nospam wrote:Your work is unquestionable, but BorisTheOld has a point. How would you feel if you went out and bought, say, a milk frother that came with a free coffee machine and all you got for a user guide was a thick tome all about the frother and not a mention of the coffee machine? How would you feel if a company representative, which is what you are whether you like it or not, said to you, "Now, seriously, if you're not happy, [use a coffee machine] that has documentation and wait till the next milk frother comes out..."?
@nospam: Your analogy of the milk frother and coffee machine is nice but wasn't it you who also posted this?
nospam wrote:Polo wrote:There are plan to write documentation so that the Form Designer is easier to use, that should happen for next PB release
jesperbrannmark wrote:You can alter the form, you can choose to have event handler included or not etc...
You can go from code view to design view...
You can write code and do forms at the same time..
Thank you all very much. I'll play around with purebasic a little more and will probably buy the full version this afternoon.
So, from your former post you quoted the fact that you were told the documentation for the Form Designer was forthcoming and that you were going to test some things before deciding to buy PureBasic. You then buy PureBasic and complain that the Form Designer has no documentation and say you wanted a refund (or something). Seems like you had a case of amnesia there.
It would seem most here are in agreement that documentation for the Form Designer would be great (or simply a necessity) and that Polo has also done a great job with his contribution (all for free). If that's true then look for solutions to your problems instead of keeping others from assisting you over the rough spots you've encountered.
From your analogy you seem to be aware that a Form Designer was not something you paid for when you purchased PureBasic. It is included as a useful tool but there are no guarantees for it even though efforts are being made to integrate it into the IDE. Others such as myself may use a different tool to design forms or simply hand code them. Another free form designer which is also written in PureBasic is PureForm by gnozal.
The newest Form Designer was included in version 5.00 because it was written while version 5.00 was in beta and it was convenient to make it a part of the finished release. If there were more people being paid as part of the development team then things would naturally have been done in the manner that you and BorisTheOld described. There's only two people paid to do this and they accomplish a lot but only a few extraordinary people like to write documentation instead of improving the core product itself.
You said that you had a lot of experience using form designers for other languages and that you are more than a little familiar with programming. PureBasic is not perfect (although some would claim otherwise) but it is very good. I would hope you can become more familiar with the good things about what you have purchased without be disheartened by a few shortcomings.
