[dba-VB] Show PowerPoint pictures in VS WinApp

Gustav Brock Gustav at cactus.dk
Wed Oct 15 02:48:33 CDT 2008


Hi Stuart

My thought was to avoid building a help file. I did that a couple of times with the good old Help Magician Pro but don't recall it as an entertaining experience.
But it sounds like the tool you mention makes it easy. I better give it a try. Thanks.

/gustav

>>> stuart at lexacorp.com.pg 15-10-2008 04:52 >>>
I usually build WinHelp files fro this sort of thing.  I can embed screen shots, 
drawings in etc 
them easily and users get the whole Help experiece.  

It's very easy to build professional looking WinHelp files with the freeware 
Shalom Help 
Maker. http://www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/shelpm/index.html 

-- 
Stuart


On 14 Oct 2008 at 23:55, Gustav Brock wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I have designed some drawings in PowerPoint as a kind of high level
> "help pages" for a WinApp. The idea is that the user by pressing help
> or a button can call up these slides. Just one by one, it is not a
> slide-show. 
> 
> But how to do that? It is not an automation job to control PowerPoint
> which the user may not have installed. Would there be any other way
> than to export the slides to, say, png files and then open a
> PictureBox with the png file? It would be better to use a vector format
> as it is possible to resize without quality loss but which format? And
> then another display control should be used as the PictureBox can't
> show vector graphics as far as I know. 
> 
> /gustav






More information about the dba-VB mailing list