linking from top nav in webhelp 5 to a specific frame

[sanjsrik]

Hi,

I have output that is using the top-nav skin in webhelp5. Two of my "topics" are Doxygen-generated which are a C++ and a Java source code documentation that is maintained in the respective .h files for each type of code base. I need to link from the top-nav TOC that references them and show them in the bottom main pane of the top-nav output. However, my problem comes in in that when I click the link to the C++ or Java Doxygen output, the entire frameset for the existing webhelp is taken over by the Doxygen leaving no trace of the original webhelp skin nor any way to get back to it.

The question is, is there a way to show the content for the Doxygen output in the main pane while still maintaining the top-nav that has links to the reference material that explains a lot of the Doxygen functions.

Thank you in advance.

[NorthEast]

The top nav skin doesn't use any frames - so there isn't a bottom frame/pane that you can display these topics in.

However, you could insert your own iframe into the topics, and display your topics in that.

[sanjsrik]

I figured this out as well. So, that's what I'm doing. Problem is when someone does a search and hits the doxygen output directly rather than from the link, it breaks the iframe the doxygen is displayed in and overwrites the entire webhelp display. It's the frustrating part I'm at today. How to link the search results in the same iframe that I'm displaying the original doxygen output in in the first place.