Method for multimedia presentation development based on importing appearance, function, navigation, and content multimedia characteristics from external files

摘要

A single-frame multimedia title contains all of the multimedia elements required for a given multimedia title or type of multimedia title. External Data Files, External Content Files, and External Program Files are stored external to the single-frame and are read into the single-frame when needed. Because data and content files are external to the single-frame, the single-frame has very limited or no linking requirements since the multimedia title does not require the association of any particular appearance, function, navigation, or content characteristics with multimedia elements in the single-frame. Also, the external storage of data, content, and programming files allows changes to the content of the multimedia title to be quickly and easily implemented by simply changing the appropriate External Data Files, External Content Files, or External Program Files, whether the changes be local or global in nature.