Hi, Steve.  Thanks for responding.  
*** Quoting Steve Batson from a message to Louis Rizzuto ***
LR> file for a app?  It is strating to look like a a significant time 
LR> consumming project in iteslf.  Do you agree?
LR> Thanks again.
SB> Boy, that's a lot of questions in a few sentences ;)   Anyway, it's 
SB> been a while since I wrote a help file. I have done using an RTF 
SB> capable word processor suchas word (pain in the behind). I have also 
SB> tinkered with some shareware and commercial programs. I liked VBAHA 
SB> when I was using VisualBasic, but haven't need to create any help 
SB> files recently. I think if you are going to write a big help file or 
SB> lot's of help files, you should check into the commercial products. 
SB> They all seem to be quite different in ease of use and how they work. 
SB> I'd look around and see if you can check out some demos to see what 
SB> you like. With a good program, you can whip out simple help pretty 
SB> quickly. Help files are apain if you don't have good tools, so you'll 
SB> have to weigh that one yourself based on the tools you look at.  
SB> Sorry I couldn't be more help in this area. I just don't have the 
SB> need to do big help files right now. 
It is Ok, steve.  Sorry for all the questions but when I asked them I was 
feeling quite overwhelmed.  fortunately between then and now I did manage to 
find a book (one I mentioned earlier) that spent about 8 pages explaining how 
to create Help files - using Delphi.  that was my biggest problem, I couldn't 
find help for using Delphi to create Help files for my Delphi apps.  
This book I now own, actually managed to get o the meat of what Ineed to do 
with enough 'how to' to for me to take it from here.  Whew, I feel much 
better about it now.  I still haven't changed my mind - creating Context Help 
is going to be quite time consuming and tedious to do well for any sizeable 
app such as mine is.  
For those here who plan on writting a large commercial app, may I suggest you 
do your Delphi and Help Contect project on a 1-1 correspondence while what 
you are doing is fresh in your mind.  
 
Thanks again Steve.
Regards, -= Lou =-
BTW, Steve, ForeHelp is the only 3rd party product I have heard about from 
Delphi authors.  Got a address or web adress or tel. no. so I can follow up 
on ForeHelp?  Got any other such products you thought had merit for creating 
Context help for my apps?  Thanks again.
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