Page Properties

A page is the place where you design your multimedia project. Each project could have one or more pages.

To access the page properties, double click on the page icon on the bottom of designer or select from menu Page - Properties

Click on each elements to learn more:

• Label.

It's the name of the page. A label is a unique string of text, which represents a page, or can be called upon by an action.

• Background.

A page can have a solid background defined by a color.  It can also be a bitmap background. To load a Bitmap as a background, press the Load Image button. If the image is smaller than the page size, you can Tile the image.     Tip: You can find some pretty interesting background in the directory Background.  They can be tiled for exciting effect. You can copy all graphic properties included in the first page to any other subsequent pages. The background graphics are very important. Put as much graphics as you can into the background.  Redrawing the background is much faster than any other objects. You can combine objects with background: Select the objects you would like to combine. From the menu Arrange, select Combine û Objects with background. From the next dialog, select Delete source objects, and Use this image to create a new background. A page can use the background included in the first page, or from the Master Page.

• Background music.

MMB can play different background music on each page. The music can play across page boundaries.   If the next page has no background music, the last one will continue playing. You can loop music. You can find music on the Internet, or on CDÆs like Corel Stock Music Library. You can select to play MP3 file on page start. This doesnÆt go through multichannel sound. You can use embedded waves as well û just write the Internal Name of the embedded wave file.

• Digital Audio.

MMB can play audio tracks from CDs.  A track can start playing as soon as a user enters a page. Use this function to build your Mixed-mode CD where the first track is a data track (your player and MBD data file and other data), and the other tracks are audio tracks. Mixed mode CDs are widely used for games and multimedia, because playing audio tracks doesnÆt take much resources like playing WAVE files.

• Script.

You can trigger any actions or change variables using Script language. Note: Background music plays through the DirectSound channel.  It's mixed with other sound effects without interruption. The user must have DirectSound, which is installed on almost 95% of the systems.  (In the future, it will be 100%, since Win95 SP 2 and Windows98 have DirectSound by default.) MMB allows you to create Distribution Files, and can detect the system of the user. In the worst case (user without DirectSound), a user will not be able to hear background music, but he will be able to hear Sound Actions, which are played through standard audio output. See Check Project and Distribute Files.

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There are also 2 separate special "pages" Master Top Layer and Master Page.

Note : You can also add Comments to your project.


From the menu File û Comments... You can add comments to your project. If you want this window to open automatically after you open the project in designer, check the check box «show next time on Open».

Page Properties 

(Written by Rodd)

You can alter the properties of the current page by selecting 'Page' and then 'Properties...' from
the MMB drop down menu; or you can simply 'double-click' the pages 'icon' in the page selection
area.

Label: This is the name of the page. By default the first page of the project is labeled 'Page 1'.
You might like to change the 'label' of the page to be more descriptive of the operation of the
page. The page label is used by MMB to locate the different pages of your project, so that it can
switch from one page to another.

Background: This allows you to choose the background graphic or background colour of the current
page. You have the option of using the background graphic/colour that was chosen for the
master page, OR a specific graphic/colour for the current page only.
From Master Page: the current page will simply show the background graphic/colour that was
chosen for the [Master Page].
Color: choose a colour from the drop down list as a background for the current page.
Image: allows you to choose a graphic file from disk to use as a background graphic. If the
graphic is smaller than the current page, you can also choose 'Tile' to fill the current page with the
graphic.

Play audio track from CD Audio or Mixed-mode CD
This allows you to select a music CD track as background music for this page. You have the option
of selecting which CD track you want to be played. Please note that when referring to a Mixed-
mode CD the first audio track will be track 2 (since track 1 will not be music but will be data)!
Note: the music doesn't automatically stop when leaving the current page.

Script:
This will allow you to write a script that will be run automatically each time the page is accessed.
Please note that 'plugins' tend not to function correctly when run directly from this page script. It
is advisable to have the page script run a separate script (using the 'ScriptTimer' command), which
runs the plugin.

Page Transition:
This allows you to change from the current page to another page using a special graphical/optical
effect. There are many graphical effects to choose from (including special page effect plugins), and it
is best to experiment with the different transitions to see its effect.

Background Music:
This allows you to select a 'wave', MP3, Midi, MOD, or MED file to run as background music for
this page. You can choose to have the music continually replay by ticking 'Loop (WAV, MP3)'.
Note: the music doesn't automatically stop when leaving the current page.

Select 'OK' to accept the changes or 'Cancel' to discard the changes.