Main menu puzzle, Klaus

[Thomas McGrath III]

Ken,

Welcome to the Revolution!

It is obvious that you could use a 'basic beginners' tutorial and  
might I suggest that you go to the revolution website and go through  
the Scripting Conferences for a basic introduction to the necessary  
elements of Revolution and how to understand it and use it. Just  
click here http://downloads.runrev.com/section/scriptingconferences.php
and go through them one at a time to learn the answers to your  
questions. After that go through the Video Tutorials located here  
http://support.runrev.com/tutorials/ .

Don't worry, this is not an experts list but is in fact a beginners  
list AND a place for us all to discuss problems we have when trying  
to script in Rev. So any questions you have should be answered very  
quickly. You may get more than one answer and 'Hey we are only human'  
and some answers may have mistakes in them as well. I post at least  
two or three mistakes a month. ;-)

Be patient and try not to be too complaining but rather just keep  
asking until you do understand what is being shown to you. If you  
have to vent your frustrations, then do so, we all have at some  
point. But then get back to the problem and look again at the  
solutions offered, eventually you will get it and then you will be  
here helping other new users soon enough.

Read the user guide, search the dictionary, search this list, go to  
RevOnline Users area and download sample stacks to see how others  
tackle problems, go through the excellent Video tutorials and the  
Scripting Conferences, go get Dan's book "software at the speed  
of..." etc. Check out user's websites with sample stacks, you can  
find a few here http://support.runrev.com/resources/ 
useful_sites.php . There is a plethora of information available and  
it would help you greatly to just jump in and start exploring.


Hope this helps,

Tom

On Feb 18, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Ken Apthorpe wrote:

>
> Hi Klaus, and all others
>
> This is getting out of control., I'm overwhelmed by the replies and  
> can't
> keep up, so some may be delayed.  And in Australia and it's past  
> midnight.
>
> Also  the forum seems to be unable to update in real time, I'm  
> getting a
> blizzard of emails saying my replies haven't been sent because the  
> mailbox
> is full, so there's a delay.
>
> To answer Klaus.  I know Rev is event driven. Problem is it seems  
> no one can
> explain the driving.  I get advice: do this (trust me, it will  
> work).  Do
> that: (trust me, this will work (better)).
>
> I do trust you, and that the suggested solutions will work. What I  
> don't get
> is a clear explanation of how and why they will work (in plain  
> english,
> that, sadly, is all I understand).  If I am to use Rev, I need to  
> know what
> I'm doing, and how/why it will work. Otherwise there is no point in  
> even
> trying.
>
> To summarise, most suggestions about my menu problem tell me to  
> change the
> script.  As I based my various versions of the script on what Rev  
> said (as
> best I could understand), but if you all tell me this was wrong,  
> and I need
> to change it, it doesn't give me a lot of confidence in Rev or the  
> Docs. It
> suggests to me that the instructions in the Rev Docs are not  
> correct, or are
> so incomplete as to be misleading to new users.
>
> This is not a good look.  It turns me off, and I'm persistent. Some  
> will
> think to the point of stupidity.  Fair call, you may be right.  I  
> could
> prove it by saying, well, hey, Donald Trump says never give up.   
> I'm not
> that stupid.   I've given up before, and I might again.  The last  
> time I
> gave up with software was with Rev, in 2003.  For the much the same  
> reasons.
> There are lots of Rev experts, but few good teachers.
>
> I'll answer other posts tomorrow.  Night.
>
> Regards
> ken
>
>
>
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