Something that would be helpful for us new guys
So I'm new to the Roku SDK, been at it about a week. I'm pleased to be able to use the simple video player and have it up and running in a matter of hours on a streaming server running off of a live DB.
What I am trying to do at this point is actually become familiar with brightscript and the sdk. I feel like there is a pretty large gap from hello world on the blog, to most of the working examples provided with the SDK and in the language reference. I am more than happy to piece together my own application as 90% of the responses on the board seem to be, but it would be a lot easier for those of us not familiar with brightscript if the examples in the language reference could be stripped down more than they currently are.
For example, lets say I would like to learn how to load a remotely hosted xml file and parse it (a common starting point for most web applications). The language reference addresses that but I first need to strip a lot of unnecessary functionality from the flikr example that doesn't apply and it's a bit more confusing than helpful to a user at my experience level.
Just a thought.
What I am trying to do at this point is actually become familiar with brightscript and the sdk. I feel like there is a pretty large gap from hello world on the blog, to most of the working examples provided with the SDK and in the language reference. I am more than happy to piece together my own application as 90% of the responses on the board seem to be, but it would be a lot easier for those of us not familiar with brightscript if the examples in the language reference could be stripped down more than they currently are.
For example, lets say I would like to learn how to load a remotely hosted xml file and parse it (a common starting point for most web applications). The language reference addresses that but I first need to strip a lot of unnecessary functionality from the flikr example that doesn't apply and it's a bit more confusing than helpful to a user at my experience level.
Just a thought.
