One more thing: There's a lot about how Rev handles Save, Save As, Close vs Close and
Remove From Memory that still is cryptic to me... and which sia not spelled out at
all in the dox. I've asked a couple of questions and the replies have helped a great
deal but there's nothing more disconcerting than wondering whether what you just saved
blew away something else you had saved previously.
Come to think of it, the whole concept of what gets retained in memory and for how
long is not 100% clear to me despite 2 intensive weeks of working with Rev.
Please, please come up with a document that covers these aspects ASAP!!!
Thanks.
Marian
-----Original Message-----
From: "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 03:38:11 -0700
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help improve Revolution's documentation
> A few people on the use-revolution list recently have complained about the
> 1.0 version of the documentation. In the attempt to improve the docs, I'd
> like to solicit more information from those who have found the docs
> inadequate.
>
> The complaint I'm hearing is about conceptual documentation - introductory
> material, overviews of functionality, and general concepts, such as the
> information in the Encyclopedia. However, a couple of posts have described
> the documentation as though this material weren't there at all. (One poster
> mentioned the language dictionary, glossary, and "how to" stack as though
> this were all the documentation there were. Another spoke as though the
> first of the six tutorials were all the non-reference information in the
> docs. Another post spoke of having obtained an overview of REALbasic by
> spending an hour skimming the documentation, but didn't mention having been
> able to do the same with the equivalent parts of the Rev documentation.)
>
> So I'm considering whether people:
> - Have specific questions that aren't being answered by the encyclopedia
> - Want the encyclopedia material, but haven't been able to find it
> - Have found it but are not comfortable reading it through, for whatever reason
>
> Obviously, my approach to improving the docs (more orientation info? better
> navigation? format changes?) for these folks will vary depending on exactly
> what problems people are having with this material, and only users of
> Revolution can answer these questions. What's your view?
>
> --
> Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.runrev.com/
> Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer!
>
>
>
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