Helpsoft logo
Download | Support | QA | Prices | Rus | Eng |
     Bookmark and Share
 

Glossary

 

A


ASCII Coding

One-byte coding used for representation in the computer of text data. Seven - or eight-bit table ASCII allows to code 128 or 256 different signs. Standard coding ASCII uses 7 bits for representation of all capital and lower case letters, numbers from 0 to 9, punctuation marks and the special operating symbols applied in an English apportion for the USA. Modern systems on the basis of processors x86 support expanded coding ASCII. The expanded coding uses the eighth bit of each code for representation of 128 additional special symbols, letters of various alphabets and graphic signs.

Help Collection

Set of  Chm/HxS compiled in one Help.

 

B


Bookmark

The called arrangement on web page which can be hyperlink appointment. The bookmark can look like a line of the text or exist on a page independently. Bookmarks allow to establish connection with concrete section on a page. Bookmarks also sometimes are called «a binding».

 

H


Heading

Style of the paragraph in which the font size is more than font size of the usual text. The size of the text in headings depends on its level: in style «Heading 1» the size maximum, in style «Heading 2» the second-large size and etc.

 

Hidden text

Prevents selected text from being displayed. To view hidden text, click the Microsoft Office Button Button image, and then click Word Options. Click Display, and then under Always show these formatting marks on the screen, select the Hidden text check box

 

HTML Help

Microsoft® HTML Help is the standard help system for the Windows platform. Authors can use HTML  Help to create online help for a software application or to create content for a multimedia title or Web site. Developers can use the HTML  Help API to program a host application or hook up context-sensitive help to an application. As an information delivery system, HTML  Help is suited for a wide range of applications, including training guides, interactive books, and electronic newsletters, as well as help for software applications.

 

HTML  Help 1.x

HTML Help offers special advantages for HTML standard - possibility to use maintenance and index association and use selected for fast access to the reference. Compiler HTML Help (part HTML Help Workshop) allows compressing HTML, graphic and other files in rather small compiled Help file (chm), which then can be extended in the form of the appendix to the software.

 

HTML  Help 2.x

To include such features, as a table of contents, search in keywords, and attributes in Help collections. To use dynamic filtering, to help users, to reduce scales of the presented information, and to arrange near at hand themes which are necessary for a problem solved now. To collect the set of Help themes in one compressed Нelp (.HxS) file. To operate easily with the big sets of documents. Microsoft Help 2., provides the finished environment for creation of Help. VS IDE contains various editors, and tools of projects' construction which allow you to create, check and improve, your Help, doing all it in one place.

 

Hyperlink

The index on web page or a file, figure or another page element. In the Internet hyperlinks are the basic means of transitions between web pages and websites. Hyperlinks sometimes are called “references”.

 

QA


Questions and Answers

 

Project File


All parameters which you enter in the form are remembered in a file of the project which should be edited only through the interface. Extension of this file is .1ch.It is registered in Windows and if you click on it two times, application OneClickHelp will be started

There are the following sections:

  1. <ProjectSettings>
  2. <Word2Help>
  3. <BackHomeNext>
  4. <WordHtmlToHtmls>
  5. <HtmlHelp>
  6. <DeCompilation>
  7. <Collection>
  8. <Chm2Word>

In each section parameters for the appropriate program are defined.

 

S


Shareware

Shareware (Try before you buy) is a marketing method, not a type of software. Unlike software marketed through normal retail channels, where you are forced to pay for the product before you've even seen it, the shareware marketing method lets you try program for a period of time before you buy it. Since you've tried a shareware program, you know whether it will meet your needs before you pay for it. Shareware programs are just like programs you find in major stores, catalogs, and other places where people purchase software, except you get to use them, on your own computer, before paying for them.

 

What if I like a shareware program?

You pay for it at the end of a trial period (typically 30 days) by sending the author a fee he or she has established for the program.

 

Site (Web)

Set of the connected web pages, drawings, documents, multimedia and other files kept in the general catalogue on a web server.

 

Style

Style is  the set of characteristics of formatting to which the unique name is appointed. By means of styles it is possible to format quickly all group of elements on a page  by one simple action. Styles can be applied to the majority of elements of html pages, including the text (separate symbols or the whole paragraphs), drawings and tables.

 

Т


HTML TAG

The text line made in angular brackets (< >), indicating type, a format and parameters of display of an element of page.

 

TAG Meta

HTML-tag in section HEAD of web page. Тags META contain data of the page, such as the page coding.

 

 

U


Unicode

Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what is the platform, no matter what is the program, no matter what is the language. The Unicode Standard has been adopted by such industry leaders as Apple, HP, IBM, JustSystem, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Sun, Sybase, Unisys and many others. Unicode is required by modern standards such as XML, Java, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML, etc., and is the official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646. It is supported in many operating systems, all modern browsers, and many other products. The emergence of the Unicode Standard, and the availability of tools supporting it, are among the most significant recent global software technology trends.

 

 

UTF-8

(8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is able to represent any character in the Unicode standard, yet the initial encoding of byte codes and character assignments for UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII. For these reasons, it is steadily becoming the preferred encoding for e-mail, web pages, and other places where characters are stored or streamed.

 


 

BackHomeNext

  
Copyright © 2010 HelpSoft. All rights reserved.  | Contact us |