About Browse Groups Browse groups are used for creating sequences of help topics which should be opened when the user clicks the browse buttons. For WinHelp, the browse buttons are added to a help window by adding the BrowseButtons() macro. By default, the 'Main' window of a new WinHelp project already has this macro. Unlike WinHelp, browse buttons are not supported in HTML Help but Help Development Studio allows to use browse buttons based on graphics images. The mechanism of working of browse groups consists in the following. For example, you have five topics in your help project (Topic1, Topic2, Topic3, Topic4, and Topic5) and two browse groups (Group1, Group2). If to add the first three topics to Group1 and the rest two topics to Group2, your browse buttons will be working so: Active Topic Previous Button Next Button Topic1 Disabled Enabled Topic2 Enabled Enabled Topic3 Enabled Disabled Topic4 Disabled Enabled Topic5 Enabled Disabled This simple example answers the question 'why use browse groups?'. But for a small help project, it is often enough to create the only browse group and add all help topics to it. Sometimes, use of different browse groups is really useful. So, you should think how it will be better for your user before you create a browse group. |