Topic Title JavaHelp 1.1.3 NO TOC

Date Posted:

05/10/2006 04:45:40 PM

Posted By: rc3rdmd (Member)
Greetings,

I have tried opening an existing project in the demo version of RoboHelp (SP2). When I try to generate and select JavaHelp 2.0 everything works fine. When I try select JavaHelp 1.1.3 I get NO Table of Contents. Help ?

Thanks.

Rob Childress

 

Date Posted:

05/24/2006 04:03:24 PM

Posted By: maniac9999 (Member)
Rob,

I was scrolling through this folder and found your post. I don't know if you found an answer to your problem, but here's my two cents.

I would STRONGLY recommend that you avoid JavaHelp 1.1.3, unless you really need to use it. In my experience, I found it was full of bugs, most notably that it would crash or hang when I tried to print a topic from within the JavaHelp output. JavaHelp 2.0 is much more stable.

Secondly, I just tried building a 1.1.3 JavaHelp in my full version of RH X5 and got a fatal exception error both when I created compressed JavaHelp (which is what we use for JavaHelp 2.0) and uncompressed. I know I created JavaHelp 1.1.3 using a product called Helen, but I must not have built it using RoboHelp.

Unfortunately, it looks like it's a flaw in RH. If you really, really need to build JavaHelp 1.1.3, look at Helen from Software7 (www.software7.biz). It's written in Java, is built for JavaHelp only and it allows you to build for 1.1.3 and 2.0. The only reason we're not using it now is that management didn't want to support a product that could only create one type of output. It has a good wizard to create a project, but it's more of an "assembly" tool - you create your topics outside of the program in HTML, then import them into Helen. My experience with support, even though they're in Germany, was outstanding.

Good luck, hope this helps.

Jim

 

Date Posted:

05/27/2006 01:12:19 PM

Posted By: Peter Grainge (Senior Member)
Jim

I have added your useful post to my topic on JavaHelp. Happy to add your proper name if you prefer.

Visit www.grainge.org for a range of RoboHelp and authoring related topics.