Trying to be too careful in describing a new topic is often counter-productive. So it is with the screencast plugin. Really, the ideas are straightforward; it's only the communication that is harder ;-)
Here is my first draft of an executive summary of the plugin. This will be the first part of the plugin's docstring:: - Within @screencast trees, the body text of nodes contain scripts. As usual, nodes without body text are organizer nodes. - The 'm' variable in these scripts is a ScreenCastController (SCC). - The SCC handles keystrokes, executes the script in each node, and provides convenience methods to show key handling, captions and (scaled) graphics. - When the human presenter types <Right Arrow>, the SCC executes the script in the next node (in outline order). The SCC ignores @ignore-node nodes and @ignore-tree trees. - Each slide's appearance is just the appearance of the Leo window after the SCC executes the node's script. However, the SCC shows the body text of each @text node as it is, rather than treating it as a script. - A screencast is the sequence of slides as shown by the SCC. Within a screencast, the SCC manages keystrokes flexibly so that both scripts and the human presenter can demonstrate Leo's minibuffer-based commands as each slide is shown. Your comments, please. Later in the docstring I plan to say the following: To create a series of screenshots with a tool like Wink, one would simply do RtArrow, Shift-Pause over and over again. Alternatively, if you have a tool that will record the screen as a movie, you would just start that tool and hit RtArrow repeatedly. The point is that we expect that the appearance of each slide of the screencast will be *exactly* the way one wants it. No post-production required! The contrast with the old slideshow plugin is extreme. Edward P.S. Creating pithy little bullet items revealed something very interesting about writing introductions, namely that order matters a great deal. With small items, it was easy for me to see the effect of rearranging text. I tried a great many different orders. It's a tricky puzzle because items that appear early in the list can't use terms defined later. EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/-/WbA6FmlMztsJ. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
