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Great Site, Click on Big Picture to see the Flare Website, Keep up the good work!

Currently Flare Works with VSS and Team Foundation Server, It will work with other Source Control Providers, If you use one of thier windows Plug Ins, Thier Plug ins must be Fully MSSCCI.API compliant, We have tested with the software from Pushok.com.

Please see this part of the help file on how had index entries to your topics Features > Indexes > Inserting Index Keywords


How to insert an index keyword using the drag-and-drop method:

Open the topic.
Open the Index Explorer (View>Index Explorer).

In the Index Explorer, click the index ...

Open up a different project to see if you notice the speed issues, if you are still having problems I would recommend that you reinstall the Dot Net 2.0 drivers.

You want to be sure that you have your source Control Program use binary settings so it won't change Text files.

I have seen this issue with Flash Player Security Settings, you may need to go to in the Flash Player securty settings to allow all. This can be changed by going to Adobe's website.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/docum ... tml#117502

Do you have any anti virus programs runing, it could be trying to scan the HTML files of your flare project and slowing it down

Dear Tom,


Are you using any Source Control programs? Does this happen on other users system?

Neil Perlin a Flare Certified Trainer, has his own Tech Writing Blog, you can View it here.



http://www.hyperword.blogspot.com/


He also has a Free Flare Stylesheet you can download

http://www.hyperword.com/FlareStylesheet.htm

Does this occur in all projects? If you create a new project and attempt to publish what happens?

In your stylesheet what do you have your Xref set for?

1) Can you send me a screen shot of this first issue?

2) In the movie properties you can set the size of the movie, also you can change the size of each frame.

3) Are you refering to the start of the movie from your Flare Project?

4) I would need to see the proejct as to why the buttons are not ...

I love Mimic also! Saves work for me when showing customers issues with our various applications, I just make a movie.

Please let us know of any issues you are having.

We Have a Winner! Simon's Skin Autograph Standard is the Winner of our First WebHelp Skins Contenst, He will recieve a Copy of Mimic and Capture.

All of our Submitted entries will recieve a copy of Capture!


Click here to see the Autograph skin
http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?p ...

This Skin was started by One our QA Propeller Heads and then the buttons from the Smoke skin were added to it.

This skin is not entred into the contest.

Enjoy Orgainizing your DVD collection with this Skin

http://www.madcapsoftware.com/support/files/downloads/Skins/ReelSkin.jpg


Need to ...

Dear Propeller Heads here are two more skins entered into our Contest They are both included in the Same Zip file

First Off is Cardnial Red, You can tell which Baseball team the submitted likes



http://www.madcapsoftware.com/support/files/downloads/Skins/Cardnial.jpg


Here is there second Skin ...

Dear Propeller Heads,

Another Fine Skin has been entered into our contest, Its called Smoke, it uses custom icons for the Toolbar.

http://www.madcapsoftware.com/support/files/downloads/Skins/Smoke.jpg



You can download this Skin from the Following Location.

http://www.madcapsoftware.com ...

User Simon has Submitted his Skins to our Contest! These skins are bested viewed with IE 7.0 and Firefox as they use PNG's He has a Normal Skin and Advance Skin. Included in the zip file is 4 skins, 2 Normal and 2 with the TOC collapased.

The Logo has been replaced on the skin file with a Madcap ...

Which Logo are you refering to the Splash Logo On Startup or The Logo on the Background of the Help Viewer if there is no default topic

Currently its not possible to turn this off if Using the Flare Dot Net Viewer to view the help file. If you embed the Help into your Dot Net Application itself using Our SDK then this issue will not occur.

Please See Steve S Post for his Entry.

http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 3222#13222

Another Skin has Been entered, Its called Midnight What do you think of this Skin?




Another Skin to be downloaded, Please use this Link

http://www.madcapsoftware.com/support/f ... dnight.zip

Here is another Entry in our Skins Contenst Called BlueGov






You can Download this Skin from this Location

http://www.madcapsoftware.com/support/f ... lueGov.zip

Another skin has Been Entered into Our Contest. You may remeber this from our Forum Thread Flare in Action .



http://www.madcapsoftware.com/support/files/downloads/Skins/River.jpg

This can Also be downloaded

You can download this skin from this URL

http://www.madcapsoftware.com/support ...

This user has asked me to submit this skin, It was seen in another thread.



You can download this skin from this URL

http://www.madcapsoftware.com/support/f ... /Robin.zip