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BlackHelp - A dark version of AutoHotKey.chm (the help file)

Started by budRich , Aug 10 2011 04:39 PM

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In this post i'll guide you through the steps you have to take if you want to edit the css file in AutoHotkey.chm.

This is what my chm looks like:

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And here's the css file i used:

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This is how you do it:

1. Make a backup of AutoHotkey.chm, you never know..

2. Download KeyTools

3. Run KeyTools, Toolsmenu>Decompile

4. Decompile AutoHotkey.chm

5. Locate, edit or replace: default.css

6. Run HTML Help Workshop (I think it comes with windows, otherwise google)

7. File>Open .hhp File

8. File>Compile

 

Done!


#1 - Posted 10 August 2011 - 04:39 PM
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I like it, but there's already a v1.1.02.00 help file released. :roll:

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#2 - Posted 10 August 2011 - 05:31 PM
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I like the Black, don't like the Yellow...& for God's sake it spelled AutoHotkey!!! (lowercase k)
#3 - Posted 11 August 2011 - 12:19 AM
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Guest: Maybe i update this thread some day with a tutorial on how to change the css in a chm, it's a bit tricky. But once you know its easy to change the colors. And thanks. :oops:

Weston: Damn, I had totally missed that, i'll update this to the latest version soon. Thanks for pointing it out.
#4 - Posted 12 August 2011 - 01:28 PM
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Guest: Maybe i update this thread some day with a tutorial on how to change the css in a chm...

...I've been meaning to test if chm files can have cookies...then you can have a link/config page in the chm to set the colors, save them in a cookie & auto-load them on page load. I just don't know if chm files can have cookies.
#5 - Posted 12 August 2011 - 11:10 PM
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Guest: A settings page, or at least a theme switcher would be awesome. I used HTML Help Workshop to compile/decompile the chm, its free from our friends at Microsoft. Try that and let us know what you find out.

I see a possibility where html based settings gui and help is in the same file. You could read the cookies with ahk and apply the values to vars in your scripts.
#6 - Posted 13 August 2011 - 06:42 AM
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I still need to fully test it more, but I think cookies-in-a-chm are out (they would only stick until I closed the help window {even with "expires" set}). I think the next-best-thing (& possibly easier to write) would be an "AutoHotkey.css" or "AutoHotkey.chm.css" file outside the chm, but have the files inside the chm try to link to it, somehow.
#7 - Posted 13 August 2011 - 08:19 AM
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Wintitle = AHK Hjälpen


#8 - Posted 13 August 2011 - 07:27 PM

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Guest: Loading an external css file, hope it works. Keep on testing.

tomoe_uehara: Oops.
#9 - Posted 14 August 2011 - 06:31 PM
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If not being able to find the location to download the editor for the AHK scripts and not being able to read the small font in the help file means I'm not smart enough to use this ... OK ... because I don't see any messages from other newbies that are having a problem.

I find AHK to be amazing so far but I'm stuck .
#10 - Posted 05 September 2011 - 04:59 AM
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...download the editor for the AHK scripts...

...there is no specific "editor for AHK scripts"...Notepad or any other "text editor" will work.

I recommend Notepad2...just because it's better than Windows Notepad, but it don't have specific AutoHotkey support. However, this version does: Notepad2-mod (but I have not tried that version yet). By "AutoHotkey support" I just mean "syntax highlighting", you don't need "AutoHotkey support" for any "text editor" to be able to write scripts.
#11 - Posted 05 September 2011 - 12:28 PM
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Guest: Loading an external css file, hope it works. Keep on testing.

tomoe_uehara: Oops.


To include this css, You can just extract the chm file using 7-zip.
Replace the css, Recompile using Microsoft Html Help.
#12 - Posted 12 July 2013 - 08:28 AM

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Dynamic Hotstrings Library - Create hotstrings with variables and regex!

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Looks Great,

 

Is it just me or is the Downloadlink broken? 

 

 


#13 - Posted 16 July 2013 - 07:50 AM
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link broken


#14 - Posted 17 July 2013 - 01:47 AM
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To include this css, You can just extract the chm file using 7-zip.
Replace the css, Recompile using Microsoft Html Help.

thnx


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