Do you want to create Windows Help files quickly and easily without having to purchase third party word processors or addons ?

Now you can with ALL NEW HelpBuilder version 4.00. HelpBuilder supports all of the major WinHelp/HtmlHelp features such as topics, links, graphics, keywords, windows and macros.

HelpBuilder even has a project Wizard to quickly and easily build new projects. HelpBuilder can be used to create HLP and HTML help files for applications written in C/C++, VB, Power Builder, Access, Clarion and many others.

HelpBuilder is designed for developers wishing to create Help files to distribute with their products and for anyone who wants to create stand-alone Help files.

HelpBuilder is a complete Integrated Development Environment, specifically tailored for help file development and is tightly integrated with the Microsoft help compilers.

HelpBuilder requires no further add-on products and is ready to create your help files.

Here are some key features of "HelpBuilder":

· Supports Microsoft HLP and HTML compilers
· Automatically builds all files for compiler - no user involvement necessary
· Uses project files to group all the components of a project together
· Configurable compilers
· Significant error checking to prevent errors being passed to compilers
· Integrated spell checking with 1Mb dictionary
· Table of Contents Editor
· Supports style sheets - you can create further style sheets
· Supports many graphics formats for easy includion in projects
· Header files in several programming languages
· Context identifiers
· Full Application Install and De-install procedure
· Fully integrated and context sensitive Windows Help file including 'How to..' section
· Ability to insert RTF and HTML commands
· Automatic creation of .HPJ/.RTF and .HHP/.HHC/.HTM/.HHK/.files - no need for you to look at a help compiler file ever again!
· Comprehensive sample demonstration help file project
· In-built text macros and user-definable text macros


Limitations:

· Unregistered copy messages

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Major re-write of large parts of the software
· Major parts completely re-written to add support for HTML projects
· Table of Contents editor added for HTML projects
· Compiler installation streamlined
· All text formatting functions now read HTML and RTF and write in the format of the currently configured compiler
· Automatic index creation for HTML projects
· New HTML templates added
· Project Wizard updated to support HTML projects
· Find and Find/Replace options can now optionally search across an entire project in addition to just the current topic
· Large numbers of internal fixes
· 16 bit compiler support dropped