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Ok folks, forget the WebHelpPro thing. That has nothing to do with my selections even though I did mistakenly indicate that in my opening statement. I am using RoboHelp 2015. Generating a glossary using Tools > Scripts > Output Generator with Glossary Restyling. Then I generate WebHelp output. The glossary term popups have a yellow dialog box. I would like customize these backgrounds.
Hi there
It would appear that we need more information perhaps from Adobe before we might be able to advise how to cause the script to produce a different background color. I looked at the script and from what I can tell, if you choose the it's using an activex control to handle this.
And when I look at that code in the script editor I see this:
So until we may hear from Adobe on how to change this, I think we are sort of "stuck" modifying output files.
Each of these glossary terms creates a new HTML file that contains the popup. For example, in my output folder here I have one topic and one popup.
If I had several, I'd also see more that would end with ...text1.htm, text2.htm and so on.
And when I look at the HTML of this file I see this:
So I think the best approach you can take at this point is to use a find and replace tool and search all your output HTM files for the text bgcolor="#fffco" and replace it with whatever color you are wanting to change it to.
Perhaps it's silver. If so, it would be bgcolor="silver".
Taking this approach will mean that each time you generate your output you will have to remember to perform the find and replace operation.
I would strongly suggest reporting to Adobe via the Wish Form and asking for the script to be modified if possible so that a color choice is presented. Use the link below for that.
Cheers... Rick 
Changing this bit of the script should change the background colour for the popup option. You'd have to modify the version in the installation directory (something like Adobe Robohelp 11/RoboHTML/presets/scripts) or create a customised file and use the Browse option to run it. Creating your own version would be safer in that an update to RH wouldn't wipe out your change.
And information about the hhctrl TextPopup method:
(Pulling up memories from about 1998. 
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Nice job, Amber!
Curious how you managed to suss that. My own methods involved first performing a search for the color I needed to change. Which was #FFFFC0. And I note that before making any mods, the color seems to be transposed as C0FFFF. And that seems odd. Must be one of those programming logic things.
As far as saving the modified script, I find that if I just double-click the script to open it in the Script Editor I can save the changes directly from there and they seem to stick.
Again, huge kudos for sorting that! Swoon
Cheers... Rick
Captiv8r I searched on hhctrl. And I seem to remember doing a lot of work with that while using HDK back in the dark ages.
LynnAIR Good luck!
Also note that if you are using the Tooltip option, the change is in a different place. search for AddHeadObjectToolTip (you can see it in the second screenshot Rick posted).
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