making Help files for CW
Stan Willington
Any suggestiong would be appreciated....
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Thys Marais
> How does one go about preparing HELP screens/files for CW1.5?
> Any suggestiong would be appreciated....
This is a short and ugly reply : You do it in the same way as for any
other Windows language.
You have got a choice of various third party products avaliable. One that
I can think of now is Wyse Help, written by Great Lakes Business Solutions,
Canton (313 - 981 4970). I myself haven't used it. Instead I went the hard way
by using the Microsoft Help Compiler and wrote my document in MS Word,
using the WHAT6.DOT template.
Regards
Thys
Dawson E. Rambo
> Any suggestiong would be appreciated....
The best way, no kidding, that I have found is a program called HelpGen.
IT's available from America Online, and I'll probabally FINALLY get
around to uploading it to Icetips soon...it uses a macro-like language
that takes about a day to learn really, really well, and then you're off.
You DON't need Microsoft Word, but you DO need the Microsoft Help
Compiler, which takes .RTF (Rich Text Format,) files and turns them into
.HLP files. The Microsoft Help Compiler is also available (gasp!) on
America Online.
HTH,
Dawson
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Scott McIntyre
Hi Stan,
> How does one go about preparing HELP screens/files for CW1.5?
> Any suggestiong would be appreciated....
You might try Help Writer's Assistant for Windows. They have a new beta
version 4.0 out. You can find it at the following URL:
http://www.cdarchives.com/ftp/17A.HTM
Look for the following lines.
***HELP WRITER'S ASSISTANT FOR WINDOWS*** 1/2
***HELP WRITER'S ASSISTANT FOR WINDOWS*** 2/2
I have found this utility to be of great help. It doesn't need any external
programs in order to generate help files. It is very intuitive and user
friendly. Give it a try! :-))
Best Regards,
Scott McIntyre
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Larry Juker
>How does one go about preparing HELP screens/files for CW1.5?
>Any suggestiong would be appreciated....
Buy a Help authoring tool. Learn to use it. Develop your documentation and
help files.
Or hire us to do it all for you. Our documentation writers will debug your
work, too. Reasonable rates and quick turn-around time.
Larry Juker
Geoff Bomford
princely sum of US$60
Step 2 - Add Identifiers to you CW windows - such as ~MainMenu You do this
under properties, help for the window
Step 3 - Create a Help file for ypur application
Step 4 - Nominate that Help file as the help to use for your CW app, under
CW's Application Properties - Help
Step 5 - Re-compile your application - Voila!
At 08:51 AM 24/4/96 -0700, Stan Willington wrote:
>How does one go about preparing HELP screens/files for CW1.5?
>Any suggestiong would be appreciated....
>
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>| Stan Willington |
>| SoftSmith Systems Inc |
>| 625 Millway Avenue, Suite 200 |
>| Concord, Ontario |
>| Canada L4K 3T9 |
>| |
>| Phone: (905) 738-7233 |
>| Fax: (905) 738-7231 |
>| eMail: st...@softsmith.com |
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Sean Gates
> Step 1 - Buy Forehelp Version 1.0 from Borland - will set you back
> the princely sum of US$60 Step 2 - Add Identifiers to you CW windows
> - such as ~MainMenu You do this under properties, help for the
> window Step 3 - Create a Help file for ypur application Step 4 -
> Nominate that Help file as the help to use for your CW app, under
> CW's Application Properties - Help Step 5 - Re-compile your
> application - Voila!
>
Can echo that ForeHelp is excellent
Regards
Sean Gates
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Larry Juker
>Step 1 - Buy Forehelp Version 1.0 from Borland - will set you back the
>princely sum of US$60
Geoff, I can't find any listing for a Borland product called ForeHelp. It
is listed as being produced by ForeFront and the cost is US$315 in The
Corporate Developer catalog. (Slightly higher at Programmer's Paradise.)
Are we talking about two different programs? I couldn't find any Borland
products for $60 anywhere. You guys must really get good pricing.
Colin Wynn
>How does one go about preparing HELP screens/files for CW1.5?
>Any suggestiong would be appreciated....
Purchase a good help authoring system. There are many on the market,
hence the reason why TopSpeed haven't re-invented the wheel. In our
company we use HDK. It allows us to write the help in Word, so we are
writing our manual at the same time. HDK then converts the Word file to
a Help file.
Colin Wynn (Team TopSpeed Internet!)
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