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Does this happen every time you move a file?
And does this happen if you have your project in a folder that isn't synchronised?

I don't know if it happens every time I move a file. After having lost two files, I am afraid to move anything in Content Manager!

All of my folders are synchronised ...

I'm just wondering what is a realistic specification for system that isn't going to get bogged down.

SQL server seems to eat up anything from 400MB-1GB, and Analyzer from 100-200MB.

Looking at the system requirements for Analyzer, it says you can use a 1GHz Pentium 3 with 512MB memory.

I find that Analyzer runs very slowly. I'm using a dual core 2GHz PC with 2GB memory, working with projects of around 100-150 topics, and the system is still pretty sluggish.

Checking the ...

If you've customised that aspect of the skin, you'll have two Toolbarbackground.jpg files in your output.

The Skin/Images folder has all the files used for the default skin.
The Data/Skin folder contains files for any customised parts of the skin, i.e. if you change the toolbar background then this ...

So the presence of the toolbackground.jpg file is just a backup in case it has a problem filling in the color.

No, not really. The ToolbarBackground.jpg image is generated by Flare, based on what you specify in the skin settings for the gradient.

You can replace this file in the output ...

Update:

In output/Skin/Images, I replaced the ToolbarBackground.jpg with my own background image (also called ToolbarBackground.jpg), so and checked if toolbar.htm would used image instead. It still shows the default ToolbarBackground.jpg.

Perhaps it's my image. :(

Check where it's looking ...

Have you tried the keywordlink section in the stylesheet? If you open the stylesheet editor in simple mode you should see any class etc that has a red colour.

That isn't what you need to do, the keywordLink style is for the keyword link help control.

Changing the index hover colour is very ...

Microsoft are like the Third Reich? I've heard it all now.

Does this happen every time you move a file?
And does this happen if you have your project in a folder that isn't synchronised?

Yep, I don't understand why the files need to be in a fixed folder on each user's PC, but the only way I can see of doing this is to set it up as a destination.

I've read through this a few times, and I'm not sure I fully understand the initial question (or replies).

The way I read the problem is that when you build a target, the folder path containing the output files will be different on each user's PC, as the user's name forms part of the output path ...

For me, the main areas I had trouble with weren't to do with Flare as such, but more that I needed to understand (X)HTML and CSS in order to use it and get the best out of it.

I'd used a number of authoring tools before, such as RoboHelp HTML, but they don't expose you to HTML and CSS quite so ...

If I were you, I'd go back and ask your developers to sit down with you and look at the help, then tell you where and how their script should fit in with it.

Yep, I got that far, I just need to make some quite complex ones that'll require some homework.

Yep, learning how Flare works is one thing, but knowing how to use it well is another.

On a side note about getting started with Flare, how about being able to download full project templates as well as Flare skins?
I reckon we could do with some full project templates, so that you have a ...

Have a look at the examples.

Yep, I did, I think it'll just take me a while to understand them!

I like the look of a lot of that, esp Team Server and X-Edit.

The relationship between X-Edit and X-Edit Express isn't too clear.
X-Edit Express says it's "free", but I'm not sure if that means it's free in the sense that I can download it and use it with my Flare projects (without either me or my ...

Yep, adding something to the help to say what wildcards or regular expressions would be good.

I'm going to have to set some time aside to look at that site properly, I've looked at it twice and couldn't follow it!

That's why I don't find it that intuitive.

I can manually replace a chunk of text in the middle of a paragraph with a block or inline snippet, whether the snippet includes <p> tags or not makes no difference to where I can use it.

However, Analyzer can only find/replace the same bit of text with ...

From how you describe it, it sounds like it's not a Flare issue per se, but how you can display these math objects in a HTML page.

Using Math or Word, can you save the functions as a HTML page (which could be imported), or maybe an image format that can be inserted in a topic?

Cheers, that seemed to make sense initially, but after a few tests I'm still not sure I follow why it works this way.

If you create a snippet from the project menu, the default snippet template includes a p tag.
For example, let's say our snippet just contains <p>hello</p>

If you're going to try ...

Yep, Flare does fall over a bit too often for my liking, and a lot of crashes seem to be when it's doing processes that involve handling a large number of files. I can think of 2 or 3 activities that will reliably bring it down.

I'm not saying that you should have styles in there that you don't need or use, I'm saying that if you don't know what they are then perhaps you should find out before you delete them.

For example, I didn't create expandingBody and dropDownHotSpot in my stylesheet, so should I delete these?

If ...

Some good tips, they could do with more detail though (esp. 4), and also saying why they're useful.

I'd strongly disagree with (5) though, I'd only delete styles that you do know about.

I might have another try then. After all, Einstein managed it!