Good example!
I posted a code snippet to do this here:
http://revcoders.org/vScroll/#comment-32
Of course, presently, you would have to know to look under
"vscroll"... so I am working on a much better search page.
For someone new to Revolution, the best thing is not reading the term
dictionary, but a step-by-step tutorial that introduces the student
to Revolution and the foundations of RAD, then guides them through
the creation of a complete project, hands-on. Richard's idea of
building a word processor is a good one, it covers many commonly used
functions.
The open dictionary is not for learning Revolution, it is for
reference on specific terms for someone who has been through the
basic tutorials and just needs examples of how to accomplish common
tasks.
On Nov 1, 2007, at 12:40 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Ken puts it exactly, and far far better than I managed to. Sorry.
A trivial example from my early days with Rev. I had a scrolling
field into
which a user pastes lines of text by hitting enter. At a certain
point the
text gets too long for the window, and he/she has to scroll down.
I realize
this is a chore, and want the window to scroll with the entries so
the last
one is always visible. But how?
Imagine you're a real novice with Rev. How do you set about
finding out? You
just start looking things up. You look
up 'scroll', 'autoscroll', 'find', 'select', 'put'....and so on.
It is like trying to find the French for 'dog' from a French-English
dictionary. If only you knew it was 'chien' you could look it up....
Now I don't personally mind this way of learning, or the fact that
you learn a
lot of stuff which is irrelevant to your immediate purpose on the
way. But a
lot of people just cannot hack it, and these are the ones you'll
lose if you
don't have a more immediate way of getting to purposes.
Yes, what Ken describes is a good way of doing it.
Peter
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