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Help files in Vista not supported |
Fri, Feb 23 2007 9:42 AM | Permanent Link |
Geir Bratlie | When will you have help files that is supported by Windows Vista?
The old .hlp con not be read in Vista. -Geir- |
Fri, Feb 23 2007 9:48 AM | Permanent Link |
"John Taylor" | Don't you just love Microsoft ?
Vista has given me a new found appreciation for XP JT "Geir Bratlie" <geir@royal.no> wrote in message news:34522A74-C39D-4029-B867-AAA155C20A42@news.elevatesoft.com... > When will you have help files that is supported by Windows Vista? > > The old .hlp con not be read in Vista. > > -Geir- > |
Fri, Feb 23 2007 12:22 PM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | John
I don't know about Vista, but I'm thoroughly fed up (being polite cos its a public forum) with the new Help 2.0. Or to put it another way - how to make something that was helpful and useful a complete pigs ear. Now you are no longer able to read help outside of the app its intended for. It runs slowly - typical M$ product really Roy Lambert |
Fri, Feb 23 2007 6:01 PM | Permanent Link |
Sam Davis | Roy Lambert wrote:
> John > > > I don't know about Vista, but I'm thoroughly fed up (being polite cos its a public forum) with the new Help 2.0. Or to put it another way - how to make something that was helpful and useful a complete pigs ear. > > Now you are no longer able to read help outside of the app its intended for. It runs slowly - typical M$ product really > > Roy Lambert > Roy, So why can't someone write an application whose sole purpose is to read .hlp files, any .hlp file? They could clean up. Sam |
Fri, Feb 23 2007 8:23 PM | Permanent Link |
"vizacc" | > So why can't someone write an application whose sole purpose is to > read .hlp files, any .hlp file? They could clean up. Because the file format is partially undocumented and very difficult to import. I spent ages trying to figure out the HLP import. |
Sat, Feb 24 2007 12:22 AM | Permanent Link |
Sam Davis | vizacc wrote:
>> So why can't someone write an application whose sole purpose is to >>read .hlp files, any .hlp file? They could clean up. > > > Because the file format is partially undocumented and very difficult to > import. > > I spent ages trying to figure out the HLP import. > > There are utilities that will convert .hlp to .doc or PDF. I'm assuming of course Vista still supports PDF & .DOC files. Sam |
Sat, Feb 24 2007 3:59 PM | Permanent Link |
"R. Tipton" | "Sam Davis" <sammyd432@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1E6CD734-52FD-48B5-9C53-23E0A3337FA1@news.elevatesoft.com... > vizacc wrote: > > There are utilities that will convert .hlp to .doc or PDF. I'm assuming of > course Vista still supports PDF & .DOC files. > dotHLP my original help authoring tool launched dotCHM and it also converted HLP files to CHM I dont know what format they use in Vista but if its CHM then try Fast-Help thats the new product name for dotHLP http://www.fast-help.com/ hth Rita |
Mon, Feb 26 2007 2:45 PM | Permanent Link |
"Lance R." | Well.. As much as I "love" uncle Bill....
They have been trying to get away from the HLP files to move towards CHM HTML help for a LONG time and were going to pull the plug in Vista. To be fair... they've been saying they were going to kill HLP files for some time now. Doesn't mean we have to like it, tho. Then again... If you haven't payed attention, Microsoft is not INCLUDING the HLP reader in the OS install of Vista, but is making it available as a download. It is a Non-Redistributable, so it requires the customer to actively do this. So it CAN be read in Vista. Lance R Geir Bratlie wrote: > When will you have help files that is supported by Windows Vista? > > The old .hlp con not be read in Vista. > > -Geir- > |
Tue, Feb 27 2007 5:43 AM | Permanent Link |
> Then again... If you haven't payed attention, Microsoft is not
> INCLUDING the HLP reader in the OS install of Vista, but is making it > available as a download. It is a Non-Redistributable, so it requires > the customer to actively do this. Can you show me where and how? I heard this too, but when I installed Vista and my app I pressed F1 to be told that the app was old and help not supported. Click the link to get more info. You get taken to a page that tells the user HLP is old and no good any more, and to ask the vendor for a new version. There is NO link to a solution like "but to continue using your old and stinky app, click here for a download". So although there may, somewhere, be a download, the end user isn't offered it. /Matthew Jones/ | |
Tue, Feb 27 2007 6:27 AM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com | Geir,
<< When will you have help files that is supported by Windows Vista? The old .hlp con not be read in Vista. >> We know, but HTML help cannot be used in the older Delphi IDEs. We're caught between a rock and a hard place. For now you'll have to use the PDFs under Vista until we figure out something. -- Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com |
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