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Book color in .chm help

New Here ,
Nov 25, 2008 Nov 25, 2008

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Does anyone know if there's a way to change the book color in .chm help? I see where you can select a custom image. But I don't want a single image. I want to use the open books, closed books, and topic icons, just in a different color.

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LEGEND ,
Nov 25, 2008 Nov 25, 2008

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The custom Image field is used to specify a Custom Icon Strip that you can set-up to use different images in the way you want. Rick Stone's tips n tricks file describes how you can set this up.

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Nov 25, 2008 Nov 25, 2008

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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. This is a completely new concept to me, and I'm not quite sure I get it. How do you get the images that you want to use into the "strip"?

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Nov 25, 2008 Nov 25, 2008

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Hi, Brenwine,

You'd use a graphics editor like Paint or Paint Shop Pro to set up the icon file as you want it, and then you'd configure your TOC to use the icons in this file instead of the standard TOC icons (see "Customize HTML Help table of contents").

Before you do much work on this, though, it's worth noting that Microsoft never properly implemented this feature in HTML Help, and consequently it is so handicapped as to be barely worth using. See these articles for more information on the problems and some possible workarounds:

http://www.west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/1520.aspx
http://helpware.net/FAR/far_faq.htm#CustomIcons
http://frogleg.mvps.org/helptechnologies/htmlhelp/hhfaq.html#question12

Pete

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