Help - Using GymSymbol to study shorthand for judging gymnastics

Help Guide – English (русский)

Intuitive Interface

Famliarise yourself with the GymSymbol interface to get the most out of studying the shorthand used in judging Women's Artistic Gymnastics:

1. Language menu. Choose between English and Russian languages.
2. Apparatus buttons. Choose your apparatus.
3. Quiz button. Push to take a quiz.
4. Number of questions in quiz. Set the number of questions in your quiz. You may choose to take a quiz with up to 100 questions as long as there are as many or more skills shown in the main table (number 9).
5. Quiz menu. Choose the type of quiz.
6. Filter. Filter skills by Value, Number, Description, Alternate Description or Gymnast.
7. Filter limiter.
8. Filter field. In the example to the left, the skills on bars are filtered to show where Gymnast contains ")". This results in all skills named for a gymnast, since each recognised gymnast is noted by country - for example, "(RUS)". It is also easy to sort by group. For example "Number begins with 4.5" will show all the skills with an E value in group four of the current apparatus.
9. Main Table. Questions for quizzes are taken from the skills listed in the main table. Double-clicking a skill will remove it from the list. You may also sort the list based on Value, Number or Description.
10. Skill Details. The Value (DV), Number, Symbol, Diagram, FIG Description, Alternate Description and Athlete are are for the skill highlighted in the Main Table.
11. Less/More Button. This button shows or hides the Editing Panel.
12. Language Menu. Choose between English and Russian in the Editing Panel.
13. Save Button. Save changes made to the Description, Alternate Description or Gymnast for the chosen skill.
14. Clipboard Button. Pushing this button copies the details of the highlighted skill to your computer's clipboard. If the Editing Panel and Main Table show different languages, both will be copied as seen here.
15.-17. Edit fields for Description, Alternate Description and Gymnast. When visible, you can edit any of these fields to change or update the GymSymbol database. (Currently, these changes cannot be "UNDONE").

Choosing a quiz
GymSymbol offers seven quizzes such as
Symbol -> DV where GymSymbol will present a symbol and you must choose the correct difficulty value (DV).

Taking a quiz
After making your choices on the main screen and pushing the Quiz button, the quiz window opens and presents you with your first question. Clicking the correct button for your answer automatically forwards you to the next question. If you choose an incorrect answer, the correct answer will be highlighted while the question remains on the screen. This allows you to note the answer before moving on. To continue after an incorrect answer, simply click any button.

When the quiz is over, you will see a screen message telling you how many questions you answered correctly. If you want to take the quiz again with questions from the same group of skills, choose New Quiz. If you want to return to the main screen, choose Return.

You can exit a quiz at any time by choosing Cancel.

Preferences
The look of GymSymbol can be customised. Click on any part of the Preferences window to change the colour of that detail.

The original colour scheme can be restored by clicking the Defaults button.

These preferences are saved in a file located in the folder where you store both GymSymbol and the GymSymbol database.