it

 INFO: A guide to the Windows newsgroups [FAQ]


Author Tom Hudgins

 VB Helpwriter ?'s


Author Tom Maynard

 WinWord 6.0 and RTF files

 LSeekHF function

  LSeekHF function

 Help metrics

 Help metrics


Author Tom McKee

 Windows Worry


Author Tommy Trussell

  Best _UNCRIPPLED_ help file creator.


Author Tomoko Kimura

 Looking for help authoring tools

 Where is the FAQ?


Author Tony Hamilton

 Where is WHAT6.ZIP?


Author Tony Lee

 Botton to print all the topic in help file


Author Tony Noe

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool


Author Tracy Williams

  Tables *WITH* Borders in Winhelp Files? -PLEASE


Author Trevor Jenkins

  Non-FTP sight for WHAT.ZIP??


Author Turner <TABITHA%HUJIVMS.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>

 posting by non-subscriber

  Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

  Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

  associate index (.ind) file with .hlp file

 Help Writer's Assistant for Windows


Author Ulrich Babiak

 Am I blind or crazy?

 Thanks: Am I Blind....

  tables in help files


Author Urutia <Teresa_Urutia@CCM.JF.INTEL.COM>

 Recommendation on tutorial tools

  Using FrameMaker to author help files


Author Vanessa Kaye

 ToolBook


Author Varguis

 Change buttons names

 MS Copyrights

  Translating help files into multiple languages...

  Change buttons names

 AddAccelerator buttons

 Shed and color quality


Author Villalon

  Secondary windows and other .HLP files


Author Vincent Cirel

  what does WinWord 6.0 in its .hlp


Author Vladimir Alexiev

  Object containers/reference embedding.

  enumeration under Word 6.0

  winhelp with parameter?

  User manual *and* online help

  Help font

  Help font

  Conundrum Corner

  Collapsing effects???

  Problem with HCP.EXE

  Help problems from Hell

  looking for wc31.exe!

  Copyrights and Help - Re: Looking for a help decompiler

  Help and documentation

  looking for wc31.exe!

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  Multilayered list problem

  Jump to .HLP Contents in 2ndy Window

  where is WHAT?

  Using Microsoft Help Compiler (HC31.EXE)

  Out of Memory Error

  LaTeX -> WINHELP S/W ?

  DocToHelp - where?

  Where to get Dr. Help ?


Author Vogt" <vogt@cs.indiana.edu>

 Visual WinHelp Designer/Tool?


Author W Geake

  Bitmaps in Help Files


Author Walden <ralphw@microsoft.com>

 Chicago Help compatability

 Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

 Various Help Questions

 green highlighting disappearing

 Various questions

 MediaView and Chicago's WinHelp

 topics per keyword limitation

 None

 Unicode and help

 Menu seperator

 ExtInsertItem

 .ANN file location

 Multi-File Keyword Search

 Copying text from WinHelp 4.0

  Multi-File Keyword Search

  Is the Help Compiler redistributable?

 Quirks or Features?!

 WinHelp 4.0 point sizes

 WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset


Author Walter Scrivens

  Help Authoring Tool


Author Wayne Scott

 Need to convert Amipro docs into a help file

 Color Limitations


Author Wayne W. McDougall

 [Q] Running macros when a User Enters a Topic


Author Weiqi Gao

  Hypertext Help-like Documents


Author Wendigo <LLOYD-B@ACI1.ACI.NS.CA>

 None


Author Will Watts

  Windows help file questions


Author William Peters <gwp@CS.PURDUE.EDU>

  MWHAG


Author Williamson <Craig.Williamson@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>

  Unix .hlp viewer?


Author Wolfgang Beyer

 hlp2doc

 hlp2doc version 1.22 available

 hlp2doc.zip available

 hlp2doc 1.32 available


Author Xiaowei Zhan

 header file COMPDDK.H


Author Yu-Lin Hwang

 email address of Blue Sky Software.


Author Yves Forget

 How to deactivate network messages ?


Author Yvonne deGraw

 Reusing information with MS Word (overheads in return for help)


Author Zachary Rodman

 I need a good MPG player for DOS or Windows. Please help.


Author Zweitze de Vries

  Determining current font in a Win application


Author adrian peterson

 Programmatic WinHelp


Author ah694@FreeNet.Carleton.CA

 cancel


Author andrew vessey

  UnCommercial compilers


Author andy bridle

 Help help


Author antonio dias

 ForeHelp


Author bes@VNET.IBM.COM

 IPF--> RTF  OS/2.hlp --> WIN.hlp

 WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator


Author bhagavat dharma

  HC31 out of memory

 Mystifying Memory Problem...

  Converting a help file to a text file

  Converting a help file to a text file

 Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

  RTF doc viewer?


Author bob@epsilon.com

 Trapping Windows Messages (How To?)


Author briand@ihs.com

  ** Q:  Can a Hitachi CD ROM drive #CDR-1503S work with Windows? **


Author bryan trussler 9209 u

  most .hlp files are being created incorrectly!?


Author bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au

 ForeHelp demo in Australia?


Author c. verbrugge

 was: help menu option in OWL2, now: RTF format

 help menu option in OWL2


Author chou@.notis.com

  Robohelp to The Rescue!

 secondary help window buttons

 using the ExecProgram macro

 undocumented macros

 other books on winhelp?

  WinHLP Undocumented Stuff??

 real buttons

 extra spaces after italicized words

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

 other undocumented winhelp macros

 regarding HideMenuBar(),etc

  Hidden paragraph?

  how to get bmc to work with hc31?

  Winhelp on MAC ?

  Windows Help compiler?

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

  "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

  doc2help vs robohelp

  Change default colors?

 *.hpj file stuff

  Help compiler runs out of file handles

  "Super" WinHelp-like Help????

  Numbering & Bullets in WinWord 6.0

  doc2help vs robohelp


Author chou@n5145.notis.com

  Review of ForeHelp, a WinHelp authoring tool

  Request for Criticism

  converting doc to .hlp?

  Word 2.0 Converts RTF, but ugly

  MidTopic Jumps

  Only 2 Open windows at once?

  graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word

  Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe

 Automatically minimizing and restoring a help window

 Help for OS/s

  Convert .hlp file to text file?

  Keyword search >> 2ndary windows

  Help System Utility

  Looking for a help decompiler

  Bullet lists in help files

 what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

 what6.dot

  what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

  WinWord6 <> RoboHelp

  Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?

  Lotus Screencam

  Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho... here's SCRCAP for you.

 help .dlls

  Corrupt Bitmaps and Paint Shop Pro...

  One warning message per compile?

 This newsgroup is for WRITING HELP SYSTEMS, NOT for asking random wind

  Pictures in floating text

  HELP - Macro Problem

  Visual C++ and Visual Basic, which one is better?

  kill the menu!!

  hyperlinks between hlp Files

  Erratic behavior of PopUp HotSpots. Any ideas why?

  ROBOHELP 2.5

  Printing entire .hlp files

  Printing entire .hlp files

  NEW: Help Assistant - Excellent Authoring Tool


Author chou@notis.com

  Bitmaps in Help Files


Author chris

 OLE & dde compatable applets


Author chungr@cobra.uni.edu

 .hlp -> .rtf conversion


Author cisitm@albert.cad.cea.fr

 cmsg cancel <39b3hl$b1m@anemone.saclay.cea.fr>


Author dagmar@inforamp.net

  Cue Cards

 Cue Cards


Author davo@halcyon.com

  DOC-To-Help and Hypergraphics


Author depending on mood <lew721@delphi.com>

 Help macros/WinWord quotation marks problem?


Author dikran Hovagimian

 How to install Visual Help or Help Pre Compiler


Author dmacewen@bud.peinet.pe.ca

  WinHelp viewer for DOS

  help files losing colour


Author dub

  WORDS 6.0 help me!!!!!!!


Author dunbar" <mardunba@cs.indiana.edu>

  Lotus AMI Pro??


Author dwightm@bcm.tmc.edu

 Pen Controls


Author ee92pms@brunel.ac.uk

 Word Docs as Help Files

 FAQ????


Author em81125

 How to make *.HLP more easy?


Author erichc@yvax.byu.edu

  Winhelp on MAC ?

  Winhelp on MAC ?


Author gail@wst.com

 Dithering colors

  Table in Winhelp: borders won't show

  WinHelp DeCompiler???

  Dithering colors


Author gen on BIX

  Format of Browse sequence

  Jump Colors!

  Jump Colors!

  Sources on WinHelp/Chicago WinHelp Format?

  FAQ

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Robohelp to The Rescue!

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

 Commercial

  Numbered list indentation problem w/ WW6

  FAQ

  FAQ

  FAQ

  Help DLLs

  Weird kerning in MS Word screen font

  Windows Application Localization (language change)

  Windows Application Localization (language change)

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  QUESTIONS

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

  Floating Table of Contents?

  Windows Application Localization (language change)

  QUESTIONS

  Weird kerning in MS Word screen font

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  Floating Table of Contents?

  HELP: MessageBox and "edit" boxes

  WHAT.ZIP for Word 6.0?

  help compiler

  Help and Viewer on NT?

  Doc-To-Help vs RoboHELP

  Help Files: Creating both WinHelp and IPF from single source?


Author geoffc

 VBX Needed: Convert an RTF to MSWord?

 Browse Sequence Problems...


Author gfp@mcmurray

  Special Characters in Help File

  Special Characters in Help File


Author gfp@rd000940

  Copyright Symbol and others


Author giles@research.canon.oz.au

 SETWINPOS broken?


Author gparsons@syncrude.com

  Running out of memory in Dos box using hc31.exe


Author gpeto@mudshark.sunquest.com

  mmsystem.dll

  KnowledgeBase-style interface

  DIB palettes in WinHelp/Viewer (was re:256 colors in .hlp file NO .dl

  replacement for shed?

  MS KB ommision (was footnote in Viewer2)

  DIB palettes in WinHelp/Viewer (was re:256 colors in .hlp file NO .dl

  OLE & dde compatable applets

 Info: Opening a file from Winhelp/Viewer

  Viewer, would you use it?

  On-Line Books: how to create?

  On-Line Books: how to create?


Author gracie!eliasson

 help, windows/multiple monitors


Author gstark@cruzio.com

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

 Anybody seen ForHelp?

  How do I find ForeHelp?

  winhelp bmp hotspots:  how do _you_ do it ?

  Looking for the 'ShowMe' button...

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

  DIB palettes in WinHelp/Viewer (was re:256 colors in .hlp file NO .dl

  WYSIWIG HelpFile Generator

  +Commercial Authoring Tools

  Creating help files


Author hayek adam michael

 What wrong with my VC++ f/NT


Author idps102@shts.seed.net.tw

 Table Dialog?


Author idpt867@tpts1.seed.net.tw

 De-compile Windows Help File


Author jae@ucsd.edu

 Q: Using Integra VBX with BC 4.0?


Author jager@odie.ee.wits.ac.za

 Creating On-Line Books


Author jalapeno

 Loading external text  -  helpsend.txt [1/1]  -  helpsend.txt [1/1]


Author jason leedy

 VB graphics addon| more than bmp


Author jinzhao wang

 Help missing characters


Author jjge

 where is WHAT?

  PLEASE HELP!!!! DESPERATE

 WHAT6 WHPE


Author jrice@pluto.pomona.claremont.edu

 Problem Part II

 Help!  Whpe died....

 WHPE Compiles

 HLP -> WWW?

  WHAT6 WHPE


Author jss6@jaguar.uofs.edu

 Visual Basic: Question


Author justin wells

 sgml, html, and winhelp


Author kajtek@ac.dal.ca

  .wri and .hlp to asc converter for UNIX ??


Author kclarke

  Windows Multimedia Viewer 2.0

  [Q] Beginner's Question

  [Q] How to do "title bar"?

  rtf vs html(wasRe: MS-WINDOWS .hlp viewer on X-WINDOW?)

  Context Sensitive Help - Help?

  help with Browse

  WinHelp as MM Viewer Subset


Author korblibj@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu

 Problems with WHAT6 - missing files


Author kunszabo@ludens.elte.hu

 Creating help files


Author l.sussman@intelsat.int

  Looking for Source Control Tool


Author lazyone

  No network being loaded


Author list server at HUMBER (1.7f) <LISTSERV@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA>

 Your removal from the WINHLP-L list


Author loadstone@ins.infonet.net

 .hlp to .txt?


Author marice@happy.uccs.edu

  How do I find ForeHelp?


Author marwk@levels.unisa.edu.au

 MICROSOFT Help Authoring Tool: fix for WORD4Win 6.0 required.


Author mburton@mortimer.keytronic.com

 HelpGen Windows Help File Generator Released


Author msilva@lnec.pt

 Inter File HELP Jump and PopUp


Author nash@mudshark.sunquest.com

 tech writer's style guide for Windows

 tech writer style guide


Author nataraj

 MAPI-VIM-API details / White paper

 Visual C++, Std or Prof Edition????


Author oandb@ping.com

 Diamond Stealth Video Card


Author ollie@cconcepts.co.uk

  buttons in client-area


Author p.) goulet" <gouletp@BNR.CA>

 Using FrameMaker to author help files


Author pacza" <cathyp@sybase.com>

  Planning On-Line Help in Windows

 Windows Help Overhead

  The FAQ


Author phillip@uhs1.uhs.uga.edu

 Help System Utility


Author rene mortensen

 Helpfile viewer with full text search


Author rfutscher@pbs.org

 Help graphics and a MAC

 Need scroll bars


Author riker@access.digex.net

 Doc-To-Help and other help programs

 Phone numbers for RoboHelp and ForeHelp


Author rlspc@delphi.com

  Creating On-Line Books


Author rmcnee@hoasys.isd1.tafensw.edu.au

 Answer: VB  Help/ContextId WinHelp


Author rss@silcom.com

 DLL Path

  Dll's, Exe's and Menu's in Help files


Author sasha

  Help compiler runs out of file handles


Author sl4hq@cc.usu.edu

 WinHelp mulitple links.


Author smi@sccsi.com

 Viewer 2.0 Main Window Always on Top


Author student

 Winword 6.0 to RTF


Author tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il

  WinHelp mulitple links.

  Help System Utility

  Help System Utility

  Expiration of Help files??

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Chicago Help versus Viewer 2.0

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  HWA

  Jim Michel in VB

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Viewer/Help3.1,95/MediaView --> questions on end-user font scaling

 Jim Michel in VB

  Enabling Search Across Help Projects

  Looking for Help Authoring Tools

  Windows Help Magician - any comments?

  HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

  HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

 wh2hdk does it exist?

  HDK from Virtual Media--what's it like?

  what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

  what's up with ftp.cica.indiana.edu

  Help Writer's Assistant for Windows

  posting by non-subscriber

  TOC windows with help

 awk and rtf files

  Converting .hlp to OS/2 ipf help format

  Q: Using Integra VBX with BC 4.0?

  graphics too small in winhelp, OK in Word


Author thka@me.chalmers.se

 Pictures in floating text


Author vdwit@chevron.com

 Special Characters in Help File


Author vlad@elementrix.co.il

 Near member pointers


Author wintermute

 winhelp => html


Author witold@hotblk.aed.dsto.gov.au

  ForeHelp demo in Australia?


Author xedb_gene@debet.nhh.no

 How to Move Sequentially thru a .HLP file


Author yung-rang cheng

 Problem with HCP.EXE

  Problem with HCP.EXE


Author ziv@netmanage.com

  Macro Recorder