I wrote a tool to convert the offline help into a CHM for personal use.
A few benefits:
-Much faster
-A Search that is fast and works
-Anchoring, pages automatically scroll to the right position instead of always stating at the top.
-Adjustable look and feel trough optional custom CSS
Remember that the resulting CHM is still a copyrighted work so don’t distribute it, the tools to make it are freeware.
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/maxscript-2013-help-chm-creator
Enjoy!
As said already…
MARVELLOUS !!!
thanks a lot
Thanks!
I agree with you, spacefrog
Your thousandth post is awesome.
Very nice, jonadb:buttrock:
You are now closer to being an angel Thanks man, this is a lifesaver!
Boom!!!
Aha… finally!
i was looking into this just the other day but didn’t spend much time on it. now i dont have to! thanks heaps!
Thanks!. Will save us lots of time…
Here are tweaks, options I used in the past:
[ol]
[li] . project tab
[/li]- create new window definition. (add/modify window definition button)
- enter a name: e.g. “win”
- configure:
[ul]
[li]buttons tab :
[/li]hide/show
back
fordward
Home
Options
Locate
:: uncheck others
[li]position tab :
[/li]save user defined window position after first use
left: 0
top: 40
width : 1255
height : 730
[li]files tab :
[/li]default: ./files/GUID-F039181A-C072-4469-A329-AE60FF7535E7.htm
Home: ./files/GUID-F039181A-C072-4469-A329-AE60FF7535E7.htm
:: default will fix the first page black issue
[li]Navigation pane tab :
[/li]Navigation Pane width : 330
Search tab / advanced
Favorites tab
:: advanced, allows expessions or/and other search stuff
[/ul]
[li] . contents tab
[/li]- select first header named “contents “
- edit (pen button)
- select the entry index.html and remove
- ok
:: this will force to open the chm with the list open
[/ol]
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Cool, I’ve put them in an updated version, nice features!
Thx, I almost missed it was my 1000th post!
i noticed a couple of bugs in the resulting chm. for example if you type “append()” without quotes into the index it shows in the list:
append()
append()[1]
append()[2]
…
append()[9]
this is a common bug with many other terms in the index. ( eg. “controller” goes up to 42 ! )
also in the ‘new in 3dsmax 2013’ section, most of the sub-headings are black text on a black background. so i have to highlight them to read them.
am I doing something wrong or are these known issues?
PS. i am still more than happy to use a chm with a few minor bugs than the html version
I’ve found that if you change the color value in p.section_title_h2 in style/med-max-html.css, this is fixed. The style for this class in override.css does not seem to actually override this value.
That’s how it is in the html help file, only difference is that it’s listed as [2],[3],[4],[5] etc on a single line…
Looking at the html I can extract the title for those sub pages so I can make it look like this:
Controller
-Controller – Functions for use with Constraint Assignments
-Controller – subtitle
etc
Edit:
Update on 1.2.0 available on http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/maxscript-2013-help-chm-creator
This one makes it even better then the original CHM, since all the [1], [2], [3], [etc] are now replaced by individual index entries with the actual title of the subject.
(and the CSS bug is fixed as well in the override.css)