I have tried to scrape the lessons to a local machine and it is not possible. I even raised the issue with LC support and was told that it was not possible to have the lessons presented in a way that we could download easily. Again, without this, my clients are finding the proposition offered by LC to be a hard road to folow.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > There are utilities that will scrape a web site and create a local copy of > it. I am not sure you can do this with the documentation because it may be > dynamically generated. If it is static, then you should be able to copy it. > (Not sure what the authors would say to that.) > > In another response on the subject, I actually brought up the idea of a > cached help system, where LC would install a copy, but when connected with > the Internet, LC would "sync" the two to reflect any changes in your local > cache. I don't think this would be a hard thing to implement. > > Maybe Kevin is listening. There was a Kevin sighting not too long ago... > > Bob > > > On Jul 20, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Potts Jeff wrote: > >> I also am displeased by the inability to download the pdf's associated >> with the LiveCode Lessons. I work off the grid a lot and cannot access >> the internet for days at a time, but I want the reference materials at >> hand. Sure I can download pdf's one at a time. . . .a real solution is >> to allow the user to select the solution documents they want, zip them >> up and download the package locally. Its a hell of a lot easier to >> search the pdf's using copernic search to find the details you need >> which a buried in the pdf's. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
