hotspot (3 products)

Hotspot Builder 1.21 (Shareware, $39.95)

Using screenshots in your application’s help files ensure that your program is very easy to learn. However, simple, screenshots, which just demonstrate your program working normally, are not enough. When users have problems, they prefer to avoid searching for a solution, but to instead get an answer immediately and then continue their work. Why not provide your users with that ability? How? The solution lies in using screenshots that include hotspots, which are special regions that can be clicked on by the user to display appropriate information.

The Panorama Factory 3.0 (Shareware, $59.95)

The Panorama Factory creates high-quality panoramas in a highly automated fashion from a set of overlapping digital images. You can add image hotspots, export to VR formats and create web pages that link your images into virtual tours. The software also corrects for lens-induced distortions and creates either cylindrical or spherical image projections. Additional features include onscreen zoom, support for digital SLRs, correction for barrel distortion, correction for brightness falloff and interactive controls.

VB Image Map ActiveX Control 1.1.6 (Demo, $49.95)

The VB Image Map OCX is an ActiveX Control designed to provide your applications with the ability to display interactive images. Hotspots, or specially designated areas on your image, can be defined that will react to various mouse events. It is easily integrated into your existing applications - just drop the control on a form, assign a background picture, and assign the hotspot coordinates. The VB Image Map Control uses standard HTML syntax, so any image map editor can be used to visually create hotspot coordinates. Complete HTML pages can be used as coordinates files, including any and all HTML tags - the VB Image Map OCX will automatically locate the map coordinates within the page. It does NOT require Internet Explorer or any other web browser to be installed.