RE: Creating help on a mobile device using Windows CE

["Somayya El Gemei" <SElGemei -at- mobilecom -dot- com>]

Hi Collin,
It's interesting that you mention Flash because I know Robohelp can
generate Flash Help. 

I personally haven't worked with Flash before (although I hear it's a
neat tool) ...could you tell me more about it and if you were able to
include screen shots, how big of a size was the help, does it display
well on the mobile device..

Thanks,
S.
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I've done simple applications in Flash for Pocket PC.

Would that fit your needs?

-Collin

On 2/23/07, Jonathan Pechta <jpechta -at- weldtechcorp -dot- com> wrote:
> Just a note:
>
> Windows Mobile 5 or 6: The Pocket Internet Explorer does not support
any
> form of Java other than javacript. I've done manuals on a standard
> Pocket PC screen size before, but the outcome at 240x320 is just not
> very usable in any form. When you are working on screen sizes that
> small, the only thing usable is topic based search systems (my
personal
> viewpoint). Adobe PDFs do view on mobile devices with Acrobat mobile,
> but they do a funky wrapping if your pages aren't size perfectly to
> include the scroll bars. It also gets a little iffy with tagged PDFs
and
> jumping around. I've found that they never worked as well as I had
hoped
> for my circumstance. Adding internal links to jump between topics
always
> worked best instead of using tags for my PDF documentation, but is a
> time consuming process.
>
> I'm current developing a help system for GM with an 8" screen (7.5 x
4)
> and it is much easier to work with. Unfortunately, the eight languages
> it will be translated into will be a document killer and a lot of
> re-work will probably be needed.
>
> --
> Jonathan Pechta
> Project Manager
> Welding Technology Corp.
>
>
>
> Somayya El Gemei wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > I'm trying to figure out what is the best way to create help on a
mobile
> > device (used for field services).  The mobile's OS is Windows CE.
> >
> > Here are the facts:
> > -   I need to consider the limitations of memory size on the device
+
> > the size of the screen.
> > -  I have used Robohelp extensively for generating different online
> > outputs: Java, html and webhelp (but never on Windows CE) and would
like
> > to use it again in this project specially that I'm going to use it
to
> > create the help on the server side. I read somewhere that Robohelp
> > doesn't support Window CE, but can I use it to generate web help and
> > somehow hook it to the app loaded onto the device?
> >
> > -  What kind of questions should I be asking our techies (since they
> > will be the ones hooking it up to the app)to verify whether or not I
can
> > used webhelp.
> >
> > Has anyone had this experience before? Any recommendations?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > S.
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full Unicode support. Create help files, web-based help and PDF in up
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