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<blockquote data-quote="rjcurrie" data-source="post: 1355248" data-attributes="member: 16614"><p>As the person who wrote the abysmal documentation for Hero Designer, I would like to make a some comments about that documentation:</p><p></p><p>1) The current policy is to only update the documentation at major release points (1.0, 2.0, etc.). Unfortunately, Dan often adds major new features in the updates between major releases. This can cause the documentation to fall behind. However, this may be changing and probably sometime in the next couple of months, I will issue an updated set of docs that will include most of the features added since 2.0 was released -- I only say most because I am sure that between the time I finalize the docs and they make it onto the Hero boards, Dan will have added something else <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>2) If you or anyone else have any comments on where or how the documentation can be improved, for god's sake, e-mail me and let me know. I will ceratinly consider all such comments when I am preparing the next version of the documentation. But it is really hard to try and satisfy user's needs, if the users don't tell you what they want. </p><p></p><p>3) There is at least one area where I myself consider the documentation to be abysmal and that is in the area of creating export templates. There are a couple of reasons for that. One, I am not an expert in that area and the little work that I have done with export templates has been mainly in the area of fiddling around with existing templates to meet a need they don't currently serve. I have asked a couple of times on the Hero Designer forum for advice from others who have done more work in this area on what exactly should be covered and I have not received any responses. I will be asking again as I prepare to do the proposed update and I hope that this time I will get some help. </p><p></p><p>I think that's about all I have to say on the subject at present. I look forward to any feedback. </p><p></p><p>Rod Currie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rjcurrie, post: 1355248, member: 16614"] As the person who wrote the abysmal documentation for Hero Designer, I would like to make a some comments about that documentation: 1) The current policy is to only update the documentation at major release points (1.0, 2.0, etc.). Unfortunately, Dan often adds major new features in the updates between major releases. This can cause the documentation to fall behind. However, this may be changing and probably sometime in the next couple of months, I will issue an updated set of docs that will include most of the features added since 2.0 was released -- I only say most because I am sure that between the time I finalize the docs and they make it onto the Hero boards, Dan will have added something else :) 2) If you or anyone else have any comments on where or how the documentation can be improved, for god's sake, e-mail me and let me know. I will ceratinly consider all such comments when I am preparing the next version of the documentation. But it is really hard to try and satisfy user's needs, if the users don't tell you what they want. 3) There is at least one area where I myself consider the documentation to be abysmal and that is in the area of creating export templates. There are a couple of reasons for that. One, I am not an expert in that area and the little work that I have done with export templates has been mainly in the area of fiddling around with existing templates to meet a need they don't currently serve. I have asked a couple of times on the Hero Designer forum for advice from others who have done more work in this area on what exactly should be covered and I have not received any responses. I will be asking again as I prepare to do the proposed update and I hope that this time I will get some help. I think that's about all I have to say on the subject at present. I look forward to any feedback. Rod Currie [/QUOTE]
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