Re: Message file contents

In article <op.ucwdb0h5b3tjgs@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Ben Avison

<snip>

!Help does pass the strings it receives via Message_HelpReply
through OS_GSTrans, but it also does special processing of of
occurrences of character pairs "\T" where "T" is one of a limited
number of characters. These are substituted by longer strings, and
are defined in Resources:$.Resources.Help.Messages. However, most
of these will vary from ROM to ROM, as they are auto-generated in
the ROM build process to optimise the size of the ROM as a whole.
The only ones you can rely on are:

<snip>

Your explanation and 'only rely on' list is most helpful, thankyou.

The strong implication is that RO wishes to us to use SELECT/ADJUST
rather than <select>/<adjust> or 'select'/'adjust' or Select/Adjust -
despite Steve saying that this latter is 'the RISC OS convention'
(from where, Steve?).

I'm very happy to standardise on SELECT/ADJUST, if that is preferred
for uniformity.

It is difficult to get too wound up about it because I would be
deliriously happy to accept complete non-uniformity if authors would
not release any software without interactive help - but I won't hold
my breath!

Notwithstanding this point, I cannot recall ever seeing the list in
PRMs/Style Guide - and, as it happens, there is no
'Resources:$.Resources.Help' directory in my RO6.10 :-) I found it in
RO4.39 although I have to say that the listing there does not exactly
jump out and grab you as to its purpose in interactive !Help
responses... and why would I look there for it, anyway?

*If* a common standard is desired then it ought to be better
publicised, if only for us 'Sunday programmers'.

There, that feels better! :-)

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