I started "hacking" the dialog boxes a few years back in Frame 6. On looking at my records, it looks like I resized the following dialogs in Frame 6:
Edit User Variable Edit Cross Reference Resize Selected Columns (in tables) Cross Reference. The only problem I had with the edited fmdlg.dll and Frame 6 was when opening a file with a missing referenced graphic. As soon as I selected to skip the missing graphic, Frame 6 crashed. Every time. To get around this I kept the original dll, renamed as fmdlg.dll.orig. If I had to open a Frame file with missing graphics, I had to shut Frame down and restore the original dll file until I could switch back to the modified one (once you get used to the bigger dialogs, you don't want to go back to the originals!). We upgraded to Frame 8 (on XP) earlier this year. I did the Frame 8 testing for our Tech Pubs group to find out if there were going to be any problems with our Frame 6 templates, plug-ins etc. I did find that I couldn't use the modified dll from my Frame 6 installation. At first I just copied it from the Frame 6 folder to the Frame 8 folder. It appeared to work normally, but then I found that Frame would crash when I updated a book. I had to edit the dll that came with Frame 8. I have edited the following dialogs in Frame 8: Variable Edit User Variable Update Book Cross Reference Edit Cross Reference Format So far I haven't had any problems with Frame 8 crashing while using the modified dll file, even with missing referenced graphics. Maybe it depends on which dialogs you have modified. I'm using Frame 8.0p277 on Win XP SP2. Cheers Dave Laurie Little wrote, on 12/11/2008 4:56 a.m.: > We have a document that is set up with the H1s as the menu path name (so as > to facilitate auto-population of online help). > > Some of these paths are quite long, with the result that the targets listed > in the cross-reference dialog are indistinguishable because many start the > same way, and the dialog box is not resizable. > > We have identified a few workarounds for this, including manually creating > distinct cross-reference markers in the text, or (less desirable for this > project) changing the structure of the H1s. > > Does anyone have any other ideas? > Thanks, > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Laurie Little > Words That Work > 905-947-1557 > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as dave.reynolds at tait.co.nz. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dave.reynolds%40tait.co.nz > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Dave Reynolds Phone: (64) (3) 358 1029 Senior Technical Author Fax: (64) (3) 359 4632 Tait Electronics Ltd Email: dave.reynolds at tait.co.nz PO Box 1645 Christchurch New Zealand ======================================================================= This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. =======================================================================