Re: Help engine replacement for WINHELP.EXE

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From: Gary Dietz
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 18:24

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> Why not just use WINHELP?

Well, quite frankly, the windows help viewer sucks.

Some simple examples:

- You can't do a full-text search
- The placement of bitmaps is very rudimentary
- There is really no way to 'index' things -- it is really just a 
  keyword search (you can't do a two level index)
- I can't dictate what fonts the viewer will use unless I assume the
  default fonts that ship with windows


Also, the help file format is COMPLETEY undocumented by Microsoft.

So, I'd like a 3rd party help compiler and viewer that will respond to
the standard WINHELP calls in the windows apps we have in development.

gary

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Subject: Re: Help engine replacement for WINHELP.EXE
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