Yes I was thinking about that too and it's a hassle whichever way you look at it. A radical rehaul of the configuration help is very tricky because for one thing you have to conserve the topic ID's. Now there's a Robohelp tool called Whatsthis that takes the path of the app for which you want to create context help, finds the dependencies, and automatically produces a topic for each control complete with bitmaps of the dialogs. Saves a lot of typing, not to mention screencaps (should they be necessary). When you feel ready to switch to CHM context help, we can use it to generate topic ID's. BTW I can also vectorize screencaps so they don't impact the CHM file size. But for the moment I guess you don't want to go into that so what I suggest is: 1- Separate the expressions help from the PP help. A winhelp macro jump can be added to open the expressions help from the PP help. 2- Keep the PP help in the DOC/HLP format. 3- Consolidate the expressions help, the PPST, and a FAQ compiled from the PPDB into HTML/CHM format. Glue it together and convert it to DOC for printing.
-----Original Message----- From: brucexs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 5:38 PM --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Hakki Alacakaptan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suggested earlier that you dump the winhelp format altogether because it > complicates everything without bringing any advantages. I'd tend to agree except for one thing: all of the context sensitive help configuration application is tied to the hlp file and I don't want to change to point to chm for now. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/JV_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
