Cross platform HTML Help Viewer

Introduction:

This is just an example set of files for making up an application Help system. The content here is pretty irrelevant and is only the provide a demonstration of the viewer.

The module, called HelpViewX, has been used in the Mac edition of my plant encyclopeadia program since it was released a few years ago. It's also used for the Linux edition that is still being developed.

My existing Windows program had a big Help system using the normal .chm format, so it's hooked in with the native PureBasic OpenHelp, which works great. However, I wanted the Mac program to work in the same way and look similar to the user. My inspiration was that the PureBasic IDE Help managed to acheive this on all three platforms.

So this simple Help viewer is an approximate clone of the standard Windows Help and the PureBasic IDE Help. I looked at the way the PureBasic Help files were organised on the Mac and used that as my guide - I can't think of a better example than PureBasic itself! In fact my humble module is close enough that it will open and display the Mac version of the PureBasic Help files.

The module offers two public commands - OpenHelpX and CloseHelpX.

 

For information about my software visit the web site at: www.deeproot.co.uk


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