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TNT Screen Capture creates only screen shots and saves them in several image formats including Bitmaps, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and others. But none of these image formats can save additional information about hot spots (clickable areas that point to a particular topic). This feature is related to help...

Judy, you can use an entire image as a link - just insert a link in the topic and instead of a caption, switch to the link style "Bitmap" and specify the image that you want to use. If you want to place a hot spot on a particular area of the image, you need Impict (available in H&M fro...

We are glad to announce the release of a preview version of Help & Manual 3.3.1. This version is a maintenance release and is available to all registered users from the registered user download area. New features: • Browser based help: Help & Manual now creates a hybrid (both a Javascript ve...

I am wondering too. The file EHS_B6.dpk does not reference any v5 file. Can you perhaps build a completely new package and register the file "ehs_reg.pas"? This is the key file to register in the design time package. There are no runtime packages with EHS.

Tom, can you eventually send me the project file (.hm3 with images) with an email ( support AT ec-software.com )? I have no clue why the PDF export fails but if there is no error description, it is very likely a printer driver problem. Which printer driver did you specify for the "PDF reference...

It should work if you open the file ehs_b6.bpk and recompile it.

I suggest the same, parse the .HHK files with a script or a little program that was written for that. A .chw file is a binary file. While one could open it like a .chm (basically the same format), it's even more hassle to pull out the binary data, put the pieces together and create a keyword list fr...

Rajko,
this bug is known and we are about to fix it with the next update.

Then I'd use the OnF1KeyDown event, check the active control with Screen.ActiveControl and display the desired help topic manually. procedure TForm1.WhatsThis1F1KeyDown(Sender: TObject; var CallHelp: Boolean); var Ctl: TWinControl; begin Ctl := Screen.ActiveControl; //Optional: seek parent if curren...

context popups only on right-click, but if user presses F1, I'd like to open the main window Sorry, that's quite irritating. Why do you want to display the same topic one time in the main help window and another time in a popup? Doesn't make sense to me. If it is not the same topic but different on...

However, at that point, I have no clue what was underneath The F1 key event occurs before TWhatsThis seeks the control that had the focus at the time when the key was pressed. You may get this information with Screen.ActiveControl . once this handler is hit, I can't tell why was it called. Was it F...

You miss several options and events that give you full control over TWhatsThis. Please refer to the online help of EHS, to the property TWhatsThis.Options for more details. EHS comes with a demo application with source code that you can use to test the various options and their effect. You further h...

I see... and it doesn't help to use the HTML Help export as an alternative...
Maybe we can improve the "Help Context Tool" and add an option for the anchor separator there. The help context tool exports a help context map with "#define" statements.

The anchor encoding option only applies to the Winhelp export. The Winhelp export creates a file with the extension ".hm" which contains the help context map. The encoding in this file is correct. I am not sure what you are missing.

stwi is right, the mouse wheel doesn't work in the MultiMedia Help viewer. That's because the viewer is compiled with Borland Delphi 3 which was published at a time when mice with wheels were not available alltogether. Delphi 3, however, produces much smaller executables than later versions and this...