Setting Up the Project Directories

First, create a directory structure to fit the organization of your Help project. Figure 17.1 shows one possible structure.

This sample Help project consists of three Help files: CPCD.HLP, FMCD.HLP, and PMCD.HLP. As shown in the illustration, the HYPER project directory is a subdirectory of the directory where you installed Windows Help. The HYPER subdirectory contains the three .HPJ files for the three Help files in the project and a batch file to build the entire project.

HYPER also has a subdirectory for each Help file in the project, a subdirectory for error files, and a subdirectory for archiving built files. In turn, each Help file subdirectory has two subdirectories for the different file types used in the Help file: RTF for topic files and ART for bitmap files.