How to WINK a tutorial

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To make tutorials with the FREE program WINK download it from here:

http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

 

Then install it, start it and go to Help to choose: View Tutorial Project 1

WINK will make a .htm-file and a .swf-file and you can start learning WINK in a quarter of an hour.

 

The .swf-file is a Flash file. I hope you know Flash it is from Macromedia and it is 100 percent safe! To look at the tutorial you have to have the FLASH PLAYER plugin installed in your browser. About 80 percent of all browsers have the plugin. Internet Exploerer will install it automatically - just answer Yes! You can download it from here:

http://www.macromedia.com/downloads

 

Making tutorials with WINK is really fast and easy. And it let´s you describe all the steps in doing something in A:M by first screen capturing. Just press the Pause-key to screen capture. Having stopped the screen capturing you insert some text on every screen capture to describe what you have done in A:M. Then you render your tutorial to get a .htm-file and a .swf-file. Mostly the files are under 1 MB so you can pack them together in a .zip-file and upload them to an A:M forum to let others learn a bit.

 

Before you begin a new tutorial in WINK first always RESIZE Animation Master!

 

Otherwise perhaps everyone else cannot see what you are doing in A:M because they have not got as good screen resolution as you have. And rezising A:M before screen capturing the file size of the tutorial - the .swf-file - will become much smaller.

 

So once more do not forget to RESIZE Animation:Master a bit before you start the new WINK tutorial. Or just change your screen resolution to 800*600 and you will not have any problems with A:M menus showing up outside the capturing area.

 

Here you can find some more tips - advanced - from Emilio le Roux:

http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=100612

 

And here in only eleven steps you can learn how to make tutorials with WINK:

[Rodney]

Here is a full view of Seven's image tutorial on creating tutorials with the Wink program (from the attachment above). Other formats will be accepted but we are standardizing on Wink whereever possible. It's a Windows only program so making tutorials with a Mac will require a different approach. The .SWF files should be able to be seen on any computer that has a Flash player.

 

Wink is an excellent way to share your step-by-step tutorials with others.

You can even record your troubleshooting steps for reporting to A:M Reports.