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FrankyT

Lisa - thanks, and yes, I was aware that one can create generic classes. For neatness's sake, I wanted to restrict this class to the element for which I created it - although in this case neatness was arguably a lost cause.

I just wanted to highlight the issue really. I was confused for a couple of ...

FrankyT

I'm afraid that I don't have a lot of experience with XSLT. I looked into it a few years ago and ran through some basic examples, but haven't used transforms for a 'real' project or with Flare. My understanding of the XHTML target in Flare is that you can take this output and use a XSL transform ...

FrankyT

Not a question, but a tip...

If you select "Use TOC depth for heading levels" in the PDF target, remember that any element-specific style classes that you reference in each heading must be specified for the next heading level down if you want them to be implemented in PDF output.

I had defined a ...

FrankyT

The programmer who made Flare should be able to read what is going on but its very hard. Thats why .NET dumps the error messages that for a normal customer are a bit harder to grasp.

"A bit harder to grasp" - that's an understatement :) Most Flare users aren't programmers and probably don't even ...

FrankyT

If you're generating HTML5 output with custom toolbar JavaScript AND the default master page, you may have noticed that the JavaScript runs twice on page load. This caused me problems in IE9, where the first run of the JavaScript tried to manipulate DOM objects that hadn't yet been drawn - resulting ...

FrankyT

Madcap got back to me with the same response detailed by the previous posters. Well, at least now we know what the problem is and what the workaround is...

Leon - you are correct: you only need to remove the xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" in the <html> tag.

FrankyT

No problem, and glad you could make sense of my answer! I'd needed to do something very similar myself, so fortunately it was fresh in my mind.

FrankyT

Hi Thomas,

Firstly, are you aware that you can specify custom JavaScript in HTML5 skins by entering it in the Toolbar settings? -

javascript-in-flare.png

To run a custom function on page load, you need to use this syntax:

function myCustomStuff() {
... Stuff ...
}

window.onload ...

FrankyT

I noticed that in the target file, Skin was set to "(default)". This must have been the skin I was editing (let's call it MySkin) because changes I made to the skin were being carried through.
Do you have more than one stylesheet, too? I've submitted a bug because the "(default)" option in the ...

FrankyT

Well... The issue is half-solved. I fiddled with some settings and can no longer get back the semitransparent popup background. I just get the grey one (I preferred the black one, I just wanted to get it working).

I noticed that in the target file, Skin was set to "(default)". This must have been ...

FrankyT

I've done some more research. For some reason, in the Flare default skin, some styles from the Flare hard-coded class .MCTextPopupBody are being overridden - but by what, I have no idea.

Here's the appearance of popups in the default skin, reported by Firebug:

popup-styles-default-firebug.png ...

FrankyT

It works fine for me in IE9.
(Using the default 'modern' stylesheet, unmodified)

I'd perhaps try viewing your help on a different PC, just to make sure it's not just your PC.
You seem to have a few style issues in IE9 that I can't reproduce; this and the search box corners.

Hm. My styles for ...

FrankyT

I've inserted some glossary terms into an HTML5 skin. In Firefox, Chrome and Safari, as intended, the definitions pop up when the user moves the pointer over the glossary arrow icon, with an almost-opaque black background:

popup-ff.png

However, in IE9, the background is completely transparent ...

FrankyT

Strange - I haven't encountered this problem. I replaced the entries in Skins > HTML5 > TocEntry to custom icons, and the output was as I wanted. Breyni, did you replace all the icons with your own? I.e.

OpenBookIcon
ClosedBookIcon
TopicIcon
MarkAsNewIcon

Incidentally, did you know you can create ...

FrankyT

PS Where do I file bug reports for Flare?

FrankyT

Thanks Leon. Glad it's not just me, but disappointed that there isn't a solution.

FrankyT

When I run a search on a test help file, the results appear with links and paths, but no abstracts. From the Flare Help, it looks as though abstracts are derived from the start of the topic text if there is no metadata present in the topic. However, I'm getting no abstracts at all. I assume you can ...

FrankyT

Sorry. I should have read the Help. (I know, I know... I only write the stuff...)

FrankyT

Here's a fudge that seems to get rid of round corners in IE9, for those prepared to use JavaScript. You force the style "border-radius: 0 0 0 0" on the elements you want to reformat. E.g.

function removeRoundCorners(element) {
element.style.cssText += "; border-radius : 0 0 0 0 ...

FrankyT

I am not seeing the search filter box in HTML5 output. Is this normal? I can't find an option to enable or disable search filters. I see there is a "Search Filters" box in the HTML5 target's Advanced settings, but the only option available is "(default)".

The <DIV> for the search filter box shows ...

FrankyT

Dave Lee wrote:There's also a Search Bar style in the skin, which is the 'outer' box; change the border radius on that style (which is 15px by default).

Already done that. It doesn't work.

FrankyT

I want a search box without curved corners in HTML5. I have been through all the search widgets in the Skin - Search Filter, Search Heading and Search Input, and set all radius styles to 0px, e.g. BorderTopRightRadius, BorderBottomLeftRadius etc.

This looks how I want in Firefox, Chrome and Safari ...

FrankyT

I solved - or rather avoided - this problem by putting the JavaScript in the Topic Toolbar, rather than the WebHelp Toolbar.

The Topic Toolbar loads after IE has created the buttons on the WebHelp Toolbar. Therefore, its JavaScript has something to work with. (Evidently, Firefox and Chrome process ...

FrankyT

A postscript to this thread...

One of my original problems was how to make a script run automatically on page load. As Jerblack pointed out, you do this in HTML5 like this:

function init() {
... stuff ...
}

window.onload=init;

Note that, although this works for HTML5 output, it doesn't work ...

FrankyT

Latest news: there is a basic difference between what works in WebHelp and what works in HTML5, and you have to use the appropriate syntax to call the function.

In WebHelp, you should do a straight call to your function:

// WebHelp:

function talkToMe() {
alert("Hi.");
}

talkToMe();

However ...

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