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[perl-win32-gui-users] Win32 Gui Web site

[Steve B. <ste...@sh...>]

Hi All,

I have been talking with Rob May about taking on the administration a web site for the Win32::Gui project. The current wiki no longer allows editing because of problems with spam, and the lack of time to get everything fixed.

I have been digging around and familiarizing myself with the offerings at sourceforge to see what might make a good base for the community. Sourceforge offers two interesting possibilities:
1. MediWiki Originally written for Wikipedia this is an excellent wiki product.
2. phpWebsite PhpWebsite is a content management system that allows the development of a full-featured web site, including (in the latest release) a wiki, blogging, and many other community-building features.

Personally I lean toward phpWebsite. I'd like to hear from people what they would like to see on a win32::Gui website/wiki, how many would be willing to contribute content, assist with site managment and maintenance, and so on.

Please reply to the list with your thoughts, comments and suggestions. 

Regards,

Steve


Steve Bondy
http://stevebondy.ca

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Win32 Gui Web site

[merryxmas <mer...@ya...>]

hi
i suggest the scheme of questions and answers; such as:

1- how to display a message box
   answer: a complete small example with notes.
2- how to write text on a text box
3- how to retrieve text from a text box
4- how to color a word in a rich text box
5- how to retrieve the index of an item in a ListBox
6- how to use the trackbar, and the scrollbars
7- how to plot a pixel, a Line, ... , on a form or a picture box.
and up to 1001 questions or more, with full answers, and notes.
with sections for the totally beginners.
and most important is to promote the site; as an example to post a message
to the famous www.perlmonks.com  forum about the new site.
a long term patience needed for such a project, and to focus on the new
comers to perl language from windows environment and the future beginers; to
show them that perl can be used in a fun projects in a million ways, and not
only for the administration of servers.
you may look at the yahoo groups, a good example and prototype is the the
site of BCX basic language http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bcx/  wich is
still active from year 2000, only the members can post messages, from inside
the forum, and there are the ability to store files and programs; example of
the forum messages section from year 2000:
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6633/bcxa.jpg
the files section:
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/5292/filesi.jpg
this is just a suggestion, to look at.
there is also the google groups.






Steve Bondy wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have been talking with Rob May about taking on the administration a web
> site for the Win32::Gui project. The current wiki no longer allows editing
> because of problems with spam, and the lack of time to get everything
> fixed.
> 
> I have been digging around and familiarizing myself with the offerings at
> sourceforge to see what might make a good base for the community.
> Sourceforge offers two interesting possibilities:
> 1. MediWiki Originally written for Wikipedia this is an excellent wiki
> product.
> 2. phpWebsite PhpWebsite is a content management system that allows the
> development of a full-featured web site, including (in the latest release)
> a wiki, blogging, and many other community-building features.
> 
> Personally I lean toward phpWebsite. I'd like to hear from people what
> they would like to see on a win32::Gui website/wiki, how many would be
> willing to contribute content, assist with site managment and maintenance,
> and so on.
> 
> Please reply to the list with your thoughts, comments and suggestions. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> Steve Bondy
> http://stevebondy.ca
> 
> 
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Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Win32 Gui Web site

[Sean H. <jal...@ho...>]

merryxmas wrote:
> hi
> i suggest the scheme of questions and answers; such as:
> 
> 1- how to display a message box
>    answer: a complete small example with notes.
> 2- how to write text on a text box
> 3- how to retrieve text from a text box
> 4- how to color a word in a rich text box
> 5- how to retrieve the index of an item in a ListBox
> 6- how to use the trackbar, and the scrollbars
> 7- how to plot a pixel, a Line, ... , on a form or a picture box.

I think that's a good idea. People can propose questions to a 
coordinator, and a volunteer can answer the question, including code 
samples.

Of course, we could probably also harvest a bunch of the most frequently 
asked questions from the mailing list to start with.

I agree that an answer should, whenever possible, be a complete working 
example. (Preferably one that is as small as possible while still 
completely answering the question).

> and up to 1001 questions or more, with full answers, and notes.
> with sections for the totally beginners.

I would suggest a from-the-ground-up tutorial. The documentation doesn't 
provide much help there. When I was first learning, I had to spend hours 
looking through the source code and researching on MSDN to figure out 
how things work.

(I have not looked at the current wiki - perhaps it has already 
addressed this concern.)

Also, since wiki-spam has apparently been a problem in the past, I would 
recommend requiring registration to edit the wiki. I know that some 
wikis provide that option, although I don't know whether MediaWiki does 
so, since it was designed for the anybody-can-edit approach of Wikipedia.

If we do require registration to edit the wiki, we'll need a question 
submission form for those without editor rights.

Anyway, I am willing to provide some answers. I am a student with a 
heavy schedule this semester, but I'll do what I can. Exams will be in 
mid-January, and after that the next semester is supposed to be lighter 
on classes (although I'll have a major project I'll be working on from 
home).

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Win32 Gui Web site

[Kevin M. <kej...@ho...>]

Hey everyone,

 

I wouldn't mind contributing to the website with tutorials, code samples, documentation, etc. whenever I have some spare time.

 

Kevin.
 


Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:59:49 -0600
From: ste...@sh...
To: per...@li...
Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Win32 Gui Web site

Hi All,

I have been talking with Rob May about taking on the administration a web site for the Win32::Gui project. The current wiki no longer allows editing because of problems with spam, and the lack of time to get everything fixed.

I have been digging around and familiarizing myself with the offerings at sourceforge to see what might make a good base for the community. Sourceforge offers two interesting possibilities:
1. MediWiki Originally written for Wikipedia this is an excellent wiki product.
2. phpWebsite PhpWebsite is a content management system that allows the development of a full-featured web site, including (in the latest release) a wiki, blogging, and many other community-building features.

Personally I lean toward phpWebsite. I'd like to hear from people what they would like to see on a win32::Gui website/wiki, how many would be willing to contribute content, assist with site managment and maintenance, and so on.

Please reply to the list with your thoughts, comments and suggestions. 

Regards,

Steve


Steve Bondy
http://stevebondy.ca

 		 	   		  
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