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- History
- File format
- Source files and compilation
- WinHelp appearance and features
- End of support
- Other documentation file formats
- See also
- References
- External links
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| extension = .hlp
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| owner = Microsoft
| released = 1990
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}}{{Infobox software
| name = Microsoft WinHelp
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| developer = Microsoft
| replaced_by = Microsoft Compiled HTML Help
| operating system = Microsoft Windows
| genre = Help system
}}Microsoft WinHelp is a proprietary format for online help files that can be displayed by the Microsoft Help browser winhelp.exe or winhlp32.exe. The file format is based on Rich Text Format (RTF). It remained a popular Help platform from Windows 3.0 platform through Windows XP. WinHelp was removed in Windows Vista purportedly to discourage software developers from using the obsolete format and encourage use of newer help formats. History- 1990 - WinHelp 1.0 shipped with Windows 3.0.
- 1995 - WinHelp 4.0 shipped with Windows 95 / Windows NT.
- 2006 - Microsoft announced its intentions to phase out WinHelp as a supported platform. WinHelp is not part of Windows Vista out of the box. WinHelp files come in 16 bit and 32 bit types. Vista treats these files types differently. When starting an application that uses the 32 bit .hlp format, Windows warns that the format is no longer supported. A downloadable viewer for 32 bit .hlp files is available from the Microsoft Download Center.[1][2] The 16 bit WinHelp files continue to display in Windows Vista (32 bit only) without the viewer download.
- October 14, 2009 - Microsoft announced the downloadability of Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 7 at the Microsoft Download Center.[3]
File formatA WinHelp file has a ".hlp" suffix. It can be accompanied by an optional table of contents (.cnt) file if the help developer created one. When Windows opens a WinHelp file, it creates a .gid file in the same directory or in "%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Help", containing information about the .hlp file such as the window size and location. If the user clicks the "Find" tab and enables keyword indexing, Windows creates an index file with a .fts (full text search) extension. Annotations and bookmarks for each Windows help file have the extension ".ann" and ".bmk". A number of software tools can decompile a WinHelp file into its source documents—HPJ, CNT, RTF, BMP, SHG). An HPJ file is the project file that is created and edited in the Help Workshop (or a third party help authoring tool). The HPJ contains information about what RTF files to compile into the help, the MAP IDs and Aliases that provide links from a calling application to the help file, and help file appearance (window size, default buttons, color schemes, etc.). The CNT file provides the table of contents for the help file. An SHG file is a "SHED" graphics file that essentially creates an image map of help calls for a graphic file (e.g., a BMP). A number of tools can read and explore these files. (See, for example, Help to RTF and winhelpcgi.) | .hlp | The updated licensing agreement prohibits application developers from packaging the WinHelp libraries with their installers. This means that WinHelp manuals for legacy applications are not readable on a new Windows Vista installation. To read them, the end-user must obtain the 32-bit WinHelp viewer from Microsoft's website and manually install it.[4] Other documentation file formats Although documentation can be maintained entirely in a vendor-specific presentation format such as WinHelp, it is more often the case that documentation must be published in multiple presentation formats at once: Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM), WinHelp, HTML pages, Java Help, PDF, etc. It would be very expensive and error-prone to maintain each format separately. For this reason, authors often maintain documentation in an industry-standard, vendor-neutral authoring format—such as DocBook or FrameMaker—that can be used to generate several different presentation formats (including WinHelp).{{cn|date=April 2011}} Various presentation files thus produced (with WinHelp or other tools) contain consistent content because they were generated from the same source. See also- Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (.chm file extension)
- Microsoft Help 2
- Microsoft Help Viewer
- OS/2's INF Help (also known as IPF or Information Presentation Facility)
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6ebcfad9-d3f5-4365-8070-334cd175d4bb&displaylang=en|title=Download WinHelp Viewer for Windows Vista|publisher=Microsoft}}
2. ^{{cite web| title = I cannot open Help files that require the Windows Help (WinHlp32.exe) program| website = Support| publisher = Microsoft| date = February 26, 2009 | url = http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607| accessdate = August 28, 2009| deadurl = no| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090628233141/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607| archivedate = June 28, 2009 }}
3. ^{{cite web| title = Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 7| publisher = Microsoft| date = October 14, 2009| url = http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=258aa5ec-e3d9-4228-8844-008e02b32a2c| accessdate = October 20, 2009 }}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607|title=Windows Help program (WinHelp32.exe) is no longer included with Windows|date=May 24, 2006|website=Support|publisher=Microsoft|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060612010848/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607|archivedate=June 12, 2006}}
External links- Help-Info: Information around Online Help (Microsoft), Examples, etc.
- HelpMaster: Largest selection of WinHelp, HTMLHelp and HTML related files and hints
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