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Title: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: PBrennick on July 14, 2005, 12:58:03 AM
Hello everybody.
I have been working on creating an eBook using Iczekion's tutorials.  I am almost finished at this point and would welcome some critique.  Not everyone likes vanilla ice cream but I would appreciate all the comments - good or bad.  It is 600k compressed and expands to 900k.  Click the right mouse button to copy or print.

http://www.pbrennick.com/asmtools/tutorials.zip

There is no install, just place it in a test folder.  The first time it is run it will ask if you want an icon placed on the desktop.

Paul
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: hutch-- on July 14, 2005, 01:08:15 AM
Paul,

I have just donloaded it but the URL appears to require IE to do the download. I get a 404 with K-MELEON.

Checked the file which runs fine but it says I have no java support when I actually have SUN java installed on the machine from Netscape 7.2 that works with K-MELEON and Firefox.

Tutes look nicely done and are clear and easy to read.
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: GregL on July 14, 2005, 01:30:53 AM
Paul,

After just a quick look, it looks good. I'll look through it in more detail.

The link has a "</a>" on the end of it that is causing the problem.

Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: PBrennick on July 14, 2005, 01:54:31 AM
Greg,
I used the URL tags to post the link.  Are you saying I should not?

Hutch,
It does use the IE engine and the SUN support for IE would be needed.  I guess then, that I will have to start over and just use javascript instead of Java.  It's a real disappointment but I am glad you caught it early.

Paul
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: PBrennick on July 14, 2005, 01:57:37 AM
Hutch,
I am going to try to find an eBook compiler that uses mozilla.

Paul
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: GregL on July 14, 2005, 02:10:02 AM
Paul,

No, I'm not saying you shouldn't use the URL tags. I'm just saying there is a "</a>" or a "%3C/a%3E" tacked on to the end of the link. I get the same thing in both IE and Firefox. I cut and pasted the link below:

    http://www.pbrennick.com/asmtools/tutorials.zip%3C/a%3E 

Just trying to help.

Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: Vortex on July 14, 2005, 05:42:10 AM
Hi Paul,

Nice work :U
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: Dinosaur on July 14, 2005, 06:20:14 AM
Hi all

Using the link I cant even download it with IE.
404 screen File not found.

Quote
We recently revamped our entire website, replacing many of our pages, updating information and making it convenient for you to find what you are looking for.
It seems that the page you are looking for is one that has been replaced or never existed.
Please visit our new Main Page, or use the links above to find your way around our new website.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Main Page is a link, but that wont let me go anywhere either. ?

Regards
Dinosaur
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: Phil on July 14, 2005, 07:32:37 AM
When I clicked on the link in Paul's original post I got the same file not found error. I looked at the address and noticed the four extra characters </a> that were mentioned in a previous post. When I deleted them and clicked the go button everything worked fine. I'm using IE but the browser that you're using shouldn't make a difference. It's just the extra characters in the url that is supplied in the original link.

Here's the corrected url: http://www.pbrennick.com/asmtools/tutorials.zip without the extraneous characters.

The ebook looks good, Paul.
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: PBrennick on July 14, 2005, 08:26:35 AM
Phil,
Thank you for the heads up.  I have repaired the original link and it is now working fine.  When I edited my post, the link looked very strange.  Something odd happened.

Anyway, everybody, please give me some feedback as to this type of presentation.  It is a lot of work but I think it is well worth the effort.  I am still working on the examples portion of the eBook so I will go back to work.

Paul
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: Dinosaur on July 14, 2005, 08:52:07 AM
Paul

Not being a windoze programmer, but a 16bit dos person, I must admit I am tempted to start learning using the tutorial.
My only immediate observation is the inability to change Font size.
The small font combined with full text lines is overwhelming for me.
Pehaps it is a sign of age.

Regards
Dinosaur
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: brixton on July 14, 2005, 10:04:58 AM
Seems nice, Paul, very very useful and easy to use. 

One thing was when a popup from MSN occurred, the tutorial had a big white box where the popup was, I don't know if you can fix this by making it repaint itself or something.  It's easily repaired by scrolling down and then back up again, though. :U
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: PBrennick on July 14, 2005, 10:51:30 AM
Hi Brixton,
I am glad that you like it.  About MSN, it is a pain in the ...  :bg

Dinosaur,
Let me see what I can do.

Paul
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: Ghirai on July 14, 2005, 12:32:51 PM
Nice work Paul :U
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: Mark Jones on July 14, 2005, 03:43:31 PM
That's pretty cool Paul! Nice job. :U
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: mrburkett on July 14, 2005, 05:56:57 PM
Very nice, Thank you!

I shall keep it permanently.

Jim
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: PBrennick on July 14, 2005, 06:57:15 PM
Feel free to do so.  I am going to add a function or two and when I do I will reost.  Don't forget the right-click functions.

Paul
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: PBrennick on July 15, 2005, 12:35:51 AM
I seem to be having trouble with the search engine on the index page.  I will need some time on that one as I did not write that particulat search engine.  It was written by a gentleman at IBM.

Paul
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: Ramon Sala on July 17, 2005, 11:21:07 AM
Paul,

That's a nice and useful job! It works very fine to me.

Ramon
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: Koffee on August 18, 2005, 04:06:27 AM
Anyone have a working link for this zip?
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: PBrennick on August 18, 2005, 08:39:13 AM
Koffee,
Sorry for the trouble, while doing some maintenance, I screwed up the link.  The following will work:

http://www.pbrennick.com/asmtools/IczelionsTutorials.zip

Enjoy,
Paul
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: IAO on August 18, 2005, 09:08:00 PM
Hi.

I write bad in ingles.

But:
I am impressed. It is Fantastic.
!!!Congratulations.¡¡¡¡¡¡
I think that I exaggerated. (The Size of the letter)
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: PBrennick on August 19, 2005, 05:10:23 AM
IAO,
I am glad you like it.  It is the way I like to do things.  A neat, clean presentation was my goal, I guess I hit it.

There will be moe to come, I am thinking about tackling the API help file at the moment.

EDIT:  Actually, I just looked at what would be involved and I think I would be biting off more than I can chew.  So, I will look for something else.  Any ideas?  Anyone?

Paul
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: Mark Jones on August 20, 2005, 06:15:47 AM
The API helpfile is of course do-able. Just don't try to convert the whole thing in one sitting. :bg
Title: Re: Iczelion's Tutorials
Post by: IAO on August 20, 2005, 09:00:16 PM
Hi Paul.
I don't write well English. But:
In my opinion, API is very interesting. It is a Challenge. Is Very Long and confused.

Dinosaur said:
My only immediate observation is the inability to change Font size.
I share his idea.

Some good Link, they would be necessary.
Is my poor opinion.
Congratulations.
Bye ('_')