Hi,
While playing with ui_dlg_box(), I had a strange and un-expected behavior. I had a long title and no content, which caused the message box title to be truncated. Surely it would make the messagebox wide enough to display the title on one line, right? No not here, so as I looked for the arguments and parameters, I found nothing to indicate a size setting, or that there needed to be content. A fellow forum member pointed to a {size=n} argument and I found elsewhere a {Xsize=n} argument. What is troubling to me is there is no mention of these and/or other possibilities in the intellisense, or help system. I discovered the Zsize = in an example, with no description to its purpose or usage. I have been fighting the help system for months now, so I even purchased ALL of Liberty Manuals. Susan's "Functions Directory" manual too is falling short with nothing more than:
UI_DLG_BOX() V5 Displays a dialog box and
returns a character string.
So the question is where do I see all the parms, arguments, and/or options for each of the functions? Where do I find complete descriptions on usage, restrictions for each function. I have Susan's book "Functions Directory" and was hoping there would all be covered there, but as you see above, it doesn't. Alpha's built in intellisense should be have complete and concise help on each of its functions so time is not wasted looking elsewhere, which it doesn't.
I see this platform is very capable, but without a good and complete help system that can be instantly accessed via intellisense is too counter-productive... Videos are helpful, but is certainly not a replacement for a good help system. When I'm constructing a function, I need to see what is expected as params, their order, their arguments and possibly a description... and not be sent off to watch a video that I also have to search for...
My question here is begging for help on how I can use the help system in a productive way and NOT as a reason to not use Alpha, after all, I did go to the conference, and purchase all of Liberty's manuals. But... at the end of the day, I need to be productive writing billable code and not researching on what parameters to feed a function...
Thanks, Stanley
While playing with ui_dlg_box(), I had a strange and un-expected behavior. I had a long title and no content, which caused the message box title to be truncated. Surely it would make the messagebox wide enough to display the title on one line, right? No not here, so as I looked for the arguments and parameters, I found nothing to indicate a size setting, or that there needed to be content. A fellow forum member pointed to a {size=n} argument and I found elsewhere a {Xsize=n} argument. What is troubling to me is there is no mention of these and/or other possibilities in the intellisense, or help system. I discovered the Zsize = in an example, with no description to its purpose or usage. I have been fighting the help system for months now, so I even purchased ALL of Liberty Manuals. Susan's "Functions Directory" manual too is falling short with nothing more than:
UI_DLG_BOX() V5 Displays a dialog box and
returns a character string.
So the question is where do I see all the parms, arguments, and/or options for each of the functions? Where do I find complete descriptions on usage, restrictions for each function. I have Susan's book "Functions Directory" and was hoping there would all be covered there, but as you see above, it doesn't. Alpha's built in intellisense should be have complete and concise help on each of its functions so time is not wasted looking elsewhere, which it doesn't.
I see this platform is very capable, but without a good and complete help system that can be instantly accessed via intellisense is too counter-productive... Videos are helpful, but is certainly not a replacement for a good help system. When I'm constructing a function, I need to see what is expected as params, their order, their arguments and possibly a description... and not be sent off to watch a video that I also have to search for...
My question here is begging for help on how I can use the help system in a productive way and NOT as a reason to not use Alpha, after all, I did go to the conference, and purchase all of Liberty's manuals. But... at the end of the day, I need to be productive writing billable code and not researching on what parameters to feed a function...
Thanks, Stanley
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