Advanced Adobe Authorware

Objectives

This course will benefit Multimedia developers, graphic artists, instructional designers, illustrators, Web masters and technical writers. You will learn to familiarise yourself with the different ways that variables can augment your Authorware pieces and increase the interactivity of your programs.


Pre-requisites:

This course is recommended having previously taken the 4 day Fundamentals course.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Introduction


· Introduction and overview of the course
· Preview finished PDA Application
· Setting up the PDA File
· Review Layers & Transitions


Calculations


· Variables
· Functions
· Walkthroughs: Resize Window responses


Responses


· Advanced Button Properties
· Checked Button States


Making Choices


· Alternative branching with Decision icons


Displaying Variables and Functions


· Update Displayed Variables
· Applying functions to functions and variables
· Number formatting


Character Strings


· Applying and displaying Character String Functions


Movable Objects


· Positioning displays
· Scaled motion paths and grids


Parents & Children


· ChildNumToID and ChildIDtoNum functions
· Calculated Navigation destinations






Digital Movies


· Perpetual Movies
· Manipulating Start and End Frames


Dynamic Positioning of Objects


· Simultaneous Motions


Continue Branching


· Using Continue Branching to steamline code


RTF Objects


· Creating RTF Objects
· Linking RTF Objects to the Authorware presentation


Using Character Strings as Lists


· Line Functions


ActiveX Controls


· Inserting ActiveX Controls
· GetSpriteProperty, CallSprite and Event Responses


Linear Lists and Scripting


· Linear List Structure
· Creating and editing linear listss
· Sorting and Searching linear lists