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OK, so it is the colors chosen by the Flare help author.

At least it is not me...

Thanks!

Index: How to push existing keywords down under other keywords ?

In robohelp, I just push an arrow button, and I can promote and demote keywords, massage the structure, etc.

I don't see how to do that in Flare. (7.0.1)

Where is it?

Thanks!

Thoughts?

Well, the Madcap guys opened a bug on this.... current bug number is 44371.

Well, the Madcap guys opened a bug on this.... current bug number is 44371.

The other thing that popped into my head as I was heading to lunch was perhaps there was a conflict with the keyboard shortcut you're using, Ctrl + G. Interesting thought. Everything in Flare is slow, not just ctrl G. Ctrl G stands out, because it is in my face a lot, and drives me crazy. Flare, in...

Andrew wrote:I doubt it's the .props files,

FWIW, it would appear that the props files ARE referenced when inserting an image....

LTinker68 wrote:It's weird that you're having so much trouble when most people don't. Did you send your computer's complete specs to MadCap so they could look into it?

Sure. A few times.

Madcap support signed off on my computer.

we are building our application as a 64 bit application and need a 64 bit version of the embedded help viewer client. is there one available? would it be possible for you to make one? If Flare / Madcap does not distro the source to the .net help viewer, then you should dump .net help. In the .net w...

For what it's worth, the .props files won't be included in your output; they are purely for Flare's internal use. I know. I know every file that is in that chm.... (After migrating to Flare, I had to start dumping my chms out to disk to see what was getting in there and making em so big. On Robohel...

Side note: Flare doesn't require .props files that I am aware of The way Flare stores conditions on an image file is by creating a .props file. You can try it and see. The content of the .props is the condition you set (that is set on the image itself, not in the topic). If you do not set this cond...

Just did a blank project (used one of the Flare 7 samples, the "sample book" template): Yes, the problem is present. 3+ seconds when pressing ctrl-G for the dialog to pop up. I tried this keyboard shortcut in three different projects, each one containing more images than the previous one....

LTinker68 wrote:Why does it have to be uploaded? Especially if it's a ZIP file? How could Flare be using that?

I agree.

The presence of the zip file is just messy. It does not belong there. It is part of the build / publish log, not the output...

Some discussion of madbuild limitations and how to work around em here:

http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 13&t=13131

3) The index editor is locked in the lower right of a large display, kinda kludgy. (yet another thing to undock....) What version of Flare are you using? There used to be two index-related panes -- one to add the terms, one to view the terms in the project. And yes, it was very annoying to work wit...

Can you disable your malware protection software (I mean disable completely -- especially "on access" scans)? I have tried that. It makes no difference. When I use Flare, all AV stuff is turned completely off. Would still like to know what OS you are using (so I can try to duplicate), and...

Not ideal, but then again it wouldn't actually take that long to set up - less time than already spent on this thread. You are mistaken, and that comment is a little insulting. (I do not have time to waste. Please don't suggest that I do.) It would take significant time to setup and test (running a...

Flare index: I have figured out what is "off" for me as a robohelp user: 1) When editing a topic, there is no three-keystroke way to see what index keywords are on the topic. I can run reports and stuff, but that is too hairy. 2) I find the best time to deal with index is when editing a to...

Andrew wrote:Also, is your project on a local or a network drive? Is it bound to source control?

%100 local.

Project is in source control, but is not bound in any way. Flare is not aware source control is in use.

How large is the topic? 2-5 kb, it does not seem related to topic size. Super shot topics suffer this also. Does it contain a lot of conditions? Most of my topics have conditions, yes. How large is the project? Few hundred topics, about 1200 files total (topics and images). Images in their own dir....

Conversely, it is slightly annoying that deleting an index tag from the topic does not remove it from the index itself. Leaves an 'empty' index reference, though this doesn't seem to appear in the output. Yes! The way the index works in Flare takes a lot of brain work (and I don't like using my bra...

Andrew wrote:Takes near-zero CPU and a second or so for me. If you'd like help, could you provide some more details?

Sure!

What details would you like?

All, I cannot edit any Flare target/destination files on a per machine basis. What I have in my other tools is a single batch file, that does the build, knows which machine it is on, and sets its outputs in the batch correctly based on what is needed. The problem with Flare is that madbuild does not...

So presumably all you need to do is edit the publish destination file(s) on each machine. I have one project ... just one... in version control. I can't maintain machine specific elements of the Flare files... Total zoo. I am just trying to use a batch file to build... nothing too crazy about that,...

Why do you need to make 2 or 3 copies of each target? You build from three machines but are all three publishing to different locations? Why publish to three locations instead of one final one that all three build machines point to? Dude, Please don't argue with my process. My needs are what they a...