Building on-line help

wxWindows has its own help system from version 1.30: wxHelp. It can be used to view the wxWindows class library reference, and also to provide on-line help for your wxWindows applications. The API, made accessible by including wx_help.h, allows you to load files and display specific sections, using DDE to communicate between the application and wxHelp.

wxHelp files can be marked up by hand from ASCII files within wxHelp, or may be generated from other files, as is the case with the wxWindows documentation.

From version 1.50, it is possible to use the platform-specific help system (e.g. WinHelp) instead of wxHelp.

See install.txt, the wxHelp documentation (in utils/wxhelp/docs) and wxHelp for further details.