I have test generated compiled HTML output from my project
and appear to be getting an extraneous caption bar in the contents
tab. This caption bar allows movement of the TOC, which I do not
want. I have found the Window properties dialog but cannot see the
option I need to change. The preview is not showing any more of the
window than the main caption bar. Does anyone know how to remove
this caption bar.
Can you confirm what you mean by "caption bar" and exactly
how this allows "movement of the TOC"? You make it sound like the
caption bar is an integral part of the TOC itself.
Hi Colum,
Thanks for looking at this. Within the Contents tab the list
of contents items is inside what looks like a mini window with a
blue caption bar at the top of it, just like the caption bar at the
top of the main window this blue bar can be dragged around. This
gives me a mobile table of contents. I am hoping to get the list of
contents sitting on its own within the tab.
This is not something I've seen before. The only thing I can
think of is that there has been some sort of script that has bee
added to the window. If you click on the Advanced Properties button
of the window is anything specified there? Also is this problem
defined to just one project or one PC?
I've just checked my chm files and have exactly the same
behaviour. With the two most recently compiled files, the table of
contents can be moved around within the left pane. With a couple of
older files, plus those downloaded some time ago from RoboWizard's
site, this doesn't happen - there's no blue caption bar present.
Odd.
I compiled all my help files on Friday and none of them have
this problem. Is this to do with a windows update or something of
that ilk? I saw there were some available (Friday or Monday) but
haven't downloaded them.
Hi Anne. I'm glad you have got this sorted but I've just
tried added this option and I don't get the behaviour you and C
Stewart described. Maybe a combination of different advanced
options? Do you have other properties selected? Also it is default
behaviour NOT to select any advanced options so they'd have had to
be manually set by someone in the past.
Thank you both,
Anne, your fix worked for me.
Colum, I have no idea what or when I might have changed in
this project, and it could only have been me.
Other options that are checked in the Advanced dialog for the
SSL properties are: Border, Line from Root, Plus/Minus Squares,
Always Show Selection, Lines Between Items, Single Click to Open
Books and Raised Edge.
Ok. I've managed to reproduce this problem but ONLY if I set
the window properties via the single source layout. If I set the
"dlg frame" option from the Window properties in the Project tab,
nothing happens. I'd say this is worth reporting to Adobe as a bug
via
this
link.
Wow, wish I'd been up earlier! I could have saved gobs of
frustration it seems. But I'm glad you all got it sorted.
So why am I posting? Well, I wanted to advise that this most
certainly isn't any form of bug that needs to be reported. The
properties Colum sees for the Window settings are just that. They
affect the window defined for the help system. The properties that
were at issue here are special styles that can be applied directly
to the Table of Contents. It may be a bit confusing, particularly
given that the TOC resides
inside the window, and that the property at play is named
identically.
Unfortunately, I cannot offer any clue as to how or why this
got changed. I do know that what governs it is an entry in the .HHP
file. That entry uses a hexadecimal value to turn the bits off and
on.
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