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are out of date and sometimes the explanations are a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FE edit dropdown menu, in the Help Manual is out
of date (at least it looks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
", AFL and AT groups and posting all the stuff
over here.