On 11-Sep-04, at 11:03 AM, B Traver wrote:
When I load the PDF Language Reference directly into Adobe Acrobat (and
the same is true for the Tutorial), I have a similar frustrating
inability to "copy and paste."
Maybe it's different in XP but I have to use the Select Text thing in
the toolbar in Acrobat Reader to copy and paste the text. There's even
a snapshot option. This is what I use for quotes from the LR as the OLR
won't allow it.
Getting back to the Tutorial, my next comment is probably a quibble.
It
is great to see such a full-fledged editor developed, step by step,
that
is the equivalent of Microsoft's WordPad, but it would also be nice if
that editor were able in Windows to save a file in plain text format
rather than only RTF format.
Here again, in Mac it is possible to set your own file types and should
be able to be done in XP. (You notice I don't use Windoze anymore. ;-).
True, it's detail is a bit lacking.
Re-reading what I've written, it sounds much more negative than I
intended it to be. When you critique something, you tend to
concentrate
on what can be improved rather than on what is already being done and
being done well. And people will have more suggestions for improvement
than can be implemented without losing some of the strengths the
Tutorial already has. If you add this detail or that detail (database
management, or simply more detail on file handling), it ceases to be a
Tutorial _introducing_ newcomers to REALbasic. If there are changes,
let them not be major ones. (Instead, as someone suggested, come out
with additional tutorials focusing on more specialized aspects.)
If Geoff didn't want this, he never would have posted the request. I
think he wants response that will help him develop better tutorials for
the future. I know that for a fact as it was something he mentioned a
few years ago. The current Tutorial has been modified and upgraded but
it is still basically the the same one that came out in RB 3.0.
I also agree with the idea of separate tutorials that specialize in
introducing specific areas such as graphics, communication handling and
Databases. The problem is that the current Tutorial was designed at a
time that RB was in it's infancy and has not kept up with the monster
program that it is currently becoming. ;-)
As they used to say on TV in the 60's, "Send your cards and letters
to...".
RS is listening!
Terry
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