June 2006: sample showing how to connect to an Excel spreadsheet using ADO, read the data in and then generate pages in a book, setting the name of the page and the contents of 2 recordfields.  (This is a sample I'll include in my upcoming presentation at TBCON 2006.)  myGloss.zip file -- requires Instructor 2004

March 2004:  Movie credit type scolling, exported to dhtml

Click here to see the sample

Right-click the link and save target to download the ToolBook file (for Instructor 2004).

October 2003:  Revisiting an old sample

Recently, someone contacted me and asked me to update a sample from 1993, done in version 1.53!  Well, it was a simple fix, so I did it.  It's the chiffres sample which illustrates how to record multiple sounds in a single wav file and play just the bits you need by using the start/end positions of the portion you wish to hear.  The zip file newchiffres.zip (983 K) contains the 8.6 toolbook file and the numbers.wav file.

July 2003:  ToolBook User's Conference 2003

These samples were created using toolBook 8.6.  Right-click each zip file and download to your local drive.

ADO Tutor

Demo Simple LMS: Part I (the Plan), Powerpoint presentation

Demo Simple LMS: Part II (the Implementation), Various ToolBook and Web files

Note:  I was unable to prepare the documentation I plan to for the LMS, but will let the ToolBook list know when it is available.  In the meantime, be sure to look at the readme.txt file (Part II) for some basic information about where things go.

August 2001: ToolBook User's Conference 2001

These samples were created using ToolBook 8.0.  Right-click each zip file and save to your local drive.  Note:  These are updated from last year's -- so, if you download these, don't bother downloading the same presentations from prior years.  Also, the OpenScript presentation includes the dTrack program listed below.

OpenScript presentation files: openscript2001.zip  (717 KB)

Viewers presentation files: viewers2001.zip (2329 KB)

Database case study files: dbcaseStudy.zip (1840 KB)

June 16, 2001

dTrack.zip (511k) "Data Tracking Using INI Files".  This is what I call a "sample book".  While not a full-fledged CBT (since it contains no evaluation exercises), this book walks you through a number of concepts and illustrates how to use key functions related to reading and writing INI files.  To be accessible to more developers, I've left this in version 7.1b format.  This book addresses issues that are appropriate only for non-web deployment.  The zip files contains a single file: dtrack.exe.  To run the book you will need to already have ToolBook installed on your machine (either the full authoring system, or the runtime files) for version 7.1b or later.

ToolBook User's Conference 2000

These samples were created using ToolBook 7.1b.  Right-click each zip file and save to your local drive.

Openscript presentation samples: openscript.zip [302K]

Viewers presentation samples: viewers.zip [2.3 MB]

Database Case Study (Word 2000 document): cara.zip [690K]

For those of you without Word 2000, you can view the Cara doc as a web page.