Microsoft Help Compiler Workshop 2

[Currivan]

I am trying to use the Help Compiler Workshop that ships with Visual Studio 6, unsuccessfully. When I try to create a footnote to define a Topic ID, the compiler just reads it from the .rtf file as plain text. The end result is that I get a message when I run the resulting Help file that says, "The topic does not exist. Contact your application vendor for an updated Help file. (129)" and the coded footnote text #{\footnote main_contents} appears in the resulting topic file as if it were part of the actual topic. What am I doing wrong?

 

[teriviret]

I know this doesn't answer your question, but I can't resist suggesting to you to abandon the old WinHelp in favor of the new HtmlHelp. I've found it much easier to work with the help files in HTML form rather than RTF. You can download the new HtmlHelp workshop for free from Microsoft's site.

 

[ArkM]

I agree with Teriviret. Nevertheless, did you see MSDN article Help: Authoring Help Topics? It seems a very helpful source of this topic...