Tutorial

How to use the Tutorial robot skill

A plugin to allow people to give instructions to users in the ARC software.

Updates:

March 19 - Huge Update New Features

• You are now able to format text
  • Here is the current ways to format the text:

  Indent Outdent Font: Bold Font: Italic Font: Underline Font: Size Align: Center Align: Left Align: Right Lists: Unordered Commands: Cut Commands: Copy Commands: Paste

• Images can be added alongside text (directly in the textbox)
• Image shown on the left was retained, but renamed "Spotlight Image"

To accommodate these new features I had to change the format slides were saved in, though I added redundancies to load older versions there could be some errors.

Example:

Bugs Fixed V7

• Fixed the CommandControl for editing slides
• Minor performance improvements V8 (Same day update)
• Fixed a bug created with the backwards compatibility creating new slides if there was not 50 chars of text in a single slide.

March 17

• Web urls will now open in an external browser.
• Resizing the frames now saves.

March 1

• Add the ability to reorder slides
• Added pretty icons for editing and reordering slides
• The scrollbar no longer stays on the slide as you move from one slide to another

Feb 29

• Updating slide text now reflects on the "Edit Slides" without having to open and close the form.
• Added redundancies in case a slide is not found (it will load the first slide)
• Made it so you can no longer remove the first slide

Feb 28

• Added backgroundworker for loading images to improve performance and adhere to plugin standards.

Current Features: -Custom Slides Text and Pictures saved to .ezb projects (instructions are saved for each project)

• Automatic resizing of images to reduce project file size. This can be customized via the options.
• CommandControls for updating and navigating slides.

# Next Slide 
# Example
ControlCommand("Tutorial", NextSlide)

# Previous Slide 
# Example
ControlCommand("Tutorial", PrevSlide)

# Set to a specific slide
# Control: ControlCommand("Tutorial", Slide, [Slide Number])
# Replace [Slide Number] with the slide number to show.
# Example
ControlCommand("Tutorial", Slide, "1")

# Update Slide
# ControlCommand("Tutorial", UpdateSlide, [Slide Number], [Text], [Image Path])
# Replace [Slide Number] with the slide number to edit.
# Replace [Text] with the text to add to the slide
# Replace [Image] with the path to the image you want to show.
ControlCommand("Tutorial", UpdateSlide, "1", "To be added!", "D:\Google Drive\images\need.jpg")

Known Issues/Future Improvements:

• Currently, you can only remove the latest slide.

This plugin was originally created for the classroom by giving instructions to students on the projects they download.

I am very new to C#, but I have include the source code: Github Tutorial