This tool is often classified as a courseware authoring program for producing educational applications, but it is flexible enough to be suitable for many kinds of multimedia applications. Authorware Professional provides all of the basic support for hypermedia linking, full-color image display, and audio playback. It also provides built-in routines for requesting and monitoring user input, conditional branching, and building a flowchart and navigational map of the entire application. This high-level structural approach to authoring is ideally suited for applications that teach, or need to present series of events in a very ordered manner.
Authorware Professional is a high-end development environment for rapid prototyping and creating engaging interactive multimedia applications for either Windows or the Macintosh.