Make a .hlp File

[susn]

I have to add a Help File to my Program.
But how can i do?

May there is a tutorial somewhere?

Any help is welcome.
Thx

[honeybee]

http://www.helpmaster.com/
http://www.sky.net/~parnote/
http://www.helpfile-builder.com/defaults/winhelp.htm

Check out the above links. Also the Visual Basic CD contains the rtf Help and html Help workshop files. You can install them on your machine to create help files.

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[spetnik]

VB comes with two tools. Microsoft Help Workshop (generates old-style .hlp files and is located somewhere on the CD) and Microsoft Html Help Workshop (installed with "Tools"). HtmlHelp is pretty easy to create if you know html, the old one is a bit more difficult.

[Megatron]

There is the 600 KB help file (shipped with the help compiler) that will assist you in creating help files.

[spetnik]

Yeah, but if you are talkin 'bout the one for .hlp files, it was a royal pain for me to figure out (and you gotta use MS Word, too).

[Megatron]

But the format is universal (RichTextFormat) so you could use MS Works, or Word Perfect to do it as well.

[spetnik]

RTF has footmarks?

[honeybee]

Spetnik, the Help Workshop with rtf files was a pain in the ass for me, too. If Megatron remembers, I had asked a question on generating help files for the VB apps, and he had replied to it. After that, it took more than a month for me to properly generate a help file with content file.

Now, however, I am stuck up with some other problem. In VB, you can display either a Windowed help or a pop-up help. The pop-up help is displayed using the WhatsThis property. I want to combine both these effects in my app. i.e. I want to enable the WhatsThisHelp feature, so that when the user seeks help with the ? button on the form, he will get a popup. But if the user presses F1, he should get a windowed help.

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[honeybee]

To the best of my knowledge, there isn't any tool which will allow you to convert an HTML help file in an rtf help format, i.e. from CHM to HLP.

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[Megatron]

Originally posted by spetnik
RTF has footmarks?

Yes. While the standard RichEdit might not have built in support for them, the high-end word processors can incorporate them.

[spetnik]

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