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From: Erik **Adobe Community Expert** on 9 Jan 2008 22:04
I compiled a somewhat decent list here;
http://www.awaretips.net
shortly after the EOD was announced. IF you really like the
icon/flowline metaphor, perhaps Xerte is worth looking into?

But, I too await a tool that can be Authorware. Thermo is promising but
I don't know what the fascination is with timeline interfaces. I assume
they're just easier to define and code...

Lectora holds a lot of promise, IMO, if they can really solidify the
code and make it more Authorware-like...but I'm plainly biased ;-)
Erik

DrDhanni wrote:
> With Authorware going to sunset, does anybody know which authouring tool has
> the same kind of power/features as this tool? I have used Authorware since
> version 1 and still can't find anything with the same kind of features.
>

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Erik Lord
http://www.capemedia.net
Adobe Community Expert - Authorware
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From: gutu1 on 13 Jan 2008 11:20
hello experts,
I was using AW since AW 4 and I was shocked hearing that AW is not longer
supported by Adobe. I tried flash in the last month because I have to develop a
lot of learning objects. But I decided to use AW 7 in the next future because
it is very more efficient to develop a lot of pages, because I developed my
structure in the past in AW.
What is the risk when I stay by AW 7? It does what I need!
Greetings from Austria!
Uwe


From: Erik **Adobe Community Expert** on 13 Jan 2008 21:28
It is still supported (at least, officially), just no longer being
upgraded (though there might be a forthcoming web player update).
SO the risk, in general, is that any OS changes by MS or Apple may
result in the packaged files no longer working correctly on a given OS.
For example, packaged Authorware files generally work fine under Vista,
but any changes made by a Service Pack or other update may break that,
and Adobe won't be making any updates to fix whatever breaks...
Erik

gutu1 wrote:
> hello experts,
> I was using AW since AW 4 and I was shocked hearing that AW is not longer
> supported by Adobe. I tried flash in the last month because I have to develop a
> lot of learning objects. But I decided to use AW 7 in the next future because
> it is very more efficient to develop a lot of pages, because I developed my
> structure in the past in AW.
> What is the risk when I stay by AW 7? It does what I need!
> Greetings from Austria!
> Uwe
>
>

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Erik Lord
http://www.capemedia.net
Adobe Community Expert - Authorware
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/
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*The Blankenship Caveat: Note that direct linking to http content
through any Authorware icon will likely fail if a proxy server is present!*
From: gary.tpc on 25 Jan 2008 13:32
I have the exact same question. I was planning to start using authorware for
the first time as it was recommended by many I know. My question may appear
really silly but experts please help me out with this.
I am considering Authorware to conduct an academic study where I can capture
all the motions that participants in the study perform. For eg. click on
particular information, time spent on each item etc.
How good is Authorware for this purpose? Are there any subsitute products that
can do this (I am a non-technical academic, so easy to use products are
preffered).
Please help.

From: Amy Blankenship-Adobe Community Expert on 25 Jan 2008 16:40

"gary.tpc" <webforumsuser(a)macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:fnda0p$qkc$1(a)forums.macromedia.com...
>I have the exact same question. I was planning to start using authorware
>for
> the first time as it was recommended by many I know. My question may
> appear
> really silly but experts please help me out with this.
> I am considering Authorware to conduct an academic study where I can
> capture
> all the motions that participants in the study perform. For eg. click on
> particular information, time spent on each item etc.
> How good is Authorware for this purpose? Are there any subsitute products
> that
> can do this (I am a non-technical academic, so easy to use products are
> preffered).

The biggest issue you would have is managing all that data, not really what
the user sees at the front end. Don't get me wrong--the UI design and
implementation will still be significant, but it's the tip of a very large
iceberg in terms of what you'll need to learn and do to get this to work.

Depending on what you need to do, you might want to just use Microsoft
Access--once you get your table structure designed, you can use Access forms
to do the heavy lifting with the data. Make no mistake, you'll still have
to do some fairly significant coding, but since Access is all about the
data, you're keeping what you need to learn in one place.

If this needs to run over the web, you can still use database tables in
Access to manage your data, but you'll need to use some other combination of
technologies to handle the UI and communication with the database.
Depending on what your application needs to do, you could build all of it in
some sort of HTML-based back end technology such as ASP, ColdFusion, or
perl. Or you can use something else as your UI, such as Flex or Flash (or,
if you went this route in Authorware, this piece would be Authorware, but it
would still need the back end technology to communicate with your database).
This UI piece will sit within a web browser and talk to your back end, which
talks to your database on the server.

If you were using Authorware, you could also go with text files, and some UI
tools, such as Flex, do a good job with XML. However, text-based solutions
tend to make it more difficult to crunch your data without using a lot of
extra code, and you'll find more example code on how to get your back end to
talk to databases than you will on fishing around in the file system.

You haven't chosen the easiest task to start out with as a beginning
programmer in any language. I wish you luck!

-Amy


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