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Subject:problem with image links in windows help From:"Zigo, Joy" <Joy -dot- Zigo -at- HARPERCOLLINS -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:55:09 -0400
Dear Techwrlers--
I tried to post this to the winhlp-l list, but the message bounced back.
Perhaps that list has moved?
Context:
I'm using single-hotspot images (they are pictures of text buttons) in the
non-scrollable area at the top of some help topics. When the user clicks on
an image, there's a jump to a secondary help topic. I've used graphics like
this at other points in this same help file, but am seeing problems now,
apparently related to putting one graphic after another one in same topic.
Problem:
When user clicks on *some* of images:
a) first click, the 2ndary help topic open correctly
b) click again on same image, and the print dialog box opens simultaneously
with the topic.
c) click again on the image, and the right-click short cut menu opens with
the topic.
This problem does not happen with all of the images. I don't see any
difference in the code between those that are ok and those are not.
Observations:
- Buggy stuff does not happen where there is only one hotspot image. When it
happens, there are 2 or 3 hotspot images, right-aligned, one right after the
other, like a series of buttons one below the next. The first image produces
the "extra" results.
- When the buggy stuff happens with an image, it seems to happen more when
the user clicks in the horizontal center of the graphic. If user clicks at
the right edge or left edge of the graphic, it behaves correctly.
Many thanks for any suggestions!
--Joy
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Joy Zigo
HarperCollins Publishers
joy -dot- zigo -at- harpercollins -dot- com
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