On 2/7/06, Stephen Gilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For your comment on issue #4, we are planning on adding the "Use" and
I'm interested in knowing what your thoughts are on my comments on issue #1. > On 2/3/06, Stephen Gilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. ... We have a > > request to split the public and protected methods into separate > > tables, so that you do not see the protected methods if you are using > > the class, but view them only when you are creating a subclass. > > The distinction between using a class and subclassing a class is very > important. > > When using a class however, a single alphabetic list of all public > properties, methods, styles, effects, etc is more usable than lots of > little boxes all over the place because:- > > a. we're using THIS class and more interested seeing the behaviour and > attributes of THIS class as a whole, not the individual components that > make up the class. > > b. useful for people new to the class to help them understand what the > class can do before moving on the how the class is constructed (ie > inheritance hierarchy) or how to subclass it. > > c. show the name of the class in which it is defined next to it. > > > 3. Is it styled well? Is it easy to read and does the use of color, > > font, and layout make sense? > > No, see above. > > > 4. Are the inheritance tables usable? These are the tables that list > > the inherited items from the superclasses. > > How about a graphical inheritance hierarchy of all classes? It would be > a great way to visually see where a class fits in the whole scheme of > things. Chris -- Chris Velevitch Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group www.flashdev.org.au -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
