Anthony Appleyard wrote: > I am sorry to be somewhat off-topic here, but, when writing a program > in C or C++ or any other language, one commonly needed part is > writing a help for it. In two of my major projects (an image handler > and a CGI mesh editor) I have spent much time down the years keeping > up to date their help (.HLP) files. But Visual C++ has dropped the > Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe). This is a big nuisance. Please > could someone direct me to one of: > (1) An email group that discusses help files. > (2) A program that translates .HLP files to .HTML format. > Thanks.
CHM is the preferred method these days (Compiled Help Manual). Although I seem to recall Microsoft saying they were planning on eradicating CHMs for Vista. Don't know what happened with that - probably got swept under the table along with all the other changes they were making. You could try this program: http://www.vizacc.com/ It works "okay". Better than Microsoft's tool. Worse than most of the $500+ tools. Better than all the other so-called "free" tools out there. Took me weeks of searching to find this little freeware gem. It has a surprisingly large user base despite not being able to be found by search engines. It may be able to open your .HLP file and do the conversion you desire. I wouldn't know. Never touched HLP files. I, quite happily, got to skip that era :) -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
