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I wonder if the online help files would benefit from having a slightly 'modified' logo to differentiate the help files from the apps themselves, perhaps in a similar fashion to the Beta logos...

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Do you perhaps mean the built-in Help (which opens in its own window), rather than the online Help, @Hangman?

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I do indeed though the same 'criteria' apply in as much as you end up with two identical icons in the taskbar...

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8 minutes ago, Hangman said:

I do indeed though the same 'criteria' apply in as much as you end up with two identical icons in the taskbar...

???

For the online help, I don't have any Affinity icon on the taskbar. I have a browser icon. I'm curious what configuration you're using.

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4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

For the online help, I don't have any Affinity icon on the taskbar. I have a browser icon. I'm curious what configuration you're using.

I'm currently doing some testing using Windows 10. I have the Affinity apps pinned to the taskbar and when I go to the Help menu and select 'Affinity App Name 2 Help' or I use F1 (or in my case Fn F1 a second identical app icon is added to the taskbar (for the duration I have the Help file open) as shown in the screenshot in the previous post...

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12 minutes ago, Hangman said:

I'm currently doing some testing using Windows 10. I have the Affinity apps pinned to the taskbar and when I go to the Help menu and select 'Affinity App Name 2 Help' or I use F1 (or in my case Fn F1 a second identical app icon is added to the taskbar (for the duration I have the Help file open) as shown in the screenshot in the previous post...

Thanks. Again, that's not the online Help, but the built-in Help.

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Just now, walt.farrell said:

Thanks. Again, that's not the online Help, but the built-in Help.

Sorry, I thought we'd clarified that in the third post, yes, it's online help but my 'question' was simply 'Should there be some differentiation between the built-in help icon and the app icon' in a similar vein to the Rretail and Beta app icons...

It's really no big deal, just throwing it out there as a general question...

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35 minutes ago, Hangman said:

yes, it's online help

No, it's not, and your suggestion still makes no sense to me for the online Help. (And there's no online Help for the Betas, as far as I know; only built-in.)

 

35 minutes ago, Hangman said:

'Should there be some differentiation between the built-in help icon and the app icon' in a similar vein to the Rretail and Beta app icons...

Yes, that would be nice.

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Rewind, sorry, ‘it’s built in not online help’, it’s been a long day!!

and yes, maybe an icon to differentiate between the ‘built in’ icon and the app icon would be nice…

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Thanks for your feedback Hangman!

Although this could benefit the EXE version of the V2 apps where the in-app help window appears as a separate window on the Taskbar, the MSIX versions of the app are able to 'combine' both the app window and the helpfile under the same taskbar icon - shown here with 2.4.2 MSIX and 2.5.0.2437 Beta EXE:

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Therefore I'm unsure if it would be possible/desired for the Help dialog to have a different taskbar icon, as this would break the 'combining' nature of the MSIX version.

However - I am double checking with our team to confirm if the EXE should be different in this regard, or if we'd expect either version of the app to combine these windows on the Taskbar.

I hope this clears things up :)

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Hi @Dan C,

Thanks for clarifying, I must admit I wasn'ty aware the MSIX version was able to combine the icons...

I'd certainly interested to hear the verdict with regard to the EXE versions though completly understand if this doesn't make sense from a technical standpoint for the reasons cited... :)

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On 5/13/2024 at 10:21 AM, Dan C said:

However - I am double checking with our team to confirm if the EXE should be different in this regard, or if we'd expect either version of the app to combine these windows on the Taskbar.

Just to confirm, our team have concluded this is an expected difference between the 2 app installers - therefore I have not logged it as a bug.

However I have suggested to the documentation team a requested change to the EXE in-app Helpfile window to differentiate the icon on the taskbar, if possible and this is being taken into consideration.

I hope this helps :D 

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Hi Dan,

Many thanks for confirming and proposing the logo change for the EXE in-app Help file for differentiation purposes... Hopefully, it turns out to be quite straightforward...

As always, it helps, thank you... :)

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