Wholy crap Jonathan I give you an E for (E)xcellent thesis. I didn't have
the time nor the patience to read it, so I apologize, however, I think I
should point out that nowhere in the article does it categorize anyone as
smart or stupid.
I believe this point is important to emphasize:
"This is autonomous behavior. Again, we shouldn't hate the Help Vampire. Or
stake them. They know not what they do, only that they are driven to do it,
and I believe they can be saved."
M.
On 4/26/06, Jonathan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I want to offer a basic counterpoint to this: what if the question is just
> from a beginner, who has in fact researched a problem found the
> documentation/resources incomplete in some way? Is it just because a
> person
> is a beginner that you will not offer help?
>
> Case in point, and be patient with me. I am not by any means venting here,
> but I offered a question some time ago about the basic placement of
> anonymous functions like btn1.onRelease =
> function(){getURL(_root.variable_name,"_blank");} and also asked about
> whether or not such a function required the _root if it was in fact on the
> _root timeline. I actually received some very nice assistance on this and
> I
> appreciate the poster, since though I did discover that this was true
> through experimentation myself, he did give me a short lesson on scope. I
> had already learned about the Delegate class, but this basic issue was not
> clear in my reading, so I would not know I had to use _root or Delegate or
> what have you. I do know some Javascript and PHP and so programming is not
> beyond me, but learning a new technology from the ground up is the way I
> learn generally. I like to know *all* the aspects. So please permit those
> who are learning and obviously trying the benefit of the doubt.
>
> Another thing is further questions on the same subject. In this same
> issue,
> I had the question "are such function assignments applicable to a button
> if
> the code is placed before the button on the timeline?" I got a no, of
> course, which was a basic thing I had sketchy knowledge on. What I had was
> an ad sent to us by a client wherein the previous coder had used on()
> handlers on the clips and I was trying to rewrite it to include the
> anonymous functions and our variables, as stated before. When I wrote in
> the
> code in a keyframe in the actions layer above where the button was
> instantiated, it worked, but when a new keyframe in the button layer came
> up, I had to re-enter the code there as well. This seemed like repetitive
> work and my further question about this was not answered.
>
> My point is, does this make me dumb? No. It would make me lazy however if
> I
> did not research this. But this basic practice of where code should be
> written and how often was not clear to me since the project was not
> working
> in subsequent frames and the documentation I had read seemed to say write
> and be done with it.
>
> I suppose I am both asking this general question again, to help solidify
> my
> knowledge, and also pointing out that this does not make those who try but
> fail stupid. All I am saying is that I appreciate all your knowledge on
> this
> subject, but please have patience with those who are trying to learn and
> distinguish them from the vampires who ask questions that are so general
> that they lack any knowledge of Flash.
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