"What's This Help" import problem

[Guest]

Hi, I am updating my program to be compatible with Windows Vista. I had been using my old help file made in a prior version of Robohelp until now.

Now that my users are using vista, that help won't work. So I made a .chm file for the online help, and when the user selects File/Help, the help file shows. However, I haven't a second help file that is my context sensitive help. (What's This Help).  I tried to import it and received an error.  So I created a new What's this help file associated with my RoboHelp Html online help, made one test topic, and now I can access the online help and the ? help for that one test using .chm file.  However, I do not want to have to re-enter the thousands of context sensitive help topics!  I noticed that my old file saved the "What's This help" topics in an .rtf file and the new one saves the info in a context.txt.  Is there a way to convert the old .rtf to a context.txt or an easy way to get my data in?

Thank you!!

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

Are you sure you aren't confusing What's This help with regular Context Sensitive Help?

For What's This help, you typically have a Text file. What's This is presented as simple text when clicking the Question Mark, followed by the object in question. As shown below:

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Cheers... Rick

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[Guest]

Yep, I am using the ? help, (What's this) not the context sensitive...So the file from the previous version (which was Robohelp for Word) was a .rtf.  And when I import that file into Robohelp HTML it still has the data in the .rtf.  The new What's This Help I made (associated with my project) stores the data in the context.txt.   I just wish there was a way to make them both the same so I could copy the files over?

Thanks!!

[Captiv8r]

Hi again

The .RTF should be able to be saved as .TXT, no?

As for What's This help, it's unfortunate but as I understand it, even Microsoft has sort of abandoned it. This could somewhat explain a bit of a lack of enthusiasm with HATs supporting it.

Food for thought... Rick

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