On Nov 11, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote:
Hey all,
I am getting my hands wet for the first time playing with revServer through
my on-rev account. I couldn't find much information on its features and what
is and isn't available to revServer on the samples site. This seems to be
Great! Thanks for the insight! :)
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You will need this obscure but incredibly important little document.
http://samples.on-rev.com/irev-engine-notes.txt
It's the only technical manual for the server product.
On 11 November 2010 11:11, Andrew Kluthe and...@rjdfarm.com wrote:
Hey all,
I am getting my hands wet for the first
http://www.bjoernke.com/?target=bvgdocu
On 26 Apr 2010, at 10:38, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Can anyone suggest a wa these packaged files can
be unpacked into standard XML files so that they can
be looked at with an XML editor?
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On 26/04/2010 14:45, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
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On 26 Apr 2010, at 10:38, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Can anyone suggest a wa these packaged files can
be unpacked into standard XML files so that they can
be looked at with an XML editor?
Thank you very
Sorry to bring this one back up, but I really am having a helluva time
getting this to work:
on browserBeforeNavigate pBrowser, pURL
global browserCancel
-- don't actually go there in the browser... stay here
put true into browserCancel
-- open another browser window
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Jeff Massung mass...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry to bring this one back up, but I really am having a helluva time
getting this to work:
on browserBeforeNavigate pBrowser, pURL
global browserCancel
-- don't actually go there in the browser... stay here
Jeff Massung wrote:
In the browser documentation I see the following line:
To prevent the navigatation from occurring, set the global variable
browserCancel to true.
Yet that global variable doesn't appear to exist. Am I missing something or
is the documentation wrong?
It won't exist until
Have you actually try to put true into the global variable
browserCancel, Jeff?
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LOL.
I was thinking this was a global in the same vein as lockMessages and
such.
Okay. Thanks, guys!
Jeff M.
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Jeff Massung wrote:
LOL.
I was thinking this was a global in the same vein as lockMessages and
such.
Okay. Thanks, guys!
I like that you aren't afraid to ask stuff. A lot of new converts are.
LockMessages is a property, btw. The Rev engine creates those on startup
with default values, but
Follow-up question:
Has anyone here successfully gotten a browser to resize nicely along with
the rest of the stack and controls? I can set the rect just fine, but while
the mouse button is down and I'm resizing the stack or moving controls
around (splitter pane) the browser just completely
I downloaded an OS X utility (chmox) that can open Windows-only help
files (.chm) files. So now I can read the documentation you linked
to. You say you can use this FM documentation in a browser, but
surely that is only on Windows? Or does FM on OS X install something
that enables you to view
I suspect the easy availability of something like this is what will
make or break the wider acceptance of RevMedia.
Ian
On 31 Aug 2009, at 14:25, Adrian Williams adr...@clubtype.co.uk wrote:
I've seen talk of a 'cookbook' on this list. Perhaps it is time for
someone to captalise on that?
I have to say, I think the Revolution documentation is pretty good.
Obviously there are many things available in Rev that one forgets if
one is not using Rev almost every day. However, whenever I return to
using Rev after some weeks away from it, I find that I never spend
more than a couple of
Adrian Williams wrote:
Len,
Your observations are correct and I already have Dan's Software at
the Speed of thought.
It's just that I'm an occasional user of Rev; I don't use it anywhere
near full-time.
Not coming from a HyperCard background does not prepare one for Rev's
principles.
The D/L link is a compressed Help File (fmpro_help) that one can use in a
browser. What Help? Well, in this case it is Filemaker. The reason for
including it
is to illustrate a reasonable approach for new to expert Revolution developers
as another way to present Help for Revolution.
This is a
Adrian Williams wrote:
Dans' book, great though it is as a primer, is not as accessible as
many 'QuickStart' guidebooks available these days.
I wouldn't expect too much from a Quick Start Guide to Piloting the
Space Shuttle. Complicated topics are hard condense down into a Quick
Start.
Hello Marian,
Le 11 avr. 08 à 19:24, J. Landman Gay a écrit :
Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
Thanks!
On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
On 11 Apr 2008, at 17:12, Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
3. Is there an easy way to print out the Transcript Dictionary,
the way you can
I got mine printed at Kinkos for $39 with double-sided printing, vinyl
front and back covers and comb-binding, not a bad deal.
Neal
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Eric Chatonet
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Hello Marian,
Le 11 avr. 08 à 19:24, J. Landman Gay a écrit :
Marian Petrides, M.D.
Kinko's told me they could not print it because of copyright issues,
otherwise I would have gone that route. :-(
On Apr 12, 2008, at 7:03 AM, Neal Campbell wrote:
I got mine printed at Kinkos for $39 with double-sided printing, vinyl
front and back covers and comb-binding, not a bad deal.
Thanks, Eric.
On Apr 12, 2008, at 4:30 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
Hello Marian,
Le 11 avr. 08 à 19:24, J. Landman Gay a écrit :
Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
Thanks!
On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
On 11 Apr 2008, at 17:12, Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
3. Is there an
I just queued it on for an on-line print order (also did the Valentina
documents) and no one said anything, I do it quite often.
Neal
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Petrides, M.D. Marian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kinko's told me they could not print it because of copyright issues,
otherwise
Wow! Thanks Neal! I just ordered mine--essentially the same price (I
had front page in color). Should be ready for pickup tonight. Whoopee!
On Apr 12, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Neal Campbell wrote:
I just queued it on for an on-line print order (also did the Valentina
documents) and no one said
Hi Marian,
I think very few of us know the answers to these questions. Perhaps
you should write to support and let us know the answer?
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On 11 Apr 2008, at 17:12, Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
3. Is there an easy way to print out the Transcript Dictionary, the
way you can print out the PDF of the User Guide?
I don't know about 1 and 2, but you can easily make a printing script
on top of my documentation reader, to create
Thanks!
On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
On 11 Apr 2008, at 17:12, Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
3. Is there an easy way to print out the Transcript Dictionary,
the way you can print out the PDF of the User Guide?
I don't know about 1 and 2, but you can easily make a
Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
Thanks!
On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
On 11 Apr 2008, at 17:12, Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
3. Is there an easy way to print out the Transcript Dictionary, the
way you can print out the PDF of the User Guide?
Be cautious. I think
Thanks for the tip Jackie.
Well, I successfully printed out all 400 pages of the User Guide--
although single-sided is going to be a binding nightmare ? 3 or 4
volumes?. However, given your cautionary note, I may hold off on
printing the Transcript Dictionary for now. Heather told me
Petrides, M.D. Marian wrote:
Heather told me that RunRev
is coming up with a PDF and hardcopy version of the Transcript
Dictionary once the User Guide is out (it's at the printer now)
He's probably trying to figure out how to bind all the paper together. :)
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On 28 Mar 2008, at 21:28, Trevor DeVore wrote:
I didn't think that the standalone engine expired, just the IDE. Are
you sure this is accurate Bill?
It certainly hasn't worked that way with previous betas, just the IDE.
Ian
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Hi Len,
I've had a problem for a while that I could live with but now I
NEED to fix. When I use either the Documentation Icon or the Help-
Documentation menu, I get the documentation window to come up.
When I try and go to the user's guide, it seems to be
active (i.e., the icon changes
Thanks Klaus, I managed to find it after a good night's sleep. Do you
have any idea why it would not load in the IDE? I can double click any
PDF on my desktop and it opens correctly. Does the Adobe Reader (and
ONLY the Adobe one) have to be in a certain place for this to work?
len morgan
Hi Len,
Thanks Klaus, I managed to find it after a good night's sleep. Do
you have any idea why it would not load in the IDE? I can double
click any PDF on my desktop and it opens correctly. Does the Adobe
Reader (and ONLY the Adobe one) have to be in a certain place for
this to work?
Klaus Major wrote:
Hi Len,
Thanks Klaus, I managed to find it after a good night's sleep. Do
you have any idea why it would not load in the IDE? I can double
click any PDF on my desktop and it opens correctly. Does the Adobe
Reader (and ONLY the Adobe one) have to be in a certain place
Some observations:
1) Is the PDF not visible/not launching, or is the big blue window that
says, Click to launch PDF not showing? Perhaps the palette for the docs is
off-screen?
2) Never use a beta product to supply a distribution to a customer. Beta
software is not for redistribution, and
2) Never use a beta product to supply a distribution to a customer.
Beta
software is not for redistribution, and the engine will expire on
them. (In
the case of RC's on April 15).
Boy, I somehow missed that. (Big error on my part!)
What does one do if one needs to ship a standalone
Marian,
What does one do if one needs to ship a standalone before Rev goes Gold
Master? I've been working in 2.9 but will soon need to ship my software
(not before April 15 but hopefully not long thereafter).
My crystal ball says that you needn't worry.
:)
On Mar 28, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
2) Never use a beta product to supply a distribution to a customer.
Beta
software is not for redistribution, and the engine will expire on
them. (In
the case of RC's on April 15).
Boy, I somehow missed that. (Big error on my part!)
One of the particular challenges in software documentation (and boy
have I experienced this) is that you have to know what something is
called before you can find it. That is often the frustation, not
that the information is missing, but because I call it something
else, I cannot access it.
I put up a proof-of-concept Revolution Online Open Dictionary.
Functionally it is like the MySQL PHP open dictionaries - a simple
page per term with user comments. Users can also edit the term
definition itself.
I spent very little time, so a lot is not working yet, just thought
I'd see
oops, forgot to say where it is! :-o
http://revcoders.org/
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This looks great! Thanks, Josh!
Best,
Mark
On 29 Oct 2007, at 18:05, Josh Mellicker wrote:
http://revcoders.org/
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On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Josh Mellicker wrote:
I put up a proof-of-concept Revolution Online Open Dictionary.
Pretty cool Josh!
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Light and parsimonious are too different things. The HyperCard books
are big because they are fairly exhaustive, but the exposition is
tight with well-chosen yet relatively simple examples that encourage
you to think of other uses for the commands and functions.
Mathematica has made some
Hi Docu friends,
I have been reading the persistant and recurring thread about Rev documentation
for a couple of years now. It brings to mind what a good friend of mine said
about human communication (she is a writer). When a communication tool (of any
sort) is done properly, with a real
While playing with docslib_by_bvg.rev ,I have discovered that the
dictionnary entries have a categories key, and, it is not empty!
actually, it oftens includes several lines, so maybe a reason why it
is not displayed in the current dict (studio 2.8.1 for me) is that it
cannot be sorted (?)
Le 27 oct. 07, à 06:54, Andre Garzia a écrit :
Hello Friends,
I've patched BvG Docu + Webnotes to work with my new server. Those
wanting to see this system working need to download again, my new
server uses a different scheme for the FTP users so the old login
can't be used.
More info and
I wonder if what we need is some standardised format for rev doc
webnotes?
Though I lke the idea of one centralised source/repository, it will
require someone to host it and maintain it, and though Andre (with
BvG Docu-webnotes), and others (with wikis, web-pages etc.) have
kindly shown
Andre... Are you still using JaguarPC? I just set up a VPS server there...
Jim
on 10/27/07 1:54 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:
Hello Friends,
I've patched BvG Docu + Webnotes to work with my new server. Those
wanting to see this system working need to download again, my new
server uses a
On Oct 27, 2007, at 12:16 AM, François Chaplais wrote:
Le 27 oct. 07, à 06:54, Andre Garzia a écrit :
Hello Friends,
I've patched BvG Docu + Webnotes to work with my new server. Those
wanting to see this system working need to download again, my new
server uses a different scheme for the
Jim,
Yes, but I moved from Discovery VPS to Freedom VPS... I am going up
the food chain! :D
Cheers
andre
On 10/27/07, Jim Carwardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andre... Are you still using JaguarPC? I just set up a VPS server there...
Jim
on 10/27/07 1:54 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:
Hello
François,
This is something related to BvG Docu, not webnotes. The webnotes are
stored in the web, they simply don't care about any system or version
of anything. The thing that BvG Docu has a reference to my
documentation folder is because I simply bundled and distributed my
working version.
If
Le 27 oct. 07, à 18:31, Andre Garzia a écrit :
François,
This is something related to BvG Docu, not webnotes. The webnotes are
stored in the web, they simply don't care about any system or version
of anything. The thing that BvG Docu has a reference to my
documentation folder is because I
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Le 28 oct. 07, à 01:14, mfstuart a écrit :
Andre, BvG...
Any chance the Docu + WebNotes can be a standalone? - .exe file
Mark
Chances are that, if you want it to be a standalone, this will be for
use outside the IDE. This would require that
1) either the documentation is in the
Is the webnotes server up? I don't seem to be getting any of the
notes that I think exist, and posting new ones doesn't seem to be
working...
Best,
Mark
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Le 26 oct. 07, à 13:38, Mark Smith a écrit :
Is the webnotes server up? I don't seem to be getting any of the notes
that I think exist, and posting new ones doesn't seem to be working...
Did you rebuild the database (or whaterver you may call it)? I did
because the stack could not accesst
On 10/26/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My only question is whether doc is the best token for us. It seems a
bit general, perhaps hard to discern it's for Transcript dictionary
lookups.
Any suggestions for alternatives?
manual, or the abbreviation man
Kay C Lan wrote:
On 10/26/07, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote:
My only question is whether doc is the best token for us. It seems a
bit general, perhaps hard to discern it's for Transcript dictionary
lookups.
Any suggestions for alternatives?
manual, or the abbreviation
'help' or 'info'?
Cheers,
Luis.
On 26 Oct 2007, at 15:42, Kay C Lan wrote:
On 10/26/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My only question is whether doc is the best token for us. It
seems a
bit general, perhaps hard to discern it's for Transcript dictionary
lookups.
Any
On 26 Oct 2007, at 06:42, François Chaplais wrote:
To make things simple, a VERY nice (and IMHO, simple) improvement on
the rev online doc would by the ability to send a doc command with
syntax
doc string
where string may be anything
and which would have the same effect as typing the string
Le 26 oct. 07, à 17:02, Luis a écrit :
'help' or 'info'?
Cheers,
Luis.
'help' is really good
Francois
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On 10/27/07, Mick Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll throw in my 2 cents worth here. After seeing the ad in a Rev
newsletter or some place like that, I got the Beginning Programming
for Dummies, and I was very, very, very disappointed. Among other
things it seems like whoever wrote the
I'll throw in my 2 cents worth here. After seeing the ad in a Rev
newsletter or some place like that, I got the Beginning Programming
for Dummies, and I was very, very, very disappointed. Among other
things it seems like whoever wrote the Rev parts (and they were
sparser or fewer than I
Just a small comment, from whose post I now do not recall,
How intuitive will man be to non-*nixophiles?
Help or Info seems more intuitive...
Judy
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On 10/27/07, User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a small comment, from whose post I now do not recall,
How intuitive will man be to non-*nixophiles?
Granted, but the full 'manual' should click with newbies.
Help or Info seems more intuitive...
I like help and info as well, unfortunately
Hello Friends,
the webnotes server is down at the moment. It will resume shortly with
enhanced abilities... since BvG called me Crazy, and I take that as a
cumpliment, I'll try to push this forward. Just let me have my dinner
and take a bath, been a long day here in Brazil.
The webnotes addon
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:23:17 +1000, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
On 10/27/07, Mick Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll throw in my 2 cents worth here. After seeing the ad in a Rev
newsletter or some place like that, I got the Beginning Programming
for Dummies, and I was very, very, very
Hello Friends,
I've patched BvG Docu + Webnotes to work with my new server. Those
wanting to see this system working need to download again, my new
server uses a different scheme for the FTP users so the old login
can't be used.
More info and download at: http://andregarzia.com/docuwebnotes.html
Tim,
I am an RR user like you. I agree with the things that you wrote (have
included only part of it here). I had been thinking the same things, but
had not taken the time to compose a message.
Regards,
Steven Axtell
- Original Message -
From: Timothy Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are the docs all being redone for the 3.0 release? If they are then
maybe none of this matters. And speaking of 3.0, is there a
projected timeline for that yet?
Mark
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Le 16 oct. 07, à 22:42, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :
François Chaplais wrote:
version 2.6.1... looks much better organized than in
version 2.8.1
Hmm, there is a question of licencing here; but (?) I
suppose people who own licences to 2.8.1 may in some
way be allowed access to components from
Le 25 oct. 07, à 23:38, François Chaplais a écrit :
A fine point here actually. I do not have access to the 2.6.1
documentation. At this second, I am considering a buttons for
dummies stack which, among other things, point to the Rev docs. I do
not want to go into the details of parsing the
The original HyperCard manuals are hard to beat for parsimony,
elegance, and darn good writing in my opinion.
Gregory
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The original manuals were more than skimpy.
I think you mean the Winkler and Shafer books.
The original HyperCard manuals are hard to beat for parsimony,
elegance, and darn good writing in my opinion.
Gregory
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On 10/25/07, Timothy Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
I learnt RR by trial and error, old HC knowledge
(founded on Danny goodman's EXCELLENT book...)
Me too. However, in my case, my understanding and skill have not
grown much beyond
And of course Danny Goodman.
The original manuals were more than skimpy.
I think you mean the Winkler and Shafer books.
The original HyperCard manuals are hard to beat for parsimony,
elegance, and darn good writing in my opinion.
Gregory
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I agree with Gregory. I loved the Hypercard documentation: clear,
well-organized, concise, nice examples. I'm looking at the Hypercard Script
Language Guide right now. It's 583 pages. I wouldn't call that skimpy.
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On 10/26/07, Stephen Barncard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The original manuals were more than skimpy.
I think you mean the Winkler and Shafer books.
The original HyperCard manuals are hard to beat for parsimony,
elegance, and darn good writing in my opinion.
Gregory
Yes, again,
Kay C Lan wrote:
People shouldn't be saying the Rev Docs should be this or that. People
should be complaining that Goodman, Shafer, DeVoto, Progue et al have failed
to see the vast market of purchasers, stepped into the void to wield their
talent in the direction of Rev books.
The majority of
On 10/26/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The majority of Rev's 4000+ pages of documentation was authored by the
DeVoto mentioned above, using a style guideline very similar to the one
she used for HyperTalk 2.2: The Book.
I was more partial to Dan's 'The Complete Book of
As for a third-party opportunities, get Apple to bundle Rev for free
with every Mac and I think we'd see plenty of new books about it. ;)
iPerCard?
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Le 26 oct. 07, à 05:55, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
The majority of Rev's 4000+ pages of documentation
huh? pages? do you mean paper pages? Or do you mean the online doc? (I
do not mention the pdf which is not finished).
OK, I have just spent the night looking at DocsLib by BvG, and i'm
François Chaplais wrote:
To make things simple, a VERY nice (and IMHO, simple) improvement on
the rev online doc would by the ability to send a doc command with
syntax
doc string
where string may be anything
and which would have the same effect as typing the string in the search
field of the
Aside from the public 'notes', there should also be a private area.
Not everyone is online all the time, and some personal notes may just
be a reinterpretation of the public notes.
Should the 'online' notes be downloaded to a local DB for offline
access? Indicated by a change in border
Count me in too...Jim
on 10/23/07 6:45 PM, Len Morgan wrote:
Count me in! If we're going to wikiize the docs, it might be nice to
have some sort of indication as to the level of information. That's a
fancy way of saying having a common notation like NEWBIE: where basic
information is and
Planning such an effort so it will serve well into the future is difficult.
I only mention them as food for thought and not something that should delay
progress on improving documention.
-
I guess one issue could be:
Can the documentation be used if the user is not online?
Not everyone will be
I like the idea, too.
Count me in too...Jim
on 10/23/07 6:45 PM, Len Morgan wrote:
Count me in! If we're going to wikiize the docs, it might be nice to
have some sort of indication as to the level of information. That's a
fancy way of saying having a common notation like NEWBIE:
Le 24 oct. 07, à 21:12, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :
This is an interesting discussion; and mainly, for me,
because it reads as, only, a discussion about how
users of Runtime Revolution are going to access the
proposed documentation.
What has not been addressed are:
1. Any pedagogical
Hi all
Incidentally I thought about all this when I created the BvG Docu
stacks last spring. However, I quickly came to the conclusion that it'd
be quite a large project to create a platform for a community driven
Documentation. There is open source web software out there for that
kind of
On 24 Oct 2007, at 22:36, François Chaplais wrote:
I mean, why this XML stuff? Why not plain Revolution stacks?
I don't know, but it forced them to make the xml external i guess...
On the other hand, a Stack has quite an overhead compared to text files
(whatever the format (well, maybe not
On 10/25/07, Richmond Mathewson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What has not been addressed are:
A whole lot removed
Whilst everything you said is very valid if I were Danny Goodman, Dan Shafer
or David Pogue writing a book to be sold. IMO it doesn't apply to this
'dream'. I don't believe the
On 10/24/07, François Chaplais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I mean, why this XML stuff?
While I'm not in complete agreement on how RR implemented their XML
docs, it does make a lot of sense to do it that way.
Using XML, others can reuse the documentation content in many
different ways. Richard
Perhaps it's a good idea to take a page from the PHP doc:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-info.php
It's like a wiki, where there's the official explanation at the
top, then a lot of very helpful examples, code snippets and comments
below from the community on each page.
I could
It would take me a few hours (mostly to export/import/format the
current doc content)
The cost would be, I will do it if enough people say they'll use it!
Editing authority is pretty easy, invite anyone to have an account,
since there is an infinite revision history it would be easy to
Count me in! If we're going to wikiize the docs, it might be nice to
have some sort of indication as to the level of information. That's a
fancy way of saying having a common notation like NEWBIE: where basic
information is and EXPERT: if it takes a little more knowledge to
grasp. Then a
On 10/24/07, Josh Mellicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps it's a good idea to take a page from the PHP doc:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-info.php
It's like a wiki, where there's the official explanation at the
top, then a lot of very helpful examples, code snippets and
Josh Mellicker wrote:
It would take me a few hours (mostly to export/import/format the
current doc content)
The cost would be, I will do it if enough people say they'll use it!
Editing authority is pretty easy, invite anyone to have an account,
since there is an infinite revision history
Sarah Reichelt wrote:
However I believe that for this to last and have credibility, it
needs to be done by RunRev themselves.
Another plus for a plugin that mods the docs: it can be bundled,
requiring RunRev to do close to nothing to deliver it to everyone with
every install.
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