Basketball Playbook Manual

1 Basketball PlaybookManualBasketball Playbook 011 Introductionby Jes-SoftBasketball Playbook is a tool to help coaches define, drawand share Basketball plays and Playbook has the following features: An easy to use design tool to sketch Basketball plays animation screen to help you follow the flow of of plays in a database ordered in categories text editor to describe your plays and and import functions to exchange plays with otherusers of this of graphics in high of plan lists to prepare your rights reserved. No parts of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means - graphic, electronic, ormechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information storage and retrieval systems - without thewritten permission of the that are referred to in this document may be either trademarks and/or registered trademarks of therespective owners.

2 The publisher and the author make no claim to these every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document, the publisher and the author assume noresponsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of information contained in this documentor from the use of programs and source code that may accompany it. In no event shall the publisher and the author beliable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly orindirectly by this : June 2015 Basketball PlaybookPublisherSpecial thanks to:Gaby, Liz, Amy, Wayne, Yvonne, Tony, Gary, David, Gene, Nico,Paul, Mads, Ally, Nathan, Tomas, Joe, Janeth, Franck, Rafal,Andrew, Diego, Ximo, Javi, Abdulla, Chris, Dennis, Dan, David andall the other people who contributed to make this the product it SmitBasketball Playbook4 Table of ContentsForeword0 Part IThe Main 81 The view 9 Copy play.

3 10 Copy category .. 10 Delete play .. 10 Delete category .. 11 Rename play .. 11 Rename category .. 12 Tags .. 13 Register .. 142 The sketch 16 Default line settings .. 17 Default player settings .. 18 Court color .. 18 Flip sketch .. 18 Mirror sketch .. 19 Save selection as formation .. 20 Add formation .. 21 Play info .. 22 Edit player .. 23 Edit line .. 24 Edit ellipse .. 25 Edit polygon .. 26 Edit text .. 273 The text 284 The plan tabPart IIFile 321 Adding a new 33 New play from template .. 332 New 333 Open 34 New play name.

4 344 Open plan 35 Skip replace play window .. 355 Save 366 Save play 36 Export sketch .. 37 Export to PDF .. 38 Export to HTML .. 39 Export to HTML with animated GIF .. 40 Export to HTML with Flash 408 Export 41 Export plan to pdf .. 42 Export plan to html .. 44 Printer setup .. 4410 Print plan 4511 Send 46e-mail address book .. 47select e-mail 48select edit mail 49 Backup Playbook .. 49 Backup play type .. 50 Backup category .. 5013 Option 51 View tab options .. 52 Sketch tab options .. 53 Change default court 55 Text tab options.

5 56 Plan tab options .. 57E-mail .. 58 SMTP Server 59 Export settings .. 60 Appearance .. 61 Miscellaneous .. 62 Resources .. 6214 Exit programPart 643 Copy, cut and 654 Trial 655 Adobe Acrobat 666 Basketball Playbook 667 Drag and 668 Drawing 669E-mail 6710 Gif file 6711 Load backup 6813 Selecting 6814 Shortcut 7015 Text edit buttonsBasketball 7116 The 7217 Zip and unzipPart IVFrequently Asked 741 How do I complete the registration process ?.. 742 How do I download and open additional plays and drills ?.. 743 How do I submit a play ?.. 754 Players/lines that are placed on a court will not go onto the courtwhere I want 755 Error on loading Winsock2 library ( ).

6 Index76 PartIBasketball Playbook81 The Main view tabWhen the view tab is selected the sketch and the text of the current drill is the top of the window there are, quick options to open, save or creating a new ribbon bar has the following buttons and information blocks:Clipboard Copy the text and place the text on the the sketch and place the sketch on the clipboard. Short cut CTRL+I or Shift+CTRL+I fora double sized sketch. With the anti-alias option on the export tab options page anti-alias can be seton or penWhen an animation is paused you can sketch on the image to emphasize a point.

7 The width and colorof the sketch pen can be set here. The sketch can be cleared by clicking with the left mouse buttonoutside the delete a sketch you made, press the eraser infoInformation about the play, how many players and balls are needed, how long should the drill take andthe rating of the the selected play or category to the plan. Short cut CTRL+LRegisterThe Main Screen9If the program isn't registered the unlock button is visible, to open the activation the left side the available plays and drills are shown. There are 5 different play types available (drills, plays, formations, templates and other), which can beselected by clicking on the buttons at the bottom.

8 The header will show the selected play the play type you can then select the category followed by the play or drill of your right clicking on a play you can copy, delete, rename or give it one or more right clicking on a category (one level above play) you can copy, delete or rename a completecategoryWhen tags are available the tag filter is visible at the top is the bottom you can use the Play, Pause, Stop, Previous and Next button to navigate through theplay. When more than one sequence for the current play is available the program will calculate themovement of players and balls to their new the sketch box will animate the play with sketches, the play will pause whenever a newsequence the Loop box is checked the play will run continuously until Pause, Stop or Cancel is best results for an animation are obtained by using numbered players and not to many coachesand balls.

9 Also keep in mind that the program only calculates straight-line that in high resolution you will need a fast computer to achieve good results with full screen playTo copy a play right click on the play in the list on the left and choose Playbook10To copy a play either the type, category or the play name must be changed. The type can be updated by selecting another type from the list category can be updated by selecting another category from the drop down list, or a new categorycan be added by over typing the current new play name can be typed in the play name box, as this must be a unique name a list of all playnames currently in use is category To copy a category right click on the category in the list on the left and choose copy a category either the type or category must be changed.

10 The type can be updated by selecting another type from the list category can be updated by selecting another category from the drop down list, or a new categorycan be added by over typing the current playTo delete a play right click on the play in the list on the left and choose deleting a play the visible play will be removed from the current Playbook database. No restoreis categoryTo delete a category right click on the play in the list on the left and choose deleting a play the visible play will be removed from the current Playbook database. No restoreis Main playTo rename a play right click on the play in the list on the left and choose rename a play either the type, category or the play name must be changed.