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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

I've seen this behavior, as well, and wondered if there was a way to clear the history. It's a rare occurrence in our case to have links with a target of 'self' within popup topic content (which create a history for the popup), but they exist in a few cases. So, while it's not a really big issue for ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

You may be able to add some tricks through code and make it work.

RDieter,

If you are comfortable enough with JavaScript, you might consider using the following code (or something similar) to detect which OS is being used, then cause certain content to be visible in your topic(s), based on the ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

What you might want to do is not include the mark in the variable, but instead create a snippet. Insert the variable in the snippet then insert the mark and apply a span class to that mark that is set to superscript the text.

I've used snippets in this manner for several years now to address the ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

I can live with it; it's just a bit annoying to have a file permanently in the pending check-ins list, and I don't want to add it by accident.

My thoughts exactly. I'm using VSS 2005, as well, and I don't see any way to exclude files. It'd be nice to not have the target batch files hanging around ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

You might want to exclude that file type from your repository, so it never gets picked up.

I hadn't considered the notion which Dave brings up, and I was *just about* to add my new target batch files to source control. Whew!

So, forgive my ignorance, but how does one "exclude that file type from ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Well, at long last the glory days of the .BAT file are over! Flare V6 now offers batch building/publishing of project targets.

I just installed Flare V6 and tried it out; works great! Hooray!!

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

I've spent a few hours at it but can't get the FOR command to return a date from %~t.

I'd never considered doing such a thing, but it sounds like a good idea!

Could you post some of the code you've got so far so we can have a look at it (maybe another set of eyes can spot some minor oversight or ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

[Updated 2009.12.16]

Hello, all.

I've had a couple of folks ask me about "expanding" the batch file I created a while ago to support more than just 12 Flare targets. That relatively small number of targets suited my needs at the time, but I suppose there are others out there who have many more ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Lisa,

Thanks for the continued effort to help. But, alas, the 'default.htm' frameset page generated in the output directory already has its own DOCTYPE declaration of:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">

... (this is ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

As far as I know IE6 always uses quirks mode.

Per the articles whose links I posted (and many others I did not) it seems that IE6 *will* respect the DOCTYPE instructions to use strict mode, if there is nothing preceding the declaration.

Although I cannot think why anyone in their right mind ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

It might be easier to create a masterpage and insert the doctype declaration before the xml declaration in the masterpage (you'll have to do it manually by opening the topic in the Internal Text Editor). That should result in all of your topics being generated with the doctype before the xml ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Hello, all.

I just ran into an interesting situation while testing some Flare WebHelp output in IE6, caused by the XML prolog (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>) being placed before the DOCTYPE declaration (<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1 ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Usually, you can call a URL by specifying a window name. If you send subsequent calls using the same window name it will display it in the same window if it exists.
You need to craft a link that basically looks like this:
<a href="somewhere.html" target="otherwindow">Click Here</a>
But, you may ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

We have just begun an attempt to integrate our WebHelp output with a new web application our developers are writing using Silverlight. We hare having the exact same issue! :?

One of the developers is experimenting with opening a new browser instance via some JavaScript code which holds a frameset ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

RamonS wrote:He probably downloaded the file that was attached to the post in this thread.

Right-o! I forgot that I attached it last month.

I think when I originally wrote the thing, I didn't have the ability to attach it, so was sending it via e-mail to interested parties.

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Sorry for the confusion (unecessary post). I found the zip file. Now Im just sussing it out. Ill follow up with a question or three in a bit.

thanks
-Russ
:madcap:

Russ,
I'm not sure where you might have "found the zip file", but if you want to be sure you've got the latest which I've ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

- If there is a snippet associated with the topic being sent out for review, images in the snippet do not appera in the review topic (shows up as missing image link). Also, when using X-Edit, reviewers cannot edit content in the associated snippet.

I second this request to include snippet images ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

MC,

Hello! It's been some time since I've looked at Steve's code, so I can't comment specifically on it. Unfortunately, I don't have the time at present (when will I EVER?!) to delve into it, either. :cry:

I just thought I'd ask if you wanted to give the batch file I've posted here a whirl to see ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Has it really been nearly 3 years since I wrote my multi-target command line batch file? :|

Well, just for kicks, I decided to add some code to the batch file which will calculate the amount of time a build operation takes. The elapsed time (in hours, minutes and seconds) will display at the end ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Joost,

I actually found a better way of doing this after I posted the <div> method yesterday! I was reading some associated posts and found this one by 'doc_guy':

http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5787&p=31281&hilit=+paragraph+item+#p31279

Check out the screenshots and ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Flare modifies XML files with a .xml extension, but it will leave files alone if they have a different file extension.
I actually ran into this issue a year or so ago, when I tried to display the contents of some sample XML files in an <iframe> within one of my topics (I write for a software ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Joost,

We usually place the tables we want to line up with bulleted or numbered lists inside a <div> which has a special class we've defined with a ' left-indent ' setting that matches the indent of the list.

For example, our stylesheet has the following classes defined (actual values could vary ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Installed the other patch and all is well with popups in CHM targets! :P

Thanks for your help, Neal.

BTW, I noticed that the popups do still \"reserve\" some space on the right of the frame for a scrollbar, when/if it's needed. I don't recall this having been the behavior in v3.0, but I'm not ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Neal,

Thank you for posting the latest patch for popups.

I placed the new MadCapEffects.js and MadCapUtilities.js files in their directory, and the latest B3.CatapultCompilerKit.dll in its directory. On attempt to compile a CHM target, however, I got the following error:

Compiler (Internal Error ...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

I received a new \"MadCapEffects.js\" file from MadCap Tech Support (thank you!), which overwrites the one shipped with Flare v3.1 in the C:\\Program Files\\MadCap Software\\MadCap Flare V3\\Flare.app\\Resources\\WebHelp\\Content\\SkinSupport directory.

I indicated in the Subject of this reply that ...

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