OpenEuphoria

2. Re: Help compiler

• Posted by Ray Smith <Ray.Smith at FUJITSU.COM.AU> Mar 24, 1999
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Hi Luis,

I developed a very simple help creation program in Euphoria called EuHelp.
It can be downloaded from the rds web page.  It was my first attempt and
is a bit tricky to use because you have to know some RTF codes to use it.
When / if I ever work out a way to use a richedit control I'd like to update it.
It is fully documented and the doco has a link to a zip file on my homepage
that has the basic MS files required to compile the .rtf / .hpj files into .hlp
files.  From memory the zip file is around 200-300 KB .. much less than 3MB.

From memory I think there is a freeware help creator called Oasis which is
probably similiar to HelpScribble.  A search on the net should find you a copy
of it. I downloaded the very first version of Oasis  - maybe about 2 years ago
... and it didn't work ... had errors .... I beleive it has many happy users
now and should be worth the effort of a download.  Note: Oasis would probably
also require the MS help compiler (the zip file on my homepage page).
I know helpscribble required it.

Hang on I'll just get that url I've been talking about ....
http://members.xoom.com/ray_223/sw/hc.zip

If your interested with help file creation at all you should try and download
the MS Help Workshop.  At the least it has an excellent help file of its own
that would give you an excellent start.

Regards,

Ray Smith


>Hi all,
>i would like to now if someone in here has a program similar to Help pad
>or Helpscribble,if possible freeware,to crearte help files for windows
>16 & 32 bit... I tryed to download from microsoft's web a 3 megabyte
>program to edit Html/Help files but it's impossible for me to wait 3
>hours!!!
>(i only have access to the www during faculty hours,& that would require
>me to skip classes,pretty bad.)
>
>
>Regards,
>Luis
>