Just got a couple of spare minutes so I thought I'd share my thoughts on my RunRev experience so far........
I have read the thread on "Document Development" with interest and basically I think that there is a need for some documentation on how to put things together in RunRev.
For instance, I looked at the documentation for the "Tabbed Button" which once you understand how the rest of the controls have to be placed is fine. The problem is that when you select the "Tabbed Button" control, you get what apprears to be a "Pane" underneath the actual Tabs the user clicks on. I assumed that what I needed to do is to make the Tabbed Area as big as I needed to contain the controls I wanted to associate with that Tab and by adding other controls within this area would associate them with that "Tab", so that they would be displayed when the user clicked that Tab. Having placed some controls on the first Tab, I then spent the best part of an hour trying to figure out how to make the IDE select subsequent tabs. It was only after getting help from this list I realized how the "Tabbed Button" control actually worked (many thanks to all who helped). Once I knew this, the documentation did actually hint at this way of doing it, but no where did it actually explain how the control *should/could* be usefully used.
Basically the list saved me a lot of time and energy but it would have been better IMHO if this had been spelt out beforehand in the docs for the Tabbed Button. Sample Stacks are a good way of showing different ways of handling the same problem, but by their nature they don't really give you an overview of how the initial developer intended the control to be used.
I think that a book on GUI Interface Elements would be really usefull, this book would concentrate just on getting the controls to work together and not on any specific task and would have no real logic programming behind it.
Just my twopenneth! Dave _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
