T3Ed: Installer - Help File. - by New Horizon
New Horizon on 31/8/2005 at 16:07
Anyone here have experience making windows .chm help files?
I'm adding a help menu to T3Ed and it will bring up a help file when clicked but I would need to have someone organize the T3 Wiki into something that will work like a windows help file. Going to ask Komag if we can add his T3 tutorial to it as well.
This puts all the T3Ed info at our fingertips at the click of a menu. Right now I have just moved and renamed the send to xbox menu item as I don't know how to map the help file to a menu command. It's a hack but it works until I figure out a better way.
Crispy on 1/9/2005 at 07:40
I haven't, but you can find CHM compilers all over the place. A quick Google search will turn up a whole bunch. The trickiest bit would be in grabbing the wiki files and putting them into a form that the compiler can work with. You could write a script in your favourite programming language to spider the wiki and do some auto-converting, or (probably better) get an administrator to give you the wiki's data files... I'm not sure how the wiki software stores things, though.
One problem with this approach: The wiki, by its nature, changes all the time, so you need to provide a way for people to get updated versions. This in turn implies that you need to produce new copies of the CHM file every so often. (UDN does this I believe, though I don't know what help format they use.) So it needs to be as automated as possible. You can probably find a command-line CHM compiler that you can call from your script.
