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Title: Online manual
Post by: Kitty Hello on 2009-Oct-15
OK, I made some sort of online help now. I will pick a few people who then can actively edit this help together with me to extend it or fix typos.

I'm not keen on anyone writing new topics each hour, because I will have to translate whatever you do to German. And writing the manual it _not_ my hobby.

I'm also uncertain how the script will behave once it gets used a lot. If it's slow, I consider removing it from the public.

The main advantage is, that we can work together on one code base and maybe I can use it to create an HTML help for the editor updates. That would mean I can drop the chm help. Not sure if that's a good idea, though.

http://www.glbasic.com/xmlhelp.php?doc=POLYVECTOR (http://www.glbasic.com/xmlhelp.php?doc=POLYVECTOR)

If anyone can see the "Remove / Add" buttons - tell me but _don't_ trigger them. I wanted to make these available to special forum group members, only but I had no time to test against a normal user account.


Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: MrTAToad on 2009-Oct-15
Looks quite good.
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: Hemlos on 2009-Oct-16

Dont forget the ide :)


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Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: codegit on 2009-Oct-16
Looks good to me.  :good:
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: Ian Price on 2009-Oct-16
 :good:
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: Schranz0r on 2009-Oct-16
Add this to your start.html

after Nic's online manual:

Code (glbasic) Select

<div class="menu_line">
<a href="http://www.glbasic.com/xmlhelp.php" style="display: block;">GLBasic online manual</a>
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: kaotiklabs on 2009-Oct-31
Why there´s no link on the glbasic web?
Or I´m missing the link?
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: MrTAToad on 2009-Oct-31
Gernot is doing an online one, but its not finished yet.
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: kaotiklabs on 2009-Nov-01
Ok. Ok. Thought it was allready published. Take your time mate.
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: Kitty Hello on 2009-Nov-02
http://www.glbasic.com/xmlhelp.php (http://www.glbasic.com/xmlhelp.php)
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: Ian Price on 2009-Nov-02
Very, very useful :)
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: FutureCow on 2009-Dec-10
Does any one have the ability to update this yet?

Also, is it going to be linked to the front page at some point? *hint hint*
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: Kitty Hello on 2009-Dec-10
It's a bit slow to use and heavy on the CPU load of the server, but yes you can edit it. Do you want editing permissions?
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: FutureCow on 2009-Dec-10
Sure, I'd like to be able to edit it if that's okay.
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: FutureCow on 2009-Dec-10
Just a thought :-
What about an area of the forum for manual updates. Inside that area, put a thread for every command and make that forum so no that new threads can be added (but you can reply to existing ones).  People can then reply to add to whatever command they like. Occasionally (once every 6 months? or whenever one of the moderators feels like it) the amendments can be rolled into the current manual. That way, at least if the changes hardly ever get rolled in, people can easily search the thread to see if someone's addressed the problem.
Title: Re: Online manual
Post by: Kitty Hello on 2009-Dec-10
OK, you can now. Please be gentle with it, because I have to translate it all to German then!

When you find a bug in the manual, just post a bug report.