The Utilities
The Utilities part of the suite includes:
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RDS Utilities
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RDS Report Generator
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Peter Jackson's Multiple Book Exporter
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Peter Jackson's Graphics Preloader
The file RDS_Utilities.tbk is also known as the RDS Lesson Updater. This file contains a variety of different buttons that allow the Developer to make global updates to entire folders of files. In the example shown here, clicking the button Add or Replace Object on all Pages will find and existing object, delete it, and replace it with a new object. Many of these buttons can quickly have their code modify to do a variety of different tasks globally.
The Report Generator (RDS_Reporter.tbk) contains a variety of buttons that can easily be recoded to produce several different types of reports as well as report locations of objects or text. In the example, here a Check Sim Modes for Export button in the Find Objects, etc. can be used to make sure that all files in all folders have all the Simulations set up to properly score when exported. The Storyboard Builder No Formatting Button in the Reports section is used to export all text from the tbk file back to a txt file for quick review of the text.
The Multiple Book Exporter is a great utility from Peter Jackson that allows a multiple selection of files to be batch exported, saving many hours of time having to export files one at a time.
This is a very useful utility, also from Peter Jackson, that adds a routine to the exported product that preloads any graphics in the lesson. This allows for very smooth loading of each page and smooth transitions between pages.
