I tell you my little Rho-seanne Rho-seannadanna. "It's always something!" @3-min on.
Rho, I feel your pain. When I was working on my office software, the size of the both the compiler and ide projects put together, my wife would point out something it already had a way of doing, but she had a different way of wanting to do itt, which it didn't support. That used to drive me crazy. I eventually realized it was just a vulnerability in the software, and took measures to either...
1) Document better what could and could not be done.
2) Mad a routine that handled the unaddressed condition.
3) Provided a popup alert that informed the user how to use what they were attempting to achieve, successfully.
4) Disabled the routine.
Since the IDE already has a cursor method for providing keyword help, I'd probably go with action 1 or 3. That's if I was a project developer and had both the time and no other more prioritized coding projects in the mix at the moment. Now take that for a grain of salt, because I'm not a project developer, and words are cheap compared to "statements," which take a lot longer to make into a function; however, I'd be happy to put something in the Wiki to address this the issue Phil had while trying to use the F1 Help.
Thoughts?
Pete
Rho, I feel your pain. When I was working on my office software, the size of the both the compiler and ide projects put together, my wife would point out something it already had a way of doing, but she had a different way of wanting to do itt, which it didn't support. That used to drive me crazy. I eventually realized it was just a vulnerability in the software, and took measures to either...
1) Document better what could and could not be done.
2) Mad a routine that handled the unaddressed condition.
3) Provided a popup alert that informed the user how to use what they were attempting to achieve, successfully.
4) Disabled the routine.
Since the IDE already has a cursor method for providing keyword help, I'd probably go with action 1 or 3. That's if I was a project developer and had both the time and no other more prioritized coding projects in the mix at the moment. Now take that for a grain of salt, because I'm not a project developer, and words are cheap compared to "statements," which take a lot longer to make into a function; however, I'd be happy to put something in the Wiki to address this the issue Phil had while trying to use the F1 Help.
Thoughts?
Pete