RH11. Script to make Next and Prev buttons work as they do in a standard browser?

Hello.
I know that the Next and Prev button arrows in the navigation pane take the user to the next or previous topic specified in the browser sequence. This means that the Help author has to design one or more browse sequences, which can be time-consuming and hard to maintain.
Has anyone created a script, or know if one exists, that can turn the Next and Prev buttons into buttons that perform standard browser actions. For example:
User opens Topic A.
User opens Topic J.
User presses Prev button.
Help opens Topic A.
At the moment the results depend on the browse sequence.
User opens Topic A.
User opens Topic J.
User presses Prev button.
Help opens Topic I (the topic preceding Topic J in the browse sequence).
Thank you.[
Carol Levine

What you are looking at are the properties for the Single Source Layout. Notice that your properties have a location that says "Default Window:"
That option allows you to choose the window I was showing earlier. So you need to click View > Pods > Project Set up, then expand the Windows category and change the settings for the CHM window. You may not actually have one defined. For example, in the image below, all I see is a WebHelp window. And in that case, I need to right-click, point at New Window and choose Microsoft HTML Help. Then you will see the image I showed earlier.
Once you have your window defined, you then choose it in the Single Source Layout settings.
Cheers... Rick

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comfortable with the docs, this will often describe your
initial steps.)
You want to code up a button symbol, so that means you've
looked up the
Events heading for the appropriate class to see what this
object can react
to, such as a button click. You've found your event --
onRelease or
MouseEvent.CLICK -- and have associated that event with a
custom function.
Now, you're on to the next step. In this case, the object
you're
looking for is no longer a button. It's a movie clip, because
you want this
function to send the main timeline forward or backward.
Again, your first
question is always: a) what object am I dealing with? Here,
it's the
MovieClip class, so that's where you flip to. Your second
question is: b)
what category am I looking for? If characteristics, look up
Properties; if
something the object can do, look up Methods; if something
the object can
react to, look up Events. In this case, you want to send the
timeline
somewhere. That's something the timeline (that is, this
particular movie
clip) can do. The things-an-object-can-do category is
Methods, so that's
where you flip to.
You'll see a decent selection in either language, including
the common
gotoAndPlay(), gotoAndStop(), and so on. You'll also see
nextFrame() and
prevFrame(). Bingo! (Note, both versions of the language rely
on something
called inheritance, which behaves just like it sounds. Just
as we humans
inherit traits from our predecessors, most classes inherit
traits from other
classes up the family tree. In the AS3 docs, you'll see a
"Show Inherited
Public Methdods [or Properties, or Events]" hyperlink. If you
need more
detail, be sure to click that link. In the AS2 docs, the
inherited items
are listed in a box beneath each heading. Any given class may
or may not
have inherited items.)
So you really don't have to wade too far. Think of what
object you're
dealing with, then jump to the relevant category.
> 2. How do I make the next and previous buttons the only
> controls that will move to the next or previous frames?
I
> plugged in the code into a separate as_layer and when I
> test the scene it just goes through the frames
automatically.
Movie clips (including the main timeline) just animate
naturally -- they
*want* to move -- so if you want a timeline to stop, you have
to instruct it
to. Here again, you'll look up the MovieClip class and,
because you want to
find out how to *do* something (how to stop this movie clip),
you'll jump to
the Methods section. Sure enough, there's a MovieClip.stop()
method.
In frame 1 of your main timeline, simply type stop(), and
that'll do it.
The reason it works is because you're invoking a MovieClip
method on a
MovieClip instance -- the main timeline. If you wanted to
stop a movie clip
symbol, you'd have to give it an instance name, then invoke
the method on
that particular instance, like this:
myMovieClip.stop();
... in which case, myMovieClip is the instance name, and this
clip happens
to site in the same timeline as this code appears.
Alternatively, you could enter the timeline of that movie
clip and
simply put stop() in its own first frame. That would do it
too. In either
case, you've invoked a MovieClip method on a particular movie
clip. All you
ever need is an object reference (implicit, because you're in
that object's
scope) or an instance name (or a variable that, by some other
mechanism,
refers to a particular object) and then you're set. With that
reference in
hand, you simply name the reference, put a dot, then invoke
the desired
property, method, or event.
In the case where you simply invoke stop() on the main
timeline, you
*could* reference the main timeline directly, like this:
this.stop();
The "this" keyword is a special reference that refers to
whatever scope
its in. Because your code appears inside a keyframe, its
scope is the movie
clip in which that keyframe appears, therefore "this" -- in
that context --
refers to that movie clip. But as I showed earlier, you can
also simply
leave off the prefix object reference because Flash will know
what you mean
(that is, which movie clip you mean).
Eventually, when you're more comfortable, you'll reference
instances of
other kinds of objects, such as sounds, text formatting
objects, and more.
In those cases, your object reference -- an instance name, or
a variable --
will act the same way, but you'll only be able to invoke
functionality from
the relevant class.
If you have Sound instance, for example, you couldn't do
this:
mySound.gotoAndPlay(15);
... because sounds don't have timelines, and the Sound
class's Methods
section doesn't feature a gotoAndPlay() method. And that
totally makes
sense, right?
> If you have a beginner's guide to actionscripting,
focused
> on AS3, I will buy it today.
I'm happy to keep answering your questions here, but yes, I
do have a
few books you might be interested in. If you're using Flash
CS3, you might
consider Tom Green's and my Foundation Flash CS3 for
Designers (friends of
ED) (
http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj),
and if you're using Flash CS4, you'll want
the current version of that book (
http://tinyurl.com/5j55cv).
Bear in mind,
these are "foundation" books, so they cover all of Flash, not
just
ActionScript. Still, there's tons of ActionScript in either
one
(exclusively AS3, by happenstance), and we've received
positive feedback on
the ActionScript Basics chapter, in particular.
I also recently finished an AS2-to-AS3 migration book for
O'Reilly
http://tinyurl.com/2s28a5),
but that one may not be especially useful for
you, because it focuses more on developers who have a basic
understanding of
AS2 but feel bewildered when it comes to AS3.
There's also my blog, (quip.net/blog), which has tons of AS2
stuff, and
is slowly growing new AS3 content. One of my co-authors for
the O'Reilly
book, Rich Shupe, co-authored an ActionScript 3.0 book
specifically for
beginners, so take a look, read the reviews, and see if the
publisher offers
sample chapters. They often do, and that's usually a good
indicator -- to
me, anyway -- of how a particular author's style gels (or
doesn't gel) with
your particular learning style.
David Stiller
Contributor, How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS3
http://tinyurl.com/2cp6na
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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