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Hiper Help - © Andrew Hunter, 1995
(See the help files for details of how to get in contact, and for
the license, disclaimer and other guff)
Following on from !Setup (a windows-style setup proggy), along comes
Hiper Help. This provides a very flexible hypertext help system which
can include pictures, links, multiple fonts, etc.
To create your own help files, a compiler (called 'HC') is provided.
It will take a text file (provided by you, see 'Compiler' for information
on how to create that), and create a Hiper Help file called 'HelpOut',
which can be double-clicked on to load it.
A sample file is included in 'Demo' (the help on help file), so you can
see what a help file should look like. Finally, the HelpSplat utility
will compress 'HelpOut', creating a squashed help file.
Hiper's !RunImage file is compressed using !BasCrunch for reasons of
speed and size (you don't want huge help files with a tiny application!).
Oh, and BBC Acorn User's (well it was BBC Acorn User then...) 'ChangeSWIs'
utility was used to convert all the SWI names to numbers (wow! what a
difference - it runs as fast as me 'C' version) - strange how the old
utilities are always the most useful...
What's new then?
New in this version (0.02) is:
- 'HotSpot files' - allows 'hotspots' on sprites or drawfiles, which you
can click on to go to the appropriate subject.
- The mouse pointer changes to a hand when it is over a link
- I've discovered that I can distribute the DrawFile module with the prog.
- There is now a history button
- Lots of bug fixes & speed improvements
- Can now read articles in from file only as it needs them (add '-file' to
the end of the !Run file - CASE SENSITIVE). This keeps any articles in
memory as they are loaded.
What's not new then?
The file type is still a user file type (however, if enough of you ask, I'll
register it with Acorn... but only if enough of you ask, seeing as Acorn is
running short of filetypes and demands justification of their allocation)
There still isn't a search facility (it'd be really SLOOOW in BASIC)
It's still written in BASIC. (I'm working on a version in C... which almost
works now)
Andrew Hunter, 24-Jun-1995