Shortcuts
Shortcuts to Ponder

Thanks to contributors from all over the Web for these!

1.Using Control/P to "pause" the program in order to place buttons in the correct position.

2.Right-clicking on display, interaction, sound and movie icons for previews of the what's inside icon.

3.Holding the CTRL key and clicking in the title bar of a nested Map icon for a listing of icon titles.

4.Changing the branching (i.e., Try Again, Continue, Exit, Return) of icons attached to interactions by holding the Ctrl key down and clicking the branching flow of the attached icons. No need to open the Properties response dialog!

5.Highlighting an icon (display, map, etc.) then pressing CTRL + = to attach a Calculation (ornament).

6.Dragging an entire directory of graphics or sound and dropping the whole thing into a library.

7.Selecting graphics displayed from multiple icons by holding down the CTRL key and dragging a marquee around them.

When I have to move 52 card graphics up 9 pixels, and over 3, this is a huge time saver.

8.Allowing Authorware to automatically increment the icon's name when you paste it. This can be used when you want to copy and paste an icon repeatedly, but you want to be able to reference them by name.

To do this, reference the icon by name before pasting it (even in a phony calc that you have no plans of keeping -- e.g., x:=displayheight@"picture"). Then, when you paste it, the pasted copies will automatically be named "picture2," "picture3," etc. and you won't have to go back and rename them yourself.

9.Double-clicking the calc ornament in 4.0 to open up the Calc rather than having to use the keyboard or pulldown menu is nice, though it's sometimes difficult to access when the start flag or paste hand is competing for the real estate.

10..Most users know CTRL-B to stop the program and show the current icon, but pressing CTRL-P after making your corrections will let the program continue from where it paused.

11.Just as you can change the branching in an interaction by CTRL Clicking on the Path, you can change the response to correct, incorrect or unjudged by CTRL Clicking on the Icon Title of the Branch.

12. "Export Graphics" in AW5 to recreate graphic collections from an entire program (really handy when the old graphic files have been mislaid!)

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