Yes, I forgot to change the subject line to ask my question as well. I was
not referring to the article, but to the reaction to people who ask for help
in general.
On 4/26/06, elibol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Wholy crap Jonathan I give you an E for (E)xcellent thesis. I didn't have
> the time nor the patience to read it, so I apologize, however, I think I
> should point out that nowhere in the article does it categorize anyone as
> smart or stupid.
>
> I believe this point is important to emphasize:
>
> "This is autonomous behavior. Again, we shouldn't hate the Help Vampire.
> Or
> stake them. They know not what they do, only that they are driven to do
> it,
> and I believe they can be saved."
>
> M.
>
> On 4/26/06, Jonathan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I want to offer a basic counterpoint to this: what if the question is
> just
> > from a beginner, who has in fact researched a problem found the
> > documentation/resources incomplete in some way? Is it just because a
> > person
> > is a beginner that you will not offer help?
> >
> > Case in point, and be patient with me. I am not by any means venting
> here,
> > but I offered a question some time ago about the basic placement of
> > anonymous functions like btn1.onRelease =
> > function(){getURL(_root.variable_name,"_blank");} and also asked about
> > whether or not such a function required the _root if it was in fact on
> the
> > _root timeline. I actually received some very nice assistance on this
> and
> > I
> > appreciate the poster, since though I did discover that this was true
> > through experimentation myself, he did give me a short lesson on scope.
> I
> > had already learned about the Delegate class, but this basic issue was
> not
> > clear in my reading, so I would not know I had to use _root or Delegate
> or
> > what have you. I do know some Javascript and PHP and so programming is
> not
> > beyond me, but learning a new technology from the ground up is the way I
> > learn generally. I like to know *all* the aspects. So please permit
> those
> > who are learning and obviously trying the benefit of the doubt.
> >
> > Another thing is further questions on the same subject. In this same
> > issue,
> > I had the question "are such function assignments applicable to a button
> > if
> > the code is placed before the button on the timeline?" I got a no, of
> > course, which was a basic thing I had sketchy knowledge on. What I had
> was
> > an ad sent to us by a client wherein the previous coder had used on()
> > handlers on the clips and I was trying to rewrite it to include the
> > anonymous functions and our variables, as stated before. When I wrote in
> > the
> > code in a keyframe in the actions layer above where the button was
> > instantiated, it worked, but when a new keyframe in the button layer
> came
> > up, I had to re-enter the code there as well. This seemed like
> repetitive
> > work and my further question about this was not answered.
> >
> > My point is, does this make me dumb? No. It would make me lazy however
> if
> > I
> > did not research this. But this basic practice of where code should be
> > written and how often was not clear to me since the project was not
> > working
> > in subsequent frames and the documentation I had read seemed to say
> write
> > and be done with it.
> >
> > I suppose I am both asking this general question again, to help solidify
> > my
> > knowledge, and also pointing out that this does not make those who try
> but
> > fail stupid. All I am saying is that I appreciate all your knowledge on
> > this
> > subject, but please have patience with those who are trying to learn and
> > distinguish them from the vampires who ask questions that are so general
> > that they lack any knowledge of Flash.
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