Likewise, "Read all from the decoder" instead of "Read changes on all sheets¡±?
Because that¡¯s not what it does. It only reads what was _changed_.
I always find this confusing - what has changed, the data on the sheet or has something changed in the decoder that I need to re-read it? (same with the similar message for a sheet).
I say again, when you learn another language, you don¡¯t complain that the foreign word means something
different in English so you don¡¯t get it. You need to learn what it means in the language you are learning.
In JMRI, ¡°Read¡± means get data from the decoder and put it into the DecoderPro file. ¡°Write¡± means take
data from the DecoderPro file and put it into the decoder. Once you learn that, everything makes sense.
OK, so before I "Read Changes ..." I need to know that something has changed in the decoder so that requires me to read it ... when what you really mean (based on the explanation above) is "replace changes on sheet with a read", otherwise why else do you need to do a read? The word "changes" combined with "Read" doesn't make sense unless one is transferring changes made on the sheet to somewhere else.
I get the feeling that somewhere we need an "Update decoder with changes" or "update sheet from decoder" to clarify to the non-technical user what process is happening. After all, the easiest new languages to understand are those most similar to your natural language.
Yes one needs to learn a new language, but most languages are at least logical, this "language" has some real weird constructs that are real good at confusing the meaning - especially to those who haven't been involved in the development of the program. There are aspects of the "language" that show a design by a programmer (I don't mean to denigrate those who have worked hard on this programme suite) without thinking about what the interface means to others - don't worry, I am just as bad at doing exactly the same, and have seen the same thing happen many times.
