How to build your application helpfiles
Posted: 21 Sep 2006 10:32
Just a starter for people who are not sure on how to manage and make help files. This is how I do it.
1) Create a folder (called "help") under your main VIP7 project folder (where the *.prj6 file is).
2) Under "help", create a folder structure and a bunch of empty *.html files named with the help topic names you need. The folder structure (at least with VCHM 4 below) is duplicated in your final help file.
3) In the VIP7 IDE, add these html files to the project.
4) In IDE menu item "Tools - Configure Tools", for tool 1 (say), browse and add NETSCAPE.EXE in column 3, and add ($file) in column 4
Netscape <b>7.2</b> can be downloaded for free, and with this version you get a good, free, WYSIWYG HTML editor.
So now in the IDE, focus on an html file, and press CTRL-1 to open the selected file with the Netscape browser. Then press CTRL-E to open the editor.
5) Finally, to create your project CHM file, see:
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best ... -free.html
I use VCHM 4.0 - I haven't tried the others. With this, you just open the top level "help" folder, import all folders and files below it (a single action), compile, and the CHM file is created.
1) Create a folder (called "help") under your main VIP7 project folder (where the *.prj6 file is).
2) Under "help", create a folder structure and a bunch of empty *.html files named with the help topic names you need. The folder structure (at least with VCHM 4 below) is duplicated in your final help file.
3) In the VIP7 IDE, add these html files to the project.
4) In IDE menu item "Tools - Configure Tools", for tool 1 (say), browse and add NETSCAPE.EXE in column 3, and add ($file) in column 4
Netscape <b>7.2</b> can be downloaded for free, and with this version you get a good, free, WYSIWYG HTML editor.
So now in the IDE, focus on an html file, and press CTRL-1 to open the selected file with the Netscape browser. Then press CTRL-E to open the editor.
5) Finally, to create your project CHM file, see:
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best ... -free.html
I use VCHM 4.0 - I haven't tried the others. With this, you just open the top level "help" folder, import all folders and files below it (a single action), compile, and the CHM file is created.