If I can get past a few more bugs, I'm hoping to put a little application out. The documentation is rather sparse, and it seemed to me a walk through a typical usage cycle might help.
I was just going to write a narrative, but it struck me that having a real demo might help. Ideally, it would be good to have something that the user could follow along with, and that would display text messages as it went (my ability to record audio is doubtful, and anyway that would be huge). In this ideal world, the playback could be paused or its pace changed.
I've seen some references to EventRecorder for doing this, and wonder if that is a reasonable place to start.
Also, if people have ideas about other approaches to conveying the information, I'd love to hear them. I know that personally I usually find demos annoying, so I'm not quite sure why it seems appealing to me now. I guess one factor is I think I can produce it faster than a really full-featured documentation set. Since I'm playing around with the application, it's in nothing like a final state, so the complete documentation would be extravagant even if I had tons of time.
Thanks in advance.
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 10:57 pm, Ross Boylan wrote:
I've seen some references to EventRecorder for doing this, and wonder if that is a reasonable place to start.
The EventRecorder records raw events; if the screen is a different size or someone moves a window you could be out of luck. And I don't think it's set up for interactivity.
Also, if people have ideas about other approaches to conveying the information, I'd love to hear them. I know that personally I usually find demos annoying, so I'm not quite sure why it seems appealing to me now. I guess one factor is I think I can produce it faster than a really full-featured documentation set. Since I'm playing around with the application, it's in nothing like a final state, so the complete documentation would be extravagant even if I had tons of time.
I used a bookmorph with live examples for my Connectors Demo.
Another possibility is to do what Tansel did for the SqueakNews and use GeeMail morphs and trigger behavior when you scroll to a certain point. So you can use progress through the GeeMail morph to run your demo.
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