I think some of your issues may be because you have the property inspector set to Property Labels -> Name of LiveCode property rather than Description of Option. I'll add a bug report to make sure the latter option is selected during the tutorial.
The double click on the inspector icon is actually a very subtle bug: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17154 All the rest is very helpful feedback, thank you! On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:41 PM William Prothero <proth...@earthednet.org> wrote: > Folks: > I just downloaded LC 8 DP16 and tried out the tutorial. I suspect that the > authors of this would appreciate my notes as I went through the tutorial. > First, off, it’s really nice and does show that Livecode can make very cool > apps. Great job! > > Since this is the first intro a newbie might get to Livecode, it’s really > vital that the tutorial process be flawless. That’s why I’m hoping my > comments below are helpful, and I do know how hard it can be, when the IDE > may be a slightly moving target and there is LOTS to do. > > As you can read from my notes below, I took the perspective of a new user > who has never been exposed to livecode. There were a few gotchas that even > had me scratching my head a bit. One very important thing when teaching > newbies, is to scrupulously pay attention to how the instructions actually > match what the newbie sees on the screen. There were a number of instances > where I got stuck, but then got by by guessing what was meant. These are > noted below. > > ——— My Notes ———— > 1. When open the property inspector for the stack, you have to click on > the property inspector to get the instruction. > Careful to match instructions with actual labels on IDE. > (e.g. “Set the Navigation names of” ? There is no listing in the property > inspector named “Navigation Names”) > (e.g. Line Thickness. you mean Line size) > > 2. It says in several places, to click on the “grey icon”. You mean the > black icon. > Clicking the property inspector icon doesn’t always open the property > inspector. Double clicking on the control does. > > 3. I got stuck on setting the contents property of the Label field. > Whoops, figured it out. > The “Contents” property is not listed on the property inspector. It is > called “Styled Text" > > 4. I got to where I grouped the header and footer to make it a shared. > Whoops, the property inspector opened for one of the elements of the group. > I used the right hand (upper) dropdown menu on the property inspector and > it looked like there was a listing for a group. I selected that. It worked! > A newbie probably wouldn’t find it. > > 5. Setting up the chart. “Line colors”, the IDE shows “Graph Colors” > > 6. Setting "navigation names" doesn’t match the property inspector. > > 7. The tutorial refuses to advance once the “Code” button is clicked. The > window opens, but the instruction pane stays where it was. Whoops, had to > first click on the footer control. > > 8. Last card: It says “Open the property Inspector” . The dropdown menu > shows “Card Inspector” > > 9. Setting up the navigation bar, the tutorial states to put in items as > “Calculator,Chart,Services”. But, each time a new item is added, a separate > box is created for the entry. > > ——————————————————————————————————— > > I hope this helps the dev team. > Best, > Bill > > William Prothero, Ph.D. > University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus > proth...@earthednet.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
