Recording Demonstrations

1. Make sure you have made copies of any files, including databases, that your demonstration will change. You will probably need to restore these before playing back the demonstration, because typically your program will require different responses if the data it manipulates is in a different state

2. On the operating system command line, load the Redirect utility with this command:

   RED<x> -WRITE <drive:path:filename> <program name>

   For <x>, enter the identifying character for your operating system (2 for MS-DOS, 3 for UNIX, 5 for FlexOS, 7 for OS/2 and w for Windows)

   For example: REDW -WRITE custenq.red DP4 loads Redirect into memory, and starts up the DP4 menu system under Windows. The keystrokes are recorded in the file custenq.red in the current directory. You can use REDn to run any program, including a batch file, as long as the only user input will come from DP4 programs

3. The DP4 program runs. Select options and enter text as normal, but make sure you only use the keyboard as REDn does not support recording the mouse, at least for 4.6xx versions. All the actions that you take are recorded in the Redirect file

4. Press <Ctrl+B> if you want to pause a demonstration for a short interval, or add a message that is displayed when the redirect file is played back. The Redirect action popup is displayed:

   Redirection for map 10100 field 8 Select action after this field 1 Continue 2 Pause 3 Display message and pause Enter option required 3 Enter pause speed required 3

   The options available are as follows:

   Option	Action
   Continue	Exits from the menu and continues recording
   Pause	Inserts a pause interval into the demonstration playback. Enter the 'pause speed' as a number from 1 to 9, where 1 gives the longest pause The length of the pause is affected by the 'Demo pause time' in the User Preferences. This is set to 120 by default, giving a 12 second time delay for a pause speed of 1, and a 4 second delay for a pause speed of 3
   Display a message and pause	Enter the 'pause speed', and press <Enter>. You are prompted to enter a message, which can consist of up to 6 rows, 60-characters in length.

   
   

5. Exit the DP4 program. The Redirect program terminates

Recording Demonstrations for 4.6xx Releases

In 4.6xx there are some limitations with the Redirect facility which can make it a little hard to create redirect files. The two main problems are as follows:

• Mouse clicks and other navigation using the mouse are not recorded at all. When creating a redirect file you must not use the mouse.
• There are various places where the space bar does not get recorded either. In particular you cannot use the space bar to set the value of a checkbox or radio button field. However a space bar added to a redirect file manually will be played back correctly at least for a checkbox.
• If you press a button using the spacebar DP4 records the key corresponding to the button, not the spacebar itself. Usually this does not matter.