Re: [Oorexx-users] ooDialog 4.2.0 Beta: how can I help?

[Mark M. <mie...@gm...>]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Mukenx <mu...@gm...> wrote:

> the ooDialog 4.2 is definitely responding to a long felt need.
> I'd like to help out with the documentation. Where and how could I start?

Great, this is what I was hoping for.

Unfortunately, I do not have time to write a detailed response until
this evening.  But, the overview would be this:

* Get a subversion client so you can check out the source code.

Depending on how you prefer to work, you can get a GUI client or a
command line client.  They both have easy installs, unintstall
completely when asked, and are easy to use.

Since this is about ooDialog, I'm assuming you will be working on
Windows.  There are command line clients for Linux also.

GUI version:  http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html

Get the 32-bit or 64-bit version depending on your system and preferences.

Command line version:  http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html

Get the 32-bit or 64-bit version depending on your system and preferences.

* Check out the code.

You need to check out the source code for oodialog.pdf.  It is also
easy to do.  You can check out just the oodialog portion and put it
anywhere you want on your system.  From the command line after your
svn client is installed:

C:\work>svn co https://oorexx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/oorexx/docs/trunk/oodialog
myOODialogWork

"svn co"  is the command.  Then comes the URL for the repository.
"myOODialogWork" is the directory on you system where the source goes.
 It can be named anything you want.

Using Tortoise SVN is very similar, and should be simple.  I do not
use it that much and do not know the exact steps off the top of my
head.  But, once installed, you work with it through Windows Explorer.
 Browse to the folder you want to keep the source code in.  For the
above example, browse to C:\work.  Then create the folder
"myOODialogWork".  Right-click on myOODialogWork and do a check out.
Somewhere you will have to put in the URL I've listed above.

* Get the latest oodialog.pdf.

Every night the build machine compiles the ooRexx docs, if there have
been any changes.  You can therefore get the most up-to-date version
of oodialog.pdf there.

Browse to:

http://build.oorexx.org/builds/docs/

The subdirectory with the hightest number is the latest build.  Today
it is 6115.  Go to that directory and you can directly download
oodialog.pdf.  That version is the most up-to-date.

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To be continued.  But the above will get you started.

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Mark Miesfeld