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Anonymous
October 18, 2012
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Stack overflow at line: 1792 or 1788 when using the search function

  • October 18, 2012
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Hello everyone,

My name is Thibault. I am a technical communications specialist. I've been using Robohelp html for a couple of years.

I am working on the user guide of the software application developed where I work.

This is a HUGE project, more than 6500 pages.

We're two technical writers on this project. (This is an inportant detail since my colleague doesn't get the problem).

I need your help because I have been having an annoying issue over the last couple of days.

After the project is generated, I open it in the software, clicking F1.

When I want to use the search function I have this error message displayed:

"Stack overflow at line: 1792" or "Stack overflow at line: 1788"

Do you know where this could come from?

Furthermore, I noticed that this stack overflow only occurs on some words.

I mean, it occurs for the most used words in this project.

We have customers all over the world and over the last week, we've been getting a lot of feedbacks about this error message.

I hope someone will be able to help me on this one!

Thanks in advance!

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Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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October 18, 2012

Hi there

When you edit topics in your project, do you see little red sqares in the content in the RoboHelp Editor?

Cheers... Rick

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Anonymous
October 18, 2012

Hello,

Thanks for the quick answer.

If this is what you meant, I dont see any red squares in robohelp when I edit my topics.

Cheers,

Thibault

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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October 19, 2012

Hi there. Yes SVN is a source control application so that covers that. However it does not stop (or warn) you that someone else has a file checked out until you check it back in. All it does is check that your local copy of the source is not different from the checked in version. There is a way you can lock files in SVN but I believe this is on an individual file basis. We tried locking the RH project's .XPJ file when we checked a project out. This places a visual flag on the file which we used to look for before checking out. This worked but actual verbal communication works arguably better As long as you are aware of that it is a perfectly good source control solution.

It maybe worth seeing if you can go back to the same Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX version as your colleague as see if that is the issue.


Hi there

I would tend to agree with Colum on his suggestion to try and roll back your Flash Player/Plug-in version to the identical versiion and see if the issue goes away.

Another way to test for possible Flash Player/Plug-in issues is by testing with both Microsoft Internet Explorer and FireFox. Each of these browsers implements the Flash Player differently. (IE uses an ActiveX control while FireFox uses a helper add-in) And it's quite common to find that each browser has a different version of the obect. So I'd try in both browsers. I'd also check the version of the Flash Player object in each browser.

In addition to that, I'd be curious to know the following.

You said you and your colleague both share the editing tasks using SVN. What I'm curious to know is whether only one of you actually creates the FlashHelp and publishes or if sometimes it's you and sometimes it's your colleague.

If the former, do you see the same issue or does it only occur when one of you creates the output?

Knowing the answer to this may help identify what is happening.

Cheers... Rick

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