me - the potential buyer

[Joel Rees]

Thanks for the links and pointers, Sarah. I had also gotten sidetracked
into playing with the interface builder.

Sarah suggested

> I know what you mean, because even those of us experienced with other 
> xTalk tools ran into problems starting. Basically it gets worse when 
> you don't even know the question let alone the answer :-)
> Anyway, we are here to help and we all hate seeing someone sink into 
> despair, so here are a few starting points you could consider:
> 
> Metacard has a good tutorial: mtp.mc at http://www.metacard.com/pi6.html
> Change the file extension to .rev and it will work fine. It doesn't 
> deal with the graphical interface design at all, but gets you started 
> with some simple scripts.
> 
> After that, since there aren't any Rev books out there yet, I recommend 
> a HyperCard book. Rev has lots that HC doesn't, but it incorporates 
> pretty much all that HC does and the docs note when this doesn't apply. 
> Also any demo stacks can be loaded straight into Revolution although 
> they can have some problems if they use menus. Books to consider are:
> HyperTalk Programming by Dan Shafer
> HyperTalk 2.2: The Book by Winkler, Kamins & DeVoto
> The Complete HyperCard Handbook by Danny Goodman
> 
> Dan is re-writing his book to apply to Revolution: if you go to 
> http://www.revjournal.com/ you can find some info about that as well as 
> a couple of excerpts. Jeanne DeVoto is the author the Rev docs. I'm not 
> sure that all these are still in print, but they can usually be found.
> 
> Apart from that, I assume you have done the tutorials that come with 
> Revolution and if you have Rev 2.0, you will see the new Cookbook 
> section which has quite a lot of example scripts. There are also 
> numerous stacks available at the User Contributions section of the 
> RunRev website and other places - all of which can be taken apart, 
> examined, changed, tested etc so you can work out what is going on.
> 
> Finally, if you want the docs in a separate electronic format, go to 
> http://www.inspiredlogic.com/downloads.html where Geoff Canyon has a 
> stack that will export the docs into html, rtf or text.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sarah
> sarahr at genesearch.com.au
> http://www.troz.net/Rev/
> 
> P.S. the manual isn't vaporware - the might stack of books is making my 
> desk bend :-)

-- 
Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group
Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan
http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp