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Re: Generating HTML Help files?

To: REALbasic Network Users Group <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Generating HTML Help files?
From: galacticgourmet <galacticgourmet at nethere dot com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:33:04 -0400
This looks promising. The only thing is, this current project will be a
stand-alone help file...not part of an application.

My day job is as a technical writer, and I want to create a Help file as
part of my online writing portfolio.

I'll download this to see if this will work for me.

-Daniel



> From: Dave Wooldridge <ebmail at ebutterfly dot com>
> Reply-To: "REALbasic Network Users
> Group"<realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 17:19:13 -0700
> To: REALbasic Network Users Group <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware 
> dot com>
> Subject: Re: Generating HTML Help files?
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> You wrote:
> 
>> Isn't an HTML help file more than that? You have two frames and an index,
>> and some images, and a Navigation bar. I know you don't store those all in
>> one file, but you do have to create something that ties it all together.
> 
> 
> HTML help files use standard HTML just like web pages.  The two frames you
> mentioned are displayed by using a frameset page -- an HTML page that
> specifies the frames and their dimensions.  The pages inside the frames are
> standard HTML pages that display images via standard image tags, such as
> <IMG SRC="myimage.jpg" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="50" BORDER="0">.
> 
> If you want your application's help pages to display a table of contents in
> one frame and the actual help pages in the other frame, but you don't know
> how to create an HTML frameset, you should check out my UniHelp module -- it
> includes a table of contents, search engine, navigational bar, etc. just
> like you mentioned.
> 
> Regards,
> Dave Wooldridge
> Electric Butterfly
> http://www.ebutterfly.com/rb/unihelp.asp
> 
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