context-sensitive-help

CHM (htmlhelp) search for keyword.

I'm trying to interface the htmlhelp api (which is a big word for one function in two variants), and I have a problem with the following usecase: Assume I have a simple programmer's editor, with a bunch of helpfiles (.CHMs). Some are from the core runtime library, some from more exotic libraries. Assume the CHMs are crafted normally, an...

What's the deal with helpfiles these days?

I added this question at SuperUser for the user's perspective. So I create an application in Delphi or .NET which will run on a desktop system. Some nice GUI with all kinds of functionality and nice features. It works well, tests tell me it's nearly bug-free and I'm about to deploy it... WAIT! It needs a help file, so users can call up...

Good way to add context-sensitive help to an existing Windows Forms application?

Hi, I have to add database-driven tooltips to an existing WinForms App, big one. C# and .NET 3.5 I'd like to avoid having to drop new controls for this, and the user has to be able to edit the help tooltips. My best guess is to wrap the existing controls in a new type that contains new properties, so that I can assign a new property l...

What good alternatives to CHM are there for context sensitive help documents in desktop applications?

We currently have a number of desktop applications (PowerBuilder, Winforms, WPF) that make use of a single CHM for context sensitive help. We'd like to move away from CHM as it's difficult to maintain but we've not found a suitable alternative. Ideally we'd like our developers to keep the help files up to date (perhaps in a wiki) as they...

Extensible framework for context-sensitive help in web application

For the web application we are currently working on, we will have to think in advance on how to roll it out to a number of different user groups. From a functional side it is important to have a documentation system in place that can be used to generate a user guide and context-sensitive help from the same source files. We have planned ...