Club Amiga de Montreal - CAM/CAM_CD_1.iso/files/051.lha/Journal/README

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Well, when I was working on MonIDCMP, I wanted to provide a real-life example
of how it could be used for something useful (like HARDCOPY was to MONPROC).
I thought, "Wouldn't it be great to be able to record and play back the events
that went on in a window?"  You could make "Guided Tour" demonstrations, or
turnkey systems that perform all kinds of mouse and keyboard activity, or
you could record the events that demonstrate a bug that you have been able to
produce and send the recorded events to Commodore as documentation of the bug.

But MonIDCMP doesn't have the power to accomplish this:  it can trick a
window into thinking that things have happened, but gadgets would not REALLY be
pressed, and windows would not REALY be resized.  To do it right you have to go
directly to the Input Device and look at the events that are being passed to
Intuition.

I set out to do this.  What I came up with was JOURNAL and PLAYBACK.  To see
what they do and what they are good for, read the following document, which
describes in detail how to use JOURNAL and PLAYBACK.

With a little more work, these could become important documentation tools for
any Amiga software company.  I am willing to do that additional work, but only
if there is sufficient interest.  If you want to see the enhancements I
discuss below (or any of your own design), please contact me and let me know.
I did this mainly as an exercise, but think it would be valuable to continue
work on it, but not if I'm the only one who will use it.

I hope you find these little programs interesting.  I think they're kind of
spooky myself.  I'm not sure I like it when my computer types things for me
without my pressing the keys...

Davide P. Cervone
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