docbook-apps

  • 1.  CHM TOC Icons

    Posted 07-15-2009 14:04
    Has anyone figured out a way to change the book icons in CHM output? I'd like to change the colour of the icons to match our webhelp output.

    Any suggestions/ideas?

    Kind Regards,

    Laurie Burley
    Senior Technical Communications Specialist




  • 2.  RE: [docbook-apps] CHM TOC Icons

    Posted 07-15-2009 15:51
    You might check out a 3rd party utility like FAR or ask on one of their
    lists. They know a lot about the inner workings of chms:
    http://helpware.net/

    David


    ________________________________

    From: Laurie Burley [mailto:laurie.burley@kofax.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:04 AM
    To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
    Subject: [docbook-apps] CHM TOC Icons



    Has anyone figured out a way to change the book icons in CHM
    output? I'd like to change the colour of the icons to match our webhelp
    output.



    Any suggestions/ideas?



    Kind Regards,



    Laurie Burley

    Senior Technical Communications Specialist






  • 3.  RE: CHM TOC Icons

    Posted 07-18-2009 05:09
    There are options but they are limited.


    (1) There is a TOC option to use either a book icon (default) or a
    folder icon for container levels. The following HHC markup just inside
    the opening tag changes them to folder icons:




    (2) There are 42 built-in icons that you can reference by number to
    change the icon on a particular entry. Icon #13 is popular; it uses a
    globe to indicate that the link goes to the Web:




  • If you edit a TOC using Microsoft HTML Help Workshop then you can see
    what all the built-in icons look like.


    (3) It is technically possible to create your own icons, but
    unfortunately this option is completely impractical since your custom
    icons must (a) exist outside the CHM, and (b) be referenced using an
    absolute file path.





    ________________________________

    From: Laurie Burley [mailto:laurie.burley@kofax.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 7:04 AM
    To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
    Subject: CHM TOC Icons



    Has anyone figured out a way to change the book icons in CHM
    output? I'd like to change the colour of the icons to match our webhelp
    output.



    Any suggestions/ideas?



    Kind Regards,



    Laurie Burley

    Senior Technical Communications Specialist