User Guide

1. Edit time Vs Run time
Multimedia Fusion is an application used to create applications and used in the following
two modes:
• Edit time. This is when you create your application, drop the objects, and enter the events.
This is the design time.
• Run time. (refered to as Runtime) Once your application is ready to work, or during testing,
you can launch the runtime and the objects come to life as a full program. The runtime can
be launched via the buttons of the Run toolbar:
From left to right:
• Run project. Launches the first application of your project.
• Run application. Launches the current application.
• Run frame. Available if you are editing a frame, run the frame only.
You will find the same options in the “Run“ submenu of the main menu.
2. The Workspace Toolbar
We will start our description of the interface by concentrating on the workspace toolbar. The
workspace toolbar is the area where you can see the entire structure of your application. It
displays:
• The application
• The frames
• The objects
What are these items?
• The application is the program you are creating
and represents the file on the hard disc. Note:
Multimedia Fusion applications are saved with the
suffix “.MFA”. You edit the content of the application
with the storyboard editor. In the previous picture,
the application name is “Zeb”.
• The frames are the different screens of your
application. If your application is a game, then a frame might corresponds to a level of
the game. A game with three frames could contain as first frame, the title page, as
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