Posted by Aristeus on January 26, 1998 at 08:59:40:
In Reply to: Re: A Good Tutorial!?!?!?!? posted by CogKing on January 25, 1998 at 23:24:52:
> > Am I the only one that found the JED tutorial cryptic and hard to understand?
> > Does anyone know where i can find a good JED tutorial? I say we demand a better tutorial and documentation!
> -- Rant mode on --
> Someday... maybe... just MAYBE... after you have contributed something major to the community... you will be in a position to DEMAND something. Do you have the slightest idea of the work involved in Jed and its documentation ? I really don't think so... Until then : ASK instead of DEMANDing....
> -- Rant mode off --
> -CogKing
I can't say that the tutorial was terribly cryptic for me, and I'd have to go
along with CogKing's rant here. So to combine your *ahem* request with the
idea of contributing to the community: You can download the Windows95 help
authoring tools from the Microsoft ftp site. It's "hcwsetup.exe".
Learn to compile helpfiles. Read this board and include the tips and
solutions that you feel should be in the helpfile to the helpfile you're
compiling. Once it's done, and you submit it, and if it really is deemed
better by the JED creators here, I'm sure that will constitute a valuable
contribution(I'm only half kidding here: Programming helpfiles isn't THAT
hard, and the Code Alliance is busy with the program itself. If you have
the time, and are willing to do the work, it seems quite feasable).
One more word in defense of the JED Tutorial: Well, it sure beats the
WinHelp file, IMO.
-Aristeus.