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Hi! I'll do my best to answer your questions, but please let me know if anything doesn't make sense to you, and I will try to explain more clearly.

1:

When you're doing the style settings in Dialogizer, there's two key attributes to get it to animate with sound. The first is "tsound" which specifies a sound to play for each word, and the second is "speed" which specifies how fast or slow the text will appear.

For example, if you have a script in a field and a sound:

o:()
o.tsound:"sound1"
o.speed:3
dd.open[deck o]
dd.say[field1.value]
dd.close[]

2:

When you play a sound using the "play" command you can specify that you want it to loop. When you do this then it will loop continuously including over other cards, until a command is used to stop it.

To start a sound:

play["sound1" "loop"]

and to stop it:

play[0 "loop"]

3:

One way to make it easier to keep animation frames consistent and lined up is to use the grid functionality. When you're in drawing mode, in the View menu there is an option to "Show Grid Overlay" which will add a grid to the screen that you can use to line everything up. And if you click "Grid and Scale..." then you can change the size of the grid if you need to.

4:

Yes! As part of the setup for Puppeteer, you will have added an "on animate do" function - this is what Dialogizer uses to work at the same time as Puppeteer and other scripts. So if you add the zazz commands here then they will run as well.

For example, in a current project I have this in a card-level script to make the zazz animations work.

on view do
 zazzanimations[]
 go[card]
end
on zazzanimations do
 zazz.flipbook[coffee coffeeframes 0.0015]
end
on animate do
 zazzanimations[]
 pt.animate[deck]
end

I've put the zazz command in its own function so that I only have to change it in one place.

5:

So basically you will need to create a separate card with checkboxes on it, to store the values. E.g. make a card called "flags". Then you add a checkbox on this card named "gotkey"

You can in your code refer to the value of this card like so:

#to get the value
flags.widgets.gotkey.value
#or to set the value
flags.widgets.gotkey.value:1

You can reset it by having some code that runs at the start to reset the value to 0, or if you set the checkbox as "volatile" then it will automatically reset when the deck opens.

I hope this all makes sense. If you have more questions I'm sure people here would be happy to help out.

And I think it is absolutely OK to share projects that aren't in English. I know there have been a few Decker projects that are in languages other than English. People may not be able to understand it but you shouldn't let that stop you!