User Guide

• Cut / Copy / Paste / Delete: The clipboard functions are available for events.
Drag & drop in the event editor
Using the event editor, you find soon find out that drag & drop is an indispensable part of the
development process. You can drag:
• Conditions on one another, or from one event to another.
• Actions checkmarks from one column to another.
• Events on another events, like this you can re-order the events in your program.
• Closed or opened groups of events
• You can of course select more than one event to drag at the same time.
When you drag the elements, you will notice the action of the SHIFT and CONTROL
keys. SHIFT deletes the origin of the drag. CONTROL copies (inserts) the drag at the new
position.
Conditions of interest
We will not review in this manual all the available conditions and actions of Multimedia
Fusion: this would be way too long for a printed manual. We are just going to detail some
of the most important ones, object per object. For an exhaustive list and description, please
refer to the electronic documentation. Of course the best way to learn about an individual
objects events is to experiment.
Conditions in the special object
The special object contains several interesting conditions.
• Always. This condition is always true, no test is done. Useful for use within groups or for
testing purpose.
• Never. This condition is always false. Very handy if you want to deactivate a line of event:
simply insert a Never condition at the beginning.
• Compare to a global value / string. Global values and strings are a handy way to transmit
data between frames. With this condition you can test their value.
• Compare two general values. Do not confuse with the previous condition. This condition
enables you to make a comparison between two values, numerical or text.
• Limit conditions / Run this event once. If you insert this condition in an event, the event
will only be run once in the duration of the frame.
• Limit conditions / Only one action when event loops. If the event is true, it will be true
only once and remain false until the condition making it true is false again. Like a one shot
event: executed only one cycle, then ignored until the conditions are false then true
again.
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