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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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<TITLE>Convert File Archive to Disk Image</TITLE>
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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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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="4">Convert File Archive to Disk Image</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">With this feature, you can copy part or all of a ShrinkIt file archive to a new ProDOS volume in a single step. When combined with the "convert disk image to file archive" feature, it's possible to resize ProDOS disks, converting 140K floppies to 800K floppies or even 32MB hard drive images.</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 images created are always unadorned ProDOS-order (.PO) files. If you need to have it in a different format, you can use the <A HREF="t187.htm">Disk Image Converter</A> to change it.</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">Open a file archive and highlight the files you want to convert. Items will be converted in the order that they appear, so if you want to leave the order undisturbed make sure you have them sorted in the original order (<A HREF="t50.htm">more information on this</A>). Select "Convert to disk archive..." from the Actions menu.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Choose the size of the disk to create from the set shown. Standard removable media and hard drive sizes are available. If you're not sure how much space the files require, click the "Compute" button. The size requirements will be determined by creating a temporary 32MB volume with the selected files and adjusting for system overhead. Any size options that won't work will be dimmed.</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">Filenames on ProDOS disks must start with a letter, be composed entirely of letters, numbers, and dots ('.'), and can be at most 15 characters long. Any invalid characters will be stripped, and long filenames will be truncated. CiderPress will try to preserve filename extensions (e.g. ".jpg"), and will make filenames that reduce to the same thing unique. For example, "my&&file" and "my__file" both convert to "myfile", so the first is stored as "myfile" and the second as "myfile1".</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">ProDOS stores filenames using upper case letters only. A modification added for the benefit of the GS/OS ProDOS FST allows mixed-case names with spaces in them, but the method used to store the case information can confuse older versions of ProDOS 8. The "Allow lower-case ProDOS names" option in <A HREF="t259.htm">Disk Image Preferences</A> lets you tell CiderPress whether to create lower-case names on ProDOS disks. If you're planning to use the disk with a pre-v1.8 version of ProDOS 8, you should not enable the feature, or your files may be inaccessible.</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 volume directory on a ProDOS disk holds at most 51 files. If you need to put more than 51 files onto a ProDOS disk, make sure some or all of them are in folders, which do not have a limit.</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 are converting a ShrinkIt archive that contains a disk image, the disk image will be converted as a ProDOS-order (.PO) file.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">For performance reasons this feature holds most of the files in memory during the operation, making this somewhat memory-intensive. If you are working with 32MB hard drive partitions, performance on systems with insufficient RAM may suffer.</FONT></P>
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