The documentation is...

[LucaMs]

The documentation is... one of the negative aspects of B4X, according to some AIs, that is, one of the things that makes people choose different languages.

I DON'T HAVE B4I - I seem to recall that there's no Click event for Labels in B4I, but I'm not sure. How can I verify this?
I searched for "Label" in the internal search engine, filtering for B4I:

Evidently, the results aren't helpful in this case.
Look at the official documentation? The following guides exist "now":

There's no specific guide for B4I, B4A, or B4J.

What would be helpful, both for users and for the popularity of B4X?
Complete web pages with "smart" links.
A lot of effort, I know, but it would be a good investment.

I'm writing this for you, because this will be my last year.





[Signed: the uncooperative critic]

 

[Cableguy]

well, with over 110K users, and knowing for a fact that we have some former publisher editor amidst us, maybe someone would offer to work directly with Erel and create a proper documentation page...
There's plenty of source info to start it!

 

[PaulMeuris]

The documentation is ... in the forums, booklets, books, and so on, BUT searching in that documentation is difficult, time consuming, and not leading to good results...
The maintenance of the website and the forums is not a priority it seems...
If there were proper documentation pages then which information would be in it?
Which criteria would be used to take an example to be part of the documentation?
Finding someone to work on it is a decision Erel CAN take...

 

[Erel]

I DON'T HAVE B4I - I seem to recall that there's no Click event for Labels in B4I, but I'm not sure. How can I verify this?

If you do use B4i then you can easily find the events:

I searched for "Label" in the internal search engine, filtering for B4I:

Threads marked with [B4X] are cross platform, which means that they are relevant to B4i as well.

 

[klaus]

And HERE, B4X Language Events.

 

[LucaMs]

So the problem is my great inability to search, okay.

 

[vecino]

Perhaps you could pass all the documentation to an “AI” and ask it to create a website with it.

 

[rabbitBUSH]

Perhaps you could pass all the documentation to an “AI”

On that note - a friend recently told me the best use he has found for AI is that he says it great at producing documentation for a software suite at his office. Don't know what his method is for doing it.

 

[Erel]

Perhaps you could pass all the documentation to an “AI” and ask it to create a website with it.

One of the purposes of the new github forum repository: https://github.com/AnywhereSoftware/B4X_Forum_Resources/tree/main is to make the valuable information from the forum more accessible to AI bots. It can also be used for experimenting with local LLMs.

 

[LucaMs]

One of the purposes of the new github forum repository: https://github.com/AnywhereSoftware/B4X_Forum_Resources/tree/main is to make the valuable information from the forum more accessible to AI bots. It can also be used for experimenting with local LLMs.

So it would be a good idea to provide them with the address, as they might not consult it on their own initiative.

 

[LucaMs]

So it would be a good idea to provide them with the address, as they might not consult it on their own initiative.

I forgot: some AIs are not able to "navigate".

 

[LucaMs]

I forgot: some AIs are not able to "navigate".

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/poll-ai-tools-to-help-us-coding-in-b4x.167856/post-1029553

ChatGPT can, Copilot cannot.

 

[Erel]

I don't think that it is possible to explicitly provide it to ChatGPT. I assume that it crawls public github repositories.

 

[LucaMs]

I assume that it crawls public github repositories.

Yours isn't?

 

[LucaMs]

I don't think that it is possible to explicitly provide it to ChatGPT. I assume that it crawls public github repositories.

(ChatGPT)

 

[LucaMs]

Title: A "Wish" for Google

(this way we could know if Google, with its powerful tools, also reads all these posts ).

Chrome, unlike other browsers, has the very useful ability to translate a web page into many languages; excellent, very useful.

In my previous post, I posted an image containing English text; not everyone speaks English perfectly, so...

Dear Google, could you add an OCR feature to Chrome?

(I don't really care, since I have Windows 7 and won't be able to use future versions of Chrome; in fact, not even many current versions ).

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I'm not asking Erel this, I guess it's impossible to add OCR to Xenforo.

 

[LucaMs]

I'm not asking Erel this, I guess it's impossible to add OCR to Xenforo.

Me:
Would it be possible for a Xenforo forum manager to add an OCR feature?

Perplexity:
Yes, it's possible for a Xenforo forum manager to add OCR functionality, but it's not natively supported by Xenforo itself. However, this functionality can be integrated via plugins or custom development.
Specifically, there's the option of using external OCR software like Tesseract (an open-source OCR engine) installed on the server and then connecting it to Xenforo via PHP bindings. This way, when a user uploads a photo or image containing text, the system can extract the text from the image using OCR and use it, for example, for comparisons or automatic insertions into the forum database. This requires technical development and configuration of the OCR engine on the server, but it's feasible, and some Xenforo developers have already discussed the idea in the Xenforo community's technical forums.xenforo
So, if the forum manager has some technical skills or can rely on a developer, it is possible to implement OCR on Xenforo.

 

[stevel05]

Me:
Would it be possible for a Xenforo forum manager to add an OCR feature?

Yeah, well. thats where you are missing out on Windows 7. On Windows 11 the snipping tool can do it. And does it pretty well.

 

[LucaMs]

Yeah, well. thats where you are missing out on Windows 7. On Windows 11 the snipping tool can do it. And does it pretty well.

Good news (for you ).

The idea of adding it to the browser wasn't a bad one, both because Windows isn't the only OS and because it follows the idea of a browser translator.

 

[stevel05]

You could always try one of these B4j projects:

Tesseract-clipboard: OCR images stored in clipboard

Hi, I made a tesseract-ocr ui frontend, which will convert images stored in the clipboard into texts. Different from https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/screen-ocr-in-5-minutes-and-50-lines.90655/, my version is very simple. It utilizes the system's screencapture shortcut to store images...

www.b4x.com

Screen OCR in 5 minutes and 50 lines!

Exactly like the thread title! 5 minutes. 50 lines... 1 - Download and install Tesseract (

www.b4x.com