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I'm trying to find out of it's possible to implement a table of contents
in WinHelp, similar to the table of contents OS/2's help system.
In OS/2, a separate TOC window lists help topics available. You can view the
help topic text (in a different window) by clicking on the topic in the TOC.
The TOC also allows subtopics. If a main topic has a subtopic, the main topic
will have a + in front of it. You can display the subtopics by clicking
on the + (The + changes to a - when the topic is expanded to show sublevels;
clicking on the - compresses the branch).
The company I work for recently developed its own hypertext help system for use
in our DOS and Motif based products. We thought it was important that users
have a sense of where they were in the heirarchy of information online, so
we implemented a TOC similar to OS/2. Now that our customers want true
Windows versions of our products, we have to move to Windows Help. We'd like
to have an OS/2-like TOC implementation in WinHelp, but I've never seen it.
Does anyone know if it's possible (without writing new WinHelp source code)?
Thanks in advance for any and all info,
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dave walker
Development Engineer for Documentation
Aspen Technology, Inc.
walker -at- aspentec -dot- com
