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

Hot Key: Ctrl+V page

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

Align center
bottom

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

Insert text: insert text project

and select a direction. Print pages you selected

Preview current page Real-Time Test Real-Time

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Preview from the top Test (Please install SAC2 on

your smart device)

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

YouTube link (Only

Multiple Images: Insert support H.264,

more than one imags AAC128 .mp4)

to separate pages.

(support JPEG、PNG、

GIF)

Text: insert text and Formula: Insert and

select a direction. edit formula symbol.

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TextInput: a text box Symbol: Insert symbol

which let users directly

type from their smart

device (support

interaction)

Bubble: Insert text

bubble

Background: Insert PDF: Insert PDF

background (support original and

HD image)

Images Sequence: Page Timer: Insert a

Insert multiple images timer which is exclusive

and play them in for one page.

sequence (Cause

animation effects) Global Timer: Insert a

timer which is mutually

used by multiple

pages.

Page Counter: Insert a Hotspot: A touching

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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.

Slide: Insert slides and Button: combine two

controlled by touching images into button.

or sliding (One for clicking

before, the other one

for clicking after)

Webpage: Insert HTML: Insert HTML

webpage to your documents or HTML

project folders

Map: Insert Google Table: Connect and

map review json data.

Template Tab

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Select a template and go to

template setting to include

your images

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

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 Multiple Image Scale

 Image Horizontal Scroll

 Image Vertical Scroll

 Image Vertical Interact

 Vertical Shifting Transition

Text

 Link-the-dots (Vertical)

 Link-the-dots (Horizontal)

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

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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.

Preview: preview the current animation of your

selected object.

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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?

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)

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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)

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

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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)

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).

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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.”

Call Phone: Call a number.

Add: Save your interaction.

Page Tab

Book Flip: Book BGM: Background

flip effect. music (After adding

background, music

Corner Flip: Corner can be heard in all

flip effect. pages).

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Slide Flip: Slide flip

effect.

Navigate Setting: HOME Page: Set

Adjust the which page is

navigate button on homepage (Start

the corner of page cannot be

screen. home page)

Start Page Time: Set

start page seconds.

Close Navigation: Close Hand Flip:

Disappear Disable hand flip

navigate button. function. Pages can

be flipped only

Open Navigation: through button.

Appear navigate Open Hand Flip:

button. Enable hand flip

function.

Subpage: Only Import Page:

appear after you Import .ahl project

select “Slide pages into the

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Flip.” Set a page current project.

as subpage and its (The .ahl project

previous page will must use the same

be seen as main screen size with the

page current project)

automatically.

Subpage should

be arrived through

slide downward.

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:

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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)

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

(messages are insert from our platform)

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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 objects stay functional.

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

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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.

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Overall 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

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 Slide Opacity: Adjust object opacity when sliding

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

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delete objects.

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