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Compiled help opens to a blank page and other questions

i'm using docx 2010 and i'm using it to document a .Net assembly.

some questions:

  • Why is it when i open the compiled help file it's blank until i click somewhere else and then click back to it?
  • I read in another post about how to set the opening item, but for the life of me i cannot find anything called 'set page as default' etc. Can this be done?
  • Opening the included documentation for DocumentX! 2010, opens in a modal mode which can be problematic when trying to follow the tutorial videos since to get back to the application it requires me to close the help file. If i open the help outside of the application the videos are no longer embedded and are of poor quality as well as being extremely small.
  • Is there a way to expressly show the object model for all classes, even if it's just the root object? I'd like to do this for completeness. It just looks a little weird with some classes displaying object models and others not. It 'feels' like i clicked onto a page that is 'unfinished'. I mean, I understand why and what the object model is displaying, additional object references etc, but even if a class doesn't have any, i'd like to still display the model, even if it only displays the class object itself. Can this be done?
  • When designing a new custom template, is there a way to be able to edit pages in the template via the designer view as well, instead of just the html view?
  • Is there a way to modify the individual nodes, or types of the object model instead of just collections? For example, i'd like to be able to have the root object 1 color, while it's children another and so on.

In summary, i think 2010 is vastly more stable and feature packed than my previous version (docx 5) and I'm actually enjoying documenting my API with it. (wow, a developer not only creating documentation, but enjoying it as well? <grin>)

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