I was very pleased to read about SS3.1 - I'd thought of using earlier versions but had never got around to it. It looks like a great product, and for me it will (I trust) solve a very particular problem I have which is that I can't easily develop a new version of a stack or stacks by cannibalising an old version because RR won't allow two stacks of the same name to coexist in the IDE. Up to now I've got round this by laboriously copying scripts of the old stacks to a text editor and keeping that open while working on the new ones...

However I am sorry to act so dumb, but in the faint hope this may be useful to revolutionaries other than myself, can I use the list to ask Hugh Senior or Ken Ray for a very quick 'getting started' tutorial on the Scripter's scrapbook? I couldn't find anything like that in the ReadMe or Help texts, and my first hurdle was that the only type of document that I seem to be allowed to import is a Scripter's Scrapbook file, whereas (of course) I want to import scripts, stacks and text files that I've already collected. Clearly this is possible, even so easy that it doesn't need explaining except to the GUI-challenged, but there it is.

I also so far I haven't developed a mental model of what the scrapbook is - a collection of cross-linked files, a database that points to files, files converted to special format, files in their original form, etc?

I also don't yet understand the context in which I can use it with the RunRev IDE - for instance, when I exit the IDE, I'm asked whether I want to save the SS stacks - do I? Can I run the SS in the background while developing, including destroying my developing mainstack and reloading it etc, moving from browse tool to pointer and back and so forth?

The Help system seems to assume I've got all that firmly in my head and I now want to do relatively sophisticated stuff like creating links. I'm too ignorant as yet to benefit from that sort of advice.

Sorry again if this is totally obvious to everyone else.

Graham

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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France



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