dunbarx wrote:
How do you live without Rinaldi?
Rinaldi's a Rev developer, so he's still with us. In fact, he's even
presented at some of the Rev conferences.
Check out the site for the Rinaldi Collection:
Note to Revolution Users
Transcript being so fast, some externals has been rewritten
using it. Those are now checkmarked in a new "RR" column
appearing in the XCMD Collection list. You simply have to
copy the script to your stack in order to have all your
existing calls to the external work identically, including
original parameters.
Keep on HyperCarding, SuperCarding, Directoring, MetaCarding...
and most of all : Revolutioning, which is FINALLY the right
HyperCard successor!
<http://rinaldicollection.free.fr/>
With HC I could barely get through the day without relying on externals,
and when SuperCard came along at last I had real scrolling windows with
scroll bars, integrated color support, native dialogs, and other things
I used to have to work around with externals in HC, but I still had to
use externals for many things like heavy text parsing/sorting, resource
manipulation, etc.
When I first started porting projects to Rev back in '98, I was
concerned that I'd have to rewrite externals twice, once for the Rev API
again for use on Windows. Wasn't looking forward to that.
What I found instead was that I don't need them at all: the
functionality of every external I'd ever used back then was relatively
easy to rewrite natively in Rev, which not only saved me a heck of a lot
of time but also means it all runs on all supported platforms - even Linux.
Rinaldi's right: Transcript is so fast that once you get the hang of
using "sort", "filter", "repeat for each...", and other things not found
in native HyperTalk you'll likely be as pleasantly surprised as I was at
how well you can do on your own, at last liberated from the need to keep
jumping over to a C compiler for basic tasks.
And then you'll start using things like window transparency and custom
shapes, object transparency, the new built-in gradients, integrated QTVR
support, one-line HTTP and FTP commands, and a whole lot more, and the
biggest problem you'll have is all the other things in your life that
don't get attended to while you find yourself playing with Rev all day. :)
Here's a simple trick that you may enjoy if you haven't come across it
before - put this in the Message Box and hit Return:
go (decompress(url "http://www.fourthworld.net/revnet/RevNet.rev.gz";))
In one line it does the following:
1. Contacts my server and downloads RevNet.rev.gz
2. It's in a compressed gzip format for quick delivery,
so the built-in decompress function expands it.
3. Opens and displays that stack from memory.
(You can also access that stack from within Rev using
Development->Plugins->GoRevNet.)
There are other goodies in that stack, such as a list of other stacks
that can be downloaded from within it, an index to the handy Rev tips
from Ken Ray's site, and more, much of it dynamically pulled from
different sites around the 'net -- all in native Transcript.
Built-in compression and one-liner Internet calls are among my favorite
things about Rev, opening up whole new worlds for delivering
centrally-managed software over the 'net.
If that sort of thing sparks your interest, check out this article on
Richard Herz' Reactor Lab, a distributed courseware system made with Rev:
<http://www.revjournal.com/features/reactorlab.html>
The possibilities are endless....
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com
Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com
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