>Don't like the workshop. Everything is renamed once again, doesn't give you a single clue about what is what, and moreover, when it offers to convert your old project, it just makes an empty one. Another issue is that it seems to force you to write small HTML files instead of one reasonably big .rtf (which was a pain also, but... just look at the one I've sent you, it's been mostly written by a FPD2.6 prg). This brings up the issue of maintainance of these files. It compiles them into one big .CHM file, but guess what - you open the .chm with IE 3 (well, I did it once and it worked - shown me the actual names of the .html files. Can't reproduce it today, dunno why).

>Chapter 23: Creating Graphical Help
>"Unlike WinHelp, HTML "What's This?" Help is displayed in the full default-sized Help window."

>I think M$ has done it wrong way this time - simple, any-browser-knows-it HTML would be much better than this only-hh.exe-can-read-me (and it won't work without IE4, or it will, but you won't like it). I'd really prefer writing help in form of simple HTML and implement some browser instantiation technique, than to meddle with the HHWS.
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>So, I think it should be discussed here. I feel like an idiot, trying to figure out what the hell is the proper way to convert a Winhelp4.0 project into HH, and not getting anywhere near the start.

I'm not thrilled with HHWS, and am open to other suggestions. The catch is that I need it to be free. We are working with basically no budget.

WinHelp had me totally lost. Without a program to make it WYSIWYG, I had no clue. Even then, it was confusing. And then I hear that WinHelp is passee. Go to HTML help, they say. And bye the way, here's a free program to help you with it. So that's what I went to.

I'm not sure how that comment on "what's this" help answeres my question. What I want is, within a help screen, to have more info pop up as you hover over parts of an image. That way I can have a screen shot with bits of it described in a "tool tip" fashion. As far as I know, that's not possible in HTML without breaking up the image into smaller components. I was checking to see if I was wrong about it not being possible.

-Michelle