[ge-talk] help SW

[Ari Haviv]

"Show me, don't tell me"
yes, I definitely think Haiku should have interactive training. In XP,
Microsoft Interactive training guides you and tells you to click or
type certain things so that you 'get' it.

Help should be context sensitive as well as global-there should be a
help button on every dialog.

On 1/24/07, Paul van Nugteren <pmvannugteren at eml.cc> wrote:
> Hi, I have this idea in my head for a long time. What haiku should
> really have in the future; a 'show me' -help feature, it should work
> like this; you have a 1) a video or 2) a script which takes over your
> mouse and keyboard for a while
>
> 1) would show you in a seperate window a desktop/window with the app you
> want to know more about, the cursor goes, text balloons pop up etc. but
> all in video
>
> SW which can do this on Windows:
> http://www.more-great-software.com/instantdemo.html found it on this
> page; http://www.powergrep.com/demo.html
>
> While this is great, a scripted program which would literally take your
> mouse and keyboard combined with text balloons, sound, like 2) would be
> a real killer to give a quick start / demo / help etc. for new
> SW/apps/settings etc.
>
> Paul
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