I have written a few articles in my blog which will help fix the most common problems. It’s called “Guide to fixing ToolBook problems” and you can start here:
http://www.toolbookconsulting.com/blog/entryid/26.aspx
Most notably I have put together an article on dealing with ToolBook corruption, here is a direct link:
http://www.toolbookconsulting.com/blog/entryid/29.aspx
Hope they are useful to you.
I’ve created a new mini-lesson on how to use the Actions Editor to automate text being typed into a field:
I’ve created a New Mini Lesson on How to hide/show objects using the Actions Editor. This is definitely a beginner-type lesson, but new ToolBook users will appreciate the quick lesson. http://www.toolbook.com/kb/P5311
For those of you using the new Quiz Summary object in ToolBook 10, you’ll want to check out this How To type of mini-lesson: http://www.toolbook.com/kb/P5238
As I had a little spare time today I thought that I would add a quick tutorial to my site on using Advanced Installer with ToolBook. This basically shows what you need to do to utilise the Neuron Installer within an application installation routine to ensure that the ToolBook runtime gets installed properly. In addition I have added a little bit on utilising the automatic update feature incorporated in AI.
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This new Mini-Lesson was created today:
Use PowerPoint to create sophisticated images for use in ToolBook 9.5
http://www.toolbook.com/kb/Q123447274500065
PROBLEM: I’d like to create a yellow highlighter effect so that I can highlight some text in a field.
SOLUTION: If you have tried to create a transparent yellow rectangle object to use as a highlighter, you’ve likely noticed that after exporting to DHTML the transparency is lost. Additionally it is very likely the yellow fill color of the rectangle will appear as a completely wrong color in the browser.
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In the past I created a Cheat Sheet for ToolBook 2004 and 9.0 and put it on my personal web site of ToolBookHelp.com. It helped folks with the programming language of the Actions Editor by showing you all the properties, methods, functions, actions, etc….which can be used in the Actions Editor for any given object type. Today I created a version for 9.5 as well, which has more information and is of course accurate for the 9.5 release.
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I have just added a new article, “Download a free ToolBook SmartStyle and learn how to build one yourself” to my blog. The article offers some best advice for building your own SmartStyle and also provides a free sample SmartStyle.
In addition, I am running a campaign where you can win a customized ToolBook SmartStyle with your own branding. Free of charge.
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I have just published an article called “External CSS Style sheet with ToolBook HTML”, there is a sample for download with the article as well. I am very happy that I succeeded with this and I hope you’ll find it as useful as I do. You’ll find the article on my website: http://www.toolbookconsulting.com/blog/entryid/15.aspx
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