hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) (11/13/90)
In article <1990Nov11.125221@madmax.Viewlogic.COM>, kenc@madmax.Viewlogic.COM (Kenstir) writes: > Has anyone used or seen Hypertext applications running under Win 3 > other than MS's own Help system? > > Additionally, has anyone developed On-line help for Windows' help > as well as somebody else's help system? > > Thanks, netters! > > -- > Kenneth H. Cox The best of them is GUIDE which I've been using for about 2 years. I'm using it to structure engineering technical information. The drawback is that you must purchase run-times at a cost depending on how many you want. Cost of GUIDE itself is about US$400-500. GUIDE offers great capabilities for building very complex hypertext applications, and includes a scripting facility for tricky operations. I've looked at the Windows Help system which looks nice for small applications, but it has no development shell. What is needed is an interface like GUIDE which allows such systems to be built quite rapidly. Presumably Microsoft might produce such a tool in about 2 years time. BTW, you can also use ToolBook, Plus, and other similar packages. > -- Roger Hadgraft | hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au Lecturer in Civil Engineering | Monash University | phone: +61 3 565 4983 Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia. | fax: +61 3 565 4944 or 3409
hjb@otter.hpl.hp.com (Harry Barman) (11/13/90)
I have used toolbook extensively as a prototyping language. Toolbok looks pretty nice as a hypertext package ('tho it is the only one I have used in anger), but if you stray from pure hypertext beware of the 64K page limit and the 64K book script limit. The graphics speed is OK, but the interpreter is a bit sluggish, especially if you are trying to get around the 64K book limit. Cheers, Harry
hjb@otter.hpl.hp.com (Harry Barman) (11/13/90)
Ah, I forgot to mention, every copy of windows 3 seems to come with a free runtime copy of toolbook. Cheers, Harry