free script based script-based help maker helpmaker authoring processing tool .hlp

Using this application you can generate standard Windows help documentation (files with .HLP extension). You are able to create fully context sensitive help with jump links, popups, hotspot images and multi-hotspot images. It provides also library for displaying GIF animations, JPG pictures or blinking texts, standardly not supported by the help system. The help pages may be designed using built-in RTF editor, Windows WordPad or similar. The documentation is an alternative to the HTML pages (hyper-text) with full-text search capabilities, standardly supported by the help system. You can create manuals, product catalogs and finally, the help documentation for your applications. In addition, it includes a special tool for creating the documentation of functions and classes from your C++ source code! You can create the documentation for applications created using any development system. You'll find all necessary information in the program documentation, included applications and examples.