Message: 9
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 01:19:16 -0400
From: Thomas McGrath III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation
To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]>
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Tim, Judy,
To be fair I didn't respond to this part of Tim's request/rant because
I thought it would be too daunting. It would be nice to have though. I
always learn best by example. Sarah's stack on serial commands was very
helpful, also some of the stacks/ideas that I found most helpful were:
window shapes
serial commands
drawer examples
password/encryption
picture sliders/progress bars
gif buttons/animated
geometry hints and help
player and quicktime and video grabber
rotate images
speech recognition and text speaking
application icons
screen saver/backdropper
file path and preferences
tabs and how they work
text manipulation/hypertext
printing/pdfs/export to file
XML/tree view
menus/ pop ups
Unicode (the one thing I have yet to get to work right)
Games/Colliding objects/moving balls
drag and drop- internal and external
Audio/wav/mp3 - recording and playback
Midi
Chat/Email
I like this list. I could benefit from a lesson on almost all of these topics
I also like the suggestion made be others to have sample
applications, something akin to the HC home stack.
And to show that there is money where my mouth is, the kind of thing
I have in mind is illustrated in the following Turtle Graphics "home
stack":
go stack url "http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/TurtleGraphics.rev";
After you have punched all the buttons you should know whether TG, as
an addendum to Transcript, would be of any use to you.
It would be nice to have a similar set of stacks for the topics in
Tom's list above.
Maybe his list might be fleshed-out by others on this user list,
followed by a pledge drive: Volunteers to take a topic or two.
I appreciate what Jean says about a short illustration handler for
each item in Transcript dictionary, al la Kamens, Winkler, DeVoto.
Lots of work. But it sure would be nice.
(I would like to comment on the excellence of Dan Shafer's book, but
it hasn't arrived yet, although ordered back in February--sloooooow
delivery.)
Jim
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