RE: Tool to create interactive demos?

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

Thanks Mike! That's exactly what I had in mind. Unfortunately, I don't a
product of that description in Rocket's products list. I suspect they
morphed it into "RocketMyWeb".

Leonard C. Porrello
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Hamilton [mailto:mhamilton -at- madcapsoftware -dot- com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:45 PM
To: Leonard C. Porrello
Subject: RE: Tool to create interactive demos?

Hi Leonard,

Back in the Blue Sky Software days there was a company called Rocket
Software or RocketSoft or some such that had a tool that did what you
are asking about. It basically created a transparent "interaction"
overlay layer on top of the actual software that would intercept mouse
clicks and keyboard actions. I know because at the time we almost bought
the technology from them. I have no idea if they are still around or not
of if they still have this product available but it might be a place to
start searching. If I remember correctly it worked well with C++
applications, it worked OK with VB applications but didn't work at all
with web applications. Of course a lot may have changed since this is
data and observations from years ago.

Good luck,

Mike Hamilton
V.P. Product Management
MadCap Software
mhamilton -at- madcapsoftware -dot- com

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> Subject: RE: Tool to create interactive demos?
> 
> I mean an application that can run with the software so that when the
> user is, say, prompted by the tutorial to enter values into a field,
> the
> tutorial will guide him to the field in the actual (embedded?) GUI.
The
> values the user enters will really affect the actual application. When
> the user is finished entering values for the given step, the tutorial
> software would notice and present the next step, etc.
> 
> Leonard C. Porrello
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hailey [mailto:david -dot- hailey -at- usu -dot- edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:03 PM
> To: Leonard C. Porrello; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Tool to create interactive demos?
> 
> Hi Leonard,
> 
> Could you be more specific? Do you mean a tutorial for simulating a
> software or a tutorial that drives the software or one that can run
> parallel to the software or something else?
> 
> 
> David E. Hailey, Jr., Ph.D.
> Associate Professor -- Professional and Technical Writing
> Utah State University
> dhailey -at- english -dot- usu -dot- edu
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> Behalf Of Leonard C. Porrello
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:43 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Tool to create interactive demos?
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of a good tool for creating tutorials (similar to
> ViewletBuilder or Camtasia) in which actual GUIs can be embedded so
> that
> as the user works through the tutorial, he is actually working in the
> application?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Leonard C. Porrello
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