[Gambas-devel] Well, I kept my promise

[Kadaitcha Man]

2009/12/9 richard terry <rterry at ...627...>:
> On Wednesday 09 December 2009 19:35:04 Kadaitcha Man wrote:
>
> I've not followed this debate in great detail but will make a few comments.
>
> As someone with a lame brain, I always find documentation hard to follow and
> think this sample is an improvement as it seems to have everything including
> examples on the same page.
>
> Personally I've struggled for hours trying to understand some of the
> documentation as I'm not a professional programmer nor have any formal
> programming training, so my brain o bvioulsy dosn't 'work correctly' when it
> comes to intrepretting documentation.

Yah, well, it's not your brain that's at fault, it's the
documentation. When I write, which I do a lot, I always step back and
put myself in the shoes of the virgin reader with no knowledge and ask
myself, "Does this makes sense?"

> I think gambas is brilliant and cannot thank Benoit and all the other
> developers enough for such a fantastic tool,

Same here.

> As has been raised before on this list, together we must all have a treasure
> trove of code samples which could be shared if some mechanism could be found
> to do so.

This dev list is fine for that.

> Also, as I've previously stated (and would be happy to contribute to) we need
> something like the wxPython demo, which illustrates the use of all common and
> more complex controls. The existing samples are a help, but need augmentation.

Well, it might be worth taking a look at the wxPython demo and
building somehting similar in Gambas.