| Slightly OT (sorry) but why are there no "Please send us your comment about this page" links in the Maxscript help? They are there in both the main Help and in the Tutorials. Yes, I realise it would be a fair bit of work to add them 😉 |
Here is the technical (and as always, the historical) side of things.
When I was hired to do the Help, back in Max 5 days, Discreet had a custom CHM compiler pipeline. We used (and still use) RoboHelp to author the MAXScript Help, then the HTML output was sent through that compiler and it spit out a CHM which had nothing to do with the original source visually. No color coding, no font styles support, just black on pink with normal, bold and italic font only. On the positive side, that compiler appended the "Comments" section to each HTML page automatically.
I had a heart attack each time I saw the final result. So around Max 8, I asked Autodesk to upgrade my license to the latest RoboHelp and allow me to produce the final CHM with all the colorful styles you see now (and since Max 2008 also additional navigational menus, hotspot bitmaps etc.). Unfortunately, I could not find a way to add the Comments link to each page automatically.
In addition, in the days when the link was available, the number of bug reports received through that channel was minimal - probably about 5 reports for ALL versions I worked on. So when it was there nobody used it, now that it isn't, everybody wants to use it ;o)
Posting here or on CGTalk usually does the same job, plus we get a nice thread around the problem...
