Questions tagged [helpndoc]

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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Linking to specific topics in HelpnDoc compiled CHM using Visual C++ HtmlHelp

I am confused here. I have migrated my CHM help from HtmlHelp Workshop to HelpNDoc. I compiled the CHM file and updated my MFC project to direct to the correct topic: HtmlHelp((DWORD_PTR)_T("msa-options-publishers-db.html"), HH_DISPLAY_TOPIC); The…
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Why is my script not building in HelpNDoc? Error: Unknown name

I am trying to write a script: const // Define the output file OUTPUT_FILE = 'd:\topics.txt'; var // Current topic ID aTopicId: string; // List of output aList: TStringList; begin // Init list aList := TStringList.Create; …
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Updating HelpNDoc script to locate library items in help topics

I am trying to write a script to use with HelpNDoc. I am part way there: var aList: THndLibraryItemsInfoArray; nCnt: Integer; begin // Get all items in the library aList := HndLibraryItems.GetItemList([]); // Go through each of them …
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How can I configure my HelpNDoc HTML build to use Microsoft Clarity?

How can I configure my HelpNDoc HTML build to use Microsoft Clarity?
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My Pascal InsertionSort of an array of strings is not working correctly

I have seen several questions about Insertion Sort with Pascal. So I thought I would try it out with an array strings. The text values: Advanced IF Syntax Advanced LOOP Syntax ALIGN BANNER / NOBANNER BLANK COLOR / COLOUR CONG_MEET_TIME DATE…
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