help & examples in chm format?

[sorex]

Hello,

I appreciate all the effort that has gone into the user guide pdf file, thanks for that, but...

isn't it possible to create a Windows Compiled HTML (.chm) file out of it?

most programs use that kind of help files due to it's simplicity while still being index & searchable (a lot faster than acrobat readers search) and the ability to group things like

datetime
\getdayofmonth
\getdayofweek
\getdayofyour

and you can see all commands and references in the index which is faster to browse through than going through 400 pages in a pdf.

 

[XverhelstX]

http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...tion-windows-compiled-helpfile.html#post73996

Tomas

 

[sorex]

Excellent!

Now we just need that F1 hot-key as suggested in that other threat.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

...as suggested in that other threat.

:sign0151:

 

[Roger Garstang]

Nice. Didn't even know someone made a chm. Copied that to my docs folder for B4A. There is a piece of software called HelpMaker too that was by Vizacc that they gave away free. Lots of people said it was really good. I had downloaded everything then they had some type of server crash or something and lost all the source code so stopped development. Seems the site even shutdown now (Other sources still have the files). Could be useful to make the documentation in.

 

[Erel]

Basic4ppc documentation was created with this tool. It was quite awful.

CHM files are problematic. Starting with Windows Vista (or even XP, not sure), Windows treats these files as dangerous files and that creates all kinds of problems.

You can try HelpViewer: B4A-HelpViewer - View and search the documentation offline