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Brian: your "complaint" overlooks the often stated intent by TJ that manual
updates (Help files/User Guide) (to incorporate new features) happens with
every major update (4.0, 5.0) and that interim betas carry extensive (well,
not extensive but adequate) explanations in the accompanying ReadMe files.
This is how it has been for years.
Were you aware of this stated policy?
Ken
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From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of brian_z111
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 7:08 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] Help Manual
There are far too many Help Manual questions posted in this forum.
This takes up our valueable time answering questions that should have been
answered by AmiBroker.
In fact they waste far more time than OT posts.
Our precious time would be far better spent answering more interesting
questions.
Some of the features in AB aren't explained in the manual, some things are
out of date and sometimes the explanations are a bit cryptic.
Example:
Prettify was added to the Formula Editor in beta version 5.04
- included in devlog under version 5.05 Feb08
- official release v5.10 in June08 which includes manual 5.10
Ami website PDF manual is still version 5.00
- Search PDF for prettify == nothing
- Search AB manual version 5.1 for prettify == nothing
- Use AB site search engine == nothing
- Google amibroker.com == 3 hits from devlog
- devlog records release but has no info about it and no explanation in the
read me
- searched KB == nothing
- searched UKB == nothing
The screenshot of the FE edit dropdown menu, in the Help Manual is out of
date (at least it looks different to my version 5.10)
http://www.amibroker.com/guide/w_afledit.html
The Devlog just says that the Prettify function was added ... looked in the
AFL function list and couldn't find anything... is it a function or a
function()?
New features should be explained in the official help manual that comes out
immediately after the beta inclusion.
We should not have to search elsewhere but even if we do we, in this case,
we still find nothing.
It shouldn't be up to volunteers to explain help manual items in this forum,
or the UKB, or anywhere else.
It saves AB some effort if they don't have to keep the manual up to date but
the effort is transferred to the volunteers, who have to answer it scores of
times, instead of AB answering it once.
If we all took the rationalist approach, that some people are advocating
e.g. "users should have skills or lower their sights or pay Graham", and
charged AB for the time we spend providing AB support then the program would
cost thousands of dollars and wouldn't look so cheap, up against other
software, afterall
brian_z
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