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Oh, and if you are feeling really brave, you can open the skin file in a normal text editor (outside Flare).

Thanks much. This is the approach I'm taking because copying gets me only half-way there: I still have to find all the color defs, icon references, and so on.

It's funny (peculiar, not ha ...

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For Flare 10.1, WebHelp Target.

I have inherited a project with a WebHelp Target that currently uses a customized Green Skin. I want to find the easiest way to change a copy of that Green Skin into a Blue Skin without having to re-enter all the customizations that already exist in the Green ...

Also, any developer should be able to use XML (de-)serialisation to extract and use the information - this is very basic and easy stuff for a developer.
Thanks Dave. That helps — on the technical side. But not all problems are purely technical.

I work as a contractor / consultant. In this ...

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A two-parts question:


For an application that runs as HTML pages in a Web browser, how if at all can one make use of Flare's Alias file and Header file generation features?

If one cannot use Flare's Alias and Header file features for an HTML-based Web application, how if at all might ...

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For old Flare projects, is there any need to update older style glossary tags to match the style of newer projects' tags?

I am updating a VERY old Flare project (version 3, I think).

The old project contains glossary entries of the form <glossaryTerm> </glossaryTerm> . If I use Flare 10 ...

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Be advised that as of 28 April, the Sidekick version 1.6 plugin now correctly handles @media statements:

http://sourceforge.net/p/jedit/plugin-bugs/1710/?limit=10&page=1#dae8

Per the plugin's developer:
Okay, I've fixed the parsing of @media. It turns out it had never actually been updated ...

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For Flare 10.01 Slideshows.

What's the trick to reliably yet non-destructively customizing a Slideshow project's Back / Next navigation buttons?

"Reliably" because I don't want to have to manually replace the image file each time I build the Slideshow.

"Non-destructively" because I ...

Just as an FYI - the current version of JRE is 7u55.
For what it's worth, version 8 is working well with all the programs I run that require a JRE. The programs that come immediately to mind are Eclipse 4 (a.k.a. Kepler), jEdit 5, a file synchronization utility called DirSyncPro, and of course ...

To add a bit to my own thread, I had initially supposed that there wasn't a Copy Slide function because copying a Slideshow slide might involve too much shifting around of XML to be feasible.

But in a Slideshow's structure bars, it's possible to resequence slides by dragging a slide's structure bar ...

Flare needs a certain version of java for SVG. I got the following from Madcap support
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Can you please download and install Java (x86) version 7 update 51 from the following link?
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Software dependencies are great :-)
I had already filed an Enhancement Request against the Flare 10 online help ...

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For Flare 10.1 today, although I've seen a similar occurrence in Flare 9, too.

I doubt there'll be an answer to the questions I ask in this Topic, but I thought I'd share my experience just for fun.

What third-party dependencies, if any, does Flare have for processing SVG images?

EDIT ...

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On the same day that I created this Forums thread I also submitted an Enhancement Request requesting the ability to copy-and-paste slides more easily.

In the meantime, we have a couple of ways to circumvent the issue…

Cheers, thanks to all, & hope this helps,
Riley
SFO

If you put the content that you want to duplicate into a snippet, you can add a slide and then insert the snippet into it. Adding a slide can then be done by clicking the green plus button or opening the Edit Slideshow dialog from the Slideshow context menu (right click the slideshow structure bar ...

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For Flare 10.1.

Has anyone been working with Version 10's new Slideshow output?

If yes, have you figured out a straightforward way to copy and paste slides?

Per the following, attempting to use Copy-and-Paste in Flare's GUI XML Editor creates a side-by-side structure that when Built ...

I suspect that table stylesheet changes are one of the things that won't be backward compatible. Once some of my tables have been updated to Flare 9, looking at the things that have changed, I suspect that Flare 7 would have trouble with them, but I've not tried it.
That's an interesting bit of ...

Are there other compatibility issues you've seen?
Per the What's New in Flare 10? topic in the online help, V10's HTML5 skins have been redesigned for sure. V10 Page Layouts contain frame-rotation features that if used will almost certainly confound Flare 9(?)

During a Madcap Webinar about V10, I ...

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Do any Flare project files provide a straightforward way to identify which version of Flare was used to create the project?

For example, how can I quickly identify whether a project's files remain Flare 9 compatible or whether the project has been rendered compatible only with Flare 10?

I ...

I upgraded to Flare 10 and so can contribute some information to my own question.

I've encountered a few issues with Flare 10 PDF Targets:

Flare 10 PDFs appear to be constructed differently than were Flare 09 PDFs. The result is that some user agents struggle to efficiently present the PDFs ...

Browserstack is your friend: http://www.browserstack.com/
Or you could use a real iPad as well....OK, that suggestion was rather obvious :P
Per my original post, buying a quickly-obsolete iPad simply for testing Flare outputs isn't on the list of options.

But browserstack is an interesting toy ...

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How, if at all, might I validate the appearance of an HTML5 Target in Safari on iPad when I have only a Windows computer?

I have an HTML5 Target.

When I use my Windows 7 computer to view that Target in Firefox, IE, Chrome, and even Safari for Windows, it looks fine.

When a colleague ...

I would like to know what release hiccups you have discovered or heard of. Do you have a link to the discussions?
Since this Forum's search tool is finicky, I used an external search engine and site:http://forums.madcapsoftware.com to search for Flare 10 in combination with other modifiers.

Other ...

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I'm planning to upgrade to Flare 10 from Flare 9, but before I do I wanted to ask those who have already upgraded how things are going.

I've heard from a few version 10 users that there are, as expected, the usual new release hiccups, some more consequential than others.

I've also searched ...

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A little follow-up.

I moments ago gen'ed the same project as a WebHelp Target. WebHelp behaves more predictably: Unlike the HMTL5 help system, in WebHelp, side-by-side rolled-over images appear to the left or right of the browser window.

It would be nice if the notionally more modern HTML5 ...

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For Flare 9, HTML5 target.

Is it possible to somehow specify where a rollover'ed or popup'ed image is displayed?

The following three screenshots illustrate the problem.

We begin with a two-column table that displays two screenshots side-by-side:

RolloverPositioningProblem01.png
If ...

For Flare 9 although I don't think it's a version specific question.

True or False:

IF one places a mini TOC proxy below, say, an H2, then the mini TOC can only be made to list H3s, H4s, and so on, but never list other H2s.

Mini TOCs always stop listing subordinate headings when it encounters ...