Stephen,
The majority of us who use Rev have a background in HyperCard; going
way back. There are an abundance of inexpensive, used books on that
topic. Since much of the "basic" rev language is derived from HC,
reading such a book would be an easy method of cluing you in to Rev's
language. For HyperCard the language was called HyperTalk. I wouldn't
be surprised if there were a great deal of commentary regarding same
on the Web. You might want to Google it and see what you come up with.
Otherwise, I suppose this list is your best source for that kind of
help.
Joe Wilkins
On May 8, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Stephen Cox wrote:
The biggest problem I am having is figuring out what to search for.
The
language is so unique. So take my question about emptying a field.
Be easy
in an OOP language: empty(Text_field.text) - or something to that
effect.
So I would search on "empty" and get tons of info on the function and
various examples.. AND user comments.
Now in Revolution it's also easy but completely different then any of
language. So I search the Dictionary on "empty", got nothing; then
"Text
Entry Field", got nothing; then asked here.
I'm not harping on Revolution. I like it. It's just different from
anything
else on the market. So a FAQ that shows JAVA or C syntax alongside
Revolution would be a god-send. Just some common functions and
procedures.
The manual is good, but has no reference to other languages. It
would help
get my head out of OOP into Revolution.
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