object library, exchange, etc - location confusion
ALIBE
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I'm not sure if·it is just me or others are also noticing this:
First of all, it is great to see a huge outpour of prop objects geared to help dev like me. It definitely is a life/time saver for me·in my projects. Simply no words to describe the benefits it renders.
At the same time, starting recently, I'm starting to see that there's quite a bit of redundancy to these objects. Not from codebase-content perspective; but, from their locations and availability urls.
For example, I see this one - where there are only a few objects listed.
http://www.parallax.com/propeller/object.asp
And, then this well-known Obj-Exchange url.
http://ww1.parallax.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65
and then this one, which was made specifically for PE Kit.
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=617192
There are a few objects here (FullDuplexSerialPlus for example), that are NOT present in the Obj-Exchange. And a few are more recent here than in the obj exchange (at least a couple that I bumped into).
Can someone shed/share some thoughts on this situation.· Is it just me thinking this way - or is the feeling at large.
I believe, document consistency is an important enough element to our forum. Especially to the new comers - who may not always know where to go to get these objects.
On a similar note;
I would vote for an optional feature in the Prop IDE, to "pull" the latest objects from a central repository (sort of like a WSDL repository) or a "Microsoft Virtual Earth" MAP SDK repository. It keeps the reference points valid to the minute.· Not sure if this is a feature that the leadership @ Parallax have thought abt?
thanks in advance
Nagi
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First of all, it is great to see a huge outpour of prop objects geared to help dev like me. It definitely is a life/time saver for me·in my projects. Simply no words to describe the benefits it renders.
At the same time, starting recently, I'm starting to see that there's quite a bit of redundancy to these objects. Not from codebase-content perspective; but, from their locations and availability urls.
For example, I see this one - where there are only a few objects listed.
http://www.parallax.com/propeller/object.asp
And, then this well-known Obj-Exchange url.
http://ww1.parallax.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65
and then this one, which was made specifically for PE Kit.
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=617192
There are a few objects here (FullDuplexSerialPlus for example), that are NOT present in the Obj-Exchange. And a few are more recent here than in the obj exchange (at least a couple that I bumped into).
Can someone shed/share some thoughts on this situation.· Is it just me thinking this way - or is the feeling at large.
I believe, document consistency is an important enough element to our forum. Especially to the new comers - who may not always know where to go to get these objects.
On a similar note;
I would vote for an optional feature in the Prop IDE, to "pull" the latest objects from a central repository (sort of like a WSDL repository) or a "Microsoft Virtual Earth" MAP SDK repository. It keeps the reference points valid to the minute.· Not sure if this is a feature that the leadership @ Parallax have thought abt?
thanks in advance
Nagi
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ALIBE - Artificial LIfe BEing. In search of building autonoumous land robot
http://ALIBE.crosscity.com/
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I'm very surprised to learn the "http://www.parallax.com/propeller/object.asp" address. How are you discovered it ?
When i surf to the parallax site, i can not puzzle out the way to find it ?
Could-you give me this way from http://www.parallax.com (where to click with the mouse) ?
By the way, your idea is very good !
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Post Edited (inservi) : 3/4/2007 4:15:35 PM GMT
I went to http://search.parallax.com/ and put in the keywords, 'shiftout propeller' and found this as the top result match.
This page might be an outdated page and one cannot reach it directly, but only to searches. My point however is there's confusion when people get to different locations in search of objects.
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Your right, I'm sure that a Parallax's responsible will put order in that.
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Also I think the whole Parallax website and the Object Exchange is going to be overhauled soon, so those prop education objects you linked to may find their way onto their very own page and be uploaded onto the exchange.
Someone please correct me if i'm wrong.
Damo
Edit: I think your idea for the IDE to pull ojects off the server is a good one? maybe if a tokenizer is developed you could develop your own IDE to do this??
I'd love to see the availability of the tokenizer and the other required info for my VSIP based IDE. But, I also understand why Parallax do not want to provide that. There;'s a separate thread on this topic BTW.
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"any small object, accidentally dropped, goes and hides behind a larger object."
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ALIBE - Artificial LIfe BEing. In search of building autonoumous land robot
http://ALIBE.crosscity.com/
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