Pressing Help button while running eMule 50B beta 7 on Windows 10 gives error message:
C:\Program Files\eMule\eMule.chmFailed to launch help.
Please visit our homepage's download section to get a copy of the newest help file!
Do you want to browse the online help now instead?
Yes and No buttons are displayed
Selecting No just throws you back to the main screen in eMule.Selecting Yes opens a web browser window pointing to http://emule-project...e/perl/help.cgi which seems to be quite distinctly outdated.
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I can confirm that eMule.chm is present in the correct folder on my system. Date modified of file is March 23, 2009 03:09:08PM. Clicking the eMule.chm file from FileExplorer brings up Help, but of course it is woefully out of date.
Even if the code for the Help button had the build and version number and date included in the info box it would be most helpful for reporting bugs and suggestions during testing.
You could modify the two buttons to read 'Show inbuilt eMule help' and 'Show online help'. You could save distribution space by bundling an abbreviated help file with the software (maybe to focus on just the things that have changed since the last major release), and then leaving the online help to be updated and extended as required by others.
I know documentation sucks, and once the program works, the documentation doesn't seem so important any more to the programmer. To the user, especially newbies, it is most critical.
So three issues:
- Help doesn't launch the .chm file that is present on the system
- Help/about should be present and show version, build date, build version/beta version, and release date
- Documentation is woefully out of date