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We have switched from using RoboHelp to produce WinHelp to FrameMaker and
WebWorks to produce MS HTML Help. Setting up the WebWorks templates was a
fair amount of work, but the results have been excellent.
To answer your first question, you don't need any dll's or ocx's for context
sensitive help to work. We just changed the name of the file to look for in
the programming environment. Our programs are engineered in Visual Basic so
we have to enter the Help Context ID's into the VB code. I believe it's the
other way around with C++. The numbers come form the programming project
itself and you use those in the Help.
Web pages are created for each topic, the TOC, and the index, then those
files are compiled by the MS Help tool to create the single stand alone .chm
file
I hope that makes sense. We're at the end of a rev cycle on our docs and I
am a bit punchy.
steve shepard
Susan Jelus writes:
> I'm looking at using Microsoft's HTML Help tool to produce
> .chm files. Does
> anyone know which features (such as context-sensitivity) require the
> distribution of special dll's or ocx's to the people who will
> view the help?
> The samples I've generated can't be printed. It looks like
> you have to
> generate them as web pages and do that through the browser.
> Is that right?
> Can anyone alert me to any other shortcomings, problems, or pitfalls?
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