Re: An Ada advocacy method

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

O.K. Just one observation. I didn't say it was F1 nor do I even really 
recall what the "real" key sequence was. (I was in "Hypothetical" mode) 
Maybe it was double-click. Maybe it was right-mouse-click. Whatever. The 
key point was that if you needed help with some MFC or other MSVC++ 
supplied subroutine, you could get to it fairly easily and it was a good 
distance away from useless information. Perhaps it has degenerated since 
last I used it. That would be a shame. If someone is building an Ada 
IDE, something like this would be a really important feature - 
especially if a library is supplied.

MDC



Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
> 
> It is true what you are saying. But two small corrections:
> 
> 1. F1 does not work in MSVC any more. The new versions of MSDN do not
> support it.
> 
> 2. When you press F1, and it miraculously works, you will most
> probably get help for Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, Commerce Server,
> Visio automation, Direct X, Windows CE, MFC and all sorts of other
> damn interesting, but pretty useless in the context things. It is much
> like Google search.
> 
> Yes Microsoft documentation definitely was not written by Shakespe. It
> rather looks like being written by that famous troop of monkeys, which
> should probably reach a Shakespearian quality before the Entropic
> Death, or probably not. (:-))
> 
> ---
> Regards,
> Dmitry Kazakov
> www.dmitry-kazakov.de


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