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- Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:04 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Defining Help Window Frame Title
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2031
Re: Defining Help Window Frame Title
Hi, Lisa, The critical factor isn't really the language of the operating system on which you compile the Help file; it's the language that you set for the Help file in your project, and the language of the operating system on which the file is subsequently viewed. So, for example, you can set the la...
- Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:23 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: How did they do this?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2254
- Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:34 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: Search Tab Not Working
- Replies: 62
- Views: 119256
Re: Search Tab Not Working
Hi, Alda, I am working on Vista and have managed to solve the problem, but the No Topics Found message is still displaying for a split second before the topics are displayed. Can I get rid of the message in any way? Are you sure that it's saying "No Topics Found", or is it just displaying ...
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:22 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: HHC3015: An alias has been created to "" but ...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2011
Re: HHC3015: An alias has been created to "" but ...
Hi, Heike, These are probably just "false positives", if you've appended bookmarks to the topic file names in your alias entries, like this: IDH_INTRO=topicfile.htm #example The HTML Help compiler isn't smart enough to cope with the bookmarks, and consequently displays an error message for...
- Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:29 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: HTML Help output name - how to change it?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2690
Re: HTML Help output name - how to change it?
Hi, Daniel, See the Help topic called Specifying the Caption for the Output Window for instructions on how to set the title bar text. If "HTML Help" continues to appear in the title bar even though you've set the required title in your Flare project, this could be caused by a mismatch betw...
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:22 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: Skins not honored, sync gone wonky
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1456
Re: Skins not honored, sync gone wonky
Hi, TOC behavior is: When selecting an external link, the toc jumped to the last occurance of the topic in the toc, not the 'home' of the topic. (It also syncs similarly named topics to random destinations: I open Pavement Concepts and the toc jumps to Sign Concepts.) This commonly happens when the ...
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:10 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: Search Tab Not Working
- Replies: 62
- Views: 119256
Re: Search Tab Not Working
Hi, Katie, I am having the same problem where the search tab in HTML Help outputs a "No search topics found" dialog. The link to the article posted in this thread is no longer available, can someone suggest actions I might take to fix my search option? I re-registered the itircl.dll on my ...
- Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:38 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: WPF ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2425
Re: WPF ?
Hi, Andrew, I wrote the online Help for a WPF application last year. The format that we chose was compiled HTML Help (.chm), as this is the Help format that Microsoft continues to recommend for Windows desktop applications. I don't believe that WPF offers any new facilities for integrating online He...
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:06 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Creating a drop-down list of links
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5226
Re: Creating a drop-down list of links
Hi, You could try something like this: <script type="text/JavaScript"> <!-- function goto_URL(object) { window.location.href = object.options[object.selectedIndex].value; } //--> </script> <form> <select name="selectName" onChange="goto_URL(this.form.selectName)"> <opti...
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:04 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: javascript on jump button not working anymore
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6487
Re: javascript on jump button not working anymore
If you check the window definition for the Help viewer, you may find that there is a "Topmost" setting (or some similarly-named setting) that you have enabled. Turning this off should stop the Help viewer from retaining the focus when the browser window is opened.
Pete
Pete
- Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:03 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: How can I suppress the right-click menu?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3513
Re: How can I suppress the right-click menu?
Hi, Sharon, For what it's worth, this is the script that I use: <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- function right(e) { if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape' && (e.which == 3 || e.which == 2)) { return false; } else if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer' && (...
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:35 pm
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: .htm -> .xml
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3468
Re: .htm -> .xml
Hi, Mark, Do you have the option to reverse-engineer the XML-sourced Help file and then import it into Flare, where you can merge the two sets of content? Although it's possible to display the content of XML files directly in an HTML Help file, it's much more likely that the content was authored in ...
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:13 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: External Help System Merge- Won't Open in New Window
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2766
Re: External Help System Merge- Won't Open in New Window
Hi, ClvrWrtr, The idea is that you compile a single instance of the topic file above into your parent Help file. Then, in the parent's TOC, you add the entries for the child Help files — all of them linked to this same topic file. In other words, in every case, you're creating a link to an existin...
- Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:26 pm
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: External Help System Merge- Won't Open in New Window
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2766
Re: External Help System Merge- Won't Open in New Window
HI, ClvrWrtr, If I understand you correctly, you want to add 100 entries to the TOC of your parent Help file, each of which will open a different child Help file in its own window when clicked. If that's correct, one approach would be to compile a topic file like the one below into your parent Help ...
- Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:01 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: HTML help navigation pane...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2703
Re: HTML help navigation pane...
Hi, Anjali, 1. We are displaying context sensitive help in our application without the navigation pane. But the user has the option of showing the navigation pane by clicking on the 'Show' toolbar button. Once the user shows the navigation pane and exits out of the help, the next time you launch a c...
- Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:59 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: TOC not syncing in merged chm
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2915
Re: TOC not syncing in merged chm
Hi, Samantha,
This is a known issue. See these articles for more information and possible solutions:
http://helpware.net/htmlhelp/how_to_mer ... extHelpIDs
http://helpware.net/htmlhelp/how_to_merge_ctx2.htm
Pete
This is a known issue. See these articles for more information and possible solutions:
http://helpware.net/htmlhelp/how_to_mer ... extHelpIDs
http://helpware.net/htmlhelp/how_to_merge_ctx2.htm
Pete
- Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:33 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: javascript on jump button not working anymore
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6487
Re: javascript on jump button not working anymore
You could try linking the Jump button to a topic like this one: <html> <body onLoad="hhctrl.Click();history.back()"> <object id="hhctrl" classid="clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11"> <param name="Command" value="ShortCut" /> <param name="...
- Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:37 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: javascript on jump button not working anymore
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6487
Re: javascript on jump button not working anymore
Hi, Can you use a Shortcut control instead, or are you trying to work around the issue where Shortcut controls are disabled in Help files that are stored on a network drive? The coding of the Shortcut control looks something like this: <object id="hhctrl" classid="clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-...
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:03 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: Linking projects: issues with index, See Also and searching
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1649
Re: Linking projects: issues with index, See Also and searching
Hi, Claire, I'd recommend that you run MJ's Help Diagnostics, which is available from here: http://helpware.net/downloads/index.htm#MJs This utility checks the status of all the HTML Help run-time and compiler components on your computer, and corrects any errors that it finds. It sounds like one or ...
- Wed May 20, 2009 7:04 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: Search hits and search hit colour
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1833
Re: Search hits and search hit colour
Hi, Gary, Do you have "Search previous results" selected when you search for the second word ("red")? If so, the behaviour that you've described is the standard behaviour; the HTML Help viewer highlights the results of both searches. On the second question, you can only change th...
- Wed May 20, 2009 5:25 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: CSH and excluding them from the search results
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4156
Re: CSH and excluding them from the search results
The HTML Help compiler parses all source files whose names contain the characters ".h" for full-text search information. So, there are really only two ways to prevent individual source files from showing up in the results of a search: Change the file name extensions to something other than...
- Tue May 19, 2009 2:40 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: Compiling HTML Help - MS HTML Help Compiler Issue?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2440
Re: Compiling HTML Help - MS HTML Help Compiler Issue?
Hi, Carolyn, I can't find the thread now, but I know this type of error has been discussed on the forum before. The answer is something like there's a limit to the length of the file names MS HTML Help Compiler can handle and if you move your project closer to the root directory it can compile witho...
- Thu May 07, 2009 4:48 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: Searching for three questions marks (?)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2091
Re: Searching for three questions marks (?)
Hi, Gary,
See this page for information on the search facilities in HTML Help:
http://helpware.net/htmlhelp/hhfindingtext.htm
Although these facilities are quite sophisticated in some respects, you can search for alphanumeric characters only.
Pete
See this page for information on the search facilities in HTML Help:
http://helpware.net/htmlhelp/hhfindingtext.htm
Although these facilities are quite sophisticated in some respects, you can search for alphanumeric characters only.
Pete
- Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:46 am
- Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
- Topic: Printed .chm does not look like .chm on screen
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2936
Re: Printed .chm does not look like .chm on screen
Hi, Pernilla, The HTML Help viewer uses the same print settings as Internet Explorer, which doesn't print background colours and images by default. To change this, you'd need to change the print settings in Internet Explorer ( Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Print background colors and images ...
- Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:49 am
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: + and - signs in the TOC
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2115
Re: + and - signs in the TOC
Hi, Marie-Claire,
Have a look at this topic in the online Help:
Specifying How the TOC Looks in HTML Help Output
I believe that you need to have the "Lines from root" option selected as well as "Plus/minus squares".
Pete
Have a look at this topic in the online Help:
Specifying How the TOC Looks in HTML Help Output
I believe that you need to have the "Lines from root" option selected as well as "Plus/minus squares".
Pete