At 2:24 PM -0700 8/13/2001, Douglas Wagner wrote:
>You rather missed the point of my remark. I'm aware of the need for
>effort. However, I do begrudge unnecessary effort which is the result
>of inadequate documentation. The fact is the evaluation version of RR
>is badly documented. In order to evaluate the IDE properly I need to
>be able to understand it and use it. That's difficult if there is no
>detailed documentation
One could say a number of things about the documentation for Revolution
1.0. Not all of them would be complimentary. (Certainly not all the things
*I* have to say about the documentation are complimentary. Though it is
reasonably complete and truthful, it suffers from lack of a generous number
of complex scripting examples, an index, and a complete explanation of some
of the more complex aspects of the development environment.)
However. It is, I have to admit, a bit beyond me how anyone could describe
a program that comes with OVER FIVE MEGABYTES of documentation comprising
nearly 300,000 words as having "no detailed documentation".
I'm sorry you were frustrated because the documentation did not tell you
how to use a third-party program to convert Mac OS resources into GIF
files. (I have added a note on the process to the "How To" list for 1.1,
partly as a result of your experience.) But the question strikes me as
fairly general and as peripheral to the Rev development environment; I
don't think I've ever seen it answered in development documentation for any
other such product, and I don't think lack of the answer to this question
justifies your claim that the product is badly documented.
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