Making an exe from my application

[debuchakrabarty]

Hi Gurus,

I wish to make an application that would make a presentation exe file (sort of powerpoint presentation).

The user will choose and position his pictures on a slide, add captions, links etc. He would be able to add/modify/delete slides, define the sequence of slides and once he saves all this (in say a project) the application will prepare a exe (say MyPpt.exe).

The help I need here is that I expect my application to sort of compile and make another exe at runtime. The images must be embedded in exe (as we add graphics in picturebox and they are there in exe we don't need to put the images in same directory).

The ouput that the application shud provide must be a single exe file only which when run shud beahve like the abovesaid presentation, slides proceeding as we click on link or opening browser where hyperlink is provided.

How can this be done? Gurus I would appreciate your ideas. Thanks in advance.

[WizBang]

Well, first of all, vb exe files are not native, that is, they require the vb runtime files. Other than that, you could do what you want, but my thinking on this is that I would have the app make a set of html files. With some JavaScript and so forth, you could have your presentation, with links, pictures, etc. Then the resulting presentation would only have to be a set of files, and anyone with a browser would be able to view it, even on other platforms.

[debuchakrabarty]

Sorry, the HTML option was there. But what I want is similar to some commercially available product my boss showed me (I don't remember the exact name something like 'Digital..'. He wanted a similar product.

[rsrivastwa]

you can go to

http://www.maxpages.com/dolls

chech out & tell if u need something similar


regards
Rohit

[debuchakrabarty]

You got that all wrong pal! Pl go thru my first post in the thread.

[jamesparry]

You can embed images into VB with no worries, best way really is to use a resource file, but as has already been explained, VB does not produce just one EXE file. It depends on the runtimes and OCX's.

The only way to get just one output file for distribution is to either write the thing in C (god forbid!) or go the java/html route.