I've had a couple issues with my RoboHelp project's media
files autostarting on some Macs. So, I tried replacing RoboHelps
default Windows Media Player code with Quicktime code. But, in
RoboHelp, when I leave the "HTML" disply and re-enter the "Design"
display, RoboHelp deletes my Quicktime code and replaces it with
its default Windows Media Code. Does anyone know how to over-ride
this?
I don't think you can get there from here as Adobe doesn't
give a * about any OS other than Windows (as you have found out). I
can suggest a work-around: use a global search-and-replace program
on your generated project to find and replace the Windowcentric
offending code. Note this is what we have to do with several
generated files - a pain but it is now our process.
Short of that, you could use a hex-edit program to find the
program files that contain this offending code and manually modify
them. Note that this could present a legal issue with Adobe.
Hi, Linux rules. Yes, I'd thought of the Find and Replace. My
problem is that in my project I have 850 separate audio files. I
can't use RoboHelp's multi-file Find and Replace to replace the
Windows Media Player code with Quicktime code because within each
of the 850 instances of Media Player I'm playing a different mp3.
So, I'm now experimenting with inserting the Quicktime code
and surrounding it with Comments tags. Then I can later us
RoboHelp's multi-file Find and Replace to remove the Comment tags.
In this way, I don't have to open up each file into the HTML editor
to replace the code. It seems that the process of opening (or
closing) the HTML editor is when RoboHelp steps in an replaces your
Quicktime code with Windows Media code.
I don't use the RH find/replace function - I use stand-alone
software and do the search/replace on the generated files (the
files we publish). Look into your generated code for those
references to Windows Media, copy the string as your "find" and
write your desired string as the "replace" then do "replace all".
There are a number of these programs available and have been
mentioned many times in this forum. One popular tool is FAR from
www.helpware.net but a search will bring up others.
In our situation, I need to replace a couple generated files
(files that are created by RH every time the project is generated).
I took a gen'ed file then modified it and saved it to a separate
project folder. After gen'ing a project we copy the saved/modified
files into the generated project folder then publish.
Several of us in this forum make extensive use of an
application called FAR, which can make quick work of modifying html
code in a large number of files.
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