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- EXTRA INFORMATION
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- INSTALLING THE HELP COMPILER
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- In order to compile Help files, HelpBuilder requires the Microsoft Windows
- Help Compiler (HC31.EXE or HCP.EXE). These have now been placed in the
- Public Domain by Microsoft and HCP.EXE is supplied with HelpBuilder, however
- you are not being charged for this in your registration fee.
- HC31.EXE is supplied with both the Microsoft and Borland C++ compilers,
- Visual Basic and probably many other software development tools, so you
- will probably already have a copy of it. HelpBuilder can create projects
- without HC31.EXE but you will not be able to compile them without it.
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- The HelpBuilder Setup program assumes that you wish to use the copy of
- HCP.EXE supplied and will place it in the same directory as the
- HelpBuilder executeables but you can change this to point to your own copy
- of HCP.
- To configure HelpBuilder, you can either edit HELPBLDR.INI (Not with
- HelpBuilder itself) or create a help project and select the Project/Settings
- menu option, then select the 'Compiler Installation' section. From here you
- can install the compilers of your choice. This is the recommended method.
- Note that each help project will contain the name of the compiler
- required to compile it to assist in portability.
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- If you wish to use a help compiler other than HC31.EXE or HCP.EXE you can
- use this same technique to configure HelpBuilder as above. Note however,
- that your alternative compiler must be HC31 compatible (HelpBuilder does not
- produce input files compatible with HC30.EXE at present).
- Please note that HC31.EXE and HCP.EXE also require the file 'HC31.ERR' or
- 'HCP.ERR'. If this is missing the compiler will fail to run.
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- HelpBuilder uses a Windows .PIF file to enable it to run the Help Compiler.
- This is placed in your \WINDOWS directory. If you have installed Windows
- on any other drive other than C: you will need to use PIF Editor to
- edit HECOMP.PIF and change the drive letter of the 'Program File Name' to
- the drive on which Windows has been installed.
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- HelpBuilder requires that SHARE.EXE is installed on your machine to operate
- correctly.
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- PAYMENT FOR SOFTWARE
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- Please see the HelpBuilder help file 'Payment for and Registration of
- Software' section for information on how you can pay for your copy of the
- HelpBuilder software.
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- MORE INFORMATION
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- If you require any further information, please see the HelpBuilder help
- file 'Contacting the Author' section for information on how to contact the
- author.
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- NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 1.05
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- - 3d Dialogs and controls
- - Redesign/improved ease of use to all dialogs
- - Norton Guides Help project import
- - Topic locator for fast access to topics
- - Automated maintenence of topic header file
- - Improved interpretation/Handling of Help Compiler error messages
- - Compiler installation and selection now performed in Project
- Settings dialog instead of .INI file
- - Topic Text macros for date, time, copyright, title etc
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- NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 1.06
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- - Internal bug fixes
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- NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 1.07
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- - Configuration of temporary file directory now possible
- - Inclusion of .SHG Segmented Hypergraphic files in projects
- now possible
- - Sample bitmaps added for inclusion/modification in help files
- - Ctrl+C now operates allowing Ctrl X/C/V Cut/Copy/Paste instead
- of activating colour dialog
- - Enter key on Topic Locator dialog opens a topic for editing
- - Wizard now has a dialog enabling the user to specify the
- component file names
- - Topic windows now display text in the default project font
- - Topic limit increased to 2048 files for registered versions,
- still 25 for unregistered versions
- - Bug Fix: Greying logic for View Sort orders menu options
- corrected - it previously left the first option always greyed!
- - Non ASCII characters (value > 127) written to .RTF file in \'XX
- format - stops a lot of 'invalid byte at offset' error messages
- - New toolbar for non-VGA users
- - 'Windows' are now supported and configureable
- - Topic links enhanced to provide support for:
- Bitmaps
- Macros
- Window definitions
- Jumps to other help files
- Hidden hot spots
- - Bug fix: changing project font while Topic Locator window open
- caused GPF. Now fixed
- - Bug fix: selecting large amount of text and changing colour or
- font caused GPF. Now fixed
- - 'Error 4639: Error at byte offset xxxx.' message now resolved to
- a topic name where possible
- - $TOPICDATE$ and $TOPICTIME$ macros added
- - Now supplied with HCP instead of HC31 compiler
- - Bug fix: now allows French accented and German Umlaute characters
- to be entered in topic titles and search strings and
- correctly writes them in \'RTF hex code format to the
- .RTF file for the help compiler
- - .MRB Multiple Resolution Bitmaps can now be added to a project
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- NEW FEATURES PLANNED FOR FUTURE RELEASES
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- - Support for project build tags
- - Support for topic startup macros
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- KNOWN PROBLEMS/SOLUTIONS
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- Please see the HelpBuilder online Windows Help File section 'Commonly
- Reported Problems'.
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