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HTML Help

A Win32 help viewer that renders HTML instead of the standard HLP format.

1999Win32

General info

This is a very usefull help replacement for the win32 enviroment. When I developed this one I was sick of the standard HLP windows help files. I thought that an HTML help would be better, more flexible and easier to create. So I programmed this little help utility. Of course the HTML renderer was pre-written :). The bad thing is that I never used this one in my university projects :(.

Configuration

It's quite easy to configure this one. Just edit the help_show.cfg file. It has the following format:

[HTML]
\html  # html directory

[general]
Help example  # The help window title
factory.ico   # The window icon file (inactive :-p)
Gray          # don't remember :) just let them be, or try any other color
white

[main]
Index         # The first button (starting from left) caption
Index         # The first button (starting from left) hint
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About
About This Program

To define which HTML files will be included just edit index.cfg to specify the files — one file per line — and index.des, which has the descriptions for the HTML files.

Screenshot

HTML Help window showing a rendered help page
HTML Help window showing a rendered help page

Downloads

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