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Anonymous
February 24, 2010
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RH8 issue with popups

  • February 24, 2010
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Hi there,

I am using RH8 on Windows XP. I am working on a very large, legacy project that has been around for ages.

In many, many topics there are popups which take you to a secondary topic for syntax information. Each subheading in the secondary topic has a bookmark and these popups throughout the help link back to the relevant section of this secondary topic.

However, since RH8 (I upgraded from RH5) when I click on the popup link in the webhelp output, it very often does not take me to the correct location of the bookmark referenced. It pops up several lines below that bookmark, so that the wrong heading is shown.

It seems to work ok in IE, but not in Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome (I know it's not supported, but my boss uses it!).

As our users use either Linux or UNIX, they don't use IE, so I need it to work in the other browsers. It definitely used to work correctly, as I've tested older RH5 output in all of the aforementioned browsers.

It doesn't seem to matter if you use auto-sizing popups or custom-sized popups, the same thing happens.

Anyone have any idea why this might be happening? It's very frustrating! 

Thanks in advance,

Feebeegeebee.

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Anonymous
March 5, 2010

Hi, feebee...

I don't have the solution for you, but I suspect we're having similar problems. My company, too, went from RH 5 to RH 8 (apparently, not a good thing). My difficulty is that hotspots fall out, when you replace the base graphic. When I try to fix the hotspots to point to the right topic, then compile, it still does not work.

If you find a solution to your issue, please let me know! (My topic is hotspots not working).

Summer

Peter Grainge
Peter Grainge
Adobe Expert
March 5, 2010

Have you applied the patches? See Using RH8 on my site for some information on popup issues in RH8

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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Anonymous
July 11, 2012

Is the popup being closed between clicks?

I don't think this trick will work here but try putting a ? before the second # symbol.

Beyond that you can report it but I am not sure if it is a bug or just the way HTML works. Can you set up a similar test in Dreamweaver or any HTML editor?

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge


Peter Grainge wrote:

Is the popup being closed between clicks?

No I was just launching the next available link to launch another popup.
But, if I try clicking on the link a second time to close it, it just relaunches the popup incorrectly showing the subtopic title.

I don't think this trick will work here but try putting a ? before the second # symbol.

Just tried that and it makes no difference.

Beyond that you can report it but I am not sure if it is a bug or just the way HTML works. Can you set up a similar test in Dreamweaver or any HTML editor?http://twitter.com/petergrainge

I will report it as a bug, as it only seems to occur in Firefox.
I'll try to set up a similar example to test.

Thanks for all your help.

Feeebeegeebee

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Anonymous
March 5, 2010

Hi,

I didn't get a single response to my appeal, so either no one else has seen this or it wasn't clear what is happening.

So, here are a couple of screenshots which may help.

The links used to poup in the correct place in the sub-topic (as shown below).

Now, in RH8 they pop-up in the wrong place in the sub-topic, despite the fact that nothing has changed (see below).

The same link as above does the following in Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome, i.e. it launches the popup in the wrong place.

Any ideas?

It works fine in IE, but none of our users use Windows, so that's of no use!

Thanks for any suggestions.

Regards,

Feebeegeebee.

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