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["Weissman, Jessica" <WeissmanJ -at- ABACUSTECH -dot- COM>]

I'm told that VB doesn't use the standard Windows services and calls, which
means that many such tools don't work with it.

Forefront has a VB-specific help dev tool that I've used with great
satisfaction and good results.

Jessica Weissman
Abacus Technology Corp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Elsberry [SMTP:richard -dot- elsberry -at- SCORECAST -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 1998 11:18 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:
>
> >*       I would also like to get ideas about projects that I could
> "make
> >up" in order to plan the online help (since I assume that I can't
> create
> >context sensitive help on my own without a product and an engineer for
> >the proper coding- right?).
>
> >Hi Debbie,
>
> >If you've got the complete RoboHelp office suite, there's an app called
> >What's This Help Composer. I think you can also download a trial
> version of
> >it from the BlueSky website.
>
> Using WTHC, you can take ANY .exe file on your system (that is, any
> Windows
> 32--bit application), and it will build a context-sensitive help file
> for
> >that application. It looks at every field and button in each dialog box
> and
> >generates dummy descriptions for each one along with a context-ID
> number.
>
>
> Although they make the claim, it was not possible for me to create
> context sensitive help fields in a Visual Basic application using
> RoboHelp's "What's This Help Composer." It could not display all of the
> forms. Very disappointing, it looked like it would save me (the
> programmer actually) some time. I got the impression from tech support
> that I works well in other languages, just not VB.
>
> Richard
>
>
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