MAKEHM Sample: Utility for Associating Resources with Help Contexts

The MAKEHM sample is a console application that produces a mapping between resource identifications and Help contexts. The sources are provided for MAKEHM to serve as an illustration of a console application that uses MFC and to enable you to modify the tool.

A console application such as MAKEHM is linked with the same variant of the MFC library as graphical user interface (GUI) applications.

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Running the Sample

If you have installed the Microsoft Visual C++ product, the MAKEHM utility (MAKEHM.EXE) is installed by default in \\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools.

The command line syntax to run MAKEHM directly is:

makehm <from>,<to>,<add> [<from>, <to>,<add> [...]] <resource.h> >> [output.hm]
<from>

Specifies the symbol prefix to be read, such as a command ID.

<to>

Specifies the symbol prefix of the Help context identification to be produced in the .hm file.

<add>

The Help ID base number to be added to the value of the <from> identification to produce the Help context number.

You can specify one or more sets of <from>,<to>,<add> in the command line.

<resource.h>

The header file that provides #define definitions for the symbols to be read.

<output.hm>

The .hm file to be produced by MAKEHM.

Look at the custom build steps for the resource.h file to learn what command line values to use.

Keywords

This sample demonstrates the following keywords:

AfxThrowMemoryException; CFile::Close; CFile::GetPosition; CFile::Open; CFile::Seek; CStdioFile::ReadString; CStdioFile::WriteString; CString::GetBuffer; CString::GetLength; CString::IsEmpty; CString::ReleaseBuffer; CString::Right; __iscsym; __iscsymf; _strdup; exit; fprintf; free; isdigit; isxdigit; sprintf_s; strchr; strcmp; strnlen; strncmp; strstr; strtok

See Also

Other Resources

MFC Samples