[CS5/JS] Ann: Javascript Help files updated

Question

Hi everyone. The new user-friendly Javascript Help files have been updated with a CS5 version. Download link on its homepage: http://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html
Only in Windows CHM-format for the moment (does anyone at all use the HTML version? If not ... well ... I dunno...).
I spotted a few additions and changes in the Help file -- apart from support for the new commands, obviously -- such as proper Superclass referencing, and a few objects with Class properties, which apparently are something else than Instance properties. Hey, don't ask me. I only converted the file.
Among the more interesting new objects:
* "PlaceGun" -- finally, a way to 'load' the gun with text created solely by scripting?
* "BeforeCreate", "AfterCreate" (and a few more similar): trap the event for (possibly) every object you can place into ID!
* A new Scripting Preference: measurementUnit. Apparently, this is "the measurement unit used during script processing" and, ya-hey!, we scripters don't have to awkwardly read, save, change, and restore, the measurement units anymore!

Answer 1

Minor cosmetic updates to the CHM version:
* The bullet was shown as a decoded UTF-8 value on Robin Lu's Mac CHM viewer. Changed from its Unicode value to "•" (quite the trick, as Saxon firmly objects to HTML stuff like that!). There may be more 'mangled' characters remaining, dunno if it's worth the trouble hunting them down one by one tho'.
* Contrary to what I stated before, the Help does contain a few examples -- in the JavaScript Base Classes section. Rather terse, so for the experienced scripter they are hardly relevant; but perhaps newbies can put them to good use. They are marked by a pretty-in-pink background.
* The list of parents in the Hierarchy view was not sorted alphabetically -- fixed. (I've finally started using XSLT 2.0 functions. Yay!)
* Lists of multiple object datatypes were not sorted alphabetically -- fixed, by sorting them on the comma and the word "or". However, some of the more incomprehensible descriptions now got just a bit more incomprehensible ...
E.g., common in "resize" functions: "Can accept: Array of 2 Reals, AnchorPoint enumerator or Array of Arrays of 2 Reals, CoordinateSpaces enumerators, AnchorPoint enumerators, BoundingBoxLimits enumerators or Long Integers." I have no idea how to mentally parse that, let alone have my computer do it.
* Added more and more hyperlinks. I think most of ScriptUI's internal links to "Button", "Window", etc. which also have a 'regular' UI counterpart finally point to ScriptUI's own objects. Hard to check, really.
* Also added hyperlinks for the common objects "Boolean", "String", "Number", and "Array" -- just to be complete!
* The total number of internal hyperlinks now tops out above 104,000! (And no, I didn't check all of them.)
Direct link to the CHM version: http://www.jongware.com/binaries/idcs5js_chm_3.0.3.zip
(the minor version number jump from .1 to .3 is because of a lot of testing before I got everything right -- again...)
The HTML version follows, somehow, somewhere, some time later. (HTML users: is that full function index of any use?)
* For some reason the page for the "Global classes" was interpreted in the CHM contents as a 'book', rather than a regular help page, and you could not navigate to there! (A search for 'inifinity' still landed you on that page.) Fixed by hand, but I wonder why this happened ...
Oh darn it! I found out why that happened, re-wrote part of my XSLT transform to fix it and broke lots of other things. Today, I fixed that, and now I see this doesn't work anymore -- again!
You will be expecting a 0.4 version shortly, then.