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To compile your help project select Action | Build
Help
. This produces a .hlp
Help file which is stored in
the Ouput folder that you specified in the Project
tab. A
.hrh
header file, used to integrate the Help into an application,
is also produced. This file is also normally stored in the Output folder, but
to select an alternative location use Advanced | Select Separate
Headers Folder
, see
How to select separate headers folders .
Previewing a Help file is useful if you can't view your Help file in the application that it was designed for. It allows you to check the file for basic formatting and layout errors.
You can preview a compiled Help project using Action | View
Help
from the menu. This compiles the project and then displays all
the topics with their associated images.
You can display the topics in one .rtf
file by
selecting the file to be previewed in the RTF
tab and clicking
the Preview File
button.
In both instances an .xml
file containing the topics
is created in the Temporary folder and displayed in Internet Explorer.
Note that none of the settings in your customisation file are applied to a preview.