Subj : Re: help files
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Sebastian Ledesma" <labo(no_sp@m)solidyne1.com>
Date : Fri Dec 12 2003 11:26 am

Mike:
To use a help file try this:
 WinHelp("myHelpFile.hlp", HELP_KEY,  (DWORD)(LPSTR)"My Topic");
   or
 WinHelp("myHelpFile.hlp", HELP_CONTENTS,  0);

To use a HTML help, you need to load the "HHCTRL.OCX", (it's just a
specialized .DLL),
get the address process of ATOM_HTMLHELP_API_ANSI
 (  pHTMLHelp = (HtmlHelpFunc)::GetProcAddress(hHelpOCX,
ATOM_HTMLHELP_API_ANSI);)
and call the function like this

void myHTMLHelp(HWND hWnd, char *helpFilename, int topic, int id) {
 if (pHTMLHelp) {
  pHTMLHelp(hWnd, helpFilename, topic, id);
   }
}

To create an HTML help: you can do it by hand (like the old times), write
..RTF files with embebed links,
or use any of the tools available today like RoboHelp, ForeHelp,
Help&Manual, etc.

Saludos
Sebastian

"Jeff Kish" <jeff.kish@mro.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:7bjjtv4v3a82rbmdibkimqv5ick87pch6q@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:06:49 -1000, "mike" <localmotion@hawaii.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >  i was wondering how to create "help" .hlp files that i can call from my
> >win32 application? can anyone give me an example of how to do this? i'm
> >using borland 5.02 for development.
> >
> >Aloha,
> >mike
> >
> Well usually you use some product like robo-help.
> These days it seems that html or chm files are more popular.
> You might want to consider just making html help files.
> HTH
> Jeff Kish

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