ok, there’s a new technote here that tells how to edit the CSS for the Flash help panel to change the font attributes. It left out an old trick though. If you’re using Windows XP and need to temporarily bump the font size of the Flash Help panel up or down you can click in the Help panel, hold down the control key, and use the scroll wheel on your mouse. Note that it also changes the font size in Internet Explorer, but who uses that anyway?
For a more permanent change go with editing the CSS like the technote says.. but for temporary things like doing a demo in a class or if you’ve left your glasses down stairs on the kitchen table, just control key and scroll wheel it.
28 Nov 2006 at 04:15 pm | #
and for some odd reason this "ctrl + mouse wheel" trick stopped working for me at some point in the last week or so. I'm not sure if it's because I installed the stuff for publishing Flash Lite 2.1 content or maybe because I updated to IE 7.. but it doesn't work anymore.
I can use the scrollwheel to change font size in the browser.. but not in the Flash 8 IDE help panel.
10 Jan 2007 at 12:28 am | #
doesn't seem to work for me either with ie7 installed. Even worse, the font size of my help window is ridiculously small and I can't change it at all (tried editing the css file to no avail). Any ideas?
10 Jan 2007 at 08:25 am | #
I ended up uninstalling IE7... I didn't try changing the CSS file because that doesn't work for me (3 monitors at different resolutions) more here
23 Jan 2007 at 12:41 pm | #
Thanks for the tip. I was stuck with mini-text for the past week and couldn't remember how I fixed it before.
I could care less about using IE, unless its the joyful feeling of dragging it into the trash.
21 Apr 2007 at 11:10 pm | #
I figured out how to fix this.. the Adobe tech note does not work by itself.
You have to also edit the pages.js file (located in the en\First Run\HelpPanel\_sharedassets directory)
You have to comment out the if statement to force it to use the help_pc.css file that you edited per the tech note from Adobe.
//if (version.indexOf("Mac") != -1) {
// ('<link rel=stylesheet href=\"../../_sharedassets/help_mac.css\" TYPE=\"text/css\" media=\"screen\">');
// ('<link rel=stylesheet href=\"../../_sharedassets/help_mac_print.css\" TYPE=\"text/css\" media=\"print\">');
//}
//else if (version.indexOf("Windows") != -1) {
('<link rel=stylesheet href=\"../../_sharedassets/help_pc.css\" TYPE=\"text/css\" media=\"screen\">');
('<link rel=stylesheet href=\"../../_sharedassets/help_pc_print.css\" TYPE=\"text/css\" media=\"print\">');
//}
//else {
('<link rel=stylesheet href=\"../../_sharedassets/help.css\" TYPE=\"text/css\">');
//}
05 Nov 2007 at 11:25 am | #
For Flash CS3 the files discribed above can be found in "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS3\en\Configuration\HelpPanel\_sharedassets".
For me changing the CSS was enough to increase the text size.