Easy to learn and simple to use, ActionLine can be learned in under two hours, yet has the power to satisfy mainstream and professional users. Integration of pictures, sound, animations, text, transitions, dynamic buttons, and controls into web pages can be done quickly and easily with ActionLine. These dynamic Java applets are platform independent, can be hosted on any standard web server and can be viewed on most any computer platform supporting a Java enabled web browser. The basic elements of an interactive slide are Portals , ActionLinks , Actions and Buttons . The Tool Palette is used to draw regions on the screen called Portals.
Portals can serve several different purposes.
Be both a button and contain information. Be a destination for an action such as Play, Stop, Hide, Show etc. Be an origin for an action The slides you create will contain one or more portals and one or more ActionLinks. ActionLinks are graphical elements drawn with the ActionLink Tool. An ActionLink originates in a portal, called the originating portal, and ends in another portal called the destination Portal.