Advanced Features
WebShow Slide Viewer
The following information is not needed in order to run WebShow,
but may be helpful for advanced users.
- Automated Slide Production
Included with WebShow is a program called
makeslides.exe
This program looks in the current directory
for files of the name
1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt,
etc.
For each numbered file with a
.txt
extension, a corresponding file with a
.htm
extension is automatically produced.
The conversion makes use of a set of
user-defined
macros.
These macros make it easier to generate slides
which all share a similar appearance. You can create
macros using your own names, assign HTML format text to them,
and then invoke them to insert the specified text into the slide.
Once a macro has been defined, it can be reused on subsequent
slides. For this slide show, the first slide defines much of the
common appearance for all the slides.
Compare what you see on this slide (6.htm ) with the corresponding text file which it was produced from
(6.txt).
The input file for the first slide
(see
here)
contains an explanation
of the macros and show examples defining styles for
subsequent slides.
- Linking Between Slides
To link between slides, simply insert a URL into your slide using the
following format. For example, to link back to slide 1, use:
<a href="javascript:parent.parent.S('1')">goto slide 1</a>
(or use the
__goSlide
macro as defined in
1.txt.
Unlike normal URLs, this URL will notify WebShow to change
slides so the location in the slide sequence remain synchronized with
the user as he moves to a related slide.
You can try it now:
goto slide 1.
(See the
__goSlide
macro definition in
1.txt
which makes it easier to insert links to associated slides.)
For information:
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