What's This? Help Composer® is a tool from eHelp Corporation that enables you to create context-sensitive Help for Help systems that are used with software applications. The latest version provides support for both WinHelp and Microsoft HTML Help. What's This? Help Composer is installed on your authoring system at the same time that you install RoboHELP.
Context-sensitive Help was introduced with Windows 95 and supports Windows 95, 98 and NT applications. What's This? Help is Help in text-only format that is displayed in a popup window. It is brief in content and is intended to provide information about individual fields and controls at dialogs and windows.
What's This? Help is displayed when users click (the
question mark button displayed in the upper-right corner of dialogs) and
the field or control they want help about. (It is also accessible from
Help buttons in dialogs and by pressing F1.)
What's This? Help Composer is designed to scan applications and automatically generate projects. It reads program files and creates context-sensitive Help topics for all controls and fields in dialog boxes. It can also add suggested text to each Help topic, to save authoring time.
The files that What's This Help Composer supports for Microsoft HTML Help include:
Program files (.EXE)
Dynamic Link Libraries (.DLL)
ActiveX controls (.OCX)
You can add What's This? Help to any RoboHELP project. The result is a single text-only file — CONTEXT.TXT — that contains text used for each context-sensitive Help topic that you create.
Note: Only Microsoft HTML Help systems that are intended for C or C++ applications are supported by What's This? Help Composer.