If anybody's interested, I should be finishing up a "tour" in the Hypercard sense (haven't looked at it in years, though, so don't remember exactly what it was like -- didn't want to for this purpose) along with a mouse messages/events module; a first draft version hopefully end of next week.
Last night I also cobbled together a new tool bar (strictly demo as I lack the programming knowledge to implement it fully) such as, instead of the buttons now on the button bar thingy, I have just "New Stack", "New substack", "Events", "Commands" "Math Stuff/Functions" (yes, I know they're not necessarily the same; commentary to follow) and "Properties" (I think.. it was late last night). Oops. Forgot "Choices" (how do you come up with a one or two work name for "control structures" for people who haven't the foggiest idea what that term means?!). Anyway, the idea is that, for the absolute novice programmer (e.g., someone who's NEVER done anything like this), pare things down to reduce cognitive clutter/paralyzing confusion. Thus, the "Events", "Commands" and "Properties" buttons (which have drop-downs that are really substacks for selection) don't contain ALL commands/properties etc., only those likely of interest to the new person with a little line of "Don't see what you're looking for? Check the documentation..." at the end. These are Supercard/early MC style in that the new user aught to be able to select them when inside the script editor window and have them auto-inserted (this is what I don't have the vaguest idea how to do -- the idea was courtesy of Andrew who I think started this thread) -- so the demo only works for a field in a substack that I guess I'll make look like a script editor window for my project's demo (hint, hint: help eagerly welcomed!). Judy On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Wolfgang M.Bereuter wrote: > Exactly thats the point I was talking about on this list since it has > started. Finally I gave up. Thanks that you Dave came up and explained > it much better than i could. But, how du you think you (we) can get > this in to the head of verbal, left brain, digital and sequential > working heads of a programmer? _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
