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List:       squeak-dev
Subject:    Re: Seeking advice on demos/documentation
From:       Ned Konz <ned () bike-nomad ! com>
Date:       2001-12-29 22:06:25
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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.

-- 
Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
email:     ned@bike-nomad.com
homepage:  http://bike-nomad.com


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