new kid on the block

[MisterX]

Thanks for that review Ken...

It kind of shows that Neural Networks keep coming around... Interesting...

And Hypercard just wont die! 

Certainly a valiant effort from that author but not much of a threat for rev
it seems. How is HyperNext's performance comparable to Rev?

BTW, I saw that link via the versiontracker.com mailist... it's usually a
nice
way to communicate your updates to a wide audience (pc and palm too) and
help 
rev with their marketing reach as well as yours... Why they don't do linux
is
beyond me ;)

cheers
Xavier


> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Ken Ray
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 8:34 AM
> To: Use Revolution List
> Subject: Re: new kid on the block
> 
> On 10/2/05 12:54 AM, "MisterX"  wrote:
> 
> > for those it might interest...
> > 
> > http://www.tigabyte.com/default.html
> > 
> > and it seems to have Neural Networks built in...
> 
> It's this odd combination of REALBasic and HyperCard: an RB 
> app built with a limited HyperTalk-style interpreter (at 
> least to some degree), along with the xTalk-like 
> globals/locals and lack of variable declaration, but with the 
> ability to add code it in RBScript.
> 
> I downloaded the Trial version to check it out, and it is 
> simplistic and a bit odd, although the Neural Networks stuff 
> may be interesting (didn't have a chance to check that out). 
> Here's an comparison of some simple stuff:
> 
> Revolution:
>      answer "Pick a fruit:" with "Apple" or "Orange"
>      answer it
> 
> HyperNext:
>      Local tAns,tButtons,tButton
>      Put 'Orange,Apple' into tButtons
>      Dialog 'Hello, pick a fruit:','Apple','Orange'
>      Put AnswerFN into tAns
>      Add 1 to tAns
>      Put NthChunkFN(tButtons,',',tAns) into tButton
>      Message tButton
> 
> So a few things to note on the HyperNext code:
> 
> 1) You have to declare all variables
> 
> 2) The 'AnswerFN' function returns the number of the button 
> picked, not the text, and it is 0-based, and reads from the 
> right (so Orange=0 and Apple=1), so I had to put the name of 
> the buttons in a separate variable (tButtons), *backwards*.
> 
> 3) You can't do math on variables (it seems), since "Put 
> tAns+1 into tAns"
> (or even a variant that put it into another declared 
> variable) didn't work.
> I had to use the "Add" command.
> 
> 4) Although it uses chunks like "line" and "word", you can't 
> use a phrase like "item 2 of tButtons", but instead need to 
> use the NthChunkFN function.
> 
> So although it is supposedly intended to be easier than 
> Visual Basic (which is what it is compared to on the site), 
> it seems that it is still more complicated than HyperCard... :-)
> 
> Anyway, that's my 2 cents with playing around with it for a 
> half hour...
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> 
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