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USING ROBOHELP HTML 9
Generating Help and printed documents
Expanding glossary hotspot definitions
Fonts are automatically set to JavaHelp default fonts. Font size is unsupported.
Fonts
Only simple forms appear properly in the JavaHelp viewer.
Forms
Unsupported.
Framesets
HTML files generated by Word 2000 or later
Supports WinHelp topic, Shortcut, Table of Contents, Index, Splash Screen, Close Window, and
HTML Help controls
HHCTRL Version.
Don't appear consistently in compressed JavaHelp. Background images and image maps are unsupported.
Images
Supports links to e-mail addresses, FTP sites, and external files.
Links
Only simple bulleted or numbered lists appear properly in the JavaHelp viewer.
Lists
Supports sound files, such as WAV or MIDI, and video files, such as AVI.
Multimedia
Supports tags, such as P align="center".
Paragraph alignment
Supports non-HTML files.
Plain text
The pop-up note window does not have a bottom border if the entire pop-up note is contained within
Pop-up links
the content frame. This limitation does not apply to text-only pop-up notes.
Supports ActiveX controls, DHTML, JavaScript, startup screens, and Visual Basic scripts.
Special effects
Support for partial cascading style sheets is provided with JavaHelp 1.1. (External style sheets work
Style sheets
correctly.) You can use level 1 cascading style sheets with the Sun Java 2 JDK or later, or Swing 1.1.1 with Sun Java 2
JDK or later.
The following attributes are unsupported:
Table attributes
• Values set in the initial tag (TABLE) of a table override cell width specifications.
• The table width attribute (TABLE WIDTH) functions when specified in absolute pixels, but not in percentages.
• When used within the TABLE tag, the background color attribute (BGCOLOR) does not function.
• When used within the TABLE tag, the break tag (BR) causes the table cell to expand by the number of BR tags used.
Note: This feature is supported in JavaHelp 1.1.3 and later.
• Table alignment cannot be set precisely.
Text animations and effects
Oracle Help layout
About Oracle Help
Oracle Help is an output type that works with applications written in Java or any other programming language.
Oracle Help is a compressed file (.jar) or a set of files used to run a Help system for an application. When you generate
Oracle Help, the files to distribute are created in a single output folder.
Authoring requirements
• Oracle Help components, version 3.2.2, or 4.1.2 or later
Appear inline.
Unsupported.
Unsupported.
Last updated 12/14/2011
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