6) Views -- The four views are different ways to make and look at the same script. Each has its own special perspective and strength. There is also a Property Browser so that you can examine the contents of individual ActiveX Controls.
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The main idea: Create a script with the OZONE32 application builder. Put that script on a web server and run it from anywhere in the world.
Use either the OZONE32 ActiveX control or the OZONE32 Runtime program as script playback software.
You construct programs with the OZONE32 Application using building blocks called ActiveX controls. You drop the controls into the system, wire them together, and use simple dialogue boxes to tell them what to do. You can add 3rd party ActiveX controls too.
1) Controls -- A control is a special kind of mini program that does a specific job. OZONE32 uses ActiveX controls. Some of the V_Graph controls are good at different kinds of multimedia jobs. Some of the V_Graph controls are used to judge inputs, others to write text files, others still to get and send information over the Web. Other companies make controls that are good at using databases. Some use spread sheets, and so on.
2) Properties -- The properties hold the descriptive information that tells the controls what to do: like the file you want to use, or the height and width of an image, or the size of a piece of a pie chart, and so on. These are variables and can be changed as the application is running.
3) Methods -- ActiveX controls have Methods that tell the control what to do. Run, Stop, Load etc are common methods. Methods can be run as soon as you start a control or they can be called by name later . You may like to think of them as verbs.
4) Events -- ActiveX Controls generate event messages as they run. OZONE allows developers to tie controls together with these events. When an event is fired in Control A it is easy to use that to cause Control B to become active. Event connections are recorded in the script.
5) Script -- OZONE records the settings for the controls, and the order of execution for the controls by keeping this information in the script.
6) Views -- The four views are different ways to make and look at the same script. Each has its own special perspective and strength. There is also a Property Browser so that you can examine the contents of individual ActiveX Controls.
