Hello,
Wiki is helpful to some degree but I find Wiki to be a a search engine looking into threads instead of having its own page of description, examples, etc. of searched item and the downloadable .chm / .pdf help files to be outdated. Or am I missing something?
There are lot of new functions, reserved words, MC specific Powerlangauge but I cannot find any documents or help files that contain the latest in a organized, searchable format. For example, if I want to see a official description (besides user's comments, experience, etc) of "lastbaronchart_s", where can I find some information on these besides looking into threads? I often find myself having to look for simple definitions of functions, reserved words, and their usage in user q/a type threads like here and trying to debug what, who is talking about even before I understand what the they are suppose to do.. very difficult to do and non-intuitive - at least for me.
Maybe, something like this is what I am referring to:
http://help.TS.com/08_08/tsde ... elword.htm
Thanks much,
mno
More documentation would be very helpful
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Re: More documentation would be very helpful
The PowerLanguage reserved words can be found here in the wiki, and in the PowerLanguage editor you can also place the cursor (" | ") in a reserved word and press F1 to look up the help file of that word.I often find myself having to look for simple definitions of functions, reserved words, and their usage in user q/a type threads like here and trying to debug what, who is talking about even before I understand what the they are suppose to do.. very difficult to do and non-intuitive - at least for me.
However, for the functions there is no documentation and I agree with you this is annoying. It's indeed possible to open functions and look at the code directly, but no comments are used and the variable names are non-descriptive.
Btw, if you do a google search for "lastbaronchart site:http://help.TS.com/" you can find help on it on the TS site. On this page you can download a pdf with the EasyLanguage functions so that you can search that file when off-line. Again, courtesy of TS.