I tried to send these to Phil but the email bounced; I don't have his correct
email address. Can you please forward them (or answer them if you'd rather).
Thanks,
John Stearns
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Hi Phil,
Thanks again for coming out here and putting on the course. It was very
enlightening. I had some questions about a stack I was working on, but didn't
have an opportunity to show it to you.
1. I have an imported image of an application window in the background. I have
a half dozen lessons I wish to teach, that is, when the user clicks on the
lesson, a grouping of balloons and images appear on top of the application
window. Is it more efficient to use the same card and display/hide the groups
of images or should I have a separate card (cloned from the background card)
with each lesson group? I suspect I should do whatever takes up the least
space since I may have a fair number of screen captures.
2. On the subject of efficiency, is it better to use your snapshot tool or is
there a graphics format such as .gif or jpeg that I should use? I didn't quite
understand you answer on Friday.
3. Is there a built-in spell checker for MetaCard?
Thanks,
John Stearns
Staff Technical Writer
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
415 390-5438
stearns@esd.sgi.com