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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.exstream.com
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