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From: Barry.Chern@p19.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Barry Chern)
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Subject: Claris STILL Wants Feedback on On Line Help
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 23:28:26 EST
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Scot,

First let me say how much I enjoyed the HyperTalk 2.0 book, even if you were so greedy to corner the market that you had to rush it out before you could get the correct info on the Picture XCMD. /% >)   I really enjoyed reading the script examples due to their fictional elements.

I'll have to re-install the online help to have anything really detailed to say, it went in another desperate hard drive purge recently. But that in itself says something about it, I guess. 

My major perception is that it was slow. Selecting the index topics seemed to take forever. In the old Help stack where an index was just a bunch of words on a card, you would click one and go there. Now that it tries to simulate an SF dialog or something, you click and wait for it to hilite, then wait for some complex thinking about something or other before actually getting to the next card. I should mention that I'm using a Plus. I'm afraid people who develope things these days don't think about such ha



ndicaps much. Anyway, the features of Help that look like they should improve usability instead seem to be making it useless. I can look it up in the book easier.

My perception may be skewed by my increased knowledge of the product. I used the original Help stack as my primary learning aid, once I had managed to somehow lose my copy of the Goodman book. ( I think it just fell off the top of one of my 'leaning towers of important stuff' into a trash bag.) I would consult it whenever I had a question, and read all the way through the HyperTalk section to learn the language. I don't need much of that kind of help any more, so I can't really compare. But, a quick refere



nce of the HyperTalk syntax would be real nice. Emphasis on "quick".

--Barry 
 
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