On May 9, 2009, at 12:59 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
I said this before, but its why Rev needs a cookbook on the lines of
Carla
Schroder's great "Linux Cookbook"
Steven Cox's queries illustrate the problem very clearly. Imagine a
kitchen
with lots of pots and pans and ingredients in it. It comes with a 400
page guide detailing the function of every one.
We now have an intelligent Martian who has just been employed as a
cook.
His first assignment is spaghetti carbonara, or cassoulet. Where
does he
start?
What he has is a superb kitchen manual. What he wants is a
cookbook, with
a systematic set of entries like this (from the Rev for C programmers
page):
"To filter a handler so that it only responds to certain objects,
rather
than every object below it in the hierarchy, use the target function
to
determine which object originally received the message being handled.
"To create a code library, place the handlers you want to re-use in
any
object that’s available in your a stack, then use the insert script
command to add that object to the hierarchy."
So what Steven is looking for is a cookbook with entries like "to
empty a
field......" "to check for a variable.....". "to make elements
in a
list field clickable...." "to change the mouse to a hand while
hovering..."
Hi Peter,
We've had discussions like this on the list before, and a lot of the
answers are something like: "It's there, you just need to know where
to find it." That is still true today, although Rev 3.0 and 3.5 have
gone a long way in making that material easier to find. Here's a short
list I recommend:
For Rev 3.x
Resource Center > Sample Scripts
This is in effect what you're talking about, isn't it? As I
understand it, it's a reworking of Jeanne DeVoto's original "cookbook"
examples that came with Rev 1.x through 2.5(?)
Help > Revolution Search Engine > Web Database
This overlooked and under-appreciated tool by the late, great Eric
Chatonet lets you search a whole list of great 3rd party Revolution
sites.
For instance, on my web site I have a page with simple examples at
http://revolution.byu.edu/transcript/LectureExamples.php
All of the other sites have many very good ones as well.
V. 3.5 gives us a much richer collection of tools for sharing from the
developer community.
-We now have User Contributed Notes in the Dictionary. Anyone with a
Rev Online account can submit example scripts and tips.
Rev Online. As of 3.5 we can submit code snippets. While the new ROL
is not perfect yet, I think it's a big improvement. It's got a growing
collection of great stacks to look at.
Especially with the latter two tools, we as a developer community can
go a long way toward filling the void of simple, instructive examples
for folks new to Rev.
Regards,
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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