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 7.1 Developing Windows Help files
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 Windows Help provides online help for users working with a Windows application.
 Windows Help provides a practical way to present information about your
 application in a format users can access easily. This topic introduces the
 tools you can use to develop Windows Help files and to incorporate Help in
 Windows applications.

 Windows Help files can display information by using the following elements:

        Text in multiple fonts, sizes, and colors

        Bitmaps and metafiles with up to 16 colors

        Segmented-graphics bitmaps with embedded hot spots

        Cross-reference jumps for links to additional information

        Pop-up windows to present text and graphics

        Secondary windows to present information without the full menus and buttons of Windows Help

        Keywords to help users find the information they need

 You create help files by creating topic and graphics files and a Help project
 file. A topic file contains the text for the help topic and contains the Help
 statements and macros that define the format of the text and the position of
 graphics in each topic. The graphics files contain the bitmaps and metafiles
 you want to display in the topics. The project file contains a description of
 how to build the help file. You use the Help Compiler to build the final help
 file. Combining the topic, graphics, and project files, the compiler creates
 a single help file (with the filename extension .HLP) that you can open and
 view by using Windows Help.