Education and demonstration – Computer logic – operation – or programming instruction
Patent
1996-09-18
1998-10-06
Apley, Richard J.
Education and demonstration
Computer logic, operation, or programming instruction
395500, 345418, 345501, G09B 1900, G06F 300
Patent
active
058168206
ABSTRACT:
A method of generating a simulation of a visual display of a computer session, includes the step of recording a visual display of a computer session by providing a journal record hook in binary format. Each message associated with each input from a computer input device is then recorded. After each message, the screen is checked for screen changes associated with each input from the computer input device and if detected, location coordinates of a screen change location are recorded and a detected screen change is copied as a bitmap. Cursor changes associated with each input from a computer input device are checked, and if detected, a cursor identification is recorded. The recorded visual display is then played back by providing a journal playback hook in binary format. An invisible window is then created to draw on and each recorded message is played back. It is also determined if there is a corresponding recorded cursor change and a corresponding screen change. Any corresponding bitmapped screen changes are read to the recorded location on the screen associated with each recorded message and the cursor identification to be displayed on the screen is switched for any recorded cursor changes associated with each recorded message.
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Heinz William
Stockwell David Ray
Apley Richard J.
Kelly Properties, Inc.
Rovnak John Edmund
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