Hi Marielle > Based on your Delphi experience, what would it take to provide a > library of pre-built components for revolution?
Well - to start with I don't have the knowledge to write externals yet for Rev, so plugins would be difficult for me to write. However - there are heaps of cool stuff scattered over the web from Rev programmers that would be easier to find if placed in one location with the programmers URL included in the listing. Many Delphi developers create components for various reasons. The most obvious is to promote a trial version of a solution. Another is to advertise their product or service via commercial component sets - or their unique service that they offer users. Others again simply submit code as freeware routines as a present to the general community. These elements are what make Delphi such a powerful tool. You can just about find anything you want on a site like Torry's (which is the premier site, based in Russia). To do this for Rev would not be hard. What Maxim (the owner of Torry's_ does on www.torry.net ) is make available the opportunity for commercial vendors of components and services the chance to advertise on top of a normal listing and also a CD-ROM that comes out once a year. From this Maxim earns enough to keep the site going for the thousands of visitors who visit each day. Now to do this for Rev is going to be a little more limited as there simply are not the volume of Rev developers, as yet at least, as there are Delphi developers. But, if we consider how the Delphi sites grew, it is a matter of inertia in that once started it should grow. Rev has something that Delphi does not have and that is the integrated Rev Online viewer. I'm not sure how that would affect listings. Torry's success has been based, to a large extent, on incoming links placed on developer websites to the library. Sometimes the simplest routine is placed in the resource so that a complete newbie has a chance of finding what he/she needs to complete a portion of a project. Rev has incredible power in many functions that come native that a newbie is going to stumble on. For example - "How to connect to a Com port in Rev" and similar snippets are a newbie's bonanza and also help those more fluent in Rev to quickly solve an issue. Sorry for the size of my reply. I'd be happy to discuss it further, but perhaps off list... Scott _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
