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by John Waller
Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:55 am
Forum: H&M5 Bug Reports
Topic: scrollbar freezes
Replies: 8
Views: 10177

Re: scrollbar freezes

What settings specifically?
by John Waller
Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:32 am
Forum: H&M5 Bug Reports
Topic: scrollbar freezes
Replies: 8
Views: 10177

Re: scrollbar freezes

Are you running the latest build of H&M Version 5.6 build 1340?
http://www.ec-software.com/downloads.html

Also, which operating system?
by John Waller
Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:30 am
Forum: Help Community & Resources
Topic: I need a consultant
Replies: 3
Views: 7164

Re: I need a consultant

It's already been done for you, David. In H&M, click File > Open then browse to the MyHelpandManual Projects folder which was created on your hard drive when you installed H&M. There you'll find an Examples folder created by Tim Green (who moderates this forum and writes the help file for th...
by John Waller
Tue May 24, 2011 9:52 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Importing new templates
Replies: 5
Views: 1485

Re: Importing new templates

Can we, for example, modify one of the existing templates and then save it for our future use? That's one of the strengths of H&M. The templates are fully customisable. The key is to start with a H&M template rather than your own. Then tweak it. As Tim says, which output format are you usin...
by John Waller
Mon May 23, 2011 9:54 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Can't see comments - or comment icon in TOC
Replies: 3
Views: 1335

Re: Can't see comments - or comment icon in TOC

Unfortunately Comment icons no longer appear in the TOC in version 5 (as they did in version 4).

Regrettably, only Bookmarks do now.

See other threads lamenting this change in functionality from H&M4
http://helpman.it-authoring.com/viewtop ... =22&t=7343
by John Waller
Thu May 19, 2011 8:28 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Premium pack Question
Replies: 2
Views: 1135

Re: Premium pack Question

All 1.x updates are free.

(Version 2.x, when released, will be a paid for upgrade, I believe).

When you purchased the Premium Pack, the email you received contained a download link and a password.

Re-visit that download link to get the latest version.
by John Waller
Sat May 14, 2011 7:38 am
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: HTML site linking to the same TOC entry
Replies: 4
Views: 1337

Re: HTML site linking to the same TOC entry

Mikael Ott wrote:1. I want to have several entries in my TOC linking to the same HTML-file, so that I can update that single file rather than X replicates of the same file.
Try http://www.ec-software.com/help/index.h ... ltiref.htm
by John Waller
Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:32 am
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Any Plans to Support Wiki Formats?
Replies: 7
Views: 5072

Re: Any Plans to Support Wiki Formats?

So, to answer the intriguing question Tim, is that a No or a Not Yet or a Don't Hold Your Breath? :)
by John Waller
Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:57 am
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Webhelp publishing
Replies: 19
Views: 8866

Re: Webhelp publishing

The question is, would it just make it worse to switch back to "compile" in HM6... :roll: Not at all. I'm in the "don't understand why they changed that" camp too. Feel free to change it back to Compile. Perhaps run a poll on the forum? Compile is better than publish for what H&...
by John Waller
Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:12 am
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Webhelp publishing
Replies: 19
Views: 8866

Re: Webhelp publishing

Just so we're all on the same page, are you using the current version 5.5.1 Build 1296?
http://www.ec-software.com/downloads.html
by John Waller
Mon Apr 18, 2011 11:39 am
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: premium pack 1.3 slate blue skin not displaying TOC correct
Replies: 14
Views: 4221

Re: premium pack 1.3 slate blue skin not displaying TOC corr

Don't confuse ubiquity with popularity. It's not the most widely-used browser because people like it, but just because it's there. I'm always careful to make that distinction myself too. That's why I said "widely used" (because it's there) not "most popular" (because they want t...
by John Waller
Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:09 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: premium pack 1.3 slate blue skin not displaying TOC correct
Replies: 14
Views: 4221

Re: premium pack 1.3 slate blue skin not displaying TOC corr

Quite apart from the security concerns, which have actually got a lot better recently, this is why most web programmers wish that IE would simply go away. It wastes our valuable time for no good reason and makes it much more difficult and sometimes impossible to develop good web applications. As yo...
by John Waller
Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:03 am
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: How To Do please
Replies: 2
Views: 842

Re: How To Do please

Hi am redoing my helpf ile and would like to use the same sort of layout H&m uses in their own help file (if it is possible and allowed of course) Allowed and encouraged by EC Software (creators of Help and Manual). Tim Green (author of the H&M Help file) often explains his methods here in ...
by John Waller
Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:58 am
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: premium pack 1.3 slate blue skin not displaying TOC correct
Replies: 14
Views: 4221

Re: premium pack 1.3 slate blue skin not displaying TOC corr

Not everyone agrees with Tim's entertaining anti-IE tirades :) (Thankfully, he has plenty of other great qualities so he can be forgiven for the occasional outburst :wink: ). I tried but uninstalled IE 9 because... they removed the drop-down list associated with the Back button, a feature i use a lo...
by John Waller
Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:45 am
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Search Phrases
Replies: 1
Views: 674

Re: Search Phrases

Are you aware that searching by phrases is only available with ASP or PHP - not Javascript?
http://help.ec-software.com/index.html? ... search.htm