>>Well I've played with this all weekend and have some thoughts.
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>>First its very cool. Can really create help files that have the Win 95 look and feel.
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>>Second very flexible. Given the html format you can do anything.
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>>Third, very buggy. The hhw.exe file used to generate the index and table of contents is a simple type of cross between an html editor and a vfp wizard. Still has lots of bugs and would definetly use another package to actually do the html writing.
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>>Now the hhctrl.ocx file. I can't get it to work! Has anyone else played with this. All I get is OLE errors (all kinds but basically ones that say it isn't registered, even though it is as regedit clearly shows).
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>>With some work this will definetly rewrite the whole section on making help files.
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>Which HLPTOHTML did you use? I've played with a few last year and I didn't obtain as much result.

This is not an hlp to html converter. It is an whole new concept of using M$ hhctrl.ocx ActiveX object to control your help files.

You set up a start frameset in html with 3 frames. The first stores a navigation bar, the second either an index or table of contents and the third the help htlm files.

The hhw.exe program generates a table of contents file with an .hhc extension and an index file with a .hhk extension.

The hhctrl.ocx control then uses all of these to create a help system that is OOP, so you can access it just like an object (properties, methods, events) and all (if it works)

See the M$ site on html help (the URL was in friday's notes)