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The original version of CiderPress used a WinHelp help file, built with an application called HelpMatic Pro. This app used a proprietary format, and had no facility for exporting to "raw" HPJ + RTF files, so I decompiled the HLP and imported it into HelpScribble. Using HelpScribble, I cleaned up the help file formatting a little, fixed up the table of contents, and exported as "raw" HtmlHelp (HHP, HHK, HHC, and a whole bunch of HTML). I also split the pop-up help text, which isn't supported by HelpScribble, into a separate text file that Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop understands. I'm checking in the files that HTML Help Workshop needs to generate a CHM, so anyone can update the help text. I'm also checking in the CHM file, rather than adding the help workshop to the build, so that it's not necessary to download and configure the help workshop to build CiderPress. This change adds all of the updated help, but only updates the Help and question mark button actions for one specific dialog. A subsequent change will update the rest of the dialogs. This change is essentially upgrading us from a totally obsolete help system to a nearly-obsolete help system, but the systems are similar enough to make this a useful half-step on the way to something else. The code will centralize help activation in a pair of functions in the main app class, so any future improvements should be more limited in scope. This also adds a build step to copy the CHM to the execution directory.
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36 lines
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<TITLE>CiderPress Help</TITLE>
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<PARAM NAME="Keyword" VALUE="help, faq">
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</OBJECT>
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<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Copyright (C) 2014 by CiderPress authors">
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<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="HelpScribble 7.8.8">
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<STYLE> span { display: inline-block; }</STYLE>
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</HEAD>
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<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#FF0000">
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="4">CiderPress Help</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">If you're reading this much, you know how to access the "help" system. In case you got here by accident: select "Contents..." from the "Help" menu, or hit F1 while the menus are active. Many of the interactive dialogs also have "Help" buttons that will take you directly to a relevant page.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Most dialog windows have a little question mark ('?') in the upper right-hand corner. If you click on that, then click on a button or checkbox in the same window, you will get a short description of what that button does.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">A Frequently Asked Questions list and a CiderPress tutorial are available from http://a2ciderpress.com/.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">The "About..." item on the Help menu brings up the CiderPress "About Box". This shows the version you're using, what versions of DLLs were loaded, and to whom your copy is registered. If the product has not been registered, it shows how many days are left in the 30-day evaluation period.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">"DLL" is an acronym for Dynamic Loadable Library. That's a fancy way of saying that it's a part of the program that is stored in a separate file, which means it can be shared among multiple copies of the same program or multiple different programs. The DLLs used by CiderPress are:</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
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<UL STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:10pt;"><LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">DiskImg. All of the code for accessing disk images is here. This is an integral part of CiderPress, and is shared by the CiderPress application and MDC (Multi-Disk Catalog).</FONT>
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<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">NufxLib. All of the code for accessing NuFX (ShrinkIt) archives is here. This is an open-source library developed by the author of CiderPress. It's also used by the NuLib2 command-line utility.</FONT>
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<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">zlib. Free software from the authors of gzip. This provides "deflate" compression, and is used by hundreds of different applications.</FONT>
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<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">wnaspi32, a/k/a "the ASPI layer". Unlike the previous DLLs, this one is only loaded when necessary. For CiderPress, it's only necessary under Win98/ME, so Win2K/XP users won't ever see this loaded.</FONT></UL>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">The first three DLLs are distributed with CiderPress, and are updated whenever you download a new version of CiderPress. The ASPI DLL is part of the operating system, and may be replaced when you install CD recording software. (If you want to use a specific version of wnaspi32.dll, copy it into the CiderPress installation directory, usually C:\Program Files\faddenSoft\CiderPress\.)</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Click on "Credits" to bring up some information about the development of CiderPress. If your copy has not been registered, click on "Enter registration code" to enter the code you received from faddenSoft after buying the product.</FONT></P>
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