HTML Help Toolbar Captions

[Michael_C]

I can't get toolbar captions to display in HTML Help output.

I have selected Display Button Captions under Button Options (HTML Help Setup tab). The preview in that tab looks like the first image below, but the second picture shows what I get after the build.

preview.PNG

toolbar.PNG

It looks like maybe the toolbar height is insufficient to display the captions, but I'm not sure how to change that and am looking for suggestions on that, or whatever else controls the display of captions.

thanks...

[alaltenburg]

I went into the skin editor and checked help buttons. The only other thing checked is to display button captions. What other settings are you using in your HTML Help Setup?

[KevinDAmery]

FWIW, I have that option on as well and my captions are showing up.

[Pete Lees]

Hi, Michael,

Try renaming or deleting the file hh.dat, which you should find in the hidden folder %UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\HTML Help. So, typically:

C:\Documents and Settings\MichaelC\Application Data\Microsoft\HTML Help

It seems that if you restore the toolbar button text labels to a help window in which you previously removed them, the change is not evident until you get rid of the existing hh.dat file. Windows will automatically create a new version of this file when you next open any .chm file.

The function of the hh.dat file is to record the following about all the .chm files that you open:

• The most recent size and position of each help file that you've opened.
• The most recently used tab in the navigation pane of each help file.
• Any search terms that you previously submitted on the Search tab of each help file.
• Any topics that you've added to the Favorites list of each help file.

So, there may be occasions when you want to keep an old version of the file.

Pete

[Michael_C]

Hi, Michael,

Try renaming or deleting the file hh.dat, which you should find in the hidden folder %UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\HTML Help.

That did it...thanks

[nhhale]

This has been driving me crazy for the last 2 days; thanks for the solution!