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Thanks Lisa, but I forgot to mention that the output will be html, so I don't think your suggestion will work.

Thanks, Dave. I thought I'd just check!

Some of my dropdown items are quite large, so to close them you might have to scroll back quite a long way.... is there a control I can put at the end which is the opposite of a dropdown hotspot and would just close it up again?

:? This is a chicken and eggs question....

If you have a dropdown which has other dropdowns inside it, is there a rule as to where to start?

Should you make the big dropdown first, and then make little ones inside it.... or should you make the little ones first and then enclose them in one big ...

:P

So now I'll have to figure out how I can work with a copy of the project on my local drive without messing up the linking to the common project, which is on the network.
You could try setting up source control (like SVN) and checking out the files local.

I'm trying to get that set up ...

tbean wrote:Regarding this:

4) How do you get round the warning messages which pop up in Explorer when viewing WebHelp?

Look here:
http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... f=9&t=6816

Thank you!

Have a look at this site collie. I think this will help. i wish I had discovered this earlier, but if I were starting out today, I think this would be what I need.

http://www.clickstart.net/?page_id=69

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Post any questions on the forums.

PS. i gotta admit when i typed the search term ...

In regards to the Issue with the Logo, The Logo can be removed in Webhelp, For more information please see the following KB article.

http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/default_CSH.htm#OUTW1009F

If the Dot not help is embeded into your dot net application then the splash screen will not appear ...

The harsh reality is that you can't buy a new computer off the shelf that doesn't have one or other version of Vista on it. That means that our new end users have Vista, and our existing customers will upgrade at some time or another, so in turn that means that our application has to run on Vista ...

I agree with that, this is a discussion that goes on for some time and MadCap brought forward some reasons that I think are all without much substance.

:lol: Very restrained! Seriously, though, if I can't crack this, then in the end the Help will have to be built and powered by something else ...

From what I've seen Flare is nothing short of brilliant, if a bit hard to learn. The reason for the learning curve, however, is not in poor design, but rather in the broad spectrum of options that it offers. It's naive to assume that one could migrate from a basic, rigid, and simplified tool to a ...

For me, the main areas I had trouble with weren't to do with Flare as such, but more that I needed to understand (X)HTML and CSS in order to use it and get the best out of it.

....
That's the problem. It seems that Flare was created by a bunch of software developers who all have ponytails ...

[quote="RamonS"]Not that MadCap doesn't know about it already, but here are our top 7 issues with Mimic in my usual verbage:

5.) Ugly, useless mouse pointer halo
Not only is this mouse pointer halo very distracting, it is orange. Thankfully the 70's are over where brown and orange were the hip ...