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Writing Help

By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
James Crowley James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience ...
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  1. Introduction
  2. The Topic File
  3. The Context String
  4. The Title
  5. Keywords
  6. Browse Sequence
  7. Footnotes
  8. Inserting Jumps
  9. Inserting pop ups
  10. The Project File
  11. Compiling

Introduction

*** Please note that you can now write HTML Help too! Click here to find out how. ***

All good applications come with help. It would be stupid not to include some form of help,as even the most advanced user needs some guide.These instructions presume you have just downloaded the HC5.exe Help compiler

Extract the HC5.exe file into a directory e.g. C:HelpCompiler.

• You need to have a Topic file and a Project file to build a help file.

Note: Word 97 uses a RTF format not recognised by the compiler. Either use a different version, or download the Help Workshop from Microsoft.

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Comments

  1. Brian M. Napoletano
    05 Aug 2003 at 21:08

    I've been having the same problem.  I found that you can trick VB into doing it by placing the following code in the click event on your help button:


    SendKeys "{F1}", True


    The trouble is, I have to click the button twice on my application for this particular command to work.

  2. OmegaSolutions
    31 May 2002 at 11:40

    Actually I wrote a help file for my latest application, (using some other tools, doesn't matter)
    Now I have a compiled help file.


    I can acess his help by pressing the F1 key anywhere in my application, fine.


    But whoe can I make e.g. a Help Button?

  3. Net Gert
    10 Dec 2001 at 14:54

    I get lots of errors and warnings. I do it all like here is told. Please send me an example .RTF and .HPJ file so I can learn from them E-Mail: netgert@hot.ee

  4. Developer Fusion Bot
    01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

    This thread is for discussions of Writing Help.

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