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Absolutely the best/easiest to use free helpmaker!?
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 12:51 am
by Dare2
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!)
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:24 am
by rsts
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:32 am
by Dare2
Thank you! Downloading now, trying tonight.
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 5:18 am
by Dare2
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.
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:17 am
by Psychophanta
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
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:18 pm
by Thorsten1867
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:17 pm
by rsts
Thanks, looks nice.
I couldn't see that it creates chm help files though. Does it?
cheers
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:43 pm
by Psychophanta
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
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:37 pm
by Edwin Knoppert
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
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:13 pm
by Thorsten1867
rsts wrote:Thanks, looks nice.
I couldn't see that it creates chm help files though. Does it?
cheers
It creates chm and html.
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:27 pm
by NoahPhense
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
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:36 pm
by Edwin Knoppert
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:55 am
by Randy Walker
... 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/
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:31 am
by SFSxOI
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?
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:29 pm
by Randy Walker
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?
[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.