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Deeper documentation...

 [1/3] from: riusa::email::it at: 20-Feb-2002 9:22


Hi all, I'm deeply studying rebol, since I'm trying to persuade my company to adopt Rebol to create some client applications (internet/intranet based). The biggest problem I found is documentation. Yes, Rebol has much documentation, but if I wish some explanations about a particular argument the situation is problematic. For example: View dialect is poor of documentation about some functions: LIST, deeper usage of events (I discovered in this mailing-list some tokens, functions, etc... I never found or I only saw mentioned), RADIO BUTTONS (I wish information about their usage in a real-world not only some basic examples), etc... I created some forms with DHTML very simply, but I found a lot of problems to create them in Rebol: why? because, beyond the source code published in the rebol sites, there is not enought documentation about some real-life jobs (which jobs? I don't want to fill this email with examples, if someone wish, I can do it in another one). Summary: 1) I wish more specialized documentation about the usage of some tokens. 2) More documentation about real-applications (DB connectivity, retrieve data and create lists dinamically (radio, list, text-list, checkbox, etc...). 3) etc... bye! -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Hai un'azienda? Contattaci, ti aiuteremo ad allargare il tuo giro d'affari Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=247&d=20-2

 [2/3] from: carl:cybercraft at: 20-Feb-2002 23:39


On 20-Feb-02, [riusa--email--it] wrote:
> Hi all, I'm deeply studying rebol, since I'm trying to persuade my > company to adopt Rebol to create some client applications
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> list, text-list, checkbox, etc...). > 3) etc...
We all wish for better documentation for View. However, you didn't say which docs you were aware of. Simple docs regarding VID and Draw are available via the View Desktop in the rebol.com rebsite, plus there's an old but quite good (if incomplete) View doc archived on the RebolForces site at... http://www.rebolforces.com/archive/view099users.html Those are RT documents. Others here could tell you of third-party docs too, I'm sure. -- Carl Read

 [3/3] from: info:id-net:ch at: 20-Feb-2002 11:22


I totally agree with you. To start learning rebol, specially VID dialect, you has to ask to other rebollers a lots of questions. Those information that couldnt be found somewhere else. I think that without this elist you couldnt advance the way you should. That's shoudn't happen. WE (this elist) have to assemble a sufficient good documentation for beginners and put it on the web, if we want to expand the impact of this language. Philippe

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