The HTML Help looks really good!

I looked at the funny ability to change the look of the help
files through the use of a custom povray35.css file.
I think it is a major annoyance to force people to install
povray35.css in such a hard-coded location as C:\.

There's probably no easy workaround, since .chm files are a
Microsoft product. I hope it can be fixed someday or much
better, that stand-alone HTML doc pages will be made available.

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> I think it is a major annoyance to force people to install
> povray35.css in such a hard-coded location as C:\.

Unfortunately there is no work-around that I know of. I tried and
failed to use relative locations for style-sheets; I have to code
the HTML to know the location in advance, and the only location I
can be 100% sure exists is the root of the install drive ...

-- Chris

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Chris Cason wrote:

> > I think it is a major annoyance to force people to install
> > povray35.css in such a hard-coded location as C:\.
>
> Unfortunately there is no work-around that I know of. I tried and
> failed to use relative locations for style-sheets; I have to code
> the HTML to know the location in advance, and the only location I
> can be 100% sure exists is the root of the install drive ...
>
> -- Chris

Is this going to cause problems on Japanese systems where all the PC98
computers use A: for their main hard drive?


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"Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote:

>Is this going to cause problems on Japanese systems where all the PC98
>computers use A: for their main hard drive?

no, because I don't hard-code the drive letter.

-- Chris

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"Chris Cason" <cas### [at] netplexaussieorg> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> "Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote:
>
> >Is this going to cause problems on Japanese systems where all the PC98
> >computers use A: for their main hard drive?
>
> no, because I don't hard-code the drive letter.
>



if you don't specify any path ?
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Jan Walzer wrote:
> 

> if you don't specify any path ?

He said he tried relative paths. This is an issue with the
.chm format that would/will have no reason to exist with a
standalone HTML documentation.

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> if you don't specify any path ?

If I don't specify a path (or I use a relative path), HTML Help attempts to find
it inside the .CHM file. To make HTML Help look outside the CHM I have to use an
absolute path.

I did think of working around this by using some javascript and maybe calling an
ActiveX control to find out the install directory, but this is overkill IMO (and
besides, some folk have JS disabled).

-- Chris

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if i remember correctly, the microsoft help program lets one decompile
any chm file.  given this ability, the need for an external css file may
not exist since one could decompile the chm, replace the css and
recompile the chm.

Chris Cason wrote:
> 
> > I think it is a major annoyance to force people to install
> > povray35.css in such a hard-coded location as C:\.
> 
> Unfortunately there is no work-around that I know of. I tried and
> failed to use relative locations for style-sheets; I have to code
> the HTML to know the location in advance, and the only location I
> can be 100% sure exists is the root of the install drive ...
> 
> -- Chris

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"Ryan Constantine" <rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> if i remember correctly, the microsoft help program lets one decompile
> any chm file.  given this ability, the need for an external css file may
> not exist since one could decompile the chm, replace the css and
> recompile the chm.

While you are correct in what you are saying regarding recompilation, I would
disagree with the suggestion that it makes the need for an external CSS non-
existant. Doing what you stated requires at the very least that the user has
a copy of the HTML Help compiler and toolkit. Plus, having an external CSS is
handy, even for me (and I of course have the original source files) since it
means I can test and tweak the CSS without having to recompile the CHM each
and every time.

Finally, the CHM decompilation process doesn't produce a project file; the user
would have to write one themselves.

Frankly, with all of the above, I think it's a much easier task to simply put a
CSS file in the root of the install drive.

-- Chris

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