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RapidBuilder® v3.1 Deluxe
Features and Benefits (At a Glance ...)
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- System Instructions Editor - Provides facilities for editing/removing
captured mouse clicks and captured keystrokes during the editing stage.
- Hide and Show Events - Objects may be configured to repeatedly hide
(disappear) and show (reappear) on the screen during playback. This
is useful for creating pulsing or blinking visual effects.
- Global Objects - RapidBuilder enables developers to quickly reuse objects/elements
across multiple frames by making them Global. Objects can be set to be Global
across certain frames or all frames within the RapidBuilder file. This makes
it easy to have similar objects/elements appearing across multiple frames.
It also makes it easy to update the object/element (since modifying a global
object/element automatically updates it on every frame where it is used).
This also helps keep the file size down because only one copy of
a global object/element is stored internally.
- Validation Text Fields - The Validation Field validates text strings
or paragraphs of text typed by the end user during playback. Once
the end user enters text and presses a designated action key, the
entered text is compared to existing validation strings and/or keywords
that have been specified by the developer during editing. If there
is a match, the entered text is validated as correct (and a designated
action/event is initiated). If there is no match, the entered text
is validated as incorrect (and a designated action/event is initiated).
- Validation Field Wildcards - The Validation Field also supports a variety
of wildcard characters, which may be used to substitute for one or more
text characters within the validation string. This capability enables
developers to create sophisticated validation strings and patterns
with tremendous flexibility and power.
- Navigational Hyperlinks - Developers may customize runtime navigation
capabilities by adding Hyperlinks that link to other screens in the
current RapidBuilder file, external RapidBuilder and RapidExam files,
external applications or files, and web pages. In addition to navigation,
Hyperlinks may be configured to trigger other types of actions, including
validating text entries made in Validation Fields, automatically
copying text between fields on the frame (or clearing text displayed
in specific fields), displaying graphical images, playing video or
audio files, displaying pop-up text messages, exiting the RapidBuilder
file, and more.
- URL Launching Capabilities - RapidBuilder includes extensive support
for launching URLs from Hyperlinks. The developer may configure Hyperlinks
that will execute a JavaScript command, launch a URL using various
different protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Telnet, or Gopher), launch
an HTML page in a new browser window or the same browser window,
or launch an e-mail client.
- Attempt/Hint Feedback - Attempt messages may be created to provide
feedback to the end user during playback. Multiple attempt messages
may be configured to display for each of the end user’s subsequent attempts to correctly click
the mouse, press a key, click a Hyperlink, or enter text in a Validation Field.
After each incorrect attempt at performing the action, a different message can
be displayed to the user. In addition, for each attempt message, there can be
a hint message displayed to the user. After the last attempt, an automatic “Do
it for Me” action can be specified to have the system automatically perform
the action for the user.
- System Variables - Memory locations may be assigned with the name
of a system variable, which contains navigation information that
is dynamically and automatically assigned by the system during
playback. System variables provide developers with another way
to implement navigation between frames and files.
- Terminal Object - RapidBuilder provides a Terminal Object that
can be used to simulate a command prompt environment or text-based
applications. This enables developers to create realistic simulations
of router terminals, telnet applications, text chatting applications,
etc. This capability enables end users to practice entering
commands and receiving responses as they would when using real text-based
terminals or applications.
- Highlighter - RapidBuilder provides a Highlighter object that
can be used to simulate highlighting actions during simulation
playback. These highlighting actions include text highlighting,
cell highlighting (e.g., to simulate selecting multiple cells
in a spreadsheet), or area highlighting (e.g., to simulate
drawing an object/shape on the screen).
- Drag and Drop - RapidBuilder provides a Drag and Drop object
that can be used to simulate drag and drop actions during
simulation playback. The drag and drop action will enable
users to click on an item/object/element on the screen
and then use the mouse to drag it to another location on the
screen. This enables developers to simulate any type of
drag and drop operation in any software application.
- Automatic Timeout Events - RapidBuilder enables developers
to specify automatic timeouts for certain frame and object
events. At runtime, a timeout event will be performed
automatically by the system once a specified number of seconds have
elapsed. Supported timeout events include the following:
- For a frame, any of the following events may be configured to
occur automatically after a specified number of seconds have elapsed:
linking to an audio file, linking to another frame, linking to an
external RapidBuilder or RapidExam file, displaying an attempt/hint
message, displaying a pop-up validation message, or exiting playback.
- For the Validation Field object, the developer may specify that
the validation text string will be entered in the field automatically
after a specified number of seconds have elapsed. The automatic
text entry may be configured to occur at a fast, medium, or slow
speed, and it may be accompanied by key entry sound effect.
- For a Hyperlink object, any of the following events
may be configured to occur automatically after a
specified number of seconds have elapsed: linking
to an external file or URL, linking to an audio file,
linking to a video file, linking to another frame,
linking to an external RapidBuilder or RapidExam
file, displaying a pop-up validation message or image,
copying or clearing text, or exiting playback.
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