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Am I the only one who finds it really, really annoying that Flare stops responding if the source control server is unavailable? I mean, I have everything checked out on my local drive, so it shouldn't need to go get anything. I can understand wanting to make sure the source control system is still ...

tbean wrote:If I want to maintain different sets of rules to use within my project, I just set up different FLIMPs, right?

You got it.

Oh, and welcome to the forums

That is a good point. Many of us have found that if you build from source files stored through a network share rather than on local drives, the build takes longer.

Having said that, "longer" may not be a problem in some circumstances. For example, if your organization has an automated build server ...

You just need to educate them correctly. :lol:

Ok, I know what will work: "Switch to Firefox or I'll send David over to lecture you about the evil's of Microsoft!"

(And for the really nasty customers I'll rile ya up first by talking about all the good points of proprietary source control ...

RamonS wrote:Who cares about IE6. IE is one of those apps that should simply be ignored.

Ahhh, if only our customers saw it that way

And as far as "better formats" go, I prefer PNG. It compresses well, doesn't produce artifacts, and can have as large or as small a colour space as you want. Plus it supports transparency (although IE 6 doesn't render transparent PNGs correctly--Firefox and IE 7 do).

Yes, there is. Open the Project Organizer, right click on Imports and choose Add Word Import File. You can then import any number of Word documents into an existing project.

Is anything else different with the machine than the last one? For example, we recently "upgraded" :roll: our virus scanner to Norton's enterprise package, and I find performance of every app on my system is abysmal while it's doing it's automated checking every morning. Once it finishes, everything ...

In the interests of full disclosure, we're using VSS 6.0 build 8163 (which I understand is - ahem - not exactly the latest version...) Maybe it's an issue with older versions of VSS?

Hi, all,

I've just been given access to Source Safe and am in the process of adding my Flare projects to them. Whenever I open a folder in VSS that was checked in by Flare, VSS posts an error:

Initialization variable \"Dir\" set to invalid path

This does not happen with files that I've checked in ...

True, although it's the same thing you run into with the font, size, colour, etc. buttons in the toolbar. Yes, they work, but in a CSS world they're really bad practice to use.

I'd almost be inclined to request they be removed so that people aren't tempted to use formatting over-rides, but ya just ...

That would work--and would have the added advantage that if you wanted two or more paragraphs to appear in the coloured box, they wouldn't have white gaps between them (if you do it in a p tag there will be gaps between them).

Sadly, it doesn't work in print because Word and Frame don't understand ...

Try using the Margin attributes (left and right). That should do it.

That is one funky set of characters. Are you seeing those in your source code?

(Also, are you using source control? If you are, you may want to retrieve the files from source again and rebuild--maybe something went wrong when you pulled it out last time.)

Richard Ferrell wrote:The more people who request it the better the chance it will make it to Flare V4.

The feature request link is listed below

And if you've done that already, maybe a nice, polite post card to the CEO of Madcap might help

Do you know if a bug has been logged against this functionality defect?

Yes, but please log it yourself as well--apparently the more people complain about something the more seriously Madcap takes the issue. You can log one here:

http://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx

When we log bugs ...

Don't get me started on saving colours. For whatever reason, Flare (and the other Madcap products) save them in the system registry instead of in the project. Which makes no sense to me at all (for example, if you re-image your PC or move to a new system, all your colour definitions are gone ...

Unfortunately, you can't do either of those in the current version. Best thing to do is submit it as a feature request:

http://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx

The big problem I've found is that when I add a table it has inline style code that makes the indent 0. So, when I added an indent to the main stylesheet, nothing happened because the inline style took precedence. My solution has been to remove that inline style code. I'm not sure where it came from ...

I wasnt' able to get the Images to be inclulded if I have Flare save it as a Word Doc, But Wclass suggestion did work, and I will create a Knowledge base article on it,

What about an auto-open macro that Flare calls natively?

Well, if they're going to code that into Flare, why don't they just ...

The easiest way is to just open the file in Word and resave it as a .doc file. When I've done that it's always embedded the images in the file. I think there's also a command in Word to change references to embedded instances, but I don't remember it off the top of my head.

Also, you can ...

My guess is the topic files were removed, but the entries weren't removed from the alias. Open the alias editor and make sure that the topics the errors refer to aren't in there--if they are, remove those entries.

Just to add to that, by default the reporting form is set up for bugs. You can change that to Enhancement using a pulldown if you want.

I wonder if you could get around that by creating a class for A tags--that should give you all the pseudo styles as well.

I agree. Some times even after I've found a tool in Frame, I ask myself \"why the heck did they put it there?\"