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As an Authorware developer you may have realized that Authorware's text rendering abilities are quite limited. Not only is it difficult to display text dynamically, changing font styles at runtime is either very time consuming for the program or near impossible to maintain. jscATRE's main goal is to simplify the process of displaying text in an Authorware project at runtime.

jscATRE uses a tag structure that is similar to HTML to help layout text. Text can be changed at runtime and allows for much more complex layouts such as tables and bulleted lists which do not exist natively in Authorware.

The extent of jscATRE is not only for displaying text but allows for various interactions such as being able to find the word that a user clicked on or to find the dimensions of a given text. An example of it being used in production can be found in the WriteWell program.

Features

• Display text that can be changed at runtime.
• Allow the text to be displayed with the transtitions in Authorware.
• Can read and display text files that are in UTF8 or UTF16 Unicode.
• Be able to display tables and lists like in HTML.
• Find dimensions of a given text with given fonts.
• Scroll text in X and Y directions.
• Display different fonts, colours, style and even opacity.
• Catch words clicked or the word the mouse hovers over.
• *** Customization on request.

Downloads

The following are the needed files to allow jscATRE to run in your Authorware project. The dlls are needed in the same directory as your exe and they rarely change.

 

Click HERE to see some screenshots of jscAtre in action.