Hot spot Editor in Help Workshop

[presser]

Hi,

using the MS Help Workshop it greatly improves my help system performing actions in bitmap-Files by selecting regions with the mouse. The bmp is saved as an SHG-File in the Workshop. Because the bmp is often to reedit duringdevelopment I have the problem to redefine the hot spot regions every time I alter the bmp-File. Has anyone an idea how to overcome this problem?

Thanks

W.Presser

[Jugoslav_Dujic]

Well... no.

Microsoft abandoned .shg's (which are Win3.1 feature) altogether in favor of other help features. I found the binary format of .shg file atftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/Multimedia/SHED.ZIP, but it doesn't look promising to play with (e.g. it mentions "Others will simply contain a hashed context string in the lBinding field." withoutexplicit description ofthe hash method). As you discovered yourself, the overall problem with shg's is that they're difficult to maintain.

What kind of pictures are these? Is perhaps the "official" "context help" feature as in dialogs applicable?

Jugoslav