Another newb question - How to you clear a field?

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Stephen,

The majority of us who use Rev have a background in HyperCard; going  
way back. There are an abundance of inexpensive, used books on that  
topic. Since much of the "basic" rev language is derived from HC,  
reading such a book would be an easy method of cluing you in to Rev's  
language. For HyperCard the language was called HyperTalk. I wouldn't  
be surprised if there were a great deal of commentary regarding same  
on the Web. You might want to Google it and see what you come up with.  
Otherwise, I suppose this list is your best source for that kind of  
help.

Joe  Wilkins

On May 8, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Stephen Cox wrote:

> The biggest problem I am having is figuring out what to search for.  
> The
> language is so unique. So take my question about emptying a field.  
> Be easy
> in an OOP language: empty(Text_field.text) - or something to that  
> effect.
> So I would search on "empty" and get tons of info on the function and
> various examples.. AND user comments.
>
> Now in Revolution it's also easy but completely different then any of
> language. So I search the Dictionary on "empty", got nothing; then  
> "Text
> Entry Field", got nothing; then asked here.
>
> I'm not harping on Revolution. I like it. It's just different from  
> anything
> else on the market. So a FAQ that shows JAVA or C syntax alongside
> Revolution would be a god-send. Just some common functions and  
> procedures.
> The manual is good, but has no reference to other languages. It  
> would help
> get my head out of OOP into Revolution.