A beginner's journey

[Norman Winn]

Hello again,

I have received such good response, both on and off list, from my 
initial 'renegade from Filemaker' post that I am encouraged to continue 
my journey into RR even though I have not yet made much progress.

If it is acceptable to the list I'd like to provide feedback of my 
learning experience. I ask in this way as, being a reasonably 
experienced programmer, much of my report will seem like criticism of 
what, to many of you, will be your favourite tool.  I hope the 
criticism is perceived as constructive. Here goes.

1. I was about to ask why there was no script colorisation in a 
previous post, when I checked out 'Preferences'. I was pleasantly 
surprised that RR is one of those apps where there are real preferences 
- and saved myself embarrassment in finding colorisation was there. 
Then notices that I could colorise a script from the menu. I presume it 
is simple to write a stack that applies colorisation to a set of 
scripts?

2. I asked in a post why the 'Help' windows are not show under the 
'Window' menu. I can accept the reasons why they are not but, in this 
case, I feel they should be treated as separate from the app in respect 
of 'Show', 'Hide' etc. Having said this I much prefer the RR help 
system to the default one under OS X. Maybe clicking in a help window 
could bring all help windows to the front, clicking in an app window 
send all help to the back? These suggestions are largely the result of 
the help, and the help system, being so good. One can end up with a lot 
of help windows open.

3. Help again.  I am in 'Revolution Documentation' > Images & 
Multimedia. When I get down to 'Definition of ...' I no longer get 
explanation of items e.g. 'bit depth'.

3. It being so easy to assign keyboard shortcuts to menu actions, why 
are these not shown for common RR actions? This one doesn't appear to 
be in preferences.

4. This is perhaps nitpicking, but the statement (found in help on 
'inverse') that, "square root is the inverse of squaring", is 
mathematically untrue. Taking the square root of a rational can produce 
a real. Squaring a real cannot produce a rational. Better would be 
'subtraction is the inverse of addition'.


Let me know if this kind of stuff belongs elsewhere,

Norman