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Question 5:  Is it possible to have a hyperlink that goes to somewhere in the middle of a topic?

(modified: 26 Nov 2001)

Question 11:  In the following paragraph, JumpWithin is not working. Why?

(modified: 26 May 2003)

Question 12:  I have defined a target in the middle of my topic and would like to create a context id for the target. Is this possible? Also noticed that jumptotarget not supported if in the contents file. Is this on purpose?

(modified: 27 May 2003)

Question 13:  Can I make a REF appear bold? The following line does not do what seems obvious:

(modified: 27 May 2003)

Question 4:  Is it possible to setup a link in a help file to bring up a users browser and then use their browser to send E-Mail, for example, mailto:helphikes@kanadepro.com?

(modified: 21 May 2004)

Date added/modified: 26 Nov 2001

Yes, the new version 3.5 has this feature built-in. In the old version, it was achieved through RtfLinkMacros as given in the earlier sample projects.

For complete details on this feature, please see HelpHikes Pro help index for "JumpToTarget" statement. Examples are also there in the sample projects.

Date added/modified: 26 May 2003

"Now is the time [~JumpWithin for all good::J1] men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time [~jumpWithinTarget J1] for all good men to come to the aid of their country."

Answer: You can not define a target in the middle of a paragraph. Your JumpWithinTarget statement must start in the first column. This can be either on a line by itself or in the first column where a paragraph (even a heading is a paragraph in that sense) starts. This is a limitation of the RTF rather than HelpHikes Pro.

Date added/modified: 27 May 2003

The context string is automatically created when you define a target for jumptotarget. For example, in the sample file, the following context string is created, IDT_midJumpDemo. Just prefix the id with IDT_. (If by context-id, you mean the context number then you will need to assign it yourself to the IDT_ string before the actual help compilation. You can put those in another H file and include it in the MAP section of the project before compilation. See an example in the topic "Features for context sensitive help" under the heading "Integrating RTF and context-id files...")

I'm sorry, the ommission of JumpToTarget in contents file (~cntFileContents) is a mistake. It does not support JumpToTarget but it supports JumpToContext. Once you know the context string from the above, you can code a JumpToContext statement this way in the contents file: [~JUMPTOCONTEXT {VisibleText = "A test", ContextString = "IDT_midJumpDemo"}]

Date added/modified: 27 May 2003

[~Bold Dr Dan's] uses the times for [~Bold Moon Rise, Moon Set, Moon Overhead, Moon Underfoot, Sun Rise, Sun Set, [~Ref Tide Ebb, and Tide Flow]] as the primary constituents for fish and game activity predictions.

If it is not possible to 'bold' the text of a jump or a link then I will have to do something else. Perhaps I am trying too hard to make the old help look like the new help. I also tried the RefShowText and the jump versions of each. I am trying to create a series of bolded items and one of them is also a reference. If it is not bolded it does not look like it is part of the bolded list.

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Answer: The statements can not be nested. However, some statements allow a kind of turn on and off. See the help index on 'Bold statement.'

Try this:
[~Bold Dr Dan's] uses the times for [~Bold]Moon Rise, Moon Set, Moon Overhead, Moon Underfoot, Sun Rise, Sun Set, [~Ref Tide Ebb, and Tide Flow][~wresetformat] as the primary constituents for fish and game activity predictions.

Basically, the [~bold] turns on bold till the end of para or till a [~wresetformat] statement.

Date added/modified: 21 May 2004

Yes, you can see examples of this in the sample help folders. Have you looked at them?

You can simply code a JumpFile statement like this:

Please send email to [~jumpfile mailto:emailaddress].

Replace "emailaddress" by the proper email address for the link.

In the above case, the link visible to the user would be an underlined mailto statement as above. If you want to show a different text, use a JumpFileShowText statement:

Please [~jumpfileshowtext send email::mailto:emailaddress].

In this case the link will appear as underlined "send email."

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