Copyright: Copyright ©


256-Color Bitmap Support

ForeHelp provides a special DLL that lets you place 256-color bitmaps into your projects.


Automatic Browse Buttons

When the first topic is assigned to a browse sequence, the BrowseButtons project macro is automatically added for you.


Automatic Context-Number Assignment Option

ForeHelp can automatically assign context numbers to all unnumbered topics if you choose.


Build Warning Options

Through preferences, you can choose to turn off all warnings, no warnings, or only character warnings.


Bullets and Numbered Lists

Select text and apply one of the provided bullet bitmaps (or add your own) and numbering styles along with paragraph formats.


Cancel Build

You can now cancel while Build is in progress.


Change Style Names

You can now change a style name directly.


Compiler and MRBC included

ForeHelp 2.0 ships with the HCP.EXE compiler and the multi-resolution bitmap compiler.


Contents
ForeHelp 2.0
The Way Help Authoring Should Be

Welcome to ForeHelp, the unique help authoring system for Windows, where you develop your help projects in an actual hypertext environment.  This help file contains general information you will need to know when you begin working with ForeHelp.

General Information

New 2.0 Features

Technical Support

Tutorial

Product Information

Requirements

Release Notes

Ordering Information

Order Form


Context Map File Choice

Choose from one of three different context-map file formats to export: C and C++, Visual Basic, and Pascal.


Copy Pictures to Graphic Path when Inserting

To keep your project's files in a central location, you have the option to copy pictures to your graphic path when inserting them.  Moving and renaming projects will be simplified.


Customizable Toolbar

You can place most of ForeHelp's commands on the toolbar, in whatever position you choose.  Choose from large, color buttons with text, or smaller buttons without text.


Edit Hotspot Command

You can click in any hotspot (macro, popup, or jump), use the Edit Hotspot command, and the appropriate dialog box displays.


ForeFront Help Buttons

A ForeFront add-on product that gives the help author button building capabilities.  If used within ForeHelp, the help author has an integrated interface to specify text or graphics on button faces with multiple appearance options.  You may also build button bars, even in secondary windows.  See the Order Form for information.


Formatting Toolbar

ForeHelp now has a formatting bar that lets you quickly select fonts, point sizes, emphasis, and styles.


Glossary Creation

ForeHelp provides a glossary RTF template file which you can insert in your help project.  The RTF file provides a glossary topic shell with SHG letter buttons in the banner.  The end user clicks on the letters to jump to the associated target letters in the topic.  If your glossary term topics already exist, the new Automatic Table of Contents Generation lets you click on existing topic names which will be listed at the cursor location with popups or jumps to the related topics.  If your glossary term topics do not exist, list the glossary terms, select over all terms, and make multiple popups to automatically create the topics and links.


Grapher

Change the topic in the ForeHelp window by Control+Clicking topic names in the Grapher.  Allows yet another way for you to navigate through the help file.  For similar functionality for your end user, the Help Browser provides this and other features.


Hard Spaces and Line Breaks

From the text menu, you can now add hard spaces and line breaks.


Help Browser 2
ForeHelp Add-on Product

The Help Browser 2 is now available as an integrated ForeHelp add-on product from ForeFront, Inc.  The Help Browser 2 was developed by Oxford Computer Consultants in Oxford, England.  The Help Browser gives certain Windows 95-like help features to your .HLP files for Windows 3.1.  The reader will see two new buttons on the WinHelp button bar: Browse and Find Text.  Browse brings up a Browser window available for navigating through the help file and for marking multiple topics for print.  Find Text lets you enter any text string and locates all occurrences of the string throughout the entire help project, exclusive of the keyword search feature.  See the Order Form for pricing information


Help Buttons
ForeFront Help Buttons
ForeHelp Add-on Product

You can create your own button for your help file quickly and easily using ForeFront Help Buttons.  When used with ForeHelp, you choose button options from standard Windows-style dialog boxes.  You can create a custom button specifying text (in any font) or a bitmap graphic for the button face.  Choose from button template styles provided with ForeFront Help Buttons or create your own templates to use again and again.  You can place your button anywhere in the help file: in topic text, in the banner, or even simulating a button bar in a secondary window.


Import Context-Map Files

Import context-map files provided by a programmer.


Import Status Window

When importing When you import an .RTF file or open an .HPJ file, ForeHelp displays status messages as the import progresses.


Keyword Creation by Selecting Text

Ctrl+K to make a keyword of selected text.


Keyword Creation of Topic Title When Creating Topic

There is now a checkbox in the Topic Properties dialog box to make a topic keyword entry for the topic title.


Macro Sets

Create named sets of macros that can be quickly assigned to any topic or hotspot.


Manual Creation from Help

Choose any and all topics in any order to be output to one or more RTF files with the RTF codes stripped out.  There are options for collating popups as footnotes or as a glossary and where to create hard page breaks.  Graphics are converted to printing pictures.


Mid-topic Keyword Support

Place keywords in the middle of a topic, so the search procedure takes the user directly to the associated word in context.


Multiple RTF File Support/Large Project Management

ForeHelp lets you import RTF files and build partial projects, making it easy for groups of writers to work on one help project or to maintain the help file in sections.


Navigator

You can now view up to seven levels in either direction from the center topic by right clicking on the "path" you wish to follow.


Negative Indents

You can now have negative left-indent paragraph settings, so you can position graphics such that they sit right up next to the left border of the window.


New 2.0 Features

Major Features

256-Color Bitmap Support

Context Map File Choice

Glossary Creation

Macro Sets

Manual Creation from Help

Mid-topic Keyword Support

Multiple RTF File Support/Large Project Management

New Macro Editor

Project Directory Management

Project Templates

RTF Import Management

Table of Contents Creation

Topic Copy

WYSIWYG Embedded Windows

Word Processor Enhancements

Bullets and Numbered Lists

Customizable Toolbar

Formatting Toolbar

Hard Spaces and Line Breaks

Negative Indents

Paste Special Options

Graphic Enhancements

Copy Pictures to Graphic Path when Inserting

Preview Pictures before Inserting

Reorder Hotspots in SHG Files

Replace Underlying Pictures while Keeping Hotspots

Scale and Crop Bitmaps; Scale Metafiles

Presentation Tool Enhancements

Grapher

Navigator

Reporter

Usability Improvements

Automatic Browse Buttons

Automatic Context-Number Assignment Option

Build Warning Options

Cancel Build

Change Style Names

Compiler and MRBC included

Edit Hotspot Command

Import Context-Map Files

Import Status Window

Keyword Creation by Selecting Text

Keyword Creation of Topic Title When Creating Topic

No-Color Hotspots

Open More than One ForeHelp Session

Rename Backup Projects

Reuse Phrase Table

Revert Project

Save Project

Spell Check option for Replace All

Style Accelerators

Tool Tips

WYSIWYG Resizing and Placing of Window Classes

Add-on Products

Help Browser 2

ForeFront Help Buttons


New Macro Editor

ForeHelp automates the macro-creation procedure, making it quicker and easier, and reducing the chance for errors.


No-Color Hotspots

There is a No Color check box in the Make Jump and Make Popup dialog boxes.


OCC Help Browser - Developer's License

The same Help Browser product as the ForeHelp version, but for help authors developing their help files outside of ForeHelp.


OCC Help Browser - Single User

This product is for a single end user who wants the Help Browser Browse and Find text button functionality on any .HLP file they personally view on their PC.


OCC Help Browser - Site License

Same as the Single User License for Help Browser for up to 2,000 users.


Open More than One ForeHelp Session

With ForeHelp 2.0, you can have more than one session of ForeHelp open at a time.


Order Form

ForeFront Order Form

5171 Eldorado Springs Drive, Boulder, CO  80303

Phone: (800) 357-8507 or (303) 499-9181       FAX: (303) 494-5446

Ship To	Bill To

Name	___________________________	Name	___________________________________

Title	___________________________	Title	___________________________________

Company	___________________________	Company	___________________________________

Address	___________________________	Address	___________________________________

___________________________	___________________________________

City/State/Zip	___________________________	City/State/Zip	___________________________________

Phone	___________________________	Phone	___________________________________

FAX	___________________________ 	FAX	___________________________________

Where Did You Hear About These Products?	________________________________________________________

Product	Note	Quantity	Unit Price	Total
ForeHelp 2.0			$395*
ForeHelp 2.0 Upgrade	Provide s/n or fax proof of purchase by 10/1/95		$89
Help Browser for ForeHelp			$129*
ForeFront Help Buttons			$69*
ForeHelp Extended Support  Policy	One year ForeHelp telephone support plus  free ForeHelp upgrades during that year		$120*
OCC Help Browser	Single User, non-ForeHelp		$89*
OCC Help Browser	Site License to 2,000 Users, non-ForeHelp		$759
OCC Help Browser	Developer's License, Non-ForeHelp		$399*
Colorado residents add 3% sales tax
Boulder County residents also add 1.15% sales tax
Shipping and Handling**
Total
*	Call about our quantity pricing and ForeHelp Competitive Upgrades

**	48 States	Priority Mail $5 each item, Airborne $15 first item, $2 each add'l item; UPS Ground $7 first item, $2 each add'l item, UPS COD Add $5

Alaska, Hawaii	Priority Mail $5 each item, Airborne $45 first item, $5 each add'l item; UPS Second Day $15 first item, $3 each add'l item, UPS COD Add $5

Canada	Airmail $10 each item, Airborne $45 first item, $5 each add'l item; UPS Ground $15, $3 each add'l item, no COD

International	Airmail $30 each item, Airborne $57 first item, $5 each add'l item; no COD

Method of Payment

•	Visa	Full Name on Card	____________________________	·	Check (prepaid with US funds drawn on US bank)

•	MasterCard	Card Number	____________________________	·	Purchase Order #    ___________________

•	Amex	Expiration Date	____________________________	Sorry we can only accept domestic POs, Net 30

Signature	____________________________	Please include/fax copy of PO with your order


Paste Special Options

The Paste Special command provides control over what ForeHelp does with styles when pasting text into ForeHelp.


Preview Pictures before Inserting

View the picture to be inserted in your project in the sample area prior to insertion.


Project Directory Management

You can define where your project text, graphics, and build directories are.


Project Templates

Create master help projects with standard formatting, styles, text, graphics, and macros that can be copied when you start a new project.


RTF Import Management

When you import RTF files, you can specify exactly how the RTF should be treated, allowing you to import documentation files quickly and easily.  For instance, you can tell ForeHelp how to handle RTF styles (use them or replace them), and to create new topics when it finds page breaks or particular paragraph styles.  Topics will automatically be named and an automatic table of contents can be made from the imported topics.


Release Notes

In the demonstration version of the software only, the following features are omitted to save space.  Access GO FOREFRONT via CompuServe or call ForeFront if you need any of the following:

•	on-line version of the Tutorial

•	help compiler

•	sample help files and templates for glossary, macros, and ForeHelp sample

•	full help file

In the demonstration version of the software only, the following features are omitted to save space:

•	Spell Check and Thesaurus

•	Embedded Window context-sensitive help

It is strongly suggested that you add your ForeHelp directory (the directory into which you installed ForeHelp) to your DOS path.  Adding the ForeHelp directory will ensure that the interfile hotspots work correctly between the help files provided.

The Paste Special dialog box no longer has an option for Replacing Existing Topics of the Same Name.

If you insert 256-color bitmaps using Text|Insert Special|256-color Bitmap, you are accessing the dynamic link library FH_BMP.DLL.  Be sure to add any 256 color bitmaps as baggage, and be sure to distribute the DLL along with your help file.

If you had installed ForeHelp 1.0 and upgraded to ForeHelp 2.0, your ForeHelp 1.0 program group will remain after the 2.0 installation.

Your FILES= in CONFIG.SYS should be set to at least 40.  This allows the Windows help compiler to compile most help projects.

There is an additional default Style installed with ForeHelp called Button Bar.  This style is used primarily with ForeFront Help Buttons.  The style includes a 6 pt. font size and a negative left indent of .1" for use when creating button bars.

You can set preferences directly in FOREHELP.INI if desired:

[Startup]

OpenLastFile=0	;Turn off option to automatically open the last project

[Spelling]

AutoLookup=0	;Turn off option to automatically look up misspelled words


Rename Backup Projects

When you open an .FHB backup file, you can rename the project as it is extracted.


Reorder Hotspots in SHG Files

Rearrange the tab order of hotspots in SHG files.


Replace Underlying Pictures while Keeping Hotspots

When the underlying picture changes but you wish to keep the hotspots on a shg file, you can insert the new picture while maintaining the SHG hotspots.


Reporter

Additional reporting for the master keyword list, topics per keyword lists, RTF file associations, and project statistics.


Requirements

Hardware Requirements

386 or better PC

4 megabytes RAM; 8 MB is suggested

6 megabytes free hard disk space

VGA display or better

Software Requirements

ForeHelp requires Windows 3.1.  You will also need a help compiler to create your final .hlp files.  The HCP.EXE compiler is included with the full ForeHelp product and is copied to your hard drive during installation.  To obtain the compiler for the demo software, you may download it from our CompuServe Forum: GO FOREFRONT.


Reuse Phrase Table

Speed up compiling time by reusing the phrase table created in a previous compile.


Revert Project

Quickly revert to the last saved version of your project.


Save Project

Now you can save your work at any time without closing ForeHelp first by using the File|Save command.


Scale and Crop Bitmaps; Scale Metafiles

You can now size BMP and WMF files and crop BMP files in ForeHelp.


Spell Check option for Replace All

There is now an option in the Spell Check for Replace All occurrences of a misspelled word.


Style Accelerators

In the New Style and Edit Style dialog boxes, there is an option to assign a Control key accelerator to commonly used styles.


Table of Contents Creation

Specify topic names in any order to be inserted at the cursor location with jumps or popups automatically linking the topics.


Technical Support

ForeFront's product support policy for registered users includes a 90 day free telephone support period from the date of the first telephone call to our Technical Support Center.  Unlimited support is available on CompuServe at 74777,2132, or GO FOREFRONT.  Internet support is available at support@ff.com, or Fax support is available at (303) 494-5446.

Extended support contracts are available from ForeFront.  Please call our Technical Support Center for more details.


Technical Support Center
Technical Support Center hours

Monday - Friday

8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. MST

Phone:	(800) 357-8507 or (303) 499-9181
Fax:	(303) 494-5446
CompuServe: Internet:	GO FOREFRONT or 74777,2132 support@ff.com


Tool Tips

If you point your cursor at a toolbar button for a designated amount of time in seconds (set in File|Preferences), a description of the button will appear in a yellow rectangle.


Topic Copy

You can copy the properties, text, graphics, format, and macros from a topic and use it to create a new one.


Tutorial

To Use the ForeHelp Tutorial in the ForeHelp Demo Software

Double click the Tutorial Write icon in the ForeHelp program group to bring up the tutorial document in Microsoft Write.  Select File|Print to print out the tutorial document.  Follow the tutorial instructions to learn the most common features of ForeHelp.


WYSIWYG Embedded Windows

ForeHelp's test mode displays the contents of embedded windows.  If you have a ForeHelp-compatible embedded-window DLL, the file can pass data to ForeHelp for you, and the window contents will also display in edit mode.


WYSIWYG Resizing and Placing of Window Classes

In the Window Classes dialog box, drag the representative window and its borders to size and place the desired window class relative to the screen.