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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...

Hi,

That was done with Qt Assistant.

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/assistant-manual.html

Pete

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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' && (...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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="...

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-...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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