hi benoit, there many issues in gb.db specifically in odbc component, i wish to be fixed in the next release please, thanks in advance
currently i can to contribute to the documentation how-to's wiki parts but i cannot write on both languajes, its very tedious for me write english.. so if any could translate from spanish will be usefully 2017-06-06 7:23 GMT-04:00 Benoît Minisini via Gambas-user < gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net>: > Le 06/06/2017 à 12:53, Hans Lehmann a écrit : > >> A warm Hello to all friends of the Gambas programming language, >> >> many years ago users complained in various Gambas forum posts about the >> lack of books about Gambas in the German language. I liked Gambas from >> the beginning. Its conception allows people, like myself, switching over >> from other environments as well as ambitioned programmers to work on a >> range of different tasks in a single language. This motivated me as early >> as 2008 to design a concept for a Gambas book. For a few years now this >> book is made available online at www.gambas-buch.de. Many chapters have >> already been published. With great effort, the team of authors pursues >> the goal to produce a good description of the components and classes of >> Gambas and to demonstrate their use in example projects. Every chapter >> and its parts are also offered as a PDF file, and archives of the tested >> demonstration projects are available for download. >> >> However, our work on the online book is hampered increasingly because some >> components and their classes have only fragmentary documentation in the >> Gambas wiki, or none at all. By tolerating this condition, the Gambas >> developers throw away opportunities for newcomers to discover and use >> Gambas. A class or component should, in my opinion, only be released after >> its documentation is complete and correct and put on the Gambas wiki. >> Do the developers really believe that a potential Gambas user will read >> all the source code to understand how the properties, methods and events >> work? (I, for one, have never learned C.) To me, for example, it is clear >> after over 44 years as a grammar school teacher -- among others for >> Computer Science -- that nothing motivates more than success und success >> has to be prepared. >> >> This brings us to the crucial point with Gambas: all efforts should >> currently >> be directed towards quickly closing the gaps and flaws in the >> documentation! >> One only learns a language well by speaking it -- and this is only >> possible >> with a good dictionary! Such an excellent programming language as Gambas >> should enjoy a thorough documentation of the existing components and >> classes >> with small projects or code snippets which show the essential properties >> and methods in action. If you have a look at the current state of the >> documentation, you will see that it is exceedingly incomplete. Do the >> developers seriously think that the Gambas programmers can read in a >> crystal >> ball if all that's known about a class is the names of its properties, >> methods and events? >> >> The software farm with its projects does not replace a systematic >> treatment >> of the basics of the language. The online book wanted to provide just that >> for the German-speaking Gambas programmers, and those who want to be! If >> none or only insufficient information about the properties, methods and >> events of a Gambas class is available, then a newbie or a Gambas >> programmer, >> who wants to use this class, will resign and turn to other languages. >> >> My wish is essentially just that the developers do their job until the end >> and provide the documentation for their classes, because only then can >> their >> valuable work be truly useful. Only then can Gambas finally make progress. >> >> Honsek >> www.gambas-buch.de >> >> > You are right, it's just that time is missing on my side, because of many > other activities. > > I plan to release Gambas 3.10 soon, and document the gb.web.form component > that allows to make web applications a bit like GUI applications. > > And of course filling the other missing entries in the documentation on > the components I made. > > Regards, > > -- > Benoît Minisini > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user