[nvda-addons] Re: Developing Addons - The best way to get started?
- From: James Scholes <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 00:25:25 +0100
Damien Sykes-Pendleton wrote:
With this in mind, I want to guide you through my thought processes as I
read the appropriate material, but I am thinking that it would exceed
the size limit for the list, so I have created an article and uploaded
it to my website. It is an HTML document in a zip file (it is not
publicly linked to on my site, nor did I want its text to be searchable
by a search engine in case there was a large gaping hole that I missed
that makes this article totally invalid).
Given that there are public archives available for the list, I think it
best not to link to it here. So for now if anyone is interested in
reading through it and perhaps going through things step by step with
me, or would be interested in helping me to create some more meaningful
resources, whether it be a tutorial or a document that points to
relevant information etc, please email me off list.
Valid or otherwise, we're all friends here and I'm sure, everybody else
on this list would join me in wanting to welcome as many new competent
add-on developers as possible. With that in mind, you will receive a
much better response if you:
1. Try to condense whatever you have to say into the facts, as you see
them. It is highly unlikely that whatever you have to say will be too
large for a mailing list to accept, and if it is, perhaps you should
consider cutting it down.
2. Accept that you might be wrong, which you have done, but also accept
that we are here to help those who are on the wrong track and need
pointers in the right direction. If someone can find your list post on
Google, they will also find any help that people provide in response.
The sort of people who would read your email, which is clearly asking
for assistance and correction, but then read your article and assume it
was 100% accurate, are probably not overly logical and won't make very
good add-on writers anyway.
3. Come out and ask what you need to ask without prompting others to
jump through hoops that aren't really necessary. This is a community,
and you'll receive far more help if we're allowed to respond as one.
Having said all that, please either post your text to the list, or a
link to it at the very least, and let us help you.
--
James Scholes
http://twitter.com/JamesScholes
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