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VB Forum / General / January 2005Need help with auto generating Help files
Hi everyone, First of all I am not sure I should be posting this question in this forum as I did not find any forums matching my question.I need some help with some tools that would automatically generate help files for my Visual Basic application.Any help would very appreciated. Thanks in advance,  SignatureSK-D Auto generate in what way?. Create a help file for using your application without you typing anything? SignatureChris Hanscom - Microsoft MVP (VB) Veign's Resource Center http://www.veign.com/vrc_main.asp -- > Hi everyone, > First of all I am not sure I should be posting this question in this > forum as I did not find any forums matching my question.I need some help with > some tools that would automatically generate help files for my Visual Basic > application.Any help would very appreciated. > Thanks in advance, [VEIGN] Auto generate in what way: create a help file for using your application without you typing anything? [HOSHI PATRICIA FRIEDMAN] Yeah, I was thinking much the same thing. That's a gas! It's not like there's any AI to do that sort of thing! > [VEIGN] Auto generate in what way: create a help file for using your > application without you typing anything? > > [HOSHI PATRICIA FRIEDMAN] Yeah, I was thinking much the same thing. > That's a gas! It's not like there's any AI to do that sort of thing! Whoops! Forget which character you're playing today, Hoshi? <g> Signature[Microsoft Basic: 1976-2001, RIP] LOL SignatureChris Hanscom - Microsoft MVP (VB) Veign's Resource Center http://www.veign.com/vrc_main.asp -- > > [VEIGN] Auto generate in what way: create a help file for using your > > application without you typing anything? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Whoops! Forget which character you're playing today, Hoshi? <g> [KARL E. PETERSON] Whoops! forget which character you're playing today, Hoshi? <g> [HOSHI PATRICIA FRIEDMAN] You don't listen very well, do you? Compu-Pikachu said that he chose to role-play as me. Now, stop bugging us about this. > [HOSHI PATRICIA FRIEDMAN] Now, stop bugging us about this. Expert textpert choking smokers, Don’t you thing the joker laughs at you? See how they smile like pigs in a sty, See how they snied. I’m crying. Semolina pilchard, climbing up the eiffel tower. Elementary penguin singing hari krishna. Man, you should have seen them kicking edgar allan poe. I am the eggman, they are the eggmen. I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob. Goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob g’goo. Signature[I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.] > Hi everyone, > First of all I am not sure I should be posting this question in this > forum as I did not find any forums matching my question.I need some help with > some tools that would automatically generate help files for my Visual Basic > application.Any help would very appreciated. No such thing. There are tools that *assist* in creating help files and can do much of the work for you, but you're still going to have to do a lot of it yourself. How well most of these tools work depend on the target audience of your app. For example, if you're writing a DLL or OCX to be used by other developers, a help authoring tool can provide a framework of all the properties, methods, events of the DLL or OCX. It can do this because it can scan your project files and see what they contain. But there's no way any help authoring tool can see, for example, a command button or menu item and document exactly what action it performs. You've got to write that yourself. Help authoring tools can scan your project and provide the groundwork for a help system, but they can't actually write the documentation a user needs in order to use the program. One of the more popular help authoring tools is RoboHelp. http://www.macromedia.com/software/robohelp/ There are also shareware (and maybe even freeware, but you usually get what you pay for) help authoring tools. Try searching various web sites (winsite.com, topdownloads.net, download.com [part of c/net]) for downloads of such programs. SignatureMike Microsoft MVP Visual Basic Hi, Thanks for the help.I am sorry that I have mispoken earlier.I have a word document that has all the contents that will go into my help file.I need some tool that will take that file and create help file with Glossary,Index.... Thanks in advance, SK-D > > Hi everyone, > > First of all I am not sure I should be posting this question in this [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > (winsite.com, topdownloads.net, download.com [part of c/net]) for downloads > of such programs. > Hi everyone, > First of all I am not sure I should be posting this question in this [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > application.Any help would very appreciated. > Thanks in advance, Just in case..... you _are_ referring to Visual Basic Classic.... right? (vb versions 1-6). If not, you'll want to ask in a .Net group. They all contain "dotnet" or "vsnet" in their names. SignatureKen Halter - MS-MVP-VB - http://www.vbsight.com Please keep all discussions in the groups.. |
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