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Hi
I would like to know if it is possible to create a skin in Flare that would have the autofit (to contents) property?
Basically, I would like to have a specific skin for some topics called by CSH, this skin looking like a plain text popup (no HTML Help toolbar, no navigation, just plain text ...

Morning everyone
I have been entering some index keywords (3 keywords at the same level) in a topic and since then, whatever I do to the topic (delete text or paragraphs, add text or paragraphs), I get the following error message whenever I save my edits:

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I have no idea ...

Hi Pete
Thank you for your help.
Please find below the requested information (I have anonamised the data).
The referred topics in the Concept links never exceed 10 and what puzzles me is that the Flare project is common, most topics are common (with conditions, obviously) and the concept links are ...

Thanks Lisa, always on the ball

Me again, with my favourite subject :roll:
I have two issues with Concept Links (or A-links):
1/ My colleague cannot get the concept links to work properly on our projects (same PC spec as me, same OS - XP Pro SP2, same regional language settings, same CHM build. Main difference is that her default ...

Hello
I have noticed that a MadCap.css file was generated in a Temporary folder of my output folder.
Does this mean that the actual CSS file used is MadCap.css and not the CSS file I have set up in my Flare project?

Hello Lisa and Pete
You are both right in your assumptions, it looks like it is an HTML Help limitation as the WebHelp equivalent has the colour I have specified in the CSS. The more I dig, the more I find limitations with the HTML format (is that a sign? :roll: ). I know it is a pretty old format ...

Don't ask me why, but it's under helpControlMenu in the stylesheet. Change the background color for that tag.
It does not work for me. I changed the background colour of HelpControlMenu in my stylesheet, checked the changes were actually in my CSS by opening it in a different editor, cleaned my ...

Hi Pete
Sorry, another silly question.
Does that mean that all our users that have language settings set to anything other than English will have a Topics Found dialog box displayed whenever they are viewing A-links?

Hi Pete (thanks for your input, once again :wink: )
I guessed the fact that I did not have any A-links in my master project was the issue.
I have added one of the A-link keywords that can be found in my slave projects to a topic in my master project and re-compiled the master project. It seems to ...

...if they are originally set up in slave CHMs
Morning all
Yesterday, I posted a topic on not being able to get concept links to work on my projects (to which Pete Lees replied. I do not think it was due to a DLL becoming unregistered because I later on discovered that some concept links worked for ...

We are about to release our software and I have just discovered with horror that my concept links do not seem to work anymore.
I have not changed the concept entries or the concept association.
No concept link in the whole of my HTML outputs (all from the same Flare project)
The search works fine ...

Hi Richard,
I have found what you mentioned in your post in the Flare Help ( :oops: ). So this means that I do not need to build a target associated with my "popup" skin, I just need to associate the topics I want to see displayed in a popup with the "popup" skin in the alias editor.
Ideally I ...

Hi Pete
You are not a Flare user???
Thanks, I was not sure we were talking skins. Now I can see a way to implement this, although I think I may need to create a new target to associate my new skin (popup) to (I am not sure but I think that skins apply to targets, not to topics)...

Hi Pete
Thank you for your reply. I will forward your links to the developers.
When you mention the solution with a new Help Window in Flare, what do I need to do to specify a new Help window (I know how to do this in RoboHelp but not in Flare ). Are we talking skins?

Developers I work with would like some of my topics (to do with the description of validation errors) to appear as a popup when the user clicks on a validation error message generated by our app. Is there any way I can control my topic to appear in a popup instead of in the main Help window?
I have ...

Hi Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeete (sorry, got carried away)
You are absolutely right! I changed the language in the Project settings (was English UK, now is English) and do not have the Topics Found dialog displayed anymore.
However, me setting the background colour to a colour other than the default grey in ...

Hi Lisa
I believe I am. In both cases, I am using a Concept Link (A-link) control. The only difference is that I changed the mc-label attribute.
In one case, I get a Topics Found dialog whilst in the other I get a window of the type described in this thread (see attachment with both in the same ...

Hi Lisa and Kevin
Thanks very much for your valuable input (as usual!).
Lisa, it is interesting to know that IE and FF look at different attributes for tables...
As for paragraphs, I will investigate a bit more and see if I can reach a "close-to-centered" position. I have some padding so it could ...

Hi both
Thank you for clarifying things for me (I was being a bit thick ).
I understand now and I have had this issue in the past. It is a nice trick, thanks for sharing, I shall use it!

Hi Kevin
Thanks for your input.
Paragraphs are slightly off (a bit more towards the left), they have no borders but according to what you are saying, the mis-alignment may be due to the padding. I need to have a look at this.
Tables are still left-aligned. Is there somewhere in the table stylesheet ...

Sorry but I do not understand why you are using hyperlinks? Don't you insert your snippet in your target topics by going to Insert | Snippet?

I have a question related to this window. I do not remember messing about with the ConceptLink style, except for the image and in one of my projects (all my outputs are HTML Help), I get a grey-background sort of popup window with the topics linked by a particular concept (probably the same kind of ...

Hello!
1/ I am trying to center a paragraph in my CSS (p.important) and cannot get it to work.
I do not want the text inside the paragraph centered, I just want the paragraph centered in the pages of my output (HTML Help). p.important is a style that has a width of 60% (I have set the left and right ...

Thank you Ramon and Richard.
Re: Madcap Help Viewer, do I just need to provide my customers with the msi that can be found in the list of redistributables on the MadCap website and ask them to install the viewer?