Talk:Windows Help

Corrected false information about Winhelp engine not being able to display large bitmaps. This is true only for native support. Bitmaps may also be displaying using a bitmap dispayer DLL with works both in situ like the native BMP support, but also floating as a popup window. See referenced work in Microsoft Bookshelf article concerning Microsoft Viewer for further information. Nearly all things microsoft Viewer was capable of, the Winhelp engine is capable of- all the animation, audio, and DIB display routines worked with winhelp. I don't know if that is the case with current versions of winhelp. -Mak Thorpe 08:32, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Windows Help Versions
winhelp 3.00 was distributed with Windows 3.0, and WinOS/2 3.0 (in OS/2 2.00). This version features large buttons etc. It also appeared in the WLO (windows library for OS/2), which feature many of the Windows 3.0 apps ported to OS/2.

winhelp 3.10 was a redistributable, in that one can redistribute newer versions with applications. None the same, these versions are recorded. These are taken from the distributation tapes of operating systems that use it.


 * 3.07.251 Windows 3.0 Multimedia Extensions.
 * 1.00.268 Bookshelf viewer v 1.0 (actually winhelp 3.10, designed to open .mvb files.
 * 3.10.425 Windows 3.10, 3.11, Windows for workgroups 3.10, 3.11 and Windows 9x, Windows 2000
 * 3.10.481 Win-OS2 3.1 from OS/2 3.0
 * 3.10.505 Win-OS3 3.1 from OS/2 4.x and later.  The last help compiler is 3.10.505.

--Wendy.krieger (talk) 10:05, 25 November 2007 (UTC)