New User Doc Whine & What?

[Dave]

Hi,

You know I said much the same as this over 5 years  
ago.................................... Not much has changed then!

All the Best
Dave

On 3 Jan 2008, at 18:07, Mike Arnold wrote:

> New user of RR Studio 2.8.1 Build 472 on Mac OS/X 10.4.11 PPC G4.
>
> I have put together the beginnings of an application that uses  
> mySQL, with a mainstack and (so far) 3 substacks.  Things are going  
> slow, but making progress.  Took a while to figure out why my  
> mainstack's openstack & closestack scripts got control when I  
> opened/closed a substack ... almost seems like a bug, but I am  
> getting the hang of it, I think. (added null message handlers to  
> substacks and all was well)  Still trying to figure out what goes  
> in openCard vs openStack ... normal learning curve.  I've got menus  
> and custom properties, hiding/showing controls, etc.
>
> Then I decided to add a checkbox button.  Spent an inordinate  
> amount of time trying to figure out how to retrieve the check/not- 
> checked status.  Very frustrating.  No where could I find it  
> documented.
> The are both containers ... but 'field "myField"' returns the  
> contents of a field, though 'button "myButton"' does not return the  
> checked status.  I assigned a value of false to the button, and it  
> retained it forever (so a check box _is_ a container, just not  
> related to the check box status).  I finally looked at an example  
> that had a check box to find the hilite property (well keyword, the  
> hilite property in the dictionary says it is used to set the value,  
> not test it).  Who would have thought ...
>
> A BNF of the language would be most helpful, does one exist?  Or  
> really any complete language reference.
>
> Is there a message reference?  In the video about how to find  
> information, it shows (what seems to be) pre-2.8.1 documentation,  
> and just from the short clip, it looks like this documentation  
> could help somewhat (there was a short clip of a message reference  
> too).  After my open/closeStack default message passing incident,   
> I feel a sudden need to know every message.
>
> And just now, my variable watch window decided to not show most  
> variables.  Instead, it shows the variable names in the values.  
> Before the variable is set and right after, doesn't matter, just  
> the variable name (vpharmacy | vpharmacy).  The script continues to  
> work and the message box displays the correct values, but the  
> variable watch window is no longer functional. (it worked before)
>
> thanks in advance and appologies for the whine,
> Mike.
>
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