[screenweaver] help.map and customactions helpid

[Edwin van Rijkom]

Thanks for the hard work, Muzak!

It sounds like a terrible situation to maintain. I guess there's no way 
to circumvent this, right?

Chees,
Edwin

Muzak wrote:

>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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