is MSEIDE as good as it seems?

Judging by how empty this forum is I would conclude that a lot of people who first try MSEGUI will try it  and then leave because the documentation is so sparse, this is not a critisism of MSEgui but based on my experience today of porting a calculator application that I coded in Lazarus over to MSEgui.

Everything was quite easy up to the point of trying to insert lines of text into an MSEgui listview, I posted to your newsgroup and was helped by Martin.

I discovered that if you select a keyword and press CTL + Leftclick it opens up the unit file where you are presented with all the procedures and functions for the MSEgui component, you then have to trawl through this big text file to find a word relalating to what you "think" you want to do.

I basically wanted to add an item to a listview

The Lazarus syntax is Listview1.Items.Add(floattostr(Value));

I have managed to insert rows into a stringgrid

grid1.InsertRow(1,1);

and  insert text into a grid coordinate

grid1[0][0]:= 'thetext';

but i need to input 1 line after another I presume using a count function in to the next available space in a string grid, i haven't done this yet.

I would certainly contribute to updating the MSEgui Wiki but i obviously do not have the MSEgui expertise yet, I have been using MSEgui for 36 hours, and have found it to be exceptionly stable, and am still in awe of its obvious power, but i would suggest that generally people who use open source software will possibly give up on MSEgui and move on to something else ie back to Lazarus which I also think is fine.

If MSEgui had a resource  that listed component functions like

add rows to stringgrid                       example:  grid1.InsertRow(1,1);

and this kind of example was available for all the MSEgui components

I hope I have not said anything untowards but I have experienced this condition myself, when I write an application I tweek,debug,improve,add,test,tweek add some more, debug some more but the thing i always seem reluctant to do is the help file, and this is the thing that makes your application accessible to the people you are presenting it to.

If your demographic is elite programmers, thats fine but if you want ordinary programmers and hobbyists to realise how good MSEgui is I think a concise basic helpfile, not for object pascal but for MSEgui components is very important.

Thanks again for your superb MSEgui

audio2

is MSEIDE as good as it seems?

It is better!

You could ask on NNTP

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.mseide.user

for more opinions about MSEide+MSEgui, there are some people who use it in production.

I think your creation would benefit from having better/more documentation to act as a reference for new users

You are right, please help with the documentation process.

Martin