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Flash Animated Desktop actions create

I've made a new discovery: record desktop actions to Flash animations! Is fun and useful. Eg if you want to make a guide on a website. I explain below how it goes. be installed

, the vnc server and vnc (viewer). Is usually already installed by default on Gnome. If you can not just install it using "yum install vnc-server".

Then you still need the Python program

vnc2swf. This requires Python 2.3 or 2.4 and pygame

. The program itself you can put
download here. Then unpack somewhere.

Next, have you run the VNC server. This does the following command:

vncserver: 1

Do you use this command for the first time, you will be prompted for a password. This Password, you can sign up later in the session.

now start the VNC viewer (in Applications

./vnc2swf.py-o test.swf localhost: 1

"test.swf-o" specifies the name of the animation file to be written. The program also creates a file "test.html", with which the animation can be started later in the browser. Now press the "Start". After entering the password, you can: Go back into the Viewer window and make the animation. Finally, press the "Stop" in vnc2swf window.

Now you can you look at the result in the browser.