Dependence on Programming Experts

[Dan Shafer]

Greg, what I hear you asking for, I think, is a versatile presentation tool.
I'm not sure how "versatile" it needs to be or how much scripting you're
willing to engage in to get that flexibility, but I can say that at the
recent RevCon West confernece in Monterey, several speakers used Rev
stacks/applications as their presentation platform. My *guess* is that a
fairly powerful, scriptable, general-purpose presentation tool could be
fashioned in Rev, starting with one or more of those apps already in use, in
a fairly short period of time.

Maybe rather than futzing with learning Transcript yourself, you could
consider describing more precisely what it is that you want, what it is
that's missing, in Rev. Then perhaps one or more of the Rev coders hanging
around this list would be able to generate a template or a tool for you to
use exactly as you want, including extending it in some cool ways.

Just a thought.

On 7/5/06, Stephen Barncard <stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com> wrote:
>
> They wouldn't be here if they didn't want to be. Besides, it's
> instant karma -- often they need help too.. so it comes around. This
> is the wonderful non-technical part about Rev - the online community
> - who can easily become your friends.
>
> Don't be afraid to ask on this list - it's what it's for!! Gurus
> weren't always gurus... -- if you doubt me, look at the ramblings of
> some of the future 'gurus' you see here in their early days with rev
> - in old Rev list archives...
> heh heh  - yep they asked "dumb" questions too.
>
> As far as the complexity of the language - the builders of any
> language have to trade off complexity for versatility - and the
> programmer is in charge. How can you expect a program do everything
> for you automatically and at the same time have all the options
> available?
>
>   At some point, actions have to be described, and Rev is a lot easier
> than C++ to read and understand. But one still has to apply some
> classic rules and techniques of programming.
>
> >background, I will be forced to consult the forum gurus, which I really
> feel
> >is an unnecessary and irritating practice, in general, to have to do -
> >especially since most of the gurus would rather be, or should be working
> >serously at their various necessary professions, instead of racking up
> >countless hours feeding me, one fish at a time.  No what I mean?
> >
> >Greg Smith
>
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> stephen barncard
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