Update* Docs CHM available for download

Tom7777 · 6 May 2005

Im guessing it is probably ok as long as the data is correct.

malc · 6 May 2005

Hi NAS,

That's a neat trick - how did you do that then? I have no problem at all with you posting them. We had planned to convert the docs to an offline format at some point but hadn't really looked into it yet.

Thanks,

Malc.

Sk · 6 May 2005

Is it possible to have a good old .hlp version without too much pain? If it has to be rewritten then don't mind me at all My PC seems to refuse reading chm. Well, there are lots of things that my PC is supposed to but doesn't want to do, but I'm too lazy to format it 😉

Nu Audio Science · 6 May 2005

I'll post it later today, I just need to put the pages in the same order as they appear on the site 🙂 , I jave to be honest it was a little bit of work reformatting the pages but actually creating the CHM takes about 5 minutes, I use some software called Visual CHM, You can buy it at wekasoft very cheaply and it just works real quick 🙂 , I gave up on the MS free rubbish.

I cant help with the hlp request but if you can read this page but cant read CHMs you really have a problem because a CHM is just HTML (Webpages).

Should also add that it is very easy to keep upto date aswell 🙂

malc · 6 May 2005

Cool. I might have to take a look at this Visual CHM then.

Thanks

Nu Audio Science · 7 May 2005

Ok i have just updated the first post 🙂

infuzion · 7 May 2005

Nu Audio Science wrote: A couple of weird things happened when i grabed the Outsim pages, Some of the images had %20 instead of a space, Anybody know what is doing this ?

It's a http thing; you can't have space & a few other characters in a URL. I think it's the ASCII value.

OK thats all for now and i will try to keep this as upto date as possible, If a few of the Gurus around here could do some example schematics and so on that would be great, Hopefully this saves Outsim having to do documents and concentrate on Synthmaker

A WIKI would be better suited for this.

Nu Audio Science · 7 May 2005

I just like to have docs as one file on my computer, I guess its personal taste though 🙂

Nu Audio Science · 7 May 2005

The Geocities account has run out of transfer bandwidth, Download should be active again in an hour DOH

Hopefully Outsim will host it later 🙂

sequencer · 7 May 2005

Thanks for this NAS, great work, unfortunately...

Both links are down. I'd agree, Geocities is crap.

A bump for Malc and Jorge to have this on their servers, perhaps with a way that people could upload changes/extensions to a copy of it, that way it doesn't bring the correct downloadable version into a mess and it could be edited for corrections etc.

Does this make sense...?

Sequencer

EDIT: Obviously, someone else that can't sleep in on a Saturday. Must have been writing this at the same time as NAS posting above.

Nu Audio Science · 7 May 2005

Do you mean updates so that you only have to download the new pages ? Ifso you would actually have to purchase VisualCHM or learn to use MS crappy crap CHM. I think it would probably make more sense to do the docs as a compiled CHM because then it can be accessed directly by synthmaker itself.

If we get a lot of examples and schematics to put into the CHM i will just update it monthly or something so it doesn't get ridiculous 🙂

Edit* I haven't slept since finding SM, I have to work but then i have to play after aswell 🙂

sequencer · 7 May 2005

Sorry, I was a bit foggy earlier and didn't explain it very well.

I thought that it would be useful to have stuff from the forums incorporated (programming/schematics etc) into the CHM file somehow. Of course this would depend on having the Visual program and as such is probably a non starter. Oh well..

Something like this is extremely useful to me because I do not have an internet connection on my music partition (I'd like to keep it that way).

sequencer

P.S Second link up and running, good stuff 😀

Nu Audio Science · 7 May 2005

Yeah i can compile stuff in, The question is how often to do it without it being a pain to download, I dont think a CHM can be dynamically updated but i will sure check 😉

malc · 7 May 2005

This is great NAS!

Given that the docs are php based did you have to go to each page and download them individually? After that did you then edit each page to remove the banner and side menu?

We could completely remove the need to do the html editing by making a new php page that excludes these. Not sure what we could do about manually downloading each page. It would be great if the whole thing could be automated.

Anyway, thanks very much for this.

Nu Audio Science · 7 May 2005

Yes i went through each page indivdually in dreamweaver and ripped out the unneeded stuff, I would,nt worry too much about automation it only took me about half hour todo, Nothing really

Glad you like, Can you host it ? That Geo crap keeps saying bandwidth gone teeeeheeeee

cheers

malc · 7 May 2005

But of course 🙂

[old link]

Did you just download the pages using your browser (File|Save)?

Nu Audio Science · 7 May 2005

Yeah, Was the easiest way 🙂

Tom7777 · 7 May 2005

Thanks Nu Audio Science, you sure have been making a lot of new topics/posts recently 🙂

Nu Audio Science · 7 May 2005

Yeah sorry bout that excitement and all that christmas jazz 🙂

Tom7777 · 7 May 2005

Maybe you should make a Post called "A Few Things" ect which is what i do if i have multiple questions to ask 🙂

Nu Audio Science · 7 May 2005

I was askin as i was doin, I didn't have chance to make a list 😉

Tom7777 · 7 May 2005

Ok 🙂