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ExercisesExercises To proceed to the Exercises, please

download the whole working folder (authorware-basics) from either the educ4210-1 or educ4210-2 or educ4210-3,

at the FTPFTP site, res.hkbu.edu.hkres.hkbu.edu.hk Place the “authorware-basics folder on

your desktop

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Click File > New > File

Close other windows and leave the design window and icon panel intact.

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Exercise 1Exercise 1 Drag the desired icons from the icon

panel onto the empty flowline in the Design Window as shown.

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Exercise 1Exercise 1 Add names to the appropriate icons. Save the file as exercise1.a6p in the c:\windows\

desktop\authorware-tutorial\

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Exercise 1Exercise 1 Double-click on the background icon and the

presentation window will be popped-up. Choose File > Import to select the “Background.gif”

image file from c:\windows\desktop\authorware-tutorial\Assets\ folder.

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Exercise 1Exercise 1 Double-click the “Title” icon and choose File >

Import to select the “Camera1.gif” image file from c:\windows\desktop\authorware-tutorial\Assets\ folder.

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To eliminate the background colour of the image, double-click it.

On the property window, choose the “alphaalpha” mode and click “OK”.

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Exercise 1Exercise 1 Double-click the “Title”To insert the words “The World The World

of 35mm Photographyof 35mm Photography”, click the ““AA”” icon of the graphic panel and type in the required wording.

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Double-click the “Camera Sound” icon on the flowline and then the “Import” button on the property window.

Choose the camera.mp3 audio file from the Assets folder as specified in the previous sections.

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Double-click the “WAITWAIT” icon on the flowline and then the “Import” button on the property window.

Choose the camera.mp3 file from the Assets folder as specified in the previous sections.

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To erase the title page, double-lick the “TitleTitle” icon on the flowline.

Then double-click the “Erase Title Erase Title PagePage” icon on the flowline and then click the “EraseErase” button on the property window.

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On the property window, choose the Transition Mode to be “MosaicMosaic”.

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On Click the “IconsIcons” button on the property window and then click the “Title” page shown on the presentation window.

The Title page icon will be listed on the property window of the erase icon.

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Click File > SaveFile > Save to save the file. To see how the file works, click Control Control

> Restart.> Restart. To publish the file, click File > Publish File > Publish

Settings Settings and on the property window, click the “format” “format” button and check all the options.

Click the “packagepackage” button and select all the options again.

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After the selection, After the selection, click “Publish”click “Publish”

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A folder named: “Published Files” will be created at the same level as the exercise1.a6p file. Within this folder, there are two sub-folders: LocalLocal and WebWeb.

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Under the “Local” folder, there is a ????.exe file. Inside the “Web” folder, there are files

like: ????.htm and ????.aam. You may FTP the whole “Web” folder to your own

folder residing res.hkbu.edu.hk To access it via the Internet, open the browser

and type the URL as http://res.hkbu.edu.hk/educ4210-?/your_folder/http://res.hkbu.edu.hk/educ4210-?/your_folder/web/????.htmweb/????.htm

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