[Gambas-user] New gambas tutorial

[Dave sharples]

Here's my contribution to the cause.

Dave

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:58, Daniel Oxley wrote:
> Yeah, I thought anout doing it that way but you could end up being on it for
> days deciding on the wording.  So I mostly did grammer and a few re-writes
> where it did not make any sense.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gambas-user-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:gambas-user-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Dave sharples
> Sent: 09 March 2005 11:53
> To: Gambas
> Subject: RE: [Gambas-user] New gambas tutorial
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:01, Daniel Oxley wrote:
> > David,
> > 
> > Here you have my suggestions for changes.  I read the document and on 
> > a whole it is very good.  Most of the changes are just minor grammer
> things!
> > 
> > The left column is the original text and the right column is the 
> > amended text with the changes highlighted.  I hope it makes sense.  If 
> > anyone else wants to make sure that I did not make any mistakes, feel 
> > free.  After all, I did not score too highly at English in school, 
> > although mostly because I was not always there or paying attention ;-)
> > 
> > Espero que te ayude.  Avisame si necesitas algo mas.  So no lo 
> > comprendes, enviame un correo.
> > 
> > Daniel
> >  
> > 
> 
> You've managed to correct the grammatical errors but I think the document
> still loses some meanings in translation. Thats probably why I was surprised
> you got it done so quickly.
> 
> I was doing a more literal re-write (perhaps I understood david wrong ?)
> 
> as an example - 
> 
> Being a literal translation I found the following paragraph very confusing -
> 
> 
> When creating the menu entries and the buttons that, in the properties
> window, there is a property called "Group", besides the typical properties
> like name, caption, etc. This option is very interesting, because we can
> associate the same code to different controls with the same funcion, for
> example, the menu entry "Open" and the button "Open"
> must do the same task: open a file on disk. Using the "Group" property, we
> write the code for this task once.
> 
> so I was re-writing it to make it clearer, like such - 
> 
>  When creating the menu entries you will notice that besides the typical
> properties like name, caption, etc. there is also a property called "Group",
> form buttons also have this "Group" property as you can see  by selecting a
> button and viewing its properties in the Properties window. This option is
> very interesting, because we can associate the same code to different
> controls with the same funcion, for example, the menu entry "Open" and the
> button "Open" must do the same task: open a file from disk. Using the
> "Group" property, we write the code for this task only once.
> 
> I think more clarification on what exactly is wanted is needed, any input
> anyone,
> 
> Dave
> 

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