Project Properties Reference

The settings in this section control how your project is exported to Winhelp. Winhelp is now an obsolete format that should not be used for modern applications but Help & Manual 4 still includes full support for it for backward compatibility. However, support for the 16-bit Winhelp format used in Windows 3.0 is no longer provided as this format is no longer relevant or necessary for any purposes.

Since the introduction of Windows 98 HTML Help has been the standard format for help for Windows applications and it should be used for all new applications.

NEWS: Winhelp is no longer supported in Windows Vista!

Please note that support for the Winhelp format has been completely discontinued in Microsoft Windows Vista. Even if your applications run under Vista, any calls to Winhelp help will simply produce an error message. This also applies to dual-mode popups in HTML Help. We thus strongly recommend that you start transitioning to an alternative help format as soon as possible. See here for details