I have a very particular application I have developed. I want to create a second app, ideally in visual basic, that provides a tutorial/ guide on how to use my original app step by step.
I imagine PowerPoint slide style images embedded in a simple window with forward & back controls.
I have experience in java, C & VB. Ideally the app needs be be kept simple and written in VB. Can anyone recommend a starting point, or if any tutorials for such exist? I've had a search and nothing stands out.
Thanks.
So, if this essentially just has slides and annotations and forward/backward buttons, why try to write an app for this? (I get that it might be fun to try.) You could simply do screen captures and annotate them and use PowerPoint and create an executable out of that to run.
You can even, I understand, create hyperlinks and such to allow the slide show to progress more like the real app does. I'm no "power point ranger" so I'd point you at the Office docs to learn about that, but I've seen some pretty good tutorials using this method.
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I have what should be a fairly straightforward question regarding libre impress. I want to make several buttons to jump around the document and I would also like these buttons to indicate that they have been clicked before.
To achieve this I used simple shapes (stars in my case) and added an interaction feature to jump to the desired location. So far so simple. In order to indicate that a button has been clicked before, I thought the easiest way would be to change transparency, colour or size of the shapes. Really any of those would be fine for me. I thought this could be done with a macro. My problems are the following:
I don't know how to write the macro. I have a rudimentary understanding of scripting (mostly Python) but not with this particular language.
I don't seem to be able to attach two interactions to one object (i.e. one for the jumping and one one for the macro to change the appearance).
I hope that there is a simple solution to this. Thanks in advance!
The tag is for Basic, so I'll go with that. However, LibreOffice macros can also be written in Python. To get started with Python macros, use APSO and check out this tutorial.
Anyway, here is some Basic code for Impress to point you in the right direction.
oDoc = ThisComponent
oDrawPage = oDoc.getDrawPages().getByIndex(0)
oShape = oDrawPage.getByIndex(0)
mri(oShape)
MsgBox(oShape.getControl().Label)
Whether you decide on Basic or Python, get the MRI extension in order to discover UNO properties of an object. This way you can find out how to change the button.
When you have some code, post another question or edit this one that shows the code you have so far, and describe problems you encountered.
I am Learning how to create dynamic Access Databases using VBA code and SQL. One of my big "pet peaves" is that the user interface is slick and very professional looking.
I am looking for some tecniques in cosmetic touch ups to make the user interface more professional looking. For example, i would like it so that when the user clicks on a button to activate a sub form which is hidden, that the form appears with a bit of "smoothed animation" such as and exploding transition-type effect instead of the standard hard visual appearance of the form which is the standard.
Any advice on what may be available will be very appreciated.
Thank you,
Andrew
This can not be done within Access, it's not designed for that. Access is a database application that comes packaged with Office. It's not going to provide any crazy out-of-the-box animation, it's just not meant for that. It's meant to be a very simple, stripped down database application.
It is somewhat feasable that you could create animations in a 3rd party app (such as Adobe AfterEffects) and have those animations run prior to the form opening, similar to how one would create motion menus for DVDs.
You could put a bunch of small animated graphics (like lights on a Christmas tree or tiny arrows) all around the sub-form and time it to display for a short while.
So I am making an xcode application for OS X, and so far things have gone well. However, right now I am at a roadblock. My app is mostly one window, and I need that window to be created multiple times, in the way that apps like Safari, TextEdit, and all those ones have the File>New function. I am new at Xcode, and I was wondering if there was an easy way (hopefully 3-4 lines of code) to do this. If someone could explain that to me that would be great.
Thanks!
Start a new OS X project and choose "Create Document Based Application" . This will create a NSDocument subclass.
If you want to use Core Data , choose that also. This will create a NSPersistentDocument subclass.
This will give you the basis of your application with all the functionality you ask for.
Have a look at Document Based App Programming guide and NSPersistentDocument Class Reference
Whatever you do, dont try to bake your own. There lies madness.
The project template sets up the info.plist correctly to make this work.
Whatever I tell you, it won't involve only "3-4 lines of code," unfortunately.
If you're working from a non-document-based application, you'll want to factor out the code that creates your one window. If you're not using a window controller in concert with your window, you should implement one. Then you can implement an action that will create a new instance of your window controller, and so a new window. Of course, you'll need to add more infrastructure if you're interested in saving information associated with a window to a file.
Which leads me to your other option, which is to create a document-based application. The big advantage here is that, if you're interested in saving the window contents to a file, the infrastructure for doing so is provided. This involves starting over to some extent, but since you've already got the guts of your application working, you'd simply transfer those guts to the document subclass that is provided for you. You'd also need to provide to your project meta information describing the kind of document it is, including the file extension describing it.
Best wishes to you in your endeavors.
I am trying to load bulk images and trying to put them as a slideshow and it's working fine.
Now I would like to have some effects like flip out,ease out effect and fade effect on those images when changing them without using any user control as I would like to do with the existing picturebox.Is it possible to do so?
If so can anyone point me to some resources.
As I have done googling and found some useful links and I am placing here that might helpful to someone.And all these have use seperate usercontrols to do, and I am not looking into that.
http://code.google.com/p/dot-net-transitions/
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/fluid_effect.aspx
The built-in picture box has no such capability. Your solution will require custom-drawing regardless what control you use (assuming you don't get a 3rd party product).
I'm looking to start a new programming language and for my first task I want to overlay some text on another applications window, similar to the guy in this post:
Overlay text on some else's window - HUD
Clearly from that post, this can be done in VB.NET, and extrapolating from that, I can probably safely assume that C++\C# can also do this similarly.
My question is; are there any other languages that can do the same? Can Ruby do it? :)
I'm looking for the following capabilities:
Enumerate open windows to find the one I want to overlay on top of.
Overlay text on the 3rd party apps window. (Rich text is a bonus)
Detect window bounds so I can resize the text when the user resizes the window.
Allow click-through of my created text so it doesn't interfere with the 3rd party apps functionality.
Any ideas?
If you want to use Ruby, you have two options: IronRuby and "classic Ruby".
I guess IronRuby would be the preferred option on Windows as it runs on top of .NET and has access to full Windows API through that.
If .NET is too much for your needs and you need to do something simple, then classic Ruby might be a better fit.
For classic Ruby, check out these pages:
Ruby and Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows Support
Beware: argument packing and unpacking is not very convenient.