Online Help

[ellen ewald <eellen -at- IPCELL -dot- COM>]

I too would love to hear feedback on this queston.  I am just starting out
in the world of online help.  While I've written help text in the past, I
was never involved in the process of actually putting it into an
application.  That was always done by the programmers I worked with.  Thank
you!
ellen


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>Subject: Online help
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:51:12 -0700
>From: Donna Williams <r3592z -at- EMAIL -dot- SPS -dot- MOT -dot- COM>
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>Can anyone out there explain, from beginning to end,  how a help file
>becomes functional help within a software application?
>
>Let me expand on that.
>
>My objective is to incorporate help into an inhouse application that is
>written in C code.  The application runs on an OpenVMS platform.
>
>I have created the help project in ForeHelp.
>I will be using the OpenVMS version of Hyperhelp to compile and view the
>file.
>Once I compile the help file, how does it get linked to the application.
>I would also like the help to be context-sensitive.  What is required
>from the developers for this to happen? What kinds of questions do I
>need to ask the developers?
>
>If you have actually gone through this entire process successfully, I
>would love to hear from you. Thusfar, I have only encountered writers
>who have the mapping given to them and they simply plug the numbers in
>as they create the help file.  I need to know a little more than that.
>
>Thanks,
>Donna
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