We’ve been postponing tutorials for too long, we have now restarted the effort and will be publishing the to our YouTube channel soon. I wanted to get some quick feedback and show you here a preview of one of the more deep tutorials. Specifically this is about building an accordion with the new v5 features, something we haven’t even gotten around to documenting yet:
This and the upcoming ones have been scripted, recorded and voiced by the awesome @scoutdesign, thanks Mike!
One point of criticism: it looks like it was made with an unreleased version of Sparkle. Maybe 5.0.6? Because, I have V 5.0.5 without the possibility to assign a group ID to a layout block.
So, I expect this version to be made available for download quickly.
Same here. It shows me exactly how to do it, the timing/speed is ideal - overall I’m looking forward very much to more such helpful videos. And I also enjoy the calm, to-the-point speaker’s voice.
Very good tutorial, it’s been a long time in the making and I’m sure once more tutorials become available we will all get something out of them.
Well done.
Simon.
I know, you normally do not tell any dates for releases or updates. But in this case it would be nice to know when we could expect the enhanced new version
5.0 had marketing constraints, and that didn’t turn out well. We recovered mostly over the past 5 dot releases and we’re now trying to get as much as possible fixed without introducing further regressions. So the criteria isn’t a specific date, rather it’s a more “release engineering” oriented metric, namely “rate of priority 1 bugs”, we release when we’re happy with that. AKA “when it’s ready”.
One more note about the tutorial. Even though it is very nice and clearly structured, I would show the end result of the work at the very beginning in the video (and of course at the end).
So here, the finished FAQ page, and then step by step how it is done.
First of all: supergreat seeing you making tuts! Can’t stretch this enough!
Since you asked for feedback:
I’d shorten the styling by 90% (and address it in another video) – this would make the video from 10 to about 3 minutes. And: The group thing is as fas as I can see missing something: I guess you have to assign the group id to the layout blocks, as well – can’t imagine it’s done only with the buttons, no? (Didn’t try it, though).