It appears that Take Command uses the standard Windows Help system, which leaves a lot to be desired. The thing I would like most is to be able to have separate Favorites entries for each group of functions, something I need to reference often. The way the Help system always goes back to the top when you move between pages is very annoying.
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Charles Dye
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In fact Rex did try a different help system a few versions back. It... was not greeted by all with shouts of joy.
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I don't know what you are referring to.
I'll try to be more clear. For example, the variable Functions by Category page is quite long. If I scroll down to string functions (what I want most often), for example, and then jump to something else and back to Variable Functions by Category, I am back at the top of that page and have to scroll down again. I have a large display (3840x2160) that shows a lot of text, so that's not the problem.
Yes, exactly. Smaller pages would go a long way towards solving the problem for me.
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Is making them Favorites, like I have done, not a solution?
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Now, I'm not sure how it works when the help file is replaced by a new one, but you might lose those favorites.
Maybe someone else can shed some light on this.
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Favorites (and many other things) are remembered in "%userprofile\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\HTML Help\hh.dat". That file is "global" with respect to HTML help. [I have some real antiques in mine!] Favs seem to be remembered with a user-given name and an HTML help locator (see below). I don't know for sure, but I'd be very surprised if updating TCMD.CHM would change anything.
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