Structured language
- complex programming logic, subroutines, event tracking, and message passing among objects and elements.
Performance Tuning and Playback Features
- Synchronization is difficult
- Authoring system should facilitate precise timing of events.
- It should enable developers to build a part of a project and then test it immediately.
Delivery, Cross-Platform, and Internet Playability Features
- Delivering the project may require building a run-time version of the project, using the multimedia authoring software.
- Run-time version or standalone
- allows a project to play back without the complete authoring software and all its tools and editors.
- Across platforms
- Authoring systems provide a means for converting their output to be delivered within the context of HTML or DHTML.
Card- and Page-Based Tools
- Card- and page-based authoring systems
- provide a simple and easily understood metaphor for organizing multimedia elements.
- contains media objects such as buttons, text fields, and graphic objects.
- provides a facility for linking objects to pages or cards.
- Card-and page-based systems typically provided two separate layers on each card
- a background layer that could be shared among many cards
- a foreground layer that was specific to a single card.
Icon-Based, Event-Driven Tools
- Icon-based, event-driven tools provide a visual programming approach to organize and present multimedia.
- Multimedia elements and interaction cues are organized as objects in a flowchart.
- Flowchart can be built by dragging appropriate icons from a library, and then adding the content.
Time-Based Tools
- Time-based tools are best suited for messages with a beginning and an end.
- Some time-based tools facilitate navigation and interactive control.
- Macromedia’s Director and Flash are time-based development environments
Flash Adobe Flash
- delivering rich multimedia content to the Web.
- the creation of simple static HTML pages with the Flash Player plug-in.
- ActionScript
- based upon the international ECMAScript standard (http://www.ecma-international.org) derived from Netscape's original JavaScript.
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