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RickStrahl / HelpBuilderReleases

West Wind Html Help Builder Releases and Bug Reporting
http://helpbuilder.west-wind.com
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Issue with External Link #79

Closed DougHennig closed 5 years ago

DougHennig commented 6 years ago

Yes, this is a user issue but it took me an hour to track down, so perhaps the UI could prevent it in the future.

I had an issue where the CHM wouldn't build. If I opened the HHP file in HTML Help Workshop directly, it would open for a moment and then just close by itself. I finally tracked the problem down to an issue with the HHC file: for one of the topics, the value element of the param name="Local" element had the body of the topic instead of the name of the HTM file. When I looked at that topic in wwHB, I found I had somehow turned on the External Link setting.

So, my suggestion is to give a warning when rendering if External Link is turned on but the content isn't just a URL.

RickStrahl commented 6 years ago

I ran into this recently myself and I think that’s been fixed.