Howdy list & Bruce, Prompted by sgp's question about win.sendmessage, I have decided to announce the existence [& semi-completion] of the PPSR -- the PowerPro Scripting Reference.
Back in March I finished documenting all the PowerPro inbuilt commands & functions, CL functions, & plugin functions for the PPSR -- description, syntax, parameters, return value, usage, etc etc, for each. (all fxns & commands to that date, anyway, haven't added newer stuff yet. Actually, haven't done all the plugins yet, either, but the main distro plugins are done) However, it's not in a very handy format at all. I wrote the reference using Freemind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ -- sooooo good for this task) and from there exported it to an XML file... an extremely big XML file (10mb!) I then learned XML & XSLT in order to convert it further into a usable format, but discovered my XML file is one serious beast of a document -- as every single node is actually called "node"... arrgh. So, at the moment, I'm part way thru converting it into a more usable format. And I'd like to say it will be finished soon, but that's not likely! (V. busy at the moment.) I'm aiming to have it done by the end of the year... hopefully. In the meantime, ignoring the format, the content may still be helpful, so I've decided to put it out there for y'all anyway. I did show someone a few months ago, with the intention of announcing it then, but he didn't like it & couldn't see that it would be helpful at all. I gather that he thinks I was trying to replace the PowerPro Help -- not at all the case. The PPSR is intended as a complement to the excellent PowerPro Help files. PPSR is a scripting reference, not a help manual. It offers a dry & hopefully concise explanation of all the functions & commands, but doesn't tell you how to use or configure PowerPro -- the PowerPro Help does that brilliantly. So, I figure I should let people know it's there, on the web, in 2 forms at the moment -- the rather unwieldy "Old Format" (which is a direct, extremely convoluted, HTML export from Freemind), and the so far unfinished "New Format". The New Format is pretty. :) And easy to use. And will have a navigable left-hand index tree thingo eventually. But only (so far) covers the built-in commands. I am, of course, extremely interested in feedback (I was given some excellent feedback from the first reviewer which I haven't yet incorporated, but will) - as well as corrections, etc. So, on the understanding that there is still much work to be done, that parts may be wrong, & that this may be more painful to use than to not, here, then, is the PPSR: http://www.ppsr.info/ Karen Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> 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/
