>Hi, > >The only thing that remains an issue for me is the lack of >printed documentation and / or third party books on the subject. It is clear >that there are additional sources of information because many of the >contributors to these lists seem to be extremely knowledgeable about >transcript and RR in general. Where did these folks get this information? >Was it working w MetaCard? Is there some printed documentation available for >Metacard?
I learned from working with MetaCard and from participating on the MC and Rev mailing lists. But I have read many complaints about the documentation for Revolution and it puzzled me for a long time, because I think the Rev docs are the most complete and excellent xtalk documentation I've seen -- equivalent to the "HyperCard, The Book" manual, which Jeanne also helped to write. What I finally decided was that people may not really be complaining about the documentation as it is written, but rather about a lack of knowledge as to how the general MetaCard/Revolution paradigm works. For people coming from HyperCard, there are just enough differences to make the switch-over very frustrating. I think Jeanne has done a terrific job trying to explain the differences in the docs, and probably the first thing people should look at are the sections that talk about that. But you are right, there is no real equivalent to Goodman's book, which was aimed at very new HyperCard users and which explained a lot of things that both MC and Rev docs take for granted you already know. I'm also not surprised that there are no general Revolution programming books available yet. Revolution is too new for that to have happened yet, and MetaCard was mostly available only to the Unix community until a few years ago -- and you know how they don't do docs. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
