Help files

Posted:
Oct 22, 2003 @ 7:35pm
by nicholsr
So, your using GAPIDraw and want to display help information. What's the best (fastest, easiest, etc) way to include multi page help that works with GAPIDraw?
Thanks

Richard


Posted:
Oct 22, 2003 @ 7:46pm
by ppcStudios
In Warlords, I stored my tutorial help info in flat, pipe delimited text files which I read in as needed. This makes it easy to both edit and internationalize for different languages. Each line of text is context sensitive, and I read in only up to the required line. The pipe delimiters let me pre-format the text to fit within whatever size popup dialog I choose to use.

Posted:
Oct 23, 2003 @ 3:56am
by mlepage
Thinking outside the box... record yourself reading the help and play it back as an mp3... :D