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 Post subject: Creating Video demo of application
PostPosted: May 30th, 2007, 9:08 pm 
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I am trying to produce a video demonstration of an application. I recorded the publication, played it back to check it was OK, then changed to video creater type and published it. The process works fine, however the video produced is not the same as the recorded publication.
In my publication, I have an error trap at the start to check a DLL file is in the system32 directory, if not an error page is shown. This works fine in preview and published versions, however, in the video, it goes to the error page as if it can't find the file. I can't figure out why it doesn't work?? Any ideas??

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PostPosted: May 31st, 2007, 4:21 am 
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Sandy --

I may be wrong, but I believe the OPUS video is just that -- it's a video. There is no interactivity, menus, writing to files, launching web pages -- it's a video. It runs in a linear fashion from start to finish -- that's all. If it can do more than that, I'd be interested in knowing.

Why not just create a standard executable which sits on each Page for so many seconds, and uses Timelines to cause Objects to come and go, THEN you'd have the ability to do checking for files, etc.

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Thanks Demofred,
The problem is not when it's running the video after I created it. The problem is during the process of creating the video.
What I'm not sure of is what happens when you create a video from a recording of the publication?? I initially thought it just converted the recorded publication to a video, but now I suspect it uses the saved mouse/keystrokes to drive the publication and make the video from that, but I still can't understand why it appears not to find the DLL file while in this process. I put a variable on the start up page to see what is in the <SYSTEM_WINSYS_DIR> and it sees the correct directory. At all other times, it runs perfect, but when I try to create the video, it fails to find the DLL file?? which is definitely in the directory.

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