<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Hi Folks.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Just a brainstorm here.<br></div><div><br></div><div>We ask Objects and Classes for stuff every day. What if we could send them the "help" message?<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>OrderedCollection help.<br></div><div>1 help.<br></div><div>'1' help.<br></div><div>Stream help.</div><div>CompiledMethod help.<br></div><div>Pragma help.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Frameworks...<br></div><div><br></div><div>Seaside help.<br></div><div>PEGParser help.<br></div><div>Xtreams help.<br></div><div>SUnit help<br></div><div>VMMaker help<br></div><div>OSProcess help.<br></div><div><br></div><div>"Any package category in the browser" help.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>What if Lawson English' videos where available right in the OpenGL package?<br></div><div>OpenGL help.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div>Make complicated design patterns, like the Tree traversal stuff folks on the pharo boards are discussing objects.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Tree help.<br></div><div>FactoryPattern help<br></div><div>SingletonPattern help.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Furthermore, make it trivial for anybody to directly write the help into the object. (This is a huge drawback for the current Help system. I do not want to program Help topics, I want to cut-n-paste some text very quickly)<br></div><div><br></div></div><div>For example, Levente has been very helpful in providing advice on using the XTreams-Parsing package.<br></div><div>It would be very helpful, to just copy-n-paste the emails/conversations as they happen into the Package's help.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Ditto for PG3. <br></div><div><br></div><div>PG3 help viewall<br></div><div>PG3 help byDate.<br></div><div>PG3 help latest<br></div><div>PG3 help authors</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Make sense?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Class comments are frequently empty stubs.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Furthermore, we have billions (: of smalltalkers out there. Make it easy for them to "commit" their help into the core system on squeaksource from within the image (or make it semi-automatic)<br></div><div><br></div><div>I think it would be a great first-step for aggregating help content and making it easily accessible from within a Workspace.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I honestly "never" use the Help system as I find it awkward and inefficient to read and code. However, for those who do enjoy it, an in-image aggregation system would help its development too.<br></div><div><br></div><div>cordially,<br></div><div><br></div><div>tty</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>