Building Windows 95 Help, with Disk [Paperback]

Nancy Hickman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1996

This is a guide to using WinHelp 4.0, Microsoft's Help authoring tool to create additions to Windows 95 applications. The book includes tips on planning, designing and implementing professional Help systems and describes how to incorporate multimedia, pop-up menus and full-text search options. The accompanying disk contains example help files, demonstrating how to create professional help systems from start to finish. Readers are taught the basics of incorporating simple RTF files into paged help files, including the coding necessary to create links, jumps, lists, tables and indices. They are also shown how to compile these files into Help files; link them with outside DLLS and existing applications; and incorporate macros, multimedia and graphics.

Product Details

• Paperback: 289 pages
• Publisher: M&T Books; Pap/Dsk edition (August 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558514775
• ISBN-13: 978-1558514775
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,383,668 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Note to buyers of used books, November 16, 2001

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N Hickman (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building Windows 95 Help, with Disk (Paperback)

If you are buying this book used, beware of sellers who are offering a book with a floppy disk. This book was issued with a CD. If you get a book with a floppy only, it is misprint, and you are not getting your money's worth. Although the books with diskettes should have been destroyed and never sold under any circumstance, several used books sellers have sold them charging as much as for the real full edition. -- Nancy Hickman, author of Building Windows '95 Help

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for the serious help author, November 18, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Building Windows 95 Help, with Disk (Paperback)

This book has potential, but when it comes to offering the needed information, it just isn't there. For instance, there is a section where all the macros in WinHelp are listed. If you know anything about Macros, they have parameters and these parameter have very specific formats, allowable entries, etc. While the macros are listed, there's no explanation of the parameters. In addition, finding the information that *is* there is difficult, because the index is inadequate.

This reference book is not for the experienced help author. If you are really trying to "get under the hood", this book isn't going to help. I have found the WinHelp On-Line HAG to be a much better reference than this.