home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Dr. Windows 3
/
dr win3.zip
/
dr win3
/
UTILITY1
/
HELPED19.ZIP
/
HISTORY.DOC
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1993-11-19
|
16KB
|
405 lines
History
-------
Note: all dates are in UK format dd/mm/yy.
18/2/93 V1.0
Initial release of Help Edit.
............................................................................
25/2/93 V1.1
Print Set-up and Print items added to File Menu.
Make Help item replaces Make HPJ,RTF and HLP menu option. Help Edit now reads
project file list and compiles only those RTF files that are new or have been
updated.
HPJ file now contains the information to make a context sensitive help system.
............................................................................
8/3/93 V1.2
Bug fix in editing of browse sequences.
Bug fix when trying to cancel Make Help
Fonts and Colour capability added.
............................................................................
16/4/93 V1.3
Bug Fix so that Topics without keywords do not cause missing Footnote
errors.
Bug Fix. If no edit text loaded and attempt to print, got run time error.
Print option disabled unless text in editor.
Bug Fix. If no printer selected in the Windows control panel and attempts
made to print, nothing happens, not even a warning. Help Edit now issues
a message that there is no current printer.
Bug Fix. Could add files to a new project, and if quit, project not updated.
Help Edit now warns that project has changed and should be saved.
Bug Fix. If changed a file and attempt to exit get save file - Yes, No,
Cancel. Cancel did not work.
Bug Fix. When making a Help file, if the Topic to be used as the Index or
Contents page happened to be the one already in the combobox, and the user
did not activate the combobox, then the Topic was never selected, and a run
time error occurs. This has been corrected.
Bug Fix. If selected more that 255 characters when changing fonts, the extra
text was lost. Corrected.
New Features - Modifications.
-----------------------------
Help Edit routes all Warning and Error messages from the Microsoft Help
compiler into a file called HelpEdit.err. It checks this file after
compilation and if any errors it invokes an editor of your choice to view
the messages. The default editor is NotePad, but you can use any other
Editor e.g. WinEdit, by selecting Choose Editor from the Options menu.
The Edit menu accelerator keys have been changed to CUA standard.
New Accelerator keys have been added to the most commom used functions such
as make Topic and make Jump.
The right mouse button is used in making Topics and Jumps to speed things up
for experienced users.
The common dialog box for files is now used.
A number of menu options have been disabled if the editor does not contain
text or have text selected. These include Save, Save As, Print, Cut, Copy,
find, and replace.
Paste only works if the clipboard has valid text.
A Windows Pif file has been added so that the Help compiler can run in a
Window or as an icon. The default is icon.
A new HC.BAT file has been created.
IMPORTANT Refer to the online help about HC.BAT.
---------
Help Edit can call the Windows 3.0 help compiler or 3.1.
While the help compiler is running, Help Edit is disabled and becomes an
icon. This is to stop you altering files that the help compiler is using.
All messages moved to string tables.
If you change the editor text, then attempt to make a Help file without
saving the changes, Help Edit will ask if you want to save first. As
Helpedit uses the text on disk and not the editor, you should let helpedit
save the text if you want your changes to be part of the new make.
The Help Edit help file has been updated.
The Tutorial has been completely re-written.
............................................................................
26/5/93 V1.4
------------
1).
Help Edit can now make use of the Spelmate DLL. This is a DLL that adds
spell checking capabilities to any of your Windows applications. Both
American and British versions are available.
In order to keep file sizes down for users of BBS's the spelmate DLL is not
included in the version placed on BBS's, but can be obtained as a separate
file splmateX.zip where X is the current version number. At this time you
should look for splmate1.zip.
If you obtain Help Edit from a Software Library, Spelmate may be included.
Spelmate is a separate Shareware program in it's own right and requires
registration if you wish to use it. If you order the professional version
of Help Edit, then Spelmate is included at a discount price, and you can use
it in other programs of your own.
2).
The Options menu has been changed and now contains the items
Select Editor
Check Spelling
Windows 3.1
Select Editor is the same as for Verison 1.3.
Check Spelling invokes the Spelmate Dll if it is present, AND if you have
some text in the Edit window.
Windows 3.1 is used to replace the checkbox that you had to set every time
you wanted to make a Windows 3.1 Help file from the make Help dialog box.
If you select this menu option a tick mark is inserted, and your selection is
saved in the .INI file so you need only set it once. Help Edit needs to know
this information as it affects new features that are only applicable if you
are using Windows 3.1.
3).
The insert menu can now insert a program. This is only available if you are
using Windows 3.1 as it is a macro. Select text as you would to create a
jump link, but instead select insert program. You can then enter a program
name and command line parameters, and when the user clicks on this word or
phrase, the program will run. Note it is your responsibility to ensure that
the program exists, and that Windows will be able to find it.
4).
The insert Bitmap has been updated. Help Edit now allows the insertion of
.BMP, .SHG and .WMF files. In addition you can make these bitmaps active
Hotspots to jump links, Definitions or even run programs.
At the present time you can only preview .BMP files.
.SHG files contain their own jump links and program references. You must
create these using your own Hotspot Editor. If you use Borland compilers
this is called SHED.EXE.
You should create your topics and definitions as normal. Then after making
a Help file look at the [MAP] section of the .HPJ file to get a list of the
context strings assigned to your topics. Use these strings as the context
strings in your Hotspot Editor. Create the .SHG file, then go back and add
it at the appropriate place in the help file.
5).
The online help and Tutorial have been updated to reflect these changes.
............................................................................
01/7/93 V1.5
------------
Bug Fix. When Help Edit cannot find a Topic or Definition it did not give the
option to abort the compilation. It went ahead anyway and you were forced to
wait for an inevitable error. User now offered the chance to abort.
Bug Fix. If entered text without having opened or created a Project, and then
try to exit without saving, get a stream access error because there is no
Project name to save. User can now save at any time, with or without a Project
open, and exit. If there is no Project open, user is warned, and given the
chance to open or create a project, and the file name added before exit. If user
does not open a project, the text file is still safely saved, and the system
will exit without an error. The user can always add the text file to a Project
at a later date. Note the file can only contain text, no Topic, Definitions or
Bitmaps can be included unless a Project exists.
Bug Fix. (More like a work around an MS problem). The MS Help Compiler will
accept a fully qualified input .HPJ file name and path, but insists on placing
the Help file it generates in the current directory, what ever it may be.
Help Edit expects the Help file to be in the Project directory when asked to
test it. If the user should change the current directory just before making
the help file, it ends up there. Help Edit now explicitly sets the current
directory to that of the Project, immediately before it calls the Help
Compiler.