CHM Maker

[Arnie]

Hi,
This is a nice MS-program.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/htmlhelp/html/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp
You can make CHM (compiled) help files with it.
It also includes a nice image editor, supporting lots of formats.
I (win98se) deleted the original Windows helpfiles,
and replaced them with an own-made message that help is not available.
I often click on Help when I meant to click on Run,
and the computer used to be loading for long because of the big helpfile.
That's over now

If you want to make HLP helpfiles,
you can use Help Creator from www.breittechnologies.com.
But I think you already knew that one.

Oh, and some introduction to myself (not to be replied at).
I've been searching for freeware for long on the Internet,
and it's really nice when you finally find a "small" site,
like in the corner of the web, where there's some really good stuff.
I found this newsgroup via pricelessware.org.

 

[omega]

Hi,
This is a nice MS-program.
http://msdn.microsoft.com [...]

Here's a variation a tad shorter (and more useful for those of us who've a
browser that'll shows msft pages like this in strictly full, single frame):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp

Below are download URLs from that page, for direct feeding into one's download
manager. I checked these URLs cross-browser, to ensure not cookie-based, thus
I believe they are static locations. (Static -- yet not long-term of course.
@MSFT sites, their greatest hobby is moving things around, so rampant a habit
that most of the time they themselves can't keep track of where anything is.)

Standard system update, for viewing CHM
http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/c/8/cc8a7962-f72f-4358-a13d-326be29d3623/HHUPD.EXE

The HTML Help Workshop application
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/A/9/0A939EF6-E31C-430F-A3DF-DFAE7960D564/htmlhelp.exe

Related CHM docs
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/A/9/0A939EF6-E31C-430F-A3DF-DFAE7960D564/helpdocs.zip

You can make CHM (compiled) help files with it.

Plus, all the third-party "chm maker" type tools I've seen myself, they
require the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop to first be installed.

It also includes a nice image editor, supporting lots of formats.

Flash.exe, once the HHW app is installed.

If you want to make HLP helpfiles,
you can use Help Creator from www.breittechnologies.com.
But I think you already knew that one.

Personally, I don't want to make them. I want to extract them. HLP
extraction is a major PITA, since you get meaningless filenames, together
with TOCs that are generally incomplete, if not absent. Give me CHM over
HLP any day.

Back to HTML Help Workshop. It's something I'd recommend for many to get,
beyond those who might want to do some chm compiling, for its function of
DE-compiling chms into individual files.

[...]

I found this newsgroup via pricelessware.org.

Glad you found one of the web's most important sites. The den mother [1]
can even be spotted here, on occasion.


_____
[1] Susan: I am at risk, in not knowing how that term will translate. So
know in advance I mean it in a most appreciative & respectful sense.

 

[omega]

[I'd posted:]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp

Standard system update, for viewing CHM
[...] /HHUPD.EXE

Oops. I've only noticed after posting that the web page contains this
statement:

: Windows XP, 2000, ME, and 98 users should not run Hhupd.exe.
: Any urgent updates will be handled by means of service packs or
: Windows Update.

I don't think it would actually cause the sky to file if that update
were run. But must be that their notice on it involves that recent
security patch related to HH.exe and its settings.

 

[Susan Bugher]

Arnie <[email protected]>:

I found this newsgroup via pricelessware.org.

Glad you found one of the web's most important sites. The den mother [1]
can even be spotted here, on occasion.

_____
[1] Susan: I am at risk, in not knowing how that term will translate. So
know in advance I mean it in a most appreciative & respectful sense.

Hi Karen,

I suspect it's the about same meaning . . .

not sure I qualify for the title . . .

Susan

 

[Arnie]

I wonder, why is the download url already gone from the server?
How are people supposed to find the program like that?
So - I wonder how the deleting system here works.
The posts are still on Google though.
XNews can automatically search for that

Please also see my "introduction" topic.
I hope to get a bit common here really.