CHM4Clarion

Add CHM Help (HTML Help) to Clarion with 4 lines of code

CHM4Clarion is the easest way to change from HLP to CHM with any 32-bit version of Clarion versions 2.0 through 7.0. Implementation requires just 4 lines of code added to your EXE APP. The choice between HLP and CHM can be made at runtime, this makes it easy convert to CHM while customers stll use HLP help. Includes a FindHlp utility to search your source code and find all your HLP context strings, then verify they exist in the CHM topics list. Also includes the SlideShowCHM utility to let you view a list of context strings in a slide show that opens them in the CHM.

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Features:

• Just 4 lines of code in Frame provides CHM help for all procedures with HLP()
• Modification to just your EXE App, none to DLL Apps
• Hand coded source procedure window help handled automatically
• Choose HLP or CHM at runtime
• Works in all 32-bit versions of Clarion including 2, 4, 5, 5.5 and 6.
• Tested with Clarion 7 Alpha.
• Works with ABC, Legacy or Hand Coded based APP's and PRJ's.
• Built to fail gracefully and not crash due to HtmlHelp OCX problems
• Fast startup, most initialization done when user presses F1 first time
• All source included, no black box DLLs
• Handles CHM Network Security Issues
• FindHlp utility verifies all your Clarion code context strings are in the CHM
• SlideShowCHM utility allows viewing all help topics in a slide show

Chm4Clarion is different from other CHM solutions (like cwHH) that require:

• Global Template added in every APP (EXE and DLL)
• Procedure Template added to every Window procedure
• Hand coded windows require code added manually to show CHM
• CHM / HLP choice must be made at compile time
• Blackbox DLL cwHH.dll (CHM4Clarion comes with all source)
• cwHH works best with C6, somewhat with 5.5
• No support for C5 and prior
• No utilities to validate context strings

Code required in the EXE APP and Application Frame procedure:

                include('CBHlpChm.inc'),ONCE    !Chm4Clarion Class Global Include
                CBHlp2Chm      CBHlpChmClass    !Chm4Clarion Class Frame Declaration   
                rtn = CBHlp2Chm.Init('YourHelp.chm',' 'YourHelp.Chm.Ini')    !Chm4Clarion Init
                if rtn then Message('CHM Init Failed Reason ' & rtn ).      
  

HlpFind utility searches Clarion source and builds a list of all context strings contatined in HLP(), ?{Prop:help} or Help(). Loads a list of CHM URL Topics then validates all context string conversion to find dead links or context strings that require special conversion. This insures all of your help links are valid.