On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 06:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As Richard points out, the number of keyword tokens that have meaning > for the engine behind Revolution is quite phenomenal, and the > documentation is really quite exhaustive.
I agree. The task is huge and creating a way to address a huge amount of highly interrelated details is a challenge. I think Jeanne has done a good job.
I guess we all agree. I am using the search features a great deal, and most of what I need comes up. If there is stuff missing now, it's more rounded essays on the what and why of whole concept areas - reports have been mentioned (lots of detail, but IMHO no overall description of the concept, its intended use and its limitations - but I will of course study this further following Jeanne's posts).
At present for me the most difficult is tables. I have progressed to discovering what a table is, kind of, but I still don't understand how to use one of these things, for example to create spreadsheet-like functionality, where every cell generates a checking action and also in principle some kind of scripting (to evaluate a formula for example). The answer could be "don't try it - that's not what tables are for", but I didn't find a scripter-level explanation that could have told me even this. I got such confusing messages from previous posts on this that I gave up. I never even found out what happened when I specified a cell as a date and then put a floating point number into it instead (how would the scripter know this had happened?)
Of course I do not think this invalidates the huge and admirable work done on the RunRev documentation, but it does mean that there is always room for more clarification. If I ever find the brains and the time to work on tables, I'd be happy to write the essay myself...
BTW, when I search for "table" using the plug-in, I get words like "suitable" and "editable" included. How do I specify the use of the entire word "table", however delimited? I must have missed the answer to this.
TIA
Graham
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