Searching the documentation (was Re: CLUTs)

[Richard Gaskin]

Graham Samuel wrote:

> Thank you, and when desperate I daresay I will try a free text search
> through the RTF or whatever. In this particular case though I would
> never have found the word 'CLUT' because it's not there. What I
> really want is a more extended and at the same time accessible
> structure in the online documentation - like a chapter called 'all
> about color'. 

That would be a welcome addition, as would an index including a few more
Mac-specific terms like 'CLUT' to help newcomers make the transition from
other xTalks, which have largely been for Mac only.

But the current index is not so bad:  I found colorMap by opening the
Transcript Dictionary and typing "color" in the search box -- "colorMap
property is the first entry shown when you do that, worth at least a glance
to see if it's what you're looking for.

Having written the index for the SuperTalk Language Guide, I'm painfully
familiar with how difficult it is to arrive at a good index, and by and
large the Rev index isn't bad, IMHO.  When looking up stuff in Rev's docs,
it may be useful to remember that Mac-specific terms like specific resource
structures such as 'CLUT' and 'CURS' and 'DLOG' (now obsolete with OS X
anyway) will be less likely to be found than their more generic equivalents.

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