Manual: reference to wimp_ICON_BUTTON_TYPE_SHIFT

[Tony van der Hoff]

Philip Ludlam <philip at philipnet.com> wrote in message
<2f75fdf04d.philip at philipnet.com>

> On 29 Jan, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > (0) I'm not convinced that Asm users use the help much; I don't think
> > it's very useful to them; perhaps they would like to comment? However,
> > the theory is of language-independance; and it wouldn't be sensible to
> > travel along a path that pre-supposes C.
> 
> I remember when looking at some (very) low level code that the SH manual
> was absoultely useless as it used C names and I was using the Asm names. I
> resorted to looking at the Asm header code in desperation.
> 
> But on the whole I haven't had a problem with the OSLib manual.
> 
> Correction, when programming in assembler I don't use the OSLib manual -
> it never comes up when I hit F1 in StrongED.
> 
> Having looked at the definition of the StrongED ObjAsm manual, it does
> include the OSLib SH manual as a F1 search-source, but understandably the
> SWI manuals take precedence in the F1 search-list.
> 
I think you can move things around in StronHelp; I'm sure I changed the
priority of the search lists. 

> So yes, it would be nice to have a OSLib Asm manual.
> 
> 
> Ah, so in answer to original question, no we don't use the existing help
> becuase it is not relevant to/useful for us.
> 
> However, if we could have one, it would be great!
> 

Well, that's a vote of one!

I agree it needs fixing; unfortunately I don't currently have a working RISC
OS box, so I can't actually look at the manuals :(

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Tony van der Hoff        | mailto:tony at vanderhoff.org
Buckinghamshire, England