atw: Re: 2nd CHM problem

Hi Craig,

Problem 1:
For text popups you can only have one ID associated with one text topic.
The issue is that the MS HTML Help compiler takes the first instance of
a topic ID from the list and ignores all others.
Your only option is to get your developers to assign the same context ID
to both the label and the field. This is rather simple if they are using
Visual C++ (it's an option that makes the label use the same number as
the field or vice-versa).

Problem 2:
As these are text only popups, you cannot use any formatting at all.
This includes having blank lines.
If you want formatting, you'll have to use WinHelp popups.
Earlier versions of MS Office had HTML Help with WinHelp popups (they
now have no field level context sensitive help).

Cheers,
Alon

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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Craig Hadden
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 11:41 AM
To: 'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: atw: 2nd CHM problem

I know that context-sensitive popups stored in a CHM file are plain
text, but I can't get them to show a blank line between paragraphs. So,
they look terrible.

Is it possible to insert blank lines?

Also, apologies to readers of the digest, but I've appended my message
from yesterday as several hours passed before it got to the list, and I
didn't get any replies as yet. To summarise it: Does anyone know how to
make several elements in a dialog box share the same popup?

Lastly, if anyone can point me to good Web resources that can answer
these questions, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks,
Craig=20

> I'm writing context-sensitive popups as part of a CHM file.
>=20
> How can I use the same popup for both a text box and the label next to

> the text box?
>=20
> When I use the same topic ID (i.e. name) twice in the .H file, one=20
> occurrence is ignored. (So when I click on the "?" button and then on=20
> an item in the dialog box in question, half of the time I get a=20
> "Cannot find the topic ..." message.)
>=20
> The .H file looks something like this:
> #define IDH_FOLDER_NAME       2452882434 /* Field's label */
> #define IDH_FOLDER_NAME       2452882435 /* Field */
>=20
> (I'm using HTML Help Workshop at the moment, but I have RoboHelp HTML
too.
> The help project is tiny though, so it doesn't seem to warrant=20
> RoboHelp.)
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