I, too, have found the developer tutorials and walkthroughs complex and hard to figure out. To me, it appears they assume a certain amount of knowledge of how FarCry really works and its kind of like a chicken and egg thing. A more basic tutorial / overview of the system and the relationships between containers and rules and the like would be great.
/cody -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gavin Cooney Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:15 PM To: FarCry Developers Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: Simple Tutorial for Farcry I have to say i agree with you. There's a certain list of things you need to "get" before the documentation starts to make sense. This intro to farcry has been on my to do list for a long time. If you want to contact me off-list i can talk you thru the basics on instant messenger Gav On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:29:14 +0000, Paul Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thing is, I wouldn't actually ask the question if I hadn't already > found this stuff. Tbh while I get most of it, there are even more > basic things to be made aware of before the start! > > Let's put it this way: > > 1) download the core files for farcry > 2) download farcry_aura > 3) ... navigate around everything and only vaguely get it for several > hours > 4) find the links below, and think "I don't actually get it" > 5) Play around yourself with the code until you finally understand > where the how-tos actually fit into the farcry install you have > > Basically, all the tutorials and docs start off at a too complex. > There needs to be a "Well done! You've installed farcry.. what next?" > > Just my 2p > > Paul > > > > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 16:19, David Ross wrote: > > This helps too for end user stuff: > > > > http://farcry.daemon.com.au/go/documentation/users > > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/17/2004 9:53:28 AM >>> > > hi...they are here... > > > > http://farcry.daemon.com.au/go/documentation/developers/how-to > > > > start at the bottom one and work your way up > > > > > > nick > > > > > > > > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:01:49 +0000, Paul Johnston > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Having played around with Farcry over the past couple of weeks, > > > I'm > > into > > > it now, but I have a suggestion to make. At the moment, there are > > > documents relating to what Farcry is and what the admin section is > > all > > > about, *but* there aren't many (if any that I can find) simple > > > "walkthroughs" or "tutorials" on starting up with farcry. > > > > > > I don't really have enough experience with farcry to do these (as > > it's > > > only a few weeks... I could have a go, but let's face it, if I do > > > something wrong that's going to pervade through... it wouldn't > > help). > > > Anyone want to do a simple tutorial with screenshots on "Setting > > > up > > a > > > simple site" covering things like how to update the navigation, > > > add pages, change the look and feel etc. I'm not saying a full > > > "How to change the site" thing, but more a "This is where to look > > > for > > updating > > > xxx" > > > > > > Just my 2p > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > PS If I've missed the tutorials, apologies, but they aren't that > > > easy > > to > > > find! > > > > > > --- > > > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > > > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To > > unsubscribe send a blank email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > --- > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
