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OK, but nothing to be done using Flare itself, then?

I was thinking that if Flare offered an approach, within the interface, it might pop up a target picker, for refining the xref text on-the-fly.

Maybe I'll dig up my old copy of RegexBuddy.

Or... Ruby, huh? I had started sniffing around the ...

G'day, all.

Is there an automatic, or semi-automatic way, within Flare, to convert many hundreds of topic-to-topic hyperlinks into Cross References?

Every topic has one (and only one) H1 heading.

Or am I stuck with manually finding every hyperlink, manually opening its target topic, manually ...

Have you closed Flare, and then re-launched?

I've found it to be stupid this way, on occasion.

I'm using Flare 8.1.1 on Windows 7 64-bit, but I recall the problem (occasionally) on earlier Flare and Windows XP.

Not long ago, I had the same problem with a Snippet that I'd just created from ...

How does MadCap handle updates/fixes within a major version of Flare, once the next major version has launched?

I've always had Bronze Maintenance, and I've always upgraded not long after a new major version comes out, so I don't really know this.

If (say) Flare 8.0 comes out, is that the EOL ...

I might need to try again, but with populated paragraphs (not just empties) before and after the Dropdown, and before and after the snippet (attempt).


Wow, that's a lot of scrolling, isn't it?

Not for me.

I _DID_ make sure I had a couple of paragraphs selected below the bottom of the Dropdown, when I was selecting for the snippet. Didn't work for me.

At least one of those was empty, though... just a paragraph marker with no text. Maybe........

oh-oh...
I guess I'm a ba-a-a-a-a-ad teknuckle ryter...

That was NOT my issue.

My issue was/is not being able to CREATE a snippet that would CONTAIN a Dropdown.

The text that I wanted to convert into a snippet was about six paragraphs. Four of those paragraphs, plus a graphic (.png screen ...

Case 37447.


My worry is that the grayed-out Ribbon/menu item (Create Snippet) was CORRECT!

If that's the case, then my workaround will break sometime in the future, probably just at a really tense deadline...

So far - several years - I have been creating content in the form of individual Help topics, within Flare. There has been little need for output other than WebHelp.
Now, I might want to author White Papers and quick-start-guides and other monolithic documents, intended for output as PDF or other ...

Someone will reply shortly, telling you that you have simply misunderstood, due to the pre-conceptions you brought from the Frame - WebWorks flow, and telling you how to do what you want in Flare in two simple steps.

I've got Flare 8.1.1 on Windows 7.

I had a section of several paragraphs plus a screencap that was needed on several topic pages, but only for some users.

Therefore I wanted:

a) to make it a drop-down, so it would not intrude on the flow for the majority of users who would not need its content ...

Yes! Thanks.

I think I vaguely remember turning that off, eons ago (maybe even RoboHelp days?) due to another user complaint about search speed.

It's back on. Speed seems OK to me, and maybe whoever complained before is dead now, or retired. So the current complaint is now partly satisfied. :-)

I have an old Defect lingering in my to-do list, and I'd like to clear it.

The author of the complaint said:

"The webhelp does not support searching by the full function name.
Go to search and look for C_GetFunctionList which is not found and then GetFunctionList which is found.
Underscore needs ...

But notice that it does that on only SOME of the links in the path, not all.
About 2/3 of the breadcrumbs string is unencroached. And the affected portion is
partway along the breadcrumbs path... not at the beginning or the end.

Is Flare allowed to pick and choose where/when it will apply ...

I'm using Flare 8 on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.

Here's a capture of help as viewed in IE9.
Flare8_munging_breadcrumbs_ie9.png

Here's the same page viewed in SRware's Iron browser.

Flare8_munging_breadcrumbs_iron.png

Is it something I'm doing?

It's not a big, hairy deal - just cosmetically ...

Apparently not...

This is what my Skin Editor styles look like:

my_Search_Input_style.png

This is what that portion of my output looks like before I touch the Search Input field.

page_top_with_default_search_input.png

This is what the same area looks like when I type "Seek" to replace the ...

HTML5 skin.

Need to change font of UI text in Search Bar.

I have managed to change the color of the text when the user is typing in search text.

How do I change the font color of the default word that appears in the Search Bar.

In UI Text tab of the skin dialog, I can change the text itself of ...

Did you try the low tech approach of copy and paste?

I think the biggest obstacle is the requirement to have the text editable. You may need to 'disable' the text and add that back in within Flare while importing the rest as graphic file.


Um............. " I just want to bring the presentation ...

Windows 7, Office 2007, Flare 8.

I need the content of a 100-slide PowerPoint presentation in my current Flare project. What's the most straightforward way to get it there? I need the text and diagrams intact. I need the text to be editable, like any Flare Help topic. It's a very plain .pptx, with ...

Another niggle:

I don't know if this is specific to Flare 8, or just a "bug" that's been in Flare for a while.

In the Skin styles, many elements have Background components:

- BackgroundColor
- BackgroundImage
- BackgroundGradient

I'm not clear on what the behavior is supposed to be ...

Lisa,

Thanks for the reminder. I'd wondered about that.

The highlighting ranged from annoyance to very useful... sometimes within a span of two minutes.... So having the highlight AND the ability to switch it off were useful.

-k

Thanks.

Does Flare provide any way to see a summary of which images are actually used - as opposed to just left-overs from days, weeks, months, years of tinkering?

The dialog appears to show all images that have been included over time, not just for the current element, but for all Skin elements ...

Regarding Flare 8 not seeming to respond to everybody the same way, I've had version 8 for a week, and I'm on my third install.
I keep checking Help > Check for updates, hoping for the 8.0.1 stability release, but so far, nuthin'.

Anyway, one of my niggles might be just a problem between the ...

Hey, I'm happy that all the browsers seem to support my Help again....
Opera was gone for a year. Google Chrome for a year and a bit prior to that.

Now I'm browsing the Help with IE9, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, SRWare Iron, and Opera.
I might even boot up a Linux instance and see if it works with ...

Thanks.

So, if it requires changing the pointers in both places, what is happening under-the-hood if you change it in only one place.

Is there a potential problem from having one-of-two required settings changed, while the other is not.
Does some dangling misfortune linger, waiting to pounce on ...