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!
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[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.
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[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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