Last few days together with Murray I have been working on for example the status infrastructure in the Tinymail framework.
We simplified how to internally deal with status callbacks, we made sure that they’ll happen in the right order and wont happen after the final callback happened.
I created two video demos this time. A first one is for most people. It will show you how much status you can get out of the framework in case you will create a client on top of Tinymail. The video shows you the demo user interface with its ‘glamorous’ :-) progress bar (which shows a lot more status than “some other” E-mail client’s progress user interface).
User video demo, Rescaled one on youtube
A second is a technical video demo for people who want to learn how Tinymail works. Although it’s mentioned, it doesn’t really try to illustrate how to use the API to for example update a progress bar and show a status bar. The technical video demo shows you how Tinymail deals with launching status callbacks internally.
I did the technical one with a normal video camera. That’s why the quality isn’t ideal. After doing that one, while not being satisfied, I discovered xvidcap for making the user video demo. Its quality is excellent. Therefore I recommend xvidcap for screencasting and I’m probably going to use this tool more often indeed. Finally I use Cinelerra to glue audio to it, cut and paste the “eums”, “swallow” and “grrmm”s away.