Does "What's This?" Help still exist?

Does anyone know whether RoboHelp 7 still includes "What's
This?" Help for creating context-sensitive help? In RoboHelp Office
X5, this application was called Whatsths.exe. I will upgrade my
license if it's still there.

Excellent. I do use it to create dialog help, but what I like
most is its reports of what's new and changed in the dialogs. It
communicates a whole lot better than our software engineers!

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What's This Help not working for one entry in each header file

I have a large RoboHelp project that I have imported into Version 8 from a previous version. Prior to the import into Version 8, all of the What's This Help in the project was working perfectly; now, post-import, I have a problem.
Firstly, some background information.
My project contains a large number of individual header (.H) files, one for each dialog within the software. These header files, which have been generated and provided by our developers, contain one entry for each field on the dialog to which the header file relates. The header files are all contained within a \HTML Topics\Fields\ folder (going from the root of my Help project).
Each header file has a corresponding text (.TXT) file. These text files contain entries that correspond to the entries in the relevant header file. The text files are also contained within the \HTML Topics\Fields\ folder.
Below is an example of the contents of a header file:
#define IDH_HIERARCHY_APPEARANCE_HIEARCHY_LIST          16811
#define IDH_HIERARCHY_APPEARANCE_ADD_APPEARANCE         16812
#define IDH_HIERARCHY_APPEARANCE_REMOVE_APPEARANCE      16813
Below is the contents of the corresponding text file:
.topic IDH_HIERARCHY_APPEARANCE_ADD_APPEARANCE
Click this button to add a new row of hierarchical appearance settings to the grid.
.topic IDH_HIERARCHY_APPEARANCE_HIEARCHY_LIST
Use this grid to define hierarchy appearance settings. Each row in the grid represents a level of the hierarchy. For example, the appearance settings you define for the first row apply to the top level of hierarchy, the settings you define for the second row apply to the second level, and so on.
.topic IDH_HIERARCHY_APPEARANCE_REMOVE_APPEARANCE
Click this button to delete the selected row of hierarchical appearance settings from the grid.
The What's This Help that was part of the original project still works perfectly. However, after upgrading the project to RoboHelp Version 8, I have had to update the project to reflect changes to the software. As part of this work, I have imported some new header files and updated some existing ones - and edited the corresponding text files accordingly.
The What's This Help that is covered by the header files that I have imported since the upgrade to RoboHelp Version 8 does not work correctly; in each case, the What's This Help does not work for whichever field appears at the top of the appropriate text file. The position of the entry in the corresponding header file does not make a difference.
If I manually edit a text file to move a different entry to the top then recompile the Help project, the What's This Help does not work for the field that now appears at the top of the text file - and the What's This Help for the field that used to appear at the top of the text file now works.
I've tried everything I can think of to fix this, but nothing has worked. It seems as if there is a problem in the way RoboHelp is compiling the header and text files.
If I use Microsoft HTML Help Workshop to decompile the CHM file, then view the contents of the resulting, decompiled text files, the affected files appear as follows:
.topic IDH_HIERARCHY_APPEARANCE_ADD_APPEARANCE
Click this button to add a new row of hierarchical appearance settings to the grid.
.topic 16811
Use this grid to define hierarchy appearance settings. Each row in the grid represents a level of the hierarchy. For example, the appearance settings you define for the first row apply to the top level of hierarchy, the settings you define for the second row apply
to the second level, and so on.
.topic 16813
Click this button to delete the selected row of hierarchical appearance settings from the grid.
Note how the entry at the top - which relates to the What's This Help that doesn't work - appears differently to the other entries which do work. The name of the ID appears after ".topic" rather than the appropriate ID number.
Any help that anyone can provide me with would be very much appreciated.
Thank you,
Mark

Its working now. We just kept trying to reinstall the tools and restarting indesign. On the 4th time the buttons started working. I can't explain why it finally worked, just that it is working now.

Error: Invalid project for What's This Help composer

I am running RoboHelp 7, Word 2003, and Visual Basic 6. I had Word problems when I upgraded (?) to RoboHelp 7 but they have been resolved. However, I have a major problem. When I open the What's This Help composer, I get an invalid .hpj error message and my Context.chj file does not open. When I try to create a new What's this Help composer project and have it update from my VB6 project, all my VB6 forms show up in the Dialog Boxes pane of composer but when I click on one, the controls on the form don't show up in the control pane of composer. I've spent a couple years building up my What's This Help and it appears that I have lost everything. Fortuantely I backed my whole help project to a DVD before I installed RH7. I've tried to go back to RH6 but it won't install, even after making sure I've completely unregistered and uninstalled RH7. This makes my backup useless unless I can get RH6 to install. Any suggestions?

Hi there
I believe what is happening to you is that a "What's this" project is generally tied to CHM output. I'd be willing to bet a dollar against a dougnut that your primary layout type is WebHelp, FlashHelp or something other than Microsoft HTML Help.
Try right-clicking the Microsoft HTML Help layout in the Single Source Layouts pod and nominating this layout as the primary.
THEN click File > New and you will hopefully be pleasantly surprised.
Cheers... Rick
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What's this Help

I am switching my appl in VC++ 2005 from winhelp to chm.
winhelp works fine with .hlp file. Now, with html, context
sensitive (F1) works fine, but What's this help doesn't work. In my
CMainFrame class, he is my code tha takes care of that.
void CMainFrame::WinHelp(DWORD dwData, UINT nCmd)
DWORD myarray[]={
ID1, IDH_1, ...and so on};
if(!m_InContextHelpMode){
::HtmlHelp(m_hWnd,AfxGetApp()->m_pszHelpFilePath,
HH_HELP_CONTEXT,dwData); // this works fine
else{
CPoint CurPos;
GetCursorPos(&CurPos);
CWnd *pWnd=WindowFromPoint(CurPos);
//Find the window under cursor
if(pWnd !=NULL){
CSHContextHelp(pWnd->GetParent()->m_hWnd,pWnd->m_hWnd,0);
// works fine for win help, Don't for Html
//::HtmlHelp(pWnd->m_hWnd,".chm::/.TXT",HH_TP_HELP_WM_HELP,(DWORD)
(LPVOID) array);
Q1) for the Ids I use in the array, they work fine, but how
can I use the Html call without calling the array, as I thought
Robo help does the mapping and spits out chm file which is the only
thing I need I think. Besides, I can't map 4000 Ids in my
application, how do I get to make the what's this help Ids to work
without any manual mapping? What do I pass for that call, or what
do I pass instead of the array ?
Q2) When I click on ? in dialogs, nothing happens, if I
switch back to winhelp, it works fine using CSHContextHelp call
above, I am hoping this comes alive if I get any of this to work.
For the ? handling, I don't do any, I just return TRUE for BOOL
ONHELPINFO function in the dialogs, and it works fine for winhelp
but not for html..........
I appreciate your feedback and comments.
Thanks

No problem. We all live and learn. I've added a link between
the posts so you don't have to delete it. Try posting your query
here.
This is not a pure RoboHelp forum so you'll have to give a bit more
detail but at least it is frequented by likeminded people. Best of
luck.

Does the frequency selection tool still exist in audition?

Does this tool still exist in audition? I am sure it was available in soundbooth
Very useful if you are trying to remove a constant buzzing of a certain frequency from an audio file.

Thanks for your answer!
Disappointing that it's gone. Will definitely submit a feature request.
The frequency selection tool was convenient, especially in the spectral view, because you could manually select one frequency across the entire file, while being zoomed in at only one specific time segment. You always risk forgetting/not catching something at the beginning or end of the file, when doing the manual selection tools, like the rectangle selection. Plus you'll have to be zoomed out all the way, so it's a bit harder to exactly select the frequency you need.
The automated tools are useful, but in early 2015 I still value the human pattern recognition systems and artistic and aesthetic judgement over that of an AI. (We'll see for how much longer,...)

HT4623 my phone 4s stop making sounds, I tried reset and still no sounds only vibrate reset all settings under general and still have the problem, also sync again to see if this help. still no sounds

my I phone 4s stop making sounds, I tried reset and still no sounds only vibrate. Did reset - all settings under general and still have the problem, I also re- sync again to see if this help. still no sounds.

Hi there,
It sounds like you have tried a few things already, but you may still find the article below helpful.
iPhone: Can't hear through the receiver or speakers
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1630
-Griff W.

"What's This Help" import problem

Hi, I am updating my program to be compatible with Windows Vista. I had been using my old help file made in a prior version of Robohelp until now.
Now that my users are using vista, that help won't work. So I made a .chm file for the online help, and when the user selects File/Help, the help file shows. However, I haven't a second help file that is my context sensitive help. (What's This Help). I tried to import it and received an error. So I created a new What's this help file associated with my RoboHelp Html online help, made one test topic, and now I can access the online help and the ? help for that one test using .chm file. However, I do not want to have to re-enter the thousands of context sensitive help topics! I noticed that my old file saved the "What's This help" topics in an .rtf file and the new one saves the info in a context.txt. Is there a way to convert the old .rtf to a context.txt or an easy way to get my data in?
Thank you!!

Hi there
Are you sure you aren't confusing What's This help with regular Context Sensitive Help?
For What's This help, you typically have a Text file. What's This is presented as simple text when clicking the Question Mark, followed by the object in question. As shown below:
Click image for larger view:
Cheers... Rick
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Is "What's this" help for 64-bit applications available in latest version of Robohelp?

We purchased Robohelp 9 recently. Before purchasing we called support to make sure context help ("what's this" help) is available for 64-bit applications. They told us that it's there. When we installed Robohelp 9, context help library for 64-bit applications was not there. We are thinking of returning the product. Has anybody come across this issue?

Hi all
Like Peter, I've not seen other reports. However, I'll temper this by saying that I'm on a 64 bit system and I do see an option for creating this type of help. I am aware of it and know how it works generically, but I've never created it and I am aware that it's fallen out of favor with Microsoft. So I am unsure of what "libraries" may be needed.
My own guess here is that support simply looked at RoboHelp and saw an ability to get at the What's this area of RoboHelp running on a 64 bit system and concluded that because it was there all was well.
Curiosity questiion here for alex-2012. Have you seen What's This help on any application running in 64 bit mode on a 64 bit system? Perhaps it's just a limitation of being in the 64 bit environment. I believe the ability for "What's This" is really governed by Microsoft. And since they have abandoned it, perhaps they never updated and distributed the supporting files needed on 64 bit machines. Just pondering that out loud a bit.
Cheers... Rick
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Why does this server still EXIST ON MY NETWORK!

I've had these supposid servers on my network for like months now, I'm concerned people on my network can go through my computer. I turned off everything on the server app, and even deleted Mac Lion Server, and this is STILL HERE. How do I remove this from my network!
Please HELP!

Hi
Apart from what's already been suggested:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3190174?start=15&tstart=0
I would pay attention to Gerrit de Witt's post. There are other threads in this forum that discuss this 'problem' which you can search for yourself.
Apple's 'official' way is here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4827?locale=en_US
But as threads in this forum have pointed out, it does not disable everything. I'm guessing it does work if you get the option to configure the Server at the Welcome Screen and bypass it at that point. However once you go beyond the Welcome Screen additional components are indeed downloaded which are not part of the Server app alone.
I suppose the only 'sure' way (as Gerrit mentions) is to backup and reinstall. This may involve a reformat?
HTH?
Tony

'What's This' help in RoboHelp 6.0

Hi,
I recently moved my project from HTML Help Workshop to
RoboHelp 6.0. I still compile a .chm. For field-level help, I
imported my .h and .txt files in the project. These two files have
the same names. None of the field-level help topics is showing up
when I click the ? in the application. I get the error " Cannot
open the file "C:\......\ABC.chm::topics.txt".
Do I have to use the What's This wizard to create field-level
help? Can't I use my old map and text files? Is there a step I am
missing to get this to work properly? Is it necessary that my
application's .exe file and the .chm file are in the same folder?
Please help.
Thanks.

Hi. Text files can't be used as map files for CSH. You'll
have to create another map file and aplly the mapid from your text
file to that.

What's This Help crashing when using RoboHelp's HtmlHelp API

I followed all the instructions described in the RoboHelp
developer help file. The correct initialisation at the InitInstance
of the application
is called using the CSHInitialize(szHelpPath, TRUE). Then, I
registered the dialog for the "What's This?" help, using the
SHRegisterDialog(...) API. When I right click the mouse on any
control in the dialog I always end up with a crash reporting the
following error:
"The exception unknown software exception (0x0000005) occurred
in the application at location 0x4b78d471".
When we debugged the problem we got the following message in
the debugger which indicates that the crash is happining in the
hhctrl.ocx library:
"Unhandled exception at 0x4b78d471 (hhctrl.ocx) in hoblinkl.exe;
0x0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000"
In the meantime another image illustrates the call stack
right before the crash (message not included).
Note that for this application, we have the resouces loaded
from a resource DLL. However, we were told that the help file was
generated using these resource DLLs. We used this dialog as a
testing platform because it is one of the simplest dialogs without
the complexities of property pages etc., which do load certain
dialog resources dynamically.
However, to further test the problem, we implemented the
context sensitive help on a more complex dialog using the standard
HtmlHelp Api, where we are passing an array containing the mappings
between the IDs and the Help topics (for now the mapping is fixed
to one topic ID for simplicity) and I managed to make the context
sensitive help work (not through the What's this menu but rather
through the '?' button at the top right corner of the dialog.) The
proper context help topic is displayed according to the mapped ID.
Has anybody faced this problem and is there a solution for
it? ;

Unfortunately the update did not help. Using the field-level
help in the dialog always ends up with a crash reporting the above
error.
The report generated from Microsoft's Windows XP is as
follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<DATABASE>
<EXE NAME="HOBLinkL.exe"
FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY">
<MATCHING_FILE NAME="HOBLinkL.exe" SIZE="466944"
CHECKSUM="0xE180B629" BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.3.0.1"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.3.0.1" PRODUCT_VERSION="TE Version 5.3"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="HOBLink Launcher" COMPANY_NAME="HOB GmbH
& Co KG" PRODUCT_NAME="HOBLink Terminal Edition"
FILE_VERSION="5, 3, 0, 1" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="HOBLinkL.exe"
INTERNAL_NAME="HOBLinkL" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright © 2006,
2007 - HOB GmbH & Co. KG. All rights reserved."
VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4"
VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x5124E"
LINKER_VERSION="0x0" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.3.0.1"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.3.0.1" LINK_DATE="01/29/2007 07:23:50"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="01/29/2007 07:23:50" VER_LANGUAGE="English (United
States) [0x409]" />
</EXE>
<EXE NAME="hhctrl.ocx"
FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY">
<MATCHING_FILE NAME="hhctrl.ocx" SIZE="546304"
CHECKSUM="0x38577544" BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.2.3790.2453"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.2.3790.2453" PRODUCT_VERSION="5.2.3790.2453"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="Microsoft® HTML Help Control"
COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation" PRODUCT_NAME="HTML Help"
FILE_VERSION="5.2.3790.2453 (srv03_sp1_gdr.050525-1542)"
ORIGINAL_FILENAME="HHCtrl.ocx" INTERNAL_NAME="HHCtrl 1.41"
LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="© Microsoft Corporation. All rights
reserved." VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0"
VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32"
PE_CHECKSUM="0x8B1D0" LINKER_VERSION="0x50002"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.2.3790.2453"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.2.3790.2453" LINK_DATE="05/27/2005
02:04:27" UPTO_LINK_DATE="05/27/2005 02:04:27"
VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States) [0x409]" />
</EXE>
<EXE NAME="kernel32.dll"
FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY">
<MATCHING_FILE NAME="kernel32.dll" SIZE="983552"
CHECKSUM="0x4CE79457" BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.2180"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.2180" PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.2180"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="Windows NT BASE API Client DLL"
COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation" PRODUCT_NAME="Microsoft®
Windows® Operating System" FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.2180
(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="kernel32"
INTERNAL_NAME="kernel32" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="© Microsoft
Corporation. All rights reserved." VERFILEDATEHI="0x0"
VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x2"
MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0xFF848" LINKER_VERSION="0x50001"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.2180"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.2180" LINK_DATE="08/04/2004
07:56:36" UPTO_LINK_DATE="08/04/2004 07:56:36"
VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States) [0x409]" />
</EXE>
</DATABASE>
Any other ideas how to solve this problem?

TS2383 What if doing all of this it still does not correct the problem? Still tries to download again and stops at the same spot. Can not open iPhotos at all now.

I have been trying to download the new Iphoto update but on step 5 0f 9 it hangs up at 97% and will go no further. Can not see my picutres in IPhoto of even close this without going to Force Quit. will not let me download any of my new photos from my camera. I have tried all the instructions in TS2383 but does not work

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.
If that fails:
Restore from your back up, repair the Library and start again.

Why this forum still exist? Rename to 'Windows 7'

This forum is irrelevant now.
There's an upcoming new Windows version, Windows 7.
Right now there's a Release Candidate for download. And even Creative, for the first time in years, is doing things well developing a Stable Beta driver for this OS.
Creative should create a new forum called 'Windows 7' on this board, or rename this 'Windows Vista' forum to 'Windows 7' to regroup all messages, problems and fixes regarding the Beta X-Fi Drivers and Windows 7. Even, other Creative Hardware like PMP or Webcam and the Windows 7 compatibility could be discussed here.
The goal should be have a complete final stable drivers for all X-Fi products, soundcards and other Hardware at Windows 7 official launch, like NVIDIA, ATI/AMD or other Hardware compaines.
Cheers.

Well Ekodaniel,
You are having problems after SP2, I am not. One of us is doing something right. You may have an issue with something else going on in your system, like
An Nvidia chipset motherboard, poor chipset drivers for your IDE/Sata controllers, old drivers on your system in general, or old bios, or new bios not setup properly for your card. If you find this hard to believe, how is it that I have no problems with my X-FI Titanium or X-Fi PCI Fatality and you do
If you have an extra hard dri've lying around, you could install Vista, Sp and then your sound hardware. Test everything, see if it functions. Then install SP2, reinstall your X-FI 2.0 Dan K. driver/applications pack and then see what happnens. I think if you rule out all software but operating system, service pack, and then drivers, you will be good to go.
This sounds like a lot of trouble but at least you will have your final answer and rule out any offending applications that you may have installed on your system, since your last format and install.
cheers,
jmacguire

Does .Mac as a webhost still exist ?

Hi- I'm a little confused: has .Mac been replaced b MobileMe ? I searched the Apple site for the conditions price, size etc ) but couldn't find anything.
Thanks.
SeaDream

Yes, .Mac is now MobileMe.
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/pricing/

Importing What's This? Help

I just upgraded from X3 to 6. Trying to import the What's
This? context help, but it's expecting a Context.txt file. My old
version has a Context.rtf file. I might be able to reformat the rtf
file... does anyone know the format or can you suggest
anything?

Thanks Eric. I was considering that as an option, but now we
have a requirement to run on Vista. Here's a response from Rob
Chandler that I'm looking into:
There are a number of ways to achieve popups.
If the popup text is now in single HTML files then you may
want to consider
KeyHelp Popups (free activeX control from
http://www.keytools.net/ ) I've
used
this very successfully myself.
See also
http://helpware.net/FAR/far_faq.htm#KeyHelpPopups
When RoboHelp converts WinHlp to HTML Help, in creates
individual HTML files for each Whats This Help topic. Adobe should
provide an option to convert the What's This Help in WinHlp to a
single TXT file that could be implemented thru a CHM as What's This
Help.

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