Book color in .chm help

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November 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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brenwineAuthor

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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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Pete_Lees

Participating Frequently

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

RoboColum_n_

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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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