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Anonymous
July 9, 2009
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Can splash screen cover the contents pane?

  • July 9, 2009
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Hi,

RH8..generating Windows HTML help

Is it possible to make a splash screen cover the entire help window, contents pane included? I would like the splash to be full-screen and then redirect to a welcome message in the standard two-pane help window...contents on left.

Thanks.

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Correct answer RoboWizard

Hi there

For what it's worth, Pete pointed out the same thing I did earlier.

Pete, please feel free to correct me on this. When I used the control via RoboHelp, it only allowed me to select a bitmap image (file type of .BMP) so I'm not 100% sure .GIF format will work.

Perhaps that's the issue?

Also, if you are hand coding this instead of using the supplied RoboHelp dialogs, you will likely need to also ensure you add the image to your list of Baggage files. If not, RoboHelp isn't going to be aware of the image.

Cheers... Rick

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Pete_Lees
Participating Frequently
July 10, 2009

Hi,

The HTML Help ActiveX control provides a Splash method that was designed for just this purpose. Here's a small sample file that illustrates how to use this method.

http://rapidshare.com/files/254213668/Splash_Sample.zip.html

Pete

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Anonymous
July 10, 2009

Thank you.

So, I added the following code to my Welcome Message (the topic I want to appear after the splash).

<object id="splash" classid="clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11">
      <param name="Command" value="Splash">
      <param name="Item1" value="SplashImage.gif">
      <param name="Item2" value="5000">
    </object>

The image does not display. I placed the code between the body tags.

Any ideas?

Thanks again.

RoboWizard
RoboWizardCorrect answer
Inspiring
July 10, 2009

Hi there

For what it's worth, Pete pointed out the same thing I did earlier.

Pete, please feel free to correct me on this. When I used the control via RoboHelp, it only allowed me to select a bitmap image (file type of .BMP) so I'm not 100% sure .GIF format will work.

Perhaps that's the issue?

Also, if you are hand coding this instead of using the supplied RoboHelp dialogs, you will likely need to also ensure you add the image to your list of Baggage files. If not, RoboHelp isn't going to be aware of the image.

Cheers... Rick

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Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
July 9, 2009

Hi there

If you are compiling a .CHM file and using the HTML Help Shortcut control, it seems to work if you specify a BMP image that is large enough to cover the .CHM display area.

Cheers... Rick

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Anonymous
July 10, 2009

thanks for the response.

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