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Alexia Prendergast
Tech Pubs Manager
Seagate Software (Durham, NC, USA) mailto:alexiap -at- seagatesoftware -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nora Merhar [SMTP:nmerhar -at- CHARLESINDUSTRIES -dot- COM]
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 1997 3:05 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: RoboHELP
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> If I understand you, what your developer wants to do is to have you
> change
> the mapping codes for context-sensitive help to the codes she uses in
> the products, rather than use the ones that Robohelp has generated for
> you. These codes need to have some relationship to each other in order
> for the context-sensitive help to work correctly.
>
> I would make the change. It's probably harder for her to change the
> code than it is for you to add these codes to your help, and this way,
> the developer can feed you a code every time he/she makes a change to
> the software.
>
> You could also edit the .hh file to set the developer's codes equal to
> yours, but that seems like an unnecessary effort if you could just
> change the codes.
>
> Nora
> nmerhar -at- charlesindustries -dot- com
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