XYplorer Beta Club
With all due respect and I do mean this in the politest way possible, waiting for a converter to seamlessly and perfectly transform from one format to another is not good enough. There is no significant market demand for such a tool and there probably won't be even after Microsoft withdraws its official support for itadmin wrote:Well yes, I would have gone CHM (with HLP as an alternative option) years ago if I'd found a bloody converter that actually works!
HLP as a help format is on its last legs. I admire Microsoft for pledging to include a support update for Windows 7, I hope that they will do so soon. Yes, in the meantime, there is a workaround, but it creates a situation where you have to rely on someone else (other than you, Don) to provide a solution. I remember you saying that XYplorer will never rely on 3rd-party software to function. Is it that much different to have to rely on another individual to offer a workaround? Like TheQwerty and JC said, the current workarounds are either "techy" or unavailable to trial users. It means a lot that it's us, the paid users, who are raising this matter. I realise that rebuilding the help file from scratch in another indexable and searchable format is a lot of effort. I think a couple of questions that you have to ask yourself are: "Is the help file important in the context of XYplorer as a whole and will you have HLP as the help format that's built into XYplorer in 12-18 months time?" If the answer to the former is yes, then the answer to the latter should be no.
EDIT: Ironically, one of XY's competitors which shall remain nameless today announced an official release with the help file being entirely in CHM format. Go figure.
, now CHM 
. Can't you stick to your guns when you say "no"? 
You know, I say "no" to "no", I'm that negative.