Inside Indy 1993/Inside Indy 1993.iso/demos/TRAIN/README

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README for trainer program (updated 5/12/93)

NEW FEATURES!!!
I have added a new button to the Job Instruction Card window.  This button runs
the conference manager for video conferencing.  (If you don't yet have the
conference manager, it should be released soon).  Also I have added accelerator
keys for all of the buttons on the bottom and for the first ten steps.  "Why?"
do you ask.  Well, now you can use speech input!  Included with this release is
spanel.  you might already have a copy of it.  What it does is recognize speech
input and use it to send X commands.  you will have to train it for your voice,
the instructions for doing that are in spanel.doc.  the trainer vocabulary
is installed in trainer.voc.  This doesn't work amazingly well, especially
if you have a big vocabulary, but it works ok for some stuff.  I take no
responsibility for spanel, I didn't write it.  I'm just giving it to you.  To
run the trainer with speech input, run the script trainer.with.speech.script.


OLDSTUFF
to run the trainer, type "trainer" at the command line.  If you want your
xdefaults set for you to make it look especially nice, the first time you
run the trainer, run "trainer.script."  This merges some nice X settings into
your X database.  You can change the look (and to some extent, the action) of
the program by changing the Xdefs file also located in this directory.  I
would like to have this work in a different way, but our motif people assure
me that Xdefaults is the way to go.  Something nice about the way I wrote the
program is that if you have schemes installed (which will be part of sherwood),
trainer will catch those defaults instead.  (if the colored text clashes with
your background colors, you might want to try a different scheme).

    This directory contains the current versions of the working
executables, and links to the data directories.  You want to copy all these
files, because trainer expects them to be there.  For a special pared-down
version of the trainer contact me.  It is very easily accomplished.

I have added a new opening screen which has an SGI plane spinning.  This is a
very nice thing to have behind you as you describe the trainer.  You can grab
the plane with the mouse (it works like an Inventor Examiner Viewer) and spin
it other ways or zoom in and out.  When you are ready to begin put the mouse in
the tail # area and enter some value (or don't, but it looks better if you do),
and press enter.  You will then get a list of the available jobs.  You can only
actually do the first one on the list, but you can, if you wish, click on the
others as well.  When you click on the white item, the "do it!" button will
become active, either click it, or double click on the white item to get into
the Job Instruction card.

Once the Job Instruction Card window is open,  you will get a window with a
scrolling list of job items for a mechanic, and a set of buttons on the bottom.
Click one of the job items, the buttons will change.  Anything with a circle
and line through it is not available.  Right now, the buttons are for:
entering data (if the step requires it), video, audio, graphics, the manual (an
insight document), a tools window, notes, checking off a completed step, and
returning to the intro window.  The green steps are ones that can be done
now, the yellow ones are one that rely on other steps to be completed first.
(in this database, step 3 depends on step 2, and step 4 depends on step 3).

*the program no longer depends on shared libaries. You must have the audio,
movie and insight programs installed if you want to use those options.

I've put a file called JIC.bw in the images sub-directory.  This is a scan
of the actual Job Instruction Card that United Mechanics use.

the graphics program is still in progress.  On the left is a standard inventor
viewer with a model in it.  If you go out of viewing mode and pick it, a
manipulator attaches to it, and you get information about it.  Also, you will
hear a sound to let you know that you picked it.  When you pick it, it will
also appear in the right hand window.  (later several models will be in the
left window, and this way you can look at one more closely by picking on it).


A SALESMANS QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE ON WHAT TO SHOW PEOPLE
enter the serial number on step 1 and explain how trainer can be tied into an
inventory database to track parts.  also step 1 has both audio and text notes.

show the movie, play the audio, show the models and the tools on step 2.

pick any step and add an audio note to it (make sure you enter a name before
you begin recording).

check off step 2 and show that step 3 turns green.  Explain how when someone
clicks on the "check off" button we could ask for some sort of password or
something, but we don't (if someone wants it, I will add it).

enter the values on step 5.  explain how we can error check the numbers to
make sure no mistakes are made.  I also like to tell the following annecdote
(which is true):  "When I was watching the video tape of someone doing this,
he made an error in adding up these dimensions.  At the end of the job, he had
to check these dimensions again.  They were different.  He almost had to start
over from the beginning, but he luckily caught his summation error.  This
program could take care of those kinds of problems."

*pick any step and press the insight button.  ooh. insight starts up with
whatever manuals come with your system.  this is a current hack until I get
some real insight documents.


WHAT I AM WORKING ON:
getting some better models from united
adding text (with insight) instructions for each step
Help

let me know about bugs, questions and enhancements....

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