GRAPHICAL MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING SYSTEM

摘要

A graphics-based visual language is disclosed for authoring and playing a multimedia presentation having one or more multimedia events on a display screen of a computer system. The visual displays a story which displays a representation of a start position, indicating the beginning of a multimedia presentation, an end representation of an end position which indicates the completion of a multimedia presentation, and a representation of a unidirectional path line connecting the start, and the end position representations. The representation of at least one icon is associated with a source of multimedia material and is linked to the path line. The multimedia presentation starts at the start position, plays the multimedia material represented by the at least one icon, and then continues along the unidirectional path line and completes at the end position.