RE: win32lib Help suggestion
- Posted by Derek Parnell <Derek.Parnell at SYD.RABOBANK.COM> Jul 18, 2002
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This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_000_01C22EA7.9DF720B0 charset=iso-8859-1 I will be breaking it into topic files rather than one monolithic one. Also, I will be supplying HTML, CHM and MS-Word formats. This will be the focus of next week's win32lib activity. Plus improving the information and quality of the text. For example, the demo programs need much better documentation and there should be links in the main docs to the appropriate demo programs. > -----Original Message----- > From: jordah ferguson [mailto:jorfergie03 at yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, 19 July 2002 5:34 > To: EUforum > Subject: win32lib Help suggestion > > > > Hi Derek, > > I'm just suggesting this, if you don't like the idea trash it. > How about you get a couple of willing people out there to > help you out > with improving > the documentation of win32lib? > > 1) Html format used is so slow. I would suggest you use CHM > like Euman > did with refman > But this time with break-down of topics. Take an example of > the MS SDK, > very fast yet > very big.(BTW, CHM cannot be read on win95 SE so improvise a better > solution) > > 2) Improve the documentation generally on most of the routines > especially the create() > or createEx(). It was not until today, after reading the internal > win32lib code that i found > out you could create a menu item with a check using create(). > I bet most > people didn't > know this. The documentation ever since 55.1 has lagged behind. These > days i don't > bother reading the slow yet big doco, i just open win32lib.ew to know > what else i can > do with a function. Also, i have realised most win32 programmers when > using win32lib > tend to turn to use direct API calls to do some functions that are > already done in > win32lib. > > I have been keeping a close eye on win32lib trends ever since i > subscribed to this list > and found out there are a couple of people out there willing to help. > > I would have taken this task upon me, but unfortunately i > don't know a > thing about > HTML leave alone Compiling the HTML to CHM. However if some one is > willing to do this, > i will gladly offer the extra help i found out functions can do eg > create() > > What do u say? > > Jordah Ferguson > aka Sir LoJiK > > > > ================================================================== De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door het bericht te retourneren. ================================================================== The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. Should you receive this message unintentionally, please do not use the contents herein and notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. ================================================================== ------_=_NextPart_000_01C22EA7.9DF720B0 Content-Type: application/ms-tnef