Register to post in forums, or Log in to your existing account
 

Play RetroMUD
Post new topic  Reply to topic     Home » Forums » CMUD Beta Forum
ZealousAnonymous
Wanderer


Joined: 06 Jan 2006
Posts: 70

PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:25 pm   

Help Files and CMUD?
 
Just wondering perhaps if we might be able to add help file suggestions with newer and more advanced and detailed examples? I've figured out a few things with the functions that aren't too obvious that people may like to look at.
Reply with quote
Seb
Wizard


Joined: 14 Aug 2004
Posts: 1269

PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:21 pm   
 
It might be an idea to have an "Check for Helpfile updates..." button in CMUD to download the latest updates to help... (I like to consult help off-line at times.)
Reply with quote
Zugg
MASTER


Joined: 25 Sep 2000
Posts: 23379
Location: Colorado, USA

PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:50 pm   
 
The help system for CMUD is going to work the way it does for zApp (the DocView demo program). Help will be stored in a database in HTML format and there will get a "Get Updates" button in the help screen to download the latest updates from the web site. The help files will be the same files that we store in the Knowledge Base on this web site. The Knowledge Base can be updated by myself or any other Guru with permission, so it will be easier to update the help and get more examples.

So yes, the help in CMUD will be a great improvement over zMUD help.

The bad news is that none of this will be in the first beta. As usual, the help system has taken a lower priority compared to getting some of the other features working. (sorry Vijilante ;)
Reply with quote
Vijilante
SubAdmin


Joined: 18 Nov 2001
Posts: 5182

PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:05 am   
 
That is very alright with me. My time has been drastically consumed in the past 1 1/2 years keeping up with my day job and just trying to find a small piece of time to relax (yes that means I spend time trying to schedule relaxation). My goal with CMud's beta release's beyond decent beta testing, is to dig out that old wizard I was working on and do enough restructurting and splitting to make a few useful packages for new players. I might even figure out how make that generic stat roller thought that has been lurking in the back of my head, I simply refuse to answer such questions on the forums.

Anyhow, while I like having the help as useful as pratically possible, I am very happy to wait until a system works out that does not involve coordinating, copying, and redoing updates in 2 places.

And finally answeing the first question, this will mean that you can comment on the help through the forums and then changes will be able to be done, with replying comments also readily supplied. As far as I am concerned, it works out to all our benefits.
_________________
The only good questions are the ones we have never answered before.
Search the Forums
Reply with quote
Rainchild
Wizard


Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 1551
Location: Australia

PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:34 am   
 
Talking about forum comments, that was one really useful thing I found with the PHP manual - beyond the initial defintion people would post notes/comments and you could choose to download those, there were a lot of examples/etc posted by user's which made the manual a lot more useful. Having the ability to download the comments along with the helpfile may be something very useful for a future version of CMUD.

You could tie a rating system into it eg people saying "I found this message useful" and have a user-settable threshhold, eg only download comments with 4 or 5 stars.
Reply with quote
Zugg
MASTER


Joined: 25 Sep 2000
Posts: 23379
Location: Colorado, USA

PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:17 pm   
 
Yeah, that's something I'll look into. It's a bit tricky because of how the comments for the online knowledge base are stored. The comments get stored in a special "forum". But it certainly should be possible in the future.

Don't know about a rating system though. This stuff is all heavily tied in with the PHPBB and MX Module PHP code, so adding something like that could be a lot more work if it's not already an option in the forums module.
Reply with quote
slicertool
Magician


Joined: 09 Oct 2003
Posts: 459
Location: USA

PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:33 pm   
 
And this could be something done after the first stable release of CMud comes out to give you a breather and something different to work on.
_________________
Ichthus on SWmud: http://www.swmud.org/
Reply with quote
shalimar
GURU


Joined: 04 Aug 2002
Posts: 4662
Location: Pensacola, FL, USA

PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:39 am   
 
Rating could be done via a poll, no? Polls are normally inbuild into most forumns. Just need a poll for each comment.
_________________
Discord: Shalimarwildcat
Reply with quote
slicertool
Magician


Joined: 09 Oct 2003
Posts: 459
Location: USA

PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:24 am   
 
but polls in phpbb are topic based and not post based... it's been a long time since I've played with a phpbb database, but the work-around for that might be fairly ugly.
_________________
Ichthus on SWmud: http://www.swmud.org/
Reply with quote
shalimar
GURU


Joined: 04 Aug 2002
Posts: 4662
Location: Pensacola, FL, USA

PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:04 am   
 
It doesnt need to be pretty, just effective :)
_________________
Discord: Shalimarwildcat
Reply with quote
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic     Home » Forums » CMUD Beta Forum All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

© 2009 Zugg Software. Hosted by Wolfpaw.net