Hi Rick, As Steve says I tend to write my HTML pages in notepad then create a new project in WinCHM then start adding items. Items can mean anything from a single line of HTML to full pages, Tables, Listviews, Treeviews and controls. WinCHM does have it's own editor, but I've never found it that useful. I think I had plans on scripting WinCHM to make it even more usable, but never got round to it as you can get at none correctly spoken controls with the mouse easily enough. WinCHM is available from http://www.softany.com/ and has a 15 day fully working trial, the software will add the text "Unregistered Version" at the bottom of your .CHM pages, but the easy way I was able to add items to my contents treeview and new project, just by right clicking on them and being asked where I wanted to position them, and all so in the context menu being asked did I want to add a child node, made up for this. I bought this software to catalogue all my audio drama and once I got the hang of it am easily able to use the software. I to had trouble with F6 not toggling between the TOC and selected pages with Microsoft Help Workshop. Warm regards. Martin Webster.
--- On Mon, 10/22/12, RicksPlace <[email protected]> wrote: From: RicksPlace <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Help Files CHM To: [email protected] Date: Monday, October 22, 2012, 2:53 PM Hi Steve: I have created a work shop project with TOC. I can navigate the left pane (the tree view of the selections which seem correct. I can even navigate it with the up and down arrow keys correctly and select one by hitting enter and then using f6 or tab to get into the correct html page. Problem is I cant get back to the tree view of the TOC once I am inside a page without using the mouse again. In other chm structures i can use f6 to get into and out of the TOC. I am guessing there is some optiion I do not have set the same as everyone else but I used the default options for the TOC file when I created it. The bloody files are there and correct in the chm file but they just dont read right with WindowEyes, note that other chm files do read right with WindowEyes so i am guessing there is some option I have not set but havent seen anything anyplace about setting options. Do you work with the product you mentioned? Could you walk methrough setting up a simple tree TOC with say 3 simple htm files? I have:T1.htm, Q1.htm and Q2.htm where T1 is the Title page currently. Rick USA ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Clower To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 7:02 AM Subject: Re: Help Files CHM Rick, If you know HTML then CHM Processor should do the trick. Steve RicksPlace <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks again Martin. I saw something about using a wysiwyg editor which I know not usually not very accessible. I was actually thinking that a TreeView would serve the structure of a Contents view of a Help system quite well. i just heard from another provider that they didnt know if their software would be accessible and they rely heavly on visuals and screen shots so that was out. I'll double check WinChm to see if they have a demo I can try out or contact them directly since a Tree sounds like it might be accessible enough. I got WorkShop to work a little but still couldnt get the bloody Table Of Contents built and have no idea how I am suppose to view and arrange the Table Of contents structure. There are buttons to move things right, left, up and down but since I cant see where they are in relation to each other and cant figure out what htm files are linked to which others in the Table Of Contents so far that WorkShop product is proving more of a pain than it's worth. I want to create some htm files to document my vb.net program I created and have a Table Of Contents with a Tree structure of the htm pages. I also would like to use the htm files as a source of Context Help from within my vb.net program. anyway, sigh, I will go back and check out WinChm again to see if I can get a demo to try out. I dont mind spending a buck if it works and is a good product. Later: Rick USA w ----- Original Message ----- From: martin webster To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:28 PM Subject: Re: Help Files CHM Hi Rick, Yes I have with WinCHM, the software contains many templates and one of the templates provided is for a contents treeview. As long as your links and directory structure is correct then it works well. I all so struggled with the microsoft help system. Warm regards. Martin Webster. --- On Sun, 10/21/12, RicksPlace <[email protected]> wrote: From: RicksPlace <[email protected]> Subject: Help Files CHM To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 8:45 PM Hi: Has anyone created a chm help file like the one used for WindowEyes Help? I puttered with html help WorkShop but didnt get very far this weekend. Is there something accessible with some decent documentation out there? Rick USA -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
