>>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.
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>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.

I think HHWS is basically just a help compiler and organizer, just like the old HCW was, and not an authoring tool. You should design individual pages in anything, from notepad.exe to FrontPage to HAL9000, which will probably include writing some of it in VFP itself. I'll keep my basic help texts in .mnx and .scx User fields, and generate all the necessary files from VFP. The graphical part will be a nuisance, though. In the end it will be compiled with HHWS, succesfully, I hope.

>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.

You should actually look for the help example somewhere in the Solutions. I have hardly found it - it didn't install for itself, it was in a separate .zip somewhere on my CD.

>I'm not sure how that comment on "what's this" help answeres my question.

Don't blame me, I quoted M$ :)

> 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.

In HTML you can define the picture as a map, and have various regions behave as hotspots (just the way the HotSpot editor in WinHelp was used), only the syntax is different this time, but you actually do get a picture with clickable regions. What is not possible in HH help viewer, is to have a little frame appear somewhere (on the picture within a HTML page, or in your form, just the same) - whatever you click in HH, it takes the whole HH window. Just look at any subject in VFP6 help - a simple "applies to" list has to take the whole window. Smells like a very, very unfinished product. We've lost nice features. Never mind, M$ says it's what future will be like.