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  Sports WhiteBoard Player/Positioning  Teaching  Aid  for  your  iPad,  iPhone  or  iPod  touch     USER  MANUAL   VERSION  2.0   Last  update:  ...
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Sports WhiteBoard Player/Positioning  Teaching  Aid  for  your  iPad,  iPhone  or  iPod  touch    

USER  MANUAL  

VERSION  2.0   Last  update:  7/22/2012  

Sandcrater  Software,  95  Brown  Rd.  Ste  229,  Ithaca  NY  14850  –  [email protected]    

 

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PREFACE Hockey Whiteboard was conceived in February of 2009. That year I found myself as the assistant coach on my son's mite hockey team and frequently in need of describing basic positioning to seven and eight year olds. I can remember one specific instance where our two defensemen had come off the ice and were in need of a reminder as to how they should move when the puck moves in the offensive zone. I grabbed our whiteboard/clipboard, a dry erase marker and marked where the center, left wing, right wing and defensemen should be when the puck is in the corner in the offensive zone. They seemed to follow along just fine. However, I then tried to explain that when the puck moved to the opposite corner in the offensive zone (which I showed by drawing an arrow from the puck to the other side of the ice) the defense had to shift as well (drawing arrows from the two "D's" I had written on the whiteboard to show their movement). Their eyes started to glaze over and/or they just nodded at me to get me to stop talking so they could think about getting back on the ice. I couldn't say as though I blamed them. I'm probably not the best at explaining it either. At the same time I had been doing some work with iPhone programming and had come across some demo code from Apple called "touches". This demo simply had three colored boxes that you could drag around the screen at will. The purpose of the demo code was to show developers how to handle basic "multi touch" gestures on the iPhone. It struck me that if you could drag three boxes around the screen, why not a bunch of players on top of a picture that represented an ice surface? I got busy coding and had a prototype done in a day. It did not do much, just put 10 players on the screen (and a puck) and let me drag them around. At my son's end of the year tournament, I brought my iPhone on the bench and used it once or twice. Those same kids who had their eyes glazed over were now glued to the screen. Young kids really love seeing this stuff on the device and I had their attention. So, did that early prototype make a difference in our tournament? Well, our team did win the tournament, but I wouldn't give the credit to Hockey Whiteboard. What Hockey WhiteBoard did provide was another tool that could help teach the game in a way that was "cooler" than simply using a traditional whiteboard with dry erase markers. For fun, I cleaned up Hockey Whiteboard a little bit and put it up on the App Store. I sold a few here and there and got some good feedback that I used to make it better. Over time I added versions for soccer, basketball, baseball and field hockey. Today's version does so much more than that original prototype! Over the next two years I've heard from coaches at all levels who have used Hockey Whiteboard. I originally only envisioned it being used with younger kids, but I've heard from high school coaches, college coaches and even semi professional coaches that they use it and love it. If you've been a Hockey Whiteboard user for a while, you may recall that I issued an update last August which caused the application to crash on startup. This was an odd situation where something in Apple's distribution process caused a problem because my development versions (and the versions Apple used when reviewing the application) worked fine. I heard from coaches who were using it for summer tournaments and were most unhappy that the update had caused them to loose this tool! Fortunately, Apple fixed the distribution process, expedited and update for me and a new version that functioned fine was available in a short period of time.

 

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    In January of 2012 I began a total rewrite of the Sports WhiteBoard products with a slightly new paradigm—instead of providing multiple views of the playing field, provide one nice graphic that you can pinch, zoom and rotate so you can focus on the exact area you need to! I teamed up with a local graphic artist to produce much nicer playing surfaces, icons and images so that the Sports WhiteBoard apps looked great!     The  result  of  this  hard  work  is  a  set  of  applications  that  I  hope  work  very  well  for  coaches  of   their  respective  sports.      When  I  first  released  Hockey  WhiteBoard  in  March  of  2009,  it  was   the  first  “white  board”  application  on  the  App  Store  that  treated  players  as  movable  dots  to   make  it  easier  to  show  player  positioning  and  movement.      Over  the  years  there  have  been   many  similar  applications  that  have  been  released,  but  I’d  like  to  think  that  Hockey   WhiteBoard  was  the  original!        The  2.0  version  of  each  application  brings  them  up  to  date   with  features  in  iOS  5  (such  as  iCloud)  and  improve  usability  based  on  user  feedback  over  the   years.          While  I  believe  the  result  is  a  much  better  product,  I  certainly  understand  that  any   product  can  be  improved!      Please  don’t  hesitate  to  send  me  your  ideas  and  suggestions  to   make  any  of  the  WhiteBoard  apps  even  better!      We’re  reachable  via  email   ([email protected])  and  on  FaceBook  (www.facebook.com/SandcraterSoftware).      I   look  forward  to  hearing  from  you!                           Ron  DiNapoli                   Owner,  Sandcrater  Software                   Ithaca,  NY  

 

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WELCOME     Thank  you  for  purchasing  a  Sandcrater  “Sports  WhiteBoard”  application.        To  begin  using  your   new  application,  simply  tap  on  its  icon.        When  launched  for  the  first  time,    you  will  be   presented  with  the  playing  surface  (field,  court,  or  ice)  with  players  in  their  most  common   position.      Keep  in  mind  that  beginning  with  iOS  4.0,  Apple  introduced  the  concept  of   multitasking  into  iOS.      Put  simply,  that  means  that  when  you  press  your  device’s  HOME  button   (physical  button  with  picture  of  square  centered  at  the  bottom  of  your  device)  the  application   is  simply  suspended,  not  quit.      If  you  tap  on  the  application’s  icon  again  the  application  will  be   brought  back  into  the  foreground  and  execution  will  pick  up  from  the  point  at  which  it  was   suspended.      Unless  you  explicitly  terminate  the  application  it  will  always  be  running.      As  such,   you  will  infrequently  see  the  default  configuration  below.        As  such,  we  suggest  that  you  create   your  own  “default”  whiteboard  configuration  that  you’d  like  to  use  as  a  common  “starting   point”.      When  you  have  done  this,  you  can  save  the  white  board  and  then  simply  reload  it  each   time  you  would  like  a  fresh  white  board.  

Default  white  board  configuration  for  Baseball  WhiteBoard    

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When  you  have  a  default  white   board  setting  saved  it  will  be   easy  to  load  the  white  board   using  the  control  icons.      If  you   are  using  an  iPad,  the  control   icons  appear  along  the  left  side   of  the  display  when  in  portrait   orientation  or  along  the  bottom   of  the  display  when  in  landscape   orientation.      If  you  are  using  an   iPhone  or  iPod  touch,  you  will   not  see  the  control  icons  when   the  application  launches.        On   these  smaller  devices,  you  must   double-­‐tap  anywhere  on  the   device  where  there  isn’t  a  player   or  item  (such  as  a  ball,  puck,   etc.)  to  bring  up  a  palette   containing  all  of  the  control   icons.             The  control  icons    are  used  to   control  many  of  the  features  in   your  Sports  WhiteBoard   application.        With  them,  you   will  be  able  to  lock  out  the   pinch/zoom  and  scroll  functions,   rotate  the  field  either  clockwise   or  counter  clockwise,  toggle   trailing  lines,  erase  any  hand   drawn  and  trailing  lines,  edit    

  team  data  and  more.        We’ll  look  at  each  of  these   functions  individually  after  we  cover  some  basic   functionality.      

BASIC  OPERATION    

To  begin  using  the  Sports  WhiteBoard  application,   simply  tap  on  a  player  and  move  its  circle!      When   you  tap  on  the  player,  its  circle  will  grow  (the  exact   amount  is  configurable)  under  your  finger  signaling   that  it  is  ready  to  be  moved.    Drag  the  player   anywhere  on  the  playing  surface  to  reposition.        If   you  find  it  is  difficult  to  release  the  player  at  the   precise  location  you  would  like  to,  you  can  try   reducing  the  magnification  factor  of  the  player  while   being  moved  (this  is  a  setting  we  will  cover  below).     All  field  surfaces  support  the  ability  to  pinch/zoom   and  rotate.      The  combination  of  zoom  and  rotate   would  allow  you  to  focus  on  half  the  playing  surface     or  even  a  very  particular  area  of  the  playing  surface.       When  zooming,  the  players  and  items  (such  as  the   puck/ball,  etc.)  do  not  shrink/grow  with  the   pinch/zoom  action.                    

Soccer  W hiteBoard,  showing  zoom/rotate  

 

Double  tapping  on  the  playing  surface  (but   NOT  on  a  player)  will  cause  the  c ontrol   icon  palette  to  appear  on  the  iPhone  and   iPod  touch.  

Rotation  of  the  field  is  supported  in  90  degree   increments.      As  you  can  see  to  the  left,  the  soccer   field  has  been  rotated  once  and  zoomed  to  show  a   particular  area  of  the  field.       It  is  important  to  remember  that  once  you  launch   the  Sports  WhiteBoard  application,  it  is  continually   “running”  unless  you  explicitly  terminate  it.        A   forced  termination  of  the  application  does  not  save   its  state!      The  only  way  to  save  the  state  of  the   white  board  (or  team  data)  is  to  explicitly  save  the   white  board  locally  or  to  iCloud.      Accessing  such   functionality  as  well  as  the  many  additional   features  available  in  your  Sports  WhiteBoard   application  is  done  via  the  control  icons.          On  the   iPad,  these  icons  are  constantly  visible  along  the   left  or  bottom  edge  of  the  device  depending  on  its   physical  orientation.    On  the  iPhone  and  iPod   touch,  you  access  the  control  icon  palette  by   double-­‐tapping  anywhere  on  the  playing  surface.   6  

 

CONTROL  ICONS     As  previously  mentioned  the  control  icons  appear  along  the  left  or  bottom  edge  on  the  iPad   version  of  the  Sports  WhiteBoard  application,  and  appear  in  a  “palette”  on  the  iPhone/iPod   touch  version  of  the  application  when  the  playing  surface  is  double-­‐tapped.      The  control  icons   give  you  access  to  the  following  functionality:    

The  lock  function  is  used  temporarily  disable  the  ability  to  pinch/zoom  and   scroll.      It  is  useful  when  you  have  zoomed  into  an  area  of  the  playing  surface  and   do  not  wish  for  unintended  scrolling  gestures  while  trying  to  move  players   and/or  draw  lines  on  the  playing  surface.  

The  clockwise  rotation  function  rotates  the  playing  surface  90  degrees   clockwise.        This  is  useful  when  you  wish  to  focus  on  a  particular  area  of  the   playing  surface.      All  player  positions  and  drawn  lines  should  be    appropriately   rotated  as  well.  

The  counter  clockwise  rotation  function  rotates  the  playing  surface  90  degrees   counter  clockwise.        This  is  useful  when  you  wish  to  focus  on  a  particular  area  of   the  playing  surface.      All  player  positions  and  drawn  lines  should  be     appropriately  rotated  as  well.  

The  trailing  lines  function  is  used  to   enable  the  drawing  of  a  “trailing  line”   whenever  a  player  is  moved.        This  is   useful  for  demonstrating  where  a   player  came  from  after  changing  its   position.        Currently,  trailing  lines  are   not  saved  when  a  white  board  is   saved.        An  example  of  trailing  lines  in   use  in  Hockey  WhiteBoard  is  shown   to  the  left.   The  erase  function  is  used  to  erase   any  hand  drawn  and  trailing  lines   appearing  on  the  white  board.      On   an  iPhone  or  iPod  touch,  you  may   also  shake  the  device  to  erase  the   lines.   Trailing  lines  in  Hockey  W hiteBoard  

 

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  The  team  management  function  is  used  to  access  team  data.      Team  data  is   provided  as  a  convenience  to  you  to  allow  you  to  edit  multiple  white  boards   without  having  to  re-­‐customize  the  team  each  time.      Some  coaches  will   prefer  to  have  the  players  be  able  to  show  jersey  numbers  of  actual  players   on  his/her  team  and  may  wish  to  have  the  player’s  name  appear  below  the   corresponding  circle.    While  it  is  possible  to  change  player  labels  (the  name   that  appears  below  the  player  circle)  and  designations  (the  letters/numbers   that  appear  inside  the  circle)  on  an  ad-­‐hoc  basis  by  long-­‐pressing  any  player   in  the  field,  using  the  team  edit  function  allows  you  to  set  up  a  team  that  can   be  loaded  into  any  whiteboard.        It  also  lets  you  determine  how  many   players  are  on  the  team  in  total.        We’ll  look  at  the  specifics  of  team   management  in  a  separate  section.  

The  action  item  function  is  used  to  access  the  ability  to  print  the  white   board  (if  you  have  a  supported  AirPrint™  printer,    email  a  photo  of  the   white  board  to  someone  or  save  a  photo  of  the  white  board  to  your  Photo   library.   The  white  board  management  function  is  used  to  load,  save  and/or  delete   white  board  “files”  from  your  local  device  or  from    your  iCloud  storage.       Managing  white  boards  will  be  covered  in  detail  in  a  later  section.  

The  settings  function  allows  you  to  modify  white  board  settings  associated   with  the  current  white  board.          This  includes  player  size,  player   magnification  when  tapped,    whether  or  not  labels  appear  under  the  players   and  the  color  of  any  trailing  lines  drawn  .    There  is  also  an  option  here  to   place  additional  “items”  on  the  playing  surface.        The  exact  number  and   kinds  of  “items”  available  vary  by  sport.        In  Hockey  WhiteBoard,  you  can   place  an  additional  puck,  cone,  tire  or  stick  on  the  ice.    It  should  be  noted   that  once  an  item  is  placed  on  the  player  surface  you  can  rotate  it  clockwise   by  90  degrees  by  long-­‐pressing  it.      If  you  want  to  remove  it  from  the  playing   surface,  double-­‐tap  it!     The  colored  circles  in  the  control  icon  palette  are  “pens”  that  activate  the   ability  to  hand  draw  lines  on  the  playing  surface.      Three  pens  are  made   available  and  come  in  default  colors  of    red,  green  and  blue.        You  can   customize  the  color  of  any  of  these  pens  associated  with  a  given  white   board  by  long-­‐pressing  the  pen.      When  the  pen  is  long-­‐pressed,  a  color   selector  will  appear.      Tap  anywhere  in  the  color  wheel  to  choose  a  new   color.        To  draw  on  the  playing  surface,  tap  one  of  the  pens  (it  will  be   redrawn  a  little  larger  to  indicate  that  it  is  active  and  the  lock  control  will   automatically  activate  so  that  drawing  motions  don’t  inadvertently  activate   the  scrolling  mechanism.    To  disable  a  pen,  tap  on  it  again.    

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  The  reset  function  is  used  to  return  the  white  board  to  the  state  it  appears   in  when  it  is  launched  for  the  first  time.        You  will  be  asked  to  confirm  that   you  wish  to  do  this  as  any  unsaved  edits  will  be  lost.  

The  help  function  provides  a  quick  summary  of  what  each  control  icon   does.        

TEAM  DATA     By  default,  each  Sports  WhiteBoard  application  provides  you  with  two  teams  that  have  generic   designations  and  labeling.    This  team  data  is  not  “saved”  anywhere,  it  merely  exists  in  the   application  itself  to  be  displayed  before  you  load  any  data  or  whiteboards  yourself.        For   example,  in  Hockey  WhiteBoard  you  are  first  given  two  teams  that  are  identical  except  for   their  color.      They  both  have  two  defensemen,  two  wingers,  a  center  and  a  goalie,  for  a  total  of   six  players.        Knowing  this  ,  let’s  take  a  look  at  the  Team  Management  view  to  see  what  you   can  do  with  each  team:     This  view  shows  that  there  is  one  team  stored  locally   on  the  device  and  that  team’s  name  is  “SnowBelt1”.    If   we  look  at  the  segmented  control  at  the  top  of  the   view,  we  see  that  “Team  1”  is  the  darker  color—which   means  it  is  the  active  team.      Any  other   controls/settings  in  this  view  will  apply  to  Team  #1.           We  see  that  the  team  name  is  “SnowBelt1”.          Since   there  is  also  a  visible  file  of  the  same  name,  we  can   assume  that  the  team  data  stored  in  “SnowBelt1”  is   currently  loaded  for  Team  #1.          This  view  also  tells   us  that  there  are  currently  6  players  on  the  ice  and   that  the  team  color  is  red.          If  you’d  like  to  change  the   color  of  Team  #1,  you  can  tap  on  the  colored  circle   that  shows  you  the  current  color  and  a  color  picker   will  appear  allowing  you  to  choose  a  new  color.        The   +/-­‐  stepper  allows  us  to  control  the  number  of  players   from  this  team  that  are  on  the  ice,  but  we’ll  cover   more  about  that  a  little  later.     The  “Manage  Team  Data”  view  also  presents  a   number  of  buttons  in  the  toolbar  at  the  bottom.      Let’s   focus  on  the  “Edit”  button  first  as  it  will  help  explain   more  about  what  type  of  data  is  stored  with  a  team!      If  you  tap  the  “Edit”  button  you  will  be   presented  with  a  new  view  that  shows  all  the  players  currently  defined  for  a  given  team.    

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  The  image  to  the  right  shows  the  default  team   assigned  in  Hockey  WhiteBoard  on  the  iPhone  or   iPod  touch.      At  this  point  you  may  edit  any  of  the   players  to  change  their  designation  (the   letters/numbers  that  appear  inside  the  circle)  or   their  label  (the  letters  that  may  appear   underneath  their  circle).          When  you  are  done   editing  the  players  in  this  view,  the  changes   should  be  reflected  immediately  on  the  white   board.        In  addition  to  the  “Done”  button,  there   are  two  buttons  that  appear  in  the  lower  left   corner  of  the  view.      The  first  (the  “+”  button)   allows  you  to  add  a  new  player  to  this  team.      New   players  are  always  added  at  the  bottom.      The   second  is  a  trash  can.        If  you  select  one  of  the   rows  in  the  table,  the  trash  can  button  will   activate.    If  you  press  it,  the  currently  selected   row  is  deleted.            To  demonstrate  the  use  of  this  screen,  let’s  edit   this  team  to  put  player’s  jersey  numbers  as  the   designation  and  their  first  names  as  the  label.                       At  this  point,  we  can  press  “Done”  to  return  to   the  “Manage  Team  Data”  view.        We  won’t  notice   any  changes  to  that  view  yet;    if  we  press  “Done”   again  we  will  return  to  the  ice  view.    The  control   icon  palette  will  likely  still  be  showing,  so  if  we   double  tap  to  hide  it    the  ice  surface  will  look   similar  to  the  image  on  the  next  page…  

 

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                    It’s  a  little  tough  to  see  the  labels  at  the  lowest  zoom   factor  on  an  iPhone,  so  let’s  zoom  in  to  get  a  better   look…                          

     

            Here  we  can  see  that  our  changes  were  immediately   reflected  on  the  ice  surface.     It  is  important  to  note  at  this  point  that  no  team  data   has  been  changed.      If  you  were  to  turn  off  your  iPhone   (or  iPad/iPod  touch)  or  forcibly  quit  the  application,   the  data  would  be  lost.         To  save  the  team  data,  return  to  the  “Manage  Team   Data”  view  by  tapping           in  the  control  icon  palette.    

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  To  proceed  with  saving  the  team  data,  type  a  new   name  in  the  “Team  Name:”  text  field  and  then  tap   the  “Save”  button  below.        When  saving,  make  sure   you  note  the  status  of  the  segmented  control  that   offers  the  options  of  “Local  Teams”  and  “iCloud   Teams”.        If    “Local  Teams”  is  the  darker  segment,   your  team  data  will  be  saved  locally  on  your  device   and  only  available  to  the  Sports  WhiteBoard   application  running  on  that  device.        If  the  “iCloud   Teams”  segment  is  darker,  your  team  data  will  be   saved  to  iCloud  (if  enabled  on  this  device)  and  will   be  available  to  any  instance  of  this  Sports   WhiteBoard  application  running  on  a  device  that  is   configured  to  use  the  same  AppleID  for  iCloud.      For   the  purposes  of  this  demonstration,  we’ll  call  the   team  “Bad  News  Red  Bears”    and  save  the  data   locally.           After  typing  in  “Bad  News  Red  Bears”  in  the  “Team   Name:”  text  field  and  tapping  the  “Save”  button   below,  you  should  see  a  confirmation  alert  letting   you  know  that  the  save  operation  completed         After  tapping  “OK”,  you  should  see  that  the  team   “Bad  News  Red  Bears”  appears  in  the  listing  of   locally  saved  teams.           NOTE:    If  using  a  2.0  version  of  some  Sports   WhiteBoard  applications  the  “just  saved”  team   name  may  not  appear  immediately  in  the  list  of   available  teams.        If  this  happens,  simply  exit  the   “Manage  Team  Data”  view  and  then  return.      The   team  list  should  then  display  properly.        

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  Two  buttons  that  appear  in  the  “Manage  Team  Data”   view  that  we  haven’t  mentioned  yet  are  the  “Load”   button  and  the  “Delete”  button.          The  “Delete”   button  simply  deletes  the  currently  selected  team   from  the  local  device  OR  from  iCloud  depending  on   how  the    Local/iCloud  segmentation  control  is  set.             Tapping  the  “Load”  button  when  a  saved  team  is   selected  causes  that  team  data  to  be  loaded  for  Team   #1  or  Team  #2,  depending  on  how  the   Team1/Team2  segmentation  control  is  set.      To   exemplify  this,  let’s  continue  our  demonstration   from  above.        If  we  go  back  to  the  “Manage  Team   Data”  view  and  tap  on  the  “Team  2”  segment  in  the   Team1/Team2  segmented  control,  we  should  see   something  like  this:         Notice  that  the  color  circle  has  changed  to  blue  to   denote  the  fact  that  Team  #2  is  the  blue  team.          If   we  tap  on  the  “Bad  News  Red  Bears”  entry  we  just   created  and  then  tap  “Load”,  we  will  load  the  same   team  data  we  saved  for  Team  #1  into  Team  #2.        This  will  give  us  two  identical  teams.           When  we  tap  “Load”  we  will  be  returned  to  the  ice   view  and  we  will  see  something  similar  to  the  image   on  the  left.         As  you  can  see,  both  teams  now  have  identical  data.       This  is  not  likely  what  you  want,  but  it  helps   demonstrate  that  team  data  is  used  to  store   designations/labels/color  for  a  given  team  to  be   loaded  onto  either  side  of  the  white  board  later.         This  saves  you  from  the  tedious  process  of  entering   your  team’s  data  for  each  white  board  you  wish  to   create.     The  notion  of  “team  data”  is  kept  separate  from  the   notion  of  “white  board  data”.        As  we’ll  see  in  the   next  section,  when  you  save  a  white  board  the  player   data  is  stored  as  independently  of  the  team  data.     This  means  that  if  you  send  your  white  board  to   another  user,  they’ll  have  the  correct  player   designations/labels/color  in  the  white  board,  but   they  will  NOT  have  your  team  listed  in  their  “Manage   Team  Data”  view.    

 

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WHITEBOARD  DATA     White  board  data  is  everything  needed  to  represent  the  state  of  your  white  board.        This   includes  information  about  player  designations,  labels,  color  and  positioning,  as  well  as  field   orientation,  hand  drawn  lines  and  their  colors,  current  zoom  factor  and  scroll  offset.    Any   settings  applied  to  your  white  board  (covered  in  the  next  section)  are  also  saved  with  white   board  data.       To  access  saved  white  board  data  or  to  save  the  state  of  the  current  white  board,  tap  on  the   “Manage  Whiteboards”  control    icon  in  the  control  palette.             You  will  be  presented  with  a  screen  similar  to  the   one  on  the  left.        At  the  top  of  the  view  you  will  see   a  segmentation  control  that  allows  you  to  choose   between  white  board  data  stored  locally  on  the   device  or  data  stored  in  iCloud.          If  you  were  a   user  of  a  previous  version  of  this  Sports   WhiteBoard  application  (1.x  version),    you  will  see   any  white  board  data  saved  with  the  1.x  version  in   this  view  marked  with  a  “v1.x”  suffix.        If  the  entry   does  not  contain  the  “v1.x”,  it  is  assumed  to  be  a   version  2.x  data  file.           The  controls  here  are  simple.    You  may  select  a   saved  white  board  from  the  list  and  then  tap  the   “Load”  button  at  the  bottom  of  the  view.      Doing  so   overwrites  the  state  of  the  current  white  board   with  the  stored  state  from  the  white  board  being   loaded.      If  you  select  a  saved  white  board  from  the   list  and  tap  the  “Delete”  button  you  will  delete  that   white  board  from  storage.          It  should  be  noted   that  the  controls  work  the  same  regardless  of   whether  you  are  storing/loading  white  boards   locally  or  to/from  iCloud.            If  you  are  utilizing  iCloud,  you  should  be  aware  that  if  you  save  a   white  board  on  one  device  and  try  to  immediately  load  it  on  another  you  might  get  an  error   from  the  Sports  WhiteBoard  application  stating  that  the  file  cannot  be  loaded.    If  this   happens,  wait  a  few  minutes  and  try  again.      Testing  has  shown  that  on  some  occasions  it  may   take  a  minute  or  two  for  white  board  data  to  be  fully  uploaded  to  iCloud.     If  you  would  like  to  save  white  board  data,  type  a  new  name  for  the  current  state  of  the  white   board  in  the  “Name:  “  text  field.            We  can,  for  example,  save  the  current  state  of  our  white   board  with  the  name  “offense”  by  typing  “offense”  into  the  “Name:”  text  field    and  then   tapping  the  “Save”  button  at  the  bottom  of  the  view.            When  the  white  board  is  saved,  we’ll   get  a  confirmation  alert,  like  this:      

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        We  are  immediately  returned  to  the  playing  surface   view!                     If  we  then  acknowledge  the  alert  and  return  to  the   “Manage  Whiteboards”  view,  we  will  see  the   following:                         As  you  can  see,  the  “offense”  saved  white  board  is   now  visible  in  our  list  of  saved  white  boards.            

 

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PREFERENCES     The  preferences  view  may  be  accessed  by   tapping  the  preferences  icon  in  the  control  icon   palette.         The  preferences  view  allows  you  to  alter  four   basic  settings  for  the  current  white  board.      The   first,  is  the  size  of  the  player.        The  further  to   the  right  this  slider  is,  the  larger  the  player.           The  second  setting  you  may  change  is  the   amount  of  magnification  the  player  will  exhibit   while  being  dragged.        The  further  to  the  right   this  slider  is,  the  larger  the  magnification  factor   used  while  dragging  the  player.      While  having  a   larger  magnification  factor  will  make  it  easier  to   see  that  your  dragging  the  player,  having  a   larger  magnification  factor  will  make  it  a  little   more  difficult  to  precisely  place  the  player   when  you  release  the  drag.      Experiment  with   this  to  see  which  setting  works  best  for  you!   The  third  setting  you  may  modify  is  whether  or   not  labels  will  appear  beneath  the  players.         Finally,  you  may  tap  on  the  colored  circle  to   change  the  color  used  when  drawing  trailing   lines.           In  addition  to  the  basic  four  settings  you  can  modify  via  the  preferences  view,  you  may  also   add  additional  “items”  to  the  playing  surface.      At  minimum  you  will  see  a  picture  of  the   puck/ball  used  in  that  particular  sport.        To  place  the  item  on  the  ice,  simply  tap  it  in   preferences  view  window.      It  will  highlight  momentarily  signaling  to  you  that  it  has  been   placed.      If  you  return  to  the  playing  surface,  you  should  see  the  new  item.      Depending  on  the   sport,  you  may  see  some  additional  items  to  choose  from  such  as  a  tire,  cone,  hockey  stick,   etc..      Once  placed  on  the  playing  surface,  items  may  be  rotated  90  degrees  in  the  clock  wise   direction  by  long-­‐pressing  them.        Double-­‐tap  any  item  to  remove  it  from  the  white  board.     At  the  bottom  of  the  preferences  view,    you  will  see  a  button  in  the  lower  left  hand  corner   titled  “Validate  Player  Positions”.          This  button  can  be  used  in  the  unlikely  event  you  are  able   to  drag  a  player  or  item  off  of  the  playing  surface.          It  will  cause  the  application  to  look  at  all   players  and  bring  any  that  are  too  far  off  the  surface  right  to  the  closest  edge.      They  will  still   be  partially  obscured  so  you  should  look  carefully  to  see  where  they  appear  after  utilizing   this  function!    

 

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MISCELLANEOUS  TOPICS     In  addition  to  all  the  features  and  functionality  available  through  the  use  of  the  control  icons,   the  Sports  WhiteBoard  applications  have  some  additional  functionality  that  we  will  cover   here.     Long-­‐Pressing  Player  Circles     We  covered  the  use  of  the  “Team  Management  View”  functionality  earlier  and  showed  how   you  can  edit  team  data  to  customize  the  designation  and  labels  for  players  on  a  team.        It  is   also  possible  to  simply  long-­‐press  a  given  player  circle  to  bring  up  a  view  that  lets  you  change   the  information  for  that  particular  player.          Such  a  change  will  also  be  reflected  if  you  choose   to  edit  team  data  through  the  “Team  Management  View”.        For  example,  if  we  execute  a  long   press  on  the  following  player:                   we  will  be  presented  with   the  view  to  the  right  which   allows  us  to  edit  both  the   designation  and  label  for   the  selected  player.                           File  Sharing     All  Sports  WhiteBoard  applications  support  the  use  of  “iTunes  File  Sharing”.      This  means  that   if  you    are  running  iTunes  while  your  device  is  connected  you  can  visit  the  device’s  “Apps”  tab   (in  iTunes),  scroll  down  to  the  “File  Sharing”  section  and  then  select  the  appropriate  sports   whiteboard  application.      At  the  time  of  the  writing  of  this  manual,  this  might  look  like  the   following:    

 

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      In  this  particular  example  the  “Hockey  WhiteBoard”  application  has  6  files  stored  locally.       Files  that  end  in  “.whiteboard”  are  white  board  files,    files  that  end  in  “.team”  are  team  data   files,  and  files  that  end  in  “.v1whiteboard”  are  white  board  files  from  a  1.x  version  of  the   Sports  WhiteBoard  application.        From  iTunes,  you  can  export  these  files  (save  as  a  file  on   your  computer’s  hard  drive)  or  add  new  files  that  you  may  have  exported  from  another   machine.      The  iTunes  file  sharing  mechanism  will  let  you  put  any  type  of  file  into  the   application,  but  if  you  attempt  to  open  it  from  the  Sports  WhiteBoard  application  (and  it  is  in   a  foreign  format),  unpredictable  behavior  will  result.       Legacy  File  Access     With  the  introduction  of  Version  2.0  of  the  Sports  WhiteBoard  applications,  the  format  used   to  store  data  about  a  white  board  has  completely  changed  when  compared  to  the  1.x  versions   of  the  apps.    If  you  install  a  2.0  version  of  the  Sports  WhiteBoard  application  over  it’s  version   1.x  predecessor,  you  will  still  be  able  to  access  any  files  from  the  older  version  in  the  2.0   version.      The  only  caveat  is  that,  at  this  time,  any  saved  lines  that  you  may  have  had  in  the  1.x   version  will  not  be  accessible  in  the  2.0  version.      Player  position  as  well  as  designation  will   be  preserved.       When  you  are  looking  at  your  list  of  saved  white  boards  in  a  2.0  version  of  a  Sports   WhiteBoard  application,    any  white  boards  that  were  saved  with  an  older  version  of  the   application  will  appear  with  a  “(v1.x)”  suffix.        If  you  then  save  the  file  under  a  different   name,  it  will  be  converted  to  use  the  newer  2.0  format.        

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COMMENTS,  QUESTIONS  and  CONCERNS     Again,  we’d  like  to  thank  you  for  purchasing  a  Sandcrater  Software  Sports  WhiteBoard   application.      If  at  any  point  you  would  like  to  contact  us  regarding  any  problems  you  might   have  with  the  application  or  offer  suggestions  for  new  features,  please  feel  free  to  email  us  at   [email protected]  or  visit  our  FaceBook  page  at   http://www.facebook.com/SandcraterSoftware  

   

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