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Thanks for the feedback everyone. I am using the "Insert Picture" method now (and not using Capture). I was just hoping there was a method similar to RoboHelp. As i-tietz suggest this is definitely a candidate for a feature request - which i just submitted.

Mark

One feature of Robohelp I used to use a lot was the ability to copy an image (say a .jpg file) onto the clipboard and then just paste it into a document. Robohelp would create a file for the image, place it into the projects images folder and insert a reference to that image into the doc. This was r...

Yes other projects build fine. It was, oddly, just this one project in this particular location. Strange - but the workaround is painless so I'm back to using Flare 5.

Mark

The solution to this issue as to copy the .flprj file, as well as the Contents and Project folders to a fresh directory. When built from this new location the CHM is normal size and runs no problem.

Mark

Thanks, Ramon. I think I'll go with image/link version. It turns out that the CHM will run the flash video in place.

Mark

Hello, I was wondering what I need to do to put a link to a YouTube video into my topic? Basically I want a preview of the video which when clicked runs it. YouTube shows the following "code": <object width="853" height="505"><param name="movie" value="ht...

Hi Kevin,

I gave itcc.dll a try but it didn't make a difference. Next I tried using Flare v4.2 instead of 5.0.



That worked. Help file runs no problem. Whew!

Not sure what's up with 5.0 but I can't use it.

Mark

Uh oh.. not sure what changed or went wrong. But now when I generate my help file it is twice the size as it was previously (was 28mb and is now 56mb) and when I double-click it to run I get the message: Cannot open the file "mk:@MSITStore:C:\path\blah\blah\blah.chm. :shock: I'm using Flare V5....

Hi, I really don't understand the difference between .htm and .xml files and thus my question.... I've been developing a CHM in Flare where the souce files are .htm. I've been tasked with needing to integrate my topics with another help system (also a CHM) which uses .xml as the input file format. I...

I'm using Flare 4.2. The project I'm working on was originally imported from RoboHelp. I've made numerous changes to it over the last few years - especially with screen grabs and some topic structure. There are now many unused images (and maybe a few topics) in the project directories. Is there a wa...

Hey Greg,

Works! Wow, thanks! Wonder when they added that - if that's been there for a few releases I'll start blushing.

Mark

If I place index entry terms mid-topic into my HTML help files the index will only jump to the top of the topic. It won't scroll down to where the index entry actually is. This is not too savory! RoboHelp used to be able to do this. And actually I know I've reported this limitation before. I was hop...

If you are using C# to launch your help file you might wish to see the end of the following thread for a way around this:

http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 948#p37948

Mark

Ahhh... thanks for the help, Pete. We are using C# so we used System.Windows.Forms.Help.ShowHelp(null, ...) to launch the help. Passing null to this function, beneath the hood, always uses the launching app window handle (even though we were passing null). Here's what I did to get around this - basi...

Thanks, Kevin. That fixed it

This is a strange one... I started using Flare 3.1 (previously I was using version 2.5). Now, when our application launches the CHM it doesn't show any images and the font is different. I'm puzzled because if I launch the help by double-clicking the CHM in Windows Explorer it's fine. And if I look a...

When I launch our HTML help file from our application the help window is always on top of the main application window. I'm wonder what setting I use to turn this off. This is so when someone clicks the application window in the task bar the help file doesn't pop up in front of it. I don't have "...