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Hi Brendan,
Curiosity got the best of me so I tried this out some more for fun. Microsoft Camcorder installs and runs just fine on Windows ME. The AVI output shows nothing but a blank screen. However, compressing to an EXE file runs just fine on 98, ME, NT, and XP. I'm pretty sure it will run on 2000 as well and I'll test that on Monday to be sure. Just FYI. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... 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. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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? -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon *281 Days Left* "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... Unfortunately, Camcorder doesn't work with recent versions of Windows. Some problem with a missing video codec, whatever that means. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 Smiles are meant to be shared, that's why they're so contagious. |
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I've downloaded a half dozen or so of these & will review them for my own
use. I'll post those reviews here, in due course, if anyone is interested. Anyone interested? TC "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... There's a list at the following URL. Not all of these record video, some of them are just static screen capture apps, but there seem to be a few video recording apps in there too ... http://lan.tucows.com/scapt95_pop.html -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jan Il" wrote in message ... "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... "TC" wrote: snip 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. If you hear of, or find anything of the sort, please post the information for us if you would. I for one would appreciate it very much. :-) Jan Smiles are meant to be shared, that's why they're so contagious. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... Hi Brendan, Humm...I may just have to test this out with different configurations for my own curiosity. Thanks for the info. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon *281 Days Left* "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... 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. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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? -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon *281 Days Left* "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... Unfortunately, Camcorder doesn't work with recent versions of Windows. Some problem with a missing video codec, whatever that means. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 Smiles are meant to be shared, that's why they're so contagious. |
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Great info.
I've downloaded a half-dozen or so similar products, & am reviewing them for my own use. So far, ms camcorder scores very well (against the others) for similicity & usability. But some of the others have a humungous # of features that are probably not in camcorder. I'll post my reviews of the other products here, in due course, if anyone is interested. Is anyone? Do you know whether ms camcorder relies on any particular video codec being present on the recording and/or playback PCs? Cheers, TC "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... Hi Brendan, Curiosity got the best of me so I tried this out some more for fun. Microsoft Camcorder installs and runs just fine on Windows ME. The AVI output shows nothing but a blank screen. However, compressing to an EXE file runs just fine on 98, ME, NT, and XP. I'm pretty sure it will run on 2000 as well and I'll test that on Monday to be sure. Just FYI. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... 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. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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? -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon *281 Days Left* "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... Unfortunately, Camcorder doesn't work with recent versions of Windows. Some problem with a missing video codec, whatever that means. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 Smiles are meant to be shared, that's why they're so contagious. |
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Hi TC,
Thanks for the update! Given Camcorder's age I'm actually a little surprised to hear you say the simplicity and usability is better than some of the other products. I would expect, as you mentioned, that the other products would be full of extra 'goodies.' I would love to hear any reviews you may have on the other products! Feel free to post back in this thread or start a new one if you so desire. I'm not sure if Camcorder requires any particular video codec for recording/playback. My recording tests were on 98 and ME machines that had only the basic Windows OS installed and Office 97. I cannot remember what the Media Player version was on my test machines. My tests on playback were on 98, NT, ME, and XP with pretty much all Windows Updates installed. I can test playback on 2000 tomorrow, but I'm sure it should work just fine. I specifically remember viewing some pages either on Microsoft's site or on an XP machine that had screen-capture recording used. They even talked about the program used. I've been racking my brain trying to remember where I saw this, but no luck so far. I'll keep looking. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "TC" wrote in message ... Great info. I've downloaded a half-dozen or so similar products, & am reviewing them for my own use. So far, ms camcorder scores very well (against the others) for similicity & usability. But some of the others have a humungous # of features that are probably not in camcorder. I'll post my reviews of the other products here, in due course, if anyone is interested. Is anyone? Do you know whether ms camcorder relies on any particular video codec being present on the recording and/or playback PCs? Cheers, TC "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... Hi Brendan, Curiosity got the best of me so I tried this out some more for fun. Microsoft Camcorder installs and runs just fine on Windows ME. The AVI output shows nothing but a blank screen. However, compressing to an EXE file runs just fine on 98, ME, NT, and XP. I'm pretty sure it will run on 2000 as well and I'll test that on Monday to be sure. Just FYI. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... 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. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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? -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon *281 Days Left* "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... Unfortunately, Camcorder doesn't work with recent versions of Windows. Some problem with a missing video codec, whatever that means. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 Smiles are meant to be shared, that's why they're so contagious. |
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Thanks for the further info. Jeff. I'll do some reviews over the next 5-7
days & post back here on completion. Cheers, TC (off for the day) "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... Hi TC, Thanks for the update! Given Camcorder's age I'm actually a little surprised to hear you say the simplicity and usability is better than some of the other products. I would expect, as you mentioned, that the other products would be full of extra 'goodies.' I would love to hear any reviews you may have on the other products! Feel free to post back in this thread or start a new one if you so desire. I'm not sure if Camcorder requires any particular video codec for recording/playback. My recording tests were on 98 and ME machines that had only the basic Windows OS installed and Office 97. I cannot remember what the Media Player version was on my test machines. My tests on playback were on 98, NT, ME, and XP with pretty much all Windows Updates installed. I can test playback on 2000 tomorrow, but I'm sure it should work just fine. I specifically remember viewing some pages either on Microsoft's site or on an XP machine that had screen-capture recording used. They even talked about the program used. I've been racking my brain trying to remember where I saw this, but no luck so far. I'll keep looking. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "TC" wrote in message ... Great info. I've downloaded a half-dozen or so similar products, & am reviewing them for my own use. So far, ms camcorder scores very well (against the others) for similicity & usability. But some of the others have a humungous # of features that are probably not in camcorder. I'll post my reviews of the other products here, in due course, if anyone is interested. Is anyone? Do you know whether ms camcorder relies on any particular video codec being present on the recording and/or playback PCs? Cheers, TC "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... Hi Brendan, Curiosity got the best of me so I tried this out some more for fun. Microsoft Camcorder installs and runs just fine on Windows ME. The AVI output shows nothing but a blank screen. However, compressing to an EXE file runs just fine on 98, ME, NT, and XP. I'm pretty sure it will run on 2000 as well and I'll test that on Monday to be sure. Just FYI. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... 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. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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? -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon *281 Days Left* "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... Unfortunately, Camcorder doesn't work with recent versions of Windows. Some problem with a missing video codec, whatever that means. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 Smiles are meant to be shared, that's why they're so contagious. |
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Thanks Jeff - I obviously mis-remembered about ME. It looks like it is on NT
and its successors, Windows 2000 and XP, that recording won't work. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... Hi Brendan, Curiosity got the best of me so I tried this out some more for fun. Microsoft Camcorder installs and runs just fine on Windows ME. The AVI output shows nothing but a blank screen. However, compressing to an EXE file runs just fine on 98, ME, NT, and XP. I'm pretty sure it will run on 2000 as well and I'll test that on Monday to be sure. Just FYI. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... 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. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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? -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon *281 Days Left* "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... Unfortunately, Camcorder doesn't work with recent versions of Windows. Some problem with a missing video codec, whatever that means. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 Smiles are meant to be shared, that's why they're so contagious. |
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Just FYI TC,
My old Help EXE screenshots made from Camcorder also work on Windows 2000 (with all updates). Just tested them with no problems. So they actually playback with no problems on 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "TC" wrote in message ... Thanks for the further info. Jeff. I'll do some reviews over the next 5-7 days & post back here on completion. Cheers, TC (off for the day) "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... Hi TC, Thanks for the update! Given Camcorder's age I'm actually a little surprised to hear you say the simplicity and usability is better than some of the other products. I would expect, as you mentioned, that the other products would be full of extra 'goodies.' I would love to hear any reviews you may have on the other products! Feel free to post back in this thread or start a new one if you so desire. I'm not sure if Camcorder requires any particular video codec for recording/playback. My recording tests were on 98 and ME machines that had only the basic Windows OS installed and Office 97. I cannot remember what the Media Player version was on my test machines. My tests on playback were on 98, NT, ME, and XP with pretty much all Windows Updates installed. I can test playback on 2000 tomorrow, but I'm sure it should work just fine. I specifically remember viewing some pages either on Microsoft's site or on an XP machine that had screen-capture recording used. They even talked about the program used. I've been racking my brain trying to remember where I saw this, but no luck so far. I'll keep looking. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "TC" wrote in message ... Great info. I've downloaded a half-dozen or so similar products, & am reviewing them for my own use. So far, ms camcorder scores very well (against the others) for similicity & usability. But some of the others have a humungous # of features that are probably not in camcorder. I'll post my reviews of the other products here, in due course, if anyone is interested. Is anyone? Do you know whether ms camcorder relies on any particular video codec being present on the recording and/or playback PCs? Cheers, TC "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... Hi Brendan, Curiosity got the best of me so I tried this out some more for fun. Microsoft Camcorder installs and runs just fine on Windows ME. The AVI output shows nothing but a blank screen. However, compressing to an EXE file runs just fine on 98, ME, NT, and XP. I'm pretty sure it will run on 2000 as well and I'll test that on Monday to be sure. Just FYI. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... 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. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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? -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon *281 Days Left* "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... Unfortunately, Camcorder doesn't work with recent versions of Windows. Some problem with a missing video codec, whatever that means. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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. 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The reviews that I promised, are still underway. I have found an interesting thing, in passing: MS Camcorder is a general purpose AVI-to-EXE converter! Just open an arbitrary AVI file using File:Open, then re-save it using the "save as standalone movie" option (or whatever it's called: I don't have camcorder on this PC, to check). Voila! Cheers, TC "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... Hi TC, Thanks for the update! Given Camcorder's age I'm actually a little surprised to hear you say the simplicity and usability is better than some of the other products. I would expect, as you mentioned, that the other products would be full of extra 'goodies.' I would love to hear any reviews you may have on the other products! Feel free to post back in this thread or start a new one if you so desire. I'm not sure if Camcorder requires any particular video codec for recording/playback. My recording tests were on 98 and ME machines that had only the basic Windows OS installed and Office 97. I cannot remember what the Media Player version was on my test machines. My tests on playback were on 98, NT, ME, and XP with pretty much all Windows Updates installed. I can test playback on 2000 tomorrow, but I'm sure it should work just fine. I specifically remember viewing some pages either on Microsoft's site or on an XP machine that had screen-capture recording used. They even talked about the program used. I've been racking my brain trying to remember where I saw this, but no luck so far. I'll keep looking. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "TC" wrote in message ... Great info. I've downloaded a half-dozen or so similar products, & am reviewing them for my own use. So far, ms camcorder scores very well (against the others) for similicity & usability. But some of the others have a humungous # of features that are probably not in camcorder. I'll post my reviews of the other products here, in due course, if anyone is interested. Is anyone? Do you know whether ms camcorder relies on any particular video codec being present on the recording and/or playback PCs? Cheers, TC "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... Hi Brendan, Curiosity got the best of me so I tried this out some more for fun. Microsoft Camcorder installs and runs just fine on Windows ME. The AVI output shows nothing but a blank screen. However, compressing to an EXE file runs just fine on 98, ME, NT, and XP. I'm pretty sure it will run on 2000 as well and I'll test that on Monday to be sure. Just FYI. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... 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. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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? -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon *281 Days Left* "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... Unfortunately, Camcorder doesn't work with recent versions of Windows. Some problem with a missing video codec, whatever that means. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 Smiles are meant to be shared, that's why they're so contagious. |
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Well now that is a very interesting little gem you found!! I will definitely play around with that. Thanks for the info! -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "TC" wrote in message ... Hi Jeff The reviews that I promised, are still underway. I have found an interesting thing, in passing: MS Camcorder is a general purpose AVI-to-EXE converter! Just open an arbitrary AVI file using File:Open, then re-save it using the "save as standalone movie" option (or whatever it's called: I don't have camcorder on this PC, to check). Voila! Cheers, TC "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... Hi TC, Thanks for the update! Given Camcorder's age I'm actually a little surprised to hear you say the simplicity and usability is better than some of the other products. I would expect, as you mentioned, that the other products would be full of extra 'goodies.' I would love to hear any reviews you may have on the other products! Feel free to post back in this thread or start a new one if you so desire. I'm not sure if Camcorder requires any particular video codec for recording/playback. My recording tests were on 98 and ME machines that had only the basic Windows OS installed and Office 97. I cannot remember what the Media Player version was on my test machines. My tests on playback were on 98, NT, ME, and XP with pretty much all Windows Updates installed. I can test playback on 2000 tomorrow, but I'm sure it should work just fine. I specifically remember viewing some pages either on Microsoft's site or on an XP machine that had screen-capture recording used. They even talked about the program used. I've been racking my brain trying to remember where I saw this, but no luck so far. I'll keep looking. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "TC" wrote in message ... Great info. I've downloaded a half-dozen or so similar products, & am reviewing them for my own use. So far, ms camcorder scores very well (against the others) for similicity & usability. But some of the others have a humungous # of features that are probably not in camcorder. I'll post my reviews of the other products here, in due course, if anyone is interested. Is anyone? Do you know whether ms camcorder relies on any particular video codec being present on the recording and/or playback PCs? Cheers, TC "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... Hi Brendan, Curiosity got the best of me so I tried this out some more for fun. Microsoft Camcorder installs and runs just fine on Windows ME. The AVI output shows nothing but a blank screen. However, compressing to an EXE file runs just fine on 98, ME, NT, and XP. I'm pretty sure it will run on 2000 as well and I'll test that on Monday to be sure. Just FYI. -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... 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. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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? -- Jeff Conrad Access Junkie Bend, Oregon *281 Days Left* "Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message ... Unfortunately, Camcorder doesn't work with recent versions of Windows. Some problem with a missing video codec, whatever that means. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) http://brenreyn.blogspot.com The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find a useable e-mail address at the URL above. "Jeff Conrad" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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. 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