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- Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:29 pm
- Forum: Programmers' Corner
- Topic: Wrong Forum?: can't fathom where to insert JS code
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13065
Re: Wrong Forum?: can't fathom where to insert JS code
There are numerous code snippets on the Web that size an iframe dynamically based on content, but every one that I can find has the same attribute: they don't say where to insert the code. Hi Dave, There are lots of ways of doing it. The simplest is probably to modify the HTML Code Object for the i...
- Sun Mar 08, 2020 6:14 pm
- Forum: Help+Manual 8 Forum
- Topic: WebHelp suddenly is created w/o index.html
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2667
Re: WebHelp suddenly is created w/o index.html
Can I click on "OK" on the above error message? Hi Dave, There isn't anything else to click! Have you perhaps changed the name for the index file in the Publish dialog: hm8_index_file.png I feel sure that if HM8 had failed to create the specified index file it would have said so. It doesn...
- Sun Mar 08, 2020 3:05 pm
- Forum: Help+Manual 8 Forum
- Topic: WebHelp suddenly is created w/o index.html
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2667
Re: WebHelp suddenly is created w/o index.html
Hi Dave,Dave Gehman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 08, 2020 3:01 pmAfter that, there's an index report with "Successfully created all required files"
In that case, I would upload it to the server.
There are lots of reasons why it may not display properly locally on your system. It will be fine on the server.
cheers,
Martin.
- Sun Mar 08, 2020 2:52 pm
- Forum: Help+Manual 8 Forum
- Topic: WebHelp suddenly is created w/o index.html
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2667
Re: WebHelp suddenly is created w/o index.html
What does HM8 say on the Compiler Messages tab after publishing? Any error messages will be listed there.
Martin.
Martin.
- Sun Mar 08, 2020 2:35 pm
- Forum: Help+Manual 8 Forum
- Topic: WebHelp suddenly is created w/o index.html
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2667
Re: WebHelp suddenly is created w/o index.html
Hi Dave, Have you changed to using .php file extensions? In which case the file is index.php , not index.html , and it won't display locally (except in Microsoft Edge), you will just see the source code. It will work fine if uploaded to the server (assuming it's a Linux server with PHP installed). c...
- Sat Mar 07, 2020 2:33 pm
- Forum: Help & Manual 7 Forum
- Topic: A most amazing HTML stumble
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1611
Re: A most amazing HTML stumble
Hi Dave, "global" is a reserved word in several languages, including PHP. I'm not suggesting that's the explanation in this case, but it's the sort of word I would avoid in a file name. I would try at least to modify anything I'm not sure about with an underscore -- "abc_globals"...
- Wed Mar 04, 2020 4:53 pm
- Forum: Help+Manual 8 Forum
- Topic: Webhelp in Firefox is cached very long
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1137
Re: Webhelp in Firefox is cached very long
Hi Thomas, The only sure way to ensure that everyone sees updated Webhelp pages immediately, or ever, especially in Firefox, is to change to using .php (or .asp, according to your server) file extensions for your Webhelp instead of .html There is an option in the HTML Export Options for that. The H&...
- Sat Feb 29, 2020 2:53 am
- Forum: Help+Manual 8 Forum
- Topic: Replacing .chm with eBooks problem
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3393
Re: Replacing .chm with eBooks problem
Hi Greg, The V2 eWriter skins already include a keyword search option. To open eWriter at the keyword index, and scroll to and highlight an existing keyword, use the URL switch functions. You need to add a parameter string such as: "index.html?index=blue%20bananas" when opening the eWriter...
- Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:58 pm
- Forum: Help+Manual 8 Forum
- Topic: Replacing .chm with eBooks problem
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3393
Re: Replacing .chm with eBooks problem
Hi Greg,Greg Smith wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:01 pmPerhaps also an example of how to modify a skin to allow you to pipe a command line argument to some JavaScript would be useful to non-HTML/JavaScript folks like me.
To get the parameters in a URL, use window.location.search which returns the ?part of the URL.
cheers,
Martin.
- Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:36 pm
- Forum: Help+Manual 8 Forum
- Topic: Replacing .chm with eBooks problem
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3393
Re: Replacing .chm with eBooks problem
Hi Greg,Greg Smith wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:01 pmMy concern is that the search, to be really useful, needs to be case insensitive
For a case-insensitive string search, use the equalsIgnoreCase() method on the first one.
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if (str_1.equalsIgnoreCase(str_2))
{
Martin.
- Thu Feb 27, 2020 8:09 pm
- Forum: Help+Manual 8 Forum
- Topic: Replacing .chm with eBooks problem
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3393
Re: Replacing .chm with eBooks problem
Hi Greg, I don't think what you are describing is A-keywords. I'm reading what you want to do is to search the keywords in the index, and open the topic to which the searched-for keyword is linked? You could do that by adding some scripting to the kwindex page template, something like function open_...
- Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:22 pm
- Forum: Help & Manual 7 Forum
- Topic: Linking to a web page - possible inside a topic?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2043
Re: Linking to a web page - possible inside a topic?
Hi Dave, An alternative to using #MERGE would be to insert an iFrame in your topic. That's like installing a window opening in your topic page through which you can see an entirely separate web site, with its own heading, scrollbars, formatting, etc. It's very easy to do, just a single line in an HT...
- Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:09 pm
- Forum: HelpXplain Infographics Tool
- Topic: Play an Xplain OnMouseClick in another Xplain
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3820
Re: Play an Xplain OnMouseClick in another Xplain
Yes, more than one. My thought was to have several small images with the mouseover enlargement effect, each of which would invoke an xplain in a light box when clicked. Hi Mark, Having more than one in a topic makes a lot of work to set up, with multiple HTML Code Objects and custom scripts. Are yo...
- Wed Feb 26, 2020 12:02 pm
- Forum: HelpXplain Infographics Tool
- Topic: HX Bug: script encoding
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1808
HX Bug: script encoding
There seems to be an encoding bug in HX for object scripts. Quote characters are being encoded as ' apostrophe: hx_quote_bug.png which appears in the .html file as: onclick="javascript:alert('test');" I said seems to be, because most browsers seem willing to acce...
- Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:10 pm
- Forum: HelpXplain Infographics Tool
- Topic: Play an Xplain OnMouseClick in another Xplain
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3820
Re: Play an Xplain OnMouseClick in another Xplain
I was hoping Tim would tell me there was a simple way to invoke H&M's lightbox code Hi Mark, Well HM8 does have a lightbox option when embedding an Xplain, but only for the same Xplain as far as I can see, not a different one. And you don't then get the image zoom effect first. Do you anticipat...