This might likely be for the staff, or anyone who wants to undertake the
job. :)
Now, imagine you are developing a new app. You base the app's activity
on a set of instructions, given to you through the scripting environment
and the GWToolkit. As you build the app code, you may or may not, read
the individual chapters of the Developer's Reference. All you know, is
that the app runs nicely on your computer, which may have the newest
version of the screen reader installed.
Later on, you may update the code of the app. Things may change in the
provided set of routines - like now that the new Browse Mode is being
introduced. And, I could likely come up with a few more cases, where
your app would base its activity on certain routines, that will require
a minimum version of the screen reader, before it will run smoothly.
True enough, if you are good and sit half a day with the reference
manual, tiredlessly looking up each and every instruction call of your
app, you may be able to determine if any of the thousand of calls you
make, would have a restriction tied to it. But sorry for asking, how
many of you driven developers do ever do that? :)
My idea here, would be if we could please have a table all gathered and
provided, which would hold all the instructions that have a minimum
requirement tied to it. The table should hold the instruction, and the
version number for its minimum. And, it should be quick to find, like
directly from the root-level of the chapter list in the reference
manual. I then could simply bring out that table, and quickly check if
the instruction I am going to base my next activity on, would have any
minimum restriction. At least I, would find that far more simple and
quick, than having to look up numerous chapters, and jump in and out of
the reading window, search box and so forth, in the chm window. If we
could have it all collected on one and same page, I would only have to
work that one page in my restriction hunting.
Hope this idea makes sense, and that we could have such a list provided.
I guess, it should not be too much for the staff to collect the list,
based on the raw text of the chm file. Otherwise, the only way I could
think of, is that someone had undertaken the grand job of scrolling all
the chapters of the manual, looking out for the minimum requirement. So
staff members, would you be willing to provide us such a quick-list?
Thanks,
--
David
- Minimum Version Required David
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