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ot;encrypt" finished - turned out it needed a lot more than just an example). If it passes muster this time I will be on to rawClipboardData (if it still needs work). I certainly won't be winning any awards for rapidity :) -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.2

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submit it and we'll see what the gatekeepers make of it. Cheers, Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Volunteer-github-guru-for-documentation-submissions-tp4703029p4703669.html Sent from the Revolution - Us

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> On Apr 17, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Mark Smith wrote: > > Thanks Jackie, sorry it took so long to get around to this. I have used > encrypt extensively, but only in a very narrow/limited way. Here is an > attempt at providing an example. Please, anyone, jump in and let me know if > you think it can

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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:21 AM, Mark Smith wrote: > Mark Smith wrote > > " > > > > (property)" is the correct format? > > After looking at the documentation guide now I think it should be > . I'll go make the change... > > That would be incorrect. The only time you need to use format is if

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o suggestion as to how this could be improved before I submit it. Cheers, Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Volunteer-github-guru-for-documentation-submissions-tp4703029p4703596.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at N

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Mark Smith wrote > " > > (property)" is the correct format? After looking at the documentation guide now I think it should be . I'll go make the change... Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Volunteer-githu

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(it's near the bottom of the list) and the list did not scroll. I had to expand the window in order for it to appear. Minor issue but something to consider. Cheers, Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Volunteer-github-guru-for-documenta

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Oh cool. Perfect. I should have checked there. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On April 16, 2016 3:14:02 PM Peter TB Brett wrote: On 16/04/2016 19:53, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/16/2016 8:5

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On 16/04/2016 19:53, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/16/2016 8:55 AM, Mark Smith wrote: I changed the reference to " property" but from your text it looks like maybe " (property)" is the correct format? Is there somewhere where these formats are documented? Yes, this is one of those links I had t

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On 4/16/2016 8:55 AM, Mark Smith wrote: I changed the reference to " property" but from your text it looks like maybe " (property)" is the correct format? Is there somewhere where these formats are documented? Yes, this is one of those links I had to track down and still can't remember where I

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On 15/04/2016 04:14, Kay C Lan wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: why not turn this into a simple plugin to add a button to the dictionary stack. Scraping html text, that's super easy for me; creating a plugin - that's another story. Have generally steered clear

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Kay C Lan wrote: > Have generally steered clear of plugins since weening myself onto > LC8. I note that rc1 isn't as stable for me (or others) as dp16 > and elsewhere removing plugins is recommended but that's not a > factor in my case. Plugins are supported in v8.0. Indeed, they remain the pri

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > >why not turn this into a simple plugin to add a button to the dictionary > stack. > > Scraping html text, that's super easy for me; creating a plugin - that's another story. Have generally steered clear of plugins since weening myself on

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wrong), sessionName (property) etc so now I am totally confused (and probably in over my head). I think installing 8 might be the first step :) Cheers -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Volunteer-github-guru-for-documentation-submissions-tp47030

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On 4/13/2016 5:49 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Do you have Ali's latest version of the preview.livecode stack? Sorry I tried to find a link to it but I can only find one to the previous version. I downloaded the one at the bottom of the blog post only a few days ago and it appears to be the newest one

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> On 14 Apr 2016, at 3:49 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > Don't you hate it when you hit Send and immediately realise there is a > simpler solution. Don't need to ask for your fork name, I can just use the / > livecode/livecode/ fork to demonstrate the same thing: > > on mouseUp > put the htmltext o

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> on mouseUp > put the htmltext of widget 1 of stack "revDictionary" into tText > filter lines of tText with "* 12px" & quote & ">*" > get matchText(tText,".+>(.+?)",tName) > replace " " with "-" in tName > get matchText(tText,">type ,tType) > ask "Please enter your GItHub fork name:" w

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Don't you hate it when you hit Send and immediately realise there is a simpler solution. Don't need to ask for your fork name, I can just use the / livecode/livecode/ fork to demonstrate the same thing: on mouseUp put the htmltext of widget 1 of stack "revDictionary" into tText filter lines

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > That sounds complicated. Getting to Heaven is never going to be easy... especially when it's my LC Heaven ;-) > > I’m not sure if it is easy to determine which doc is currently being > viewed in the dictionary. > When I visit the LC

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I'm a GitHub novice, but I've used this with another client (OS X): https://desktop.github.com/ Not sure I have it pointed at the right directory, but I see a bunch of pull requests from livecodeali and peter-b. :-) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 4/1

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> In the LC Dictionary you notice an error > There is an Edit button to click on > It retrieves the appropriate lcdoc file from the correct GitHub Branch So here you could be opening a lcdoc file that is different to the one you noticed an error on which could be confusing but probably isn’t a de

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > There’s no productivity gains in using a LC docs specific git gui only a > slightly reduced learning curve. I my LC Heaven there would be both :-) In the LC Dictionary you notice an error There is an Edit button to click on It retrieve

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> On 14 Apr 2016, at 9:53 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > You could say exactly the same thing about LiveCode users. Why hide > ourselves from C or C++, they exist and 'almost' everyone else is using > them? Maybe you could say that but there’s clear productivity gains for using LiveCode. There’s no

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > I’ve thought about this and yes it would be feasible to do however there > are two things we know exist: > - good git gui’s - I like and often use SourceTree which is available for > Windows and Mac > - good text editors - I use Atom th

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> On 14 Apr 2016, at 8:44 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > > > On 13/04/2016 22:45, Monte Goulding wrote: >> GitHub <> git and you are using GitHub which has hacked on a web interface >> for working on stuff. I honestly think that if folks spent the same amount >> of time working out the web inte

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > > - A markdown previewer. I know Ali made a stab at this, but I wasn't able > to get it to work. > Do you have Ali's latest version of the preview.livecode stack? Sorry I tried to find a link to it but I can only find one to the previous versi

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On 13/04/2016 22:45, Monte Goulding wrote: GitHub <> git and you are using GitHub which has hacked on a web interface for working on stuff. I honestly think that if folks spent the same amount of time working out the web interface as working out how to use git locally using a good git gui th

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> On 14 Apr 2016, at 12:42 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > I wonder if the power and flexibility of LiveCode could be applied to making > a front-end for working with LiveCode documentation. > > It would of course be ideal if the core dev team had time for that, but > looking at the queue of

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> On 14 Apr 2016, at 1:07 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > The process for modifying code and the process for modifying documentation > should be different. Git, maybe intentionally, makes it difficult for > people to work together on documents. One of the things that Ali and I ran > into is that he

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. Landman Gay Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 7:48 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: RE: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions? I tested this in LC 8 and wasn't getting any difference when adding "effective" so maybe it's been changed. I'm editing the two formatted

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> On Apr 13, 2016, at 11:52 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > On April 13, 2016 7:58:21 AM Mike Kerner wrote: > >> I'm done. I have better things to do than fight through trying to help >> everybody by making the docs better. > > I can so sympathize, but at least I don't feel so stupid now. I am

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That's correct, clipboardData, rawClipboardData and fullClipboardData are all global properties, whereas clipboard is a function that returns the type of data on the clipboard. Now that I read it again though, those instances of in the summaries of all the clipboard entries should be links to the

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All the clipboard entries are listed in the Properties category on github also. Made me scratch my head. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On April 13, 2016 2:18:20 AM Ali Lloyd wrote: I think

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On April 13, 2016 7:58:21 AM Mike Kerner wrote: I'm done. I have better things to do than fight through trying to help everybody by making the docs better. I can so sympathize, but at least I don't feel so stupid now. I am going to keep plugging away at it, doing only the most minimal chang

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Mike Kerner wrote: The process for modifying code and the process for modifying documentation should be different. I agree that's it's very valuable to continually strive for ever-better workflow methods. The challenge here is: what exactly does a better solution look like? Even if we deci

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Name: send Type: command Syntax: send [ to [in [seconds | ticks | milliseconds]] ] Summary: Sends to immediately, or adds to the queue. Introduced: 1.0 OS: mac,windows,linux,ios,android Platforms: desktop,server,web,mobile Example: send "mouseDown" to button "next" Example: send "mou

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The process for modifying code and the process for modifying documentation should be different. Git, maybe intentionally, makes it difficult for people to work together on documents. One of the things that Ali and I ran into is that he cannot easily make changes to my changes because that's not t

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Mike Kerner wrote: I'm done. I have better things to do than fight through trying to help everybody by making the docs better. Have a look at send and the attempts to clarify what it does and how it works, and if afterward you want a go at it, go for it. What looks at first glance like a twea

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Mike, I'm sorry it ended up being a very tricky document to change - I think we jointly suffered a sort of scope creep because that doc doesn't properly distinguish between the notion of a message and the messageName parameter. While it's true that what you were originally suggesting was a tweak,

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I'm done. I have better things to do than fight through trying to help everybody by making the docs better. Have a look at send and the attempts to clarify what it does and how it works, and if afterward you want a go at it, go for it. What looks at first glance like a tweak turns out to be a ho

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I think the problem with in those two entries is that clipboard (property) is in the references, but it there is no clipboard property, only a clipboard function. So removing that from the references should fix it. On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 6:57 AM J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 4/13/2016 12:51 AM, M

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On 4/13/2016 12:51 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: On 13 Apr 2016, at 3:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: That must be a bug with the dictionary as is rendering fine on the clipboardData. Can you report that? It's a markdown issue I was thinking Mark Smith might want to tackle, since it's part of th

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> On 13 Apr 2016, at 3:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> That must be a bug with the dictionary as is rendering >> fine on the clipboardData. Can you report that? > > It's a markdown issue I was thinking Mark Smith might want to tackle, since > it's part of the community docs we're trying to

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On 4/13/2016 12:06 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: On 13 Apr 2016, at 2:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: BTW, I've found omitted words in the rawClipboardData summary if you want to tackle that one. The summary reads provides low-level access to the contents of the . That must be a bug with the dict

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> On 13 Apr 2016, at 2:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > BTW, I've found omitted words in the rawClipboardData summary if you want to > tackle that one. The summary reads > > provides low-level access to the contents of the . That must be a bug with the dictionary as is rendering fine on the

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On 4/12/2016 6:55 PM, Mark Smith wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote >textShift is not tagged as "text processing" BTW, are tags something new in the LC 8 dictionary? I can't see any in the LC 7 version (or don't know how to make them appear). Yes. It's the pseudo-word-cloud at the left of the wi

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On 4/12/2016 5:19 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote: The viewer stack was something I quickly knocked up so that there was *some* way of viewing the document in context - the links indeed don't work as it doesn't rebuild the whole dictionary. I'm sorry about that- I can probably make it work properly at some

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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:55 PM J. Landman Gay wrote: > BTW, I downloaded the elusive viewer stack but it's leaving out most of > the keywords when it opens the text in a browser. I can't tell if it's a > bug in the text itself or in the viewer. Anyone know? > I've updated a couple of text files

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Don't worry about being rude, you weren't really. Well inconsiderate and lacked empathy. Everyone reads things differently and their eyes catch something else on a web page. As Monte said, it's great that this is gathering a bit of mome

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> On 12 Apr 2016, at 4:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > I gotta say though, I had no idea you guys were spying on me through the air > vents. If you watch the repo you get emails about everything. It really is great things are starting to move on the contribution front. The more people that

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On 4/12/2016 12:38 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 04/11/2016 09:32 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: *I'm* toasted. I worked it out by making a new name. ...and I see you managed to get past vulcan's Contributor's Agreement hurdle as well. I feel so...accomplished. Which is better than feeling stupid,

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Kay C Lan wrote: The very first screenshot within the Using the GitHub Web Interface guide shows: Branch: comm I think you can guess it's the community branch. The Link given just above it to try as an example is: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/blob/community-docs/docs/dictionary/comma

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On 04/11/2016 09:32 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: *I'm* toasted. I worked it out by making a new name. ...and I see you managed to get past vulcan's Contributor's Agreement hurdle as well. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailin

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> On Apr 11, 2016, at 9:23 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > >> >> On Apr 11, 2016, at 8:31 PM, J. Landman Gay >> wrote: >>> >>> I think it says "object" should only be used for glossary entries: >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Devin Asay wrote: >> >> Well, okay, but this confuses me. >> >>

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On 4/11/2016 10:53 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: >You appear to have worked it out and are now cooking with gas so I’ll have my sandwich tasted please ;-) Aha… I meant toasted but you can taste it if you want ;-P *I'm* toasted. I worked it out by making a new name. I edited two entries and was p

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> On 12 Apr 2016, at 1:52 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > >> On 12 Apr 2016, at 1:12 PM, J. Landman Gay > > wrote: >> >> So how do I get my user name back? > > You appear to have worked it out and are now cooking with gas so I’ll have my > sandwich tasted pleas

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> On 12 Apr 2016, at 1:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > So how do I get my user name back? You appear to have worked it out and are now cooking with gas so I’ll have my sandwich tasted please ;-) Cheers Monte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livec

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> On 12 Apr 2016, at 11:54 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > There's no path to that in the web interface. The only one I see is > docs/dictionary/ which takes you directly to /develop. (And if I was looking > for "/tree/" it isn't there either.) > > If there's a community branch, it's another se

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> > On Apr 11, 2016, at 8:31 PM, J. Landman Gay > wrote: > > > > I think it says "object" should only be used for glossary entries: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > > Well, okay, but this confuses me. > > Devin > > In LC8 dp16 Dictionary, type in 'do state' and click on t

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Maybe someone knows how to fix this. I tried to join github and open an account. I typed "jacque" into the user name field. Github told me I needed to have cookies turned on, so I did that. Then I tried to fill out the rest of the fields and it said my user name was already taken. I started ove

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> On Apr 11, 2016, at 8:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > On 4/11/2016 6:58 PM, Devin Asay wrote: >> in the HTMLText document there were cross references to field (keyword) that >> really should have been field (object). > > Just found this document: >

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:31 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > I think it says "object" should only be used for glossary entries: > > No that is not what it's saying. You will find that there are 3 separate lcdocs relating to fields: keyword, object and glossary - you can tell from the URL without c

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mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 7:48 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: RE: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions? I tested this in LC 8 and wasn't getting any difference when adding "effective" so may

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On 4/11/2016 6:58 PM, Devin Asay wrote: in the HTMLText document there were cross references to field (keyword) that really should have been field (object). Just found this document:

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Actually, that last post of mine was very rude. Sorry. Let me start again. If there is anything within the Contributing to LiveCode Documentation at: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/blob/community-docs/docs/contributing_to_docs.md that can be improved, i.e. links to Branches that aren't obv

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:08 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> If there's a community branch, it's another secret link. >> > > Found it, it's buried under all the bug fixes. Basically you have to know > it exists and type it into the combo box field to get there. > > After the very first visit, kno

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:54 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 4/11/2016 6:58 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > >> instead use the community-docs >> branch athttps://github.com/livecode/livecode/tree/community-docs >> and make edits there. Maybe that is obvious to others; it wasn’t to >> me. >> > > There's n

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:43 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Another thing to do would be to go through a pre-8 dictionary and look at > entries with user notes. Those aren't included in the LC 8 dictionary and > if you see some that are useful, add them to the main description. > > Monte, are you

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On 4/11/2016 8:54 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: If there's a community branch, it's another secret link. Found it, it's buried under all the bug fixes. Basically you have to know it exists and type it into the combo box field to get there. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperact

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On 4/11/2016 6:58 PM, Devin Asay wrote: Don’t start in the main develop branch (livecode/livecode/develop) when making documentation fixes; instead use the community-docs branch athttps://github.com/livecode/livecode/tree/community-docs and make edits there. Maybe that is obvious to others; it wa

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On 4/11/2016 5:14 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Thanks Jackie. That one is now submitted. Have any others (send me your list if you'd like)? Once I've done this a few times I'd like to abbreviate the instructions (but I need to understand the process a bit better). Like Devin said, almost everything I

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The good news is that if you make an edit after a pull request, at least if you're using github desktop, you don't have to re-submit the pull request, as long as no action has taken place on the original one. I found that out when I was working on send and pendingMessages. I also made the mistake

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On Apr 11, 2016, at 4:14 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > Thanks Jackie. That one is now submitted. Have any others (send me your list > if you'd like)? Once I've done this a few times I'd like to abbreviate the > instructions (but I need to understand the process a bit better). Mark, I’m on the same

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On 4/11/2016 2:52 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Does anyone have a documentation bug they would like to see fixed? I'd like to give Ali's guide a try but don't have any documentation bugs top of mind. I have a short list. Here's a small one: textShift is not tagged as "text processing" BTW, I downl

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Does anyone have a documentation bug they would like to see fixed? I'd like to give Ali's guide a try but don't have any documentation bugs top of mind. Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Volunteer-github-guru-for-documentat

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On 04/06/2016 01:49 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: What happens when you type "how do I contribute to LiveCode documentation" into Google? The top hit is https://livecode.com/resources/guides/developers-guide/ and even though that's the wrong place to end up, it shouldn't be necessary to resort t

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On 04/06/2016 01:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: You know, even just linking to the blog post from github would have done the trick. We just need some kind of discoverable pathway over there. Nice idea. Seconded. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

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On 06/04/2016 21:41, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/6/2016 3:17 PM, Ali Lloyd wrote: Jacque, you may want to read this blog post https://livecode.com/putting-the-you-in-documentation/ I did, back when you posted it, and that's what made me decide I should pitch in. But I no longer had the refere

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On 06/04/2016 21:44, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/6/2016 3:17 PM, Ali Lloyd wrote: Jacque, you may want to read this blog post https://livecode.com/putting-the-you-in-documentation/ You know, even just linking to the blog post from github would have done the trick. We just need some kind of disc

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On 4/6/2016 3:17 PM, Ali Lloyd wrote: Jacque, you may want to read this blog post https://livecode.com/putting-the-you-in-documentation/ You know, even just linking to the blog post from github would have done the trick. We just need some kind of discoverable pathway over there. -- Jacquelin

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On 4/6/2016 3:17 PM, Ali Lloyd wrote: Jacque, you may want to read this blog post https://livecode.com/putting-the-you-in-documentation/ I did, back when you posted it, and that's what made me decide I should pitch in. But I no longer had the reference handy. I'd like to see an easy way to ge

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Jacque, you may want to read this blog post https://livecode.com/putting-the-you-in-documentation/ On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 7:25 PM J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 4/6/2016 1:45 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > I hadn’t seen the contributing to the docs guide so even though I > > know my way around GitHub

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On 4/6/2016 1:45 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: I hadn’t seen the contributing to the docs guide so even though I know my way around GitHub it was fresh eyes on finding the docs. Here’s what I did: - openhttps://github.com/livecode/livecode/ That was my first hurdle. You already knew to go to the l

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The guides are a long read. If I get up the motivation, I'm going to at least try to work on them so it doesn't feel so much like work. On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > > > On Apr 6, 2016, at 12:38 AM, J. Landman Gay > wrote: > > > > On 4/5/2016 10:26 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:

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> On Apr 6, 2016, at 12:38 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > On 4/5/2016 10:26 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> But I do want to say that there's fascinating reading in >> https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/3518#issuecomment-205199749 > > It's only fascinating if you understand all the jargon. I re

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On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:38 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Monte's already pointed you to Ali's Web Interface Instructions. > Why are the doc files in the *engine* category? Wouldn't one logically > look in the IDE category? When you use the Web Interface the docs are logically located in the comm

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> On 6 Apr 2016, at 4:45 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > >> Why are the doc files in the *engine* category? Wouldn't one logically look >> in the IDE category? I didn’t answer this bit. For the most part the documentation is not documenting the IDE so it makes more sense for it to be in the engin

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> On 6 Apr 2016, at 4:38 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > On 4/5/2016 10:26 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> But I do want to say that there's fascinating reading in >> https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/3518#issuecomment-205199749 > > It's only fascinating if you understand all the jargon. I read

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On 4/5/2016 10:26 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: But I do want to say that there's fascinating reading in https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/3518#issuecomment-205199749 It's only fascinating if you understand all the jargon. I read it and came away with nothing but frustration. I have only the

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On 04/05/2016 06:41 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: But I do want to say that there's fascinating reading in https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/3518#issuecomment-205199749 If you've had a look at that thread you'll see some of it is related to the Instructions for using the Web

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> On 6 Apr 2016, at 12:25 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > Just to be clear, you don't need to use gitHub, etc. to work on any of the > files. The web interface is easy enough to use. You just have to get to > the file you want to edit, Hit the edit button, make your changes, explain > them, and you

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