Hi Jon and Tom.. and all,
I agree with you Jon, and I have to say that seeing your evolution on
this list since a few weeks, you are making dazzling progresses :-)
Just a few words to tell you that in a few days I shall release a new
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Le 10 juil. 05 à 14:39, Jon a écrit :
I've been where you are, and it is VERY frustrating. Novices are
not handled gently by the Rev documentation.
I'd start off looking around for sample stacks and looking at how
they work. This can be very instructive. There are LOTS of stacks
freely available for download through Rev Online. There are a few
list folks who also have extensive sets of free stacks which do
lots of exciting things. It can be difficult, at first, figuring
out how to find the scripts, since they are separately associated
with each object: click on an object, click on the Script icon, and
you should be able to see what is going on. The Application
Browser (in the Tools menu) can also be helpful in seeing what is
present, and in getting to the object Inspector and the scripts for
those objects. Right clicking on any language word in a script
will take you to the help for that word, and the help is usually
helpful. Good examples for each help entry would be better, but
the Help is adequate.
As far as your specific request, databases and multiple windows, I
agree that I have not found anything that addresses this at a
novice level. For one thing, since database hooks are provided in
Rev, but databases are not, databases become complex, because you
have to first consider what database to use, and you are saddled
with the consequences of that decision. It is difficult to write
Rev documentation that encompasses all of the various databases on
all of the various platforms.
If you persist, probably through writing some simple applications
at first, you will find Rev to be useful, if slightly buggy and
quirky (at least compared to the languages I used in the past).
There are some elegant aspects of Rev and the IDE; in the end, you
may find yourself to be more productive (at least in some areas)
then you were in your prior development environment.
Finally, if you ask any specific question, even a novice one, on
this list, you are sure to get help. The people here are the best.
Hang in there!
Best Regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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