HMG Reference as a CHM file
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 9:41 am
I started using HMG a few weeks ago (after several years using Minigui Extended) and was surprised to see that the HMG Reference in the DOC directory is a group of linked HTML files. There is a master file, index.html, that makes this set of files look and behave something like a CHM file. But the big problem with this arrangement is that a CHM file is easily searchable, but a set of HMTL files is not.
This HTML file set is very close to what would be needed to create a real CHM file, so I took a few hours to do this. I've put the result on my site at http://kevincarmody.com/hmg/DOC/
You will find there HMG.chm and a zip file containing the source files I used to create the CHM. In the zip file, the HTML files in the hfcl\Doc and Source\HMGSQL folders have been copied to subfolders under the DOC folder, since the CHM compiler cannot compile HTML files in outside folders.
To compile the CHM, I used a batch file ModifyChm.bat that I originally wrote for Minigui Extended. This batch file is in http://kevincarmody.com/hmg/
This HTML file set is very close to what would be needed to create a real CHM file, so I took a few hours to do this. I've put the result on my site at http://kevincarmody.com/hmg/DOC/
You will find there HMG.chm and a zip file containing the source files I used to create the CHM. In the zip file, the HTML files in the hfcl\Doc and Source\HMGSQL folders have been copied to subfolders under the DOC folder, since the CHM compiler cannot compile HTML files in outside folders.
To compile the CHM, I used a batch file ModifyChm.bat that I originally wrote for Minigui Extended. This batch file is in http://kevincarmody.com/hmg/