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Jose M. Ramos
Jose M. Ramos
Inspiring
January 18, 2011
Question

About the "Helpicon" Widget

  • January 18, 2011
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I'm using Captivate 5 on a Mac and have the following issue. On the Widget properties, under description URL, I would like to enter a URL to a local file I created with Dreamweaver. The final goal is to create a self running CD with the captivate project, and the help widget pointing to a html file inside a folder that will also be inside the CD. So, I'm guessing some sort of relative path is in order.

To give you a little more details of what I'm trying to accomplish, I simply want to create an off-line help file that would contain instructions on how to use and navigate the Captivate project. The project will be distributed in CDs.

Does anyone know what that path will look like? Is there a way to test it? Any input, or even suggestions, will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advanced.

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Mr_TD
Mr_TD
Inspiring
January 18, 2011

Hi Ramos,

I am having no poblems with a relative path description:

help.htm

../help.htm

help/help.htm

Best

TD

Jose M. Ramos
Jose M. RamosAuthor
Inspiring
January 21, 2011

Thanks, Mr. TD. It almost worked!

It works great if I was exporting to SWF. But, when I export to a .EXE, it can't find the file. Interesting though, that when I export to .DMG, the error message will show me the path the file should be at, and it tells me that it could not find the file. So, I was able to go into the .DMG and place the files in the Resources folder. After doing that, it works like a Charm!

But, in the .EXE version I can't get it to work.

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