Okay, I honestly am not sure whether I am serious about this or not, but here goes:
I was working in LC8.0.1 this evening with a Datagrid and realize that still, for a component that has been on the LiveCode tool palette for a LONG TIME now and for MULTIPLE LiveCode versions, there is still not a single bit of documentation on the Datagrid that comes with LiveCode! All I wanted to do was look up the specific syntax for hiding a column via script. Arrgh! Yes, I have the PDF documentation and I know I can download it from the LiveCode web site, but that is not the point. The Datagrid has been a built in LiveCode tools since 4.something or earlier, so that's 4.6.x, 5.0.x, 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.1.x, 6.5.x, 6.6.x, 6.7.x (11 of those!), 7.0.x, 7.1.x, 8.0.x, and now 8.1.x! What other software tool has had a major component for so long with ZERO built in documentation? What would it take in dollars for a Feature Exchange to have LiveCode finally add the Datagrid API reference entries from the PDF to the Dictionary? It is essentially an editing effort to copy the text of the API reference chapter of the Datagrid PDF and editing into the format for the dictionary and check that into GitHub (or however stuff gets in the dictionary). Can that really cost that much? And, no, I do not want to do it myself, since I would need to learn GitHub, checking stuff in and out, the mark up format for the dictionary, where everything goes, and so on. The reason I want the Datagrid APIs in the Dictionary is to SAVE me time, not cost me more time getting them in! I love LiveCode, but somethings, like this, really irk me :-( _______________________________________________ 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
