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Subject:RE: These users have us stumped! From:"Smith, Martin" <martin -dot- smith -at- encorp -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:08:33 -0600
No, don't think of clippie. Try to imagine adding a box along the right side
of your user interface. That box is the Internet Explorer Active X control
embedded in your application. As the user opens dialog boxes and uses your
application the content displayed in the box constantly changes, letting the
user know exactly what he or she is looking at and what steps to perform
next.
Go out and buy a copy of Microsoft Money. Clippie was a disaster. Microsoft
got embedded help right with the Money product, in my opinion.
Martin R. Smith
Encorp, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gilger.John [mailto:JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:38 PM
To: Smith, Martin; TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: These users have us stumped!
Interesting thought -- Clippie to the rescue! :-)
It just might work if we get the help dumbed down enough. I'll have to
investigate embedded help and its implementation.
John
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