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- MultiMedioids - What is it?
-
- The MultiMedioids program is primarily an application running on top of
- Hypercard. It allows you to assemble multimedia sequences from existing
- resources or, in the case of text and sound, ones which you generate on the
- spot. The assembled sequence is called a medioid.
-
- The author uses a palette to select items for inclusion. These can be
- things like sounds, movies, text files, but also ones like Hypertalk
- handlers, pauses, delays, deleting items from the screen, making items
- replayable, getting the user to record or type something, existing medioids
- etc. The ones you select appear in a separate window which is in effect
- your medioid script or running order. The same palette gives you a set of
- tools to manipulate that running order e.g. playing/copying/duplicating/deleting
- items or sequences of items, incorporating Hypertalk scripts etc.
-
- You can edit any item in the medioid by clicking on its icon in the medioid
- window. That brings the item up on screen and there you can change its
- attributes from drop down menus, reposition/resize it, turn it into a
- clickable item to launch other medioids etc. All that is done on the
- click'n drag principle.
-
- Any keyboard or microphone response the user makes (we use it for
- languages, hence the sound element) is stored to a user portfolio. The
- user or author can then access those responses by using the accompanying
- ResMonitor program. That saves you having to wade through the whole
- program just to find the responses.
-
- You can call medioids direct from Hypercard stacks (even those which are
- using the Hypercard Player) or make them stand alone items which the end
- user can run. Either way the medioid runs using the MedioidPlayer
- program. This simply gives the presentation as assembled with no access
- to the editing facilities of MultiMedioids. That means your medioids
- can't be altered by the user beyond inputting text/sound at the time you
- want it to happen. The distribution licence allows you to send out the
- MedioidPlayer with your medioids so that people can always get to play what
- you've designed.
-
- The author, of course, can also run medioids or segments of them using
- MultiMedioids itself. If you do that then items are highlighted in the
- medioid window as they are played. You can thus review authored sequences
- from the user's point of view and make any necessary changes to the running
- order. Perhaps it is worth pointing out that though you can play
- medioids in conjunction with the Hypercard Player, for authoring purposes
- you need Hypercard 2.0 or later.