Learn Multimedia with Me -- Mastering Authorware 7.0

Author: Zhang Yuanlong
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Authorware is an excellent multimedia editing system, widely used in the development and production of multimedia systems in fields such as computer-assisted education, entertainment, and office automation. Authorware 7.0 has seen significant improvements over previous versions. It provides a one-click publishing learning management system with strong network publishing capabilities; supports XML technology for creating remote education courses; offers extensive extensibility by supporting multiple ActiveX controls to easily expand functionality; supports importing Microsoft PowerPoint files, JavaScript scripting, and integrating DVD video file playback into applications. This book focuses on design icons as the main thread, comprehensively introducing the basic usage of Authorware 7.0, while also delving into advanced usage methods such as libraries, knowledge objects, functions, and variables. The book is divided into seventeen chapters, covering topics including the installation and startup of Authorware 7.0, display icons, animation icons, erasure icons, and wait icons, digital movie icons and sound icons, DVD icons and group icons, interaction icons, interaction responses, navigation icons and framework icons, judgment icons and calculation icons, variables and functions, libraries and knowledge objects, file configuration and packaging, Authorware's network applications, and comprehensive development examples. Through rich application examples, the book helps readers understand the process and techniques of using Authorware 7.0 to design and develop multimedia software, mastering the application of various multimedia materials such as sound, animation, video, text, and graphics. This book is not only a valuable reference for numerous multimedia development and production professionals but also suitable as a training textbook for related personnel. The accompanying CD-ROM includes source files and effects for some examples in the book.