Hiding the TOC when WebHelp loads

[Jop_Smith]

Is it possible to hide the TOC when WebHelp loads, but allow users to redisplay it when they click the Contents button on the main toolbar?

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

I believe I've documented this in my Skinny on Skins file.

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Cheers... Rick

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[Jop_Smith]

Hi, yes I've given this a try and it works fine, but it's not immediate. With the time delay set to 460 you still see the TOC briefly before it's hidden. I just wondered if there was another way of doing it so that it's not seen at all.

Thanks

Jonathan

[Willam van Weelden]

Removing the time delay?

Greet,

Willam

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[Captiv8r]

Hi Willam

I was hoping you would pop in!

When I devised that method years ago I discovered that it took that long of a delay in order to make things work. I imagined that things weren't working with no delay because of the time it was taking to load and process the scripts involved.

Cheers... Rick

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[Willam van Weelden]

LOL, it doesn't work without delay

I devised this for RH7 webhelp:

     First, go to whskin_frmset01.htm. On line 52, you see strHTML += "<frameset cols=\"26,*\". Replace 26 (or any other number there) with 0 (zero).

But when the toc loads, it sends a message that the TOC should be visible, change that message, so the TOC is hidden:

     Go to whthost.js to line 1369, replace var oMsg=new whMessage(WH_MSG_SHOWTOC,this,1,null) with oMsg=new whMessage(WH_MSG_HIDETOC,this,1,null)

Hope that helps.

Greet,

Willam

[Jop_Smith]

That is brilliant. It works a treat.

Thanks very much Willam.