I have dusted off and cleaned up the little booklet stack that works as a primer on using the send command. I call that use, message mechanics.
This primer consists of over 80 pages. It starts from the very beginning but takes you to making message machinery with send. What you might do with multiple threads in another environment, I show you how to do with send. This covers everything from flashing lights to background tasks. The previous version was almost a decade old. This fixes a little menu that does not work in current versions of LiveCode and makes the content up to date. In particular, some LiveCode bugs and quirks have been fixed and those references are now historical. This still is missing some elaboration on callbacks and wait. And some things are a little archaic--remember modems? Feel free to use the core primer stack in part or with just the message mechanics stuff ripped out. If you use it as a shell for your primers or even for your product documentation and the look is basically the same, I encourage you to leave the copyright in to help protect you and others who use the stack. Feel free to use any of the examples. And be inspired to do something better both as a booklet or as a tutorial. I kept the 1.0 version there in case some folks are using Revolution and wonder whether the new stack will work. The download blocks clearly indicate when the stack was last edited and what was the newest version of Revolution or LiveCode that edited it. You can find the latest about half way down the page here: http://pages.swcp.com/dsc/revstacks.html This is FREE! Dar --------------------------- Dar Scott dba Dar Scott Consulting 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Lab, home, office phone: +1 505 299 9497 For Skype and fax, please contact. [email protected] Computer Programming and tinkering, mostly supporting those who develop with LiveCode--usually by making LiveCode libraries and externals, sometimes by writing associated microcontroller firmware. --------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
