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by Andrew Heard
Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:53 pm
Forum: Source Control
Topic: Perforce and Flare
Replies: 33
Views: 34455

Re: Perforce and Flare

My observations, which I'll submit as a bug report when I find out how, are as follows:

Pros

Flare 5 does bind with Perforce
interface really good, good options available, e.g. check in/out, diff; all work OK
responsive
works with Analyzer, bound with Perforce
can edit files and add new ...
by Andrew Heard
Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:45 am
Forum: Source Control
Topic: Perforce and Flare
Replies: 33
Views: 34455

Re: Perforce and Flare

FWIW

I've been trying to bind to Perforce since V3.5 or so, without any luck.

Am just testing with Flare 5 and although there is some improvement I still haven't been able to make it useable.

In production I manually check files in and out, add, delete, move, etc.. I am going to continue to do it ...
by Andrew Heard
Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:14 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Locate in TOC right-click option in XML editor
Replies: 2
Views: 1371

Re: Locate in TOC right-click option in XML editor

Darn. You're right. (I should RTFM)

Productivity increased.

Many thanks.
by Andrew Heard
Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:18 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Locate in TOC right-click option in XML editor
Replies: 2
Views: 1371

Locate in TOC right-click option in XML editor

I don't know about other users, but I frequently use the "Locate in TOC" option.

As far as I can see, this is only accessible by right-clicking on the topic in the Content Explorer. So I have to rummage through the Content Explorer tree to find the topic that is already open in the XML editor ...
by Andrew Heard
Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:43 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Graphics .props
Replies: 3
Views: 1675

Graphics .props

Another what the?

I have (currently) identical projects in two development branches. In one project each graphics file has an accompanying file with the suffix ".props". The other project doesn't.

Can someone explain please? These are really untidy.
by Andrew Heard
Mon Jun 15, 2009 7:13 pm
Forum: Getting Started and Installation Issues
Topic: Togglers and drop-downs
Replies: 20
Views: 20195

Re: Togglers and drop-downs

On a similar theme, but sort of turning it on its head, I've not been able to get a toggler to work inside a snippet.
by Andrew Heard
Wed May 06, 2009 12:09 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Seeing & applying span styles
Replies: 19
Views: 8480

Re: Seeing & applying span styles

Thanks for the comments, but I think you missed my point.

I too don't use <b>, which I put in as a simple illustration - in fact I use <span> - it could have been written
<p> <any old tag> Some between the </any old tag > tags </p>

My point really was the same as navoff's - if you select all ...
by Andrew Heard
Fri May 01, 2009 1:59 am
Forum: Microsoft CHM Help
Topic: TOC error
Replies: 19
Views: 14921

Re: TOC error

Is this related to the issue I posted on general discussions? Internal error: Failed to load Master TOC - #2
by Andrew Heard
Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:45 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Canvassing for one-click interface
Replies: 24
Views: 10543

Re: Canvassing for one-click interface

One-click on the shift-ctrl-H style picker please. Gets me every time - can't see the point of double-click on a shortcut action.
by Andrew Heard
Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:24 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Internal error: Failed to load Master TOC - #2
Replies: 25
Views: 20385

Re: Internal error: Failed to load Master TOC - #2

AHA!

Yes, this is serious. It has recurred for us; I am the only one who can edit the TOC and generate compiled help.

Trent - are you submitting a bug report?
by Andrew Heard
Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:25 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Perforce Integration
Replies: 13
Views: 12088

Re: Perforce Integration

Perforce and Flare already have the required interface (MSSCCI?) to communicate. No need to install plugins.

However there have been problems with binding Perforce and Flare in previous versions of both.

Up-to-date experiences would be much appreciated.
by Andrew Heard
Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:35 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Snippets - how to specifiy CSS/styles
Replies: 17
Views: 9082

Re: Snippets - how to specifiy CSS/styles

Thanks for that - clears things up a lot, and gives me options to try out.

In fact new topics created from my template already have the correct stylesheet automatically assigned.

I do have two stylesheets, and since there is no overlap at all, I prefer to keep them separate.

Cheers, Andrew
by Andrew Heard
Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:37 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Internal error: Failed to load Master TOC - #2
Replies: 25
Views: 20385

Re: Internal error: Failed to load Master TOC - #2

No, it wasn't ever edited outside Flare.

The TOC was generated on my PC, checked into source control from where it was loaded onto my colleague's PC. The TOC (and consequently the HTMLHelp build) never worked on her PC. Her version got checked into source control and thence onto my PC. Source ...
by Andrew Heard
Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:28 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Snippets - how to specifiy CSS/styles
Replies: 17
Views: 9082

Re: Snippets - how to specifiy CSS/styles

Thanks for the knowledge base link, Lisa - didn't even know it was there!

And I'll try master pages when we have the upcoming release out of the way.

However, I'm a little confused - which is it, master stylesheet or no master stylesheet? I think the latter, if you have to use more than one ...
by Andrew Heard
Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:44 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Snippets - how to specifiy CSS/styles
Replies: 17
Views: 9082

Re: Snippets - how to specifiy CSS/styles

If you have a master stylesheet you can't override the stylesheet for individual topics.
Stylesheet not being applied
Stylesheet not available

The path to the stylesheet could of course be an absolute path. In the <head> area it's coded as a relative path. All I'm suggesting is that you check ...
by Andrew Heard
Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:10 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Snippets - how to specifiy CSS/styles
Replies: 17
Views: 9082

Re: Snippets - how to specifiy CSS/styles

As I understand it, a master stylesheet is OK if you only have one css, but no good if you have more. I have two, so couldn't apply a master stylesheet to the project.

At the risk of appearing rude, you did change the file path in the <link href="../Stylesheets... line, and not just paste it in ...
by Andrew Heard
Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:58 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Internal error: Failed to load Master TOC - #2
Replies: 25
Views: 20385

Internal error: Failed to load Master TOC - #2

I now have the same problem as described in WebHelp Topic: Internal error: Failed to load Master TOC (Originally posted on that board but moved here as it isn't a WebHelp etc. problem)

No Toc 1.png
We have two users, two PCs, collaborating on source control.

Flare on my PC was OK, but my ...
by Andrew Heard
Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:09 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Internal error: Failed to load Master TOC
Replies: 11
Views: 8864

Re: Internal error: Failed to load Master TOC

Same problem encountered in HTMLHelp - see new topic Internal error: Failed to load Master TOC - #2
by Andrew Heard
Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:43 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Switching Tags - ANOTHER stupid question
Replies: 10
Views: 2981

Re: Switching Tags - ANOTHER stupid question

What do you see when you Toggle show blocks?
Toggle show blocks.png
Perhaps you have a nested tag that you can unbind.
Nested tags.png
by Andrew Heard
Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:18 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Snippets - how to specifiy CSS/styles
Replies: 17
Views: 9082

Re: Snippets - how to specifiy CSS/styles

It's true that snippets are formatted according to the host topic's stylesheet. This is a really really good feature.

However, Analyzer doesn't know this. Analyzer topic: Help? Analyzer finding "broken" links, etc., in Snippets

So I added the <link href="../Stylesheets... line to the 20 or so ...
by Andrew Heard
Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:56 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Must I use Bind to Source Control?
Replies: 10
Views: 3429

Re: Must I use Bind to Source Control?

Thanks for that, Paul

Sounds a lot more painful than the Perforce routine. (Which makes me feel a bit better about Perforce)
by Andrew Heard
Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:12 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Must I use Bind to Source Control?
Replies: 10
Views: 3429

Re: Must I use Bind to Source Control?

Paul - can you not do a manual delete and add in SVN?

You can in Perforce - that's now I have to manage renaming or moving files. (See my previous post).
by Andrew Heard
Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:54 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Seeing & applying span styles
Replies: 19
Views: 8480

Re: Seeing & applying span styles

That doesn't work either.

So

Selecting <p+> All between the tags </p> exposes paragraph styles
Selecting <p+> Some between the tags</p> exposes character styles

Selecting backwards is a furphy.

Is very annoying if you have to do it frequently and I'd call it a bug.

If by selecting a span of ...
by Andrew Heard
Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:16 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Failed to run Command "Columns"
Replies: 3
Views: 1972

Re: Failed to run Command "Columns"

Do you have a row with an extra "dead" cell outside the table?

I sometimes had this message when importing tables from Robohelp, where Flare didn't recognise where I'd merged cells in RH.

Had to edit the HTML to fix it.

OR just add a new, properly formatted row in Flare, copy the content and ...
by Andrew Heard
Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:28 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Flare Analyzer not recognising project
Replies: 10
Views: 4139

Re: Flare Analyzer not recognising project

Follow-up -

Just tried the read-only/read-write thing, and, sure enough, if you set the Analyzer folder to read-only, you cannot open the project in the internal Analyzer pane.

Set it back to read-write and it works fine.

You do have to close and re-open Flare for the settings to take effect ...