HelpSystem
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Introduction

HelpSystem (Latest version is 1.5)
This software originally came from DeverSYS open source EDA initiative.
Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Andrei A. Gratchev, DeverSYS Corp., www.deversys.com


What is HelpSystem?

The HelpSystem helps to embed useful interactive help (documentation) to your application on Tcl/Tk (or, may be, on other source language).

The HelpSystem may be used as standalone application or as part of your program (as library). It is written on 100% pure Tcl/Tk and can be used on any platforms and any OS, which supports Tcl/Tk.

Main features of HelpSystem:
  • shows hyper-text help based on HTML
  • auto creates index of topics (for .help files)
  • can auto create contents and index of topics (for .html files)
  • saves history of showed topics
  • interactive showing
  • can be embedded or separated window
  • supports search for text at current topic and entire help
  • can convert topics of help file to separated html files
  • can invoke a tcl script from help file
  • and more...
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Also, the HelpSystem can be used as simple HTML viewer (for local files).


License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

(c) Copyright by Andrei A. Gratchev, 2001-2003