/t5/robohelp-discussions/book-color-in-chm-help/td-p/117763Nov 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.
/t5/robohelp-discussions/book-color-in-chm-help/m-p/117764#M4360Nov 25, 2008
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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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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"?
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:
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