HelpNDoc is a help authoring tool (HAT) created by IBE Software.
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HelpNDoc : Problem to generate CHM format help - Error HHC5010
I would like to generate a CHM help file with HelpNDoc.
But I get an error message:
HHC5010: Error: Cannot open "c:\users\philippeDocuments\HelpNDoc\Output\chm\creabook.chm". Compilation stopped.
I tried to create the CHM folder myself, in the…

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How to use Subversion with HelpNDoc
I am writing a documentation for a project that involves multiple developers. We use Subversion (SVN) to work on our code base.
I wrote the first draft of the documentation document using HelpNDoc, which I like for the nice tree-view and easy of…

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Use Id instead of Context
I use HelpNDoc for providing a chm-file for the context sensitive help in my application.
In this software you define a help-ID and a corresponding help-context.
The help-ID for example maybe "SystemSetup" and the help-context is 57.
Now my…

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How to view chm file in a web browser?
I have a CHM file created in HelpNDoc application.
Now in a browser page that I created I have a help option in navigation. When I click this help option I want the CHM file to show in the browser.
How can I do this?

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Create a script to rename help file topics ending in ".txt"
I imported text files to create a help but the problem is that the extension of the files is also put in the topic name. I need a script that renames the topic names ending with ".txt" to remove this part.
I tried to:
rename all my text files by…

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HelpNDoc script - method GetTagsAssociatedWithTopic
Method GetTagsAssociatedWithTopic Unknown
I'm fairly new to HelpNDoc (working on an old version - 5).
From an existing script ( ExportHelpIdsandContexts.hnd.pas , provided with the installation ) I'm trying to get a list of the tags linked with…

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How can I find / replace text in the Description field of a HelpNDoc file?
A HelpNDoc file allows you to provide a text value for the Description property. This field is used by search engines when crawling the HTML help.
I have added topics to my help over the years and some of these descriptions need updating. In my case…

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HelpNDoc 8.0.0.187 - Insert Snippet per Pascal Script into the current Topic position - how to?
I tried to save a Snippet to a TMemoryStream in the hope, I could insert the stream on the current topic. The stream is in binary form - I saw it, as I write the stream to my hard disk. Here is a code stripe of my code base for HelpNDoc…

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How to define keywords in helpndoc using api in script editor
I want to create keywords in HelpNDoc using api script editor. But, I could not find how to define parameter of function HndKeywords.CreateKeyword. Without passing any value to function, it create New keyword. But, I want to set text, href and…

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How can I keep this navigation bar at the top when I scroll the page?
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