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Controlling the “Powered by RoboHelp” Logo

This question comes from Bil. Alvernaz:

"Is there any way to get rid of or replace the "Powered by RoboHelp" (i.e., what you click in the upper right hand corner of the screen to get contact information)."

Yes Bil. The Powered By logo image is named wht_logo1.gif in your top level WebHelp folder, If you know what you are doing, you could modify this graphic to be anything you want, such as your companies logo. Maybe even a 1 pixel by 1 pixel transparent gif that would not be seen.

The HTML file that is displayed when the Powered By logo is clicked is called whskin_banner.htm and is located in top level WebHelp folder. You could also modify this file to have your companies logo and text. Again this is a hack of the WebHelp source files and this must be done at your own risk.

To customize the logo:

On the Toolbar tab, under Main, double-click Logo

The Logo dialog opens

In Image, type a file name or click  to browse for an image file .GIF or .JPG)

When you’ve located the image, click Open. The image is copied to your skins folder

In Author, enter the name of the company or author

Click OK to return to the Skin Editor

Removing the Powered by RoboHelp logo

Users click a logo (either your own or RoboHelp’s default) in the upper-right side of the toolbar to display an "About" box describing the project’s author or company, the version of RoboHelp, and the output format version.

The file that controls the popup that appears when the logo is clicked is called whskin_banner.htm.   

You can find this file in your WebHelp folder and can open and edit the content in notepad.

Look for this text as follows:

  <td valign="top">

  <p>Author:&nbsp;eHelp Corporation</p>

  <p>Powered by:&nbsp;WebHelp 5.00

  <br>Generated by:&nbsp;RoboHelp 2002</p>

  <p><a class="tail" href="http://www.ehelp.com/webhelp1"     target="_blank">www.ehelp.com</a></p>

You can get rid of the button entirely in the following manner.

Open up your WebHelp folder and look for the file whskin_tbar.htm 

Open the file in notepad

Remove this line of text:

addButton("banner",BTN_IMG,"eHelp Corporation","","","","",0,0,"","","","","","");

Warning:  If you edit these files, you will need to store them outside of the WebHelp folder or they will be overwritten the next time you generate WebHelp.

9 Replies to “Controlling the “Powered by RoboHelp” Logo”

  1. That’s all well and good. My approach so far has been to simply comment out the addButton line in the source-code. It’s as easy as right-clicking near the logo, choosing view source from the popup menu, locating the line you cited, and putting a “// ” in front of it. File>Save, and you’re done. Problem is that you have to keep repeating the same “fix” after you generate webhelp. There ought to be a way to make this change to RoboHTML’s resources to comment or leave out that addButton line every time.

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  2. That’s all well and good. My approach so far has been to simply comment out the addButton line in the source-code. It’s as easy as right-clicking near the logo, choosing view source from the popup menu, locating the line you cited, and putting a “// ” in front of it. File>Save, and you’re done. Problem is that you have to keep repeating the same “fix” after you generate webhelp. There ought to be a way to make this change to RoboHTML’s resources to comment or leave out that addButton line every time.

    Reply

  3. That’s all well and good. My approach so far has been to simply comment out the addButton line in the source-code. It’s as easy as right-clicking near the logo, choosing view source from the popup menu, locating the line you cited, and putting a “// ” in front of it. File>Save, and you’re done. Problem is that you have to keep repeating the same “fix” after you generate webhelp. There ought to be a way to make this change to RoboHTML’s resources to comment or leave out that addButton line every time.

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  4. And here I go answering my own question. I must say, this fix is better than anything else I’ve been able to find on the web. You comment out a line of code in one place and you never need to deal with the logo again. It’s gone, and it won’t show up again the next time you generate your webhelp project.
    1. Locate your webhelp “template_skin” directory. Mine was at C:\Program Files\RoboHelp Office\RoboHTML\WebHelp5Ext\template_skin.
    2. Find the whtbar.js file and make a backup copy somewhere.
    3. Open whtbar.js with Notepad.
    4. Find the code block in the addButton function (not addBanner) that starts with ‘else if(sType==”banner”).’ This appears at the end of the addButton function and just before the isShowHideEnable function on my system.
    5. Comment out the line in that block that reads “addBanner(sI1);” To comment out the line just type “//” at the start of the line. This prevents the addBanner function from running, but leaves everything else intact.
    If you’ve got RoboHelp running you’ll need to exit and restart the program for the changes to take effect.

    Reply

  5. And here I go answering my own question. I must say, this fix is better than anything else I’ve been able to find on the web. You comment out a line of code in one place and you never need to deal with the logo again. It’s gone, and it won’t show up again the next time you generate your webhelp project.
    1. Locate your webhelp “template_skin” directory. Mine was at C:\Program Files\RoboHelp Office\RoboHTML\WebHelp5Ext\template_skin.
    2. Find the whtbar.js file and make a backup copy somewhere.
    3. Open whtbar.js with Notepad.
    4. Find the code block in the addButton function (not addBanner) that starts with ‘else if(sType==”banner”).’ This appears at the end of the addButton function and just before the isShowHideEnable function on my system.
    5. Comment out the line in that block that reads “addBanner(sI1);” To comment out the line just type “//” at the start of the line. This prevents the addBanner function from running, but leaves everything else intact.
    If you’ve got RoboHelp running you’ll need to exit and restart the program for the changes to take effect.

    Reply

  6. And here I go answering my own question. I must say, this fix is better than anything else I’ve been able to find on the web. You comment out a line of code in one place and you never need to deal with the logo again. It’s gone, and it won’t show up again the next time you generate your webhelp project.
    1. Locate your webhelp “template_skin” directory. Mine was at C:\Program Files\RoboHelp Office\RoboHTML\WebHelp5Ext\template_skin.
    2. Find the whtbar.js file and make a backup copy somewhere.
    3. Open whtbar.js with Notepad.
    4. Find the code block in the addButton function (not addBanner) that starts with ‘else if(sType==”banner”).’ This appears at the end of the addButton function and just before the isShowHideEnable function on my system.
    5. Comment out the line in that block that reads “addBanner(sI1);” To comment out the line just type “//” at the start of the line. This prevents the addBanner function from running, but leaves everything else intact.
    If you’ve got RoboHelp running you’ll need to exit and restart the program for the changes to take effect.

    Reply

  7. Here’s the way I deal with this issue:
    Open the project’s .skn file in Notepad. (Make sure it’s the .skn file in the “!SkinSubFolder! location and not the output location.)
    Locate the following text:

    Reply

  8. Here’s the way I deal with this issue:
    Open the project’s .skn file in Notepad. (Make sure it’s the .skn file in the “!SkinSubFolder! location and not the output location.)
    Locate the following text:

    Reply

  9. Here’s the way I deal with this issue:
    Open the project’s .skn file in Notepad. (Make sure it’s the .skn file in the “!SkinSubFolder! location and not the output location.)
    Locate the following text:

    Reply

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