| Title: | Microsoft Visual C/C++ |
| Moderator: | PLUGH::needle |
| Created: | Tue Mar 16 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1121 |
| Total number of notes: | 4385 |
Hello all,
I am new at Visual C++ so its probably me doing something stupid. I
wrote a dialog based application, and thought it would be a good idea
to add a help file. I read the docs and double clicked on the .rtf
file from the file view. Made my changes and tried to save it. MSDEV
dies with a divide by zero error. Norton crash gaurd caught it. but
you cannot exit the RTF edited under Visual Studio 97 with or without
saving the file.
OK so I tried word for Windows 97 it can handle RTF files. Saved the
file but when the help file compiles the log file complains about a
MC4002 error due to a corrupt RTF file at offset 296. Looking at the
RTF file with a HEX editor does not show anything unusual, but that
does not mean there is nothing there. Offset 296 appears to be whre the
PEN colors are being set up. I tried using Wordpad to edit the RTF
file with the same results.
If i stick to the default files that the APP wizard creates then the
.HLP file is created ok. But they are not much use unless they can
be modified.
Perhaps Winword & wordpad have a difference in opinion on the RTF file
structure than the Visual Studio 97 has. Or Im doing something
completly stupid.
Any hints woiuld be appreciated.
So far I have spent three times as much time tring to write a help file
than I have writting the application.
Alan
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1106.1 | Answer my own question | NOTAMI::A_ANDERSON | CX03 2/H13 NSU/VAX MacGhille Aindrais | Tue Apr 01 1997 13:46 | 28 |
Its in the release notes. HCW.exe v4.01 is not compatable with the RFT format from Office 97. This at least explains why the Help compiler complains about the RTF file format written by Word 97. You need to save the file in Word6.0 or Word95 RTF format. There must be a common .DLL file that WordPad and Word 97 uses as wordpad RTF files are not compatable with the help compiler either. Perhaps this same DLL or another that came with Word 97 is responsible for the DEV Studio crashes with a divide by zero error, when I tried to close the editor I any case there is a unsupported Help Workshop that can be installed and its compatable with Office 97 RTF files. It does a good job of creating .HLP files. But compiles fail if it tries to produce a help file since the Help workshop installs new DLL that is not compatible with the older HCW.exe V4.01. So you need to either compile the help files from the Help Workshop and not from the DEV Studio, or save the .RTF files in word 6.0 or word 95 RTF format. Alan | |||||