[Kst] Video tutorials as complement to the documentation

[Duncan Hanson]

Hi Nicolas,

I remember viewing the datawizard tutorial which you created. It's quite 
slick.

My plan right now is to finish up the revisions of the traditional 
documentation, that should be done within the next 2-3 months. If there's 
some general desire for video tutorials I can start working on them then.

Would you be interested in creating more video tutorials yourself?

Regards,
Duncan.
 
On Friday 27 October 2006 01:32, Brisset, Nicolas wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
>
> I see you are working on kst documentation. I think that's a very good
> idea, as users are often disappointed to see that the docs are not up to
> date. One thing that is not overly complex to create and very useful to
> get started is video tutorials. I had once prepared one on the
> datawizard, which you may know as it is linked to from the help page on
> the official kst site. I used wink, a free and quite handy tool that
> produces good Flash videos. I think it would be a very good idea to
> prepare a series of such tutorials to explain:
> - data import (with the datawizard): basically, the one I did but it
> needs to be updated
> - basic UI presentation (zooming, tied axes, data mode, most important
> plot dialog features, layout mode & annotation objects)
> - data manager, equations, plugins (and direct fit/filter plugins from
> the RMB), PSDs, multiple object edition
> - tools (change data file, change data sample ranges, color per file,
> event monitor, ...)
> - export facilities (bitmap and vector export, the black&white printing
> wizard, ...)
> - images, maps, matrices
>
> I think with these tutorials users would get started very quickly and
> use the full potential of kst. The only underrated areas are batch usage
> and scripting, but I'm not sure a video tutorial is the best way to
> illustrate this :-)
> If you can't create them all yourself, maybe we could ask on the list
> for volunteers, to distribute the work. No programming knowledge is
> required to create these video tutorials, you just need to know kst as a
> user and learn how to use wink (quite easy in fact, as it comes bundled
> with a self-explaining video tutorial). How does that sound ?
>
> Nicolas
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