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A '''Wink project''' is the project format used by Wink, a [[Windows XP]] program written by Satish Sampath<ref>https://www.debugmode.com/</ref> (A.K.A. S. Satish Kumar<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20011116202805/http://www.debugmode.com/</ref>, also using the pseudo-corporation "Debugmode") whose purpose is to create animated [[SWF|Flash]] tutorials for software, based on a series of screenshots given to it. Wink uses a slide ("frame")-based presentation system. To create a Wink tutorial, the user first takes a series of screenshots of the software or other thing to be used as a tutorial, which become the basic slides of the project, then adds annotations, audio, animations and transitions, links to [[URI]]s or to other slides, etc.

The project can be exported to compressed or uncompressed Flash; a [[Portable Executable]] (the default executable format for the platform) in which it is embedded with a sort of interpreter called the "Debugmode Wink Player"; a static [[Postscript]] or [[PDF]] file, in which case the frames are embedded as images into the output file; or a static [[HTML]] file, in which case the frames, as images, are put into a separate directory in the same location as the exported file (the [[Wikipedia:data URI scheme|data URI scheme]], which would allow for direct embedding, was not in wide use at the time).

Wink was used for tutorials for other software by the same author, among them [[Wax project|Wax]] and [[Winmorph project|Winmorph]].

The last release of Wink was in 2008.<ref>Date of the file in https://web.archive.org/web/20160114001331/http://files.snapfiles.com/directdl/wink20-1060.zip, the latest (officially-linked) version as of the time of writing (2019)</ref>

== Identification ==
Wink projects appear to start with the [[ASCII]] magic number {{magic|RPKWI}}. They have the extension ".wnk".

== Links ==
* [https://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Homepage]

== References ==
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-Wink is a [[Windows XP]] program written by Satish Sampath<ref>https://www.debugmode.com/</ref> (A.K.A. S. Satish Kumar<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20011116202805/http://www.debugmode.com/</ref>, also using the pseudo-corporation "Debugmode") whose purpose is to create animated [[SWF|Flash]] tutorials for software, based on a series of screenshots given to it. Wink uses a slide ("frame")-based presentation system. To create a Wink tutorial, the user first takes a series of screenshots of the software or other thing to be used as a tutorial, which become the basic slides of the project, then adds annotations, audio, animations and transitions, links to [[URI]]s or to other slides, etc.
+'''Wink''' is a [[Windows XP]] program written by Satish Sampath<ref>https://www.debugmode.com/</ref> (A.K.A. S. Satish Kumar<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20011116202805/http://www.debugmode.com/</ref>, also using the pseudo-corporation "Debugmode") whose purpose is to create animated [[SWF|Flash]] tutorials for software, based on a series of screenshots given to it. Wink uses a slide ("frame")-based presentation system. To create a Wink tutorial, the user first takes a series of screenshots of the software or other thing to be used as a tutorial, which become the basic slides of the project, then adds annotations, audio, animations and transitions, links to [[URI]]s or to other slides, etc.
 The project can be exported to compressed or uncompressed Flash; a [[Portable Executable]] (the default executable format for the platform) in which it is embedded with a sort of interpreter called the "Debugmode Wink Player"; a static [[Postscript]] or [[PDF]] file, in which case the frames are embedded as images into the output file; or a static [[HTML]] file, in which case the frames, as images, are put into a separate directory in the same location as the exported file (the [[Wikipedia:data URI scheme|data URI scheme]], which would allow for direct embedding, was not in wide use at the time).

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