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FW: Mid-Topic IDs and Auto-Generation of Map Files
Subject:FW: Mid-Topic IDs and Auto-Generation of Map Files From:EJS Elizabeth Simeral <EJS -at- MACOLA -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:58:39 -0400
> We're using RoboHELP v.5.5, Word 97, and Windows 95. Our help files
> use long, scrollable List of Fields topics which contain mid-topic
> jumps from the non-scrolling region to the mid-topic IDs for the
> fields on a particular screen. We'd also like to use these mid-topics
> as the source for our F1 context-sensitive help for a particular
> field, and thus have a single information source for all field
> information. I know that we can use RH's Auto Generate Map IDs
> feature to automatically create a map file, but this feature seems to
> only apply to "normal" topics (for lack of a better term), not to
> mid-topics. Is this true? If so, has anyone discovered a workaround
> for automatically generating a map file for both normal topics and
> mid-topics? We'd really prefer to avoid manually entering 10,000+
> #define statements in a .hh file, so any suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks for your help.
>
> Andy Whitman
> Macola Software, Inc.
> Marion, Ohio
>
