Thanks for the links and pointers, Sarah. I had also gotten sidetracked into playing with the interface builder.
Sarah suggested > I know what you mean, because even those of us experienced with other > xTalk tools ran into problems starting. Basically it gets worse when > you don't even know the question let alone the answer :-) > Anyway, we are here to help and we all hate seeing someone sink into > despair, so here are a few starting points you could consider: > > Metacard has a good tutorial: mtp.mc at http://www.metacard.com/pi6.html > Change the file extension to .rev and it will work fine. It doesn't > deal with the graphical interface design at all, but gets you started > with some simple scripts. > > After that, since there aren't any Rev books out there yet, I recommend > a HyperCard book. Rev has lots that HC doesn't, but it incorporates > pretty much all that HC does and the docs note when this doesn't apply. > Also any demo stacks can be loaded straight into Revolution although > they can have some problems if they use menus. Books to consider are: > HyperTalk Programming by Dan Shafer > HyperTalk 2.2: The Book by Winkler, Kamins & DeVoto > The Complete HyperCard Handbook by Danny Goodman > > Dan is re-writing his book to apply to Revolution: if you go to > http://www.revjournal.com/ you can find some info about that as well as > a couple of excerpts. Jeanne DeVoto is the author the Rev docs. I'm not > sure that all these are still in print, but they can usually be found. > > Apart from that, I assume you have done the tutorials that come with > Revolution and if you have Rev 2.0, you will see the new Cookbook > section which has quite a lot of example scripts. There are also > numerous stacks available at the User Contributions section of the > RunRev website and other places - all of which can be taken apart, > examined, changed, tested etc so you can work out what is going on. > > Finally, if you want the docs in a separate electronic format, go to > http://www.inspiredlogic.com/downloads.html where Geoff Canyon has a > stack that will export the docs into html, rtf or text. > > Cheers, > Sarah > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.troz.net/Rev/ > > P.S. the manual isn't vaporware - the might stack of books is making my > desk bend :-) -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
