a HAT (Help Authoring Tool) An application much like WinHelp to convert HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) files to help format. It creates a table of contents, index, and various cross references. The advantage is that it is platform independent. Sun devised the basic framework and various third parties have created tools for it. If your help system generates PDF (Portable Document Format) or HTML, it need not be Java friendly. You just launch a browser of Acrobat reader to handle the help.
Increasingly programmers are abandoning proprietary help formats in favour of ordinary online HTML. The advantages include:
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recommend book⇒Creating Effective JavaHelp | |||
| by: | Kevin Lewis | 978-1-56592-719-3 | paperback | |
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| publisher: | O’Reilly | |||
| published: | 2000-06 | |||
| Out of print, but available via Safari online and used. | ||||
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