Adding Help to Scribble After the Fact

This topic explains how to add context-sensitive Help to an application when you did not originally choose it as an AppWizard option.

Suggested Reading in the Visual C++ User's Guide

• Overview: Menu Editor
  
  
• Overview: Accelerator Editor
  
  
• Overview: String Editor
  
  
• Overview: Toolbar Editor

Merging context-sensitive Help support into Scribble at a later stage requires several general steps. Each step is explained in more detail in the following topics. The overall steps are:

1. Run AppWizard and choose the context-sensitive Help option to create a new application that has the help-related files and code.

   See the procedure To generate AppWizard application help support. You’ll use this skeleton application to copy code and resources into Scribble.

2. Copy resources from this application to Scribble.

   See the topic Copying Help-Specific Resources to Scribble.

3. Copy help-related files and code from the application to Scribble.

   See the topic Copying the Help-Related Code and Files to Scribble.

4. Customize the contents of the files you copied from HelpApp.

   See the topic Customizing the Help Files and Code for Scribble.

5. Build the new version of Scribble and compile its Help file.

   See the topic Completing Scribble’s Help Implementation.