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New UniHelp 3.2
The Award-Winning, Cross-Platform
Help System for REALbasic!

Apple Help Viewer, Microsoft HTML Help, WinHelp.... Why waste your precious development time designing and compiling a different Help system for each platform when you can easily use the full-featured, cross-platform UniHelp for all of them? NO additional plugins or classes needed. Just drag the UniHelp components folder into your REALbasic project, create your HTML help pages and customize your configuration settings with the FREE UniHelp Edition of HelpLogic, and that's it -- instant online help for your compiled REALbasic applications that works on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. Download UniHelp today!

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HelpLogic FREE UniHelp Edition of HelpLogic!
All licensed UniHelp customers are given FREE access to a special UniHelp Edition of HelpLogic for quickly creating UniHelp compatible help pages! Click Here for Details...

Licensing Options:

  • Freeware Version -- FREE!
    You may use the encrypted UniHelp classes in your non-commercial and freeware compiled REALbasic applications Royalty-Free. The Freeware version does NOT include support of any kind. Free Download!
     
  • Pro UniHelp/HelpLogic License -- only $49.00 (US)
    You may use the encrypted UniHelp classes in your commercial and shareware compiled REALbasic applications Royalty-Free. Licensed UniHelp customers receive access to a special UniHelp Edition of HelpLogic for quickly creating UniHelp compatible help pages (Click Here for Details). This license includes one (1) Single Incident Support Plan. Buy a UniHelp/HelpLogic License!
     
  • Single Incident Support Plan -- only $39.00 (US)
    Under this plan, Electric Butterfly will assist a support customer with a single UniHelp related issue, reviewing the customer's code to help troubleshoot/resolve the reported issue. If you want help with more than one issue, then purchase a Single Incident Support Plan for each issue. Buy a Single Incident Support Plan!

Key Features:

  • Now Supports Most HTML Tags and CSS Styles!
  • Utilizes REALbasic's HTMLViewer Control for displaying HTML help pages.
  • Supports URL Links, Relative Links, and Email Links.
  • Supports Images, Video and Audio.
  • Hierarchical Listbox Displays Help Table of Contents.
  • Built-in Search Engine and Keyword-based Index.
  • Supports Context-Sensitive Help Searches.
  • Customizable Icons, Title Bar, Start Page, Table of Contents, Font Sizes, Window Positioning, etc.
  • GUI Support for English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Swedish, and Japanese.
  • Small Footprint: Since Your Help Pages are External, only the UniHelp Classes are Compiled with Your REALbasic Application.
  • Supports Help Pages placed in either an External Help Folder or a REALbasic Virtual Volume.
  • Familiar Help-style Interface with Back, Forward, and Home buttons.
  • Run REALbasic Methods from within your HTML help pages by clicking on HTML-based "UHScript" hyperlinks.
  • Built-in Keyboard Shortcuts for closing the UniHelp window (Command-W on Mac or Control-W on Microsoft Windows).
  • Built-in Error Handling.
  • Easy to Use & Royalty-Free!

"UniHelp" and "Electric Butterfly" are never mentioned anywhere on the UniHelp interface, providing you with a full-featured generic Help solution -- your software customers will think you built it yourself!

What's New in 3.2:

  • [Opt] - Modified code in UniHelpEngine and UniHelpViewer to improve compatibility with REALbasic 2008r2.

What's New in 3.1:

  • [Fix] - A workaround solution for a long-standing REALbasic HTMLViewer Mac bug (Verified REAL Feedback Report: pfquijwi). Since this REALbasic Mac bug causes the HTMLViewer to display either a blank page or incorrectly rendered HTML when the control is resized via code before the window is shown/loaded, UniHelp's custom window resizing feature has been completely reworked to avoid this bug. As a small side effect to this solution, end-users will see the UniHelp window quickly resize itself after it is initially displayed.
  • [Opt] - To workaround a Windows bug in REALbasic2008r2's built-in XML classes, UniHelp now utilizes a different method to list the topics within a Chapter when that Chapter is expanded in the TOC.
  • [Opt] - To ensure compatibility with future versions of REALbasic, UniHelpEngine's constructor method has been renamed "Constructor".
  • [Chg] - Several properties have now been removed from the UniHelpEngine class since they were deprecated back in Version 3.0, such as SerialNumber, SizeH1, SizeH2, SizeH3, SizeNormal, SizeSmall.

What's the difference between HelpLogic and UniHelp?

UniHelp is a cross-platform help viewer component for REALbasic developers, providing an easy solution for embedding an HTML-based, cross-platform help system in REALbasic applications.

HelpLogic is a help authoring tool that can quickly generate help pages for UniHelp, as well as other popular help formats like Apple Help, Microsoft HTML Help, Web-based Help, and PDF. Available for Mac OS X and Windows XP, HelpLogic's award-winning design removes the development headaches of help authoring with time-saving features like the built-in Visual TOC Builder, Project Workshop, HTML Editor, Link Manager and more! HelpLogic's flexible single user license for use with both the Mac and Windows Editions is the ideal solution for cross-platform software developers, help authors, web site designers, and documentation writers. Click Here for More Information on HelpLogic...

 
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Unauthorized distribution or resale of UniHelp is strictly prohibited. Commercial or shareware use of UniHelp without purchasing a Pro License is strictly prohibited. UniHelp is a trademark of Electric Butterfly, Inc. REALbasic and the "green cube" are trademarks of REAL Software, Inc.

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Requirements
REALbasic 2006r3 or higher
Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, or Linux
 
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