Win95 Help File Production
The help file in Win95 is a picture and is very convenient, then do you consider writing a help file for your software? Microsoft Help Workshop in Mircosoft Visual C can make you your own help files yourself.
The production help file mainly has the following steps:
* Use the original documentation file (.rtf) of the Word software to make a help file.
* Use the HCW software to make a bookmark index file (.cnt) of the help file.
* Establish an engineering document (.hpj) using the HCW software.
* Compile the documentation and index file into the help file (.hlp) in the project file.
First, make the original explanation file for making a help file
The writing of documents should be compiled in a certain format, indicating that the file is generally consisting of the title area, the footnote area, and the body area.
1) Title area: The title area is a pole description of each chapter of the writing help file, which is not placed in the scroll strip when reading.
2) Footnotes: In the start of the help file, the following is the following symbols:
The title information recorded when the help file is browsed, placed in the bookmark menu, and can be read by "", "buttons, generally using the title records in each chapter.
# Help files each title ID value, with it to identify each description title, get in touch with other jumps and bookmark index files.
K With the keywords related to each title, display in the tree map that enters the help file, quickly find the topic you want to query.
Browse the order of each page when browsing the help file.
3) Text area: The main part of the body is used to write the main part of the help file. After the content of each title is written, it is inserted into a pagination in order to separate the next title content. The special format is as follows:
Jump: Jump with double downline fonts, followed by jump to a ID value of a title, use hidden fonts.
Next: The next means of pops up after clicking on the mouse, with a single line line font, then follow the ID value of a title to a title, use hidden fonts.
Bitmap: Bitmap refers to the picture in the BMP format in the help file, you can insert it directly in the Word document, or use the following command:
{BMC filename.bmp}
Hotspot: Hot point means that the mouse click after jump to execute a macro command, you can use the exclamation mark and macro command, use hidden fonts, if you are a bitmap hotspot, you can also make it in HotSpot software, as shown below:
Brush! EXEC (Paint.exe) inserts a text hotspot
{BMC Paint.BMP}! EXEC (Paint.exe) Insert a bitmap hotspot.
Second, make a bookmark index file for helping files
1) Start the HCW.exe file, select Filenewhelp Contents to enter the work desktop.
2) Fill in the name of the help file in Default FileName, and fill in the title of the help file in Default Title.
3) Use the button on the right side of the scroll bar to join the graphics directory of the help file, the method added is as follows:
* Press Add ABOVE or Add Below
* Select Heading to represent the directory name, enter the title name in Title
* Select Topic to help file content in this section, and enter the title name in Title. Enter the ID value of the helper file title you want to connect in the Topic ID, enter the name of the help file in the Help file, in Windows Enter the window name defined in the project file. * Move Right Represents the right shift directory, this directory is lower than the previous directory, and the move light represents the left shift directory. This directory is higher than the previous directory. Remove means that this item is removed, Edit can re-edit the directory or the subject. content.
Edited the good CNT file bookmark directory as shown in the lower left:
4) Select the index file button Add Enter the keyword for the help file in Title to make the index query, here should be the same as the contents behind the original description file footnote, and enter the help file name in Help FileName.
5) Sign the bookmark index file.
Third, establish an engineering document
1) Start HCW.exe, select the Filenewhelp Project Enter the file name to enter the work desktop.
2) Select the button Filesadd Select the editing of the original explanation file.
3) Select the button Options filecontents file option to select the corresponding bookmark index file.
4) Select button WindowsGeneral add Enter the defined window name, select the position to define the location where the window is displayed, select Button to set the menu button provided when viewing the help file, select the Color to define the color of the window. Note that the window name must be added to the bookmark index file The corresponding topic is valid, and different topics can set different window style.
5) After each option is set, as shown below: Select Save and Compile to generate a corresponding help file (HLP file). If there is an error written by the file, the system will give an error message.
6) Select Filerun WinHelp how to run your own help file, do you have a professional level, depending on the requirements of different software, you can join it into a variety of programs.
