Some changes have been made to the main Readme (which appears when landing on the github webpage) and the FAQ. This is a post to notify people, gather some interest and suggestions.
Thanks to @ker0chan for her help on the Readme (lots more feedback that I haven't processed yet) and @ButternCream for his help working on the FAQ.
Created a FAQ wiki page and gathered entries that were scattered in Readme and imgui.cpp into it.
*EDIT Moved FAQ to https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md
*EDIT Added permanent link: https://www.dearimgui.org/faq
Cleaned up the Readme to make it shorter, easier to digest, with more references to Wiki pages and a little less redundancy.
Created an Image Loading and Displaying Examples page to answer a commonly asked question by user.
Generally lots of small improvements to the Wiki pages.
Onward:
My main concern:
Suggestion:
We can move the FAQ outside of the Wiki and back in the repository but instead of being in imgui.cpp it'll be in docs/FAQ.md
I personally think this would be more efficient than the wiki. To address your concern about the users version and the FAQ disconnection, I think moving it to the docs folder would eliminate that issue in future releases. Mainly because if someone is looking for a past versions FAQ we could easily link to to a previous commits FAQ. I'm not sure how we could address this for current past versions but its just a thought. Let me know what you think!
Any other ideas are appreciated too.
I have moved the FAQ to the repository:
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md
And create a permanent shortcut link to it:
https://www.dearimgui.org/faq
Which is easier to remember and share.
Nice improvements overall, last month we didn't have the FAQ in formatted web form.
I think one of the next step could be to transition the stuff in misc/fonts/README somewhere else. It might be too big for FAQ entry, at that point we are starting to build a documentation?
I could start working on the fonts README and converting it into a nice markdown like the FAQ. Once I'm finished I could throw it in misc/fonts via PR and you can check over and fix / reorganize things. Let me know!
As for building documentation, I've seen lots of projects use readthedocs.io but I've never personally hosted anything there so I'm not sure how it works. Could be an easy way to organize everything into one place and simply link to the "documentation" instead of separate links for separate sections.
New here! I've been reading up on fonts and have hit a few broken links (404s) that point at https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/master/misc/fonts/README.txt
I presume any links to misc/fonts/README.txt should point at docs/FONTS.txt until @ButternCream's work is done?
I was able to fix https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/Loading-Font-Example (hopefully that's okay!)
But I'm unable to modify the broken link in https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/2261
@chadbramwell Thank you for the wiki fix and head up Chad, I have fixed the link in 2261 and also in a few other old issues.
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I have moved the FAQ to the repository:
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md
And create a permanent shortcut link to it:
https://www.dearimgui.org/faq
Which is easier to remember and share.
Nice improvements overall, last month we didn't have the FAQ in formatted web form.
I think one of the next step could be to transition the stuff in misc/fonts/README somewhere else. It might be too big for FAQ entry, at that point we are starting to build a documentation?