1-Neobook allows to create a pubblication made of an indefinite number of "pages" (screen). Tarot uses only 1 page, into wich a number of object visible and invisible, grouped and ungruped, works togheter. On the long window on the right, are avaible the different objects: images, text, button, etc.

2-The structure of the game is quite simple: because the player has to get 5 cards each time choosen from a complete deck of 22 cards, we put 5 group of 22 cards each layered one upon the other in the same place. Any of the 22 cards of every deck is invisible, and each time a card is made visible only during the gameplay. In this way the card will seems to magically appears when a button will be pressed.

3-To make visible or invisible (or abilited or disabilited) an object, we have to check/unceck the corresponding check box in the object properties window. We can make visible or invisible the objects also by right clicking on theyr name on the object window and selecting the desired state.

4-Depending from the type of object (image, button etc.) in the properties window is possible to check other parameters...

5-The section "Actions" is the most important of the properties window, and the most powerful tool of Neobook: here will be placed the instruction on how the object have to react to the user's actions, such as -in the simplest case- the pressing of a button. All the actions avaible in Neobook are reachable by clicking the "insert action" button on the top right side of the dialog window in the actions section. Any object has his own dialog window, also the pages and the "book" (the entire publication) themselves.

6-Among all the action possible, one of the most useful is the "Control" action: here we can use in a totally automated way the usual indicators of a programming language, such as the "if-else-endif", for creating programmed routines. This can be enanched even more with the use of the variables. The variables too are available from the properties window. A lot of functions in Tarot are depending from encrossed variables.

7-For creating Tarot, a number of resources have been build previously, to make them available during the authoring work: the image background, the images of the 22 tarot cards, the Flash animation for the candle light and all the graphic elements used. They are reachable every time we insert a new object when the properties window automatically appears.

8-All that happens in Tarot application, is the result of the integrated interaction of the various actions connected to the user activity or previewed as automatical running. Please see in the online guide of Neobook the details on the potentiality of this software. Here below some functions of Neobook as applied to realize T A R O T .



















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