Adobe installs some fairly good scripting documentation along with Photoshop.
In PDF format.
And they wisely make use of PDF’s built in security permissions to prevent you copying and pasting any of the code samples in the PDF.
I mean how are we ever going to learn without being forced to type it all out again?
(Oh and breaking the security on those PDF’s takes about 1 second with the right software)
Note to software companies. Despite the fairly acceptable Windows help file format you may feel the need to write your own.
If you do this and yours is crappier than the effort-free alternative then congratulations on creating lots of pointless work for yourself. Feel free to come round to my house and do the hoovering when you are done.
Inspired by Flash MX, various Adobe products and many others that I have forgotten.
I'm Harry Brignull, User Experience Designer at Clearleft in Brighton. My work involves a mix of User Research and Interaction Design. In the past few years I've consulted for The Guardian, Haymarket, Madgex, British Airways, Vodafone, O2 and many others.
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