[Gambas-user] Re: new Gambas documentation (Rob)

Daniel Campos danielcampos at ...282...
Sun Jul 31 00:55:25 CEST 2005


I do not understand very well what you say... the documents about the 
Gambas programming
interface for components is placed in the same Gambas sources!!!.

Just open Gambas help at look at "How to program components"!!!

Regards,

D. Campos




Joseph Murphy escribió:

>The new docs look good but I was locked out on many of the hyper links.
>
>I would also like to make a request for addition to the docs. This is listed 
>in the docs for component programming:
>
>The components and the interpreter communicate through the Gambas 
>Programming Interface. 
>
>They are executed in the interpreter environment, and so must not do 
>whatever they want.
>
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>
>What is this interface?  I would like to see a detailed explanation of this 
>interface.  Also what are the restrictions on components?  The docs say 
>that they "must not do whatever they want" but it doesn't go into detail 
>about that.
>
>The ability of a programmer to extend gambas by adding a component is one of 
>the strong points of gambas.  But it is being weakened by the time and 
>effort needed to just get up to speed on component writing.    
>
>I understand that writing documentation is the gritty part of a project and 
>nobody likes doing it.  But, in many ways, it is the most important part of 
>the project.  I forget who said this but it is one of the best explanation 
>of documentation I have heard:  Documentation is like sex.  When it's good 
>it's very good, when it's bad it's better then nothing.
>
>Joseph
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