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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:07:14 -0700
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- Subject: Re: Please Help!
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- Larry: Regarding writing a script for a book that readers are not
- able to modify, there are several ways to do this. The simplest,
- and the one I would start with, would be to go the properties menu
- of the book and define a password that must be typed in for entering
- the author mode. The much more elegant way to handle the problem,
- once you have more time and experience, is to so modify the scripts
- and menubar so that switching to author mode is not an option--the
- switch to author mode is trapped in the scripts.
-
- Regarding showing a title page for 10 seconds and then going to the
- first page: It doesn't really matter what the first page is so I
- assume that you are talking about a home base or menu page that
- appears to the reader as the first (primary) page. The easiest
- way to do this is to write a script handler that is called upon
- enterpage that simply pauses for 10 seconds and then goes to the
- page you want to be the "first" page. The problem with this,
- as you may have already found out, is that the real first page
- is not displayed until all enterbook messages are processed so
- to display the first page of the book, you best place the pause
- in the enterpage script of the first page since this script is
- processed after the enterpage message is handled. If this does
- not make sense, sorry. Sometimes doing is easier than explaining.
-