Background

[Mark Swindell]

on 11/27/02 2:42 PM, Richard Gaskin at ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote:

> So when I first started learning MetaCard I wrote a property sheet utility,
> which (like VB, ToolBook, and others) provides an overview of nearly all
> properties for the selected object (or card, or stack, and it lists global
> props as well).  It also provides a quick way to edit values:  just
> double-click a line and an editor appropriate to the data type opens (color
> picker for colors, answer for Booleans, etc.).
> 
> I've made this available to a few friends and clients, and just recently did
> some more debugging and posted the latest version to my site:
> 
> <http://www.fourthworld.com/rev/>
> 
> I hope you find it helpful for learning about properties in Rev.

Richard,

What a great tool.  In literally less than two minutes after downloading it
I had gleaned a great deal about the properties of stacks, groups, buttons,
you name it.   Having it all right there, front and center at a glance, is a
great help.

Thank you,
Mark