Warn when image shown in help is not the one seen in HM

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hmotulsky
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Warn when image shown in help is not the one seen in HM

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H and M is mostly a WYSIWYG program. But not always with images.

When I place an image in H and M, the program remembers the folder and name as it should. I can double click to bring up a dialog where I can choose a different image.

But when H and M compiles to help, there are situations where it picks a different image than the one I selected, without warning. This happens when.

-- There are both .png and .bmp files with the same name. If I put the png file in a help topic, that is what H and M shows me when I edit. But what it shows the end user after compiling is the .bmp file.

--The same file name exists in several folders. H and M knows what folder I chose the image from but sometimes decides to pick it from a different folder when compiling. I see one thing working in H and M (and can see the folder name is remembered by H and M) but the end user sees a different image.

Ideally, H and M wouldn't do image swaps like this. Probably hard to change that architecture now. But H and M certainly can and should show a warning when the image it picks to show the end user is not the one I picked.

My help files probably have about a thousand images. I spot check a few pages, but I don't carefully review every one. H and M is (I thought until last week) a WYSIWYG program. If it can't be that, at least present a warning when the images are substituted.
Harvey Motulsky
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