Thanks for the download. I'd never seen MONKS before, although I knew of its existence, being a Mac developer in the late 80s.
What hasn't been talked about is the excellent extra NEW material that Brian added. Great photography and essay. ------------------------- Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev 2010/1/4 Brian Thomas <[email protected]> > Yes I know it is not an application, and there is a story attached to that > one Colin. But, it works, doesn't it? > > Why? > > Monks was more than an interactive presentation. There were 2 applications > -- a Journal and an e-book reader -- built-in, in addition to the > interactive presentation. Since we didn't want the user to have to have > enough memory to run 3 Revolution standalones at the same time (this was > planned out in last millennium) we put the Rev engine into one of the > standalone's -- so they would have to only have two standalones open at > most. > > So, the Rev engine in the Journal runs the interactive presentation and the > journal application. If you open the Journal app you go straight into the > sophisticated Journaling application, if you open the document you go > straight into the Cloister and the interactive presentation. > > *** Colin -- I remember fondly a few of the things you said to me when we > were building Monks like: > > "If Monks had Windows they'd jump out of them." > > ---- It turned out that with Revolution Windows development was a piece of > cake. However, we were developing it at the same time that Revolution was > working out its bugs with the Mac platform and Steve Jobs was jerking that > platform around every few month with a new version of OS X -- that changed > the underpinnings of the OS. > > This is long, but, now I'm ready to tell the story. Just before the burning > of the CD's a new version of Revolution came out with something we needed, > but broke the perfectly sensible code we were using to launch Monks. > > So, Sarah, from this Revlist saved the launch by writing for us an > Applescript that relied of our Monks creator code to launch Monks. And, I > thought, why throw away the old launcher, I think I'll just leave it on the > CD-ROM and call it "the back-up launcher" even though it stopped working. > Maybe someday it will work again... > > And that, is really a nutty way to think. However, five years later, Snow > Leopard stop recognizing Creator Codes and Sarah's AppleScript stopped > working. Then I checked the Back-up launcher... > > and it worked!!!! > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Colin Holgate <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Do you know that the launcher file is a Unix document, and not an > > application? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-revolution mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > > > > > -- > Brian > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
