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I've introduced a lot of folks to Transcript as a second language, and I find the pattern often works like this:
First week: "I hate this, it isn't what I'm used to."
Two to three weeks: "Hmmmm, there's a lot in here."
Four to six weeks: "Wow, there's a lot in here!"
Two months: "I'm more productive now than I was in my other favorite language."
Six months: "I love this thing like no other."
Well, I love it, sure, but I still find that if I have the idea that something can be done in Transcript, I can't always find it in the docs. This is of course as nothing compared to searching Microsoft Help files, where they seem to have employed a person to extract all the synonyms for functions that I can think of, but nevertheless IMO finding stuff in the docs remains a bit of a lottery. For example, if it wasn't for this list I'd still be searching for the method of doing a submenu (or hierarchical menu, or cascading menu, or branching menu), because I couldn't find an easy way of looking it up. Basically once I've searched the TD and the recipe section of the docs I'm stuck - and I think this kind of feeling does get to people, even experienced ones, when faced with something as rich as Transcript. I'm not saying there's a simple solution to this, but all of us who want people to love (and buy) the product, should continue to think of ways of improving the situation.
2 more Eurocents from me
Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France
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