IIRC, the toc.txt is used to populate the pop-up you get when you highlight a command in the script editor and press F1: [image: Inline image 1]
Doing a chm version of the latest SDK doc was just too much work. There were so many changes in how that help was structured and implemented. I did first pass at the help project, but it looked a nightmare and I dropped that project... On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Derek Jenson <[email protected]> wrote: > A few questions: > > In case the online documentation ever goes away, I downloaded the html > 'user' & 'sdk' guides for Softimage from the AD website; here: > > https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/softimage/downloads/caas/downloads/content/autodesk-softimage-documentation.html > > I installed the guides as stated in the docs and now when I use the 'help' > menu in Soft the local, off-line, html docs pop-up in a browser. Perfect! > However, after pointing Soft to the off-line docs, I get this warning on > startup: > "Couldn't locate the Softimage help topic file (toc.txt). > C:\...\doc\en\offline\sdkguide\toc.txt" > > What is the toc.txt file? No mention of a help toc.txt file in the docs. > The help function works as expected. But how can I fix or suppress this > warning. I don't want to get into the habit of ignoring warnings every time > Soft starts. > > Another question: > Steve Blair made the Soft_User_Guide.html available in Soft_User_Guide.chm > format. I prefer the .chm help; seems faster & snappier. Can I force the > 'help' commands to use the .chm file? > > And yet another question: > If the above is possible, is a Soft_SDK_Guide.chm file available, to my > knowledge only a User Guide was created? If not, how can I make a .chm file > from the .html SDK docs? > > Cheers, > Derek >
