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'''Hollywood''' is a commercially distributed programming language developed by Andreas Falkenhahn (Airsoft Softwair) which mainly focuses on the creation of multimedia-oriented applications. Hollywood is available for [[AmigaOS]] (68k, PowerPC), [[MorphOS]], [[WarpOS]], [[AROS]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Mac OS XmacOS]] (x86, x64, PowerPC), [[Linux]] (x86, x64, PowerPC, arm), and [[Android (operating system)|Android]], (playerand only)[[iOS]]. Hollywood has an inbuilt [[cross compiler]] that can automatically save executables for all platforms supported by the software. The generated executables are completely stand-alone and do not have any external dependencies, so they can also be started from a [[USB flash drive]]. An optional add-on also allows users to compile projects into [[Android application package|APK]] files.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywood-mal.com/features.html |title=Hollywood - Features |website=Hollywood-mal.com |date= |accessdate=2016-07-17}}</ref>

The Hollywood Designer is an add-on for Hollywood with which it is possible to use Hollywood also as a presentation software and an [[authoring system]].

==History==

Hollywood has its roots on the [[Amiga]] computer. Inspired by Amiga programming languages like [[AMOS (programming language)|AMOS]], [[Blitz BASIC]], and [[Amiga E]], Hollywood author Andreas Falkenhahn began development of Hollywood in Spring 2002 after finishing his A-levels.<ref>Johnson, Magnus: Interview with Andreas Falkenhahn. Total Amiga 21 (2005), pp. 14-15.</ref> Version 1.0 of the software was released in November 2002, but only for [[Motorola 68000|68000]]-based Amiga systems. A month later, a native version for the [[PowerPC]]-based MorphOS followed.<ref>Schaefer, Robbie: Hollywood Multimedia. AMIGAplus 132 (2003), pp. 24-26.</ref> Support for WarpOS was introduced with Hollywood 1.9 which appeared in Spring 2004 together with the first release of the Hollywood Designer, a tool which can be used to create presentations with Hollywood. AmigaOS 4 is supported since March 2005. Starting with version 2.0 (released in January 2006), Hollywood is using the [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] programming language as its [[virtual machine]], but with significant modifications in [[syntax]] and functionality.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lua-uses.html |title=Lua: user projects |website=Inf.puc-rio.br |date=2003-01-07 |accessdate=2016-07-17}}</ref> Starting with version 3.0 (January 2008), Hollywood for the first time also runs on two non Amiga inspired operating systems: Microsoft Windows and Mac OS XmacOS. Since version 4.5 (January 2010) Hollywood is also available with an [[integrated development environment]] on Windows. Since version 4.8 (April 2011) Hollywood can also compile executables for [[Linux]]. Hollywood 5.0 was released in February 2012 and introduces support for video playback and vector image formats like SVG. Starting with version 5.2 Hollywood also supports Android. Hollywood 6.0 was released in February 2015 and introduces support for [[OpenGL]] programming via a dedicated plugin as well as support for the [[Raspberry Pi]]. Hollywood 7.0 was released in March 2017 and introduces [[Unicode]] support and support for [[64-bit]] architectures.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.hollywood-mal.com/index.html |title=Hollywood - Multimedia Application Layer |website=Hollywood-mal.com |date= |accessdate=2016-07-17}}</ref>

==General information==

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=== GUI development ===

There are several GUI toolkits for Hollywood. RapaGUI is a cross-platform GUI plugin for Hollywood which supports Windows, Mac OS XmacOS, Linux, and AmigaOS. RapaGUI uses native GUI controls provided by the respective host operating system giving all RapaGUI applications a native look and feel. MUI Royale is a GUI toolkit for Hollywood which can be used to create GUIs using the [[Magic User Interface]]. Another GUI toolkit for Hollywood is HGui.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.a-mc.biz/_software/hgui-gui-toolkit-for-hollywood/ |title=HGui |website=a-mc.biz |date= |accessdate=2017-04-01}}</ref> In contrast to RapaGUI and MUI Royale, HGui draws its GUI controls itself which makes its graphical user interfaces look exactly the same on every platform.

=== Compiler ===

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== Development environment ==

There is no [[integrated development environment]] for the Amiga-compatible version of Hollywood. On these systems, [[Cubic IDE]] and [[Codebench]] can be used to develop with Hollywood as these have support for the Hollywood language through plugins.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://code.google.com/p/hw4c/ |title=Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting |website=Code.google.com |date= |accessdate=2016-07-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://codebench.co.uk/ |title=Welcome to the home of CodeBench |website=Codebench.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2016-07-17}}</ref> On Windows, Hollywood comes with an integrated development environment that can be used to create Hollywood scripts. The [[Mac OS XmacOS]] and [[Linux]] versions of Hollywood do not come with an IDE either and can be controlled from the console or else integrated into other IDEs.

== Hello World program ==

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Technically speaking, Hollywood Designer does nothing else but automatically generate scripts for Hollywood according to the layout defined by the user in the [[GUI]].<ref>Gutjahr, Christoph: Hollywood 1.9, Malibu and Hollywood Designer. The Triple Dream Factory. AMIGAplus 147 (2004), pp. 44-47.</ref> The process of generating scripts and running them using Hollywood is entirely hidden from the user so that programming skills are not necessary for using Hollywood Designer.<ref>Williams, Robert: Hollywood 2.0 The Sequel. Total Amiga 23 (2006), pp. 40-42.</ref> However, because Hollywood Designer merely generates scripts for Hollywood, the latter is a mandatory requirement for Hollywood Designer.

The first version of Hollywood Designer was released in April 2004.<ref>Steigerwald, Martin: Multimedia pur. Amiga Magazin 7/2004, pp. 7-9.</ref> Currently, the software is only available for Amiga compatible operating systems. However, thanks to the Hollywood cross-compiler, it can also save stand-alone executables for [[Windows]], [[Mac OS XmacOS]] and [[Linux]] from the Amiga platform.

==References==