On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote:
> Yeah, not my favorite either. Whilst I don't wish to kerb anyone's enthusiasm to contribute to Max's or anyone else's Wiki, I do have two concerns. Clearly, the spare time of this Community to contribute to any community effort (be it bug reports, code or documentation) is very limited. 5 min contributing to a Wiki is 5 min not improving the actual Dictionary entry. Also, Wiki's generally need an internet connection to access. I spend a LOT of time with slow or no internet. Richard wrote: "Drafting a functional spec and work plan would take much more time", but clearly a LOT of thought and time has already gone into the new Dictionary, it's markup, what kind of beast it is. I like the fact that it's becoming the centralised location for documentation, be it language (API) entries or guides - hopefully also these new style Tutorials. Thankfully I can access everything offline!! When I wrote the Dictionary is a glorified Wiki, sometimes the term 'glorified' can have negative connotations. My intention was far more positive, the Dictionary is a couple of steps up, on a much higher plain than a Wiki. Although we've had Easter, here's a Dictionary Easter Egg (although I'll probably discover everyone else knew this but me) In the LC 8 dp15+ Dictionary search box Enter 'button' - you should have 3 exact matches. If you click on the 3rd one, you should get a list of all* the messages that can be sent/received by a button, followed by all* properties associated with a button. *all being determined by each specific Dictionary entry having the correct markup. If you click on the first Message link: arrowKey - you'll be taken to it's specific Dictionary entry. Note the 3rd line: Associations button. This is how the Dictionary knows. This is why the Dictionary is better than a Wiki because the team has already spent a lot of time with the Dictionary spec to take it well beyond a simple Wiki. PS Unfortunately if you click on the 'button' link against Associations it doesn't take you back to the relevant button page with all it's Associations. Hopefully they are working on that. PPS I think Charles' offer to help handle DOC PRs for the Gitphobic is a much better road to go down. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode