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Does anyone know if HTML Help output from Flare 6.1 works in Windows98?

How about to Web Help?

Thanks,
Roger

Dave, thanks for the code--it works great with one exception: the single quotes should be double quotes.
Here it is again w/ dble quotes [if they don't get lost in fourm-translation.

window.location.href("../Resources/Index.htm");

The other trick was that the Help indicates that TYPE default ...

It looks like it was an en-dash. (Still English, though.)

Thanks RamonS,
That solved it. No more Warning messages. I removed both the space and the hyphen from the file name. I suspect it was the hypen since other file names have spaces in them.

Roger
Data I/O

After building HTML Help, I got the following waring on six of the ~30 topic files:

Warning: The filename ["Edit–Data Tab.htm"] contains non-English characters. It is advised to set the system locale to match the language that the filenames are saved with.

I don't see any non-English ...

Thank you. I'll give it a try.
When I am in a topic, I see the grey bar at top with the HOME button in it. I'd call it a toobar, but if I can't add a button there, it sounds like there may be another Toolbar that displays? (I guess I'll find out.)

Thanks, Dave, but . . .

You don't need to create your own, there is already a button to do that - add the SelectIndex button.

I don't see such a button available for the WebHelp-MOBILE. (I may have failed to mention Mobile since this is the WebHelp Mobile forum.) I only see six items under ...

I would like a button in the topic toolbar just like the HOME button, but points to the Index page. Is that doable? I see the ADD A CUSTOM TOOLBAR BUTTON in the Mobile skin editor. It looks like I would need some JavaScript!

Also, which of the two Index.htm pages do I point to:
. . .MyWebHelpMobile ...

Yes, I've tried to do a search, as I mention, and FM doesn't recogize the character as text. However, I did get the next chapter to import and it doesn't have any bullets (via Bullet para tag) in it, so maybe that's the problem.

When importing a FrameMaker [8.0] book into Flare [6.1] as a new project, it aborts with error message: '', hexadecimal value 0x15, is an invalid character. In the Errors dialog > Subsystem column > Frame Importer (Internal Error). The error occurs just after finding the last Filename Marker in ...

How do import my FLV and related output files from Adobe's Flash into Flare? The Flash output is 5 files: my FLV, the .SWF skin, the .HTML, and another FLV and another SWF. I'm using Flare 6.1 and Flash CS4 on Win XP. I'm creating WebHelp.

I've tried copying the contents of the HTML into the the ...

Okay. Maybe that's right—maybe I don't need the features supplied by the Mobile output. I have a video in each topic page and assumed that they would be resized to fit the mobile devices. Is that not true?

I guess my other option, is to create a TOC instead of using my Welcome page.

In Flare 6.1, Windows XP, how do change the opening screen in Webhelp Mobile output. All I get is a blank ABOUT page (with the WEB HELP MOBILE heading). I'm using the DfltMobileSkin but I've deselected TOC, Index, Search, Glossary and Browse check boxes in the skin properties. I've also deselected ...

Thanks, LTinker68. That KB article about registering the Itcc.bat corrected the problem.

Today, July 1, 2010, I installed Flare update 6.1, Windows XP, and now my SEARCH TAB DOES NOT WORK. It finds no word at all. This Help project had worked prior to this update. I have HTML Help outputs from before and after (6.1 update).

Solution requested.

Kag_sailor,

I have not linked to an external PDF. However, if you copy the PDF to the Content folder of the Help project, then you can add a link to it with a message such as right-click this link Download PDF and select Save Target As . Save the PDF to a local drive. This works in WebHelp even ...

Sovled. MOTW had been enabled.

Thanks.

Dave's suggestions didn't work for my WebHelp project.
With Flare 6.0, I tried both methods, linking and embedding. The link does nothing. The embed code displays in the web page with a faint, square border on it containing a small icon in the upper left corner. I'm opening the WebHelp on my local ...

I now use Captivate 3 instead of 4. It doesn't produce the error.

Thanks for the offer. I no longer have the code for line 53 available.
I openned a MadCap Tech Support Issue for this (Case 14515). I sent them the offending html page, as they requested, and got this answer from Ryan:

"Unfortunately I have not been able to troubleshoot which section in the ...

Thanks, SteveS, for the work-around instructions.
Do you know where I can find Flare Update 5.1? The latest I see on the Flare PATCHES page (http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/default_Le ... adCap-Skin ) is 5.0.

Roger

My Ver 5.0.1 starts up, but only after 4.5 minutes and an alert from McAfee that SBAppLocale.exe has been deleted.

Roger

MORE DETAILS of Object Required Error:
Running the chm, everything works fine until I attempt to leave the new SWF file (Captivate 4), whether by clicking elsewhere in the help or even by closing the help window with the X in UpRt corner. That's when the error msg appears: always Error in script ...

I am inserting a Flash SWF file created in Captivate 4 with one of the skins supplied for the desired playback controls. Then I use the Insert Picture command in Flare 5.01. I create HTML Help and can view the Flash demo with controls fine. However, my next click produces and error saying "An error ...

MYRIAD WEB NOT WORKING IN NON-PRINT MEDIUM, EITHER:
I am having similar issues: Flare 5.0 doesn't recognized any of the Myriad fonts. I can select them in my stylesheet, they show up in the Flare editor, but when I compile HTML Help, Myriad Web looks like Times New Roman.

In the stylesheet, I ...