Internet links; two little details

[Klaus (c:E]

At first i´d like to stress, that using Help&Manual has revolutionised my Work. I use it not only for Helpfiles, but for documentation and WEB-design as well.

Inserting a new item, you can choose 'Link to a WWW adress'.

• However i can not choose the Window or Frame, the link is shown in (_top, _blank, $HMcontent) so i have to do much postprocessing of the browser Help output.
• If the WWW-link in the item contains an '@', the 'href="http:. . ." statement is modyfied to 'href="mailto:http:. . ."' automatically. There are Links containing '@' that are no eMail adresses, wich leads to further postprocessing of HTML output.

So i wish, You could remove the automatism (mailto) and make the user choose the output Frame.

[Alexander Halser]

Hello Klaus,

we perhaps consider the frame definition for a later version. Version 3.4 is almost complete and scheduled to be published in January.

The url of Internet links, however, is not altered automatically if you indeed use an "Internet Link". You can specify urls with @ in the address. Only if you use the Winhelp macro ExecFile which is also translated into an external link, Help & Manual uses the "@" to destinct between web urls and email links.

[Klaus (c:E]

Thank You very much for Your reply.
I´ll appreciate that.

However, with my Version 3.31 Build 904 i can´t fully understand Your reply

I select "add a new topic", then check "Link to a WWW adress" and fill in the URL field:

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http://www.entwickler-forum.de/webx?13@@.ee6b9c4

The corresponding line in the content.js is:

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tocTab[ir++] = new Array ("8.1.3.4", "Delphi", "mailto:http://www.entwickler-forum.de/webx?13@@.ee6b9c4", "top", "cicon27.gif", "cicon27.gif");

The corresponding line in the content.htm is:

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<table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="60" align=right valign=top><span class="heading4"><img src="cicon27.gif" border="0"></span></td><td align=left><span class="heading4"><a href="mailto:http://www.entwickler-forum.de/webx?13@@.ee6b9c4" target="_top">Delphi</a></span></td></tr></table>

I do not speak of the "internet link" option in the "include" menu

best regards:

[Alexander Halser]

Got it. Thanks! No, there's currently no way to specify a different frame in Help & Manual. TOC links are all displayed in the right frame. And I don't see a way to quickly implement this. You could include the external links into the HTML template of the TOC page. That means they don't collapse but it's an alternative.

[Klaus (c:E]

Hi,

thanks for Your hint. However, i still use postprocessing for the purpose.

[pete]

Sorry, if this is off-topic, but was the last message from Klaus a reply with a duration from over 9 month? I think this is a record

Pete

[Tim Green]

I think this is a record
Pete

Definitely, that's the longest reply turnaround ever...