Vaughn Clement wrote:
I proposed yesterday to add a Cloud app "My Codebook Pro v12" to be
available for free to any LC user/s. Here this kind of script can be
offered and amended by other developers to allow all users to benefit from
the code. So far I have not heard any conversation pro or con about this
offer. Since this would be a LC public access app, the new users could use
it like the (index / Table of Contents) I stated was not available on the
LC site today.
That sounds like a wonderful contribution - thanks for that.
In some ways it sounds similar to Scripter's Scrapbook
(<http://www.flexiblelearning.com/ssbk.htm>), but has enough distinction
that both seem very useful.
I look forward to seeing it.
I am sure that the rebuttal would be that LC's forum is
available and does this now. My answer is that the current forum is not
effective to find answers to technical question in that it is not a subject
oriented database, but rather a word search for any word in blog fields.
This kind of search is OK but it does not lend it's self to subject
searches to specific topics of interest.
...
I have a friend who said that it will work, but will the input be valid. He
was saying that the uncertainty of the support being added may be wrong. My
answer is, this may be true, but not allowing us to try it out will not
supply the users to see the results.
Your observations about the nature of list and forums discussions is
spot-on IMO, which has led some here to prefer the more strictly
enforced Q&A format of StackOverflow - here's the LC stuff there:
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/livecode>
SO also provides a sort of built-in vetting of answers through its
voting feature: the answer the members there find most useful gets
floated to the top with the highest number of votes, while less helpful
replied are still there but pushed down.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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