Frustrating documentation

Balestrieri, John jbalestrieri at ap.org
Wed Oct 1 11:10:03 CDT 2008


Thanks Ruslan, that was the info I was looking for. (I did perform a search,
but it was by the field class name, not the data type name -- cross indexing
or linking the two might be useful.)

John


On 10/1/08 12:00 PM, "Ruslan Zasukhin" <sunshine at public.kherson.ua> wrote:

> On 10/1/08 6:04 PM, "Balestrieri, John" <jbalestrieri at ap.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
>> I'm trying to track down a problem in a VDb that's cropped up between
>> versions 2.x and 3.x. It appears the values of VULong field types are being
>> lost/clipped. Being one to help myself, I headed over to Valentina kernel
>> documentation for VULong:
>> 
>> <http://www.valentina-db.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=paradigma:public:en:docume
>> ntation:api:vulong_class:vulong_class>
> 
> This is API document.
> 
>> Nothing there on precision. So where exactly is the precision of this data
>> type documented? I find a passing reference to it here:
>> 
> Sounds like you want see Kernel Manual.
> 
> <http://www.valentina-db.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=paradigma:public:en:docume
> ntation:vkernel:vfield:vfield>
>
> 
>> I recall clear from 1.x and 2.x days the documentation used to be
>> exceptional; it was very easy to find what was needed (as well,
>> documentation was available in offline format, which, IMHO, is essential for
>> mission-critical development where a third-party server cannot be relied
>> upon.)
> 
> In WIKI also easy to find.
> 
> You see field SEARCH on top left side?
>     type here ULONG and see results.
> 



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