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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
-