help needed about help
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I am sorry if this query is off-topic here; please tell me the correct place for it. I use Visual C++; before that I used Borland C++ 4.51. Programs need a help (a file with extension .HLP); for a long time I used a help-maker program which made .HLP helps in the old style which Microsoft does not support now. If I call a new commercially-written Windows application, and call its help, the help comes in a new format and will not read old-type .HLP helps. So far since the change of help system I have been making my new programs' helps as plain .TXT files or suchlike. Please:- (1) Where is a program to make helps in the new format? (2) Where is a program to translate an old-type .HLP into a new-type help file?
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I am sorry if this query is off-topic here; please tell me the correct place for it. I use Visual C++; before that I used Borland C++ 4.51. Programs need a help (a file with extension .HLP); for a long time I used a help-maker program which made .HLP helps in the old style which Microsoft does not support now. If I call a new commercially-written Windows application, and call its help, the help comes in a new format and will not read old-type .HLP helps. So far since the change of help system I have been making my new programs' helps as plain .TXT files or suchlike. Please:- (1) Where is a program to make helps in the new format? (2) Where is a program to translate an old-type .HLP into a new-type help file?
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I am sorry if this query is off-topic here; please tell me the correct place for it. I use Visual C++; before that I used Borland C++ 4.51. Programs need a help (a file with extension .HLP); for a long time I used a help-maker program which made .HLP helps in the old style which Microsoft does not support now. If I call a new commercially-written Windows application, and call its help, the help comes in a new format and will not read old-type .HLP helps. So far since the change of help system I have been making my new programs' helps as plain .TXT files or suchlike. Please:- (1) Where is a program to make helps in the new format? (2) Where is a program to translate an old-type .HLP into a new-type help file?
Anthony Appleyard wrote:
(1) Where is a program to make helps in the new format? (2) Where is a program to translate an old-type .HLP into a new-type help file?
- You can use any help authoring tool capable of generating
CHM-files (HTML help), see Wikipedia. 2) Performing a quick Google search... there are a couple of tools available, see convert HLP CHM. It's weekend, yay! :) /M PS: Users don't like reading documentation, don't spend too much time on it.
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- You can use any help authoring tool capable of generating
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Anthony Appleyard wrote:
(1) Where is a program to make helps in the new format? (2) Where is a program to translate an old-type .HLP into a new-type help file?
- You can use any help authoring tool capable of generating
CHM-files (HTML help), see Wikipedia. 2) Performing a quick Google search... there are a couple of tools available, see convert HLP CHM. It's weekend, yay! :) /M PS: Users don't like reading documentation, don't spend too much time on it.
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modified on Saturday, August 14, 2010 4:23 AM
Thanks. If s is a char* -type variable containing the name of a *.chm-type file, please how do I call it as a help file? With the old help I used a format like: case _HELP_: WinHelp(wn,PROGNAME".HLP",HELP_CONTENTS,0); goto DEF;
- You can use any help authoring tool capable of generating