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PRESS RELEASE ! PRESS RELEASE ! PRESS RELEASE ! PRESS RELEASE ! PRESS RELEASE !
HLPDK - Help Development Kit - Version 10.0 November 5, 1993
HLPDK Sound & Vision Edition Picture ! Music ! Action !
Version 10.0 is a major release and a major step forward that brings HLPDK to
the Multimedia world with many enhancements and improvements.
Release highlights are:
- Microsoft Multimedia Viewer support.
- Native Graphic support for winHelp, MM Viewer and OS/2.
- Native Sound support in winHelp and MM Viewer.
- Native Application Launch links for winHelp, MM Viewer and OS/2.
Just a click of a mouse can Launch another application !
- Multiple file target databases support in winHelp, MM Viewer and OS/2.
Create links to external databases, and huge projects with no size limit !
- User Defined Links. Expand the HDF language without source code changes !
Create extension libraries to the HLPDK language and compiler !
HLPDK is a shareware hypertext and hypermedia Help Database Development Kit,
distributed by ISoft D&M, that includes two royalty free help engines and a
help compiler with a built in cross reference tool. HLPDK supports the
creation of help files for many target formats from one help source.
Supported targets are:
- Windows 3.0/3.1 winHelp .HPJ/.RTF
- OS/2 .IPF (IPFC)
- Microsoft Multimedia Viewer 2.0 .MVP/.RTF
- THELP 3.0 .HL (HL 6.0 & 6.10).
- DESQview/X .HLP (MDVXHELP)
- QuickHelp 1.83 .SRC (HELPMAKE).
- TVHC 1.1 .TXT (TVHC).
- POPHELP .TXT (MAKEHELP)
- Native (Paradox 4.x & text).
- Native (Memory HDX & text).
- Word Processors (via RTF)
- Text documents with automatic table of contents, glossary and index.
Major Features Are:
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.
Developing help text is an important but often neglected part of application
development. Developers often run out of time and/or money long before they
even start it. Not a easy task to begin with (it requires skills in both
application design and technical writing), today's help systems also require
programming expertise and a good measure of time. As a result, many
applications have inadequate help systems that do not really fulfill their
objective - help the user.
The problem is even more complex when an application has more than one target
environment, each one using different formats and programming techniques to
generate help text.
HLPDK cannot solve all the problems involved in help text generation, but it
helps a lot. It allows you to write one help text source and compile it to
many different targets. Take existing texts (user manuals, technical notes,
etc.), add simple help commands, compile them and you have a complete help
system with hot-links, indexes and directories !
Download HLPDK from your favorite BBS or order it from shareware catalogs.
You can get the registered version directly from ISoft D&M or from PsL.
Registration fee is $50 (plus S&H). Help Engine TurboPascal sources may be
obtained for an additional $100 fee. Higher Education discounts available.
For a limited time, registering HLPDK includes a $9.95 discount on the JCSM
Shareware CD-ROM collection.
Write once, HELP many !
Contact:
ISoft D&M
P.O.Box 5517
Coralville, IA 52241
Phone: (319) 351-8413
Compuserve 76350,333