Building HELP with IPFC

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2 total messages Started by Chris Sullivan Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:04

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Author: Chris Sullivan
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:04

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Can anyone answer the folowing questions on programming 
help for OS/2 ?
 
(1)  When creating a .HLP file using the IPFC compiler, is there
any way of binding the .HLP into the .EXE.  I'd like to do away
with a seperate .HLP file but I'm not sure if this is possible.
 
(2)  When creating a .IPF source file for the IPFC compiler, is
there any way to use symbolic constants from a .H file instead of
literal constants?

Re: Building HELP with IPFC

#712

Author: Larry Salomon, Jr.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:08

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In <65090.105921792@kcbbs.gen.nz>, Chris_Sullivan@kcbbs.gen.nz (Chris Sullivan) writes:
>
>
>(1)  When creating a .HLP file using the IPFC compiler, is there
>any way of binding the .HLP into the .EXE.  I'd like to do away
>with a seperate .HLP file but I'm not sure if this is possible.

You couldn't in 1.3 and I don't think this has changed for 2.0.

>(2)  When creating a .IPF source file for the IPFC compiler, is
>there any way to use symbolic constants from a .H file instead of
>literal constants?

Not that I know of.  You could always use the C preprocessor to do this,
by having it generate a "preprocessed source" file.  However, you could
run into problems.  For instance, with Microsoft's C compiler:

:h1 res=EXTHLP1.Extended help for Fubar

the compiler substitutes "1" for "EXTHLP1" and then it tries to
interpret the resulting "1.Ex" as a floating point number (WHY???  THIS
IS A PREPROCESSOR!!!), which results in an error, since 'x' is not a
valid digit.

For this example, the work-around is to change it to:

:h1 res=EXTHLP1 id="DUMMYID1".Extended help for Fubar

Cheers,
Larry Salomon, Jr. (aka 'Q')            LARRYS@YKTVMV.BITNET
OS/2 Applications and Tools             larrys@watson.ibm.com
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center         larrys@ibmman.watson.ibm.com
Yorktown Heights, NY                    larrys@ibmman2.watson.ibm.com

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