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Third-Party Extensions: HTML & Native

In this section you will find HTML and native third-party extensions for ToolBook, some free, some commercial, but all designed to assist ToolBook users. The products listed here are not created or sold by SumTotal Systems; please contact the vendor directly with any questions.

• Action Trigger Widgets
• Add a Functional Calculator to Your Project
• Audio Player Widget
• Better Message Boxes in DHTML
• Better Navigation Widgets
• Bullet Object Catalog Category
• Glossary Maintenance System
• Grid Question Object
• Multi-Line Button Builder
• Plug-In Pro
• PopText Widget
• Popup Message Box
• Power Book Builder
• Progress Bar Widget
• Question Audio Feedback Widgets
• Question Feedback Widgets
• Question Object Replacement Images Catalog Category
• Quiz Randomizer Widget
• Quiz Summarizer Widget
• Simulation Function Keys
• Simulation Menu Builder
• Taquin Question Object
• ToolBook 2004 Color Picker
• The Dynamic Navigation Widget
• Batcher
• Learning & Mastering ToolBook Assistant
• Learning & Mastering ToolBook Instructor
• Resources Plus   

Action Trigger Widgets

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Free
Description: Add depth and interest to your pages with these special Action Trigger Widgets that enable you to easily create simple and effective Popup Widgets.

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/freebees/actiontriggers.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Add a Functional Calculator to Your Project

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Free
Description: This basic calculator is built using Actions Editor logic permitting it to be used in your DHTML exported projects. Simply drop this calculator into your project to allow your users to utilize a fully functional calculator.

Learn more: www.toolbookhelp.com/downloads/widgets/calculator/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookHelp.com

Audio Player Widget

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: Move your audio player to the background and set-up your playlist for each page in the special record field. A very easy solution for implementing audio in your projects.

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/audioplayer/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Better Message Boxes in DHTML

Category: ToolBook Utility
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Free
Description: Using VBScript and JavaScript you can finally have control over Windows message boxes. 

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/freebees/asym_msgask.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Better Navigation Widgets

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: The Navigation Widget gives you the ability to quickly and simply add an automated navigation menu to your ToolBook applications that will allow you to choose the pages to be included and define the option text just the way you need it. You can set these navigation widgets so that they are "Always On Top."

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/betternav/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Bullet Object Catalog Category

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Free
Description: Need some bullets for your project. Then use my new Bullets catalog category. It contains 114 bullet objects that you can drop into your application. They are available in a variety of colors, sizes and shapes.

Learn more: www.toolbookhelp.com/downloads/catalog/bullets/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookHelp.com

Glossary Maintenance System

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: Create a simple or complex glossary system that is easy to maintain, update, and reuse in other projects.

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/glossary/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Grid Question Object

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: Grid Questions are a great way to add interactivity to your revision (exercise) pages and to your quizzes. They add complexity to quiz questions that you can't get with standard multiple-choice questions, yet they are as easy to implement.

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/gridquestion/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Multi-Line Button Builder

Category: ToolBook Utility
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: With the Multi-Line Button Builder tool you can create attractive and professional buttons while working right in your ToolBook application. 

Learn more: http://www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/multilinebutt/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Plug-In Pro

Category: Productivity
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: With over 140 utilities, editors, and short-cuts, the Platte Canyon® Plug-In Pro is the ToolBook developer’s best friend. Plug-In Pro is always available via the "Platte" menu on your Instructor and Assistant menu bar. You can show any of the 10 specialized Plug-In Pro palettes.. You can even modify the custom palettes and custom menu items with the features you use most!

Learn more: www.plattecanyon.com/pluginpro.aspx
Vendor: Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corporation

PopText Widget

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: With the PopText Widget you can add a mini book with multiple pages within your ToolBook project. You can even add hyperlinks and triggers in those pages to object on the main book page.

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/poptext/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Popup Message Box

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: Add an attractive, beveled framed pop-up message box to your ToolBook projects in seconds.

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/popupmsgbox/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Power Book Builder

Category: Converter Tool
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: Convert PowerPoints into ToolBooks instantly. Perfect if you have existing classroom content in powerPoint or if you use PowerPoint as a storyboarding tool.

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/pbb/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Progress Bar Widget

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: Add a progress bar to your native and dhtml projects that you can easily customize to coordinate with your interface design.

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/progressbar/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Question Audio Feedback Widgets

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: The Question Audio Feedback Widget allows you to use a single object for your entire project to control the audio feedback for all question objects. Includes professionally recorded feedback audio files.

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/qaudiofb/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Question Feedback Widgets

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: Add color-coded visual feedback to your multiple choice and true-false questions easily - even to existing projects without having to rework the questions!

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/questfb/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Question Object Replacement Images Catalog Category

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Free
Description: Need a Multiple Choice (MC) or True/False (TF) question, but want a different look than the current question objects offer?

Learn more: www.toolbookhelp.com/downloads/catalog/questionimagecat/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookHelp.com

Quiz Randomizer Widget

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Commercial

Description: The Quiz Randomizer will allow you to add randomization to any quiz book without the need for it to have been initially created from the specialist. However, this is just a small bonus. It allows you to simply categorize questions and subsequently define the number of questions to be randomly drawn from the categories. You can also define certain questions as mandatory.

Learn more: http://www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/quizrand/index.htm

Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Quiz Summarizer Widget

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Commercial

The Quiz Summarizer will give your learners specific and detailed feedback on the results of their quiz. Learners will know exactly which questions were answered correctly and which were wrong because the Quiz Summarizer produces a summary table. The summary table can display a number of different items - you, the developer choose exactly what you want your learners to see.

Learn more: http://toolbookdeveloper.com/products/quizsum/

Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Simulation Function Keys

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Free
Description: If you have applications that use function keys that you need to simulate this widget will give you a way to simulate function keys.

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/freebees/simfunckeys.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Simulation Menu Builder

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: Create authentic-looking menus for simulations right in ToolBook - Quickly and Easily.

Learn more: http://www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/simmenu/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Taquin Question Object

Category: Catalog Object
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: Make your quiz and test questions more interesting, challenging, and instructional with this easy to use question object that is ideal for reinforcing order of activities where that is important.

Learn more: www.toolbookdeveloper.com/products/taquin/index.htm
Vendor: www.ToolBookDeveloper.com

Batcher

Category: Productivity
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: The ToolBook Batcher allows you to search for objects in multiple books. You search by object type, property type, and property values. Replace a property value, or execute an OpenScript expression every time an object is found. Define the scope of the search, to a specific page, background, or even multiple books. Search for objects by property values, and object type. You can search for all object types and property types, or you can choose a specific object or property. And much more.

Learn more: www.plattecanyon.com/batcher.aspx
Vendor: Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corporation

Learning & Mastering ToolBook Assistant

Category: Other
Use with: ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: You get over 22 hours of hands-on training on CBT Essentials, the catalog, publishing your applications to DHTML or Neuron, adding Flash™, Hyperlinks and Navigation, configuring objects, and much more. You'll learn how to deploy your application on the web as well as via traditional methods such as CD-ROM and Local Area Network. When you think you have "mastered" Assistant, try your hand at the Certification Exam, built randomly from a large question pool. You can then see your answers to each question via Student Information. Organized in easy-to-follow sections, the training is presented one concept at a time. You can "dig deeper" to learn more about a concept by accessing Expert Information. Or watch a Show Me demonstration of how to accomplish a related task. Then choose the Let Me Try option on many pages for a complete simulation of the Assistant 8 environment to perform a representative task on your own, receiving gentle feedback when you go down the wrong path.

Learn more: www.plattecanyon.com/lmInstructor2004.aspx
Vendor: Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corporation

Learning & Mastering ToolBook Instructor

Category: Other
Use with: ToolBook Instructor
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: Get 30+ hours of professional training on ToolBook Instructor 2004 delivered on interactive CD-ROM. Learn how to record simulations or create them from scratch. Learn the "ins and outs" of ToolBook's powerful Simulation Editor, including how to configure its various modes and extend it with the Actions Editor. See how to add .js files to your book and call their functions via the Actions Editor. Learn how to call their OpenScript equivalents from native mode if desired. Add Action Methods. Using our "Mastermind" sample game, learn how to construct Action "behaviors" to greatly increase your efficiency and functionality. Make SCORM™ calls from the Actions Editor. See how to build actions and even entire pages via OpenScript. Walk through various "Suggested Exercises" on your own. Learn both the ToolBook code (Actions Editor and/or OpenScript) as well as the server-side ASP.NET code to post results to a web site, send email, save to a database, and more.
Add Flash to your native or DHTML ToolBook files. Learn how to make Flash and ToolBook communicate with each other. Control applications from ToolBook and learn from the experts on database connectivity with ToolBook.

Learn more: www.plattecanyon.com/lmInstructor2004.aspx
Vendor: Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corporation

Resources Plus

Category: Productivity
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Commercial
Description: We created Resources Plus™ to list all unused bitmap resources in a training application so we could delete them with one easy step. We then thought it would make a great asset for our fellow ToolBook® developers, so we spiced it up with the ability to work with bitmaps, cursors, icons, menubars, and shared scripts. It also sorts by name, ID, or number of times used in the document. If you want to work with only those resources that are unused in your book, just choose that option. Or you can view only resources that are used. Or both. For version 2.0 we added thumbnail views in various sizes and aspect ratios and a brand new set of shared script utilities.

Learn more: www.plattecanyon.com/resourcesplus.aspx
Vendor: Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corporation

ToolBook 2004 Color Picker

Category: Productivity
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Free
Description: The ToolBook Color Picker works like the eyedropper tool in Adobe Photoshop and other Tools, with the exception that the ToolBook color picker captures colors from the entire desktop. It also has features to quickly apply the selected color to the fill or stroke color of an object or a group. Colors are shown in both RCB and HEX and there is also an option to enter a HEX color to get it converted to RGB.

Learn more: http://www.toolbookconsulting.com
Vendor: ToolBook consulting

The Dynamic Navigation Widget

Category: Productivity
Use with: ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant
Free/Commercial: Free
Description: The Dynamic Navigation Widget is a combo box that automatically indexes all pages in your Book or Background. When the user selects a page name in the combo box ToolBook will navigate to the page.

Learn more: http://www.toolbookconsulting.com
Vendor: ToolBook consulting