On 6/26/05 7:43 AM, "Alex da Franca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyone ever saw the printed manuals, which were > sold ? have they ever been finished ? > are they in the same style, the documentation used to be ?
Hi Alex, I have the Director Scripting Reference. This is a two-volume work with over 1000 pages in all. Entries are divided into sections: Constants Events and Messages Methods Operators -- Properties This means that the entries for (say) "return..." are scattered all over the book: RETURN (constant) page 156 return <someValue> (keyword) page 223 returnToTitle (DVD method) page 506 Properties are on their own in volume 2. For entries like 'image', where the property and the method are closely related, this is somewhat confusing. The entry for 'ilk', which produces similar results either as a property or a method, appears twice... both times as a method, but divided into 3D and non-3D entries. This arrangement assumes (a) that the user knows what type of item a given entry is, and (b) that the entries are correctly categorized. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. For example, the method getBoneID() is in the properties volume, whereas 'the result' is given as a method. As a result of this re-(dis)-organization, I find that I use the DMX 2004 printed documentation very little. Cheers, James [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
