Export Template Questions

[Fur Face]

First of all, I have to say that I love HD. It was to program I'd been waiting a long time for.:D

I do have a couple of questions, which if I were more astute in programming I would probably be able to figure it out, but here they are:

Q1) I recently went from an old version of Netscape to IE. The first time I tried to export a template and view a character, I got a "file not found". The source, instead of HD, was "Program 20%20......character #". I was able to browse and redirect it to HD files, so it works, but I have to go through a bunch of extra steps. Does anyone know how I might reset a setting or something?

Q2) On the templates themselves, is there a way I could change the HD logo or some of the border lines so they don't use so much ink? I have an inkjet printer at home, and I feel like I could save a lot of ink by just being able to do this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.:D

[Simon]

Q1: I'm not entirely sure what would be causing that. When you go to preview a character, HD creates a temporary file in it's install directory and then simply passes that file name off to the browser (roundabout....it actually hands it off to the process "run32.dll" which determines what to do with it). If your browser isn't finding it, even though you can manually locate the file, then it sounds as if something is getting a bit horked in your run32.dll -- which is a bad thing. Maybe if you post the entire string for the file path that it's looking for someone here can see something to try....

Q2: any of the templates can be edited. Just open them up in your favorite text editor and edit away. The instructions are in the documentation, though if you're creating your own template, you'll want to make sure you go through the release notes for the updates, as there have been a large number of additions to the export process since 1.0.

In order to modify a template, you will need to be familiar with the format that it is written in. In most cases, this is HTML, though there are several RTF and plain text templates as well.

[Fur Face]

Alrighty then! :) Here is the typical string I get:

C:\Program%20Files\1049292626330.HTML

Any info you could provide would be helpful! My wife is more literate than I, so if it is a run32.dll thing, she could fix it.

As for the templates, I will try to play with them when I can.

Thanks again! I would have responded sooner, but you know how busy life can be sometimes. ;)

[Simon]

That path doesn't look right....unless you installed HD directly into the Program Files directory, it should be in C:\Program Files\HeroDesigner

Check the permissions on the HeroDesigner install directory, making sure that it can be written to (and read) by the user that you are logged in as.