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 a text editor or a 3rd party IDE is needed.
-[https://www.softwareandcircuits.com/division/amiga/products/cubic/index.html Cubic IDE] offers the best development environment for Hollywood programming on MorphOS. With the Cubic IDE [http://www.hollywood-mal.com/download.html add-on] you'll get syntax highlighting, automatic casing, online help, quick access to documentation,
+The easiest way to get started is with [[Applications/FlowStudio|Flow Development Studio]], which is bundled with MorphOS. It includes a lexer for Hollywood, and offers syntax highlighting and other features.
 automatic indentation, bracket matching, auto completion of keywords, compile and run options, and a lot more.
-MiniHollyEdit NG could also be a good freeware option, but it's broken in its current state and needs an
+MiniHollyEdit NG could also be a good freeware option, but it's broken in its current state and needs an update first.
 An IDE with Hollywood support is the most comfortable solution of course, but any other text editor will also do.

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 (Windows-only APK Compiler is required for the Android support).
-[[File:HollywoodCourse-CubicIDE.gif|thumb|240px|Cubic IDE with Hollywood add-on]]
+[[File:HollywoodCourse-CubicIDE.gif|frame|240px|Cubic IDE with the Hollywood add-on]]
 [http://www.hollywood-mal.com/designer.html Hollywood Designer] is an Amiga-only add-on to create multimedia presentations in a WYSIWYG GUI. It works
 on Amiga compatible platforms including MorphOS, but the resulting presentations can be compiled for any

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 (Windows-only APK Compiler is required for the Android support).
 [http://www.hollywood-mal.com/designer.html Hollywood Designer] is an Amiga-only add-on to create multimedia presentations in a WYSIWYG GUI. It works
 on Amiga compatible platforms including MorphOS, but the resulting presentations can be compiled for any
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 === Running a Script ===
 Hollywood scripts can be run from the Hollywood main executable (the interpreter), and while the main executable
 accepts tens of command line [http://www.hollywood-mal.com/docs/html/hollywood/ManualUsage.html arguments], you don't usually need many of them.
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 To run a script from the shell:
   Hollywood MyProgram.hws

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 === Running a Script ===
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 Hollywood scripts can be run from the Hollywood main executable (the interpreter), and while the main executable
 accepts tens of command line [http://www.hollywood-mal.com/docs/html/hollywood/ManualUsage.html arguments], you don't usually need many of them.
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 Hollywood has a built-in resource monitor, which can be activated with the '''-resourcemonitor''' argument.
 You should check the resources your application uses and that you aren't increasing the memory usage
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   Hollywood MyProgram.hws -compile MyProgram
 With the above command you get an executable called "MyProgram" that will run on the same archtecture it
 was compiled on.
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 Or for multiple platforms at once:
-  Hollywood MyProgram.hws -compile MyProgram.exe -exetype morphos|amigaos4|win32|applet
+  Hollywood MyProgram.hws -compile MyProgram -exetype morphos|amigaos4|win32|applet
 If you want to compress your own data (script and linked data files), add the '''-compress''' argument:
-  Hollywood MyProgram.hws -compile MyProgram.exe -exetype morphos|amigaos4|win32|applet -compress
+  Hollywood MyProgram.hws -compile MyProgram -exetype morphos|amigaos4|win32|applet -compress
 Compressing can make executables smaller, but it also "hides" any plaintext data from the executables if
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 * [http://forums.hollywood-mal.com/ Hollywood forums]
 * [https://www.softwareandcircuits.com/division/amiga/products/cubic/index.html Cubic IDE]
 * [http://jpv.wmhost.com/morphos/hollywood/ Files from this tutorial]

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 * [https://www.softwareandcircuits.com/division/amiga/products/cubic/index.html Cubic IDE]
 * [https://morph.zone Discussion about this article and MorphOS programming]
-* [http://jpv.wmhost.com/ Files from this tutorial]
+* [http://jpv.wmhost.com/morphos/hollywood/ Files from this tutorial]

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 == System-Friendly GUI Example ==
+=== Preface ===
 Standard Hollywood applications are somewhat limited when implementing GUI functionality into them. System menus and all kinds of
 requesters can be made, but if you want buttons or other GUI elements inside the Hollywood display, you have to draw them with
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 MorphOS, and MUI Royale offers a bit more operating system specific features than the more generic RapaGUI. In any case, when you
 have learned one of these, it's easy to jump to the other too.
 The most important thing to learn now is to look at information about [http://www.hollywood-mal.com/docs/html/muiroyale/Applicability.html applicability] in the [http://www.hollywood-mal.com/docs/html/muiroyale/ documentation]. Every available
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 '''S''' (set value of a MUI object attribute) and '''G''' (get value of a MUI object attribute) can be used from the actual Hollywood script
 at runtime. '''N''' can be used in both to handle notifications of attributes.
 Let's have a look at the '''XML file''' first. Create a text file and save it as '''muigui.xml'''.
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 After finishing our definitions we have working code for the GUI part of our program!
 Let's modify our previous example script to work with the MUI GUI now, and add some fancy new features as well.

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		+	== Summary ==

	This tutorial has hopefully given you some understanding of Hollywood programming, and it should be easier to learn more about the language		This tutorial has hopefully given you some understanding of Hollywood programming, and it should be easier to learn more about the language