TIP OF THE DAY -- Help Screens

[Courtney]

I could not agree more...the screens are set up in such a manner that its
for people who know it, not for those who dont...so the question is if you
know it, why are you looking it up? A happy medium would be to treat the
user as someone who with a good working knowledge of filePro would be able
to get the help he needed.  It would not write the code for him/her, but
give him enough information to know what to do...

Courtney

-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Tom
Pancero
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:14 AM
To: Filepro List
Subject: TIP OF THE DAY -- Help Screens


I have long been dismayed with the 'Help' screens available with Filepro.
It appears to me that the contents of the Help screens were written by
someone who
is very well versed in Filepro and seems to make certain assumptions
about the
level of understanding the reader has.

I rarely use the Help screens for anything other than checking on the
syntax of a
command.  This seems to me to be a waste of a valuable reference tool.

I have long believed that any instruction sheets, or help files, should
be EDITED by
someone who has very little connection to the 'Black Room Code Cutters'.

An item for the 'Wish List' .......

How about a committee (arg!) to review/modify the Help files where they
could
tweak the format and content of the files.  With a resource like the
Filepro List
I am sure the product of their (the committee) efforts would be significant.

End_of_rant

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