Sean, this is a really great things! I contact you off-list on how to integrate your extension inside NativeDoc.
Damien Girard Dam-pro, France. http://www.dam-pro.com -> Check out the new website! > Message du 05/08/09 10:57 > De : "Bernard Devlin" > A : "How to use Revolution" > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [teaser] for third party developers > > > Sean, I think this is a great idea. Not only would it centralize > documentation for different libraries, but it could also serve as a > kind of advert/reminder of those libraries. > > Many users of this list have written a wide variety of helpful > libraries. If these libraries could have their documentation listed > with Rev in this 'Third Party' category, then once someone had Rev > installed merely by looking through this category they would see how > many great solutions have been written using Rev. > > I'm thinking that this would need some approval from Runrev, e.g. a > format for the docs (you wouldn't want this broken if the docs > changed). And it would require the people who write the libraries to > e.g. make their documentation conform to that format and either submit > their documentation to Runrev for inclusion or make it available at a > network reachable URL so that the Dictionary could go out to the > internet and harvest the documentation. > > Just imagine how many features this would add to a Rev user's toolkit: > date manipulation libraries, S3, mail, growl, curl, enhanced > quicktime, error reporting, JSON, ip address resolution, kiosk mode, > etc. I'm sure there are many more that I don't even remember. > > Obviously the new data grid documentation could also be included > (although I imagine that's already on the cards for inclusion in the > main dicationary). > > Alternatively, maybe we can set up a single website where developers > could submit their formatted documentation, and then there would only > be one place for the Dictionary to check to see if there is new > documentation to add. > > Maybe some developers would prefer to just keep their stuff > exclusively on their own site, as a way of drawing attention to the > other things they do. > > I can imagine that if Runrev were to make any official way to add to > the docs, they would want to distance themselves from the third party > libraries. > > Anyway, I think it would be a way of making the whole Rev ecosphere > stronger. I've seen it mentioned many times that only a small > fraction of users will ever post a question to a mailing list or > forum. They might just download Rev, think Rev can't do what they > want, and forget about Rev. > > Bernard > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Shao Sean wrote: > > I have been working on this for quite some time now and have the majority of > > the basics working so am going to publicly mention it (a few knew about it > > privately).. > > > > As the subject states, this is for the group of Rev developers who develop > > third party add-ons but it is also for anyone who uses any of those > > add-ons.. > > > > What is it? It is a small hack to the IDE (no changes are made to any of > > their files) that allows third party developers to place their documentation > > into the Revolution dictionary into a new category called "Third Party".. > > > > Check out the latest screen capture < http://shaosean.tk/images/teaser2.png > >> and anyone interested in testing it out, please feel free to email me < > > info AT shaosean DOT tk > > > > > -Sean > > _______________________________________________ > > use-revolution mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > > preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > Créez votre adresse électronique [email protected] 1 Go d'espace de stockage, anti-spam et anti-virus intégrés. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
