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RapidBuilder® v3.1 Deluxe
Features and Benefits (At a Glance ...)
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- Advanced Audio Support - RapidBuilder includes the following types
of audio support:
- ASF, AU, MP2, MP3, and WAV sound files supported
- External sound files may be linked to frames (screens) or played
with Hyperlink buttons.
Multiple audio files may be imported to a
single frame. In addition to an audio file that plays automatically
when the frame appears on screen during playback, the developer may specify
other different audio files linked to specific mouse click actions,
validation keys, and automatic timeouts.The developer may also enable the
end user to interrupt audio playback on a frame at runtime.
Built-in sound recorder enables sound to be recorded from
any available sound device. Recorded sound clips may
also be saved to disk as .WAV or .ASF audio files (in order to
be reused in other RapidBuilder files, frames, and objects).
- Text-to-Speech (Automatic Audio) - RapidBuilder’s
Instruction Box and Text Field objects support Text-to-Speech functionality.
Text within an Instruction Box/Text Field may be converted into speech
audio data during playback of the RapidBuilder file. The developer
has the option of including playback control buttons on the Instruction
Box/Text Field so that the end user may control the playback of the
speech.
- Background sound may be captured along with the desktop or added
as a linked/embedded file.
- Multiple sound tracks may be linked or embedded, and they may
also be edited as visual audio data on the Sound Bar.
- Sound Track Selector enables the end user to choose which sound
track(s) will be played by selecting one or more existing
sound tracks from a combo box.
- Audio files may be imported on a frame-by-frame basis or across
a range of frames.
- Advanced Image Support - RapidBuilder includes the following
types of image support:
- Image Files - Image files (BMP, GIF, JPG, and PNG) may be imported
to Bitmap objects and as background images
on screens. Images (imported to Bitmap objects) may also be rotated
to any angle from 1 to 360 degrees.
- Animated GIF Files - The Animated GIF object enables
animated GIF files to be imported into RapidBuilder
files (in addition to the regular static .BMP,
.JPG, .GIF, and .PNG image files that may be imported using
the Bitmap object).
- Importing Multiple Images Simultaneously - Enables
developers to import multiple images (BMP, .JPG,
.GIF, and .PNG files) into a RapidBuilder file as individual
frames.
- Animation and Special Visual Effects - RapidBuilder
enables the developer to add various types of animation
and visual effects to a simulation, including the following:
- Mouse
Plot enables the plotting of mouse positions to create mouse pointer
animations. The developer may specify whether the mouse animation
is initiated automatically when the frame is displayed
on the screen or is initiated manually by the end user
clicking the mouse. In either case, an action/event can
be set to trigger once the mouse animation finishes.
- Animation on buttons – Multiple
images may be cycled on button
objects to create custom image animations.
- Slide-outs – Objects may be configured
to animate (or slide) on to the screen
with a specified visual effect.
- Frame transition effects – Special visual
effects (such as wiping, sliding,
blurring, fading, and dissolving) may be applied when
transitioning from one screen to another during playback.
The developer may also specify a sound file to play
while the frame transition effect
is occurring on screen.
- Text may be displayed with dissolving
and exploding effects during playback.
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