Hello Richard,
Le 20 mars 08 à 17:04, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
Eric Chatonet wrote:
When you know well Rev vocabulary yet, detecting new entries is
easy but what about those that have been only changed?
And what about all those who don't know by heart the 1605 words
used by Rev syntax?
Many tokens are understandable as discrete things, so an example
handler showing its use in the Dictionary is often sufficient.
When Ken Ray, Christopher Watson and myself wrote the SuperCard 2.5
Language Guide, one of our mandates was to copy Jeanne DeVoto's
style used in HyperTalk 2.2: The Book, providing complete end-to-
end examples for each token. For many of them, that's a fair
starting point for learning.
When I was a bit younger :-) I wrote (French only) a software
extension for HC that added more than 80 functions and could itself
be enhanced by adding plugins.
It also included a library of more than 600 articles that provided
all the practical knowledge necessary to program in HyperTalk.
With 20,000 hypertext references, two indexes and full-text search
capability it provided easy access to the 1000 pages of this resource.
For every entry, there was one or more complete end-to-end scripts
that could be run and debugged to understand by sticking one's hands
in grease ;-)
IMHO, users seemed to like this approach but, to be frank, it was a
lot of work...
But there are some tokens which are dependent on others, sometimes
many others, like RevBrowser, Zip handling, U3, and now Drag and
Drop. These tokens can't be used in isolation, and require that
they be used in a specific sequence with other tokens to be used at
all.
For RevBowser, U3, and a good many more, RunRev has thoughtfully
provided some very helpful example stacks in the Resources folder
installed with the app (though they might be more readily found if
the Examples folder were moved from its current location buried in
the cryptic "Resources" into the main app folder itself).
RunRev's done a great job with the examples provided so far.
Adding one for Drag and Drop would go a long way to helping folks
make good use of Rev's empowering support for this common
interaction model.
I had another feature people liked: a kind of index telling which
words were related to a specific action: text manipulation, D&D and
many others of course.
They often told me this index was an invaluable source to arouse
ideas about all great things it was possible to achieve using HC.
After what said Scott about finding new or enhanced features, I
realized it was not so easy:
There are actually 39 new entries in the dictionary and 19 have
been changed since 2.8: kudos to the dev team :-)
So I have enhanced my Rev Search Engine to display all introduced
or changes entries in the current version by adding a new menu
item: "What's new in <current version number>".
This feature should be available in the next 2.9 release.
Good work - thanks! That's a very useful tool you've made.
If only some kind Parisian might be motivated to make a tutorial
series offering examples of common tasks....
...oh wait, you've done that too. :)
Care to add one for D&D? It would be quite popular.
LOL
Not too much time right now but I think that some tutorials about
Q&D, printing, error management, etc. might be welcome ;-)
Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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