# Starting docs for my software? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 26, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544 "2014-11-26T19:05:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/8baadc/32.png) [@Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Oliver_Scott-Brown)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/1 "2014-11-26T19:05:56Z")
I started hosting my website with docs powered by MediaWiki (the same as Xojo’s system). How do I first get started? Any good learning resources? For example, I don’t understand how people create categories. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Coleman](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Bob\_Coleman](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Bob_Coleman)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/2 "2014-11-26T19:11:28Z")
Start here: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing\_pages](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages) and here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet) ---
**Author:** ![Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/8baadc/32.png) [@Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Oliver_Scott-Brown)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/3 "2014-11-26T19:36:56Z")
[quote=146098:@Bob Coleman]Start here: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing\_pages](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages) and here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet[/quote]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet%5B/quote%5D) Thanks. I will give it a go. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Summers](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/richard_summers/32/477_2.png) [@Richard\_Summers](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Richard_Summers)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/4 "2014-11-26T19:47:35Z")
What is your website’s URL - curious to see what you have been doing 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/8baadc/32.png) [@Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Oliver_Scott-Brown)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/5 "2014-11-26T20:04:29Z")
> [@146109:@Richard Summers](#): > > What is your website’s URL - curious to see what you have been doing 🙂 All I have done so far is installed it and I have just about no content up yet. [http://docs.powermodegames.com](http://docs.powermodegames.com) I also have a blog hosted at; [http://blog.powermodegames.com](http://blog.powermodegames.com) And I have a forum: [http://forum.powermodegames.com](http://forum.powermodegames.com) My software is not yet available to the public despite there being a ‘download button’ on my site. [http://powermodegames.com](http://powermodegames.com) ---
**Author:** ![Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/8baadc/32.png) [@Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Oliver_Scott-Brown)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/6 "2014-11-26T20:05:02Z")
No blog, forum or wiki content yet. It is all work-in-progress. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Cotrone](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/mike_cotrone/32/19940_2.png) [@Mike\_Cotrone](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Mike_Cotrone)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/7 "2014-11-27T01:49:53Z")
[quote=146111:@Oliver Scott-Brown]All I have done so far is installed it and I have just about no content up yet. [http://docs.powermodegames.com](http://docs.powermodegames.com) I also have a blog hosted at; [http://blog.powermodegames.com](http://blog.powermodegames.com) And I have a forum: [http://forum.powermodegames.com](http://forum.powermodegames.com) My software is not yet available to the public despite there being a ‘download button’ on my site. [http://powermodegames.com](http://powermodegames.com)[/quote] Oliver nice work and you are on the right track! ---
**Author:** ![Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/8baadc/32.png) [@Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Oliver_Scott-Brown)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/8 "2015-01-22T17:02:05Z")
> [@146192:@Mike Cotrone](#): > > Oliver nice work and you are on the right track! Thanks. Sorry I did not see this comment until just now. ---
**Author:** ![nige\_cope](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@nige\_cope](https://forum.xojo.com/u/nige_cope)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/9 "2015-01-23T11:30:04Z")
I’m really curious to what your up to 🙂 I was doing an editor suite for the [Dagon Panoramic game engine](http://www.senscape.net/dagon/) that will be powering a game called Asylum, but they switched to Unity so what I was doing became a bit obsolete 😕 Any pics of the IDE/games would be great to see… also if you need a tester, I was a beta tester for Dagon and the Flash Lassie/Shepherd game engines ---
**Author:** ![Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/8baadc/32.png) [@Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Oliver_Scott-Brown)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/10 "2015-01-23T15:56:21Z")
[quote=161594:@nige cope]I’m really curious to what your up to 🙂 I was doing an editor suite for the [Dagon Panoramic game engine](http://www.senscape.net/dagon/) that will be powering a game called Asylum, but they switched to Unity so what I was doing became a bit obsolete 😕 Any pics of the IDE/games would be great to see… also if you need a tester, I was a beta tester for Dagon and the Flash Lassie/Shepherd game engines[/quote] Cool. You are welcome to beta test my program! I still got quite a bit to do and I have been busy with assignments for college. I have now added some widgets so you can subscribe to my blog. 🙂 If you want updates visit [http://blog.powermodegames.com](http://blog.powermodegames.com). From there you can subscribe via email and like my page. I am currently working mostly on fixing and completing some stuff in general. Thankyou for taking interest ---
**Author:** ![nige\_cope](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@nige\_cope](https://forum.xojo.com/u/nige_cope)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/11 "2015-01-23T16:16:42Z")
Thanks, subscribed/Facebook liked You should take a look at Visionaire… that has a nice inbuilt almost idiot proof coding system, its quite a cool idea, then it can be expanded upon it with more advanced script AGE by Seccia uses a flow chart/nodes views, yours looks a lot nicer however 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/8baadc/32.png) [@Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Oliver_Scott-Brown)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/12 "2015-01-23T17:53:05Z")
> [@161677:@nige cope](#): > > AGE I have checked them out. Visionaire Studio looks more geared towards adventure games. My program is kind of, an all-round 2D game making tool. A bit like Game Maker. I have started to develop my own programming language (which will not be ready for a while) which I have aimed at beginners but I also think it will be great for experienced coders. For now though, I am just looking at getting the program released before I continue to develop the written scripting capabilities. I couldn’t find any game development tools which I liked enough for me to use them which is why I developed PowerMode. Thanks again ---
**Author:** ![nige\_cope](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@nige\_cope](https://forum.xojo.com/u/nige_cope)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/13 "2015-01-23T18:12:27Z")
Yes a lot of game engines aren’t very flexible, I was a big supporter of Greg MacWilliam’s Lassie game engines, but these were focused on a Monkey Island 3 type UI … as in a verb disc which was virtually impossible to work around I have tried doing a HOG type game with Xojo with some success and pondered doing some sort of IDE seeing as I never seen one yet ---
**Author:** ![Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/8baadc/32.png) [@Oliver\_Scott-Brown](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Oliver_Scott-Brown)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/14 "2015-01-23T20:02:03Z")
[quote=161723:@nige cope]Yes a lot of game engines aren’t very flexible, I was a big supporter of Greg MacWilliam’s Lassie game engines, but these were focused on a Monkey Island 3 type UI … as in a verb disc which was virtually impossible to work around I have tried doing a HOG type game with Xojo with some success and pondered doing some sort of IDE seeing as I never seen one yet[/quote] The reason why I built the app was to give people a fun way to put together a game and just program in general. At the moment, its capabilities I would say are fairly limited but I that should change in the future. I have some cool ideas such as giving people a way to browse through assets on the web and with a single click of a link, they can import the assets into there project. That’s to work on once I get this program into a stable state. ---
**Author:** ![Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Emile_Schwarz)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/15 "2015-01-25T09:07:09Z")
Oliver: get an eye here: [MacOS User’s Manual](http://www.macworld.com/article/2863942/think-retro-when-apples-user-guides-explained-it-all.html) and learn how could be Apple User’s Manual in the 'old time. Then, compare with the “books” we have when buying a brand new Macintosh… (I get one on the last week of the 2014 year !). I even have an Apple II image that displays the inside of a Mouse (yes, the one with two wheels / one ball / one click button). At last, I wrote / translate (end 80s / beg of 90s) books that explains Apple Computers (mainly Macintosh, but I started with Apple IIs): how to use them, common knowledge (like what a press on the shift key do while drawing a line), etc. The main thing to recal - IMHO - is… what do we do when I was a newbie ? Were the books useful ? (if no, build really useful book), etc. HTH. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/1X/455b4dcc0e61630e9f81940004ddffa49c432a46.png) [@system](https://forum.xojo.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/starting-docs-for-my-software/20544/16 "2020-10-29T17:30:12Z")