At 21:49 +0200 19/04/10, Robert Brenstein wrote: >>Hi Jacqueline, it's nice to be here learning Revolution. Thank you for the >>long answer and the suggestions. This stack is for my own use. It's a book >>catalog for my private library. I've working on it for several years in >>Hypercard. It has aproximately 1500 cards, four backgrounds. It not only >>holds the book data, but also has a couple of cards with Dewey Decimal >>Classification class codes, a list of authors and an A to Z table with cutter >>numbers, so it also assigns cutter numbers for the authors, via scripts, etc. >>There are a lot of scripts, and there are many adjustments to make before it >>will work 100 percent in Revolution. > >Since you seem to be making progress with the arrowkey issue, let me use the >opportunity to mention the issue of backgrounds. You want to read on this in >rev docs as this is an aspect of revolution which differs from hypercard, >although it is possible to use rev's backgrounds in a fashion similar to >hypercard. However, in many instances, what was achieved in hc with different >backgrounds, one often does it in revolution with substacks. So, if you >haven't ventured there yet, consider checking these out. > >Robert
Thank you for mentioning it. Yes, I am aware of the background issue. I got Revolution about 5 years ago but got very confused with groups and substacks, so I put it away and only now I am working with it again. Harold _______________________________________________ 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
