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ELECTRIC BUTTERFLY RELEASES UNIHELP 1.7 Support for Virtual Volumes Added to Cross-Platform Help System for REALbasic Developers LOS ANGELES, California (March 22, 2005) - Electric Butterfly announces the immediate availability of UniHelp 1.7, the award-winning help system for REALbasic. UniHelp provides an easy-to-use, feature-rich solution for REALbasic developers who want to add online help to their cross-platform applications. Version 1.7, which is a free update for all registered UniHelp customers, includes improved help navigation and adds support for Virtual Volumes. Apple Help Viewer, Microsoft HTML Help, WinHelp.... Why waste precious development time designing and compiling a different Help system for each platform when you can easily use UniHelp for all of them? Just drag the UniHelp components folder into your REALbasic project, add a few lines of code, create your external help pages, and that's it -- instant online help for your compiled REALbasic applications that works on Classic Mac, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Key Features: -- Displays Both HTML and ASCII Text Files. -- Supports URL Links, Relative Links, Anchors, and Email Links in HTML. -- Parses More Than 20 Standard HTML Tags. -- Parses More Than 60 HTML Accentuated and Special Characters. -- Supports Images, Video, and Audio. -- Built-in Search Engine. -- Supports Context-Sensitive Help. -- Familiar Help-style Interface with Table of Contents, Back, Forward, Home, Copy and Print buttons. -- Customizable Icons, Title Bar, Start Page, Contents Sequencing, Font, Window Positioning, etc. -- GUI Support for English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, and Japanese. -- Small Footprint: Since Your Help Pages are External, only the UniHelp Module is Compiled with Your RB App. -- Supports Help Pages placed in a REALbasic Virtual Volume. -- Run REALbasic Methods from within your HTML help pages by clicking on HTML-based UHScript hyperlinks. -- Easy to Use and Royalty-Free! "UniHelp" and "Electric Butterfly" are never mentioned anywhere on the UniHelp interface, providing you with a full-featured generic Help solution -- your software customers will think you built it yourself! What's New in UniHelp 1.7: -- UniHelp now supports Virtual Volumes! Place all of your help pages and related subdirectories and help graphics inside a single REALbasic Virtual Volume file. UniHelp 1.7 displays your help pages and Table of Contents as usual, using the Virtual Volume format like a database. Distributing your help in a single file, cross-platform Virtual Volume enables your application to be more portable! Please note: this new feature is optional, using a standard help folder is also still supported. -- Improved help navigation! By popular demand, the currently displayed help page is always highlighted in the Table of Contents, even if the page request did not originate from a Table of Contents selection. Perform a search, utilize context-sensitive help, click the Back/Next arrow buttons, or click on an HTML hyperlink to jump to a new help page and its location in the Table of Contents will be automatically highlighted, showing you exactly where you are in the help system at all times. -- New Virtual Volume boolean parameter added to the RunUniHelp method, notifying UniHelp whether your help pages are located in a Virtual Volume (True) or a standard folder (False). -- UniHelp's parsing of Relative Path HTML hyperlinks is now faster and more efficient. Availability and Pricing: For more information, please visit: http://www.ebutterfly.com/rb/unihelp.asp Macintosh Download: http://www.ebutterfly.com/rb/downloads/unihelp.sit Windows Download: http://www.ebutterfly.com/rb/downloads/unihelp.zip For only $49.00 US, you can add UniHelp to an unlimited number of REALbasic applications. UniHelp is ROYALTY-FREE, so you pay only once (per developer) and then use it in all your REALbasic projects and distribute your compiled applications with NO additional fees! Convert the Demo version into a Registered version and receive unlimited e-mail tech support by purchasing a UniHelp Serial Number at http://www.ebutterfly.com/rb/unihelp.asp UniHelp was Made with REALbasic and Requires REALbasic 5.0 or higher. __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: BetterRAM.com(sm): Your Source for RAM http://www.betterram.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 800-895-3493 MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-MACTECH To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". 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