Re: What's This? Help

["Rick Ferrell" <rick -dot- ferrell -at- gmail -dot- com>]

**** I work for MadCap Software the Creators of Flare. ******

Flare does not currently create What's this Help, but we do have a Knowledge
base article that lists a workaround that can allow you to use your What's
this Help that was created in RoboHelp, so it can be used in Flare.

http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/default_csh.htm#OUTH1004F

I would recommend that they go to a CSH calls methods as this would allow
better control of what is called.

Richard Ferrell
Technical Support Lead
MadCap Software



On 5/4/07, Eric Thomas <ethomas -at- ftdi -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Happy Friday, everyone!
>
> One of the projects I inherited has What's This? Help. It actually has two
> flavors of it: the .h/.txt file version in one portion--which has been
> easy
> to maintain--and help created using the What's This? Help Composer in
> RoboHelp. The latter has been causing me problems due to new technologies
> used by my development team; sometimes it is impossible to get focus on
> the
> control in the Composer to attach the appropriate help. In some cases, the
> developers have grouped controls, or have hide/show on controls depending
> on
> context, and What's This Help Composer just isn't robust enough in its X5
> glory.
>
> It looks like MadCap Flare doesn't support What's This Help yet (if ever),
> and I'm not certain if RoboHelp 6 from Adobe has any improvements in this
> area.
>
> Does anyone know if there has been any update to What's This Help
> Composer,
> or if there is another tool with similar functionality. Personally, I'd
> like
> to scrap all of the field-level help, but there is fear on the team that
> we
> would be taking away functionality if we do so. There is also wide
> skepticism that reimplementing it using the .h/.txt file combination is a
> good use of time on anyone's part. So I'm left with the choice of either
> finding a better tool or dealing with an incomplete implementation.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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Create HTML or Microsoft Word content and convert to Help file formats or 
printed documentation. Features include support for Windows Vista & 2007 
Microsoft Office, team authoring, plus more.
http://www.DocToHelp.com/TechwrlList

Now shipping: Help &amp; Manual 4 with RoboHelp(r) import! New editor,
full Unicode support. Create help files, web-based help and PDF in up
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