Show/Hide Navigation Button for WebWorks Help 5.0
| Version: | 1.0.0 |
|---|---|
| Date: | 2007-02 |
| Changes: | Initial version. |
| Issue: | For our 2008.4 ePub help system, we are using the Lobby skin. There is no Show/Hide navigation icon on the main frameset - only on the context sensitive frames. In that case, there is a Show Navigation button and after you select it to open the main help, you can't go back to a collapsed view because there are no icons on the main Frameset. So, I applied the fix in this topic but I was not careful - ALWAYS - copy changes into your formats files, not replace. Thanks to Ben, he corrected the error of my ways! For a zip of changes for the 2008.4 publisher version WebWorks Help 5.0 Lobby skin, click the Attachments link above and download the zip. Thanks Ben! :-) joan |
Abstract
This page outlines a Format override for a Show/Hide navigation button for WebWorks Help 5.0.
Usage Notes
Download the attached zip file and extract the contents to an existing WebWorks Help 5.0 project.
NOTE: The format override uses icons from the Classic skin. To replicate these icons for another skin, open the wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/images/shownav.gif in a Graphics Editor. Save it over the one in Formats/WebWorks Help 5.0/Files/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/images as show.gif. Then in your Graphics Editor, flip the image 180 degrees and save it over the one in Formats/WebWorks Help 5.0/Files/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/images.
Download
ShowHideButton.zip
Fix Needed
(BrentGossett, 2007.11.28) The show and hide images were reversed as implemented in the download. To make this override work properly, I had to make the following changes:
- In Targets\WebWorks Help 5.0\Files\wwhelp\wwhimpl\common\scripts\controls.js, swap all show.gif and hide.gif references (lines 298, 784, and 805). Here's the fix on line 298:
// Create control entries
//
this.fAddControl("WWHShowHideIcon", (!this.fSansNavigation()), false,
"Show/Hide Navigation",
"hide.gif", "hide.gif", "fClickedShowHide", "WWHControlsLeftFrame");(By the way, if you want to make the tooltip reference the value in the message.xml file where it can be localized, change the string "Show/Hide Navigation" above to "WWHFrame.WWHHelp.mMessages.mShowNavigationIconLabel" (no quotes). Then in Targets\WebWorks Help 5.0\Files\wwhelp\messages.xml, change the value attribute of all the StaticString elements whose key attribute is ShowNavigationIconLabel to "Show/Hide Navigation". Would be better if you could use two independent strings, one to say "Show Navigation" and another "Hide Navigation", but that would require changes to the logic.)
- Make sure your Targets\WebWorks Help 5.0\Skins\<skin_name>\Files\wwhelp\wwhimpl\common\images\shownav.gif file is the same as the Targets\WebWorks Help 5.0\Files\wwhelp\wwhimpl\common\images\show.gif. The shownav.gif file is the image that's used when the window opens in topic-only view (i.e. via a context-sensitive call), not the show.gif file.