Re: "Hello World" examples for Apple Help?
Re: "Hello World" examples for Apple Help?
- Subject: Re: "Hello World" examples for Apple Help?
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:22:18 -0800
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:48:59 -0800, Todd Heberlein <email@hidden> said:
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>On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
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>> I can't tell you about a sample for the new approach, but I fail to see why the programming guide should not be sufficient.
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>I finally figured everything out, but it is one of those things where if you already understand something, the documentation is clear. If you don't understand something to begin with, it can be very confusing. It is sort of like why the college professor can't understand why his students don't understand his lecture. ("It's just a simple application of the Dirac delta function.")
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>Another problem with learning Help Book is that it can be fairly unforgiving. One small typo for a bundle identifier or file name and things don't work with no explanation as to why things aren't working. For someone who is learning several things at the same time, this can be frustrating because you don't know if it is a typo or you are just not understanding a fundamental piece of the puzzle.
That's why I recommended you watch my screencast on this topic, as it makes this point quite loudly (literally) several times: Don't even dare to get the capitalization of this name wrong, or things will mysteriously fail.
Please feel free to file a bug on this issue, i.e. that things just fail silently. The lack of error messages throughout the Help system is one of its most infuriating aspects. It either works or it doesn't; there is no in-between and no assistance. m.
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