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- HelpScribble 3.3.1 * 26 October 1997
- Copyright (C) 1996,1997 by Jan Goyvaerts.
-
- HelpScribble is a program to create Windows Help files,
- without the need of a word processor.
-
- It has everything a great help authoring tool needs:
- * Good installation/uninstallation program
- * Easy to use interface:
- * List of topics can be permanently visible
- * No need to mess with heaps of dialog boxes
- * ...
- * Built-in editors for:
- * Browse sequences
- * Secondary windows
- * WinHelp macros
- * Win95-style contents files
- * Segmented HyperGraphics (SHG) or hotspot bitmaps
- * Can create Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 help files
- * Export your help projects:
- * Create a printed manual right from your help project:
- HelpScribble will write an RTF file from your help text,
- without any links, footnotes, etc.
- Then load this file into your DTP program, brush it up a little
- and print it.
- * Save the project to HPJ and RTF files so people who do not have
- HelpScribble can edit them too.
- * Import help projects
- * If you have previously used another help authoring tool, you can
- import those projects (HPJ and RTF files) in HelpScribble
- * Online help, created with HelpScribble
- * ...
-
- For Borland Delphi programmers, it has some more interesting features:
- * HelpScribble parses your source code to make documenting your
- VCL component very easy! It can extract the comments from your source
- files and use them as the default descriptions.
- * HelpScribble's HelpContext property editor integrates in Delphi 1, 2 and
- and also in C++Builder.
- * Double-click on any HelpContext property in the Object Inspector
- and manage your help topics directly from within Delphi.
- * It can display a tree of all the components on your form
- with their help topics. Very handy!
- * HelpScribble can do syntax highlighting on the sample code
- in your help file.
-
- To install it, simply unzip the zip file and run Setup.exe
- If you also install the Delphi or C++Builder property editor,
- you will have to add HelpCtx.dcu (put in the Delphi\Lib directory by default)
- to the component library manually.
- See online help for more information.
-
- If, due to some unimaginable reason, you would not like HelpScribble, you can
- uninstall it from the Control Panel or by running Setup.exe again.
-
- * HelpScribble requires Windows 95 or NT4
- * You will also need a help compiler to build the .hlp file from your text
- If you don't have one, you can get it at http://www.tornado.be/~johnfg/