BCF Help - Installation Help

Before You Start

Please Note: If you uncheck the box titled Create Program Manager Item, you will need to create a Program Manager Group/Item manually(see below). If you don't want to have to do this then leave the box checked.

Starting the Installation

To start the installation, click on the button labelled Start Install. When you do this, you will be presented with a dialog box which indicates the directory that you are installing FROM (source directory), and the default target directory (i.e., the directory that you want to install the program to). You can edit the TARGET directory if you do not like the default. When satisfied with the source and target directories, click on the button labelled Install Now. If you want to go back to the beginning, click on the button labelled Abort.

After BCF Help is installed the standard icon for the Windows Helpfile Program(WINHELP.EXE) will be displayed. If you wish to change this to the icon supplied with BCF Help then follow the steps outlined below in Changing the Winfile.exe Icon to the BCF Help Icon.

Installation Problems and Uninstalling BCF Help

If you have any problems installing BCF Help try installing the program manually. The procedure for this can be found in the man_inst.wri file on this distribution diskette.

If you wish to uninstall BCF Help for any reason follow the procedure outlined in the uninstal.wri file on this distribution diskette.

Manually Creating a Program Manager Group

Manually Creating a Program Manager Group Item

Changing the Winfile.exe Icon to the BCF Help Icon


Manually Creating a BCF Help Program Manager Group

1	From the File menu, choose New.

2	In the New Program Object dialog box, select the Program Group option, and then choose the OK button.

3	In the Description box in the Program Group Properties dialog box, type BCF Help.

This description will appear in the title bar of the group window and below the group icon.

4	Choose the OK button.

Program Manager creates a .GRP file for the group, so you can leave the Group File box blank.

Now proceed onto Manually Creating a Program Manager Group Item


Manually Creating a BCF Help Program Manager Group Item

Creating the BCF Help Program Item

1	Open the group window that you want to add an item to.

2	From the File menu, choose New.

3	In the New Program Object dialog box, select the Program Item option, and then choose the OK button.

4	Fill in the Program Item Properties dialog box as described below, and choose the OK button.

In the Description Box type BCF Help.

In the Command Line Box type winfile.exe c:\bcfhelp\bcfhelp.hlp. This assumes that the drive you installed BCF Help on was your C drive, and the target directory was left as the default(BCFHELP).

In the Working Directory Box type C:\BCFHELP. Again this assumes that the target directory was left as the default(BCFHELP).

5	To display the BCF Help icon supplied, choose the Change Icon button. This will display the Change Icon dialog box.

6	In the File Name Box type C:\BCFHELP\BCFHELP.ICO in the Change Icon dialog box and then click on the OK button. This will bring you back to the Program Item Properties Box.

7	If you have completed all of the above then click the OK button and you will be returned to the Program Manager.

If you would like to change the standard Winfile.exe icon to the BCF Help icon supplied then proceed to Changing the Winfile.exe Icon to the BCF Help Icon


Changing the Winfile.exe Icon to the BCF Help Icon

1	Select the icon with the title BCFHELP that looks like a ?.

2	From the File menu, choose Properties.

3	In the Program Item Properties dialog box, choose the

Change Icon button. This will display the Change Icon dialog box.

4	In the File Name Box type C:\BCFHELP\BCFHELP.ICO in the Change Icon dialog box and then click on the OK button. This will bring you back to the Program Item Properties Box.

5	If you have completed all of the above then click the OK button and you will be returned to the Program Manager.