Comments on: ScreenCast 1 – Adding an Explore Tool

By: Issam Ali

Issam Ali — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:37:37 +0000

Hi,
I have another idea, use $PATH($PROJECT)
see my old post:
http://www.blog.issamsoft.com/?q=en/node/10
or if you wish you can use $PATH($edname) to deal with single file.

By: Jim McKeeth

Jim McKeeth — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:58:54 +0000

@Mike – I tried it on XP and Vista again and it worked. I am guessing you missed a space or something. Check out the follow up post:

http://www.delphi.org/2008/09/update-on-explore-tool/

I posted that specifically to answer your concern, but forgot to follow up with you specifically.

By: mikeg

mikeg — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:51:54 +0000

Thanks, and waiting for the next screencasts!

However, the explore tool did not work as advertised on my XP – it just opened the desktop folder.

By: Xepol

Xepol — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:19:55 +0000

Ok, animation works on line – there is, however, a long loading delay in IE8b2. After clicking the play button, the screen goes white and appears to sit idle before the video eventually comes back and starts playing. I just wasn’t patient enough earlier. In fact, the first time this time I sat for a while and it came up just as I clicked the back button assuming it had failed online again.

By: James Nagle

James Nagle — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:01:15 +0000

Nice first cast. Worked perfect in Firefox 3.

By: Leonard Gallion

Leonard Gallion — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:50:46 +0000

Nice Jing-cast and a handy tip too. I maintain a desktop folder for each of my project just for this purpose and now I am kicking myself that a simpler solution was at hand all this time. Keep em coming

By: Steven Kamradt

Steven Kamradt — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:43:53 +0000

Thanks Jim for a successful first test, although it only played online. I guess my Zune player doesn’t support flash… yet.

By: Klaus Edelmann

Klaus Edelmann — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:48:36 +0000

Hello Jim!
Great first test! I couldn’t figure out how you managed it to swap with Jing from a static image to the application. But it made me testing a bit more with this cool tool.
Regards,
Klaus

By: Jim McKeeth

Jim McKeeth — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:15:37 +0000

This is the only thing I have used tools|Configure Tools for in about that long.

You might have better luck playing it online instead of downloading it. Thanks for the feedback though. I’ll try converting it to other formats. The SWF seemed to the smallest.

By: Xepol

Xepol — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:10:31 +0000

Might just be me, but after a large download, all I got was the picture and a lot of talking.

I use Jeremy North’s explore here wizard for 2007 myself, but still an interesting tip.

Am I the only one who has gone more than decade without touching tools|Configure Tools… for anything?