>Hi,
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>I'm trying to add/create a simple help menu (no contextId or Whatsthis? and about 20 pages of help) to my stand alone app running on a Win2k Server. I tried using dbf help, except it does not seem to work once compiled, outside of the VFP Main Window (it's only meant for apps running in the VFP window, correct?).
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>So I'm trying to get information on WinHelp 4.0. VFP Help seems to be very limited in this matter, but directs to look at "Help Authoring Guide" (Hcw.hlp). Does anyone know where this is? and am I going about this the best way?
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>Thanks for any help (no pun intended).
>Blair
WinHelp refers to the old-style HLP files. The "modern" way, according to Microsoft (and much easier to design, according to me) is to create CHM files.
If you are interested, you can find an introduction (almost a step-by-step tutorial) in my article
http://www.levelextreme.com/Magazine/November2002/Page29.asp.
HTH,
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
