POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : v3.8 help file update : Re: v3.8 help file update Server Time
26 Apr 2024 09:37:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: v3.8 help file update  
From: Jim Holsenback
Date: 3 Nov 2018 10:08:22
Message: <5bddabd6$1@news.povray.org>
On 11/3/18 9:14 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 03.11.2018 um 11:49 schrieb Jim Holsenback:
>> On 11/2/18 11:24 AM, Kenneth wrote:
>>> I *could* be doing something wrong on my end-- that's always a 
>>> possibility, ha--
>>>   but I don't think so.
>>
>> since i'm not a doze user take what i say with a grain of salt... iirc 
>> this /may/ be a help file naming issue, or something to do with the 
>> post-processing that clipka does to turn the docs into chm format
> 
> I could not generate the symptoms here with the original generated file; 
> I had to download the file from GitHub to re-produce the issue.
> 
> Turns out green is on the right track: The symptom observed is a side 
> effect of downloading the file from the internet. This sets an NTFS file 
> attribute telling other software that the file may be unsafe to use. I'm 
> not exactly sure what mechanism kicks in next, but my conjecture is that 
> the help file viewer refuses to display the HTML pages embedded in the 
> help file because they try to load a small JavaScript code snippet.
> 
> Unblocking the file (see my other post) solves the issue here.

cool beans


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