Favorites Icon

[jblackwood]

Where in the Skin can I change the icon that appears to the left of each Favorite when it is added under Favorite Topics?

[QBF]

Where in the Skin can I change the icon that appears to the left of each Favorite when it is added under Favorite Topics?

I believe the file you want to change is named FavoritesTopic.gif and is located at:
C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V3\Flare.app\Resources\WebHelp\Default.flwht\Images

[jblackwood]

Where in the Skin can I change the icon that appears to the left of each Favorite when it is added under Favorite Topics?

I believe the file you want to change is named FavoritesTopic.gif and is located at:
C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V3\Flare.app\Resources\WebHelp\Default.flwht\Images

Do you have any idea which style in the Skin Editor controls that icon though?

[LTinker68]

I don't think there is one, which is why QBF directed you to that one. If you change the one at the location mentioned, then it'll change the one used by Flare for all projects. If you only want to change it for the one project, then you'll want to replace the same image in the Skin\Images folder in the Output folder. Unfortunately, that file is overwritten every time you do a build (it's replaced with the one QBF mentioned), so you'll have to copy your image over the one in the output folder every time you build the project. Well, not every time -- just the last time before you distribute the output.

Put in a feature request at http://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx asking for the ability to specify the image to use from within the skin editor.

[jblackwood]

I need to have all the writers change the image in the folder QBF pointed to on their local machines, correct?

[LTinker68]

Yes. Unfortunately.

[jblackwood]

Will I have to redo it all after a Flare update?

[QBF]

Where in the Skin can I change the icon that appears to the left of each Favorite when it is added under Favorite Topics?

I believe the file you want to change is named FavoritesTopic.gif and is located at:
C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V3\Flare.app\Resources\WebHelp\Default.flwht\Images

Sorry for the truncated reply, let me expand on what I stated. Madcap embeds (folds) code for a number of things into their skins. This embedding does not allow users to modify some code, links, or behaviors. To change an icon as LTinker68 stated, you must either replace the default icon in your Madcap Flare install directory, or replace the icon in your output directory after every build.

Just an FYI on Madcap icon behavior: If you change the icon for the “Logo” using the default Logo button, Flare will embed the image into the skin code. This happened to me while I was performing a test and I needed to open the skin in Notepad and manually delete the image code to get rid of it.

[jblackwood]

Where in the Skin can I change the icon that appears to the left of each Favorite when it is added under Favorite Topics?

I believe the file you want to change is named FavoritesTopic.gif and is located at:
C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V3\Flare.app\Resources\WebHelp\Default.flwht\Images

Sorry for the truncated reply, let me expand on what I stated. Madcap embeds (folds) code for a number of things into their skins. This embedding does not allow users to modify some code, links, or behaviors. To change an icon as LTinker68 stated, you must either replace the default icon in your Madcap Flare install directory, or replace the icon in your output directory after every build.

Just an FYI on Madcap icon behavior: If you change the icon for the “Logo” using the default Logo button, Flare will embed the image into the skin code. This happened to me while I was performing a test and I needed to open the skin in Notepad and manually delete the image code to get rid of it.

Thanks!

[jblackwood]

I replaced the FavoritesTopic.gif like QBF said. Now when I i get an empty little image box where the icon should be. What did I do wrong?

[LTinker68]

Do you have more than one version of Flare installed? You can have multiple versions of Flare installed on your computer, so if you have multiple versions, then you need to make the modification in the program folder for each. Although that doesn't really explain why you're getting the image not found icon...

[jblackwood]

I only have one version of Flare installed. When view the thumbnails of the images in the folder it looks fine. The size is comparable with the sizes of the other images too (if that makes a difference). Everything I touch these days breaks!

[LTinker68]

If you build your output, and then manually copy the FavoritesTopic.gif file into the output folder (overwriting the one that was pulled from the Program Files folder), then double-click on the default.htm page (or whatever you have it called) to run the help, then can you see the image?

[jblackwood]

If I copy the new FavoritesTopic.gif in the Output folder, I'm still getting a blank box next to an added Favorite topic.

[LTinker68]

Maybe something went wrong when you created your FavoritesTopic.gif image or saved it into the program files folder. I just did the same thing last week, although I'm doing it as an after-build modification, not doing it through the program files. I did have to redo mine, though, because I was using the same dimensions for the FavoritesTopic as for the FavoritesSearch, but they're different dimensions, so my FavoritesTopic was being distorted (the code in the program must have the graphic dimensions hard-coded). When I corrected the dimensions, though, it was fine.

So try recreating the FavoritesTopic.gif file and replace it first in the output folder, instead of the program files folder, then manually open the default.htm file in the output folder (without rebuilding).

BTW, you didn't try to take a .PNG image and rename it as .GIF, did you?