Static HTML-output doesn`t show "startpage"

[matthias]

Hi,

I have generated a HTML-Browser Help file but I used "Static output". I defined a start page for the right frame but it does not appear in my browser.
When using dynamic output the start page in the right frames works fine.

Matthias Jensen

[Tim Green]

Hi Matthias,

Are you sure you've got it the right way round? I just tried it several times with several different kinds of start page, and on my system it works with static output but not with dynamic -- i.e. exactly the opposite of what you describe. That would make sense to me, because I can imagine the JavaScript that controls the dynamic menu might automatically close the menu when the page is opened, thus overriding the "home" page setting.

[matthias]

OK, I got it to work. By mistake my first topic is called "Einführung"
and H & M saves that as topic-id "Einführung" but when loading the frame page it tries to load "einführung.htm" as start page.

The special character seems to be the problem. I changed the topic-id to "einfuhrung" without - ü - and then it works fine.

I thought it would change it without that I have to do that.

Thanks,
Matthias Jensen

[Tim Green]

Ah, makes sense. Any ASCII > 127 is still generally a bad idea in IDs or anything the computer has to read. It would be good if H&M corrected this automatically though...