Posting Your Own MicroWorlds Project on Your Internet Browser

The MicroWorlds Web Player that you have just downloaded allows you to view MicroWorlds projects in your Internet Browser. An exciting feature is that you can use MicroWorlds 2.0 (Macintosh: MicroWorlds 2.03) and MicroWorlds Pro as the authoring tool for this dynamic interactive content. Almost any MicroWorlds project can be included on a Web page, but there are certain limitations. The following provides some tips and instructions for including a MicroWorlds project on a Web page.

Tips for Creating Projects

When creating a project to be viewed on the Web, the most important consideration is the size of the whole project, including media resources such as sounds, movies, and midi files. We highly recommend limiting the project size to under 250k. Here are some tips to help you:

• Do not include digital movies.
• Do make nice graphics but reduce the project size to about 400 by 300. Use the newprojectsize command to create a project in the recommended size.
• Do not make or import long sounds.
• Include as much MIDI music as you like.

The following primitives are not available in the MicroWorlds Web Player:

cc
closeworksheet MW PRO only
exporttext MW PRO only
getcell MW PRO only
importtext MW PRO only
loadshape
loadpict
loadtext
merge
newprojectsize
openworksheet MW PRO only
placepict
printtext
procedures
savehtml
savepict
saveproject
saveshape
savetext
setcell MW PRO only
setfooter
show (automatically changes to announce in Web Player mode)

In addition, the primitives that access your hard disk are not available. Therefore, do not include the above primitives in a project for viewing with the Web Player. Use buttons to run your programs as well as to change pages in the project since there is no Pages menu. Then follow the steps for viewing in the Web Player.

Finally, since the Internet is not specific as to system configuration, the following tips will help you make your project compatible with different hardware configurations/platforms:

• If your project has transparent text boxes (used as labels or decorative text), stamp the text with the stamper to make it part of the background graphics, and then delete the text box with the scissors. In this way, the font/color/size will remain the same on any system so your page layout will be unchanged.
  
• Your projects may be accessed in languages such as Spanish or Portuguese. Do not use a decimal point or coma as a decimal separator. Instead, use the divisor sign, e.g., type 21 / 10 instead of 2.1. If your Operating System is set to "," for the decimal separator, the Web Player will not be able to do calculations and your program will not run.

Steps to View Your Project with the Web Player:

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