PowerPro Flash Tutorials

Wink is a free software package available to PowerPro users, offering the means to record visual demonstrations of features of their PowerPro configuration in order to share with other members of the PowerPro community.

Click a column header to sort the table by a particular attribute.

strtolower($data[$b][0]) ? 1 : -1); return (strtolower($data[$a][0]) > strtolower($data[$b][0]) ? -1 : 1); } if ($sortBy == "size") { if ($data[$a][1] == $data[$b][1]) return 0; if ($sortOrder == "asc") return ($data[$a][1] > $data[$b][1] ? 1 : -1); return ($data[$a][1] > $data[$b][1] ? -1 : 1); } if ($sortBy == "author") { if (strtolower($data[$a][2]) == strtolower($data[$b][2])) { # secondary sort by descending date of upload if ($data[$a][3] == $data[$b][3]) { # tertiary sort by ascending title if ($data[$a][0] == $data[$b][0]) return 0; return (strtolower($data[$a][0]) > strtolower($data[$b][0]) ? 1 : -1); } return (strtolower($data[$a][3]) > strtolower($data[$b][3]) ? -1 : 1); } if ($sortOrder == "asc") return (strtolower($data[$a][2]) > strtolower($data[$b][2]) ? 1 : -1); return (strtolower($data[$a][2]) > strtolower($data[$b][2]) ? -1 : 1); } if ($sortBy == "uploaded") { if ($data[$a][3] == $data[$b][3]) { # secondart sort by ascending title if ($data[$a][0] == $data[$b][0]) return 0; return ($data[$a][0] > $data[$b][0] ? 1 : -1); } if ($sortOrder == "asc") return ($data[$a][3] > $data[$b][3] ? 1 : -1); return ($data[$a][3] > $data[$b][3] ? -1 : 1); } if ($sortBy == "resolution") { if ($data[$a][4] == $data[$b][4]) { # secondary sort by descending date of upload if ($data[$a][3] == $data[$b][3]) { # tertiary sort by ascending title if ($data[$a][0] == $data[$b][0]) return 0; return ($data[$a][0] > $data[$b][0] ? 1 : -1); } return ($data[$a][3] > $data[$b][3] ? -1 : 1); } if ($sortOrder == "asc") return ($data[$a][4] > $data[$b][4] ? 1 : -1); return ($data[$a][4] > $data[$b][4] ? -1 : 1); } } uksort($data, "sort_by_column"); # Close the file. fclose($dataHandle); # Output the table. ?> $item) { ?>

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If you would like to develop your own Winks (flash tutorials) for PowerPro, here are some build suggestions to keep in mind:

Maintain a standard format/look and feel. I use the template file powerpro.wpt (feel free to upload your own Wink files/templates to the same location — new anonymous uploads are allowed). To use my template, when creating a new capture set the capture region dropdown to Rectangle and then select the area 800�580. When you apply the template above it will add a 20 pixel white top frame (for a title), filling the wink out to the standard 800x600 size. After you finish capturing, select all the frames, and add the caption to all the frames at once. Then, start at frame 1 and work your way through them.
Make it easy to select next and previous frames (keep your Next/Previous buttons in the same place — easier for you to build, easier for the user to just watch and keep clicking in the same location: Next, Next, Next etc.).
When you capture screenshots, capture a lot of them — capture, move mouse, capture, click mouse (open a menu?), capture, move mouse to highlight menu item, capture, click mouse, capture, move mouse, capture, click mouse to select a tab, capture; etc. Basically, capture before and after every action to make it look right.
Once you've finished capturing, and applied your template (to set default button positions, etc.) you are going to start making your stop and explain points. Check Next button, Previous button, Textbox and type text. Select the type of box you want, move/resize and continue moving through the frames.

Special thanks to Suleyman Kesir for introducing PowerPro's Yahoo! Group audience to Wink; to David Troesch for hosting this service and to Alex Peters for programming the web interface.