An Idea about the Documentation

2008-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Some people say that they find the RR Documentation inaccessible and awkward to use. I have just downloaded a really super MetaCard stack: mcdictionary28b1.mc it comes as a ZIP file from the Yahoo MC IDE Group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MC_IDE/files/ and then I did the following: 1.

The Documentation

2007-11-09 Thread François Chaplais
I was looking at the stack "internet.rev" and I noticed it called the Rev dictionary. The command is the following docOpenDictionaryWithFilter "*answer*" if you want to see the keywords with "answer" in it. Best, Francois Francois Chaplais 35 rue Saint-Honore 77305 Fontainebleau Cedex

Re: "proof-of-concept" Revolution Online Open Dictionary at revcoders.org (was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Talluto
On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Josh Mellicker wrote: I put up a "proof-of-concept" Revolution Online Open Dictionary. Pretty cool Josh! Mark Talluto -- CANELA Software http://www.canelasoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@li

Re: "proof-of-concept" Revolution Online Open Dictionary at revcoders.org (was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Smith
This looks great! Thanks, Josh! Best, Mark On 29 Oct 2007, at 18:05, Josh Mellicker wrote: http://revcoders.org/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscr

Re: "proof-of-concept" Revolution Online Open Dictionary at revcoders.org (was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-29 Thread Josh Mellicker
oops, forgot to say where it is! :-o http://revcoders.org/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listin

"proof-of-concept" Revolution Online Open Dictionary at revcoders.org (was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-29 Thread Josh Mellicker
I put up a "proof-of-concept" Revolution Online Open Dictionary. Functionally it is like the MySQL & PHP open dictionaries - a simple page per term with user comments. Users can also edit the term definition itself. I spent very little time, so a lot is not working yet, just thought I'd s

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-29 Thread Shari
One of the particular challenges in software documentation (and boy have I experienced this) is that you have to know what something is called before you can find it. That is often the frustation, not that the information is missing, but because I call it something else, I cannot access it. H

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-28 Thread François Chaplais
While playing with docslib_by_bvg.rev ,I have discovered that the dictionnary entries have a "categories" key, and, it is not empty! actually, it oftens includes several lines, so maybe a reason why it is not displayed in the current dict (studio 2.8.1 for me) is that it cannot be sorted (?)

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-28 Thread John Tregea
rogramming (mostly on the Mac platform). The documentation is not going to get better without someone that is a real writer/communicator attending to it. Blogs are fine in a particular context, but for me, they only provide fragmentary glimpses of larger structures. To gain the (critical) big

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-28 Thread Gregory Lypny
Light and parsimonious are too different things. The HyperCard books are big because they are fairly exhaustive, but the exposition is tight with well-chosen yet relatively simple examples that encourage you to think of other uses for the commands and functions. Mathematica has made some

Re: ANN: BvG Docu + Webnotes patched. (Was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-27 Thread François Chaplais
Le 28 oct. 07, à 01:14, mfstuart a écrit : Andre, BvG... Any chance the Docu + WebNotes can be a "standalone"? - .exe file Mark Chances are that, if you want it to be a standalone, this will be for use outside the IDE. This would require that 1) either the documentation

Re: ANN: BvG Docu + Webnotes patched. (Was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-27 Thread mfstuart
new > server uses a different scheme for the FTP users so the old login > can't be used. > > More info and download at: http://andregarzia.com/docuwebnotes.html > > Please take note that all the documentation stuff is done by BvG, I > just did the webnotes part. This syst

Re: ANN: BvG Docu + Webnotes patched. (Was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-27 Thread François Chaplais
Le 27 oct. 07, à 18:31, Andre Garzia a écrit : François, This is something related to BvG Docu, not webnotes. The webnotes are stored in the web, they simply don't care about any system or version of anything. The thing that BvG Docu has a reference to my documentation folder is because I simp

Re: ANN: BvG Docu + Webnotes patched. (Was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-27 Thread Andre Garzia
rs so the old login > > can't be used. > > > > More info and download at: http://andregarzia.com/docuwebnotes.html > > > > Please take note that all the documentation stuff is done by BvG, I > > just did the webnotes part. This system is naive, we could

Re: ANN: BvG Docu + Webnotes patched. (Was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-27 Thread Andre Garzia
> > can't be used. > > > > More info and download at: http://andregarzia.com/docuwebnotes.html > > > > Please take note that all the documentation stuff is done by BvG, I > > just did the webnotes part. This system is naive, we could do > > something better if

Re: ANN: BvG Docu + Webnotes patched. (Was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-27 Thread Devin Asay
r the FTP users so the old login can't be used. More info and download at: http://andregarzia.com/docuwebnotes.html hello from paris. I just downloaded you stack, and the same problem keeps popping: If I use the stack as provided, it cannot access the documentation files because my con

Re: ANN: BvG Docu + Webnotes patched. (Was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-27 Thread Jim Carwardine
w > server uses a different scheme for the FTP users so the old login > can't be used. > > More info and download at: http://andregarzia.com/docuwebnotes.html > > Please take note that all the documentation stuff is done by BvG, I > just did the webnotes part. This system

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-27 Thread Mark Smith
I wonder if what we need is some standardised format for rev doc webnotes? Though I lke the idea of one centralised source/repository, it will require someone to host it and maintain it, and though Andre (with BvG Docu-webnotes), and others (with wikis, web-pages etc.) have kindly shown w

Re: ANN: BvG Docu + Webnotes patched. (Was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-26 Thread François Chaplais
e info and download at: http://andregarzia.com/docuwebnotes.html Please take note that all the documentation stuff is done by BvG, I just did the webnotes part. This system is naive, we could do something better if we worked together. :-D anyway, it is a cool way to share information. There are

ANN: BvG Docu + Webnotes patched. (Was Re: The Documentation)

2007-10-26 Thread Andre Garzia
notes.html Please take note that all the documentation stuff is done by BvG, I just did the webnotes part. This system is naive, we could do something better if we worked together. :-D anyway, it is a cool way to share information. There are some test notes in there

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread Ken Ray
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:23:17 +1000, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > On 10/27/07, Mick Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'll throw in my 2 cents worth here. After seeing the ad in a Rev >> newsletter or some place like that, I got the Beginning Programming >> for Dummies, and I was very, very, very d

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Friends, the webnotes server is down at the moment. It will resume shortly with enhanced abilities... since BvG called me Crazy, and I take that as a cumpliment, I'll try to push this forward. Just let me have my dinner and take a bath, been a long day here in Brazil. The webnotes addon to

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread Kay C Lan
tive... I like help and info as well, unfortunately help is both a Rev constant and a message, which in the case of the message, embarrassingly the Rev IDE (at least on my system) doesn't use to bring up the Documentation. So 'manual' & 'man' or 'information' &

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread User
Just a small comment, from whose post I now do not recall, How intuitive will "man" be to non-*nixophiles? Help or Info seems more intuitive... Judy ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, u

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 10/27/07, Mick Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll throw in my 2 cents worth here. After seeing the ad in a Rev > newsletter or some place like that, I got the Beginning Programming > for Dummies, and I was very, very, very disappointed. Among other > things it seems like whoever wrote t

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread Mick Collins
I'll throw in my 2 cents worth here. After seeing the ad in a Rev newsletter or some place like that, I got the Beginning Programming for Dummies, and I was very, very, very disappointed. Among other things it seems like whoever wrote the Rev parts (and they were sparser or fewer than I e

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread François Chaplais
Le 26 oct. 07, à 17:02, Luis a écrit : 'help' or 'info'? Cheers, Luis. 'help' is really good Francois ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 26 Oct 2007, at 06:42, François Chaplais wrote: To make things simple, a VERY nice (and IMHO, simple) improvement on the rev online doc would by the ability to send a "doc" command with syntax "doc string" where string may be anything and which would have the same effect as typing the stri

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread Luis
'help' or 'info'? Cheers, Luis. On 26 Oct 2007, at 15:42, Kay C Lan wrote: On 10/26/07, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My only question is whether "doc" is the best token for us. It seems a bit general, perhaps hard to discern it's for Transcript dictionary lookups. Any sugg

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: On 10/26/07, Richard Gaskin wrote: My only question is whether "doc" is the best token for us. It seems a bit general, perhaps hard to discern it's for Transcript dictionary lookups. Any suggestions for alternatives? manual, or the abbreviation man I like it better than "

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread François Chaplais
Le 26 oct. 07, à 13:38, Mark Smith a écrit : Is the webnotes server up? I don't seem to be getting any of the notes that I think exist, and posting new ones doesn't seem to be working... Did you rebuild the database (or whaterver you may call it)? I did because the stack could not accesst he

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/26/07, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My only question is whether "doc" is the best token for us. It seems a > bit general, perhaps hard to discern it's for Transcript dictionary > lookups. > > Any suggestions for alternatives? manual, or the abbreviation man

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-26 Thread Mark Smith
Is the webnotes server up? I don't seem to be getting any of the notes that I think exist, and posting new ones doesn't seem to be working... Best, Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscr

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
François Chaplais wrote: To make things simple, a VERY nice (and IMHO, simple) improvement on the rev online doc would by the ability to send a "doc" command with syntax "doc string" where string may be anything and which would have the same effect as typing the string in the search field of

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread François Chaplais
Le 26 oct. 07, à 05:55, Richard Gaskin a écrit : The majority of Rev's 4000+ pages of documentation huh? pages? do you mean paper pages? Or do you mean the online doc? (I do not mention the pdf which is not finished). OK, I have just spent the night looking at DocsLib by BvG, and i'm tire

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Mark Swindell
As for a third-party opportunities, get Apple to bundle Rev for free with every Mac and I think we'd see plenty of new books about it. ;) iPerCard? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/26/07, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The majority of Rev's 4000+ pages of documentation was authored by the > DeVoto mentioned above, using a style guideline very similar to the one > she used for "HyperTalk 2.2: The Book". I was more partial to Dan's 'The Complete Book of

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: People shouldn't be saying the Rev Docs should be this or that. People should be complaining that Goodman, Shafer, DeVoto, Progue et al have failed to see the vast market of purchasers, stepped into the void to wield their talent in the direction of Rev books. The majority of R

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/26/07, Stephen Barncard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The original manuals were more than skimpy. > > I think you mean the Winkler and Shafer books. > > > >The original HyperCard manuals are hard to beat for parsimony, > >elegance, and darn good writing in my opinion. > > > > Gregory

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Howard Bornstein
I agree with Gregory. I loved the Hypercard documentation: clear, well-organized, concise, nice examples. I'm looking at the Hypercard Script Language Guide right now. It's 583 pages. I wouldn't call that skimpy. -- Regards, Howard Bornstein --- www.designeq.com - Hide quoted

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Stephen Barncard
And of course Danny Goodman. The original manuals were more than skimpy. I think you mean the Winkler and Shafer books. The original HyperCard manuals are hard to beat for parsimony, elegance, and darn good writing in my opinion. Gregory -- stephen barncard -- stephen barncar

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/25/07, Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > > > I learnt RR by trial and error, old HC knowledge > > (founded on Danny goodman's EXCELLENT book...) > > Me too. However, in my case, my understanding and skill have not > grown

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Stephen Barncard
The original manuals were more than skimpy. I think you mean the Winkler and Shafer books. The original HyperCard manuals are hard to beat for parsimony, elegance, and darn good writing in my opinion. Gregory -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Gregory Lypny
The original HyperCard manuals are hard to beat for parsimony, elegance, and darn good writing in my opinion. Gregory ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage yo

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread François Chaplais
Le 25 oct. 07, à 23:38, François Chaplais a écrit : A fine point here actually. I do not have access to the 2.6.1 documentation. At this second, I am considering a "buttons for dummies" stack which, among other things, point to the Rev docs. I do not want to go into the details of parsing the

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread François Chaplais
their documentation, this would be fine. Anybody from runRev can attempt an answer to this issue in this mailing list? Very best Francois It is extremely simple to hive-off the Documentation stack from 2.6.1 as a renamed stack so that 2.8.1 users could have it as a documentation s

The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Peter Alcibiades
What is missing exactly? The dictionary is a pretty good version of a man page. Dan's book is ok at the level of 'how to think like a computer scientist' - simple how to get started. Very nice as far as it goes. Needs a second edition. The pdf is ok also as a printable version of the diction

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Mark Swindell
Are the docs all being redone for the 3.0 release? If they are then maybe none of this matters. And speaking of 3.0, is there a projected timeline for that yet? Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Steven Axtell
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:49 PM Subject: The Documentation It seems there aren't many RR users like me, at present. The majority of discussion on the use-rev list is over my head, for instance. Most users seem much

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-25 Thread Luis
I agree, it does seem fairly inconsistent. Cheers, Luis. On 24 Oct 2007, at 21:36, François Chaplais wrote: revolution's documentation is bad mainly because the syntax of Transcript has departed from the natural english approach of Bill Atkinson to more a conventional one like function

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-24 Thread Chipp Walters
On 10/24/07, François Chaplais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mean, why this XML stuff? While I'm not in complete agreement on how RR implemented their XML docs, it does make a lot of sense to do it that way. Using XML, others can reuse the documentation content in many different

The Documentation

2007-10-24 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: If RR is to go from, frankly, a niche RAD... into the killer App it should be (or, to be extremely corny, "the killer App HyperCard once was")... it needs documentation that will allow people to follow a cognitive apprenticeship fast

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-24 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/25/07, Richmond Mathewson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What has not been addressed are: A whole lot removed Whilst everything you said is very valid if I were Danny Goodman, Dan Shafer or David Pogue writing a book to be sold. IMO it doesn't apply to this 'dream'. I don't believe t

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-24 Thread Björnke von Gierke
e not .doc)). Especially as the documentation is bound to grow, having it all in memory is quite a memory muncher. On the other hand, loading and unloading a stack is quite an intensive task in rev, so having each entry as a separate stack can't really work well either. I do not like how x

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-24 Thread Björnke von Gierke
improving documention. - I guess one issue could be: Can the documentation be used if the user is not online? Not everyone will be developing while connected, for various reasons. Perhaps the ability to download an updated section on libURL, or arrays, or custom properties, for use off-line. -

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-24 Thread François Chaplais
questions at all - 2. Heirarchy of difficulty. my comments on these two. The first obvious thing is that quite a number of persons are dissatisfied with the documentation that Revolution provides. Until now, most (if not all) the answers implied a user community effort to provide a better doc

The Documentation

2007-10-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
( e.g. educators, professional computer programmers, pensioners who want to try programming, and so on, ad nauseam) . . . I sat my 11 year-old (well, now he's a 12 year-old) down in front of my Mac mini and DC 2.6.1 and told him to get on with things and read the documentation: he, predictably

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-24 Thread Jim Ault
Planning such an effort so it will serve well into the future is difficult. I only mention them as food for thought and not something that should delay progress on improving documention. - I guess one issue could be: Can the documentation be used if the user is not online? Not everyone will be

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-24 Thread Luis
Aside from the public 'notes', there should also be a private area. Not everyone is online all the time, and some personal notes may just be a reinterpretation of the public notes. Should the 'online' notes be downloaded to a local DB for offline access? Indicated by a change in border colou

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-23 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/24/07, Mark Swindell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Talk seems to keep coming around to a Wiki, but I'm not sure what > advantage that has over a "perfected" BvG Docu plugin. I'm with you Mark. Whilst the offers to whip up some PHP, HTML and JavaScript are to be commended, in the end it

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-23 Thread Mark Swindell
I'm curious what others on this thread think of the BvG Docu model with the webnotes enhancement from Andre Garzia? http:// www.runrev.com/newsletter/may/issue27/newsletter4.php Talk seems to keep coming around to a Wiki, but I'm not sure what advantage that has over a "perfected" BvG Docu

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-23 Thread Stephen Barncard
Perhaps it's a good idea to "take a page from" the PHP doc: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-info.php as well as the excellent MySQL html docs. It's like a wiki, where there's the "official" explanation at the top, then a lot of very helpful examples, code snippets and comments b

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-23 Thread Josh Mellicker
On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: I strongly agree. MySQL uses the same sort of thing and I find it incredibly useful. However I believe that for this to last and have credibility, it needs to be done by RunRev themselves. I agree... but they are awfully busy folks... and mayb

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sarah Reichelt wrote: However I believe that for this to last and have credibility, it needs to be done by RunRev themselves. Another plus for a plugin that mods the docs: it can be bundled, requiring RunRev to do close to nothing to deliver it to everyone with every install. Users get the

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-23 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 10/24/07, Josh Mellicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps it's a good idea to "take a page from" the PHP doc: > > http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-info.php > > It's like a wiki, where there's the "official" explanation at the > top, then a lot of very helpful examples, code snippet

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-23 Thread Josh Mellicker
Perhaps it's a good idea to "take a page from" the PHP doc: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-info.php It's like a wiki, where there's the "official" explanation at the top, then a lot of very helpful examples, code snippets and comments below from the community on each page. I co

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Yes Peter, I believe you are correct. The current documentation, does suffice for people like myself. But, we have had the luxury of starting with Jeanne DeVoto's excellent help stacks, including Richard Gaskin's primer which IMO have yet to be equaled since in terms of ease-of use and accessibili

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-20 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 20 Oct 2007, at 12:24, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Surely the current approach is only explicable in terms of a strategy which says, stay in the present niche? Not that its a bad thing, of course. Not that it is a mistaken strategy, not at all. Just how it surely is? Actually every program

The Documentation

2007-10-20 Thread Peter Alcibiades
It is clear to anyone who has read the documentation on other programming languages that Rev is very different in its approach. There is one printed book: Dan Shafer's. There's an incomplete pdf which, the last time I looked, had not been extended for over a year, though the prefac

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-19 Thread Mark Swindell
No, I'm referring to BvG, written by Björnke von Gierke and modified by Andre Garzia, which allows for users to append the standard documentation via webnotes, which is functionally similar to what happens in a Wiki. See this thread: http://www.nabble.com/-ANN--BvG-Docu-gets-an-add-on-AAG-

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-19 Thread Timothy Miller
Maybe I'm missing something. Where is the wiki-like user interface? Are you referring to Richmond Mathewson's wiki? Tim On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Mark Swindell wrote: I feel that the document structure Bjornke and Andre have crafted offers the best of both worlds. It makes use of the

The Documentation

2007-10-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
The following are possible: 1. A link to the wiki in the RR Documentation stack. 2. A stack that could periodically download the wiki into itself. As RR now allows one to build functioning web-browsers it might be a good idea to have a dedicated stack in the UI that accesses the wiki "at eh clic

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-18 Thread Mark Swindell
I feel that the document structure Bjornke and Andre have crafted offers the best of both worlds. It makes use of the official docs while integrating what is functionally an editable, wiki-like user interface for user extensions, clarifications, and examples. Web-based Wikis can't match

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-18 Thread Mikey
Since you failed to use the haiku form, Dr. Miller, I will lend my aid. User Manual Written With Others In Mind Who will tend to it? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manag

The Documentation

2007-10-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Timothy Miller wrote: "Docs too terse. Experienced users comprehend. Others struggle." Many people have accused me of prolixity; never the reverse :) I am perfectly happy to supply the password for the wiki to those who e-mail me off list and have recognisable names - don't really want the wiki

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-17 Thread Timothy Miller
Docs too terse. Experienced users comprehend. Others struggle. Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman

The Documentation

2007-10-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
wiki ? wiki ? wiki ? the thing is just sitting there rotting: go and get on with it! http://richmondsrevolution.pbwiki.com/ Sorry, chaps and chapesses, I am currently "up to my eyes in poo" (meaning, work) so cannot attend to it. Love, Richmond _

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-17 Thread User
http://richmondsrevolution.pbwiki.com/ Judy ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolut

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-17 Thread User
While looking for it, I came across this: http://www.revdeveloper.com/include/wiki/rev/doku.php?id=en:porting:cross-platform_hypercard Judy On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, User wrote: Richmond actually set one up, and I put in a few entries (sorry, can't remember where the wiki is... Richmond???). Jud

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-17 Thread User
Richmond actually set one up, and I put in a few entries (sorry, can't remember where the wiki is... Richmond???). Judy On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Mikey wrote: we desperately need a) a wiki and b) a better-organized sample project database so that six months from now some n00b will be able to find

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-17 Thread Mikey
we desperately need a) a wiki and b) a better-organized sample project database so that six months from now some n00b will be able to find this. and c) A standard "you-gotta-download -this" package of tools for new rev users. I feel a list coming on, so I'll start: 1. RevZilla

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-17 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Just to make things clear, BvG Docu is originally by me, and can be found on my website. But the web notes version is of course by Andre, our resident web maniac... get it while supplies last: http://www.andregarzia.com/docuwebnotes.html have fun Bjoernke On 17 Oct 2007, at 07:07, Mark Swinde

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-17 Thread Jim Carwardine
That idea could almost be called gifted given to excellent response we normally get from the experts on this list... Jim on 10/17/07 2:07 AM, Mark Swindell wrote: > I think BvG is a great idea. I wish Revolution would embrace the > idea and enhance and integrate the interface. It could really

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-17 Thread François Chaplais
Le 17 oct. 07, à 04:05, Kay C Lan a écrit : Titled: [ANN] BvG Docu Date: 16 Apr 2007 By: Björnke von Gierke This great little App allows you to view the 2.8 docs in a different way. Further more the App was 'enhanced' by the wonderfully talented Andre Garzia. Look up thread: Titled: [ANN] B

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-16 Thread Mark Swindell
I think BvG is a great idea. I wish Revolution would embrace the idea and enhance and integrate the interface. It could really solve a lot of complaints and provide a wiki-like solution for user enhanced docs. still very much under control of the mother ship. Mark On Oct 16, 2007, at 7:0

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/17/07, François Chaplais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have > a question here: > there is a field labeled "Notes" in the dictionnary (vers. 2.8.1). It > would be very nice if users could modify it to put comments etc.. Does > somebody now of a way to do this? > > You may wish to look up a

The Documentation

2007-10-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
François Chaplais wrote: "version 2.6.1... looks much better organized than in version 2.8.1" Hmm, there is a question of licencing here; but (?) I suppose people who own licences to 2.8.1 may in some way be allowed access to components from 2.6.1. It is extremely simple to hi

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-16 Thread François Chaplais
Le 14 oct. 07, à 22:47, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : is much maligned in RR; and, not always, needlessly . . . But; to find out about opening other programs from within RR tool me 2 minutes with the Documentation (DC 2.6.1); a lot of time would be saved by folk if they went there first and

The Documentation

2007-10-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
is much maligned in RR; and, not always, needlessly . . . But; to find out about opening other programs from within RR tool me 2 minutes with the Documentation (DC 2.6.1); a lot of time would be saved by folk if they went there first and did a bit of lateral thinking before they popped messages

Hidden feature in Revolution (according to the documentation...)

2005-12-08 Thread Ton Kuypers
Just a note to the person who is responsible for the documentation... When you type "print" in the docs, you will get some information on a very nice feature: "revPrintReport"... But it must be a hidden feature, because all references in this part of the docs are invisib

What causes the Documentation stack to fail?

2005-06-22 Thread Mikey
I can regularly make the Documentation stack fail to show items that I'm searching for, but I don't understand what causes it. For example, I was messing around with a stack this afternoon, and I wanted to check something out about the substacks property. So I went to the documenta

Re: Is there a list of the keyboard shortcuts in the documentation?

2005-03-28 Thread Thomas McGrath III
There it is under the Help Menu. I forgot those things were there. Tom On Mar 28, 2005, at 2:47 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Anyone? I looked and looked and couldn't find anything under: keyboard shortcuts keys Seems an obvious one. A noob asked me offline about it, and unfortunately, I couldn't answe

Re: Is there a list of the keyboard shortcuts in the documentation?

2005-03-28 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Tip: You can also use several shortcuts to open an object's script. See the Shortcuts section of the documentation for more. But of course I can't find a "Shortcuts" section... Tom On Mar 28, 2005, at 2:47 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Anyone? I looked and looked and co

Re: Is there a list of the keyboard shortcuts in the documentation?

2005-03-28 Thread Pat Trendler
help/quick reference/shortcut reference. Pat - Original Message - From: "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Use-Revolution" Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 5:47 PM Subject: Is there a list of the keyboard shortcuts in the documentation? Anyone? I looked an

RE: Is there a list of the keyboard shortcuts in the documentation?

2005-03-27 Thread MisterX
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Chipp Walters > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 09:48 > To: Use-Revolution > Subject: Is there a list of the keyboard shortcuts in the > documentation? > > Anyone? I looked and looked and couldn't find anythi

Re: Is there a list of the keyboard shortcuts in the documentation?

2005-03-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: Anyone? I looked and looked and couldn't find anything under: keyboard shortcuts keys I'll see if I can add it to my third-party ref after I finish the list of object messages. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database

Is there a list of the keyboard shortcuts in the documentation?

2005-03-27 Thread Chipp Walters
Anyone? I looked and looked and couldn't find anything under: keyboard shortcuts keys Seems an obvious one. A noob asked me offline about it, and unfortunately, I couldn't answer :-( -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Cookbook location in the documentation?

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Talluto
On Sep 21, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Pat Trendler wrote: Mark, It's in Rev Online, Learning Centre,Sample Work, Sample Scripts Pat. Thanks Pat. Looks like there are references in the dictionary to items in the Cookbook that do not exist. I'll go bugzilla them. -- Best regards, Mark Talluto http://www.

Re: Cookbook location in the documentation?

2004-09-21 Thread Pat Trendler
Mark, It's in Rev Online, Learning Centre,Sample Work, Sample Scripts Pat. - Original Message - From: "Mark Talluto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Revolution use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:28 AM Subject: Cookbook l

Cookbook location in the documentation?

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Talluto
Would some kind soul show me where to find the much talked about "cookbook" in the documentation? I have looked in: Topics, Dictionary, Objects, and FAQ. I am guessing it is buried in there somewhere, but after 20 minutes of poking around, I give up. Thanks. -- Best regards, Ma

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