Help Tools

HelpBuilder provides a quick and easy method to create and maintain Windows Help files. Using a familiar point-and-click interface, help files can be created with advanced features as standard. Supports all of the standard Windows Help features. Uses Projects, includes SpellChecker, error checking on project build, project Wizard, context sensitive Help. Creates Help files for all programming tools. Quick/easy contruction of help files.
Publisher: GPP Software - 2004-02-24

Type: Shareware
File size: 1733 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP

Price: 149 $

Convert paper documentation, particularly software user guides, into Windows Help and HTML. Many tools exist that would appear to do the job, but unlike Single Source they tend to be limited in the automatic creation of the following: " What’ s This?" help, MAP file (for linking to a program), Contents file, Related Topics lists, hypertext links, and help index. Requires Microsoft Word and Help Compiler.
Publisher: Silvawood Software - 2004-04-17

Type: Shareware
File size: 138 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, WinXP, Windows2000

Price: 39 $

Authors can use fpHelp add-in for Microsoft FrontPage to create windows helps for a software application or content for a multimedia title. As an information delivery system, HTML Help is suited for a wide range of applications, including training guides, interactive books and newsletters. In a few mouse clicks you will receive the CHM file from your FrontPage web site. Also you can decompile any CHM file into web site.
Publisher: Franz AG - 2004-05-20

Type: Shareware
File size: 958 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinXP, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, Windows2003

Price: 61 $

Helptrix is a help authoring system for creating professional help and manuals in several formats from a single source. Start publishing your manuals as PDF, HTML Help or as HTML with a single click! Helptrix provides a tool for translating help or manuals to additional languages and maintaining multi-language help systems. With Helptrix you only focus on the content you are writing, you can set the formatting rules and appearance anytime.
Publisher: InterSoft, a.s. - 2004-08-02

Type: Shareware
File size: 15039 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP

Price: 48 $

Document! X shortcuts the process of creating and maintaining documentation and context sensitive on-line help for .Net Assemblies, Visual Basic/VBA/Visual Basic .NET source code, COM components, type libraries, databases and XSD Schemas. Document! X produces a comprehensive and accurate professional quality documentation set for your components, applications and databases - automatically.
Publisher: Innovasys - 2004-10-04

Type: Commercial
File size: 28694 Kb

OS: Windows2000, WinXP

Price: 550 $

The HelpStudio user interface is intuitive and full of time saving and productivity features designed to make Help Authoring an enjoyable experience. Creating the Table of Contents or Glossary, adding Index Keywords and See Also Links, capturing screenshots and designing PDF booklets are all fully integrated and simply achieved using a few clicks or drag and drop.
Publisher: Innovasys - 2004-10-06

Type: Commercial
File size: 24414 Kb

OS: WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP

Price: 449 $

The NCD.EXE allows you to control NCD products directly from a command line interface in DOS. NCD.EXE does NOT require 3rd party tools or components, as it speaks directly to DOS. With NCD.EXE, you may test and control an NCD device directly without programming. It can also be used in a batch file to do complex jobs or called in your own program. NCD.EXE is a free distribution for use ONLY with NCD products.
Publisher: National Control Devices - 2004-10-27

Type: Freeware
File size: 418 Kb

OS: MS-DOS

Price: 0 $

What would you do if you lost the source to your help file? Did you ever see a help file that you liked but couldn't figure out how they did it? With one click, the VQ CHM Decompiler extracts the topics, contents file, index file, window definitions, compiler options, map and alias sections, and, above and beyond most decompilers, creates the HTML Help Project File. You have the complete source to create the help file.
Publisher: Vi Qual Software - 2004-12-10

Type: Demo
File size: 6924 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003

Price: 29.95 $

Visage for Windows® Help Designer/HTML Edition is a specialized WYSIWYG environment for quickly and easily creating Microsoft HTML Help systems. With WHD for Microsoft HTML Help, you do not need to know anything about HTML Help to easily create Help systems in this new format. WHD for Microsoft HTML Help provides all the power to create sophisticated HTML Help systems for application Help.
Publisher: Visagesoft - 2005-01-01

Type: Shareware
File size: 8087 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003

Price: 96 $

Visagesoft for Windows® Help Designer is a stand alone and true WYSIWYG Windows help authoring tool. It provides all the basic features of a Help authoring software, including the ability to work with topics, set the browse order of topics, and open and save RTF files. It can also launch the Windows Help compiler to build the project. However, the features don' t stop there.
Publisher: Visagesoft - 2005-01-01

Type: Shareware
File size: 9100 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003

Price: 120 $

Hotspot Builder is a powerful application that lets you create and edit graphics files with included hotspots. These are predefined regions that can operate as hotlinks to help topics, as pop-up links, or even as special macros. The additional screen capture and color-depth conversion tools make it an extremely useful member of your help authoring toolkit. Download your free trial copy now!
Publisher: Divcom Software - 2005-03-06

Type: Shareware
File size: 885 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinXP, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, Windows2003

Price: 39.95 $

Software-Promoter does one thing for you: it helps you to promote your software. Free big sites collection is included for your promotion purposes. PAD specifications and promotion to national archives are supported. User-defined reports are better way to see results.
Publisher: Nick Mokhnatov, Independent software developer - 2005-04-04

Type: FreeWare
File size: 1776 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP

Price: 0 $

Create help files for components based on source code to integrate it with Delphi IDE help system. Help file can be generated as popular Help formats (HLP and CHM) so printed documentation in PDF format. Main features: adding any source modification to help project; creating different help formats; visualization of the help writing process; fully functional word processing (WYSIWIG mode); multi language help and documentation.
Publisher: FeatherySoft - 2005-05-24

Type: Shareware
File size: 2694 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinXP, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000

Price: 49 $

DelphiCodeToDoc is a free documentation system for Delphi, released under the GNU General Public License. It uses information about source code symbols and formatted comments in files to produce accurate documentation from your application and component.
Publisher: TridenT - 2005-06-22

Type: Freeware
File size: 1695 Kb

OS: Windows2000, WinXP

Price: 0 $

IShow is an easy-to-use presentation software. Reduce travel expenses with web-based Flash Tutorials Improve new employee productivity with online training Make it easier for staff to learn new skills with 24/7 online learning. Lower support costs by minimizing calls to your help desk with online help Expand the reach of your support team with visual documentation Increase customer retention with " self-help" tutorials. and much more...
Publisher: 1st Studio - 2005-07-20

Type: Shareware
File size: 15611 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, WinXP, Windows2000

Price: 399 $

IShow is an easy-to-use presentation software. Reduce travel expenses with web-based Flash Tutorials Improve new employee productivity with online training Make it easier for staff to learn new skills with 24/7 online learning. Lower support costs by minimizing calls to your help desk with online help Expand the reach of your support team with visual documentation Increase customer retention with " self-help" tutorials. and much more...
Publisher: 1st Studio - 2005-07-20

Type: Shareware
File size: 15612 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, WinXP, Windows2000

Price: 599 $

Word2Help is a converter from Microsoft Word document(s) into Macromedia Dreamweaver web pages (articles). Using Microsoft Word is a best way to work with documents. With Word2Help you can use it for manage content too. Just put document file name into Word2Help project and process it into Dreamweaver articles and/or Compressed HTML help.
Publisher: Nick Mokhnatov, Independent software developer - 2005-07-30

Type: Freeware
File size: 894 Kb

OS: Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, WinXP, Windows2000, Windows2003

Price: 0 $

SQLHelp produces programmers reference documentation for stored procedures. Requiring no active SQL Server connection, SQLHelp can produce annotated documentation describing each procedure, its parameters, output return values and result sets, executed procedures and the transactional nature of the procedure. Output options include searchable, colorized source code for each procedure.
Publisher: Pikauba Software - 2005-08-18

Type: Shareware
File size: 2341 Kb

OS: Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003

Price: 75 $

Help Development Studio is a popular, full-featured, stand-alone, complete help authoring tool, which is designed to create WinHelp, HTML Help, and Web Help files from the same source. The integrated environment, with its easy-to-use interface, includes all that's necessary for the quick and easy creation of high quality help files. Download your copy now and get a FREE 30-day trial!
Publisher: Divcom Software - 2005-10-22

Type: Shareware
File size: 1364 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinXP, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, Windows2003

Price: 94.95 $

HelpConsole 2006 is the easiest way to create Help Systems and PDF manuals for your website or to distribute with your software products. Create a 'Help Center' within your existing website that your staff can easily update at anytime from anywhere. Publish online product manuals, product demos, FAQs, knowledgebase articles, PDF manuals, etc.
Publisher: Extreme Ease Software - 2005-11-28

Type: Demo
File size: 8207 Kb

OS: WinME, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003

Price: 99 $

Design WebHelp systems and PDF manuals to be integrated and distributed with your software products. This edition creates webhelp systems that are portable and do not require a web server to run so they can be distributed on a CD, run on a network, etc.
Publisher: Extreme Ease Software - 2005-11-28

Type: Demo
File size: 9765 Kb

OS: Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003

Price: 99 $

CHM eBook Reader for Pocket PC is a program, that allows you to view files in the most common Windows help format (*.CHM, also known as "compiled HTML"), on the Pocket PC platform. Key features: Opening CHM files of any size not longer than in 2 seconds, even huge Microsoft Press CHM eBooks; Full-Text Search in a whole CHM file.
Publisher: microOLAP Technologies LTD - 2006-01-03

Type: Shareware
File size: 890 Kb

OS: Windows CE, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 2003, Handheld/Mobile Other

Price: 14.95 $

Gray Simulator is OPC Server that can be usefull in OPC Clients debugging. Gray Simulator provides a set of various OPC tags: harmonic waves; triangle waves; square waves; ramps; random numbers and logical variables; random strings; random dates; enumerations; storage registers of different types. This OPC simulator is fully compliant with OPC Data Access 1.00, 2.05a and 3.00.
Publisher: Graybox Software - 2006-01-09

Type: Freeware
File size: 500 Kb

OS: WinXP, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, Windows2003

Price: 0 $

CubeHelpSDK is an advanced help development system that allows you to easily create and integrate help documentation into your applications. Our solution provides you with the possibility to use the fastest conception of help-documentation development, based on HTML technology. With CubeHelp you don't need any software to convert your HTML or RTF-files. You don't need any software to be installed on the client's PC.
Publisher: CubeReality - 2006-02-09

Type: Freeware
File size: 972 Kb

OS: Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003

Price: 0 $

EST Help Author Pro creates the most popular help formats from a single source It supports the following output formats: Ansi Text Manual, Unicode Text Manual, RTF Manual, HTML Manual, HTML Web Help, HTML Web Help with frames, HTML Web Help with JAVA support, Windows Help, CHM Help, Electronic Book (EXE)
Publisher: Bitvadasz Kft - 2006-02-23

Type: Shareware
File size: 14339 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003

Price: 79 $

Finally someone has made a Gel Button Maker for Windows. Make perfect gel, glass, glossy or plastic pill buttons every time with ease in just a few seconds. You don't need to spend hours trying to get a expensive graphics program to make the glossy buttons you need anymore. Save them in all your favorite formats gif, jpg, png, bmp, tif, emf, tga and wbmp. Gel button Maker Pro. Enjoy!
Publisher: Dude Star Products - 2006-03-17

Type: Shareware
File size: 3846 Kb

OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003, Windows Mobile 2003

Price: 29.95 $

eTextWizard is an ebook maker: a quick .chm maker/.hlp maker and many other text convert tools. Html to Chm: Convert html to CHM html help file or ebook. Text to CHM: Convert text to CHM html help file or ebook. Text to Win help: Convert text to Win help file or ebook. Html to Text: Convert html to plain text file. Text to HTML: Convert plain Text to HTML quickly (Support user-defined html module)
Publisher: GuohuaSoft - 2006-03-21

Type: Shareware
File size: 3639 Kb

OS: Win98, WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP

Price: 49 $

Eltima Serial Port Terminal is an ideal tool for testing, debugging and troubleshooting serial port devices. It lets you work with numerous number of ports simultaneously, both serial and virtual ones. You can easily alter baudrate, databits, parity, stop bits, flow control parameters and dynamically apply these changes to serial port settings on the go. You can always check for history of typed commands.
Publisher: ELTIMA Software GmbH - 2006-03-24

Type: Shareware
File size: 2447 Kb

OS: Win98, WinME, WinXP, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, Windows2003

Price: 39.95 $

PowerCHM, a powerful pdf to chm maker! With PowerCHM you can: 1. Automatically create your CHM files from Html Files, Text Files, Microsoft Word Documents and Adobe Acrobat Document. 2. Make CHM Files by Import Folders and All Sub Folders. 3. Directly Open and Save Microsoft HTML Help Workshop Project(.hhp file). 4. Edit a .htm or .html File Directly. 5. Automatically generate topic and index item title by parsing from title, filename or text of a specificed line. 6. Decompile a single CHM file or decompile CHM files in a batch.
Publisher: Dawningsoft Inc - 2006-04-01

Type: Shareware
File size: 1567 Kb

OS: Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003

Price: 39.95 $

A batch decompiler for Compiled Windows HTML Help files (*.chm). ChmDecompiler can extract all/any source files in a MS .chm file or ebook easily and quickly, ChmDecompiler is also a easy-to-use .chm file viewer. Decompile a CHM Html help file or CHM ebook quickly and easily. Recover the .HHP project file perfectly. Decompile all MS CHM files / CHM ebooks in batch processing. Extract a/any files from a chm file or chm ebook.
Publisher: GuohuaSoft - 2006-04-12

Type: Shareware
File size: 2212 Kb

OS: Win98, WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003

Price: 29.95 $