Tips and tricks

Presentation's content optimizing
To make your presentation fast-loaded, we recommend you to use as less objects on the first screen, as possible. While User seeing first screen, resources for next screens will be downloaded by Player using ahead-reading mechanism.
Also, it is more preferable to add long texts not via "Text" property of text object, but via resources files.

"Interactive" mouse cursor
If you have a set of screens on that you want to show something using mouse cursor, you can create effect of substitution of system mouse cursor by presentation's cursor object.
Add a cursor object on the first screen and set property "Show at mouse position" = "yes" for it. Add necessary motion transformations for added cursor on corresponding screens. Set property "Hide system mouse cursor" = "yes" for all screen objects from your set. On the last screen for cursor's motion transformation set property "To mouse position" = "yes".
All screens from this set should have property "Auto go to next screen" = "yes".

Hiding cursor
This advice can be useful for presentations, generated by AtPresent Recorder.
If you want, for example, add explanation screen inside generated screens sequence you can temporarily hide presentation's cursor on this screen by next way. Add on this screen transparency transformation for cursor with properties "Alpha" = 0 and "Number of steps" = 0. On the screen on that you want to restore visibility of cursor, add transparency transformation for cursor with properties "Alpha" = 100 and "Number of steps" = 0.

Jumping to another presentation.
You can use a Hyperlink element to jump from one your presentation to another.
You need to add an empty screen at the end of your first presentation and place on this screen a Hyperlink element that points to another your presentation. This Hyperlink should have properties Open automatically="yes" and Open in="Current window".

Hidden images and texts
If you are staying on the screen on that there are any hidden (by Hide object) outside images or linked to resource file texts and you want quickly view any of them, you can use a command "Go to resource" from menu Objects.

Selecting transformation object
If there are defined more than one transformations for one object, you can select each transformation in turn by sequent clicking left mouse button with pressed "Shift" key.

Selecting a screen object
Clicking by mouse button on gray area of Editor leads to selecting a screen object.

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