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Post by slogoing on Dec 15, 2020 19:10:48 GMT -5
I think my addled brain has lost a step because, try as I may, I cannot figure out how to colorize my SPF2 setup. I'd love to have SPF2 look like the black background and green text I've seen for a few dozen years, but I cannot understand how this is supposed to work. I think a 5 minute video would clear it all up. Just a suggestion.
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Post by George on Dec 16, 2020 9:47:22 GMT -5
slogoing: Robert:
Don't hold your breath on a video. Never made one so it would be a learning curve to get one. I'll look at it and see what tools might be needed.
Then there's the script. Just what would be in it?
George
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Post by slogoing on Dec 17, 2020 15:03:19 GMT -5
George, I don't think it needs to be anything elaborate. If you could just open up SPFLite and record your screen while you show how to change the background, foreground, use the colorize files for different file types, that would be so helpful! These are probably things that you and Robert can do so easily that it seems ridiculous that anyone might have a problem with them, but I think it would benefit many of us new to SPFLite if we were able to see someone else doing this. Just a 5 minute video would make a huge difference.
If I could see just one thing that would be helpful, it would be how you can go from the default colors that come when you first install SPFLite, to the mainframe look and feel of the black background and green text found in the ISPF editor. Also, I think SPFLite has a way to change screen colors based on the file extension using the colorize files, so maybe a short video on how to use those files and how to change them as well.
I know this probably seems mindlessly easy to you and Robert, but I'm having a heck of a time with it. Maybe I'm alone in having these problems, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure I saw others having difficulties with this as well.
If you're on Windows 10, you can choose one of the screen recorders in the Microsoft store and just record what you're doing while you talk about it, then upload it to YouTube or to your own site. If I can ever figure it out myself, lol, I'd be glad to record how I did it and upload it to YouTube myself... Unfortunately, after trying a half dozen times and failing miserably, I usually start to feel like the biggest idiot on the internet and just go back to using Notepad++ (which, amazingly enough, I do know how to change the screen colors on, lol).
Anyway, I really do think you have a great product and I hope I can figure out how to use it before I go insane (which isn't giving me a lot of time because after months of lockdown, I'm just about there already...). Maybe if you're unable to create this video yourself, maybe someone out there on the forum who can make a video of this process would be willing to do this and upload it someplace.
Best wishes.
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Post by slogoing on Dec 17, 2020 15:07:21 GMT -5
Almost forgot, thank you Robert for the great post! I'm printing it out (because, unlike everyone younger than me, I haven't yet figured out how to study and learn from anything I read on a screen) and I will be using it later today to see if that clears things up.
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Post by George on Dec 17, 2020 15:09:34 GMT -5
slogoing:
I looked at screen recorders, there's quite a few out there. Tried a couple. They're relatively simple to use.
The problem is annotating them. I don't have a microphone (and really don't want one). I suppose I could move the video over to my Chromebook which does have one, but I'm not sure what annotation tools are available on the Chromebook.
I looked at a couple Windows annotation tools and they are either a) way overly complicated or b) way too expensive.
Still looking though, so hang in there.
George
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