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We also experience the problem with table widths being ignored when there are long lines of text with no spaces in them. The issue appears to be that Flare does not support character wrapping so that it can enforce a width or max-width setting for tables.

I would think that madcap could define the parameters they want passed when an AIR application is called (id or topic path), write the code in the AIR application, and then release the information to us so we can call the AIR application from our application (whether it be AIR or .NET or something e...

Time for Madcap to start working on it...

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You might also check with your developers to see what format they would like the headers in. It may not be that hard to do a regular expression search and replace to convert the header file into a C# class with a bunch of constants that the developers can import into their project.

Last time I looked into this (Flare 4), I was told that Context IDs do not automatically merge (and I verified this by testing URL calls to MCHelp). The response was that the alias files would need to be merged manually after building the help (and I suppose you would want to automate this somehow)....

Do you have to use a key for each merged project?

Yes, JKDefrag is a great program. Not only is its default defrag mode better than the Windows defragger, but it has several other command line modes that can significantly speed up your computer. The mode I use is jkdefrag -a 8 This will rearrange your files by size. How does this speed up your driv...

Try rearranging your TOC. Odd as it sounds, that's what fixed it for me. I had something like Book +--- Topic1 +--- Topic2 Topic3 Topic4 Topic5 Book +--- ...etc If I removed Topic4 from the TOC, it would build without crashing. Or if I just moved some of the topics above Topic4 somewhere else, no cr...

Hi Trent, I've been trying Webhelp and dotnet outputs in Flare 4, but it isn't merging the alias files for me. When I try calling the master project with context IDs, the ones in the master project work, but the ones for subprojects do not. I looked in the generated Alias file, and it's only got the...

I looked around in the Flare help and didn't see how to do it either.

It certainly is possible for the AIR application to access the command line arguments, but whether Madcap has implemented that, I don't know. Perhaps if you use the same command line arguments as the Madcap viewer?

If you are converting a project that Flare is able to convert, you could use something like Autoit to step through the gui.

As far as being able to highlight portions of text in one editor and the corresponding portions in the other editor would be synchronously highlighted as well, I agree. That would be very useful. You can do that in programs like DreamWeaver, and I've found that to be very beneficial. I havn't reall...

Yes, the icons are cool.

And the new look of the forum is really nice, too.

I guess I'll chime in here and say I absolutely love the ribbon. Yes, if you're trying to get things done quick and you don't know where things are, it can be very frustrating (been there). But, once I got used to it, I've found it's much easier to use than having to get things in the menus. And the...

Probably Flare is running the source files (xml, xhtml, htm, html) through an xsl transform and the one for the webhelp target defaults to adding missing code to make the file \"readable\". Like tputkey said, .xml files are readable by IE. You can put a link to an xsl stylesheet in the xml...

I am also having speed issues with Flare as I posted in another topic. Add new topic and Preview topic are the two that stick out. Preview topic takes 1-2 sec to open and 5 seconds to close . Add new topic is slower than it needs to be as well. Index entry slows to a crawl on most of our pages becau...