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- BALLOON.VBX - Balloon Help Text Custom Control
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- DESCRIPTION:
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- The BALLOON.VBX allows you to add a unique balloon help feature to your VB
- application. BALLOON.VBX functions like cartoon speech balloons. Help text
- is displayed in a popup window. Provide help text display for all the
- controls and windows of windows, dialogs and forms.
-
- BALLOON.VBX is the ideal control to add polish to applications. Great for
- adding help prompting to corporate applications and cuts down on user
- training time. Get users of your VB applications up to speed fast. Your
- users may wonder why all applications don't have this feature.
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- OTHER PRODUCTS:
-
- Weimar Software's WSHELP help control collection contains:
- BALLOON.VBX provides balloon help popup windows for all form controls.
- RTMOUSE.VBX provides ballon help popup when the right mouse button is clicked.
- STMOUSE.VBX provides a status line help for each control on a form.
- WSHELP.VBX contains all of the functionality of the other three controls
- plus a unique capability in DTBALLOON section to provide timer activated
- balloon help.
-
- A great value for the money. See file WSHELP.ZIP in CIS MSBASIC lib 5.
- Register WSHELP in Compuserve's SWREG forum, ID #1428.
-
- Upgrades to WSHELP is available for registered users of our 5PAK20 control
- set or for registered users of our BALLOON.VBX control for $30.00. Register
- for the upgrade in the CIS SWREG forum, ID #1434
-
- Weimar Software's control set 5PAK20 contains:
- BALLOON.VBX provides balloon help popup windows for all form controls.
- SHADBX.VBX provides a popup shadowed text message, like windows help does.
- CLACKER.VBX provides the hooks for dynamic menu help using a status bar.
- NUMWIN.VBX enumerates and returns hWnds for all desktop windows and controls.
- SNDDEX.VBX Soundex and enhanced Soundex word matching and searching.
- Help files included.
-
- A great value for the money. See file 5PAK20.ZIP in CIS MSBASIC lib 5.
- Register 5PAK20 in Compuserve's SWREG forum, ID #1220.
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- THIS ZIP FILE CONTAINS:
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- BALLOON.VBX VB version of the BALLOON custom control
- BALLOON.HLP BALLOON documentation
- SAMPLE.ZIP Sample VB program showing how to use BALLOON
- README.TXT This file
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- REGISTRATION:
-
- You can register this Control by sending your name and either:
-
- 1. On-line registration with Compuserve, type GO SWREG and register
- product number 1222. The fee is $18.00. A registered copy will
- be sent by E-Mail.
- 2. Sending $18 (plus tax) and your name and address to the E-Mail address
- below.
- 3. Updates are $3.50 to cover distribution costs.
- 4. VISA and MC are accepted. We accept phone orders and E-Mail orders.
- For Visa/MC orders please include exact name on card, postal
- address of the card holder, card number, and expiration date.
-
- Please provide us with an E-Mail address where the control can be sent,
- alternatively add $3.50 for shipping and a disk will be mailed to you.
- Overseas shipping varies with destination.
-
- Registering the control will get the registered runtime and a design time
- SPECIAL DEBUGGING VERSION OF THE CONTROL useful in helping you verify the
- operation of your application when using the control. Special debugging
- checks are made on various parameters and at critical locations in debugging
- control to provide you with feedback on proper control and program menu
- operation.
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- SOURCE CODE
-
- Source code to this control is available for $45 (plus tax). Source code
- purchase requires the purchase of a registered version of the control as a
- prerequisite. The source code is not redistributable as a product, or
- may not be compiled into a standalone product. You may include the source
- code as part of a deliverable "program package" to a client company which
- includes additional original software provided by the source code licensee.
-
- Disk or e-mail shipping of source code is $3.50 US, international postal
- shipping varies with the destination.
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- HOW TO REACH US:
-
- If you have any comments or questions, please send them to us. We can be
- reached at
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- Weimar Software,
- 18515 Annie Lane
- San Jose, CA 95120-1006
- 408-268-6638, FAX 408-268-7655.
-
- Or E-Mail at CIS 71220,2755 and Internet bglover@netcom.com.
-
- The BALLOON control may not be commercially distributed, used for
- applications other than trial use, distributed by government agencies
- or any of its contractors, UNLESS a registration fee is paid by the
- distributing party. A registered control may be distributed with the
- applications that use it at no additional cost.
-
- This trial use file may be only distributed in its entirety. This file may
- not be included in CD-ROM distributions, bundled with other files, or
- offered for retail sale without contacting Weimar Software and obtaining
- a license to redistribute BALLOON.VBX.
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