Re: What to do when you can't use screen captures in help

["Hyde, Barb # IHTUL" <Barb -dot- Hyde -at- TULSA -dot- CISTECH -dot- COM>]

Michelle,
You can always provide a hotspot list to a separate topic for each control.
A compromise solution that I have seen is to place a thumbnail of the dialog
box at the top of the topic (to give the reader an orienting warm fuzzy)and
then either follow with definitions of all the controls or provide a hotspot
list to each control in a separate topic. I suppose you could speed download
time even further by creating a button or other hotspot and using it
consistently to pop up a thumbnail of the dialog box. Then only those users
who want to double-check need to wait for even the thumbnail to download.

Barbara Hyde
barb -dot- hyde -at- ndcorp -dot- com

 >
 >Date:    Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:49:19 -0400
 >From:    Michelle Vina-Baltsas
 ><Michelle_Vina-Baltsas -at- US -dot- CRAWCO -dot- COM>
 >Subject: What to do when you can't use screen captures in
 >help file?...
 >
 >I'm creating my first HTML help project and it's going to
 >reside on a remote
 >MetaFrame server.  While testing the help file, I noticed
 >that the screen
 >captures were taking very long to paint.  Even though we've
 >always used
 >hotspotted screen captures in our previous help files, I'm
 >contemplating whether
 >for not I should even include the images since the help file
 >is not going to be
 >local because they take too long to paint.  I know that many
 >help files don't
 >use screen captures, but I have always thought they were
 >very effective.  What
 >do you think?  Opinions welcome.
 >
 >Thanks ahead of time for your responses,
 >
 >Michelle

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