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Re: Any suggestion about INTERACTIVE tutorial's making?
Subject:Re: Any suggestion about INTERACTIVE tutorial's making? From:John Brandon <jbrandon -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 11 Jan 1998 19:06:08 -0600
>> My interest is related to the fact that this kind of programs seemed
>> to be able to use the REAL software, maybe by using a script recording
>> mechanism like AppleScript or something like that. <snip>
>>
>> Does anybody know how these CBT were made? Any personal
>> comment/suggestion regarding this topic?
You might think script recording is the way to go, but often times it's
faster and easier to create the screen movement by hand. Most professionals
use products liek Macromedia Director or Authorware. However, there are
cheap but good programs like Lotus ScreenCam that work okay for this: it is
esssentially a glorified script recorder in that you can augment the
recording in a variety of ways using some very easy to learn and use tools.
You will notice that many of the Microsoft products don't appear to give
credit to anyone for their tutorials (e.g., the Macromedia logo doesn't
appear at the end like it is supposed to). This is because Microsoft has
several thousand programmers and they create their tutorials in C.
