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Hi

I was thinking of adding a series of "tips of the day" to a pub. Simple enough to set up using an OnShow trigger on the first pub page.

Has anyone seen a standard graphic interface for tip of the day (lightbulb, checkbox to discontinue, etc.) available to use for the pop-up design?

Also, these can usually be disabled by the viewer, using a check box ("do not show this again"). Is there a way to set this up in an Opus pub to allow the viewer to discontinue the tip of the day (something like changing the path to the file containing them)?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Stephen

Suggestions:
Build a "dialog box" with the required buttons i.e. "next tip", "ok", tick box for never to show again etc...
Also, make control be to the dialog box until ok/cancel is clicked.

Th edialog box, will be hidden in design and called in on i.e "on show", The tick control will require saving this value i.e. in registry or in a file.

For easy implemetation in an exisiting pub, have this new item in a master page and make that available to all pages.

Hi eomc40

Thank you for your reply.

I'm not yet very good at this, so I'm having a little difficulty following the instructions you've provided. I can create a dialog box with buttons, probably add a check box.

Where I'm having difficulty is following how to then set the actions to control, show, link to files, and, especially discontinue the tip of the day for viewers who wish to discontinue it.

Could you spell this out more? Sorry to be such a novice at this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Stephen

I would tend to use a new chapter and put the tip of the day in that. In the example attached this is how it is done. To display the different tips I would use a Multi Frame.

Regards

Brenden Knifton

Thanks, Brenden.

Kind Regards,

Stephen

Hi

Having a chance to view the sample, I wondered how to set it so that a viewer who doesn't want to have these tip of the day screens pop-up, can disable them.

Is there a way to add a checkbox and set an action or script for it, so that the the tips will no longer pop-up? Not just for one runtime, but for future runtimes as well.

Any help would be appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Stephen

The attached example does this by only displaying Chapter Two if a variable (button) read from the registry equals false.

On the tool tip is an action on the OK button to write the variable button to the registry recording the show or hide tip button state.

I have left a text box on screen so you can see the value of the button.


Regards
Brenden Knifton

Thanks Brenden.

I'll try to sort it out from this example.

Kind Regards,
Stephen

Brenden,
In the example, how can I force mouse actions to only be associated with the "Tip of the Day" window?
Created a button on the main page which I could access even when the "Tip" window was open.
Thanks

Thank you for the example of tips of the day.

But there is a problem. If the user revert again to the page that starts tips window, it will start again.
How to realize tips run only once?

Hi

I've only done this for a single "help tip" screen (not a series of "tips of the day" that may be housed in a multi-frame). The basic process may be the same:

add a radio button that when clicked changes a variable from "yes" or "no" (or any other change in value) and store the variable's value in a text file or registry that is over-written. Include text, next to the button, with something like "don't show this tip anymore".

Use OnShow for the page for which the "help tip" is shown, having it read the stored file/registry to check the variable's value. Use an "if" statement to hide the "help tip" if the value associated with not showing it is read.

Others may wish to add how a multi screen series of tips can be managed using a similar model.

HTH

Kind Regards,