Seeking advice on demos/documentation
Ned Konz
ned at bike-nomad.com
Sat Dec 29 22:06:25 UTC 2001
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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Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
email: ned at bike-nomad.com
homepage: http://bike-nomad.com
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