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There are a number of "Special Links" that you can include in your presentation to cause it to perform specific actions. There are two types, "Bookmark links" and "Other types" described here.

Bookmark links

Bookmark Special Links are nothing more than Bookmarks really. You can probably easily include them using your favourite HTML Authoring tool.

For example, using the FrontPage Editor to include the #WCEXIT special link (described below) you need to

  1. select the text you want to become the link
  2. use the Insert/HyperLink menu command,
  3. type WCEXIT into the Bookmark box (note - don't type the # - the FrontPage Editor will add that because you told it that it was a bookmark.)

Assuming that the text that you selected to become the Special Link was Click here to exit this presentation the generated HTML will be something like <A HREF=#WCEXIT>Click here to exit this presentation<\A>

Similar mechanisms are available in other authoring tools, or you can edit the HTML directory using a text editor such as NotePad.

The special links available are -

#WCEXIT

causes the presentation to terminate - useful in cleanscreen mode, or there may be no other way out for the user.

#WCBACK

Implements the action of the Go/Back menu command

#WCFORWARD

Implements the action of the Go/Forward menu command

#WCPRINT

causes the current page to print - useful in cleanscreen mode when the normal print commands on the toolbar and menu aren't available.

#WCPAGESETUP

causes the Page Setup dialog to appear - again useful in cleanscreen mode when the normal page setup command on the menu isn't available.

#WCSEARCH

causes the search panel to appear - again useful in cleanscreen mode when the search command on the menu/toolbar isn't available.

#WCFAVORITES

causes the favorites panel to appear - again useful in cleanscreen mode when the search command on the menu/toolbar isn't available.

#WCADDTOFAVORITES

Adds the current page to the favorites list.

#WCHISTORY

causes the History panel to appear - again useful in cleanscreen mode when the search command on the menu/toolbar isn't available.

#WCSYSTEMCODE

displays a code likely to be unique to the system the presentation is running on to the user. This is used together with the Page Protection options of the Compiler Options dialog to provide a password that is unique to that system and that is unlikely to work on other systems.

Other Types

The other type of special link simply allows you to "execute" an external program (or file, using the standard windows file associations). To execute an external program or file add the > sign at the start of the link target (or if you are editing the HTML directly with notepad you will have to use the "encoded version of the > which is %3e).

You can put path information in front of the executable if you want to. Note that the external executable is expected to be in the same directory as the WebCompiler presentation that you have created, or if you've specified path information then in that directory below where the WebCompiler presentation is.

For example, to execute a program called test.exe the actual HTML would be something like

<A HREF=%3etest.exe>Click here to run the program>