Custom Buttons in WebHelp Skin

Question

Hi all,
I am trying to add a button to my WebHelp version of my
project to enable readers to print the current topic. In my skin
editor, I managed to add a custom button, Print, with an image
entered window.print() in the JavaScript onClick field that is
provided (this is a standard JS call that prints the window). After
updating the view in the Skin Editor, the button is displayed, but
after re-generating the WebHelp layout, I can't see my new button.
I thought maybe the Advanced tab's Dependancies list might have
something to do with it, but I am not sure what it is for exactly.
Is there a trick to adding custom buttons to skins to get them to
display in the generated format?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts,
darkagn

Answer 1

Hi Captiv8r and thankyou for the super-fast response :)
Your reply allowed me to add the custom button to my skin.
However, the window.print() function only prints the area
with the buttons, not the topic itself. So I thought I'd re-post
and explain how I actually solved the problem of printing topics in
WebHelp in case anyone else needed the same info.
I ended up adding a button to the template that all of my
topics are derived from, in the footer so that the button remained
below the topic itself. I had to add the button in the HTML editor
with the following code:
<form style="text-align: right; padding-right: 10px;">
<input id=printbutton type=button onClick="window.print()"
value="Print Topic" style="width: 90px;">
</form>
Now, because the Print button appears in the same area of the
screen as the topic itself, the call to window.print() prints
everything in that frame (which unfortunately includes the button
itself, but this is a small price to pay to be able to print topics
from WebHelp).
Anyway, I hope this solution helps someone out
there...