Re: Loosing contact with my inner dongle

[Vince Fortin <vfortin(at)gmail.com>]

I noticed that the search doesn't return most pages of the SDKdocs.


Also it seems that a lot of essential stuff is still scattered in different sections.


Let's say I want to list all properties attached to a particle object
(SDK). Well, I had a hard time reaching this page:
http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/sdkdocs/Particle.htm
The XSISDK category links to articles and scripting examples but hardly to the official object documentation.

For example, by clicking on the "Simulation - Particle" link (by Area), one would expect to find the Particle Cloud
scripting properties but will end-up reading an article about Goal
scripting.


On the "open source" matter, I don't think it's Softimage's
responsibility to insure the integrity of the
official documentation by cleaning-up the errors/vandalism.
Wiki is a great solution for gathering information though...

Consequently my vote goes for an open section, attached to each page of
documentation while keeping a very clear distinction between the doc
and the ressource articles (discussion?).


Hope this make sense. I love the wiki initiative btw.


Vincent

P/s: Is it editable now? Haven't tried yet.

On 10/4/05, Sylvain Moreau <sylvain.moreau(at)videotron.ca> wrote:

Hello Edna, thanks for the answer, I did not notice the links.

I am not sure what I ask makes complete sense but I think the integration of
the wiki and the doc should be much tighter.

If I have interogation about something today I will look at the doc first
because it is the richest source of info abour XSI and it is clearly
organised. But I will not stop there, I know many users find original
techniques and publish them somewhere on the web (tutorials, forum, wiki).
If I want a all the available info I need to search google.

Ideally I would skip google and find all the user generated info directly in
the doc. I don't think it is reasonable to ask you to put up to date
external links in the doc but the users could do it. Imagine the doc is a
wiki and we can edit it:
- Anybody writting a tutorial, shader, plug-in, etc. could set a link to is
own page in the relevant area of the doc
- Any relevant forum thread could be accessible from the doc
- People like Matt that are nice enough to write missing documentation would
actually edit the doc directly

The doc would become alive and your job will never be the same again... (he
he, I don't know if it would be good or bad for you personally...). Wiki can
work if they are supervized, as the owner of the doc it would be your role
to check the new edit and filter the crap out (vandalism, advertising, etc.)


syl
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wotomoro.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edna Kruger" <ekruger(at)Softimage.COM>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:27 AM
Subject: RE: Loosing contact with my inner dongle


> actually, it's all there already :o)
>
> at the beginning of every section, there are links to the HTML guides
> relating to that section (i.e. animation, simulation, SDK, rendering,
> etc.).
>
> does that do it for you?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf
> Of Sylvain Moreau
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 1:32 AM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Loosing contact with my inner dongle
>
>
> Thanks Matt
>
> and double thanks for putting it on the wiki, this is great
>
> I wish the XSI doc was an online wiki, having all the relevant info in the
> same place would be nice
>
> syl
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> wotomoro.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Carpenter" <mcarpent(at)Softimage.COM>
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 5:45 PM
> Subject: RE: Loosing contact with my inner dongle
>
>
>>I have posted a possible solution to the XSI wiki that can be found here:
>>
>> http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/index.php/How_do_I_prevent_my_SPM_Server_from_shutting_down_during_hibernation
>>
>> Enjoy,
>>
>> -matt
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf
>> Of kim aldis
>> Posted At: October 3, 2005 5:20 PM
>> Posted To: xsi
>> Conversation: Loosing contact with my inner dongle
>> Subject: RE: Loosing contact with my inner dongle
>>
>>
>> Hehe
>>
>> Never thought of that.
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
>>> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Nicolas Langlois
>>> Sent: 03-October-2005 21:57
>>> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
>>> Subject: Re: Loosing contact with my inner dongle
>>>
>>> It's even better if you edit your Setenv.bat to have the
>>> first line as:
>>>
>>> net start spmd
>>>
>>> That should solve one problem and everytime it goes to sleep
>>> just unplug/replug your dongle and start XSI which will start
>>> it's server by itself!
>>>
>>> "Heck disable the hibernation if you can!"
>>>
>>> niko
>>>
>>>  -------- Original Message --------
>>> > From: Sylvain Moreau < sylvain.moreau(at)videotron.ca>
>>> > Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 4:46 PM
>>> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
>>> > Subject: Re: Loosing contact with my inner dongle
>>> >
>>> > >>>are you sure you really need to pull the dongle in and out?
>>> >
>>> > yes, unfortunately, restarting the license server is not
>>> enough here.
>>> >
>>> > thanks
>>> >   ----- Original Message -----
>>> >   From: kim aldis
>>> >   To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
>>> >   Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:18 PM
>>> >   Subject: RE: Loosing contact with my inner dongle
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >   are you sure you really need to pull the dongle in and
>>> out? I've only had to restart the license server. In fact the
>>> lictools panel only starts the license service so you should
>>> be able to do it quicker with a batch file with the line:
>>> >
>>> >   net start spmd
>>> >
>>> >   stick it on your desktop and double click when you come
>>> out of hibernate.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> > ------
>>> >
>>> >     From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
>>> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of kim aldis
>>> >     Sent: 03-October-2005 18:10
>>> >     [kim aldis]
>>> >
>>> >     To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
>>> >     Subject: RE: Loosing contact with my inner dongle
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >     annoying, isn't it.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>> ------------
>>> >       From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
>>> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM ] On Behalf Of Sylvain Moreau
>>> >       Sent: 03-October-2005 17:58
>>> >       To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
>>> >       Subject: Loosing contact with my inner dongle
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >       Everytime my laptop hibernate it looses contact with
>>> the dongle and XSI dies.
>>> >
>>> >       It's easy to fix, I unplug/replug the dongle and
>>> restart the server. But thanks to windows start bar memory I
>>> noticed Lictools is now my most often used program. I thought
>>> maybe I should do something about it...
>>> >
>>> >       Anybody knows how to keep contact with a USB dongle
>>> through hibernation?
>>> >
>>> >       Thanks
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >       syl
>>> >       ~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> >       wotomoro.com
>>>
>>>
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