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Introduction

This guide describes how to create Tutorials for the Integrated Genome Browser.

Directory structure

The tutorials should be contained in a single directory, with a properties file
tutorials.properties listing the available tutorials

File format

The tutorials are text files written in json http://www.json.org

The tutorial consists of an array of steps that the user will take.
each step can contain the following fields (only the text field is required):

• text - the text to display in the tutorial status bar
• highlight - the widget to highlight during the step, use thewidget id
• timeout - the amount of time in seconds that this step is displayed before it continues onto the next step
• waitAction - the name of an action that the user is supposed to do. The tutorial will stay on this step until the user performs the action.
• waitMenu - the name of a menu item (action) that the user is supposed to select. The tutorial will stay on this step until the user performs selects the menu item.
• execute - an action that the tutorial will perform; this is an object containing the following fields (only name is required):
  name - the name of the action to perform
  amount - a numeric value to pass to the action