New user just introducing myself...

[Andre Garzia]

Be Welcome Todd,

First, be warned, after Revolution you will never want to code again in 
any other enviroment ever. :-D

You did the best thing ever to a newbie which is ordering Dan's Book, 
if I'd had such book when I was starting rev, man, I would be very very 
very happy, I think I'll take my two copies to the Revolution Masters 
Sumit to get them signed! :D

Externals are very specific things, I for example can't live without 
RevZeroConf external for most of my work is network related and I make 
heavy use of ZerConf/Rendevouz features.
The four things I think no xTalker should ever live without are:

* the altToolbar plugins. Chipp from Altuit made a nice plugin toolbar 
with user manageable altPlugins. They cover a broad range of tools but 
the most usefull for me is altArchive which will save backups of your 
stack when you save it, like incremental backups so that you can 
rollback. I don't use my save button anymore... Another cool one is 
their HTML "editor" plugin which is very handy and altBackdrop which is 
also handy. You can see them all at: 
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altPluginCover/about.htm

* the devolution toolkit by Richard from Fourth World. It's a toolkit 
that do more then replace the standard tool palettes, it provides many 
aditional features and tools. I like for example being able to access 
stack and object scripts in a quick way, also I like the tools bundled 
with it specially the form maker, the camera tool (used every single 
day, almost made a standalone out of it) and the desktop tool, and 
theres much more.. You can see more of Devolution here: 
http://www.fourthworld.com/products/devolution/index.html

* The revNET plugin. Also by Fourth World, this is an AOL-like online 
journal and resource index specifically for Revolution and MetaCard 
Developers. RevNet's index of downloadable stacks provides a form so 
you can add your own stacks, making them instantly available to all 
RevNet users. Also contains a convenient index to the Sons of Thunder 
Revolution Tips archive, links to Web pages devoted to Revolution and 
MetaCard, and more. (yes, I copy & Pasted the about text) download it 
here: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev/index.html

* the PrefsBuilder plugin by Frederic Rinaldi. I think this is the 
plugin I am using most today. After learning about this plugin during 
the EuroRevDev Conference, I patched all my apps to make use of this 
really easy to use preference stack. All your prefs/settings/defaults 
needs are plain easy with it. Here: http://rinaldicollection.free.fr/

Another thing I like doing is seeing other people apps made with Rev, I 
do this for inspiration, to see how good we can get and esoteric stuff 
like that. This list is the best resource to rev, feel free to drop 
emails! :D

Cheers and welcome
andre


On Feb 19, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Todd Higgins wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I purchased Dreamcard last fall and I upgraded to Revolution last 
> month just in time to take advantage of the AltBrowser/MagicCarpet 
> Xmas combo (Thanks Kevin and Chipp for the generous offer!)
>
> I have learned quite a lot about Revolution by reading the list 
> (though I don't know how anyone can keep up with all of the traffic)  
> and I want the makers of Revolution to know that part of the reason I 
> decided to go with Revolution was because of the high quality (and 
> personable) nature of the list.
>
> Like Len Morgan (another Revolution beginner on the list - Hi Len) I 
> am having a hard time grokking Revolution.  It seems like most people 
> who come to Revolution have had previous experience with Hypercard 
> (alas I was not so lucky, the first Mac I bought was a IIsi and it 
> only came with the Hypercard player and I could not find the "full" 
> version.)
>
>  I am an experienced computer user,  who has dabbled with Applescript 
> and some shell scripting for my customers, but I have never worked in 
> an IDE and have never developed a GUI tool.  (My daytime job is  
> "System Engineer" where I work on OS X Servers and W2K Servers)
>
> When I was evaluating Revolution previously, I remember seeing a 
> tutorial section under help.  I couldn't seem to find it in the 2.5 
> version, so I just ordered Dan's book : )
>
> What other good habits would I do well to develop?  Also, what plugins 
> or externals do people consider "essential" to the Revolution 
> development experience?  I have read about a few on the list, but I'm 
> not sure if the apply to me (or if I would just be unnecessarily 
> complicating my learning curve)  Any suggestions will be gratefully 
> accepted!
>
> Thanks
>
> Todd
>
> -- 
> Todd Higgins
> ASG Systems Engineer
> MICRO Technology Groupe, Inc
> voice: 215-788-6811 fax: 215-788-1766
> email: higgins at mtgroupe.com  www: http://www.mtgroupe.com
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