HLPDK - Help Development Kit - Version 11.0

HLPDK Sound & Vision Edition
New Mac and Unix-Motif targets

January 6, 1994 -- HLPDK is a shareware hypertext and hypermedia Help
Database Development Kit, that includes two royalty free help engines and
a help compiler with a builtin cross reference tool. Creates help files
for many target formats from one help source.

Major Features

Topics, PopUps, Links, Keywords, Text Formats, Navigational and Structural
facilities, Target Code insertion, Multiple module files, Automatic
Pascal/C/C++ reference generation, Exception handling, Multiple file
target databases, Graphics, Sound, Groups, Application Launch, Automatic
exports creation, User defined link templates and more.

Version 11.0 Highlights:

* HLPDK goes World Wide Web ! HLPDK generates HTML code for use in a
DISTRIBUTED hypertext database. HTML WWW readers are available for
Windows, Macintosh, UNIX - Motif, VMS and some other platforms.

* New system extension library adds inter-paragraph text formatting
capabilities to RTF targets, Graphic links in winHelp and MM Viewer
targets, the complete winHelp macro API in winHelp and MM Viewer, 256
color bitmap support in MM Viewer, Video, CDAudio and Multimedia MCI
interface in winHelp and MM Viewer, Graphic Links in IPF and more. This
library adds more than a 100 new link types and enhancements to HLPDK.

* Topics .ACTION attributes in winHelp and Multimedia Viewer targets.

* Enhanced .USERLINK syntax for smarter HDF extensions.

* New .CONTENTS statement to change the help engine's initial screen. 

* Links in Topic Titles (winHelp and MM Viewer targets).

* New distributed hypertext databases commands.

* Support bold, italic and underline for OS/2 IPF paragraph text.

* Two companion programs, RC2HDK - The Windows Resource Files (RC) to HLPDK
converter program and NEWSDB - Usenet News Clips Hypertext generator, are
offered at a reduced cost when registering HLPDK.

Supported targets:

Windows 3.0/3.1 winHelp .HPJ/.RTF
OS/2 .IPF (IPFC)
Microsoft Multimedia Viewer 2.0
THELP 3.0 .HL
DESQview/X .HLP (MDVXHELP)
TVHC 1.1 .TXT (TVHC)
QuickHelp 1.83 .SRC (HELPMAKE)
Native (Paradox 4.x & text)
POPHELP .TXT (MAKEHELP)
Native (Memory HDX & text)
Sony MM Player (Via MM Viewer)
Word Processors (via RTF)
Text documents 
   with automatic table of contents, glossary and index.
WWW HTML (Supporting Windows, Macintosh, UNIX - Motif, VMS and
   probably other platforms)

Developing help text is an important but often neglected part of
application development. Developers often run out of time and/or money
long before they even start it. Not a easy task to begin with (it requires
skills in both application design and technical writing), today's help
systems also require programming expertise and a good measure of time. As
a result, many applications have inadequate help

systems that do not really fulfill their objective -help the user. The
problem is even more complex when an application has more than one target
environment, each one using different formats and programming techniques
to generate help text.

HLPDK cannot solve all the problems involved in help text generation, but
it helps a lot. It allows you to write one help text source and compile it
to many different targets. Take existing texts (user manuals, technical
notes, etc.), add simple help commands, compile them and you have a
complete help system with hot-links, indexes and directories !

Download HLPDK from your favorite BBS or order it from shareware catalogs.
You can get the registered version directly from HyperAct, Inc. or from
PsL. Registration fee is $50 (plus S&H). Help Engine TurboPascal sources
may be obtained for an additional $100 fee. Higher Education discounts
available. For a limited time, registering HLPDK includes a $9.95 discount
on the JCSM Shareware CD-ROM collection.

HyperAct, Inc. 
PO Box 5517 
Coralville IA 52241 
Phone/Fax (319) 351-8413;   Compuserve 76350,333

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