Absolutely the best/easiest to use free helpmaker!?

Post by **Dare2** » Wed May 17, 2006 12:51 am

What is "best" and easiest to use free helpmaker (.chm)?

One that requires very little knowledge about anything at all.

(A really good helpmaker would even know your subject and write the stuff for you!)

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Wed May 17, 2006 1:24 am

http://www.vizacc.com/

cheers

Post by **Dare2** » Wed May 17, 2006 1:32 am

Thank you! Downloading now, trying tonight.

Post by **Dare2** » Thu May 18, 2006 5:18 am

It seems good, although the help for the helpmaker (and the helpmaker itself) seems a bit slung together.

But it needs no special skills other than learning it, and appears to support other languages, so I may suggest it to some folks who will write some help files for me using hieroglyphics and squiggles.

(These guys also utter strange sounds and pretend they're talking when they do it. I've heard of this, it is called speaking in tongues! I guess they're holy. Fortunately they all speak sinful Australian as well.)

Anyhow, I'll pass on the link and see how they go.

Thank you.

BTW, this was once open source, you can still get some delphi files for it. But they pulled it from being open source because of criticism, it would appear. Never heard of that before.

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:17 am

I'm trying Helpmaker got from http://www.vizacc.com/
Is there some way to add a link in the text inside a topic to launch a local drive executeable program when click on the link text or image?
If someone knows it, thanks in advance

Thorsten1867 · Post by **Thorsten1867** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:18 pm

I use HelpNDoc. There is a free version, too.
http://www.ibe-software.com/products/so ... wnload.php

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:17 pm

Thanks, looks nice.

I couldn't see that it creates chm help files though. Does it?

cheers

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:43 pm

I can't see it allow to write a link to a local file

rsts wrote:Thanks, looks nice.

I couldn't see that it creates chm help files though. Does it?

cheers

Yes, it does, but you need these files to do that:
ATL.DLL
hha.dll
hhc.exe

Edwin Knoppert · Post by **Edwin Knoppert** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:37 pm

If you want to learn and not to be(come) bounded to silly tools:

http://www.hellobasic.com/cgi-bin/forum ... 1145270238

This uses VWD but in fact any HTML editor is ok, even notepad

Thorsten1867 · Post by **Thorsten1867** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:13 pm

rsts wrote:Thanks, looks nice.

I couldn't see that it creates chm help files though. Does it?

cheers

It creates chm and html.

NoahPhense · Post by **NoahPhense** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:27 pm

Edwin Knoppert wrote:If you want to learn and not to be(come) bounded to silly tools:

http://www.hellobasic.com/cgi-bin/forum ... 1145270238

This uses VWD but in fact any HTML editor is ok, even notepad

Yeah, I'll never get away from the basics. But a nice/free html editor never hurt.

*EDIT*
Ok, I tried it out. It's a very nice app. But I had to uninstall it. 138mb's
I'll stick with Word, it does the job. And it doesn't junk up the source.

- np

Edwin Knoppert · Post by **Edwin Knoppert** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:36 pm

1) VWD guides me, no more stupid html errors.

2) You can use any tool, even notepad, it's the guide i wrote to help people using *their* desired html editor icw html help workshop.

Randy Walker · Post by **Randy Walker** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:55 am

... But a nice/free html editor never hurt.

Not played with html much but this one is free and powerfull:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/download/

SFSxOI · Post by **SFSxOI** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:31 am

Are you sure this one is free? I looked at it and it seems you need to register and purchase to the full use of it, or am i missing something?

Randy Walker wrote:
... But a nice/free html editor never hurt.
Not played with html much but this one is free and powerfull:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/download/

Randy Walker · Post by **Randy Walker** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:29 pm

SFSxOI wrote:Are you sure this one is free? I looked at it and it seems you need to register and purchase to the full use of it, or am i missing something?

Randy Walker wrote:
... But a nice/free html editor never hurt.
Not played with html much but this one is free and powerfull:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/download/

[EDIT - quotes not looking right here. So you know, my reply as follows:]
Looks like I'm way out of date on this one. Like I said ... don't play with it much. The version I have is free and quite powerful (ver 1.0) and I haven't visited the site since I first downloaded it.

If you want to PM me with your email address, I can send you the copy I have. No nags freeware. Setup file is just short of 3MB though so hotmail (etc) may not work.