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VFP9 Help is now online
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From
14/12/2020 03:59:47
 
 
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14/12/2020 03:33:26
Dragan Nedeljkovich
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Visual FoxPro
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News
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01677484
Message ID:
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>>I just want to announce that Help for VFP9 sp2 is now available online.
>>
>>You can find it at https://www.vfphelp.com/help/index.htm
>>
>>Ps. If you find any errors, please report, and I will fix. Except for the wrong Microsoft links, which will remain as they are.
>
>Ah, much better! The previous version (which used to be in the root of https://www.vfphelp.com/) had gaps in many places. This looks complete (even has the part on structure of fpt files!) and is blazingly fast, specially compared with whatever M$ used to have in that regard.
>A liter of brandy of your choice is waiting. Before making the choice you'd have to try a few first, of course.

Thank you for the nice words. It actually was much more work than I thought. Many full paths to non existent folders, links to the wrong folders, missing references to script files plus a lot of other little things. IOW the conversion code has many parts with Strextract() and StrTran() and other trickery.

You may be surprised to hear that the complete VFP9 help solution consists of 8694 separate html files... I used West-Wind Help Builder to unpack the chm that resides on Github, and exported it as a web solution. Then I used VFP9 to fix all the errors.

Regarding the barandy, I will keep that in mind if I ever come to Serbia.

NB! I changed the URL slightly, just in case I ever get tempted to do the same for VFP8 or other versions. It's now https://www.vfphelp.com/vfp9, although the old also works until I delete it.
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