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Postmortem: UniHelp

REALbasic Module (Classic/Carbon/Win32)

Issue: 1.2 (October/November 2002)
Author: Dave Wooldridge
Author Bio: Dave Wooldridge is the founder of Electric Butterfly (http://www.ebutterfly.com), a Los Angeles web design and software development company, responsible for such REALbasic-made products as Stimulus, Lighthouse, and the forthcoming CodeQuiver.
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Electric Butterfly has built several shareware and freeware applications in REALbasic, most of which are consumer-oriented products; UniHelp was our first venture into commercial developer tools for REALbasic. The first version of UniHelp was finished in approximately two months, and since then we've released several updates with new features and refinements.
What is UniHelp?
In a nutshell, UniHelp is a module that adds a complete cross-platform help system to your REALbasic project. When compiling an application for several platforms such as Classic Mac, Mac OS X, and the various versions of Microsoft Windows, creating online help for your application can be quite laborious. Building Apple Help for your OS 9 and OS X users, and then Microsoft HTML Help or WinHelp for your Windows users, can consume a lot more time and effort than you are willing (or even able) to spend when rushing to release a new software product.
This is where UniHelp comes to the rescue. No additional plug-ins or classes are needed. Just drag the UniHelp module and its graphics folder into your REALbasic project, add a few lines of code, create your external help pages, and that's it - instant online help for your compiled REALbasic applications that look and function the same on Classic Mac, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP.

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