there is a little bit of irony going on here: this is an article about a software package that will go a long way toward rendering printed technical media, such as this journal, obsolete.
last year macromedia purchased the company ehelp and, as a result, acquired robohelp, roboinfo, robohelp for framemaker, robopdf, and robodemo. this purchase, in my opinion, has made macromedia a major player in the e-learning/e-publishing market. in this article, we are going to focus on the lynchpin of that market: robodemo.
robodemo is a way to create highly interactive software simulations. this means that you can record the steps necessary (mouse movements, key strokes, menu options, etc.) to accomplish a task in a video. however, as you will soon see, that is not the end of the possibilities.
creating a movie
as a simple example, lets assume that i want to demonstrate how to start a new html document in dreamweaver. i would begin by opening dreamweaver and robodemo. image i shows the opening robodemo screen.a screen will come up allowing you to select the open program you want to record the video in. this screen is shown in image ii.
after selecting, in this case, macromedia dreamweaver mx 2004, a screen comes up that allows you to pick the hot keys you want to use to start and stop the recording process. there are suggested defaults which, in most cases, work fine.... 下一页