After installation: issues with TOC subchapters

Report · Oct 16, 2012

Hi all,

I noticed that after installation on a device there were two issues with subchapters in the TOC (i.e. what would be books in a classic Webhelp or HTML Help).

1. Wrong jumps

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When jumping into the submenu of the TOC and when returning using the 'back' button at the top of the submenu, there is often a wrong jump to an arbitrary topic of the project. This was consistent in a particular output, but if I simply generate and install the apk again then it is usually gone or a different submenu show this problem.

2. System default styles applied

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Instead of using the hover and active colors defined for toc nodes in the Screen Layout (e.g. brown in the iPhone layout), the default highlight colors of the mobile device (e.g. green) are applied. This is only the case when jumping into a submenu or back, not for other actions of the apk's UI. It seems that perhaps a CSS definition is missing in the mobile.css?

I tested this using the Android phone and iPhone layouts. None of these problems occur when viewing the HTML 5 output in the browser. Does anybody else encounter these problems / know a solution?

Robert

Report · Oct 17, 2012

Solved: the mystery of the erratic jumps.

The reason is an inaccurate control. If I touch the display with my finger tip at the vertical middle of a TOC entry and with the lower part of my finger tip also touching into the next TOC entry, then the app highlights the first entry but jumps to the second target.

Maby an issue of the HTML5 code, maby an issue of my device..

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Addition: I tested it on two other devices and they show this issue too, although to a varying extent depending on screen resolution. The problem remains that if the user touches the fields inaccurately then the software sometimes highlight one TOC entry but jumps to the next entry's target.

Report · Oct 17, 2012

Addition 2: I could solve the problem with the default colors being applied. The issue dissappears when topics are assigned to the books in the TOC. Logically this makes no sense for the phone layouts because the topics are not displayed, but it seems that this makes the script display the highlight color correctly.