Multimedia Development for International Communication

1.  Create a new stack:

Be sure that you are using a working version of the HyperStudio program, not the player.  Open the pull-down menu at the top of the screen: File/New Stack.

Use the menu: File/Save Stack As....  Select a location for your stack in a folder on your hard drive or a floppy (in class please use a floppy).  It is good to keep your data files separate from your program files and organize your projects into separate folders.  Use good names for both files and folders so that you will be able to find them again easily.  Your organization must make sense to you.

Cards have a foreground and a background.  The background is like a blank sheet of paper, and the foreground is made of objects that you put there.  To change the color of your background, select Edit/Erase Background, then choose a color.

Stacks are made of a number of cards in a sequence.  Include a title for your stack on the first card.  Use the menu: Options/Text Style and Options/Text Color to select your preferred font size and color before you begin typing the text.
Now use the Tools menu to select the T (for text) tool.  Click where you wish to begin typing.  Text will be printed on your background.

You can draw over your background or include images from graphic files.  To draw, use the other tools on your Tools menu. To add a graphic object, select Objects/Add a Graphic Object..., then find the file which contains the object that you want. Graphic objects can be clip art that you make or buy or photographic images.
To move a graphic object around, use the Tools menu to select the graphic tool.  When you move the cursor over a graphic object, this tool will become a cross hair with arrows that will allow you to move the object as you please.

Buttons are objects that perform actions.  To create a button, select Objects/Add a Button....
The button can have any number of shapes (Types) that you may select. They may even be invisible.  You can give the button a name, and you can select an icon that will function as a button.
Buttons may go to another card, the next card in the stack, the previous card, back to the last card viewed, to the home stack, to a bookmarked card, to another stack, to another program.  Or a button may play a sound, play a video, perform some user defined action NBA, play an animation, start a timer, or launch a HyperLogo script. If your button moves to another card, you may set a transition style, like a transition between cuts in a film.

To create a new card, select the menu Edit/New Card. Create another card and use buttons to jump between them.

If you are saving your work to a floppy disk, beware.  HyperStudio will store temporary files on your floppy and the program does not like it when you switch disks.