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>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.
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That's what I use it for. I design the pages in FrontPage 98. Then I copy them into the HHWS directory and include them in the project. I wish MS had made this step easier. There's no command to include just ones that haven't been included already. And if you select them all, it duplicates the ones you have already. I end up un-including all, then including all. You've lost me on using VFP to make help files, though.

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>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.
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Which CD? Windows 95?

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>Don't blame me, I quoted M$ :)
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Well, there's the problem. :)

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>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.
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I know about hotspots, but that's not what I mean. Although that would be close to what I want if it would come up in a small frame. What I want is hover-activated text. I know you can make an image have something come up in the little yellow box when you hover over it, but you can only do one per image. I'd like to have different text in different parts of the image.

I don't have VFP6, so I can't look at its help. I like the idea of going to HTML help, because it is easier to do than WinHelp, but it could really use some additional features. As long as we are forced to use IE for it, they don't have to worry about it being compatable with other browsers, so why not make a super-HTML version for help? Those little pop-up definitions would be nice to have. And my hover-windows. And probably lots of other things I can't think of right now.

-Michelle