Revolution Encyclopedia - 'Roll Your Own'

Mathewson richmond at mail.maclaunch.com
Tue Dec 6 12:04:36 EST 2005


I am posting this information on the understanding that
anybody who follows this course of action will NOT
distribute the resultant free-standing stack anywhere -
keep it on your machine at home, nothing else, Please!

In various versions of RR there is a folder called
"revencyclopedia.rev " /COMPONENTS/HELP - MAKE A COPY OF IT
SOMEWHERE ELSE and:

1. 'chop' REV off the front of its name

2. open it in 2.5 - 2.6.1 and, also, open a NEW stack

3. make sure that in your preferences you have checked
'Revolution UI elements show in stack lists'

4. open the Stack Inspector for the NEW stack and then use
the contextual menu to examine the REV ENCYCLOPEDIA stack
(it will show up as 'revDocsAbout')

5. Change the NAME of the stack to the same as its LABEL

6. Try to do a "SAVE AS" - this takes a bit of fiddling
around.

7. When you now open the stack it will throw up all sorts
of error messages about user-defined routines in the
stack-script - comment them out

8. Pop a couple of Nav buttons in the top right-hand corner
with the following scripts:

button 'BACK':

   on mouseUp
     go prev
   end mouseUp

button 'FORWARDS':

   on mouseUp
     go next
   end mouseUp

set the buttons so their names don't show: give them
appropriate icons

9. SAVE

10. Remember the stack was authored by Ms DeVoto, and that
that was while under contract to RR - so you are being
naughty if you start distributing the stack.

Love, Richmond
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