Help Using MyHelp


This App is just your basic web browser. Although it is not setup for internet use, it works very well for viewing Dark Basic Classic Help HTM files. The default page is the main menu.htm page. Links to the index,glossary and also to the contents(menu) pages are in the Help menu. The text displayed at the top is the last keyword searched for. This value may com from either the commandline or from the clipboard depending on setup options. The forward back buttons help in navigating between pages.

Setup Options


Under the File menu, you'll find an option "Setup". That's my simple setup system. Under that menu are sub items for :

Context Support


The text next to the GO button is text that can be searched for any valid links. This text can come from 3 places:

MyHelp will try to locate a link by scanning the index.htm page. If a link cannot be found, MyHelp will ask if you want to add a new link to Index. Basically this will place a HTML target to the first letter (A,B,C ...) so that future searches that fail can also link to the first letter. This mean that a link to "ASBTY" which will not be found, will place a new target in the index to "A" and the next time you search for "ASBTY" or "ARTY" the target "A" will be displayed showing all commands starting with "A".

As always, when modifying a web page, ensure you have a backup copy. Also, this page may become "dammaged" because of other problems not relating to MyHelp. Example: if the file has keywords not in alphabetical order, the links may show up in strange places. To "combat" this, there is a link to you editor so you can "view" the damage and see what happened and fix it. And, yes, there are things in there that are not in order :) be WARNED

Just added another advanced option. Edit-Add Include
WARNING: Very very dangerous
This will scan your include file, make a copy of it, place the copy in the examples folder, and then make several *.htm pages from your include file. Then will modify the help pages to place these *.htm pages where you can find them. And lastly, modify the keywords.txt file so your #Include functions will be highlighted. WOW. Finally, what this has really done ... In your editor, when you highlight your function, copy to clipboard, press F1, my help viewer will show you your function and all your notes. You will need to do a few things .....
The Second line from your include file will be used as a comment describing your include file with the master list of includes ...

All comments before the first function are used as the full description for your include module

The first comment line is used to describe your function in the mast function listing for the include module

All comments before the first code line are used as full documents for describing your function in the *.htm page for your function


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