Online Help.. how would you implement it? (1 Viewer)

[AntiHyper]

As part of my major project, we have to put an online help (i thought it got something to do with the internet). Now I'm just confused to either write them into the program (hard-coded) or make a textfile and have the program access it to view help. My instincts tells me to just use a text file.. but does it still counted as "Online Help" coz my teacher told me "an online help is a user help system built INTO the program".

 

[sunny]

Online help can be considered as trivial things like tool tips. If you wanted to make it more "into" the program you can make HTML help files, or proper Windows HLP files with tools like this. Both these options are more professional than a text file.

 

[AntiHyper]

Yeh.. we can only use either pascal, delphi or access. But i can't do access so i'm stuck in DOS-Based programs, since we haven't been taught to use windows forms yet.

 

[sunny]

Then in DOS programs, any in program help you could do is when the user presses F1, it would lead them to a help screen with explanations of the program's functions (or explanation of the choices in the screen where they pressed F1).

 

[AntiHyper]

sweet .. i'll get there somehow