On 27/04/2010 04:25, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
Interesting enough, consulting the online
dictionary, i just noticed that some entries
are unchanged from previous versions and
do not reflect actual version.
For example, Mac Only ink effects are
available for Windows users, but the
dictionary does not specify this.
Technical 'guff' is in the second half of this
posting. The 'wibble' comes first.
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The biggest problem is that the Dictionary is
not entirely consistent.
[Had you read the first paragraph of my
'Richmond goes bonkers because he didn't
have a rest over the weekend' text, you
would have realised that this was more an
attempt at a start than to produce canon
law]
My "data-mining" was fairly crude; and most
of the criticisms levelled against the results are
perfectly justified.
It is, HOWEVER, high time there was a proper
3 column list so that folk who want/need to
develop something that will work on 2 or
more platforms can work out 'what is what'.
Searching through the Documentation for
each term is incredibly time-consuming; and
with the knowledge that it is not entirely
accurate one begins to think about The
Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy.
I suspect that the only people who can supply us
with such a list, which would be completely
reliable, not contain redundancies and
repetitions, and would stand up to all the
criticisms that have been levelled against my
list, are the RunRev folk themselves.
I would mention Klaus, but he is a bit bogged
down at present and doesn't need another thing
on his plate.
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Cracking open a few of the XML files with TextWrangler I noticed
that most of them contained this:
<macos support="true" />
<osx support="true" />
<win32 support="true" />
<unix support="true" />
('twas not me that put empty spaces in there me hearties)
where the flag "true" could also be "false"
so I thought I would just filter for <unix support="false" />
until I noticed that some of the files had this:
<introduced version="1.0" />
<win32 support="true" />
<class>Desktop, Server and Web</class>
(all a bit inconsistent) so I did this:
if fld "EXEMEL" contains "unix support=" & quote & "true" then
--do nix--
else
SHOVE THE DETAILS INTO THE OUTPUT FIELD
end if
where fld "EXEMEL" contains the text of the XML file that is being examined.
[SHOVE is not a recognised RunRev term on any platform . . . :) ]
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If anyone suddenly sees a bright, shining light, they are welcome to
contact me for a copy of my stack to improve or otherwise
mess around with.
My "Revolutionary Therapy" is now concluded and I shall return to
work on my Devawriter 'Pro' without further ado.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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