Action Lists

Each event in AutoPlay Media Studio has a corresponding action list. The action list is where you can add the actions that you want your AutoPlay application to perform when the event is triggered at run time.

In other words, an action list is simply a list of actions that corresponds to some event that can occur when the user runs your application.

The action list for a Text Object's On Mouse Click event

Since each event has its own action list, you can have a different set of actions for each event. For example, you can easily make your AutoPlay application do one thing when an Image object is clicked on, but do something completely different when the mouse pointer moves over that same object. This is because the two events—"On Mouse Click" and "On Mouse Over"—each have their own set of actions to be performed.

Each individual object has its own events, too. This means that, for example, you could have two Text objects on the same page, and have two completely different sets of actions that get performed when the user clicks on the two objects. This is because each object has its own "On Mouse Click" event, complete with its own action list.

You can have as many actions on each action list as you want. Whenever an event is triggered at run time, all of the actions on the corresponding action list are performed in the same order as they appear in on the action list.

Action lists are always located on an Actions tab. Anything that has events—whether it's your project, an individual page, or some object on a page—will have an Actions tab on its Properties dialog.

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