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I've Never Seen A Better Open Source Analysis... NOT EVER!!!

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  • L leppie

    Thanks for the links, it seems its exactly what I am looking (hoping rather) for :)

    xacc.ide - now with IronScheme support
    IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 2 out now

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    code frog 0
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    You are way beyond me. I don't need the toolset you are after. I'm a bit too html-stupid for that. I just need a simple help-maker. I won't go beyond it's limits because honestly I'm not smart enough (in that world) to think beyond it's limits. I'm like the lazy cow. Put the fence wherever you want... these here 10 square feet are just fine for me. :laugh: Give me a hottie heffer and life is good. :-O :rolleyes: :omg:

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    • A Anna Jayne Metcalfe

      Hi Rex, That made me laugh too..it strikes me that they may have needed to do a bit more "marketing" when it was released as open source. By the way, have you noticed any issues with bulleted lists in HelpMaker? We've noticed that all of the text immediately following a list is incorrectly indented, but we've not found a workaround yet.

      Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"

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      I haven't noticed that. I'm a bit of a bullet/list phobe because Outlook sucks so bad with them. It has to indent/bullet everything so I got to the point where I make my own sytle of lists that is immune to bullets. ___Item 1 ___Item 2 if you print it you have a nifty place for check marks.

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      • B Bassam Abdul Baki

        I've been a fan of HelpMaker for many years now. I think I was one of the first to recommend it here, but people got turned off by their comments on their main page. You know what? At least they're honest. The product speaks for itself and it's quite good for free. Haven't used it in a year, but I'm assuming it still is.


        There are II kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who understand Roman numerals. Web - Blog - RSS - Math

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        To be perfectly honest. If whatever it is gets any kind of "okay by me" from you then I know it's good enough for me. What else do you like that might save me more time and make me look like I actually spend a little money to take care of my customer base? :)

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        • C code frog 0

          To be perfectly honest. If whatever it is gets any kind of "okay by me" from you then I know it's good enough for me. What else do you like that might save me more time and make me look like I actually spend a little money to take care of my customer base? :)

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          Bassam Abdul Baki
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          Now that cracked me up. One of my favorite libraries is getLibra[^]. Unfortunately, they haven't been supporting it at all. Also, I tend to bookmark all that I like here[^].


          There are II kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who understand Roman numerals. Web - Blog - RSS - Math

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          • C code frog 0

            So I'm in love with HelpMaker it's amazing, cool, it works, does the trick, scratches my itch all the above. But! I decide hey slick you better read the license to see if you are legal. So I go to ye ol start menu and find the help for HelpMaker I'm browsing through the contents and run across the timeless question, "Why isn't _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ open source?" the response is utterly brilliant. Truly fascinating and makes everything freud ever wrote, thought or spoke seem meaningless by comparison. Surprisingly I thought it could just as easily have been said about Cathedral and Bazaar but then that'd be a tad soapy and I'm already there. Here goes: http://www.code-frog.com/brilliant.jpg[^]

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            Erik Midtskogen
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            OK. So the reasoning boils down to: "We're thin-skinned." It is kinda funny, though.

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            • C code frog 0

              I haven't noticed that. I'm a bit of a bullet/list phobe because Outlook sucks so bad with them. It has to indent/bullet everything so I got to the point where I make my own sytle of lists that is immune to bullets. ___Item 1 ___Item 2 if you print it you have a nifty place for check marks.

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              Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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              No worries. Unfortunately it is a bit of a deal breaker for us, so if it isn't fixed relatively soon we may have to move to another product (Help and Manual is the favourite, I'd say).

              Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"

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              • L leppie

                Thanks for the links, it seems its exactly what I am looking (hoping rather) for :)

                xacc.ide - now with IronScheme support
                IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 2 out now

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                Stuart Dootson
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                No problem - just one warning - it's not what one would call user-friendly...but I'm sure a developer of your calibre will have no problems :-)

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                • M micmanos

                  He's right, but there are some things that open source never said or implied that will happen. 1. Doesn't guarantee that a community will build up. 2. Doesn't guarantee that you'll get help or good thoughts. 3. Doesn't say that all people will like the way you do things in your code. 4. Doesn't imply that paying customers actually want your code !!! In reality, alll those things that open source declared as 'possibilities' were simply incentives to push people over the fence. The only true purpose of 'Open Source' is to provide the ability to your CUSTOMERS to alter your code to suit their particular needs. Unfortunatelly, that has prooven much too difficult since it's very hard to understand code and programming mentality. "Open source like Free Speech - NOT Free Beer !!!" was the moto but it takes a lot more than the source code to benefit from.

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                  Gonzalo Brusella
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                  micmanos wrote:

                  "Open source like Free Speech - NOT Free Beer !!!" was the moto but it takes a lot more than the source code to benefit from.

                  Like this FREE Beer[^]?

                  I'm on a Fuzzy State: Between 0 an 1

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                  • S Stuart Dootson

                    No problem - just one warning - it's not what one would call user-friendly...but I'm sure a developer of your calibre will have no problems :-)

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                    leppie
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                    Stuart Dootson wrote:

                    No problem - just one warning - it's not what one would call user-friendly...

                    It's cant be worse than SandCastle! I cant even figure out how to insert an image in a topic using DocProject. :sigh:

                    Stuart Dootson wrote:

                    but I'm sure a developer of your calibre will have no problems

                    Hey, I like easy as much as the next guy!

                    xacc.ide - now with IronScheme support
                    IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 2 out now

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                    • G Gonzalo Brusella

                      micmanos wrote:

                      "Open source like Free Speech - NOT Free Beer !!!" was the moto but it takes a lot more than the source code to benefit from.

                      Like this FREE Beer[^]?

                      I'm on a Fuzzy State: Between 0 an 1

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                      leonej_dt
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                      :laugh: Wow, this is even more amazing!

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