Map ID With Hyphen Is Not Supported In RH7

[ascentiswm]

Our project has been using RH 5 since 2004. We assign map id that we use for F1 Help access. Map IDs that are assigned to sub-topics or bookmarks within a page use hyphen as a separator. i.e: 002-A001, 002-A002, 002-B001, etc.

Due to OS upgrade to VISTA & compatibility with MS-Word 2007, we have to upgrade to RH7. However, we are having a problem on assigning the new map ids or editing existing map ids because RH7 does not allow us to save a map id with a hyphen. This is silly. Why RH7 does not support something that has been working in the previous version.

Is there a work around or RH7 patch or something to assign map ID with hyphen in RH7? We try to maintain this convention as much as possible.

[Peter Grainge]

Please advise whether you are using RH for Word or RH HTML.

[ascentiswm]

This map id problem is in RH HTML.

[ascentiswm]

Further information:
RH7 does not care about the existing map ids that have hyphens. However, we cannot modify it since it does not allow us to save map ids with hyphens.

We do not seem to have a choice rather than to change all Hypens with underscores. RH7 accepts underscores. Yet, this is painful for because we have around 80 pages as we have to change it individually. There is not way we can change by a query or something. The Java developers also complained because they have to modify the JavaHelp code to adjust all of these.

[Peter Grainge]

Please contact me via my site.

[Peter Grainge]

Here's the response I got...

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When you define a map id with a minus sign ("-"), it is purposely blocked. Defining of MapId results in generation of a header file (.h file), which is included by the developers in the code. Now in some languages, like C, C++, minus signs ("-") are not allowed to be used in #define statements. In order to prevent this problem, minus signs ("-") have been purposely been not allowed in defining the Map Ids.

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I am guessing that It should not have worked in RH5 and it has been blocked now to avoid the issues.