Electric Butterfly announces the immediate availability of UniHelp 3.1, the award-winning help system for REALbasic. UniHelp provides an easy-to-use, feature-rich solution for REALbasic developers who want to add online help to their cross-platform applications. A free update for all registered UniHelp customers, Version 3.1 includes several enhancements and bug fixes, providing improved support for the latest REALbasic 2008 releases.

Apple Help Viewer, Microsoft HTML Help, WinHelp.... Why waste precious development time designing and compiling a different Help system for each platform when you can easily use UniHelp for all of them? NO additional plugins or classes needed. Just drag the respective UniHelp components folder into your REALbasic project, create your HTML help pages and customize your configuration settings with the UniHelp Edition of HelpLogic, and that's it -- instant online help for your compiled REALbasic applications that works on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.

Key Features:
-- Now Supports Most HTML Tags and CSS Styles!
-- Utilizes REALbasic's HTMLViewer Control for displaying HTML help pages.
-- Supports URL Links, Relative Links, and Email Links.
-- Supports Images, Video and Audio.
-- Hierarchical Listbox Displays Help Table of Contents.
-- Built-in Search Engine and Keyword-based Index.
-- Supports Context-Sensitive Help Searches.
-- Customizable Icons, Title Bar, Start Page, Table of Contents, Font Sizes, Window Positioning, etc.
-- GUI Support for English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Swedish, and Japanese.
-- Small Footprint: Since Your Help Pages are External, only the UniHelp Classes are Compiled with Your REALbasic Application.
-- Supports Help Pages placed in either an External Help Folder or a REALbasic Virtual Volume.
-- Familiar Help-style Interface with Back, Forward, and Home buttons.
-- Run REALbasic Methods from within your HTML help pages by clicking on HTML-based "UHScript" hyperlinks.
-- Built-in Keyboard Shortcuts for closing the UniHelp window (Command-W on Mac or Control-W on Microsoft Windows).
-- Built-in Error Handling.
-- Easy to Use and Royalty-Free!

"UniHelp" and "Electric Butterfly" are never mentioned anywhere on the UniHelp interface, providing you with a full-featured generic Help solution -- your software customers will think you built it yourself!

What's New in UniHelp 3.1:

[Fix] - A workaround solution for a long-standing REALbasic HTMLViewer Mac bug (Verified REAL Feedback Report: pfquijwi). Since this REALbasic Mac bug causes the HTMLViewer to display either a blank page or incorrectly rendered HTML when the control is resized via code before the window is shown/loaded, UniHelp's custom window resizing feature has been completely reworked to avoid this bug. As a small side effect to this solution, end-users will see the UniHelp window quickly resize itself after it is initially displayed.

[Opt] - To workaround a Windows bug in REALbasic2008r2's built-in XML classes, UniHelp now utilizes a different method to list the topics within a Chapter when that Chapter is expanded in the TOC.

[Opt] - To ensure compatibility with future versions of REALbasic, UniHelpEngine's constructor method has been renamed "Constructor".

[Chg] - Several properties have now been removed from the UniHelpEngine class since they were deprecated back in Version 3.0, such as SerialNumber, SizeH1, SizeH2, SizeH3, SizeNormal, SizeSmall.

Availability and Licensing Options:

Product Information and Download:
http://www.ebutterfly.com/rb/unihelp.php

FREEWARE VERSION -- FREE!
You may use the encrypted UniHelp classes in your NON-COMMERCIAL and FREEWARE compiled REALbasic applications Royalty-Free. The Freeware version does NOT include support of any kind.

PRO UNIHELP LICENSE -- only $49.00 (US)
You may use the encrypted UniHelp classes in your COMMERCIAL and SHAREWARE compiled REALbasic applications Royalty-Free. Licensed UniHelp customers receive access to a special UniHelp Edition of HelpLogic for quickly creating UniHelp compatible help pages. This license includes one (1) Single Incident Support Plan.

SINGLE INCIDENT SUPPORT PLAN -- only $39.00 (US)
Under this plan, Electric Butterfly will assist a support customer with a single UniHelp related issue, reviewing the customer's code to help troubleshoot/resolve the reported issue. If you want help with more than one issue, then purchase a Single Incident Support Plan for each issue.

UniHelp was Made with REALbasic and Requires REALbasic 2006r3 or higher.

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