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how do you write a .chm file?

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Curt:
or if like me you like the easy life -katykaty (August 17, 2007, 02:26 PM)
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$459.00   :o
The easy life seems to be an expensive life!
-Curt (August 17, 2007, 07:50 PM)
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The price is now $489!

http://www.ec-software.com/ :

Blaster:
I won Help & Manual last year on a BCB programming contest  here at donationcoder  :Thmbsup: ,
and it is probably the best programe I've tried since then.
I'm amazed what it can do!


BCB developer's journal wrote about some free help tool... I read it today...

Cuffy:
HTML Help Workshop is available for free from Microsoft. I've used it for years to compile simple help files and I say simple because I'm too old and lazy to get into ActiveX and the other hairy things you can do with it.
Google should find it for you easily and if not come back.
I have dozens of chm files compiled from pages downloaded from the web. Download the pages, patch the links or add an html index and compile using Workshop. It's a neat way to save tutorials downloaded from support sites. All the screenshots, etc., are compiled into one package.
I'll be glad to help get you started if you want. My experience is limited to HTML Help Workshop though!

Ralf Maximus:
Here's a nice little site with links to the Microsoft tools mentioned, plus some other tutorials and goodies in the sidebar:

http://www.ec-software.com/downloads_mscomp.html

Cuffy:
More tools:

In addition to Microsoft's HTML Workshop I've found that an index maker can be helpful, especially when you want to throw a little tutorial or help file together and don't want to invest too much time in the project.
Mihov's Index Maker generates an html index from a folder of html pages so by using the index and your Back button you don't need to link all the pages together. I usually just add a note at the top of the index "You must use the browser Back button to navigate these pages".
Since the index is an html page you can edit to fit your needs, use your own CSS page, etc.

http://www.mihov.com/eng/im.html

I haven't been to his site in a long time so he may have some other goodies to play with.
The indexer is Freeware!

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