Specifying Buttons for HTML Help Output

You can select the Help buttons that you would like to include in the output window (e.g., Hide, Forward, Back, Print, customized buttons).

How to Specify Buttons for HTML Help Output

1. Open a Standard skin.
2. Select the HTML Help Setup tab.

3. In the Html Help Buttons section, select the buttons that you want to include in the output window.

   • Hide Opens and closes the navigation pane.
   • Locate Synchronizes the TOC with the current topic (identifying the location of the current topic in the TOC hierarchy). This is different from the option "Automatically Synchronize TOC" on the General tab. This option is a manual method (requires action from the user), where as the other option is automatic.
   • Back Opens the topic that was viewed previously.
   • Forward Opens the next topic in a previously viewed sequence.
   • Stop Prevents a page from downloading file information.
   • Refresh Updates the content of the topic being viewed.
   • Home Opens a designated home page (such as your company's website).
   • Font Opens a font selection popup. You can choose a typeface from among those listed in the left panel. The base size can be selected in the right panel. There are two separate font families used by the viewer: the normal, proportional-spaced font, and a fixed-pitch font for preformatted and "typewriter" text. The latter does not actually have to be fixed-pitch; however, preformatted columns will not line up unless this is so. Pressing Apply Font will set the currently selected font as the viewer's proportional font, and Apply Fixed Font will set the currently selected font as the viewers "fixed" font. In either case, the display will be redrawn using the new font. The new font selection will be updated in the .mozyrc file if it exists, so that subsequent windows will use the new font.
   • Print From the Contents tab, prints pages, headings, and subtopics, or the entire TOC. From the Index or Search tab, opens the Print dialog for printing the current topic.
   • Next Opens the next topic in the TOC. In order to include this button in the output, you must also make sure Binary TOC and Binary Index are selected (use the TOC Options and Index Options buttons). Please note that these buttons may not work correctly if the topic file names contain spaces.
   • Previous Opens the previous topic in the TOC. In order to include this button in the output, you must also make sure Binary TOC and Binary Index are selected (use the TOC Options and Index Options buttons). Please note that these buttons may not work correctly if the topic file names contain spaces.
   • Options Opens a menu that provides access to Home, Show, Back, Stop, Refresh, and Search Highlight On/Off.
   • Jump1 Opens a customized destination. You can use this to let users open a website (defined with a URL) or a Help topic (defined by its file name if included in the same CHM file). You can specify the destination and label for the button by selecting Jump Button Options.
   • Jump2 Opens a customized destination. You can use this to let users open a website (defined with a URL) or a Help topic (defined by its file name if included in the same CHM file). You can specify the destination and label for the button by selecting Jump Button Options.
4. If you want to include labels below each of the buttons in the output, select Display button captions.

5. If you selected the "Jump1" or "Jump2" button options, click Jump Button Options to specify the button text and destination. In the HTML Help Jump Button Options dialog, enter the appropriate destination URL (e.g., http://www.acme.com) in the Jump1 URL and/or Jump2 URL fields. Then enter the label for the button in the appropriate Button text field. When you are finished, click OK to close the dialog. (Make sure Display button captions is selected so that users can see the button text.)

   Note You can also set the jump button options on the General tab in the Target Editor. The reason these button options are available in both the Skin Editor and Target Editor is this: If you want multiple targets to use one skin, with each target using the same destinations for the jump buttons, you should set the jump button URLs in the Skin Editor. If you want multiple targets to use the same skin, but you want them to use different URLs for the jump buttons, set the URLs in the Target Editor. If URLs are set in both the Skin Editor and the Target Editor, Flare uses the settings from the Skin Editor.

6. Click to save your work.

What’s Next?

Make sure that you associate the skin with the target. See Associating Skins With Targets.