Harvesting and Comparing Screenshots for use in FM

[Peter Ring]

Talk to the software developers. If you are very lucky, all changes are 
designed and documented before even being implemented. But anyway, all 
GUI resources are represented in source code files, i.e., text files. 
These resource files are probably managed by a revision control system. 
It is trivial to compare different versions of the resource files; the 
differences should give you a pretty good cue to which screen dumps you 
need update.

If you do online context-sensitive help, you also need to know the 
resource identifiers.

Kind regards
Peter Ring

Elks, Loren wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> We are a software company.  Our product (Dialogue) is very expansive with lots of menus, dialog boxes, etc in the GUI.  We use unstructured FM 7.2.
> 
> Every time we have a new release, undoubtedly some (or many) of the software's menus and dialog boxes change due to enhancements.  This requires us to identify these changes (somehow) and re-do any screenshots in our documentation and training materials.
> 
> Is anyone aware of a tool that can go through an application and harvest screenshots of all menus and dialog boxes?  Then, would it be able to compare screenshots of the last version to indicate where changes have occurred on the GUI?
> 
> Any suggestions or resources would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Loren Elks
> Information Developer
> Exstream Software 
> lelks at exstream.com 
> www.exstream.com
> 
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