ELECTRIC BUTTERFLY RELEASES UNIHELP 2
Cross-Platform Help System for REALbasic Adds Support for Linux, Inline
Images, HTML Tables, and Improved Context-Sensitive Help
LOS ANGELES, California, USA (December 8, 2005) - Electric Butterfly
announces
the immediate availability of UniHelp 2, the award-winning help
system for
REALbasic. UniHelp provides an easy-to-use, feature-rich solution for
REALbasic developers who want to add online help to their cross-platform
applications. Version 2, which is a free update for all registered
UniHelp
customers, adds support for Linux, HTML Tables, Inline Images, the
Font tag,
a new XML-based Table of Contents, a new Index tab, and more!
Apple Help Viewer, Microsoft HTML Help, WinHelp.... Why waste precious
development time designing and compiling a different Help system for
each
platform when you can easily use UniHelp for all of them? NO additional
plugins or classes needed. Just drag the respective 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.
WHAT'S NEW IN UNIHELP 2:
-- UniHelp now compiles for Linux!
-- HTML is now displayed in a custom Canvas instead of the previous
Editfield. The new Canvas-based HTML rendering engine is based on Joe
Strout's amazing HTML Renderer classes. Joe's classes have been heavily
modified by Electric Butterfly with new features and support for
dozens of
additional HTML tags, exclusively for use with UniHelp.
-- UniHelp now supports Inline Images, HTML Tables, the Font tag, and
more!
-- UniHelp now supports 148 HTML entities, including both character
entities
and decimal entities. For example: use > or > for greater than
(>)
and < or < for less than (<).
-- Table of Contents is now powered by XML, providing support for
long topic
names with accentuated and special characters on any supported UniHelp
platform.
-- New Index tab for finding topics by keyword!
-- Improved, lightning-fast search engine speed.
-- Support for context-sensitive help is now vastly improved with the
ability to search for keyword-related help topics from your application!
-- Support for assigning custom mouse cursors when hovering over HTML
hyperlinks (such as the "pointing finger" cursor).
-- New status bar for displaying external URL link and email
addresses (upon
mouse over).
-- UniHelp has been redesigned from the ground-up with a new class
architecture for a more optimized, object-oriented approach that
prevents
global namespace clutter. This new class architecture will also make
it much
easier to update UniHelp in your apps with new versions.
-- Plus dozens of other enhancements and improvements!
KEY FEATURES:
-- Displays Both HTML and ASCII Text Files.
-- Parses More Than 35 Standard HTML Tags, including Inline Images and
Tables.
-- Parses More Than 148 HTML Entities.
-- 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,
Window Positioning, etc.
-- GUI Support for English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch,
German, 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, Home, and Print
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 and 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!
AVAILABILITY AND PRICING:
Product Information and Trial Download:
<http://www.ebutterfly.com/rb/unihelp.asp>
FREE UNIHELP EDITION OF HELPLOGIC:
All registered UniHelp customers are given FREE access to a special
UniHelp
Edition of HelpLogic for easily creating your UniHelp compatible help
pages
and settings! HelpLogic is the award-winning help authoring solution
for Mac
OS X and Windows XP. For complete details, please visit:
<http://www.ebutterfly.com/helplogic/unihelp.asp>
Not yet a registered UniHelp customer? Purchase a UniHelp license
today to
take advantage of this special offer of a FREE UniHelp Edition of
HelpLogic!
For only $49.00 US, you can add UniHelp to an unlimited number of
REALbasic
applications. UniHelp is ROYALTY-FREE, so you pay only once (per
developer)
and then use it in all your REALbasic projects and distribute your
compiled
applications with NO additional fees! Convert the Demo version into a
Registered version and receive unlimited e-mail tech support by
purchasing a
UniHelp Serial Number at <http://www.ebutterfly.com/rb/unihelp.asp>
UniHelp was Made with REALbasic and
Requires REALbasic 5.5 or higher.
ABOUT ELECTRIC BUTTERFLY:
Founded in 1995, Electric Butterfly is an award-winning web design and
software development company, responsible for such products as
HelpLogic,
Stimulus, WSL-Amazon, and the popular developer site, RBGarage.com.
Contact:
Dave Wooldridge
ebutterfly at comcast dot net
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