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Problem Description
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program creates the "perfect" bookmark in a variety of
sizes. |
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Background & Techniques
| I admit
to being a "bathroom reader" which means finding where I
left off reading many times in the course of completing a
book. A few weeks ago, in one of those rare "Eureka"
moments, I designed a bookmark which will locate the exact
line where you stopped reading on either the top on bottom
half of either left even or the odd page. It looks like
this: |
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| The exact
starting line when you resume reading is indicated by
placing the bookmark arrows in one of these four
orientations: |
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| The program creates bookmarks
in a variety of standard or user specified sizes and you may
insert images and caption text to customize them. They make
great gifts!. Use the link below to download the program.
The source code for this program is not being released at
this time. |
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Addendum April 4, 2009: One of my long time viewers thought
that while the design might be "perfect", the implementation could use some
enhancements. I had to agree with most of his suggestions.
Today's update to Version 4 has these changes:
- Images are now automatically resized to fit available space when
they are loaded.
- Image movement and zooming is constrained to stay within the
upper or lower image area.
- Fonts may be set individually set for the instruction display and
for the upper and lower captions.
- The check boxes to specify which captions you want to work on has
been replaced by a radio group with options to select "Upper", "Lower",
or "Both". When the option changes, if the text of either
newly included does not match the caption edit area, you are asked to
verify that you want to replace the caption text.
Running/Exploring the Program
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Original Date: March 19, 2009 |
Modified:
May 18, 2009 |
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