From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cec04f9d45b3f527 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-02 05:32:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F548DC3.7050601@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Ada advocacy method References: <3F4F4817.7030306@noplace.com> <3F50130A.1070406@noplace.com> <3F50A70E.7050809@noplace.com> <3F521B65.1090004@noplace.com> <20030831123103.43926d87.falis@verizon.net> <3F535639.9060008@noplace.com> <3F53EDE8.6090908@noplace.com> <7gh8lv84kq46bjfo5pd1185bdtfn01e78d@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 12:32:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.68.253 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1062505939 165.247.68.253 (Tue, 02 Sep 2003 05:32:19 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 05:32:19 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42060 Date: 2003-09-02T12:32:19+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================