Back in the old days, Help was not trivial but possible: generate some funky .rtf file with special tags, run it through a compiler, and you got a WinHelp file (.hlp) that actually works really well. Then, Microsoft decided that WinHelp was not hip and cool anymore and switched to CHM, up to the point they actually axed WinHelp from Vis...
I’ve got a lot of PDFs/CHMs and they are getting out of control. So I’ve decided to do something about it. First I hit Google and didn’t get very far - the range of programs are very naff. Then I hit metafilter and got a lot more results. From there I learnt there is a lot of programs that do exactly what I want, look stylish and some ar...
I've seen a number of places recently that offer online HTML API documentation and also offer downloadable (usually .chm) help files. I really love using .chm help files, mainly because of the index tree on the left. What are the best tools for creating those types of files? Is there something that would allow me to have a bunch of HT...
I'm writing a manual and some important keywords are repeated in several pages. In the project's index I defined the keywords like this: <LI> <OBJECT type="text/sitemap"> <param name="Name" value="Stackoverflow"> <param name="Name" value="Overview"> <param name="Local" value="overview.html#stackoverflow"> <param name="Name" value="C...
In Delphi, the application's main help file is assigned through the TApplication.HelpFile property. All calls to the application's help system then use this property (in conjunction with CurrentHelpFile) to determine the help file to which help calls should be routed. In addition to TApplication.HelpFile, each form also has a TForm.Help...
i have a VS05 C++ (MFC) project which uses HtmlHelp (function HTMLHelpA, linked from HmleHelp.lib, which came from HTML HElp Workshop v1.4). the 32-bit version compiles and links fine. the 64-bit version compiles fine, but gets an "unresolved external" error on HTMLHelpA, when linking. so, my question is simple: is there a way to use ...
Any free alternative to Robohelp? Prefer open source Need some sort of online help authoring tool for an open source project. ...
Trying to build a CHM using Microsoft HTML Help Workshop. A soon as I click Compile, HTML Help Workshop states: An internal error has occurred. An error record has been saved to c:\os.err. The only contents of the file are: ((Today's Date & Time)) Microsoft HTML Help Workshop Version 4.74.8702 HHA Version 4.74.8702 htmlpr...
I have a winforms application that presently ships with a chm file for context-sensitive help documentation (not API docs), created using MS HTML Help Workshop. I'd like to move to online documentation (don't have to ship it with the product, can update it easily, etc). What tools are recommended for this sort of thing, and what are the...
The people writing the user manual are not necessarily programmers, and they need a visual editor. A major issue is the internal format of the authoring tool; it should be readable text/html, so it's easy to compare versions of individual pages checked into version control. ...
If anyone has had more than a couple of Microsoft tools or products installed (or a local install of the MSDN library) side by side, you might have noticed that opening help (hitting F1) or opening, say, SQL Server Books Online causes the help indexes to be re-indexed - this is usually after installing a new product or tool. This can be...
I understand that a hxs file is a compiled help file, a replacement for .chm files, but I can't seem to open them. I've read that you read them with the help explorer, dexplore.exe found here: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Help 9\dexplore.exe When I try opening the file with dexplore, it asks me to save the file to dis...
What is the best way to load a locale-specific (i.e. translated) compiled help file (.chm)? Our install will deploy them alongside the satellite assemblies containing resources. I'd like to re-use the same probing rules the .NET framework uses to load the satellite assemblies, and I'd definitely like to avoid writing my own searching alg...
We are in the process of documenting a newly minted API for our applications. The API has been written in C++ as a set of COM objects. We would like a tool that generates CHM documentation based on the comments attributed to each COM object method. I know of doxygen but don't really feel like the output is all that professional lookin...
In my application, originally built with Delphi 7, I use the SPHelpIntegration code to enable CHM help via the F1 interface. I figured that this wasn't needed in Delphi 2007, so I removed the units and built my app. I then press F1 and get a message that no help interface is installed. The online help doesn't tell me a lot about what is ...
Just encountered an interesting problem. I have a CHM file. If I display it using Process.Start it displays correctly. If however I launch it using the HH API it displays without any icons in the toolbar and treeview; the main content, including graphics, displays correctly. Here's what it looks like - with a few article titles scribble...
I have a piece of software that currently packages an MS Word file as the user guide/help. I would like to make this into either a pdf or a chm file. I do not wish to re-write the help or user guide. I did not see anything that is exactly what I need. i don't want to pay for it (I'd rather continue with Word Doc) and I wantt o just b...
Is there a way to link to a chm file, and therein to a certain topic, from a Microsoft Word docx document? Something in the lines of: "For more information about this Property see [link ref="./SomeDirectory/somedocument.chm!Sometopic.Somesubtopic" text="MyClass.MyProperty"] ...
It would appear that CHM help files are no longer the help file format of choice. WinHelp - obsolete HtmlHelp (CHM) - not supported on Vista by default - does not work well on a network share Help 2 (HXS) - I understand this is used in VS2005+ for displaying help Web Based - Could be hard to manage for multiple versions What he...
I'm doing a database for storing my eBook collection. Most of them have the ISBN within the text of the book itself. How can I access this contents? Is there any sourcecode or DLLs for doing that? ...