Hello mm, On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:54:37 -0400 GMT (25/10/02, 20:54 +0700 GMT), mm Meister wrote:
> In order to solve this problem for the new users, clearly they're > intimidated by the industrial look of TB! - why not design a good, > follow-the-steps set of tutorials that can help a new person settle > in? Actually I thought about it. When you look at Eudora, you can go to any good bookshop and buy a big book called "Using Eudora". But for The Bat, the book would be out of date by the time it is printed and hits the stores. To publish the tutorials on the web means constant updating, as TB's development is quite fast (or maybe it just feels that way to beta testers?), and I cannot promise the tutorial would always refer to the latest version. A tutorial based on a prior version is useless, maybe even damaging to the software's reputation (as people try out things that in the end don't work that way in the current version they just downloaded). I haven't given up the idea, but I don't think it makes a lot of sense to start the project now (it will probably take a few months to write all of this), because v2 is already on the horizon and we have no idea how the interface etc will change. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. I live in my own little world, but it's ok, they know me here. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
