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Re: Ready to quit after 25 years... [message #76867 is a reply to message #76672]

Mon, 11 July 2011 14:54

Michael Galloy
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On 7/11/11 9:45 AM, Paulo Penteado wrote:
> On Jul 9, 12:22 am, David Fanning<n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
>> Paulo Penteado writes:
>>> I agree. Which is why I do not use direct graphics. Too annoying.
>>
>>> Now I use a mix of iTools and New Graphics, because some of the
>>> functionality from the iTools GUI is not in NG.
>>
>>> To me, the problem with both systems is not complexity, it is the lack
>>> of documentation.
>>
>> Paulo, I always thought you were the one who was going
>> to write the NG book. How about it? Should we do it
>> together? Perhaps I wouldn't be so frustrated if I
>> had someone who knew the answers! :-)
>
> And I was thinking that Michael was more likely to write it, until I
> read his post above.
>
> It would be interesting to write, NG and iTools are fun to work with,
> despite the frustrating lack of documentation. Which I always found
> odd: they had all the work to develop these systems, but the
> functionality goes unused because because nobody gets told about it.

I would be interested in writing about new graphics, but not until
things calm down and ITT VIS plugs some of the holes in the new graphics
including the documentation.

Mike
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		Ready to quit after 25 years... By: Haje Korth on Thu, 23 June 2011 14:49
		Re: Ready to quit after 25 years... By: Klemen on Wed, 29 June 2011 02:50
		Re: Ready to quit after 25 years... By: Haje Korth on Thu, 30 June 2011 13:59
		Re: Ready to quit after 25 years... By: Haje Korth on Tue, 12 July 2011 05:16
		Re: Ready to quit after 25 years... By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 11 July 2011 14:54
		Re: Ready to quit after 25 years... By: penteado on Mon, 11 July 2011 08:45
		Re: Ready to quit after 25 years... By: David Fanning on Fri, 08 July 2011 20:22
		Re: Ready to quit after 25 years... By: penteado on Fri, 08 July 2011 14:33
		Re: Ready to quit after 25 years... By: David Fanning on Fri, 08 July 2011 13:07
		Re: Ready to quit after 25 years... By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 08 July 2011 12:33
		Re: Ready to quit after 25 years... By: ben.bighair on Wed, 13 July 2011 13:11
		Re: Ready to quit after 25 years... By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Wed, 13 July 2011 08:23

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