SMART APPS CREATOR 3 MANUAL

Smart Apps Creator 3 Manual

5 Sections:

1. Quick buttons: Includes smart button, save button, undo button and next button.

2. Function tab: Includes edit, insert, template, animation, interaction, page and Real-Time Test.

3. Preview tab: includes preview and resource bank.

4. Main area: includes main area, close preview button and close attribute button.

5. Attribute tab: includes attribute tab and layer tab

1. Quick button:

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Select Smart button :

New: Add new file

Open: Open file

Save: Save your current project

Save As: Save your current project as a new-named file

Output: Output .Xcode, .apk, .exe and H5

Import Page: Import another project pages into your current project pages

Test: Real-Time Test

Account Information: Activate or Deactivate serial number

About: Release Version

Help: Online FAQ

Save

Undo

Next

2. Function Tab

Edit Tab

Paste: Paste objects New: Create a new page

Hot Key: Ctrl+V Hot key: Ctrl+N

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Cut objects

Hot Key: Ctrl+X

Copy: Copy objects

Hot Key: Ctrl+C

Delete: Delete objects

Hot Key: Delete

Font: Select fonts

Text size: Adjust text size

Background color: Set background color of text.

Transparency: Set transparency of text background

Bold text

Slide text

Underline

Delete line

change text colors

Add text frame and select colors.

Copy text format Reduce space to the left margin

Apply text format Add space to the left margin

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Adjust space to the right margin

Symbols

Align left

Align center

Align right

Align left and right

Align left

Align center

Align right Bring object to the top

Spread average on horizon Bring object forward

Align up Bring object to the bottom

Align center vertically Bring object backward

Align down

Spread average on verticals

Insert images (support

Print your current page
JPEG、PNG、GIF format)
Print all pages of your project
Insert text: insert text and
Print pages you selected
select a direction.

Real-Time Test Real-Time

Preview current page
Test (Please install SAC2 on
Preview from the top
your smart device)

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Real-Time Test window

Before starting Real-Time Test. make sure your firewall

didn't block you from real-time test; make sure your device

and computer are connected to the same Wifi Lan.

Insert Tab

Image: Insert a image Audio: Insert .mp3 file.

(support JPEG、PNG、GIF)

Video: Insert .mp4 or

Multiple Images: Insert YouTube link (Only

more than one imags to support H.264,

separate pages. (support AAC128 .mp4)

JPEG、PNG、GIF)

Text: insert text and Formula: Insert and edit

select a direction. formula symbol.

TextInput: a text box Symbol: Insert symbol

which let users directly

type from their smart

device (support

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interaction)

Bubble: Insert text

bubble

Background: Insert PDF: Insert PDF

background (support original and HD

image)

Images Sequence: Insert Page Timer: Insert a

multiple images and play timer which is exclusive

them in sequence for one page.

(Cause animation

effects) Global Timer: Insert a

timer which is mutually

used by multiple pages.

Page Counter: Insert a Hotspot: A touching

counter which is sensor area. Can be

exclusive for one page. used as buttons, covers

and receptions.

Global Counter: Insert a

counter which is mutually

used by multiple pages.

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Slide: Insert slides and Button: combine two

controlled by touching or images into button. (One

sliding for clicking before, the

other one for clicking

after)

Webpage: Insert HTML: Insert HTML

webpage to your project documents or HTML

folders

Map: Insert Google map Table: Connect and

review json data.

Template Tab

Select a template and go to

template setting to include your

images

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Directory

 Horizontal Slide Directory

 Vertical Slide Directory

 Vertical Slide Select Directory

Associate

 720 Panaroma（Exclusive for iOS）

 Horizontal Images Sequence

 Vertical Images Sequence

Photo

 Image Horizontal Slide

 Image Vertical Slide

 Multiple Catalog Images Slide

 Multiple Image Scale

 Image Horizontal Scroll

 Image Vertical Scroll

 Image Vertical Interact

 Vertical Shifting Transition

Text

 Link-the-dots (Vertical)

 Link-the-dots (Horizontal)

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Effect

 3D Gallery

 360 Rotation Object

 Camera

Animation Tab

Play All: Play All animations of a single object.

Smart Apps Creator 3 includes 16 animations and one

Advanced animation

Advanced animation: customize your own animation

moving route and its duration

Effect: Set the detail of your animation. (Direction)

Ease: Set the dynamics of your animation. There are 30

dynamics patterns you can choose.

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Preview: preview the current animation of your selected

object.

Select loop animations or stay your animation on the end

status.

*Stay on the End Status is checked.

Repeat: Set how many times you want to repeat, 59

maximum, 1 minimum.

Duration: How fast do you want your animation to be

played?

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Delay: Postpone your animation to be played

Add: Saving animations

Interaction Tab

Interaction Instruction: Give an action to object A, which triggers a new behavior to object B

Touch: when an object is touched

Appear: when an object appears

Hide: when an object is hidden

Animation Start: when an object starts its animations. (we can choose which animations to start)

Animation End: when an object end its animation. (we can choose which animations to end)

Play Begin: when an object starts to play (video, music, images sequence, slides etc.)

Play End: when an object ends playing (video, music, images sequence, slides etc.)

Enter Hotspot: When a selected object is moved into a hotspot

Exit Hotspot: When a selected object is moved out of a hotspot

Touch Items: When touch an items among a group (This function shows up mostly in Associate, Tex, Photo and

Directory under Template tab)

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Subitem Switch Begin: Interaction happens when a object is changed to an item under a group.

Subitem Swithc End: Interaction happens when a object is leaving an item under a group.

Slide In: when an object is slid into a designated area under Image Vertical Interact template

Slide Out: when an object is slid out of a designated area under Image Vertical Interact template

Counter Change: When counter change digits

All Matches Success: When all dots connected correctly on link-the-dots template

Single Matches Success: When single dots connected correctly on link-the-dots template

Single Matches Fail When single dots connected incorrectly on link-the-dots template

Slide Up: When slide up by finger or cursor under hotspots.

Text Correct: When the app users type the same text as what the app already set

Text Incorrect: When the app users type the different text from what the app already set

Appear: An object appear

Hide: An object be hidden

Play Animation: An object play animation

Play Single Animation: An object play a single selected animation in a group of animations.

Stop Animation: An object stop animation.

Pause Animation: An object pause animation.

Play: An object starts to play (video, music, images sequence, slides .etc)

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Stop: An object stops playing (video, music, images sequence, slides .etc)

Pause: An object pause playing (video, music, images sequence, slides .etc)

Increase Counter: counter increase digits

Decrease Counter: counter Decrease digits

Reset Counter: Reset counter digits

URL Change: Change webpage

Switch To: Switch the current page to an image inside templates or slides.

Flip to: Flipt to a page (with flip-book effect).

Switch to: Switch to a page.

Flip to the previous page: Flipt to the previous page (with flip-book effect).

Back to the previouse page: Switch to the previous page.

Enable auto flip: Auto flip till the end (After select “enable auto flip,” the function will be activated on next page).

Disable auto flip: Disable auto flip (After select “disable auto flip,” the function will be activated on next page).

URL: Link an object to a webpage through URL.

Play Background Music: Play background music which you insert from “Page Tab.”

Stop Background Music: Stop background music which you insert from “Page Tab.”

Pause Background Music: Pause background music which you insert from “Page Tab.”

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Call Phone: Call a number.

Add: Save your interaction.

Page Tab

Book Flip: Book flip BGM: Background

effect. music (After adding

background, music

Corner Flip: Corner can be heard in all

flip effect. pages).

Slide Flip: Slide flip

effect.

Navigate Setting: HOME Page: Set

Adjust the navigate which page is

button on the corner homepage (Start page

of screen. cannot be home page)

Start Page Time: Set

start page seconds.

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Close Navigation: Close Hand Flip:

Disappear navigate Disable hand flip

button. function. Pages can be

flipped only through

Open Navigation: button.

Appear navigate Open Hand Flip:

button. Enable hand flip

function.

Subpage: Only Import Page:

appear after you Import .ahl project

select “Slide Flip.” pages into the current

Set a page as project. (The .ahl

subpage and its project must use the

previous page will same screen size with

be seen as main the current project)

page automatically.

Subpage should be

arrived through slide

downward.

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Layout Setting: This function only show up under

mixed mode at the start of your project.

Right-click in the preview tab and add new Vertical

Section then go to layout setting, you will be able

to set switch between horizontal and vertical page.

Navigate and Resources:

Preview Tab: All pages Resource Bank: All

preview will show up materials will show up

here. here as a list. (Deleted

materials will also be

found here)

Main Area

Main Area is where you design apps. Place an object outside the frame can prevent your object from being

watched; but the function of the object is still activated. There are two arrows on the sides of main area. One is for

turning on/off the preview tab, the other one is for turning on/off the attribute tab.

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Attribute Tab

Attribute Tab includes Property and Layer as below:

Property tab includes Setting , Animation and interaction

Setting: (When not selecting anything)

 Book Thumbnail：This thumbnail shows up in the SAC Viewer

during your Real-Time Test.

 App Name: Set your App Name. This name will be your app name

on smart device and SAC Viewer.

 Enable Push: Enable message delivery (Register for this function)

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 Push ID: Your push ID on the message delivery platform

(messages are insert from our platform)

Setting: (When not selecting anything)

 Page Width: Adjust main area page width (Default setting is the

project device’s width)

 Page Height: Adjust main area page height.

 Page Title: Set page title（Only shown up in magazine book type

under Real-Time Test）

 Page Description: Set page description （ Only shown up in

magazine book type under Real-Time Test）

 Navigation Type: Navigate Type includes Interactive book and

magazine book. (magazine book shown up only when slide flip is

selected under page tab)

 Open Snap Shot Cache: Select navigate menu under

navigate setting, you would see preview image of all page. Open

Snap Shot Cache would adjust your preview image to a higher

resolution, but file size would be bigger.

 Snap Shot By Hand: Check for snapping. Screenshot will be the

first one you snapped (If you updated your page, screenshot will

stay the same as your first screenshot.)

 Page Type: Change your page status to Static Page:

Static Page: This page’s objects can be overlay to a selected page. All

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objects stay functional.

 Flip Effect: Flip Effect includes fade, push, reveal, move in, cube,

such, flip and ripple

Setting (when select any object)

 Adjust an object’s coordinate, width, height, rotate and opacity.

 Fit Aspect Ratio: Give your object an average ratio between width

and height.

Setting (when select any object)

 Hide Object When Browsing: When browsing, object would be

hidden.

 Dragging: Check for allowing drag n’ drop

 Push Back After Dragging: Object will jump back to the original

position after releasing dragging.

 Enlarge When Dragging: Object will be enlarged when dragging

 Allow Image Zoom: Include overall zoom and inside zoom. Overall

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zoom let your object zoom in the range of screen. Inside zoom let

your object zoom in a limited range.

 Set Link Target: Select an object to be linked with the current

object. When one object is moved, the other one will be moved

together.

 Set Drag Route: Limit an object’s dragging route (only 1 route can

be set)

Slide binding (when select any object)

 Bind Sliding in this page: Adjust the speed of sliding a page

（before activate this function, a page height must be raised）

 Slide horizontal speed: 0-5

 Slide vertical speed: 0-5

 Bind Sliding between Pages: Bind sliding effects between pages.

 Slide from x：Adjust the amount of horizontal slide

 Slide from y：Adjust the amount of vertical slide

 Slide width: Adjust object width when sliding

 Slide height: Adjust object height when sliding

 Slide Opacity: Adjust object opacity when sliding

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Animation Tab

 Play animations when browsing: Animations would be played

automatically when browsing the current page.

 Loop Animation: Animation would be replayed unlimitedly

 Repeat Animations: Set how many times you want to repeat the

animations.

 Animation Sequence: drag n’ drop to change the animations’

playing sequence

 : Use the bar to adjust object sequence or

delete objects.

Interaction Tab

Your materials’ interaction show up here.

: Use the bar to adjust object sequence or delete

objects.

Layer

 Lock: Lock a selected object so that the object can’t be edited

 Hide: Hide a selected object from your screen.

 Drag and drop to adjust the object sequence.

 : Use the bar to adjust object sequence or

delete objects.

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