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Hmmm maybe popin'-up small/short videos no?

@dragcrack, UncleB

The great thing about MSAgents are that can intercat with the user and be programmed to answer some questions and have a different reaction or speech depending on user input.

I am thinking on making a INTERCATIVE tutorial, where the user not only interact with the character, but be able to run some code.

Then, if the user code something wrong, the character could explain the mistake.

Whe can put some editorgadget and send to the PB Compiler the code that the user writes and catch the result, this will give us the opportunity to explain the user some mistakes.

In the other hand, the character could type some code, explain it line by line, and the compile it and make it run to let the user understand step by step how all this thing works.

THATS why i think a character could be great!

If i have some free time this weekend i will make a small example of my idea.

well,I understand the idea, but i think it should at least have an option to show some back ground information on how a computer processes the commands that the user types in. e.g. how a string is placed in the memory of the computer. you can of cource explain that in text, but I think a more visual way to explain things could be more effective.
especcialy for the true newbees.

I'm not thinking of this as a major aspect of the programm, but more as a very small addon. you could have a small popup window whith a short animation in it, while the wizzard is explaining what is happening.
shouldn't be more than about 20 or 30 seconds of animation. (making big video's would take too much time anyway)

but after all it's just an idea.

regards,

Bart

Got a small example of my idea finnished now. if you give me your e-mail address i could mail it to you if you like. it's a 290kb zipfile with 2 animations and an example of the text to go with it.

quality of the animations isn't very high because of the compression. but i still have the high quality anims. so don't be dissapointed by that.

(If you give me your e-mail address, don't post it here but send me a private message.)

well, waiting to hear from you all.

regards Bart