Kelly_Guy said:
What do I have to do to see the diagrams? All I see is gibberish?
thanks,
Kelly
Ha, good thing I just did this tutorial for another AZB'er. He also did not know how to copy and paste, so forgive the extra stuff.
Wei table help:
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/pooltable2.html
Here is the link to the Wei table. If you don't see it when you click on the link, it requires a Macromedia Shockwave plug-in.
Size the corner of your wei table window to half your screen by moving your cursor over the corner border of your window until the cursor turns into an arrow. Hold the left mouse down and drag your mouse in or outward until you get it the size you want and then release. Do the same for the AZB forum screen you want so that they are lined up side by side. You can move the whole window over by clicking on the title bar, hold the left mouse down and drag your mouse to wherever you want it to go.
If both pages want to open up in the same window, then you need to go to the Tools menu/Internet options/. Go to the Advanced tab and make sure 'reuse windows for launching shortcuts' is UNCHECKED. Hit ok and it will take you out of there and it will remember what you told it to do.
OK, now you should have 2 open windows side by side on your screen. Keep in mind that once you click on one window, it makes that one active, so if you leave your screen with the highlighted stuff (Call it window A) to go read the directions from another window, it will unhighlight as soon as you go back and click anywhere INSIDE the window. So to select window A without losing the highlighting, click on the title bar to select it and that makes it active again. The reason I am telling you this is to save you time, you would eventually figure it out anyway. Also, it's because you are going to be going back and forth several times at first until you get the hang of it, and then you will wonder what happened to your highlighting.
Cutting, copying and pasting are all basic Windows functions. There is an invisible clipboard that you can tack stuff to and it will remember what you stuck up there until you need it again. It is how you move large chunks of information around. Copying and cutting is basically the same thing except cutting deletes editable words, and then you can use that section somewhere else. Copying makes a copy of it and leaves the original words intact. Cutting usually only works on what you have typed, not after you have received a message from someone else, because their document is not editable. You can COPY virtually any text from any website, thread, or document into your own thread, website or document. Play around with both functions, you can't hurt anything.
Here is a great practice page with the fundamentals:
http://www.webmasternow.com/copyandpaste.html
Here is another tutorial. Notice I am copying and pasting the website address into this email:
http://www.worldstart.com/tips/shared/copypaste.htm
OK, back to the Wei table. Highlight the text in the forum message, including the words START and End. Start highlighting at the word Start and finish at the word End. Now copy it by right clicking and selecting Copy. That data is now on your invisible clipboard.
Go to the Wei table. Underneath the table are 2 buttons, copy and paste. You hit the PASTE button to paste the data from the clipboard to the wei table. 2 prompts will come up, just keep hitting ok and voila, the shot is now on the Wei table. You can do that as many times as you want.
Now, to diagram a shot that you want to demonstrate, you take all the balls off the table except for the ones you want to use. To move balls and arrows, just click and drag them by holding down the left mouse button as you move them. The stripes' numbers hang below the ball, so make sure you are really getting a stripe when you need one. You can use the arrows to indicate CB path or ball path (a couple of them are jointed arrows so that you can bend them or turn them at right angles using the same arrow) and use the numbers to indicate pockets, positions, or landing positions. You can also indicate on the cueball where you strike the cueball. Just move the black dot around to where you want, to indicate english, etc. Once you have your shot set up exactly the way you want it, push the COPY button and that is now on your clipboard. (You will lose the prior information that was on the clipboard.)
Go back to the AZB forum, write your message and put the cursor where you want the string to start, right click and select PASTE, and voila, you have pasted the string into your message. So now anyone can copy what you pasted and paste it into their Wei table and see what shot you diagrammed.
Hope this is all clear. Print it out and keep it. Who knows, someday you may be asked how to copy and paste or use the Wei table, and then you can just copy and paste this part of the email! Lol.
