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Yay! I've been screaming for a 64 bit version for a year or two. Now that I have it, Flare ran very slowly on first use right after install. Cursor lagging, 10 - 15 second delays. So, I thought it was Windows 10 Enterprise.

THE SOLUTION: I ran the Compatibility Troubleshooter on the Compatibility ...

Yay for 64 bitness. Just installed Flare 12. Now for testing and seeing...

Found that the initial install of Flare 12 64 bit ran really slowly, out of the box install, first run.

For Windows 10 Enterprise, here's the solution:

1. Open the properties dialog for the Flare 12 desktop icon.
2 ...

Many a year ago, I'd go huntin' with my 6th cousin Leroy. He's from South Louisiana, Houma. I'm was from North Louisiana, Baton Rouge. We took the pirogue down the bayou to an open marsh and look for gator ducks. Leroy had the habit of excitement, and a lot of it too when dem gator ducks take off ...

I was able to figure out how the Wildcard for source code Search Replace Works: for example to find and remove this string,

<MadCap:xref class="HeadingLink" href="#02commands_cws_2118762814_107311">

Use this collection of characters from the string with the * wildcard.

<MadCap:xref *c*="*" href ...

Thanks for the response. To be sure, I use only notepad ++ for CSS editing. Never been a user of McF's style editor. This is one of several issues I have with Flare (all the crashes and exceptions aside.) Being a 32-bit app is chief among them. A project operates only in a 2.n GB memory space, which ...

Does Flare support multiple selectors in a class, e.g., <p class="body break-before"></p> ?


OK. I remembered a work around <p class="body" id="break-before"></p> got the results I wanted. But still should be able to use and WYSIWYG the multiple selector method. :flare:

Flare is not a project management tool. Never intended to be. You are asking an apple to be an orange. Both grow on trees, are fruit of some sort, and are food. But they are different in complex ways. You are asking for trouble trying to force Flare into some role it is not intended to do. Manage ...

No, #Zerozeddy, it's not just you. Still this issue is propagated from Flare version to Flare version. I've stopped contacting support but still send the Crash Reports. It's now 2016, 10 years since the first post here. Support's response is delete some stuff and update, uninstall, reinstall .NET to ...

Still in all, I'm prompted to write, MadCap's competitors, the ones who dare not speak their names, have 64 bit versions. Whining about 64 bit implications is, well, falling on deaf ears. Back in the day, numerous software companies failed because they couldn't complete a 16 bit to 32 bit port ...

I've looked at Google Custom Search before, and that is quite easy to integrate in a project.

If you are using Flare 11, you can hide the existing search box. If you use the top nav skin, you can hide the search box using styles - MadCap does this on the Home page in its top navigation template ...

On a high level, I agree with Greg.

The actual tasks could require search / replace of the img tag to include a class=" " statement.

For example,

In your CSS file, add a selector ".graphic-border-1px"

.graphic-border-1px
{
border: 1px solid black;
}

Add positioning statements such as float and ...

So, I was working with a large set of files to import. And BANG! Flare ran out of memory. I checked my resources. Only 32% used. Ran the import again. BANG! BANG! you get the picture...

Then, one of the engineers was walking past my cube and said, "What's up Buck?"

"Flare is and is not. I keep ...

I received the same error today and off and on since version 4.0.

Here is the current issue and solution.

The build stopped as soon as a topic output was generated and the OBJ Ref message posted.

So I worked backward on solving the Errors listed in Warnings.

I found this in my CSS file


html ...

The power of conditional formatting.

Here's what I discovered about controlling List of Proxy elements that are tied to captions tags and p tags for online and PDF.

I was going nuts trying to get dot leaders to print in PDF output. For table captions, I couldn't get the dot leaders to appear in the PDF output. So, having been exposed ...

Exception:
Index is out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index.

OS: Windows 7
System: SSD, 16 GB DDR3

simple copy paste of text.

Any Ideas. Help please.

I've run into javascript and jQuery issues on webservers.

Check your conditional text settings to ensure everything is publishing.
Delete the webhelp from the webserver COMPLETELY.
If you compile the TOC separately, ensure it's url is locgical instead of absolute.

BB

This has to do with mc-leader-offset. You could try in your print media css section:

p.TOC1
{
mc-leader-offset: 5px;
}
p.TOC2
{
mc-leader-offset: 5px;
}

and so on...

Having the same problem. Did you find a solution?

Several tries, that's what it took to figure out how to use the embedded object provided by Screencast.com.

We host all our video streaming on TechSmith's screencast.com, since it is part of the Camtasia Studio and SnagIt! product line.

When I pasted the object tag code from screencast.com, Flare ...

How do I change the background and border color for related topics in HTML 5 output?

I output a version of Help to HTML5.

My developers report that the call to jQuery in the csh.js file causes problems with the Web Application which help supports.

Is there a way to comment out, jQuery from HTML output? or to specify a desired version without having to hack the csh.js file?

Below ...

I discovered that Under WebHelpSetup if the nav pane width is ANYTHING less than "1" the default of width of 200 is issued. Perhaps it would be useful to request a "destroy nav pane" call.

BobB
OZ Systems, Inc.
Dallas, TX

I have the same issue. I don't want the accordion to show, ever. However, it alternately shows/hides from topic to topic. Why won't the accordion stay hidden?

We were told to always use the span.class setting for bold text. Well, our style of writing involves bolding a lot of words - sometimes two or three a sentence.

What would be the harm in just using the Ctrl + B for these in-text words? Why is it available if they don't want us to use it?


I ...