The June, 1996, issue of MacTech Magazine has a review of Guide
Maker, Guide Starter, and Guide Composer.
Guide Composer does not support styled text (as of version 1.2).
However, you can output a Guide script text file, modify it and
compile it with Guide Maker or Guide Maker Lite.
1. Use Guide Composer to generate a text file
2. Edit text file in Word and save as a Word 5.1 file
3. Compile using Guide Maker
Note that Guide Composer's definitions of the standard formats
include an override that forces styled text back to plain. To
workaround this, edit the 'Standard Defines' file which shipped with
Guide Composer.
Change the definitions for the "Body" and "Full" formats. The definitions we use look like this:
<Define Format> "Full", column(6, 15, 330), , , , , left, true
<Define Format> "Body", column(6, 65, 330), , , , , left, true
At the moment, the editing environment for Huh? buttons in Guide
Composer only gives you a single panel to work with. If you need to
display multiple panels for Huh?, enter the Guide script directly in
the Huh? text, e.g.:
This is the first panel of my huh sequence. <end panel> <define panel> "huh - panel 2" This is the second panel of my huh sequence. <end panel> <define panel> "huh - panel 3" This is the third panel of my huh sequence.
Notice that the very first <define panel> and the very last <end panel> are missing. These are supplied by Guide Composer.
Add this line to your 'Standard Defines' file:
<DCC> "ActiveWindow", 'WIND', , LONG:0, LONG:0, LONG:10, LPSTRING
At the end of the panel text for the panel in question put:
<end panel> <if> NOT ActiveWindow('KMap',"Student Information") <Insert Sequence> "Go Student Info" <end if> <define panel> "anyUniqueName" The real text for the next panel.