HELP files in 5.6 filepro on Windows7 - FYI

[John Esak]

Well, the cool thing about the .hlp format is it lends itself to html
conversion fairly easy. The Robohelp program let you do it in one pass. You
lose some popup windows and other cool .hlp features ,but you get an instant
"on-line" document and you've onl;y designed one thing, a .hlp  project.

John 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Kreiss [mailto:rkreiss at verizon.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:31 PM
> To: john at valar.com; joe at magnatechonline.com; 'Nancy Palmquist'
> Cc: 'filePro Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: HELP files in 5.6 filepro on Windows7 - FYI
> 
> John,
> 
> Bet someone will write an app to translate the .hlp format to 
> something else
> , ie HTML or whatever.
> 
> Richard
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celesti
al.com] On
> Behalf Of John Esak
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:10 PM
> To: joe at magnatechonline.com; 'Nancy Palmquist'
> Cc: 'filePro Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: HELP files in 5.6 filepro on Windows7 - FYI
> 
> How funny... What, didn't they pay their fair cap and trade 
> fee on their
> spot in the O/S?  What's next .pdf.  Who don't they own?  Is 
> that what it
> comes down to?  
> 
> Anyone who has even only glancingly read this list knows that 
> I am a pretty
> die-hard supporter of the Microsoft Windows GUI.  I always or 
> mostly always
> defend MS.  However, dropping support for the .hlp 
> format/protocol?  Well,
> that doesn't seem like a sound or even just fair path to 
> take.  When I think
> of the nearly year and a half I put in on converting/writing 
> the filePro
> manual for .hlp (and theby .html) mark up.... It is immensely 
> bothersome.
> If the amount of effort I put in represents anywhere close to 
> the enormous
> time and energy people and companies have put in to .hlp 
> materials... This
> decision... Circa Vista or circa Windows 7 or circa anytime 
> ever.... It's
> pretty horrendous. I can't imagine what their defense for 
> doing this is?
> Yes, yes, I know it must be money... But what about all the 
> material out
> there in .hlp format?
> 
> John
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
> m] On Behalf Of Joe Chasan
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 5:42 PM
> > To: Nancy Palmquist
> > Cc: filePro Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: HELP files in 5.6 filepro on Windows7 - FYI
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 05:27:35PM -0400, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> > > Guys,
> > > 
> > > To answer Richards question, I just tried to open the .hlp 
> > files that 
> > > are installed with 5.6 on my new Windows 7 computer.
> > > 
> > > It turns out that Windows7 does not come with the required 
> > .exe file to 
> > > open the .hlp file for filePro's manual.
> > > 
> > > It did offer to help me download the correct thing, if I 
> needed it.
> > > 
> > > But under my XP virtual mode, I did have the right .exe to 
> > open the .hlp 
> > > file.
> > > 
> > > So this is something to be aware if you have customers 
> that will be 
> > > loading Windows7.
> > > Nancy
> > 
> > thats not new - the .hlp support already disappeared with Vista
> >  
> > --
> > -Joe Chasan-                           Magnatech Business 
> > Systems, Inc.
> > joe - at - magnatechonline -dot- com   Hicksville, NY - USA
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