Card or page-based authoring tools are basically the objects used in a multimedia projects like buttons, text fields, graphic objects, backgrounds, pages or cards, and even the project itself. With this tool, users are guided by objects as they each contain its own programming script that is usually descrptive of that very object. Once clicked upon by users, they are then guided and led to an event like a page that is relative to the object clicked upon. These events are usually in an order that is actually in a hierarchy. This then can be liken to when you read a book or go through a deck of cards.
One example of the usage of such a tool would be an assessment test for students. A question for example is given in the test and students are given a question that asks them to sort something in order. Students then will have to use objects and place them in the order they believe is the right answer. When they have done that, they can then move on to the next page to answer the next question.
Icon authoring tools are icon based event-tools which provides visual interaction and are organized in objects in a structural framework or process.
The tool simplifies the organization diagram and display a workflow of activities along branching points. These icons includes graphic images, sound and programming computations.
The time-based authoring tools is part of the authoring tools system and this tool is very time oriented as the elements and contents are organized along a stream of time line. This time line used come along with resolutions as high as 1/30th second.
Examples of this tool includes Macromedia Flash. The time based authoring tool allows contents along tracks that stretch across individual frames to be controlled by user; making it easier to run concurrent media.
The other authoring tool is the Object-Oriented authoring tools. This tool is very object focused as in elements and contents are organized in a hierarchical and orderly manner in the form of parent and children relationships.
This system or toll provides an environment where all subjects, elements, categories, images, etc are classified as properties and objects. An example of this tool would be Quark mTropolis. This tool is an exception from most authoring tools because there are no time lines or stack of cards to form a core authoring paradigm.
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