Application Framework?

[Graham Samuel]

Hi

As I said in my previous mail, I'm just setting out to learn Revo 
from an experienced SuperCarder's viewpoint. I'm interested in 
looking at the Employee Database example, but I can't find it! I feel 
really stupid asking this, but could someone tell me where it is - 
doesn't seem to be in the download or on the Revo web site, but it's 
got to be somewhere!

I don't know quite how much to expect from the Employee Database app 
anyway, but looking at the accompanying tutorial, I don't see much 
emphasis on some of the things which preoccupied me in my SuperCard 
days, when I had to construct a number of quite different 
applications for the same environment - has anyone developed an 
application framework which covers the main structure of a file-using 
app on Mac or Windows (I'm not used to Unix) - I mean a framework for 
a standalone which has for example:

* the standard menus (e.g. File with Save, Save As. Page Setup, 
Print...; Edit with Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear; Help)

* the standard actions implied by this (e.g. a file handling 
framework for saving, retrieving, naming, coping with errors etc; 
clipboard handling; invocation of the standard Help systems on the 
various platforms)

* logic for launching the app either directly or by the user 
launching (double-clicking) one of its documents, including coping 
with launch attempts before and after the app is activated, handling 
(or refusing) multiple instances of open files, initial parameter 
setting and splash screens etc.

* logic for quitting, including file saving, clean-up, quit enforced 
by the OS etc.

Of course nobody could produce a complete 'one size fits all' 
framework which would work unmodified in a specific case, but there 
could be something that offers a flying start. I got this in 
SuperCard by studying various sample apps and by doing quite a lot of 
research (e.g. into event handling) but that was just on the Mac.

Can anyone point me to something like this (maybe it's the Employee 
Database), or should I begin to think of constructing such a thing 
myself? I apologise if it's all there and I've just missed it.

Graham

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