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[Marianne]

Hi,

I just finished my first show. That is, my first serious show because I've been playing around for a couple of weeks. But now I have a question.

I have made a separate show as startpage with 3 buttons:

the first one will start a selfplaying slideshow, the second one a clickable kind of presentation and the third one to close the startscreen. The clickable presentation is to present the high resolution photographs which are also in a separate map on the cd. The cd is ment for a just married couple, so I suppose they want to have prints out of the photographs. But now I've been wondering how to make this separate map available through a button on the startpage. Can this be done within PTE? I know Boxig made some fabulous menupages to put on a cd, but... they are all in English and there is not a possibility to adjust the language. I would like to see it in plain Dutch . Did I oversee something or has anyone a suggestion how to do this?

And eh.. Boxig, if you wonder what to do next, maybe you could arrange some language modules for your great programs???? Congratulations with your 100. I haven't joined this forum for too long, but you are one of the famous guys around here, even for starters!

Marianne

[alrobin]

Hi, Marianne,

Are the separate images jpegs or bitmaps (tiffs, bmp's, etc.)? If they are jpegs, you can make a PTE show out of them, and add the "print" option to the navigation bar. I haven't tried this myself, but that's what the print option is there for. (Edit: just tried it, and the quality isn't very good.)

If the images are non-compressed images (e.g. bitmaps) you might be able to include Irfanview on the cd (available as a free download) and have PTE start it as an external application at the end of the PTE show, or in response to one of the buttons on the introduction screen.

Again, I haven't tried this either, so it might take some experimenting in order for Irfanview to start up with the right directory, etc. You might have to add some instructions, too, if the viewer is not familiar with Irfanview, although it is pretty straightforward.

Hope this helps some. Let us know if it works!

[nobeefstu]

Marianne

You can create your own BROWSE CD BUTTON.

Create a Button in your object editor

Select the Action :

Run Application or open file

Action to perform (enter program name label):

\

(this will open the Root of the CD if your Show exe is on the Root.

or another example :

\Photos

(this will open the Photos folder on the Root of the CD if your Show exe is on the Root)

Got the idea ?

[Marianne]

Nobeefstu,

I just tried your solution and it works great! This is what I meant. Now I don't have to add an explanation on how to get to the high resolution files (by the way Al, they are in the TIF format, uncompressed to get the best quality).

Thank you both for helping out!

Marianne