By Tomas Lund on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:46 PM

Welcome to my ToolBook blog on my new website. I have been pretty busy since I left my position as ToolBook Alliance Manager at SumTotal Systems in April 2007 to start my own company: I have done content development, consulting and support for various customers and ToolBook resellers - and held quite a few ToolBook training sessions. Read More »

By Tomas Lund on Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:17 AM

- Or “Alternative uses of ToolBook’s Simulation object”. I have often faced the challenge of having to make more complex interactions or questions than what is possible out of the box using ToolBook’s catalog objects. Very often you or your client wants a combination of multiple questions but scored as one question – or they want to use a type of questions not available in the ToolBook catalog – such as a “dropdown question” or similar Read More »

By Tomas Lund on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:28 PM

or "How to change the TextPane used by the Simulation Autobuilder". If you are using the insert simulation from recording feature, but don't like the way the instructions and feedback fields look like, read on. Read More »

By Tomas Lund on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:28 PM

I recently learned that "Adobe plans to discontinue development of Authorware". I had mixed feelings about the news as I started my career working with Authorware and liked it very much, but since then transitioned into ToolBook. In any case life moves on and developers using Authorware should take a look at ToolBook 9 as an alternative. Its fast, efficient and supports deployment to CD-rom and HTML from the same file - and it has support for authoring as well as deployment on Windows Vista. Given my background with both Tools I have added conversion of Authorware Projects to ToolBook to my list of services offered.

By Tomas Lund on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:45 PM

The Dynamic Navigation Widget is a combobox that automatically indexes all pages in your Book or Background. When the user selects a page name in the combobox ToolBook will navigate to the page with that name.

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By Tomas Lund on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:24 PM

The Enhanced Validate ToolBook File will locate potential problems with your ToolBook file and display a report to allow you to correct the problems before you publish to HTML. It is a feature enhanced version of the existing Validate ToolBook file provided by SumTotal systems (available through ToolBook’s Tools/Developers Exchange in ToolBook)

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By Tomas Lund on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:55 PM

The ToolBook Color Picker works like the eyedropper tool in Adobe Photoshop and other Tools, with the exception that the ToolBook color picker captures colors from the entire desktop.

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