[screenweaver] help.map and customactions helpid

Muzak p.ginneberge at telenet.be
Sun Sep 4 16:08:18 PDT 2005


To get that 'show help' option to work in the Actions Panel, the customactions.xml needs a helpid attribute defined.
And then a help.map file is needed to map the helpid values to the correct .html page.
The thing is Macromedia decided to make one value numeric (customactions) and the other hexadecimal (help.map).
But there's more.. The hex value in the help.map file needs to be prefixed with 'x2' (another nice MM decision).

helpid = 6000 --> hex = 1770 --> map id = x21770

As we need about 300 id's, I put together a swf file that calculates a specified range of hex values, displays them in a datagrid 
(Number, Hex, Map values) and allows you to copy them to the clipboard (all at once, or one at a time).

http://muzakdeezign.com/swos/number_to_hex.html

here's the .swf in case someone else needs it when working on the docs.
http://muzakdeezign.com/swos/customactions_helpid.zip

regards,
Muzak





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