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riphelp by Mark H. Wilkinson (C) 1993
This version: 13feb93
Description:
This is a simple program to build HelpData and Index files
for StrongHelp v 1.00, the help system which accompanies
StrongED II v 1.10. It extracts the help text for the
standard C library from the Desktop C !SrcEdit program and
also allows other help pages to be added. You may find it
useful if you program in C and hate !SrcEdit.
Instructions for use:
1. Compile riphelp. There's a simple Makefile included to
do this.
2. Load !StrongHlp.
3. Go to the !StrongHlp application directory and create a
new directory called "C" in the HelpData directory (i.e.
create "<StrongHelp$Dir>.HelpData.C")
4. Load !SrcEdit; quit it again if you want. (This is
needed to get SrcEdit$Dir set properly.)
5. Run riphelp.
6. Quit StrongHelp and restart it again.
7. Modify the MainMenu page from StrongHelp to include a
link to the root of the C help system (you need to add a
line saying "<C =>C.$>" onto the page).
8. Select "Save Help" on StrongHelp's icon bar menu to save
the change to MainMenu.
9. Enjoy instant help on all standard library routines and
definitions. (And a one page summary of all the operators
and their precedence and associativity.)
10. Write extra pages for the things you think are missing
and send them to me for inclusion in the next release!
How to add your own pages:
Create a file in the c directory and type your text in
there. Follow the format of the entry in c.operators - the
text is an initialiser for an array in the main program so
don't forget the commas and quote marks or the compiler
will complain.
The first entry is the name of the page in the index. Use
something descriptive and long enough to avoid name clashes.
The second entry indicates whether the name can be searched
for by pressing F1 in StrongED and should be either YES or
NO.
The third entry is the text for the help page. The first
line appears in the title bar of the help window and the
rest appears in the window itself.
You can include link words in the help text following the
syntax described in the StrongHelp documentation. Ensure
you double all backslashes to get them through the compiler
intact.
The next version:
Hopefully will include more information about the C
language (keywords, types and such). I've already started
doing this, but the text I have is based heavily on K&R and
probably shouldn't be distributed.
May also attempt to automatically cross reference the
library help.
Contact me:
Send modifications and stuff to me as mhw@minster.york.ac.uk