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When I add a Related Topics Control to my HTML help topic, it is not visible in the editor. I have a HTML target and a PDF target.
I would have expected the Related Topics Control to be visible in the editor i HTML (Web) mode.
This used to work in v4.2, now I'm using v5 SP1.

-cpede

Hi and thanks for the answers.

1) Yes the editor is faster in the later versions, and the pop-ups can in most cases be removed. But it is still awkward to work with, maybe because of the strange right and left brackets, underlines etc. and of cause the non-standard use of the Home and End keys.

2 ...

I have to admit I'm not happy with Flare. I have used it since the very first beta release and still find things that I can't figure out.

Let me just start by asking 3 questions:

1) Writing performance, ok we all know that the editor is very slow (.NET code, too many ambitions, small popups etc ...

Bumping...

Nobody using an onine HTMLHelp file created by Flare with different skins from C++ code

-cpede

Hi,

Thanks for answering. In Flare v4.xx the skins did not work for HTML Help inside the Flare program; the Test, and as you did, assigning
a specific topic in the TOC. This now all works inside Flare 5.xx.

My problem is how to specify a skin from the program code I am writing. All documentation ...

I still have problems with showing a HTML topic i a specified skin.

Compared to Flare v4.5 the build menu opion "Test CSH API Calls..." now works.

I have then noticed the "Preview as HTML Window" option in the top of the Skin Editor.
This however always produces an "Object no set to an instance ...

Hi,

I often need to make a stype based on the <p> tag that creates a style with a different first line.

This could be because the first line should be bold or right aligned. I found that CSS actually have some kind of support for a :first-line (:first-letter) support. It does not seem that Flare ...

I'm doing CHM help, please refer to the first topic entry for the syntax I try to use.

-cpede

Thanks for the tip, when I use the Skin in the Target it works as expected.
But as you mention, the Skin for individual TOC Topics does not seem to work. I will submit an error report.

Anyone knows about calling a Topic using a specific Skin from code?

-cpede

Yes that is a typo.

It is really strange, if I take the standard Default.flskn and make a copy as Dialog.flskn, and making a reference to that from the TOC,
I still get the error that Dialog.flskn is undefined.
I have looked in the TOC XML and it is referenced correctly?

-cpede

Hi,

I have a problem with multiple Skins in a project.

By default I have the Default skin.
Then I add a new skin called NewSkin.
Then I select it in "Open in skin" from the TOC->Properties->Advanced for a topic.
The following error is displayed when building: "TOC entry is using a undefined ...

Yes we tried it too, in our company, and is not using it for all the same reasons.

You should offcause be able to:

• Review the whole project not just on topics basis.
• Integration with topic status.
• Compare versions from different reviewers.

-cpede

I made MadCap aware of the from the very beginning. Very strange since they obvious made MadCap in some managed language.
Probably why it is so slow

We made a small program converting all the C++ #defines into a an Enum.

-cpede

Is it correct that it is still not possible to see and approve changes in reviewed topics?
Only annotations?

Very difficult to handle review inputs from multiple reviewers and do the nessesery changes to the source.
You have to come up with a solution to approve changes on edited text from multiple ...

Hi,

We have used Flare since is came out, and now also Blaze. We have been extremely patient until now regarding the Source Control
integration. We waited many versions, and when it came it was extremely buggy.

But now running Flare 5 and Blaze 4 we would like to get this working.

That said, the ...

When receiving a reviewed document back, how do I see the changes compared to my original topic?

-cpede

Hi,

Have anyone tried to use this viewer inside a C++/MFC application? It is possible to embed a .NET control in MFC, but I don't know how difficult this would be with this control or form?

-cpede