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Anonymous
April 10, 2009
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Always open the Contents?

  • April 10, 2009
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I have selected the Auto-synchronize TOC option and it works fine to open the Contents panel book along with the corresponding topic. However, if the user goes to the Index and later opens Help, Help opens with the Index panel.

Is there a way to always open the Contents panel? In other words, have that be the default - not what the user has done last?

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Pete_Lees
Participating Frequently
April 11, 2009

Hi, denc,

When they pass a help call to your .chm file, your software developers can use the HH_DISPLAY_TOC command to open the file with the Contents tab at the front. See this page for more information on the command:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms670083(VS.85).aspx

If the help window is opened in any other way, the most recently used tab is always foremost. Unfortunately, this is standard and non-configurable HTML Help behaviour.

Pete

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Anonymous
April 16, 2009

Thanks, Pete.

I tried this with my developer and it still opens the TOC only if the user has not gone to the Index last. I realized that my coworker is also working on this with our developers, so I'll let her proceed and post a solution should she find one.

Thanks again,

Dennis

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