PictTogglers are a great addition to my scanning shapes enhancements, and have formed the basis for many applications that I have developed for preschoolers and school age students. Making pictures appear and disappear seems to be very appealing to early learners and lend itself things like scene building, dressing paper dolls, sorting and categorizing lessons. I'm sure you will think of more. Because I've also included the UserForm version of scanning shapes, you have a range of access options that you can offer your users - mouse, single switch, 2 switch, keyboard, or Intellikeys. I've included two templates here. One template offers support for Microsoft Agent, and the other doesn't. Note there is a tiny button in the upper right corner of the first slide. This button allows you to reset the slideshow, hiding all the pictures.

 How to use the picToggler Templates

The templates have 10 buttons and associated oval scan shapes that already have the Macro option of their ActionSettings defined for making pictures appear and disappear. You will need to do the following:

1. Set a background image.
2. Right-click on each button. Select Format Autoshape, and then click the Fill menu of the Colors and Lines Tab. Click Fill Effect and select the Picture tab. Click the Select Picture button to navigate to the picture of your choice.
3. Paste pictures over your background in the order defined by the pictures assigned to the buttons The buttons are numbered starting at the upper left as 1 and the upper right as 2, and so forth.. Use the "Set Transparent Color" tool to improve the look of the pictures you have pasted.
4. Record sound files, and assign the sounds to the Mouse Over and Mouse Click ActionSettings of the buttons and associated scan shapes depending on your users needs. To reveal all of the oval scan shapes, run the slideshow. Click the Setup button in the upper right hand corner. Click the Show button in the Setup Controls window to reveal the scan shapes, and click Close Me to close the window.

Pictures inserted into a slide can be made visible, or not. Each picture that is inserted also has a scan shape and/or a button associated with it. The ActionSetting for each scan shape and/or button is set to activate the macro pictTogglerN, where N represents a number that corresponds to the Nth picture inserted into a slide. So for example, a button with its ActionSetting set to activate the macro pictToggler6 will show or hide the 6^th picture on that slide.

Other pictToggler macros

pictOffAll -- Reset (hide) all pictures on all slides

pictOnAll -- Show all pictures on all slides

pictOn0 -- Hide all pictures on this slide

pictOn99 -- Show all pictures on this slide

Each scanshape in a slideshow that uses the UserForm template can be directly activated, whether it is visible or not, by keystrokes from either a regular or Intellikeys keyboard. Upon opening a slideshow, you would open the Setup UserForm and select the "Use Keyboard Input" option. Next, you click the "Hide Controls" button. Then put the cursor over the yellow text box and click. As long as the text cursor remains in the yellow text box each digit 1-9 and each character A, B, C, D, E, or F will activate one of up to 15 scanShapes, if it exists, where the digit 1 activates the first created scanShape and F the fifteenth. Make your Intellikeys overlays so that each button simply sends one of the appropriate digits or letters.