Getting Started and Getting Info

[Dan Shafer]

On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 06:43 AM, Tom Cole wrote:

>  Is this thing for real or am I
> dreaming. Have I died and gone to heaven?
>
You have died and gone to Heaven. Welcome aboard. There are a lot of us 
old HyperCard heads (well, perhaps not so many quite as old as me) 
hanging about here and helping start the Revolution.

> I've got fantastic help from the ihug group but I don't ask questions 
> there
> very often. With Rev, I would like to have the manuals but they seem 
> out of
> print.

New manuals are, I think,forthcoming. A new release has just been 
issued of the product and the docs online are about up to date, I 
suspect, but it's a massive production job (1200 pages).

Also, my original HyperTalk book forms the basis for a new three-volume 
set of eBooks and perhaps printed books that I'm planning to release 
withiin a very short time now. (Volume 1 is almost ready for 
production.)

> There are a lot of little questions I'd like answered, but it's
> easier for me to just grab a manual and look up my problem rather than 
> flood
> the group with a lot of basic questions here. Should I just ask and ask
> here?

You should definitely ask here.

> 4. By the way, the dialog box for creating the distribution file is 
> cut off
> at the bottom and I can only see the tip top of three buttons to 
> click. Only
> one is active and I've been clicking the barely visible sliver of that
> button, but I don't know its name because it's cut off. What gives?
>
I *believe* this is fixed in the 2.1 beta. If you search the list 
archive you'll find a way to fix this manually. It's trivial; I just 
don't  have it at hand.

Welcome to the Revolution!

> Thanks very much,
> Tom