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Anonymous
August 9, 2006
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See Also popup menu not working

  • August 9, 2006
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This had been posted before, but my situation is slightly different.

I have 2 See Also text hyperlinks and one Releated Topics text hyperlink on each topic in my online help.
All are set to dislay topics in a popup menu.
The help is being generated to HTML help.
Once generated, one of the See Also hyperlinks displays in a Topic LIst Dialog instead of the popup menu.
The other See Also and the Related Topics hyperlinks are dsiplayed with the popup menu.

I have checked the OPTIONS setting in the .HHP file and there is no reference to Language.
I added one and it still does not solve the problem.

An older version of this source works fine.
Any ideas????
I have to deliver by Wenesday.

Thanks ---

Michael F Weart
LoanPerformance

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RoboWizard
RoboWizard
Inspiring
August 9, 2006
Hi Michael

When you insert controls, if you look behind the scenes using the TrueCode tab, you should see that RoboHelp HTML inserts two distinctly different blocks of code. One is called a "design-time" control and is displayed in green text. The other is the basic code used by the HTML Help compiler. This section is displayed in gray text. So you have two places to look for this setting. I'm only referring to See Also controls here.

In the "green code" area should be a line that reads:
<param name="DialogDisplay" value="1" >

If the value is 1, the control produces a popup. If the value is 0, you get a topics found dialog.

In the "gray code" area should be a line that reads:
<PARAM NAME="Command" VALUE="ALink,MENU">

If the value is Alink,MENU, the control produces a popup. If the value is Alink, you get a topics found dialog.

Also, I just noticed you posted this identical question in the RoboHelp for HTML Help forum category. Please don't cross post! This is outlined in the forum guidelines you can read by
clicking right here.

Sincerely... Rick
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Anonymous
August 9, 2006
Rick --

Sorry about the double post, it won't happen again.

This solution did not correct the problem. I started thinking the See Also keyword was the problem and decided to do a test. Since the following was true:

(1) The older version of this project did not have the problem (I have topics with this See Also keyword in question)
(2) Settings described above were correct on the control
(3) If I switched the keyword for that control I did not have the same problem

I tested on a dummy project - it appears the max topics allowed for a popup menu is 19. Once the topic count goes to 20 or more, the Topics Found dialog is used as an override. I thought I had other projects with over 19 topics with a keyword, but I must be mistaken.

Can anyone confirm this? Would this be considered a bug to be reported or a standard limit with a popup menu control?

Thanks --

Michael F Weart
RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
Legend
August 9, 2006
Hi Michael. 20+ topics in a popup? That's an awful lot of topics. Could you use cut down on the number of topics referenced by the see also keyword - perhaps seperate them into two keywords? I personally would bulk as a user if I got a choice of 20 topics to view. I'd say RH deliberately limits the popup size on precisely these grounds. Just my 2p worth as I don't know your setup or requirements
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