> I've been developing courseware with ToolBook for about 7 years, but I'm a > brand new user to Runtime Revolution.
Welcome, Jim! > I'm excited about the cross-platform possiblities. I'm ultimatly looking for > a second development tool and possibly something to switch to for full-time > development. > > If anyone can help me with the following concerns, It'd be much appreciated. I'll do the best I can... I've used earlier version of Toolbook (v4 mostly), so I'm somewhat familiar with some of the "gotcha's" you've mentioned. :-) > 1. Are there any examples of large-scale distributions of anything created > with Runtime Revolution? Specifically, I'm looking to see if there are any > "gotcha" distribution issues, say some minor conflict that would pop up on > Windows XP Home with a certain type of video card. The applications I build > get distributed to many thousands so I have to look far down the road. I'm > not asking this question as anything against Runtime Revolution's > stability--it's just that ToolBook is riddled with "gotchas" that have taken > me half a decade to find and workaround. Just want to know if it's a > similiar experience here. I would check on RunRev's site where they have the "Made With Revolution" list: http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/chooserevolution/index.shtml > 2. Is there any way to dock all of the toolbars in the development > environment to make it more of a one-window application. I"m trying the > program out in Windows, but will also try it out in OSX soon. I understand I > can edit the development-environment stacks, but this is a bit ambitious > since I just got started. :-) You can't really "dock" windows in Rev; you can open and close palettes and move them around, but they don't lock together or "snap" to a location. > 3. Is there such a thing as a "background" or a "master page/stack/card" or > a "shared card" in Runtime Revolution? I'm looking for a way to put > something like a "next" button on this instead of having 200 copies of the > same "next" button on 200 cards. Yes, and yes! Actually what you get is more flexible; shared groups. You can take a group of objects and turn on "background behavior", and then "place" the group on any card(s) you like (or they will automatically be placed as you add cards to a stack). For example, you might want to have group of navigation buttons at the bottom of every card that is the same (one group), and then a group that is a "header" at the top of every card except for a small handful that don't get it (another group). Hope this helps, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
