HelpNDoc Personal V1.13    Suggested by teobromina - Added on 25 Mar 2007 5MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (1179) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (7) - Post comment - Permalink

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 Dan: The listed dependency installs files on the local computer... not very portable. It looks like you should be able to just pick up those installed files and put them on your portable drive.

But, HelpNDoc puts more than just toolbar locations in the registry... it adds a file association with .hnd files, a MRU list, and... the most unportable bit of all... the location of the hhc.exe compiler that comes with Microsoft HTML Help Workshop. This means every time you move the program to a new computer you'll have to tell HelpNDoc where hhc.exe is again (well it only asks when you go to compile). Also it's an absolute path so if your drive letter changes it'll just ask again.

Someone needs to make a wrapper for this... maybe someone should ask this guy: http://portableapps.com/ [2007-10-28 17:50]

 Dan: NM about portableapps... I forgot that guy only wraps opensource apps... [2007-10-28 17:54]

 a: this is good software, useful to say the least run it under jauntpe and registry writing is taking care of but if you want to compile, it becomes a real downer, you need to have html help workshop, easy install > copy to the folder, dont forget the hha.dll in windows/system 32 dir, now try and compile uh oh its asks for location, select the program try again.. uh oh a dll isn't registered couldnt compile. this isnt very portable IMHO. needs a portable wrapper authors to lose the dependency on html workshop [2007-11-13 13:05]

 a: ive just tested it and it works so far. but still too many unnecessary steps to make it work as intended. [2007-11-13 13:16]

 j_sk: @Andrew, about VISTA
You should maybe sometimes update the "system requirements" line, for many apps are now VISTA compatible, like HELPnDOCS (since v.1.10!). btw, it's not really intended to be portable, to be honnest. No way to skip Registry at this day. On the other hand, it's fully Vista compliant.
Regards [2008-01-15 00:45]

 Midas: Does work as portable for the reasons stated before -- it writes settings to registry, paths are not relative, it seems it can't use MS HTML Help Workshop if it is not installed (even if it seems to work on its own, after copying the hha.dll file). I recommend this entry for removal... [2008-01-16 03:07]

 Midas: I meant "Does NOT work as portable..." [2008-01-16 03:08]

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