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Custom Help File
Posted: 23 Mar 06 4:15 PM
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fiogf49gjkf0d First, I new to this so I hope your patient.
SLX allows you to inport a custom help file that can be linked to the Help menu. Does anyone know if there is a template to create a .hlp? |
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Re: Custom Help File
Posted: 04 Apr 06 8:27 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d SalesLogix uses complied html help files (.chm) rather than hlp files.
If you are after a template to use, you could always decompile the standard SalesLogix help file using something like Microsoft HTML Help, make your changes and recompile it. Just be careful to make sure you don't change any of the indexes already referenced by the client.
You can download HTML Help from Microsoft's website. Although there are other better applications for creating help files out there. The Microsoft offering can be a little clunky to use.
Regards,
Martin |
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Re: Custom Help File
Posted: 24 Apr 06 1:45 PM
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fiogf49gjkf0d Microsoft is supposedly releasing the internal tool they use to develop their C# documentation from the XML syntax. I've always had the desire to develop the basic structure of the Help file in XML then use something like NDoc to generate the help file from a XSL template. Of course you couldn't build such a thing from comments in your own code inside Architect unless you had a mechanism to pull those out, but having something like this in Architect would be a dream.
Personally I liked ec-software's Help and Manual but it is a little pricey. I used them mainly because I was using their Delphi controls before Delphi 7 supported CHM files natively. SalesLogix may also be using this control but I know this control and Delphi itself support both CHM and HLP files so I don't see why SalesLogix wouldn't. CHM files were introduced into Windows back in Windows 98, so every OS SalesLogix runs on should have the ability to view them. They're easier to maintain and build than the old RTF hlp files but as mentioned the Microsoft tools are cumbersome. I completely loathe them personally which is why I think a simple xml/xsl translation is the way to go and wonder why someone doesn't have something that could do the job. There probably is something out there already but I just haven't found it. |
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