Topic: Custom help for custom CUIx

[Matt__W]

Has anyone created custom help files (I guess they are XAML format) for their custom CUIx files? I'm wondering 1) how difficult was it and 2) do you need any special software to create the XAML? Or can it be done in Notepad and then saved as XAML??

[JNieman]

Man, I hadn't done this in a while... I did embark upon it, only to get a few pages into it and flip the desk on it and ragequit.  I ended up creating MS Word docs with hyperlinks.  It was crude, brute force, but it worked, and people /actually referenced them/ much to my amazement.  Someone even took over and used the template file I set up to continue making more after I left, because the boss liked them so much.

Like I said, crude, not the most eloquent, and I know some people /hate/ doc files with all sorts of rubbish embedded in them, but at the end of the day, people didn't ask me as many questions about stupid crap, so I chalked it up to a win.  The only added question I got was "Why won't my links work when I click on them?" because they had saved some docs to their desktop :/  Once I replaced their saved docs with a 'shortcut' icon, it solved that, though.

tl;dr, Yes, and I can't help you at all!  :/  sorry...

[mjfarrell]

create in word....save as HTML>>>convert to CHM

(help "achelp.chm" "mycommand")

[Matt__W]

The CUI uses an XAML file.

[dgorsman]

The help XAML documentation is lacking, it doesn't use the full range of XAML tags (I can't find a reference aside from a side note in the AutoCAD developer docs).  And one HUGE problem: once you assign a XAML help file to a CUIx element, you can't null it out.  You can only point it to another XAML file.

[Matt__W]

Sounds like I'll be skipping that part then. 

Thanks for the info.

[mjfarrell]

The CUI uses an XAML file.

Try here then:  https://xaml.codeplex.com/