[Gambas-user] a bit of confusion

[Rob]

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 16:51, Jochen Georges wrote:
> puh, for me as a hobby-programmer with no experience in VB or
> BASIC it is very hard to find (or to understand) information
> in the gambaswiki.
> Jochen (who is still checking, repairing and reunderstanding
> the examples)

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 18:00, Stefan Lamprecht wrote:
> i spend days finding out how to operate correctly with utf-8
> strings. the information regarding this was close to zero (0)
> and more misleading in some cases.
> i suggest some kind of 'elegant' programming contest to gather
> some more and complete samples.

I've heard stuff like this from people off and on.  I'm not sure 
if you guys are aware of this, but on the wiki, you can press 
"Edit" on any page and (assuming you have registered) make 
whatever changes you would like to see.  In particular, while 
I'd love to get on there and make a lot of examples easier to 
understand, I am essentially monolingual where programming is 
concerned and have no idea what any of this UTF-8 or other 
unicode stuff means.  So you guys who speak more than one 
language and need to do unicode conversions will have to update 
the documentation yourselves.

Additionally, if you have an idea for a new kind of Gambas 
documentation, whether it's a tutorial or cookbook (though I 
thought the How Do I... pages were kind of like a cookbook) you 
don't need to ask, you can just start doing it!  Even if you 
just start out by putting a table of contents out there 
somewhere, and then mention it here, other people will check it 
out and add more stuff to it.  Nelson and I and various other 
people wrote an article that way last year to promote Gambas.  I 
have been meaning to write a dummies/24hours/etc. type of book 
about Gambas for almost a year now, and got as far as outlining 
it earlier this year on paper, but work has swamped me and I 
don't expect to have the time to do it alone in the foreseeable 
future.

If you are bashful and don't want your stuff to appear in the 
Gambas help files before it's done, you can put
<nopublish>
before the link to your new page and
</nopublish>
after it, and it will not be included in the static version of 
the wiki which is used to make the help files.

Rob