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"David Demyan" <dbdemyan -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net> wrote:
> Steve said...
> One of my first assignments at my new job is to create an online tutorial
> for a "Try and Buy" version of the software. They want the tutorial to
> remain "always on top" and guide the user through several sample
scenarios
> (the software will have most of its functionality turned on). I've
created
> Flash product demos and online Help systems in the past but nothing like
> this. What are the usual authoring tools for this? Time and money may
be a
> factor, but I don't know enough yet to evaluate that.
Shouldn't you be able to do this in the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop,
or RoboHelp? I recall seeing a setting in one of these for a floating
window, or something similar ....
>
> I was thinking that perhaps some sort of Wizard might serve the
purpose--I
> have an evaluation version of a wizard creator from Coyote Software but I
> haven't been able to try it yet. Or is there anyway to use online Help
for
> the job?
This sounds like it might do the trick, if designed properly. However, as
the Wizard creator is a demo, your final product might have something
like "CREATED BY A DEMO OF COYOTE SOFTWARE'S WIZARD MATRIX BECAUSE DAVID
DEMYAN DIDN'T PAY FOR THE FULL VERSION" stamped all over it.
This would be a Bad Thing(tm).
(*snip*)
--gdw
> Dave Demyan
"The four food groups? Sure I remember. They are 'Order Out,' 'Take-in,'
'Frozen,' and 'Canned.'"
--D.D. McCall
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