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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the suggestion, Grant, but I’m not clear on whether it supports Windows 7. We’ll look into it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yup, Rob confirmed that MS Help Viewer only works with Visual Studio. So it looks like we’re stuck with MS HTML Help (.chm), which is a bit more modern than
WinHelp. Eclipse Help and OmniHelp are also still in the running. We found that we can do a rudimentary context-sensitive help with any of them if we link to a URL and don’t try to link to a mid-page anchor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks to everyone who responded. With your help, we are very close to making a decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> grant@hedgewizard.net [mailto:grant@hedgewizard.net]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Robert Lauriston<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Fei Min Lorente; framers@lists.frameusers.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Choosing a Help Format<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not only that, but MS stopped support for the 32-bit help viewer. ( WinHlp32.exe)
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, they do still distribute it <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607">
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607</a> , albeit with some fairly scary warnings.
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is an alternative viewer: Help Explorer Viewer ( <a href="http://download.cnet.com/Help-Explorer-Viewer/3000-6675_4-10666661.html">
http://download.cnet.com/Help-Explorer-Viewer/3000-6675_4-10666661.html</a>) <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Grant Hogarth <o:p></o:p></p>
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> On November 27, 2013 at 9:41 AM Robert Lauriston <<a href="mailto:robert@lauriston.com">robert@lauriston.com</a>> wrote:
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> There's no free runtime help viewer? That would explain why no one <br>
> uses that format. <br>
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> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Fei Min Lorente <br>
> <<a href="mailto:FeiMin.Lorente@onsemi.com">FeiMin.Lorente@onsemi.com</a>> wrote:
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> > We’ve been in touch with Rob Chandler (creator of mshcMigrate) and he’s <br>
> > helped us realize that I might have been describing our challenge <br>
> > incorrectly. The developers are using VS 2010 to create an application that <br>
> > will run independently from Visual Studio, using .NET 4.0 as the framework. <br>
> > From everything we’ve read, it seems that MS Help Viewer only works if <br>
> > Visual Studio is installed; is that right? <br>
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