Hi Richmond,
commenting on #4 of your post - b.t.w. this is a so called "visual
programming" or "dataflow programming" where you draw boxes, link them
with arrows and it works... There are lots of tools for this already,
starting with dataflow scripting in Idrisi GIS system and continuing
with a list of 52 other languages like Microsoft VPL:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb483088.aspx
or Tersus for web applications:
http://www.tersus.com/
or see wikipedia for more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language
But so far they do not seem very popular...
Well, me personally prefers writing and reading, i think it is easier,
or maybe I am just used to "symbolic thinking" or don't know how this is
called ;-), so I am happy with Revolution as it is. On the other hand,
given some motivation ($$$) someone can try and implement a plugin for
Revolution for drawing the scripts as dataflow diagrams instead of
writing them. Indeed, why not?..
All the best!
Viktoras
4. {admittedly not an quote from Mark Swindell}
"Richmond is a pain in the ***."
Yes, I am a pain in the ***, and aim to continue to be
until this HUGE problem is resolved.
When I was a child, way back in 1976, the British
government was pumping schools full of propaganda that
stated that in the great and glorious future we could
order up anything we wanted from computers without an
additional cognitive load (well, they didn't go as
far as using fancy pseudo-psychological terms as
'cognitive load') caused by having to learn to
navigate our way round increasingly complex GUIs both
of operating systems, and of RADs; and learning
programming languages.
Runtime Revolution has a lot of good "buried under the
hood"; and
non-experts have to spend such a long time learning
how to see and interpret what is under the hood that
it is hardly worth the bother.
Runtime Revolution with a fully automated interface
based on a vast decision tree should blow the pants of
every other RAD (or silly PowerPoint thingy) out
there.
Sorry to keep plugging; but I did develop an extremely
primitive "seed" of what could be done as my MSc
project; it is enormous, clunky and incredibly
inefficient - but it proves its point:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RRRThesis/
(all the code is there)
my recent 'Splash Screen Designer' (revOnline) uses
exactly the same principle; which, I believe, is the
principle, the whole RR GUI is based around.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
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