Re: Programs to create a software walk-through?

[Gregory P Sweet <gps03 -at- health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us>]

We replaced Camtasia with Captivate to get the e-learning features and
easier output to Flash Captivate seemed to offer. However it wasn't worth
it because Captivate project files seem to corrupt very easily. I have a
several hours of files that need to be recaptured from scratch beacuse the
project files corrupted and will no longer open.

Cuase of the corruption (get this) I transferred the files to a network
drive for storage. Seems Captivate doesn't allow this. Found a tech note on
macrodobe's site and nearly hit the roof when I read that you can;t move
the files off your HD.

FYI: Camtasia is a Techsmith product, Capitvate is an Adobe (formely
Macromedia, formerly RoboDemo) product.

Gregory P. Sweet
Health Media Training Specialist

Bureau of HEALTHCOM Network Systems Management
New York State Department of Health



                                                                           
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Thanks for the suggestion...

The reason I'm leaning more towards something that 'flows' is the nature
of the screens and the workflow involved. Most of these screens have
upwards of 70 fields, with many of those not necessary to the 'typical'
operations performed. By using callouts, and possibly using voice, the
necessary sequence of events to accomplish the typical tasks can
hopefully be more easily visualized.


John Garison wrote:
> If it's a character-based UI, it can't be very fancy, so why not stay
> simple? Consider putting together a series of HTML pages with lots of
> screen shots and guiding text. You get the same content, but quick and
> easy to produce, simple to host, and fitting with the rest of the
> product.
>
> Take a look at http://www.gardencomposer.com/demo-planner.html for an
> example of what I'm talking about.
>
>
> John G
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