[comp.windows.ms.programmer] Help file Question

cgross@surya.UWaterloo.CA (Christian Gross) (05/22/91)

Hi,
	I am posting this for a friend, but the mail replies can be addressed
to this address.
1)	My friend is currently trying to create a help file using the RTF
  format.  Everything is working fine except when he tries to use graphics.
  He is importing graphics from paint, by doing a screen capture, and then
  is cut and pasted into WORD 1.1a.  When he compiles the help file error
  2057 (unrecognized graphic format) occurs.  What is he doing wrong?

2)	While using SDK Dialog Box editor it once crashed in the middle
  of drawing( unreecoverable error) and then when using Windows again.
  Windows locked itself while I was editing a file, but had used the Box
  editor shortly before.  Why is this happening?

	Thanks for any replies.  Christian

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press@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Barry Press) (05/22/91)

In article <cgross.674894252@surya> cgross@surya.UWaterloo.CA (Christian Gross) writes:
>  format.  Everything is working fine except when he tries to use graphics.
>  He is importing graphics from paint, by doing a screen capture, and then
>  is cut and pasted into WORD 1.1a.  When he compiles the help file error
>  2057 (unrecognized graphic format) occurs.  What is he doing wrong?

You might want to look at the format of what's being pasted.  You could paste
the image into something like WinGIF, save as a BMP, and then reload and paste
that to force the format.

I've had a related problem, where I pasted what had been a BMP from the
clipboard into WfW for a hlp file.  All compiled well, but when you brought
up the file in  winhelp, the graphic did not appear (just the blank space, and
sometimes not that).  Rather than wrestle uselessly with that, I saved the 
image out as a bmp and used the field that inserts the file as a character
in the text.  THAT worked.

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