"TC" wrote:

Hi TC,

I'd never heard of camcorder!

I'm sure you're not alone.
I stumbled across it by accident a long time ago.

I just tried it out on win 98, & it worked fine. About 20 seconds
recording gave a 10Mb AVI file (gak!), but a 300Kb stand-alone EXE
file! So the EXE option seems the way to go. (And, the AVI file did
not play back correctly with Windows Media Player v9.)

Yep, the AVI files were huge, but the EXE compressed files were all between 300-500K
Very reasonable size.
I placed them all in a 'Help' folder and launched them from my form.
Worked really nice.

It seems to use some VXD's, so that is why it would only work on win
9x. MS must have decided not to rewrite those for win 2k+.

You could be right about that.

I guess the "win 9x only" restriction will kill it eventually. But it
has certainly prompted me to think of looking at similar products for
creating tutorials and help information.

Incidentally, out of curiosity I ran my old Help EXE files I created from
Camcorder on a Windows XP system to see if they would play.
They played just fine with no problems at all!

I'm sure there are very similar products out there and probably more powerful as well.
Microsoft may sell something themselves, I just haven't really looked around.

--
Jeff Conrad
Access Junkie
Bend, Oregon
*280 Days Left*

"Jeff Conrad" wrote in message
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Hi Brendan,

Humm...I may just have to test this out with different configurations for my own curiosity.
Thanks for the info.

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Jeff Conrad
Access Junkie
Bend, Oregon
*281 Days Left*

"Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message
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Recording. I don't think it will work with ME, but it's been a while, I
could be wrong. And no, it was not included with any version later than 97.

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"Jeff Conrad" wrote in message
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Hi Brendan,

Are you referring to the actual recording process or the 'playing' process
on later Windows
versions?
I know the utility could not record using an NT machine, but I could play
them on one.
I used 98 to record all the Help files.
Since Jan is still using ME, maybe by chance it works with that OS???

Just a thought.
Do you know if that came bundled with 2000, 2002, or 2003?

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"Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message
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Unfortunately, Camcorder doesn't work with recent versions of Windows.
Some
problem with a missing video codec, whatever that means.

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"Jeff Conrad" wrote in message
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Hi Jan,

Just a suggestion from left field.
Do you or your office still have a copy of Office 97 Professional
Edition?
On that CD is a program called Microsoft Camcorder.
In essence it is a utility that "records" what you are doing on the
screen.
You press start to record and then stop to finish.
You can then compress and covert the .avi output file to an .exe file.
The file could still be pretty big if you record for a very long time,
but
burning it onto a CD
should be no problem.
You could break up certain aspects of the project into smaller chunks.

I have a personal restaurant database I have been working on for a
couple
of years and for Version
1.0 ALL of my Help files were created with this utility. For example,
to
display posting an invoice
I simply recorded an example. All of the Help topics were launched
from a
"Help Form." It worked
very well, but became too much maintenance as the project became MUCH
bigger.

Since these are .exe files, virtually any computer should be able to
open
the files whether or not
they have any Access/Office version. I'm not sure if this utility came
bundled with later Office
versions. I know you can also purchase programs like these as well.

Just a thought.

--
Jeff Conrad
Access Junkie
Bend, Oregon
*281 Days Left*

"Jan Il" wrote in message
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Hi All - Access 2002 XP - Win ME

Is there an Viewer for Access like the one for Word? I need to show
a
sample
of an Access app. on a machine that does not have Access loaded.

If so, I would truly appreciate a reference or a link where I can
downloaded
it. I've been searching for one on the Internet for the past hour or
so,
but, haven't turned up any information for one yet. Just thought I'd
see
if
one was available before I went any further. :-)

Best regards.

Jan
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