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Originally posted by: Tamilyrn
Well... the launch of Vista and the death of Winhelp has really shafted us... and I'm sure a lot of others too. Current situation as I understand it is :
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2) HTML Help is supported but is functionally inferior in the following ways :
- Window position cannot be specified as a percentage of the screen (pixels only) which is awkward for secondary windows as we need to support everything from 1024x768 to 1920x1280.
- Context sensitive help support is dreadful compared to winhelp - no formatted text, bullets, graphics, hyperlinks, etc...
- Microsoft refuse to allow CHM files to be launched over a network so a server install is out (without a naughty registry hack).
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quote:Framesets aren't the only game in town for accomplishing this. Take a look at fellow Community Expert Roger Nilsson's site: Click here
One thing I like about WinHelp is the "non-scroll area" at the top of a topic.
In HTML Help this can only be done in a laborius way with sub-frames. And it makes the Help very slow.
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