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Subject:Re: QUERY: animations in online help From:AlQuin <cbon -at- WXS -dot- NL> Date:Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:42:20 +0100
On 22-01-1999 08:20 -Melanie Albrecht- wrote:
>The software that we are documenting has some similarities with CAD
>programs - lots of manipulation of 3D models, buttons to click, and
>selections to be made. Some of these tasks lend themselves to animation,
>being complex and difficult to describe in easy-to-understand terms. Other
>tasks are trivial. Should we have long-ish animations showing many tasks,
>or should we have lots of little ones? And should we have animations for
>only those tasks which are complex, leaving the simple ones to text-only
>descriptions, or is consistency more important, so that all tasks should
>have animations?
Describe your tasks problem-centered: what am I aiming to do: Create a
parts-breakdown or draw a line... Describing complex tasks will include
simple ones as well. Consider an extensive index system to locate these
small tasks.
Possibly chunking your stuff into smaller wizard-like components is an
intermediaite choice.
My two eurocents..
Kees de Bondt
AlQuin
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