The Official
Walker Homepage
A Branching
Slideshow Presentation Program
Copyright © 2000-2001 by
SoftTronics, Lutz + Kerscher GbR, Munich,
Germany
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Ever wanted to make a presentation that can branch to different slides, depending on where
the mouse is clicked?
Welcome to
Walker, a presentation tool for your slideshow needs.
Walker is a slideshow program with a twist. Ever wanted to make a
presentation that can branch to different slides, depending on where the mouse is clicked?
Or a simple way to create a walkthrough of a place with your digitial camera?
Welcome to Walker, a presentation tool for your slideshow needs.
Examples where Walker can be used:
- You want to present a building or place online with simple, yet effective means?
Walk through a building or place, taking pictures along the way, going into all the rooms.
Transfer the images to your PC, link them with 'Walker' and either present it on the PC or
export it to HTML and publish it on the Web where your friends or clients
can get a very good impression of the place your presenting.
- You went
on really nice trip (14-days europe trip, for example)
and took many images. Now you'd like to link them together
from a main page either publish to the web or create a CDROM
as an album.
- You're
opening a shop and want to show your potential clients
around before the grand opening.
- You
already own a shop and want to easily present your shop on
your website.
- You sell
cars or other items? Take pictures with your digital camera
and link them, allowing a clients to open doors, go inside,
and look at the car from different angles on the web.
- Inviting
for a exhibition and want to give some preview goodies ?
Walker
development will be user-driven. We need your feedback for
this. Please let us know any suggestions for features that you
would like to see in the program.
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- Fast,
easy to navigate interface, unbounded and unlimited.
- Currently
supports JPG, PNG and BMP.
- Automatic creation of thumbnails so the interface doesn't slow down with those BIG slideshows.
- Automatic
layout tool. Automatically arranges the images so that the
links on the screen are as short as possible.
- Layout
tools (alignment, snap to grid, etc.)
- Add
attributes (including custom ones) to each slide
individually or to all slides in a project.
- Export to
HTML through a template (which has access to all the
attributes).
- Fullscreen slideshow mode.
- Unlimited
Undo/Redo.
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The Interface
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The slides that you work with in Walker are displayed
in the main view (the workspace) of the program. The workspace,
which can extend beyond the screen in all directions,
is where you'll arrange all your individual slides and
define the connections (Links) between them.
You can move the slides around on the workspace and are not confined to certain positions.
The viewport (which is your
'window' into the workspace) can be sized (zoomed) and
moved (panned) around very easily, simply by pressing a
key and dragging with the mouse.
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Linking
Slides
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Here we have zoomed the workspace into one slide
and have selected it. As you can see the slide has two
hot areas (granted, difficult to see in the small version,
click on it to see the full size screenshot), one of which
is currently highlighted and ready to be moved. The green
arrow also indicates to which slide we will be branching
from the highlighted area. A simple double-click on the
area will take us to the target slide.
There are also four other slides
that can arrive at this slide, as shown by the four
lines with arrows on the ends.
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Projects
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Here we
have loaded a larger project. It represents a
walk-through of an vacation apartment building. There
are many points at which you can choose where to walk.
The two loops at the top, for example, are a walk around
the pool, one circle for each direction. Using Walker
this took about 15 minutes to setup (not counting the
photography, of course!). It consists of 75 images with
100 links.
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The current version will not expire and has been released
as a freeware version.
Note that future versions may become Shareware versions.
Download Walker
V1.0 For Windows
(2.5 MB) via HTTP.
Feel free to use
this form to make suggestions and/or to be put on a mailing
list for updates
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| Plans for a future
Version
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Future features will be decided by the feedback we get from you, the
users. Please let us know of any enhancements you would like to see in this product.
That said, there are a number of things
that we're planning on adding to the next version:
- Recording
mode for the slideshow so that you can define a standalone,
selfrunning show that takes the path you previously
recorded.
- Playing
sounds at each slide.
- A
standalone slideshow player.
- The
ability to associate certain cursors (including custom ones)
with the hotspots of a slide.
- Transition effects between slides
- areas
where special feedback can be given to the user (sound,
text, popup etc.)
- CDROM-friendly setup
- Ability
to group slides and arrange these in a hierarchy.
Even if the enhancement you're thinking of, or that
you'd like to see, is on the list, please let us know (with
the form above) so that we can get an idea of how important
certain features are to
you.
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