Somewhat OT - Demo RAD tool for the Mac

[cassj]

Wolfgang-

I had not heard of the RoboDemo application either.  However, a quick 
Google search (RoboDemo Windows) returned many results.  Here's one:  
http://www.ehelp.com/products/robodemo/

There's an online demo.  According to this website, "RoboDemo records 
the use of any on-screen activity and plays it back as a Flash movie, 
complete with mouse movements."  Sounds pretty cool.  System 
Requirements are:

RoboDemo System Requirements

To create movies with RoboDemo, your system should be equipped with the 
following:

Hardware

     * Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, or XP
     * 32/64 MB of memory (64/128 MB recommended)
     * 12.5 MB available disk space
     * Pentium II 200MHz or faster processor

Software and accessories

     * Internet Explorer 4.0 or later
     * Microphone for recording sound
     * Speakers and sound card
     * Internet connection to obtain software updates and to publish 
movies to the Web
     * Mouse or other pointing device

Regards,
Cassj


On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 05:48 AM, Wolfgang M. Bereuter wrote:

>
> On Dienstag, Jänner 21, 2003, at 10:44  Uhr, William T. Simmons wrote:
>
>> Somewhat OT - Demo RAD tool for the Mac
>> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>
>> To all those who responded as quoted below, thanks! However, screen 
>> capture
>> is not the problem (I've got SnapzPro X and love it), but rather 
>> taking the
>> captures and building a Flash movie that also shows interpolated mouse
>> movements and clicks, basically, a software video camera that outputs 
>> to SWF
>> format. Someone mentioned (off-list) Adobe's LiveMotion as a great 
>> media
>> import and SWF building tool for the Mac, but it doesn't offer 
>> integrated
>> screen capturing. I guess I'm looking for a dedicated tool that does 
>> it all:
>> screen captures, frame modifications and effects, and SWF generation. 
>> Any
>> ideas along those lines?
>
> Lol to some answers before...
> I dont know this Robocop..?
> But... I think I know what you are looking for.
> So the answer to your question "is there such a tool for the Mac" is: 
> yes and no.
> No, because its Win only *at the moment*.
> Yes, because the Mac version will come out soon, when Sun declares 
> Java 1.4 as final. What happened, if I remember well some days ago. 
> (There was a Mac version of release 1 but this was based on Java - not 
> so good...Then they have changed to swf file format)
> Therefore the solution is imho: www.qarbon.com/
> A great tool! You can do real authoring, capturing screenshots and 
> combine with other multimedia elements, linking and more and save it 
> finally as a sfw file.
>
> As I said, I dont know this robo... (if you have an URL Ill have a 
> look) but what I have seen from qarbon viewlets: Thats the tool! If 
> you look for a professional (crossplatform) solution (Linux and 
> Solaris will come too) ... And it must not be ready tomorrow for the 
> Mac... (there will be light version too)
> And: Its fascinatingly easy to use... (I hearded they have a Mac 
> background);)
>
> And... yes you can "embed" this viewlet-files in rev as a QT element
> I have tested it... (And I m still hoping that rev will sometimes 
> support swf files without QT)
>
> Maybe an not so expensive alternative could be SnapzPro X + eZedia MX 
> + Qt Pro.
> Now with Qt 6 the difference in filesize between mov and swf files is 
> not so big like in older Qt versions..
>
> Hope that helps...
>
> regards
> Wolfgang M. Bereuter
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