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Can you use an alternative method to link between the topics, such as a Related Topics link or Concept (ALink) link?
These methods let you nominate a window in which to display the target topic, which I don't believe is possible with Shortcut controls.
It's also not possible with the Related ...

And no div displays in the XML Editor
True, but in the source of the built help topic you can see sth like this at the beginning of your dropdown:

<div class="MCDropDown">
<div class="MCDropDownHead"><a href="javascript:void(0);" class="MCDropDownHotSpot" id="MCDropDownHotSpot_3645221321_0 ...

try:
background-image: none
instead of
background-image: (default)
chosing "default" results in (not set) and a dropdown IS a div, so that background-image comes in through the inbuilt "inherit" function of style sheets ...
better be definite about it than leaving it to the application ...

Hi there,
what I would like to do:
I would like to open topics of a given type, let's sy "X" in a second help window (let's call it "windowX").
If I click on another link to another topic of the sort "X" I don't want to open another window but would want to see it displayed in "windowX".

The list ...

Could you post the relevant part of the stylesheet and the source code of those elements, maybe even embedded in topics?

Hi knichols,
2 more things for you to check:

1. What media have you applied the change to?
media_for_stylesheet.gif
Maybe you should try assigning it to other media, maybe even all of them?

2. Have you ever looked at the source of the topic in the XML editor AND in the processed help file?
What ...

Hi there,
now that I try to use the shortcut control to open another help topic in its own help window that's the situation:
1. I entered text in the XML editor and selected it.
2. I inserted a shortcut control (insert | help control | shortcut control) and edited the link.
=>
The text is gone ...

will be "CLOED" ??
*rotfl*

Good that you don't know what that could mean in German ...


Happy stuffing holiday!

You can use a Shortcut control to open a second HTML Help file. When adding the control to a topic, you specify hh.exe as the name of the program that you want to call, and you specify the file names of the target .chm file and target topic file as additional parameters that you want to send to hh ...

That's the facts of my case - I reported it a few weeks ago. Gives you a hint on how complex that problem is and how long it might take to solve it ...
I am working for a software company myself and performance problems are usually most hard to solve.

Are these CHM files?
Yes - since this the HTML Help Forum ...

are they all in the same location are you opening the CHM files from the network?
Everything would be fine if I just wanted link to the other topic and see it opening in the same window ... that is the part that works. The only thing ...

That's all very good advice. And maybe it helps sometimes or even most of the time.
But: What do you do, if it doesn't help?
The situation is project A being compiled:
- on computer X with Flare 3.1 - 18 minutes
- on computer X with Flare 4 - 14 minutes
- on computer Y with Flare 3.1 - 7 to 8 ...

Hi there,
I'm having the same problem right now. We contribute a single help file to a system of help files. Since the other helps have a different look we want to avoid to link to one of their topics and open it in our help window - that could leave the user puzzled. We would prefer to open those ...

... is the more promising approach.
Ah, yes - as promising an approach as complaining about MS in a MC forum? Sometimes temper gets the best of us - YOU should know that ...
Flaming somebody else for sth you do yourself is definitely outside netiquette.

And there are several others with as many ...

ts, ts, ts, ... hi there folks ...

@RamonS: I understand users being angry about performance. If you have a lot of work to do and time is running short people tend to get nasty because of yet another detail delaying their work. Not everybody has the time to produce a 4-digit-number of posts in not ...

Hi Lisa, hi 'Flaries',
thanks for the hint.

I am trying to insert buttons that reveal invisible divs in the topic like tiny submenues.
Problem coming up:
1. Tab Styles : I added a new class, i.e. new button, called fields
2. Tab WebHelp Toolbar : I select the button fields
3. Tab WebHelp Toolbar ...

Our problem is slightly different - we don't have performance problems working with Flare 4, but with compiling an HTML Help.
FYI: The bug number is 23969.

Update:
- switched off collecting phrases
- compiled in debug mode with SQL server and SQL express switched off
- compiled files (_Temp.hhp) with the HTML Help Workshop

Nothing helped.
Got a bug report number - in case you want to refer to the same bug, the number is 23969.

You should be able to create different skins and set up each skin to use different WebHelp toolbar icons. You'd probably then want to create multiple HTML Help targets, each one pointing to a different skin file. I've done this in WebHelp but I've never actually done it for HTML Help, but it should ...

Hi there,
I've noticed that in Flare the project loses the connection with the the database completely sometimes - as if the project had never been "bound" to source control. Means: I lose the information icons, the list at Pending Check Ins and cannot change any file that was not checked out before ...

Hi there,
I want to generate a HTML Help with the Flare Webhelp Toolbar , so I switch it on in the skin.

Problem:
It always looks the same. But I need different toolbars for different purposes.
And: NO, I don't mean the buttons, but its look, size, position, ... and actually I even would like to ...

Hi there "royj",
I had the same problem.
It's because the overflow setting is automatically (or even manually) assigned to the body tag. And Flare 4 seems to create a surrounding in which that is taken literally: Your body is the object with the scrollbars, not the html tag (=window).
Either you set ...

I designed a header to be static in the help window - only the rest of the topic is scrollable.
This was my Stylesheet:

HTML { OVERFLOW: hidden; }
BODY {
OVERFLOW: hidden;
PADDING: 0px;
MARGIN: 0px;
font-family: Verdana, Sans-Serif;
background: white; }

HTML #headerrow {
MARGIN: 0px ...

I know. And my colleague was very pleased to see that!

Hi there,
can anybody tell me whether I have to have the TOC in the navigation pane to get MiniTOCs in topics?
Actually we would prefer to produce a very special help file with only the search tab in the navigation pane. But we would like to have MiniTOCs in a few topics. Do those settings go ...