Re Ken Ray's remark about a "WRAPPER" for RR: This is the whole thrust of my MSc thesis - unfortunately the prototype 'Wrapper' I have written presently weighs in at a hefty 25 MB.
While the theoretical background is all there in the thesis the best solution would be to let any RR-ers who are interested to have a copy of my prototype to pull apart, play with, and criticise. There are some problems that stand in the way of this: 1. I requested help from RR with this development and (after about 6 weeks) recieved some very vague promises that have never materialised. 2. RR do very nicely thank you by appropriating people's idea that are offered FREE on thi list and elsewhere and then charging us all for them - this doesn't seem entirely fair. 3. I would be more than happy to release my prototype under some type of open source agreement - but how I make sure RR don't get their rapacious commercial paws on it I just don't know!!! 4. My website can only hold 3 MB of stuff so I would need someone to offer me space to upload the prototype to. The prototype has largely been designed using RR 2.0.1 (last 'FREE' version) but has now (last week) been hived-off so it can function both with RR and MC. The prototype abandons the WIMP-GUI (!!!) and uses a decision-tree structure to guide end-users through an Object-Point/Click GUI - it hides the standard MAC/WIN/LINUX desktop and menu structure; blocks access to directories and so forth - my focus group consists of primary teachers who can, just about, type a letter in MS office and nothing else - with the wrapper they can negotiate with the virtual personality to build a software item for content delivery and reinforcement merely by clicking on decision buttons and typing the odd word here and there...... Sincerely, Richmond Mathewson __________________________________________________ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.html and http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/developercentral/usercontributions.html _______________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- The Think Different Store http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/ For All Your Mac Gear --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
