In addition to the mainstays of Help files, text, and images, many Help developers seek to incorporate Flash movies (.swf files) into their Help files. Traditional Help files started off as a series of topics containing text that amounted to step-by-step instructions on how to use various aspects of a software application or accomplish certain tasks. Now, some Help developers started using multimedia files, such as Flash movies. Since Flash is ideally suited for display in HTML pages, and HTML Help is the standard HTML-based Help format, the two make an ideal combination.
With Pocket CHM, you can easily incorporate Flash movies (.swf files) into a HTML Help file (.CHM file). When you drag and drop a .swf file onto the Pocket CHM, the program will automatically generate a wrapper HTML file that is used to display your .swf file, and add the wrapper HTML file to your Help project.
The wrapper HTML file generated by Pocket CHM is named as the below way:
"SWF file name" + "_" + "swf"
For example, if the name of your swf file is "test.swf", then the wrapper HTML file name will be "test_swf.htm".
Certainly, you can change the code of the HTML file to custom behaviors of the Flash movie.
After you compile your Help project, the .swf file is actually be embedded in your final HTML Help file (.CHM file), so you only need to ship your HTML Help file.
07/19/2007
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