Greg,
My sincere apologies for an unfortunately worded post. I should have
phrased it better so that you didn't take my remarks personally. By
"dumbed down" I meant that to accomplish what you are asking,
Revolution's feature set would have to be drastically reduced -- i.e.,
"dumber". Revolution does provide quite a few libraries when it ships
that actually attempt to consolidate hundreds of lines of scripting into
a few single commands. There are pre-written libraries for internet
access, for databases, for geometry management, and so forth. They
aren't point-and-click though, you still have to use scripting to work
with them. A point and click interface could be built with Revolution,
actually. But it would provide only a small subset of what is available
in the engine natively.
If you continue to read this list, I think you'll find that I have a
reputation as one of the least offensive people here. I've been at this
a long time, so if I've slipped up and unintentionally insulted you, I
am very sorry. Revolution users are by no means dumb. I was refering to
the software, not the users.
Having followed this thread now for a few days, my personal opinion is
that Revolution isn't really what you are looking for. It is a
programming environment, and there isn't really any way to get around
that. It is the easiest and most accessible environment I know of, but
it does require a learning curve. It doesn't sound like this is what you
are looking for.
GregSmith wrote:
Jacqueline:
I think you are using completely the wrong terminology to describe what I
want a program like Revolution to do for me. You use the entirely insulting
phrase "dumbed down" with regard to making Revolution more friendly to a
user like myself. Better polish up those social skills of yours. If
Revolution is so "dumb" already, that it cannot become accessable and
immediately useful to a person such as myself, then it is Revolution that
needs to be "smartened up", making it more accessable and useful, not
"dumbed down" as you so tactlessly have put it.
Why must an intelligent person be made to twist his organized and fruitful
thinking into something less than that? Why also, must such a person be
forced to address a machine with terms and phrases and sequences that are
alien and unnatural, not catering to the needs of that user, but rather
forcing the user to lower himself to communicate in the primal grunts and
groans that the machine is used to responding to?
Greg Smith
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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