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Article #2676Re: "Upgrading" help system
From: Jim Dodd
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:01
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:01
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Phil Manger wrote: > Phil Manger wrote: >> Windows HTML Help workshop has a feature that converts your old help >> pages to .htm files, but it looks like there still would be a lot of >> work to do on the HTML side if I use the ICustomHelpViewer approach >> -- not to mention, ICustomHelpViewer does not appear to be all that >> easy to use on the application side. Using API calls, I could just >> simply call up the .htm pages I need. >> > Here's an addendum to this post: > > Yes, HTML Help workshop converts old help pages to .htm files and they > are viewable in a web browser and will compile into a .chm file. But > they don't look anything like the original help pages, and quite a bit > of work has to be done on them before they are presentable, whether you > use ICustomHelpViewer or not. > > Phil Manger Hi Phil, I'm not sure if this will do any good but there is an HTML Help kit available from the Helpware Group for C++ Builder (and for Delphi on the same page) here: http://www.helpware.net/downloads/index.htm#TheCBuilderHHKit I haven't tried this so I can't say whether it will work in your situation. Good luck. This sounds like a task we are all going to be stuck with in the future. Regards, Jim Dodd Onset Computer Corp.
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X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,60e01f20a7f4f61c X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:01:04 -0500 From: Jim Dodd <bcbuilderboy@yahoo.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi Subject: Re: "Upgrading" help system References: <45bf82ea@newsgroups.borland.com> <45c007ee$1@newsgroups.borland.com> In-Reply-To: <45c007ee$1@newsgroups.borland.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.75.243.228 Message-ID: <45c11161$1@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1170280801 24.75.243.228 (31 Jan 2007 14:00:01 -0800) Lines: 36 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!homer!news.glorb.com!news-spur1.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail