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From
01/11/2004 10:18:01
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8
OS:
Windows 2000
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00956426
Message ID:
00956554
Views:
11
>>For my last 3 or 4 projects I have constructed my Help Systems using the HTML Help Workshop.
>>
>>I am not happy with this thing. It appears to be something that was developed to work in C++ and takes a lot of non-intuitive adaption to work with VFP. So I am looking for another tool.
>>
>>I have heard of the Help Builder with West Wind but I haven't tried it. I want something with HTML Linking.
>>
>>If I could have some feedback from real users of good Help Systems, I would really appreciate it.
>>
>>Mike Smith
>
>we all use MS HTML Help Workshop for creating of CHM.
>Ussually I use word to create pages(documents) and save them in HTML format
>Use a XSL to describe tree of documents and topics, references, ect. And made a small VFP program which build CHM from this things.
>WestWind Help is done in similar way

Use Word, to create HTML pages? This inserts a large amount of garbage codes, in my experience. I would recommend FrontPage Express (free, included with IE, but not installed by default), which is relatively clean.
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