Getting Started

General Remark

There are only a few easy steps to create your first working helpset from scratch.

Step 1

Go to the File menu and select New Project.

Step 2

The configure dialog box appears. Change the default settings according to your needs.

Step 3

Once you click OK a working helpset is created. If you already have your HTML content files in the specified directory, then they are automatically mapped and you can create a table of contents and an index with the available targets.

Step 4

Use JHelpAction to integrate your helpset in an application easily.

Additional Remarks

Save your project to a file. Remember to export your changes before you can see them in the helpset navigator. The Create All button exports everything and creates the search database. If you want to edit the XML files outside JHelpDev, you can import them again with the respective Import buttons.

Check out the other sections, if you want to know more about JHelpDev's features.

See also: Running JHelpDev