Multimedia Builder Help © 2007 Mediachance Title page 1 Use this page to introduce the product by Mediachance This is "Title Page 1" - you may use this page to introduce your product, show title, author, copyright, company logos, etc. This page intentionally starts on an odd page, so that it is on the right half of an open book from the readers point of view. This is the reason why the previous page was blank (the previous page is the back side of the cover) Multimedia Builder Help © 2007 Mediachance All rights reserved. Products that are referred to in this document may be either trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners. The publisher and the author make no claim to these trademarks. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document, the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of information contained in this document or from the use of programs and source code that may accompany it. In no event shall the publisher and the author be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this document. Printed: November 2007 Special thanks to: Publisher Thanks to all of you who sent me any suggestions or just nice © 2007 Mediachance words. Team Special Thanks to: Roman Voska (Oscar) Edd Twilbeck - for his ideas and encouragement and of course for Peter Misik (Orol) the logo. Pavel Kudrys (Odklizec) Derrick Yohn - for making MMB web space reality not just my dream. Artur Svarc - for his beta testing. Ronnie Toon - for sending me pages and pages of great suggestions. Pierre Labelle - for Helping me with the Help File. Mandryka, Gotlib and Sconi for their Bird and Worm Flash samples. My great wife Zuzana - for her endless patience (she really hates computers now!) and many other people... 4 Multimedia Builder Help Table of Contents Foreword 0 Part I Introducing Multimedia Builder 9 Part II General Overview 11 Part III What's new? 13 Part IV History 18 Part V List of MMB Features 55 Part VI Overview 58 1 Project Settings................................................................................................................................... 58 2 Getting Started................................................................................................................................... - "Hello World" project 62 Part VII MMB Objects 66 1 Working ...................................................................................................................................With Objects 66 Introduction to Objects.......................................................................................................................................................... 66 Group Object .......................................................................................................................................................... 70 Align Object .......................................................................................................................................................... 72 2 Text Object................................................................................................................................... 73 3 Input Text................................................................................................................................... (Edit Box) 74 4 Paragraph................................................................................................................................... Text 76 5 Text Button................................................................................................................................... 77 6 Bitmap Button................................................................................................................................... 78 7 Alpha Button................................................................................................................................... 79 8 Bitmap Object................................................................................................................................... 80 9 Animated................................................................................................................................... GIF Object 88 10 Windows................................................................................................................................... Metafile 90 11 VR Panorama................................................................................................................................... 91 12 ListBox Object................................................................................................................................... 92 13 Primitive................................................................................................................................... Objects 94 14 Hot-Spot................................................................................................................................... Objects 95 15 Video Object................................................................................................................................... 96 16 MCI Object................................................................................................................................... 100 17 Dynamic................................................................................................................................... FX 101 18 Audio Visualization................................................................................................................................... Object 102 19 Script Object................................................................................................................................... 103 © 2007 Mediachance Contents 5 20 Image Matrix................................................................................................................................... 104 21 HTML Object................................................................................................................................... 107 22 Macromedia................................................................................................................................... Flash Object 110 23 Binding................................................................................................................................... Object 112 24 MMB Plugins................................................................................................................................... 115 Part VIII Pages 118 1 Introduction................................................................................................................................... to Pages 118 2 Page Properties................................................................................................................................... 119 3 Master Page................................................................................................................................... and Master Top Layer 122 4 Master Page................................................................................................................................... Properties 124 Part IX Sound 126 1 Sound Actions................................................................................................................................... 126 2 Embedded................................................................................................................................... Wave 127 Part X External Commands & Page Actions 129 1 External................................................................................................................................... Commands and Page Actions 129 2 Actions................................................................................................................................... 131 3 Interaction................................................................................................................................... with other objects and Video 132 Part XI Finalize Projects 134 1 Check Project................................................................................................................................... and Distribute Files 134 2 Paths Replace................................................................................................................................... 138 3 Text Replace................................................................................................................................... 139 4 Compress................................................................................................................................... and Export 140 Part XII Scripting Unleashed 142 1 Introduction................................................................................................................................... 142 2 Programming?................................................................................................................................... 144 3 Scripting................................................................................................................................... Basics 146 4 Scripting................................................................................................................................... Syntax 148 5 Script Comments..................................................................................................................................