Controlling window size and positioning in RH8 WebHelp

Evening all,
I've seen a post before about controlling the size and/or positioning or RH WebHelp windows, but I haven't been able to find it again.
I'm generating WebHelp in RH8 and at this point am using the default skin and whatever default tri-pane and CSH windows RH chooses to use.
Question is: how do I control the size and position of these windows? Or can I?
I suspect they're set in a .js, but don't know which one. I know I can create new windows, and if I recall correctly, I can make one for CSH and one for the classic tri-pane help display. Is this how folks typically control the windows used to display RH content? Or do they muck about in the original .js files?
Or, and this is the more likely, am I just being too anal-retentive about this and I should just let RH do its default thing and not worry about it?
Thanks - I'm just a bit confused here,
Patrick

Hi Patrick
If you aren't working with a programmer to connect your WebHelp to an application, you really don't have much control over the placement and attributes that are used.
Note that when you create a project in RoboHelp HTML, you have an ability to create a WebHelp window with the desired attributes. But really, all that does is configure the way a window will open if you are using something called the "WebHelp API" to open topics. As you stated earlier, JavaScript is actually used by the API to open the window.
Cheers... rick
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