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Capturing/Recording Features

Continuous "pixel-based" desktop capturing (for recording all desktop activity, including mouse movements, mouse clicks, and keystrokes)

Record interactive and non-interactive simulations (as well as simulations containing both interactive and non-interactive portions)

Specify pre-capture settings (including the option to specify if RapidBuilder will capture the entire desktop area, only a selected screen area, or only active windows)

Customization/Optimization settings (e.g., Delete Duplicate Frames, Capture Minimum Frames, Capture User Actions Only)

Record from within an existing simulation

Capture background sound along with the desktop

Customizable hot keys (shortcut keys)

80-97% File Compression

Authoring/Editing Features

Appending/Inserting non-recorded content screens

Template Editor (containing predefined and user-defined screen templates)

Importing screens/frames from other RapidBuilder files and video files

Importing image files as screens/frames

Cutting/Copying and Pasting frames (to reorder or reuse frames)

Deleting frames temporarily or permanently

Converting an interactive simulation to non-interactive (and vice versa)

Assigning custom cursor image (to replace regular system mouse pointer)

Disabling captured mouse movements, mouse clicks, and keystrokes

Editing/Removing captured mouse clicks and keystrokes

Navigation Bar (for navigating/editing frames)

Thumbnail Frame View (for viewing/editing frames as scrollable thumbnail images)

Drag-and-drop object palettes

Object editing options (e.g., cutting, copying, pasting, deleting, aligning, spacing, sizing, etc.)

Object grouping and common property formatting

Global objects (appearing simultaneously on multiple selected frames or all frames in the file)

Draw objects and tools (for adding lines, shapes, colors, and custom art)

Color Palette (with provisions for creating and saving custom color palettes)

Frame grid (for accurate object layout)

Frame viewing options (e.g., full screen and zooming)

Frame customization options (e.g., height/width dimensions, border style, title bar style/color/alignment, title bar text, title bar icon, window control buttons, etc.)

Spell Checker

Password protection

Customizing preference options

Viewing and customizing file properties

Printing RapidBuilder files

Section 508 accessibility compliance

Interactivity Features

Recorded mouse clicks, recorded keystrokes, and defined validation keys

Validation events (e.g., Go To frame navigation, link to external file or web page, pop-up text message/image, play sound/video, etc.) triggered by specific user actions (e.g., mouse clicks, keyboard entries, etc.) on frames and objects

Hide and Show events (i.e., objects configured to repeatedly disappear and/or reappear upon specific user actions)

Navigational Hyperlinks (linked to other screens, external RapidBuilder/RapidExam files, web pages, e-mails, external applications/files, etc.)

Enhanced URL support in Hyperlinks (Javascript, FTP, Telnet, Gopher, mailto, etc.)

Hotwords (for linking to frames, pop-up text messages, and external RapidBuilder/RapidExam files)

System Variables (for dynamic navigation between frames and files during playback)

Validation Buttons (for displaying pop-up messages/images, playing sound or video, validating text entries, copying/clearing text, or exiting playback)

Radio Buttons and Check Boxes

Multi-button Validation (i.e., validating the state of multiple Radio Buttons, Check Boxes, Combo Boxes, and Hyperlinks on a frame) for simulating multiple configuration settings

Validation Text Fields (for runtime text entry and validation)

Wildcard characters ("?" for a single character and "*" for any text string) used to substitute for text in a Validation Field

Additional wildcard characters and wildcard combinations supported in the Validation Field

Attempt/Hint Feedback Messages (for mouse click, keystroke, and text entry actions)

Terminal Objects (for simulating command prompts and text-based applications)

Combo Boxes (for selection of drop-down list items)

Highlighter objects (for simulating highlighting actions during playback)

Drag and Drop objects (for simulating drag and drop actions during playback)

Timeout Events (triggered automatically after a specified number of seconds have elapsed)

Text Features

Text Fields (display text directly on frames)

Instruction Boxes (display text in floating windows)

Rotated Text Fields (display text rotated to any angle from 1 to 360 degrees)

Inline graphics added to Text Fields/Instruction Boxes

Scroll bars added to Text Fields/Instruction Boxes

Format Bar (for modifying text font, style, size, color, etc.)

Dynamically loading text from external text files

Text Field call-outs (for labeling, etc.)

Record Fields (i.e., Text Field/Instruction Box displayed on multiple frames with different text content on each frame)

Copying and Clearing text during playback

Import/Export Text (for language translation purposes)

Media Support

Save simulations as Flash (SWF) files

Save simulations as video (MPEG, MOV, ASF, AVI) files

Save simulations as self-executing .EXE applications

Save simulations as Microsoft Word (DOC) files

Resource Editor for retrieval and management of linked/embedded media files

Video Stage (scaleable window for playback of linked or embedded ASF, AVI, MOV, MPG, and MPEG video files)

Importing video frames directly into a RapidBuilder file as individual frames/screens

Flash Stage (scaleable window for playback of linked or embedded Flash .SWF files)

Audio files (ASF, AU, MP2, MP3, WAV) linked to frames and Hyperlink buttons

Audio interruption during frame playback

Recording sound and voice clips from any available sound device

Saving recorded sound as .WAV or .ASF audio files

Background sound (captured along with the desktop or added as a linked/embedded audio file)

Importing an audio file across a range of frames

Importing audio files on a frame-by-frame basis

Adding multiple sound tracks (i.e., captured sound, imported audio, and linked/embedded audio files) to a simulation

Sound Track Selector (for choosing which sound tracks to play during simulation playback)

Text-to-Speech (automatic audio) capability

Bitmap object for importing image files (BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG) to frames

Rotating imported images

Background images on frames (fitted to the frame, centered, or tiled)

Importing multiple images directly into a RapidBuilder file as individual frames/screens

Animations & Special Visual Effects

Mouse Plot object for creation of mouse pointer animations (triggered automatically by the system or by a mouse click action)

Animated GIF images

Image animations on button objects

Object slide-out animations

Frame transition effects (such as wiping, sliding, blurring, fading, and dissolving) applied when transitioning from one screen to another during playback

Text displayed with dissolving and exploding effects

E-Learning Features

SCORM v1.1 and v1.2 Compliance (for creating RBX-based and Flash-based SCORM v1.1 and v1.2 courses that may be registered, managed, and deployed using any SCORM v1.1 or v1.2-compliant LMS)

Third-party SCO support (for importing external SCOs into RapidBuilder SCORM courses)

RapidBuilder Projects/Courses containing linked .RBX lesson files with designated topics and subtopics

Back-end management and tracking of RapidBuilder projects and/or SCORM v1.2 courses (using XStream's RapidManager administration technology)

Bookmarking (i.e., placing a bookmark when exiting a RapidBuilder project in order to return to the bookmarked location the next time the project is played)

Progress Tracking for registered RapidBuilder projects

Progress Buttons (for displaying personalized progress reports generated from tracking data stored in the end user's back-end RapidManager database account)

Course Navigator for browsing and editing lessons, topics, and subtopics within the project

User-defined project themes (i.e., course templates)

Login Field object for developing project login screens

Menu Builder object (for creating automatic course menus incorporating the names of all lessons, topics, and subtopics in the project, or for creating custom menus by adding menu items manually)

Playback/Deployment Features

Deployment of RapidBuilder files on CD-ROM, LAN/WAN, or Web (Internet, Intranet, or Extranet)

RapidPlayer Runtime Player (for local and LAN/WAN deployment) and RapidPlayer Browser Plug-in (for web deployment)

Autodownloading of RapidPlayer Plug-in (enables plug-in to be automatically downloaded and installed on the machines of users playing web-based simulations through a browser)

Playback Bar (optionally displayed or hidden during simulation playback) contains controls for visually tracking playback progress, viewing download statistics, and manually navigating between frames.

Automatic web streaming capabilities (for smooth playback)

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