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This page provides a list of useful sites and articles concerning various aspects of context-sensitive help and online help.
Context-sensitive related sites and articles
- Go to Microsoft's Product Support Services for step-by-step instructions on preparing HTML Help Files for Context-Sensitive Help. This article describes how to set up an HTML Help project file so that the HTML Help API command, HH_HELP_CONTEXT, can be used in an application. It then goes on to describe how to set up your application to use the HTML Help API to invoke context-sensitive Help.
- If you are preparing context-sensitive HTML help for Visual Basic applications, you might want to take a look at How to Create Context-Sensitive HTML Help in Visual Basic Applications.
- If you are preparing context-sensitive HTML help for MFC applications, check out How to Create Context-Sensitive HTML Help in MFC Applications.
General Online help sites and articles
- See Joe Welinske's WinWriters site for the latest update on online Help conferences and seminars around the world. WinWriters' Online Help Journal, devoted to HTML Help and WinHelp development, is also available here (subscription required).
- Work Write, Cheryl Lockett Zuback's web site, contains lots of information on design and development of integrated user assistance, specifically embedded help. Help Matters Webzine, the site's news source for help authors and user assistance specialists, contains the Embedded help tour, which discusses the idea of help built into the the product interface.
- In HelpMaster you will find the world's largest selection of WinHelp and HTML Help related files, hints and articles. Josef Becker runs this excellent site with help-related downloads.
- Check out the Tanstaafl Software - this site lists available help authoring tools, contains information, reviews and papers on various aspects of help authoring, software development, and other related fields. The Forums area contains interactive discussion forums for WinHelp, HTML Help, and the Software Development Pub.
- The WinHelp Listserv (and its archives) is one of the primary sources of accumulated help wisdom.