Very newbie question

[Peter T. Evensen]

Jacque,

I'm trying to follow your instructions, but in 2.7.2 on XP, if I click on 
the player column, the items are not sorted as far as I can tell.  I just 
get a long list of everything.  The ones with the check mark do not appear 
together.

At 03:49 PM 6/7/2006, you wrote:
>Kevin Brooks wrote:
>>I am a very new user of revolution, though not at all new to this
>>programming paradigm, as I did a lot of HyperCard programming in the 90's.
>>My very newbie question is that I can not find a true Transcript reference
>>guide that lists all properties for each object.  I have found references to
>>the  "Transcript Language Dictionary" in the documentation, but have not
>>found something specifically named such?  What am I missing?  Having example
>>code is great, but I would love to go to a player object section and see
>>everything I can do with a player, for instance.
>
>First off, welcome, and don't apologize for being new to the game. We were 
>all new at some point, and I think you will find that with your HC 
>experience it won't take you long to feel old. (Wait...that didn't come 
>out right.)
>
>References to the "Transcript Reference Guide" are left over from some 
>older versions of Rev, but it just means the Dictionary tab in the 
>documentation, which you can open by clicking the Documentation icon in 
>the toolbar. The default display is to have the list of terms in the top 
>pane and the content in the bottom pane. If you have changed this to a 
>vertical display, change it back to the default by clicking the little 
>line icon at the lower left of the terms list.
>
>Once you've got the horizontal display, right-click (or control-click) 
>anywhere on the headings at the top of the list ("Keywords, Platform, 
>Syntax" etc.) You'll get a contextual menu. Choose the object you want to 
>know more about; for example, "player".
>
>A new heading and column will appear for your chosen object. All keywords 
>that relate to that object will be checkmarked in its column. You can see 
>them more easily by clicking on the column header so that they are all 
>sorted together.
>
>Then just read everything. :)
>
>--
>Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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