>>Honestly, I'm not sure what I'm after either. :-) We just see a situation in which we may want/need to use HTML Help and I want to find out as much as I can about how to create it.
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>>Thanks,
>>Bill
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>Have a look at Word, from either Office 95 or 97. You can create documents for your help with text, images, etc. and can place hyperlinks directly in your document to jump from one to another. It actually works pretty good. I put together my own first web page created entirely in Word. HTH
I'm generating it from FPD already, and when I start switching my apps to VFP, it'll simply need some way to call a proper page at proper target. I store bits of it in memo fields in my menu.dbf and comments in .scx (had to move it into user in scx, comment is a property now and not a memo, so - max 255 chars). So, what's the big deal? I could always check for version of OS, and if it's a W95, assume there's an association for .htm files, and instead of reacting on F1 key via standard interface, just switch to
Run /n Start helpfile.htm #thereyouare
...or maybe I should remove the space before the #? Something like that anyway. Doing a thing like that from VFP should be even easier - starting a browser object right on, as a separate form within an app. Anyway, generating .rtf files is pretty tricky, and doing HTML is much more fun.