Helpinator 1.4

August 29th, 2008

This new version has the following new features:

  • Search and Replace across entire project.
  • Keywords highlight in the topic editor.
  • Command-line utility for batch processing.

Search and Replace

Search and Replace

Search and Replace

To activate “Search and Replace” select “Search & Replace” node in the project tree view.

To start searching enter text into “Text to search” field and press “Go”. Helpinator will search all topics in te project and put titles of topics that match search criteria into the list at the bottom. You can double-click items in this list to locate this text in selected topic.

To replace text enter text to be replaced into “Text to find”, check “Replace” option and enter new text. Then click “Go”.

Keywords highlight in the topic editor.

Keywords highlight

Keywords highlight

Keywords from the “Keywords” field at the bottom of the topic editor are now highlighted with dotted blue line.

Also there’s new context menu item “Add to keywords”. Select a word in topic editor, right-click on it and select “Add to keywords” from the menu. Selected text will become a keyword.

Command-line utility for batch processing.

command line helpinator

command line helpinator

Helpinator now comes with command-line compiler chelpinator.exe that you can use in batch files.
It has the following parameters:
chelpinator.exe <format> <outputfileorfolder> [-v<variables.ini>] <projectfile>
<format> (required) - specifies output format. Can have the following values:
- /chm - for CHM format
- /rtf - for RTF format
- /pdf - for PDF format
- /html - for browser-based html help.
<outputfileorfolder> (required) - specifies full output folder or file name. Filename is for CHM, PDF and RTF formats and folder is for HTML format.
-v<variables.ini> (optional) - you can override values of project variables using this switch. Create a file with variables you want to override in the form:
VARIABLE=VALUE
For example:
VERSION=1.5.1
<projectfile> (required) - full path to the Helpinator project you are about to compile.
Example.
Suppose path to your project is C:\Project\Help\myproject.hgu.
You need to compile PDF help from it and place it into C:\PDF folder.
You can use the following command line to do that:
chelpinator.exe /pdf C:\PDF\myproject.pdf C:\Project\Help\myproject.hgu

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