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Presentation with VB

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VBdevil

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Sep 19, 2002
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I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but you guys have helped me out before so...

At work, there's a presentation written in Flash, and now we want to make some changes in it, but we don't have the source code. So the options are:
1. rewrite the whole thing in Flash.
2. rewrite the whole presentation in MFC (someone recommended MFC)
3. rewrite the whole presentation in Visual Basic 5.0.

By the way, the presentation, amongst other things, operates movies and opens pdf's (by clicking on different buttons)

Here's the problems: I don't know Flash (I didn't create the original presentation) and I don't know MFC.
My question is what is the best option out of the three (considering I have to sit and study Flash or MFC) and is it even realistic to build a presentation in VB? And no, I don't want to do the presentation in PowerPoint.
By the way I have to give a time estimate on how long it would take me...

If anybody has any other ideas - other languages which I can use to build presentations with I'll be happy to hear.
Just so you guys know my background: I'm a programmer with about 1.5 years experience in VB and some experience in C++. I also studied C, Java, Html and other programming languages such as Matlab and Maple.

Thanks,
VBdevil
 

Well, you could do this presentation in VB 5.0 by using the loadpicture function along with either using the PDF.OCX (you will find this the the adobe reader directory if you have it) or using Shell, or the API's of ShellExecute, or ShellExecuteEx and if your are doing any animations there are several ways to this also. It will take some imagination upon your part to create the effects that you want.

Good Luck

 
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