HTML Help Editor

Introduction

The help editor is a WYSIWYG editor to edit your help file. The help editor is composed of two parts: left shows the content tree, right the HTML page of the selected node. After you made your changes to either you can recompile (File > Recompile Help Project) and the resulting help file should be the same as what the help editor is like - as if you were editing directly the help file.

Start from the HTML Help Generator add-in menu

General and Content tree menus:

File Open Help Open Help Folder Recompile Help Project Generate New Pages Export to Word Regenerate Help Print Save Close

Help Contents... Index... Search... About Undo Cut Copy Paste Paste Special Toggle used/unused Delete Up Down Left Up Right Down New Add Rename Edit Index HHC

Open the last compiled helpfile.

Open Windows Explorer with folder containing the help project files.

Compile the help project to get the help file updated with your last edit changes. Uses Microsoft HTML Help Workshop compiler.

If you added new forms to your application this will generate the corresponding pages.

Create user documentation in Word.

Not available in version 2. 

Print the current HTML page.

Save the current HTML page.

Close the Help Editor

Show HTML Help Generator help contents.

Show HTML Help Generator help opened on index tab.

Show HTML Help Generator help opened on search tab.

About info on Help generator, includes license info and expiration date for trial license.

Shortcut menu on content tree (Right-click)

Undo the last action

Cuts the current node and places it on the clipboard

Copies the current node onto the clipboard.

Paste the node on the clipboard below the current node.

Paste the node on the clipboard below the current node. Asks if child nodes also need be included.

Exclude makes the current node excluded from the help content tree, Include reverses this decision.

Removes node from help content tree. The HTML page is not deleted.

Moves the current node one position up in the help content tree.

Moves the current node one position down in the help content tree.

Moves the current node to the position directly above the parent node in the help content tree.

Moves the current node to the position directly below the node next to parent node in the help content tree.

Add a new node below the current node. A dialog pops up asking for the title. A HTML page is created with the title as the filename (if such a page already exists then that page is used to link to). The filename has all spaces in the title replaced by underscore _

Add an existing page to the content tree.

Change the node title.

Add or remove index entries. In version 2.0 the generated items (from control names/captions) are not shown.