Ironing

[Matt Denton]

I know there is some ironing work to do. I know 1.1 will bring all sorts of fixes and features and hopefully most of the ironing will be done. But here is an idea:

Perhaps there could be a small online database to help address bugs that are being ironed out or are known issues. The symptom could be described, the workaround provided, and/or possible solutions if it is not actually a bug but a inherent behavior and something new to learn! Might save days and days off some developer's schedule (count me as one that, I've been through it a few times). Here's the start of it, most of it from very helpful people on the list:

Graphics don't stay resized when moving between cards
Disappearing Cursor -- script and fields
the selectedChunk and correctly reporting the cursor position
Can I make a stack truly multi-user?
Renaming and moving files -- issues

I know Revolution goes part the way in the 'Why Can't I..." troubleshooting section but this does not address many of the known issues, rather dealing only with potential issues while learning the package. (On a very minor point the troubleshooting text is hard to read with the repeated "Why Can't I.."? and sometimes long description. Could be categorized too: mouse, text and keyboard issues; printing and exporting; images and sizing issues etc).

I guess this would need to be moderated by the RunRev team to keep it consistent with product development and avoid 'false' issues.

I'd have a go at it but I feel that I'm not yet qualified and you might see some scary results.

OAI (on another issue) My thanks to Geoff: thanks again for the documentation exporter and the very funny "The Shakespeare Programming Language" reference (List v001.n072), bizarre what some people get up to (and what I'd love to try and program). I can see where they are coming from: 'pure' code then necessarily needs to be pure prose, pure poetry and a pure result with code even my grandmother would love to read and understand. Bizarre, verbose, obscure and very elegant.
http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/
(As Geoff said, check out the documentation and one page 'Hello World'.)

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Matt Denton