Maybe my expectations for usability are just too high, or the tool is easy enough for professional programmers? (Which I am not, though I have some minor programming experience.) Or maybe you’re used to the tool, flaws and all, so now you benefit from the upside without suffering from the learning curve? Or maybe I would’ve fared better if I’d consulted that specific quick start tutorial rather than searching in the docs when I had questions?
Anyway, a few days ago, I finally took the plunge, again. It took me ~80 min to write this almost trivial key recording script to help an author of video game guides who up to this point had typed their huge walkthroughs by hand (example, one of those solutions is >700 characters long). The majority of that scripting time was spent raging at the documentation and syntax and lack of error messages, for a script I expected to be very simple.
The resulting script worked and the recipient was very happy about it, so spending the time was worth it, but I found the scripting experience itself just unpleasant. On the other hand, maybe now the worst is behind me, and writing further scripts would be smooth sailing?
Maybe my expectations for usability are just too high, or the tool is easy enough for professional programmers? (Which I am not, though I have some minor programming experience.) Or maybe you’re used to the tool, flaws and all, so now you benefit from the upside without suffering from the learning curve? Or maybe I would’ve fared better if I’d consulted that specific quick start tutorial rather than searching in the docs when I had questions?
Anyway, a few days ago, I finally took the plunge, again. It took me ~80 min to write this almost trivial key recording script to help an author of video game guides who up to this point had typed their huge walkthroughs by hand (example, one of those solutions is >700 characters long). The majority of that scripting time was spent raging at the documentation and syntax and lack of error messages, for a script I expected to be very simple.
The resulting script worked and the recipient was very happy about it, so spending the time was worth it, but I found the scripting experience itself just unpleasant. On the other hand, maybe now the worst is behind me, and writing further scripts would be smooth sailing?