Windows 8

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I like that idea. Have you noticed any differences since you started
doing that?

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Russ Eggen
RADFusion International, LLC

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Well on the demo download we launch the QuickStartGuide every time so they
MUST see it. Up to them if they choose not to read it <g>

On an update (we use the same installer) they see a What's New document
instead. So we display either checkbox depending on the install type.

As for the videos we have only recently added those but people are reviewing
them according to our web stats. In fact we are starting to roll out more
and more videos over the next few months as I think people prefer them to
help files. They will be for complex topics and just leave the help file for
really simple stuff.

And being as the videos will be accessible from our website I will be using
Hyperlink (Capesoft) to give the user a link to a tutorial. So for example
on an Invoice screen we will have a link to the video How to create an
Invoice.

John

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We are scripting videos now.

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Russ Eggen
RADFusion International, LLC

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My one program could be called in three modes: management console,
control panel, or broadcast viewer. It does this with different
command lines, but of course this is now disallowed in Windows 8. I've
gotten around that by creating little program stubs that call my apps
in different modes. For example, Tourney.exe is the management
console. TourneyDirector.exe is the control panel, and
TourneyViewer.exe is the broadcasted "clock" viewer. Both those two
special stub EXEs call the same Tourney.exe with different parameters.

Mike Hanson
www.boxsoft.net

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The key issue is that we have 5 different product modules, and with
all of their different modes, we need at least 11 different icons
(soon 2-3 more). Fortunately a single machine often needs only a few
of those (as it's focused on a particular aspect of operations). I
haven't tweaked my installer to ask them which subset of shortcuts to
add, though.

Mike Hanson
www.boxsoft.net

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Good idea! Thanks for sharing.

Friedrich