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- I’d just delivered an application to a customer - right on the deadline,
- and was just relaxing a bit and playing around with my program, when I
- suddenly realised I’d completely forgotten about the help stuff. So I
- wrote this thing, typed half of the manual into it, and sent 1.2 to my
- client. He hadn’t noticed something was missing.
-
- As this help thing looks rather cool, I thought I’d share it. You are free
- to do with this code as you like (It’s no big deal anyway). No royalties,
- no fees, don’t put me in your about box (suppose I got associated with your
- yukkie program), you don’t even have to buy me a beer. If you realy like it,
- post me a message. If you think it stinks, don’t bother.
-
- Help is an easy to use and fast to set up help system.
- It builds a list of subjects based upon the 'MHLP' resources.
- Each MHLP resource gives you one page in the help window. The
- entry in the subject list is the title of the MHLP resource. In
- the MHLP you specify weather the resource to be displayed is a
- PICT or a TEXT/styl resource, and you supply their ID.
-
- You may run into a problem when you insert items later, since the order
- in which items are displayed in the list is the order in which
- they were created. This is readily solved by opening the MHLP window,
- doing a select all, cut, save, paste, save.
-
- Also notice that the ok-button does not look ok at all. This is
- because I’m using MacGadgets’ buttons. I can’t go around distributing them.
- However, any 3-D button will do.
-
-
- Herbert Putteneers
-
- AppleLink: Putteneers.H
- CServe: 100143,2154