BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

[Björnke von Gierke]

Hi you old school devotees

Richard posted to the use list that BvG Docu does not work with 
Metacard. I am currently not a Metacard user, however, I'd like my 
stacks to work there as well as within the "ordinary" GUI.

BvG Docu is a GUI replacement that does show the current Revolution 
documentation entries, usable with Rev versions 2.7.2 and higher.
You can get it at my stacks page: http://bjoernke.com/runrev/stacks.php
A very detailed (and hopefully funny) recollection of how I made it can 
be found in the latest RunRev Newsletter: 
http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/may/issue27/newsletter4.php

Unfortunately I do not know what does, and what does not work within 
the Metacard IDE. Specifically related to BvG Docu:
1. It expects you to have the rev documentation files installed, as it 
needs them for the next step, which is:
2. Copy the custom properties from the stacks rev uses into several 
files, to be later able to:
3. Use the XML external to access the xml files (I suspect this to be 
the problematic thing here).

This is all stuff happening within docsLib by BvG. I do not know of any 
other problematic thing that Metacard could expect, specifically I do 
not use revGeometry.

I'd be really glad if you guys could tell me what needs fixing for it 
to work properly with the Metacard IDE.

Additionally I'm intrigued by the idea of a user made tutorial/home 
stack, like Richard suggested on the use list, and I guess the idea 
originated here.
Up to now i remember about four or five gazillion times when someone 
suggested a tutorial stack, and up to now only collections like Eric's 
stack or RevOnline or previously RevNet where made. Collections are 
nice and all, but I doubt they offer much to an already intimidated 
programmer newbie. That is why I'm against that approach (Though a 
better collection then what we have now wouldn't hurt either).
I think that ideally there would be less controls, less colours and 
less concepts in a tutorial stack then any part of the official Rev IDE 
currently offers. Additionally there should be an easy way to look at 
scripts. Themes to be covered should be hand picked. Generally 
simplicity is a good thing for getting a new concept across.
So which way do you guys want to take the home/tutorial conceptually?

As for content, maybe I could touch up my server/client presentation 
from Malta as a networking tutotrial? I guess that'd be the super 
advanced tutorial about web access, coming after stuff like showing 
URLs or revMail (oops, don't have that, right?).

cheers
Björnke

PS for Richard: I'll look at changing ChatRev tomorrow, thanks for the 
hints.


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