Flash Demo Builder User Interface Walkthrough

The main application window is divided into three important sections.

Slide list shows all available slides within the presentation as thumbnails and slide titles. The currently edited slide will have a red rectangle around the thumbnail. To select a new slide to be edited, simply click the slide thumbnail. You can do multiple selection by clicking while holding the Ctrl button. A multiple selection is very useful if you want to delete/move multiple slides at once. Click the delete button at the top of the slide list to delete selected slide(s).

Preview window shows the currently selected slide. In this window you can select, move, resize, rotate any visible objects such as text, callout, image, video, etc. To select multiple objects, simply hold the Ctrl button while clicking an object. To delete the selected object(s), press the keyboard delete button. Double click on the object to edit the object properties.

Note that a sound that is not attached to a button will not be visible on the preview window. Use the control at the top right corner of the preview window to adjust the preview zoom setting.

Timeline shows all objects within the currently selected page. A sound which does not attach to a button will also show in Timeline. Timeline is very useful to easily adjust the object timing within a slide. By simply dragging the end of the object bar you will adjust its duration. Drag the start of the object bar to adjust when the object should show/play by dragging the middle of the object bar to move the show time and the duration time at once. You can also adjust the slide duration by dragging the red vertical bar at the top of the timeline. Note that you cannot drag the slide duration less than the object duration within the slide. To make the slide pause at the end, click on the small green play button next to the red vertical bar. Click it again to disable the pause.

Double clicking the object bar allows you to edit the object properties.

Side toolbar is located between the slide list and the preview window which is differentiated into the following three groups.

Contain group of buttons to insert standard objects into a slide such as text, callout, image, rectangular highlight, sound, recorded voice, mouse cursor, etc.

All of these functionalities and other functionalities such as a video insertion and an image rollover are also accessible from the Insert menu.

Contain group of buttons to insert a quiz object into a slide such as text entryfield, keypress, click area, multiple choice, report and login. All of these functionalities are also accessible from the Insert menu => quiz menu.

Contain three important buttons. Edit slide background, to modify the slide background image and color. Edit slide properties, to modify the slide transition and disable/enable the navigation button. Project properties to choose/customize a presentation navigation control, choose a project thumbnail, etc. Project properties window is also accessible from the Project => Project Settings window.

Finally, the important buttons are a series of buttons at the top of preview window.

Add a new slide

To add new slide(s). This feature is also accessible from the Slide menu.

Delete selected slide(s)

To delete the selected slide(s)

This feature is also accessible from the Slide menu.

Save

To save the current presentation

This feature is also accessible from the File menu.

Open

To open an existing presentation file

This feature is also accessible from the File menu.

Undo, Redo

This feature is also accessible from the Edit menu.

Play

To preview the presentation.

There are three play options when you click the drop-down arrow.

To preview 5 subsequent slides starting from the current slide

To preview only the current slide

This feature is also accessible from the Publish menu.

Next - Adding More Slides to Your Presentation