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Subject:JavaHelp with Help & Manual/RoboHelp From:"McKinney, Suzanne" <smckinney -at- eei1 -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 May 2004 08:59:20 -0400
David wrote the following:
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Subject: JavaHelp with Help & Manual/RoboHelp
From: "David " <henrietta -dot- street -at- iname -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:35:46 -0500
X-Message-Number: 36
Hi all -
I've searched the archives on this, but must come cap in hand to the
list with my query. I'm just in the door in a new job, and part of the
new assignment will be producing Help for an application front-ended in
Java. (Back end is mostly in C++ I think.) I haven't worked in a java
environment before, and I have a few hopefully quick questions:
* My first impulse is to put in a purchase order for Robohelp Office x5,
which I'm well used to -- can anyone advise on X5's JavaHelp capability,
specifically re: dialog-box level and (maybe) field-level context
sensitivity?
* My new employers have been using "Help & Manual 3" (a tool I'm not
familiar with) for authoring the application Help thus far. They haven't
added context-sensitive Help yet. Anyone familiar with Help & Manual
(sometimnes aka HelpMan) and its c-s help capabilities?
* On a tangent, our current Java front-end opens Help as a CHM file.
General question: is full HTML Help (inc. context sensitivity)
compatible with Java apps?
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Why not use RoboHelp X5's WebHelp? From what I've read, it's more stable
than JavaHelp as offered by RoboHelp. I've been using WebHelp for a new
project, and used it in a previous life as well. Context-sensitive help
works well, and you have all the standard features: contents, index,
full-text search, and glossary.
Sue McKinney
703-313-5137
smckinney -at- eei1 -dot- com
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