Rev difficulty

[Stephen Barncard]

Ben, it doesn't get better than this product and this group. Fix 
yourself a beer, and hang out here awhile, learn a few things and 
you'll be creating great apps in no time...

Firing in the dark? No, I don't think so, nobody can know 
everything.. we use Rev because we can accomplish what we need faster 
and cooler..but even for me, a  veteran Hypercard geek, the learning 
curve was a bit rocky in the beginning. But I started small, Hello 
World, and worked from there. Once I got past some of the new rules, 
it was intuitive, just like Hypercard was, just 100x more powerful.

Ben if you want to real create software, you have to think out of 
your box a little bit. Your loathing of 'scripting' and desire to 
only use an icon based tool is keeping you from the creativity and 
ingenuity that springs from such an impressive toolbox as Runrev. My 
personal experience with iconic languages was that there were only so 
many icons one could fit in a window, and often they started to blur 
out and not make sense at all...function calls with names of what 
they do sure made more sense to me...an ideal that only Forth gave me 
before hypercard...

There may not be a 'clock' object in the toolbox, but one can be 
fashioned fairly easily from the tools given, and many people on this 
list would contribute to the creation of your idea - and you'd have a 
'custom' clock - your own presentation, rather than a cookie cutter 
idea of what you might have wanted. Then you'd have an object that 
you could use for any project in the future. -- I think Mr. X early 
on offered you a stack with a clock object he created...

I think the only real downside is you might have a little problem in 
scripting some things (like Internet calls) with that capitalization 
thing you do....
:)

(just a joke)




At 1:34 PM -0400 5/27/05, Vjstbenz at aol.com wrote:
>
>sure you can look on these LISTS for answers....and that is VERY 
>GOOD...but how far do you want to go..with FIRING in THE DARK for 
>answers?
>
>Ben